The Walking Dead (Caution! Spoiler Alert)

Watched it last week for the first time this season. Pretty much kept up with it last year. Not a bad show.

 

Wowwww!! Couldn't believe that ending happened... And the new revelation about the walkers.

 

He did come back... Just like Randall did. He died of a broken neck, but still reanimated even though he had no bites or scratches. Looks like once you die, regardless of how, there is no alternative.

Next episode is the season finale. Bet it's gonna be crazy!

 

You mean stab wound, didn't Rick stick him in the gut with a Ka-Bar?
And that's how I'm interpreting it, just like the original Night of the Living Dead, once you die of any cause, you become one of them. In the remake of Dawn of the Dead you needed to be directly infected by bite, they addressed that when two characters shot each other dead. I'm not sure which theory I'm a fan of, but the fact that those zombies could run full bore instead of shambling forward made the movie a little more "urgent".

 

The recently deceased did in the 60's Night of the Living Dead. I'm imagining it depends upon the director or writers, however they wish to interpret it.

Now to geek out, in Resident Evil the T-virus reanimates any dead tissue, not just the recently deceased, so the dead did rise from the grave. Perhaps this virus only needs the dead tissue exposed to the air (vs buried) to reanimate it? Or maybe it's just the show's budget and that would be a large storyline for this TV show. The kid died from a broken neck, from Shane. If one got infected simply from a wound, Shane and Rick pummeled the hell out of each other and were all cut up and did not get infected.

The common thread among all the genres being that the zombie, once infected, has no or little thought process except the basest of all needs. To feed.

 

I say that's plausible. In 28 Days/Weeks, the rage did get passed by fluid transmission. As when that older taxi driver got some blood in his eye from a crow feeding on a dead soldier.

As is human nature, I overanalyze things. I wondered how the survivors on The Walking Dead can dispose of a walker so close up without personal protective gear? Smashing one or stabbing one in the dome is great, but it does leave open the possiblity that fluids could splash into their faces or cuts on their hands.

 

LMAO, I think that was an involuntary reaction on Shane's part when Rick stuck him with a knife. Rick handed him his revolver while reaching towards the small of his back (I think for his knife). I can't rewatch it because I deleted EVERYTHING on my DVR by accident this morning after watching it, so I'm just going by memory now.

 

He did stab him. I think as he did, Shane fired off a round.

I first thought, zombie excess on the knife? Causing him to reanimate? Now it seems the virus is airborne, like "I am Legend." It doesn't react until dead though...

 

I started to chuckle when, after they buried Dale (or maybe they were enroute to bury him) the pickup truck stopped by the gaggle of walkers. Then the group of survivors went all "Office Space" on one of the walkers.

The season finale looks to be shaping up for a classic battle royale, that even nods towards the original "Night of the Living Dead" where survivors holed up in a farmhouse and were assaulted.

 

One hour........

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Zombie alert!

Who dies tonight?
Blood will be spilled in the second-season finale of “The Walking Dead” (tonight at 9).
A herd of bloodthirsty zombies is descending upon the farm that has served as a haven for our ragtag group of survivors.


http://www.bostonherald.com/enterta...staggers_toward_showdown/srvc=home&position=7

 

I noticed that person also had what looked like two armless zombies on chains? Or did I imagine that?