The Walking Dead on AMC

[johnnystorm]

oh, wow! I forgot about that weird painting, it went unanswered and unmentioned after Michonne set it down...so Terminus Mary lived in that house with the creepy pink room full of dead people?
yeah, there will be blood next week.

[Iron Mego]

This ups the creep factor for Terminus:

[Hector]

That makes sense...thanks.

[hedrap]

I have a question.

If everyone is already infected...why do they die when they are bitten?

They are already infected...it doesn't make sense.

Bacterial infection. Think of it like MRSA, the flesh-eating bacteria. If a small wound becomes infected, it can kill you in days. Zombies would be rampant with bacteria. So the bite isn't killing you, it's the subsequent infection. If you had medical supplies, you can stop it, which is what we saw with Hershel. What's reanimating the dead is the virus.

[hedrap]

I think it would be safe to assume that anyone that was at the prison would know about already being infected or contaminated. The sick had to be confined in the event they died from the flu and came back, so I think Tyreese would know.

That's true. I guess I'm thinking more in terms of cannibalism. They used a few caveats in the book which were great to increase the horrific quotient, but I still could wrpa my brain around.

What it comes to for me, is I could see one, maybe two people, work as human hunters. But once you establish a collective group it falls apart. The reasoning behind Donner and the Andes plane crash was "help is coming, so hang on". That's why I think they went back and studied the Great Famine, which is the closest to the 'Dead situation, but the lives and education of middle ages people were drastically lower than today. They were already living on the edge survival, so it's not a hard leap to cannibalism. I mean, if Terminus are cannibals, what are they holding on for? Live to a ripe old age? Your neighbors will eat you before then. In the comics, they turn to cannibalism because they sucked at hunting animals and were starving. Any group that lazy would wipe each other out.

Now, Terminus was also a Roman god of demarcations, boundaries, perimeters, etc... and he required a human sacrifice. If 'Dead's terminus is roping people in, taking what they have, and then euthanizing/sacrificing certain people, (the sick, the old, etc...), that I could see. Like a variation on Wicker Man.

[Hector]

I have a question.

If everyone is already infected...why do they die when they are bitten?

They are already infected...it doesn't make sense.

[Starroid Raiders Dagon]

Well, we know what we know about contamination because Rick went to CDC. Abraham, Tyreese, etc... would have no idea. If I ran across Rick, I wouldn't decide steak's back on the menu because he said it's cool and Walkers have no interest in anything but meat, so I would assume a natural correlation. I get your point about protein.

I think it would be safe to assume that anyone that was at the prison would know about already being infected or contaminated. The sick had to be confined in the event they died from the flu and came back, so I think Tyreese would know.

[johnnystorm]

Them candy bars probably full of nasty critters by now ya know...

That's just bonus protein!

[Megotu]

Them candy bars probably full of nasty critters by now ya know...

[Iron Mego]

Well, we know what we know about contamination because Rick went to CDC. Abraham, Tyreese, etc... would have no idea. If I ran across Rick, I wouldn't decide steak's back on the menu because he said it's cool and Walkers have no interest in anything but meat, so I would assume a natural correlation. I get your point about protein.

True that others might not know how the infection works. But then again, none of the new characters seem all that worried about Walker blood getting on them, etc. It just seems like every one is huntin' something or other for their main source of food. Growing things to eat, at least at this point, would be the harder thing to do.

[johnnystorm]

I have this really bad feeling that Beth is this season's Sophia in the barn.

[Hedji]

Terminus is definitely suspect. Makes me wonder if the previous visitors were being grilled up there. On a side note, did anyone notice the Day of the Dead Bub zombie in the tunnel? That was a nice touch.

Yup! I'm sure my wife was like when I shouted, "It's Bub!!"

[hedrap]

They've been cookin' critters up for some time. And what other way are they going to get protein now? Plus, they're all "contaminated" as it is, so eating meat would only cause the dangers it causes in the real world, from e-coli and the like.

Well, we know what we know about contamination because Rick went to CDC. Abraham, Tyreese, etc... would have no idea. If I ran across Rick, I wouldn't decide steak's back on the menu because he said it's cool and Walkers have no interest in anything but meat, so I would assume a natural correlation. I get your point about protein.

[Iron Mego]

I never knew Hills Have Eyes is loosely based on some early European accounts from the Great Famine of late middle ages. So, yeah, get ready.

It's different in the comic, so maybe they're merging this storyline with one of the groups in the subsequent parts which has more of a Lord Humongous vibe.

I still don't buy the logic. The way people acted in the middle ages is not how people would react today. That was the whole point to the Age of Enlightenment, but I guess Kirkman's logic is in a world of undead, science and reason go out the door. I would think though the last thing a person would want is meat of any kind. I've always assumed instinct would turn survivors into herbivores as a way to avoid contamination.

They've been cookin' critters up for some time. And what other way are they going to get protein now? Plus, they're all "contaminated" as it is, so eating meat would only cause the dangers it causes in the real world, from e-coli and the like.

[Starroid Raiders Dagon]

Terminus is definitely suspect. Makes me wonder if the previous visitors were being grilled up there. On a side note, did anyone notice the Day of the Dead Bub zombie in the tunnel? That was a nice touch.

I thought that looked like Bub, and they did seem to leave the camera on him a little longer like they did with the Scottish woman that was zombified and heading towards the prison at the end of the war. Although I hated that direction (that got worse IMHO) with the Romero movies, I liked the nod to Bub. Good catch, gummi. I wasnt sure until you made mention of it.