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AMC- The Walking Dead (TV Spoilers!)
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Spoiler>>I believe the premise is that everyone is infected so when you die, you revive as a walker. As so many have pointed out, I don't understand the difference between a bite and ingesting blood. There could be an argument that there are two mechanisms at work. The virus that revives you after death and whatever it is that kills you from a zombie bite if it is injected directly into your blood.<< spoiler. It's probably not worth dissecting this too much.
If I remember the comic correctly, some of the characters suggested that everyone is already infected with the virus that revives you after death, and that the zombies carry some other pathogen that is lethal if not treated (the only successful treatment thus far being to remove the bitten limb immediately, which does not carry with it a great chance of success)
Thanks! I want to keep reading the comic ahead of the show... just wondering how divergent the show is going to get from the comic. I realize that is a tough one to answer.
... just wondering how divergent the show is going to get from the comic. I realize that is a tough one to answer.
Sophia's dead, Shane's still alive, Daryl wasn't even in the comic... I'd say it's rather divergent already. My advice (take with as many grains of salt as desired): Enjoy both the comic and the show on their own separate terms, and don't worry so much about the differences.
My husband hated this show and I finally got sick of having to pester him to watch it with me so started watching it on my own. We're bother happier for it. Of course they had to take the string-along shot and do a mid-season finale and leave us waiting until February and I've only just now caught up.
I agree with a lot of what Queen of Spades has said. The clichés and weak female characters annoy me but I'm still interested in watching.
Daryl's hotheaded redneck bullshyte really irritated me at first but he's grown on me and is now the only character I appreciate. (well, Glen is OK). I'm going to have to puke if Daryl and Carol hook up. I'm tired of the cheap, predictable storylines.
Shane makes me uneasy but I can't say I disagree with all of his actions. Survival can be about making logical decisions over emotional ones. It was messed up that he shot Otis but I had a feeling Otis was going to have to die for Shane to get out with the equipment for Carl. It was just incredibly cruel that he shot Otis in such a way that he had to be alive as the zombies tore him apart. Why not a head or heart shot? The zombies still would have stopped to eat him without the poor guy suffering.
I think/hope Shane got through to Hershel when he shot the zombie in the chest and it kept walking. I'm glad the Sophia thing is tied up now. That was going on for way too long.
I think it's the potential of the show that keeps me bothering to watch. As it stands I think the characters are pretty weak with lukewarm dialogue.
Of course they had to take the string-along shot and do a mid-season finale and leave us waiting until February and I've only just now caught up. I agree with a lot of what Queen of Spades has said. The clichés and weak female characters annoy me but I'm still interested in watching.
Daryl's hotheaded redneck bullshyte really irritated me at first but he's grown on me and is now the only character I appreciate. (well, Glen is OK). I'm going to have to puke if Daryl and Carol hook up. I'm tired of the cheap, predictable storylines.
Shane makes me uneasy but I can't say I disagree with all of his actions. Survival can be about making logical decisions over emotional ones. It was messed up that he shot Otis but I had a feeling Otis was going to have to die for Shane to get out with the equipment for Carl. It was just incredibly cruel that he shot Otis in such a way that he had to be alive as the zombies tore him apart. Why not a head or heart shot? The zombies still would have stopped to eat him without the poor guy suffering.
I think/hope Shane got through to Hershel when he shot the zombie in the chest and it kept walking. I'm glad the Sophia thing is tied up now. That was going on for way too long.
I think it's the potential of the show that keeps me bothering to watch. As it stands I think the characters are pretty weak with lukewarm dialogue.
So far, they have not found him.
Anybody else think the guys who were killed in the bar and the one guy who was just rescued were scouts from the "Governors Compound"!!!!!????!
As it seems you have read the comics, so it could seem.
