Thank you, though I remain a touch sad that this went without notice.
Maybe they’re all trying to turn off the cassette deck (Like Phillip, in, “Shaun of the Dead.”)
Oh, it was noticed it. I just didn’t want to touch it.
Yes, that’s basic cable for you. You can have a show with a planet full of undead rotting corpses lurching around viscously eviscerating and devouring people, a show where a main character wields a katana and slices and dices people left and right, a show where a person can be depicted being shot though the back of the head, a show where non-zombie cannibals dispatch people like cattle by slitting their throats and tossing them in a trough to drain their blood, a show that basically glamorizes unfettered gun violence…but for the love of God, DON’T SHOW ANY NAKED PEOPLE!!! Think of the CHILDREN!!
:rolleyes:
Anyway, if I may add some questions to the thread:
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Has the show ever “lamp-shaded” how easy it is to bash somebodies’ brains in? Time and again, the show depicts the plucky survivors confronting a horde of undead and at least a few folks are left with just baseball bats or club who wail away, and drop one walker after another quite easily. In reality, the skull is the thickest, most durable piece of bone in the human body. It will resist blows that could shatter limb bones. Yet it seems as if anybody – even people who’d led regular, docile, un-athletic lives prior to the apocalypse – can cut through one skull after another like butter. (And I’d even be able to accept the idea that the virus that makes zombies make their skull tissue softer and more malleable, but has the show ever addressed it?)
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How do the survivors keep replenishing their supply of bullets? Given that they live in a post-industrial world where nobody is manufacturing more ammunition, and also factoring in the sheer amount of gunfire in any given episode, they must’ve exhausted all the entire extant supply of ammo in whole of the South. Stuff like food I can imagine they scavenge from the woods (berries, an occasional bird or small animal that Darryl hunts), but ammo is something that has to be manufactured and certainly can’t be whipped up by just anybody. Yet they seem to fire off an endless supply of rounds in any given episode.
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Likewise, where do they keep getting gasoline for their cars? Even the book “World War Z” brought up this point – gasoline has a VERY short life-span. Six months to a year, and it’s useless for starting cars. But Rick & co. never seem to lack for wheels when they need them.
For the latter two points, I’m sure some folks might be tempted to explain it away as time compression, and say the show that has been on air for at least five or six years at this point is only showing episodes from a few months stretch. But that can’t be possible – at the start of the show, Rick’s wife was so newly pregnant she didn’t even KNOW she was pregnant (she was shown getting a pregnancy test early on). She carried a baby to full-term, and that baby was already a toddler (at least one year old) a few seasons ago*. So at the very least, walkers over-ran the Earth at least two years ago in-universe. That long without anyone manufacturing new bullets or gasoline, and the survivors ought to be facing some severe shortages.
*FTR, I did stop watching this show regularly a few years back, but watch the occasional new episode. I don’t know if they brought these points up since I stopped following it.
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In the last season Eugene discussed the possibility of making cast-bullets at a local foundry.
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Naked walkers will require more make-up work. Make-up have probably got enough to do already. And they’ll get bitten to hell by bugs filming in Georgia.
I don’t understand the issue with ammunition. In the USA at least there are millions and millions of rounds. Far more than the ever-diminishing numbers of survivors could possibly have used up. Sporting goods stores, hardware stores, big box stores, all have enormous inventories. So do a plethora of hobbyists and firearms collectors. Heck, I know a couple myself, each of whom have tens of thousands of rounds, and they’re only in the middle of a scale between small and large "enthusiasts ". Finally, there are governmental stores. Police stations, prisons, national guard centers, and of course actual military bases have huge stores of small arms and ammunition.
The same retailers also have everything a hobbyist needs to reload ammunition, which is a common practice of many hunters and competitive shooters. It’s cheap, easy, and a fun way to do something related when the season or weather precludes hunting or other gun sports. You could probably find the full setup in at least one in ten home garages or dens in most small towns. I watched the episode with Eugene and the “foundry” and thought it stupid. You can melt lead from tire weights and fishing sinkers on your propane stove, in a cast iron pan. Then bullets can be cast in simple molds. They won’t be as accurate at a long distance as bullets from a modern factory with better manufacturing controls but they’ll shoot just fine, and kill zombies perfectly well.
And while gasoline deteriorates after a couple of years to the point that most modern internal combustion engines will run badly or not at all, Diesel engines are more forgiving. And there are lots of vehicles around that can use propane or CNG. There are huge stores of these gases, and they don’t deteriorate like gasoline. Our survivors should be able to keep themselves in ammunition and transportation for the foreseeable future.
Folks would be fighting over those things, and to reload you need primers. I don’t believe that you could make them yourself.
I think black powder and flint would eventually be the thing.