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The Walking Dead - Season 3
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: spoot on November 08, 2012, 01:22:12 pm ---PBJ apparently.
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:laugh2:
I guess I'm not a true fan. I just caught up last night and haven't read any of the books or anything. I don't have AMC either.
SavannahLion:
Just caught the most recent episode (304). And I have one puzzling question.
They're all infected, that's pretty well established.
It's made pretty clear that once they die, regardless of method of death, they'll turn into a walker. OK, makes sense so far.
So why does a simple bite or scratch that wouldn't cause the character to die under normal circumstances also turn them into a walker? Is it not same mechanism either way? WTF?
RandyT:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 09, 2012, 12:51:44 am ---Just caught the most recent episode (304). And I have one puzzling question.
They're all infected, that's pretty well established.
It's made pretty clear that once they die, regardless of method of death, they'll turn into a walker. OK, makes sense so far.
So why does a simple bite or scratch that wouldn't cause the character to die under normal circumstances also turn them into a walker? Is it not same mechanism either way? WTF?
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It's funny...I had a subconscious "BS alert" moment when that revelation surfaced. I couldn't put my finger on why, but I think you just did. I guess I just accepted the premise and forgot about it.
Perhaps the virus is dormant in the living until death occurs, but when bitten or scratched, the active (mutated?) virus is transferred and rapidly replicates to kill, and take over the host? If that doesn't work for you, I'll see if I can make up something more plausible ;D
Howard_Casto:
Yeah that kind of pissed me off as well. Now for a massive injury I can see it... the body goes into shock, the virus becomes active.... it should be a rather slow turn though.
Then again, the big Black guy that merely got scratched by zombie bone didn't exactly turn.... they SAID he would turn and the other guy shot him. Same goes for t-dog.... he seemed quite alright until he became zombie chow. The last time we saw somebody die from a zombie bite it took a long long time for them to die and eventually turn.
So I would say that zombies are just nasty and the person dies or get really ill from infection, then they die, then they zombify. I do think that b.s. like having to immediately amputate the infected limb is just dumb though.... nothing spreads that fast, not even snake venom.
Louis Tully:
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