WoW. It doesn't matter if they drink zombie blood, they are already infected. That was the secret the CDC doctor told Rick at the end of season 1.
Everyone is already infected and they are the walking dead.
March 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM
Anonymous said...
If you haven't read the book...you definitely ARE missing something because it's NOTHING like the TV show.
It's true, in the book, everyone already HAD the disease, so no matter how you died, when you died, you would come back as a reanimated corpse. When people died from the bites it wasn't the spreading of the disease that killed them but a nasty infection.
Anyway, to sum it up, everyone in the tv show is a moron, the show plays out like a soap opera and it feels really rehearsed. The book has a much more "real" feel to it.
It's a great read. You should go pick it up, I've been reading since 2003 and I HIGHLY suggest it!
March 7, 2012 at 10:14 AM
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The Walking Dead is dumb. The premise is dumb. The writing is dumb.
And the characters are especially dumb.
Nevertheless, I have watched every episode (some of them twice). So I
guess The Walking Dead is like a golden retriever. A dumb animal that's fun to play with and keeps bringing the ball back.
Getting me to watch really isn't the hard part. As a lifelong
Dungeons & Dragons fan, I'll watch anything about a band of
multi-talented adventurers trying to survive in hostile territory.
The Walking Dead is just The Lord Of The
Rings ... in Atlanta.
I haven't read the books, so maybe I'm missing something. But I
can't believe the premise, no matter how hard I try. The zombies are
mindless. They don't bother to look under cars or behind doors. If you put a drop of blood on the ground, they stop to lick at it, instead of attacking the 180-pound meal right in front of them.
A band of raccoons would be more dangerous than a band of these
zombies. Raccoons are faster and smarter, with better offensive
weapons (claws and teeth) and much better defense (try killing a
scurrying raccoon with a .45, with one shot). And yet our world
hasn't been taken over by raccoons. So it's hard to believe that it
would be taken over by the zombies portrayed in The Walking Dead. I
can't even think of a dumb animal to compare them to, because
evolution didn't make anything that dumb and harmless. Perhaps a
drunken sloth on Valium.
In order to take over the world, zombies need an edge. Something
that makes them scarier than the coyotes that steal chickens from my
yard.
The writers could have made them strong. They didn't.
The writers could have made them fast. They aren't.
They could have made them smarter than earthworms. They didn't.
They could have given them improved senses, to hunt out fresh meat.
They didn't.
They could have made the disease spread easily. They didn't. Our
heroes splash zombie blood all over themselves every day and don't
get infected.
They could have made the disease hard to detect. This is how
diseases spread in real life. You can't tell who has HIV
just by looking at them.
So we have a bunch of dumb slow weak zombies, that are easily
identified (and whose victims are easily identified). It makes no
sense that they could overtake a country with 2.9 million trained
soldiers, 900,000 police officers, and more than 270 million guns in civilian hands.
The only way such a "threat" could bring on the apocalypse is if all humans were complete morons. Luckily for the zombies, the
humans in The Walking Dead are just as dumb as they are:
Hi-Res "Walking Dumb" Poster
posted by Clay Dreslough at 11:50 PM on Feb 26, 2012
"When Zombies Attack ... Morons"
2 Comments -
WoW. It doesn't matter if they drink zombie blood, they are already infected. That was the secret the CDC doctor told Rick at the end of season 1.
Everyone is already infected and they are the walking dead.
March 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM
If you haven't read the book...you definitely ARE missing something because it's NOTHING like the TV show.
It's true, in the book, everyone already HAD the disease, so no matter how you died, when you died, you would come back as a reanimated corpse. When people died from the bites it wasn't the spreading of the disease that killed them but a nasty infection.
Anyway, to sum it up, everyone in the tv show is a moron, the show plays out like a soap opera and it feels really rehearsed. The book has a much more "real" feel to it.
It's a great read. You should go pick it up, I've been reading since 2003 and I HIGHLY suggest it!
March 7, 2012 at 10:14 AM