I have gotten the comic and was reading, but stopped reading until, the group leaves Hershel's farm. As far as the show as diverged from the original story, I guess I'll pick it back up and read the next section about the prison...Well said. I suppose as it's based on a comic I can't expect Shakespearian dialogue but Lord does it stretch the imagination sometimes. We have entire cities overrun with walkers, but one man with a gun on the roof of a camper can keep them all safe, in a forest clearing???
Never mind the fact that characters WILL persist in going off on their own.... with predictable results.
I desperately want it to be so much better, but it's lukewarm at best.
As it seems you have read the comics, so it could seem.
Oh yes I have been reading the comics for quite some time now. Yes there has been some major diverging from the original story line. It will be interesting to see what happens if any of the characters meet the fate they met in the comics.
Having said that, I am still enjoying the show a lot so I am not really complaining too much!
I like the show for what it is and I'm tired of people complaining that there isn't enough action on it. AMC is a drama network and the show is advertised as a drama. You're not gonna get a gory horror show from this network.
OK.. probably a dumb question.. but if the zombies literally EAT their victims, how are new zombies created?
For example.. Sophia.. she came out of the barn simply bitten and converted. Why wasn't she torn apart and eaten?
For example.. Sophia.. she came out of the barn simply bitten and converted. Why wasn't she torn apart and eaten?
I don't know about the specific lore associated with The Walking Dead as I haven't read the comics, but typically people who are zombies have been bitten and gotten away from their undead attackers without being fully eaten. Then the "disease" eventually takes over their bodies and turns them.
Like all supernatural horror, this is just one aspect of the "suspension of disbelief" associated with the story.
Just watched last night's episode. I wonder what the significance of Shane watching that zombie in the field was.
I tell you what.. I'm ready for them to move on from that farm..
I tell you what.. I'm ready for them to move on from that farm..
That zombie is going to make it to the farm and kill Shane. I think they should take out random single zombies when they get the chance. Zombies multiply and move.
You know that for sure? I thought maybe it was that Herschel guy since he hadn't been seen.. then again, they said he was working with that one girl, so I guess not.
I was hoping to see more flashbacks to when the disease started spreading. Preferably from a military perspective. Maybe next season.
No I am guessing.
Also Herschel wasn't seen in last nights episode, but after that girl tried to commit suicide didn't Glens girlfriend say Hershel is inside stitching the girls wrist up?
Yeah, flashbacks are good. I like that Shane brought up the Soldiers shooting people in the hospital (not zombies).
Yeah! I was surprised we didn't see another flashback scene there! I don't like flashbacks at the beginning of the episode to things that happen later in the episode. Give us some flashbacks to before it all happened! I don't know, just my opinion.
From what I can tell you will be happy to see they should be leaving soon if not the next episode. Did anybody catch the 30 second tease during "Comic Book Men"? It shows what looks like to be a prison!!!!! Oh this is going to get good if it is what I think it is!!!
They also played homage to the comic by killing a zombie with a knife through the fence.
I don't think they are going to kill off one of the main characters just yet. If they are it will be the season ending episode. I just wish they would stick to some of the comic book scenes when it comes to the demise of a main character.... One can dream right!!!
This was a brilliant show, but it quickly ran out of steam after the first season. Now it's like watching paint dry.
I would say yeah, to an extent. The show has really slowed down. They do put a little of the excitement in each episode, just enough to keep me interested.
It is funny you say this, in the comics there are about 20 or so issues that are veeeeeery slow. Then it has been none stop!
Is there somewhere to watch that tease??? I can't ever find those. I'm extremely interested because of the prison thing.
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I was listening to a Walking Dead podcast earlier.. somebody made an interesting point.. in the last episode, Rick & Shane both were using their knives to kill the zombies, right? Well, they were also cutting their HANDS with the same knives to draw blood to attract the zombies. Shouldn't that be a problem?! Maybe something happens in the story later because of this?
I think Rick cut his hand BEFORE killing the zombies.. Shane did it after. Maybe something happens to Shane? I dunno.