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Walking Dead: Season 2
Bootay:
Howard: It may have started out as a way to give Rick closure, but I am on issue 70 something and it still happens whenever someone dies. They always shoot the dead whether bitten or not. :dunno
I don't read the letters pages so I wasn't aware of the zombie thing. And they don't refer to them as zombies very often. And it was mostly in the beginning.
garnerb350:
Now this is where it gets confusing...I think alot of us take on the "ideas" of different writers/stories/movies and we can get confused by taking it all in....
As for myself, I stand by the Romero idea... Zombies are created by biting a living person, /and or by transfer of saliva/blood pathogen, etc...(which the zombies or "Ghouls" were somewhat created by the radiation of a space probe) if you remember in NOTLD the zombies ate anything living...( the zombies tore the body and you see them eating the intestines etc...and then the one zombie who took the bug off the tree)... Now Russo ( who helped Romero with NOTLD) when he parted ways with George, he made the ROTLD series...It was him who made the idea of zombies wanting brains only...(stating eating the brains quells the pain that the dead feel)
Now in Max Brooks Survival Guide... Bodies of the Undead should last an average of 5 years, before rotting/drying up to dust...(depending on climate/weather)
Now in the Walking dead comics The dead followed the Romero rule... and my interpretation was that there is some type of airborne virus that becomes active when a person dies...
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on November 24, 2011, 11:57:36 pm ---What did the zombie in the bottom of the well eat, or the zombie that hung himself? Zombies with most of the body missing, including their stomachs, still seem to survive just fine.
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The first kept hydrated, that's more important than food :)
Nacho is correct....Hydration is the key... The zombie in the well was bloated by being in the water for a long period of time... (oh and the makeup was on point...When i was in Navy, we retrieved a body that was in the ocean for 2 weeks... and words cant comprehend how that body looked..) Look at the Bicycle Zombie...she was missing her lower torso...and she was still ticking...as long as the brain was operating, the zombie will continue...
The zombie hung in a tree...that could be several possibilities there... 1.) He was infected and hung himself before he turned... 2.) He could have been with a party and they took him out before he could attack... or zombies could have came and turned him) :dunno
But as for the series , I wanted to question why they have dead bodies... When Carl opened the truck door and took the tools out of the dead guy truck...I wanted that to be a zombie and attack...
I wonder if the 3rd series would bring in Michonne... just that entrance in the comics, blew me away... ( walking with 2 zombies with their jaws and arms missing)
What really crazy, is if they are trying to be realistic with the whole zombie apocalypse mess...Why havent we seen zombie animals?...Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, Lassie just eaten Timmy!!! :laugh2:
Howard_Casto:
Good I didn't have to reply this time. :D What he said.
The whole "zombies eat brains" thing really makes me mad because it doesn't make any sense. First off I guarantee you that most people have only seen one of the Russo films (the original ROTLD) if they have seen any of them and even if they have seen the rest they probably find them to be the crap that they are. And yet somehow that first film (which was actually pretty darn good) managed to have such an impact that the majority of the culture think that zombies crave brains. Here's the ridiculousness of that concept: Humans have VERY weak jaws and very small teeth... I don't think a strong, healthy person could even bite through a human skull. There are no scenes in his films with the zombies using tools to try to crack the old coconut either. On top of that, the zombies in Russo's films are usually pretty beat up, even assuming a healthly living person could bite through a skull, one of his zombies couldn't.
I need to point out some inconsistances with garner's summary though. It's true that the original 1968 NOTLD had some zombies eating bugs and other oddities, but Romero points out himself in later interviews that he essentially ret-conns all of that out in his sequels and the official stance of his zombies is that they only bother to eat people and even then only if they haven't turned. This is supported by the fact that in future "dead" films, there are dogs, alligators, ect and the dead don't seem to have any interest in them. But in some of his films he flip-flops and they DO eat animals, so that rule is debatable.
I should also point out that we really don't know how long Romero Zombies last because his films only span the time of a few weeks and everyone is typically dead before the zombies could ever expire. Day of the dead hints at the fact that they had been in the coal mine for months, but other than that, no expiration date. Romero has stated in a few of his interviews that zombies will eventually wear out and fall apart so I'm saying that the Max Brooks time table is pretty accurate for Romero's zombies as well. That being said remember that a zombie plague time-table isn't linear, as pointed out in Max's books. It's around five years from the LAST GROUP TO BE TURNED and since people are constantly being born and being turned, it's a perpetual cycle.
About the zombie animals thing. It's not uncommon for a virus/disease/ect to have different effects on different species. Generally speaking the more specifically a virus effects a species, the less likely it is to have the same effects on other species. Just as an example, AIDS has little or no effect on non-primate species, feline AIDS only effects cats, ect.... I would have to guess that something specific enough to re-active the human brain and cause it to re-animate a corpse is going to be primate only. That being said, I demand zombie monkeys, chimps and Gorillas!!!! ;D
Ginsu Victim:
If RotLD taught us anything, it's this:
Tar-man rules.
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on November 26, 2011, 02:46:00 am ---That being said, I demand zombie monkeys, chimps and Gorillas!!!! ;D
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Coming to a theater near you... Planet of the Living Dead Apes! With a special reanimated appearance by Charlton Heston.
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