I kinda hope Bob dies just to end his suffering, but Herschel kept surviving everything. What do you call a guy with no arms and legs in a swimming pool?
Those don’t last forever either. The best one I’ve owned needs to be recharged every few months at least even if I’m not using it.
Since everybody is already infected, it’s still a little sketchy how a bite speeds things up so fast. But hell, if we are debating a mythical zombie pathogen, we already suspended our disbelief.
I’m not convinced about the “Bob’s been bit” hypothesis, and have no idea what the writers think should happen if one were to eat somebody who has an active case of zombitis, considering how fast and loose the rules appear to be, but inadvertent contamination would be pretty easy.
They are cooking and performing impromptu surgery in a totally inadequate environment. Improper sanitization of knives or hands could easily transfer pathogens from the infected person to the cooked food, then to the diners. Food safety is a big enough pain in the ass when you’re backpacking in the real world, it would have to be worse in zombieland.
One of the drawbacks to cannibalism is that any pathogen or parasite in the victim can infect the killer, which is not always the case in interspecies predation. Between the seasons, I wondered if they would depict the Terminus people as suffering from some kind of prion disease, like kuru. They’re apparently not going that way, though.
Walking Dead zombie physics is already timey whimy magic. I’m not going to overthink it. Mullet already introduced the pathogen vs. pathogen crackpot theory. Maybe the active zombie virus and inactive zombie virus will combine in the head Termite guy and he’ll be the immune golden child they have to save and get to DC.
When she turned the key to try - she got the “fast click” - where the battery is only “mostly dead”.
She checked the emergency jumper - it went to green - she then closed it up for “later”.
Later came - she had the car started, was interrupted by zombie, then Daryl - then the cross car conveniently zoomed past - broken tailight and a chase ensues.
I know this is a stretch…
Let’s say, Bob got bit in the left leg. The Termites cut off & cooked the same leg. They get sick & die and at the same time save Bob.
I know they removed Hershel’s leg quickly. Probably a good thing I’m not a writer for TWD.
:rolleyes:
That would be hilarious. Kind of a stretch, but I’m willing to allow it.
That would be cool. Putting a tourniquet (I assume) on his bitten leg, and cooking and eating it could actually save Bob.
Bites don’t speed up the zombie virus. Bites just kill you.
In every episode one of the Scoobies gets walker blood & goop up to his/her elbows- last week Carol even deliberately smeared it on herself- and they don’t turn. It’s hard to imagine that they’d get it from consuming the charred flesh of somebody who’s been infected but hasn’t turned.
But, again, timey whimey zombie wombie and all. I’m still wondering how there are so many ambulatory walkers when everytime we see them take down somebody they devour it til there’s almost nothing left.
I’ve read that other places as well. Last week we ate a spam sandwiches from a can that expired six years ago. It was fine. (Keels over dead.)
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I’ve read that other places as well. Last week we ate a spam sandwiches from a can that expired six years ago. It was fine. (Keels over dead.)
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Would you still have eaten the 6+ year old spam if you’d had a nice muscular 20-something leg to roast?
I don’t buy the venom hypothesis. Last I heard, monitor lizards’ saliva poisons its prey; but I’ve just done a quick search, and apparently monitor lizards do have venom glands. Gila monsters also have venom. Humans don’t have venom glands, and I see no reason they should magically come into being upon death. I’m sure there are animals with toxic bites (human bites are said to be pretty dirty – slow lorises, maybe?), but I’m not aware of any whose bite is always toxic.
I’d accept a separate pathogen though.
To me, the best thing about this episode–and something I rather expected more conversation about–was the quiet conversation midway through between Michonne & Rick. I just loved it. It made me like Michonne a lot more than I ever have before, while simultaneously making her initial unlikability both more understandable and less arch. Anybody feel the same?
[Pointing to fourth sailor] I’d rather eat Johnson, sir.
I guess I’ll die in the apocalypse because I think canned food without obvious dents has an infinite shelf life.
I find myself hoping for something to happen to Carl. Kinda the same way that I felt about Wesley Crusher… Get off of my TV!
You become a vampire. Yessir, that’s what this show needs: some vampires.
These were both disgustingly stooooopid plot developments.
Even if the writers had bothered to come up with a plausible reason that Our Heroes HAD to go into that water (and the writers didn’t make the least effort to justify it), anyone with sense would have come up with some wader-pants. The Episcopal priest wouldn’t have scrounged all the garbage bags and duct tape from the town, fer corn’s sake. Any infections you get in your nether regions from that water won’t be cured with sunny thoughts. You will need serious antibiotics–so you won’t go into the water without protection.
(I won’t even mention the stupidity of exposing oneself to underwater bites. Well, okay: I mentioned it.)
As for the carving on the church wall: obviously that would have taken a lot of time. So it wasn’t carved by frantic villagers trying to get into the church as the walkers closed in. And as you say, anyone who’d have had time to do that carving, would have had time to break into the church building. (Have the writers never heard of Sharpies?)
Vee preFER to be called ‘wom-PEERS’!