He’s Zombie Bait.
Maggie said so.
i think that they should use this last episode to get rid of all annoying characters (specially Lori).
The new season should start only with Rick, Glenn, Maggie, Andrea and Darryl.
This is a creeping sentiment that all of us that are watching the show are feeling, I think. Everyone has their favorite characters…but at the end of the day I don’t think you can argue that “our group” had a hell of a more cohesive feel to it earlier in the show’s run up to now. Of course, that’s kinda the point/arc of the story, you’d say. But I think **Ekers **here is hitting on something.
The fragmentation/deaths of the group members is seriously changing the dynamic of the story. I know, Captain Obvious and all that…but its just starting to feel a little weird watching this show, actually rooting for some characters to just die already, when in the 1st season I was rooting for the entire group to survive.
Anyway, upon re-read, nevermind it. All obvious bullshit.
They both went the same direction. Shane stuck the pistol in his pants, turned and looked around (presumably to make sure no one was around), stepped behind the tree Randall had just stepped behind and we hear “Ah..” Snap. Slump. He then came back in front of the camera and looked around some more to make sure no one saw him, looked at the tree and face-butted it.
Yep, that’s exactly correct.
I would just like to say that if we are to accept the premise that something in the brain reanimates the dead and allows them to be mobile, logically consistency requires that people who die of a severed or otherwise catastrophically damaged spinal cord would still awaken, but the zombie signals would not travel down the destroyed spinal cord and they would be quadraplegic zombies.
Thank you. Does a broken neck automatically = a severed spinal cord though? 
Or could Shane have just strangled Randel?
Damn good thing I’m not an eye witness for a court case - thanks for the clarifications.
Me either, but I save episodes and put them on my server so I can watch them on tv or computer. As long as I’m reading the thread on the computer, I can look up the scene in a few seconds.
There is nothing that indicates spinal injuries are any more effective than anything else in disabling walkers.
Apart from their incredibly fragile brains – a blow to the side of the head with the flat of a shovel will kill one, no problem – walkers seem to be more or less completely compartmentalized.
The “virus” causes walkers to develop incredible powers of regeneration to counteract their own decomposition and somehow provides energy for their muscles to operate. We’ve seen walkers with exposed intestines and shredded internal organs that seem to be pretty much unaffected by their injuries. They eat, but they don’t seem to need to eat. They maintain senses of hearing, sight, and smell despite advanced decomposition. They can maintain balance and a bipedal gait, and enough strength to single-handedly overpower and tear open the gut of a full-grown cow.
The “zombie signals” might not even travel along neural pathways at all. Upon death, it’s possible within the context of the show that the dormant virus explodes into life within the new corpse, instantly suffusing its tissues and directing the hijacked brain’s instructions via microscopic structures laid down by the virus itself.
I doubt there’s any answer other than “it’s magic” that could stand up to any logical scrutiny. They are fantasy monsters, not something that science could explain.
What hardware and software do you use for that, Fubaya?
I know I don’t want to go down the “midichlorians” route and try to explain something that should be accepted for what it is- fantastical and outside the realm of normal possibility.
I’ve been amused by Cracked’s articles on:
5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen
and
7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly)
Among the reasons in the second article are that as slow, shambling humanoids with little agility and limited strength, they would be easily picked off by predators; they would quickly rot and fall apart in heat; they would quickly freeze and dehydrate in the cold; that infection spread only by direct contact does not spread very widely (this reason doesn’t seem to apply to this show); that their bodies don’t heal so any individual would be unlikely to be able to infect very many people before becoming immobile; they don’t have the intelligence or physical skill to overcome simple barriers to shambling movement; and that their prey have access to much better technology to destroy them as well as the physical ability to run circles around them.
Of course none of these things apply to “fast zombies.”
I’m bothered by the corpses in cars and don’t like the apparent official fanwank that all of those people beat themselves to death.
Has this been mentioned as a possibility:
[ul]
[li]Georgia summer[/li][li]Traffic jam[/li][li]Zombie horde comes along forcing people to remain in their cars with the windows rolled up.[/li][li]Because zombies can see the people in the cards they never leave.[/li][li]Eventually people are no longer able to run their air conditioners.[/li][li]The greenhouse like heat in the car during a Georgia summer eventually fries the brains of everybody in the cars. [/li][li]This is sufficient brain damage to prevent re-animation.[/li][/ul]
Are any of you listening to any Walking Dead podcasts? Apparently this is one of the most “casted” television shows. None of my family or friends watch the show, and I like to hear other people’s opinions of each episode (which, of course, I also get from these Dope threads). I had been listening to one called The Talking Dead (not affiliated with Talking Dead–the AMC aftershow hosted by Chris Hardwick), but the hosts started to annoy me with their speech mannerisms and their way of taking endless little verbal “loops” before finally getting to a point. They’re just too… Canadian. 
Anyhow, there are several others available in iTunes and I’ve been checking a few of them out for the last couple of episodes. It’s interesting to see how much they differ. In some, they pretty much constantly praise the show while in others they are very critical. In some the hosts seem more polished and ‘professional’ and in others they seem a bit more rough around the edges. The more critical ones are still fans of the show, but they echo many of the sentiments we’ve expressed here about some of the sloppy writing and/or directing.
So if any of you are listening to any Walking Dead podcasts, I’d be interested in which ones and what your opinions of them are.
I’ve been watching this series over the last several weeks (on Netflix and online) and just today caught up. I think I’ve been reading too much Sampiro or something, because every time I open one of these threads a soundtrack starts playing in my mind:
*Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both reached for
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun,
Oh yes, they both reached for the gun
for the gun.
*
Has anyone dissected the theory yet that Jenner whispered, “You’re still in a coma. This is all a dream,” to Rick?
Ha. I think there’s no doubt that Jenner whispered to Rick that the zombug causes any dead person to reanimate, because that’s one thing he is in a position to know: the behavior of the agent that causes zombification. He studied it, he knows its progression, and with this knowledge he decided to kill himself tomorrow.
Well, Rick’s reaction probably wouldn’t have been to keep such a thing a secret. More likely vocal denial, incredulity, etc.
Not to mention the fact that the collected fanbase would march on the writers’ homes and string them up.
Hey I just found out from my daughter, who has read nearly all the comics, that (spoiler for, literally, Page 1 only of the comic series) …
[spoiler]… the comics begin in Cynthiana, Ky., and Rick travels to Atlanta based solely on the guy he meets in his town, who tells him that there was a survivor camp based there. Rick then proceeds southward, where he finds his wife and son, Shane and the rest. This seems more implausible to me than if the whole thing was set in Georgia, as the series seems to be.
She also told me the comic creator is from Kentucky, where we live, so I’m super-duper thrilled to be at Zombie Central.
[/spoiler]
This is screamingly minor and passes even my stringent no-spoiler rules. However, I box it for anyone who wishes to ignore the comics completely and considers their mere existence a spoiler.