BYOAC Talking Dead - Walking Dead Season 5

Main > Everything Else

<< < (9/84) > >>

thomas_surles:

--- Quote from: DaOld Man on October 23, 2014, 09:16:14 am ---About cannibalism: just for a side field trip, watch the movie "The Road". Last time I checked it was available on Netflix. Not a movie about zombies, but will make you think about what could happen if the world breaks down.

--- End quote ---
I liked that movie.

HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: thomas_surles on October 23, 2014, 10:03:27 am ---
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on October 23, 2014, 09:16:14 am ---About cannibalism: just for a side field trip, watch the movie "The Road". Last time I checked it was available on Netflix. Not a movie about zombies, but will make you think about what could happen if the world breaks down.

--- End quote ---
I liked that movie.

--- End quote ---

I liked it, but it was fairly depressing...

jdbailey1206:
Fairly? My wife saw the movie and she said the book was 10x more graphic.

horizon:
So to the point about Bob killing off the other people:

Everyone already has the virus. The guy at the CDC told Rick, who confirmed it with the death of Shane. How does eating someone bitten cause death? Hershel was bitten, had his leg amputated, and survived, right?

dkersten:
Book was better, but his stuff is hard to read.. many of his books he uses no punctuation, no paragraphs, and ignores just about every rule of the English language. The Road at least has paragraphs, commas, and periods. No quotes though, so you pretty much have to guess when someone is speaking.. I liked that the book took something of a realistic view on how life would be after a major apocalyptic event. But it wasn't much fun because it was so dark and depressing. The best part about a post-apocalyptic story is the hope of rebuilding humanity. Take away hope and you just have a depressing story set in the last hours of humanity's existence.. *yawn*

As for WD (spoilers ahead), at first I thought the thing with Bob was that he was scratched or bit, but then the way the terminus guy was talking to him suggested that maybe he had led the group to terminus (albeit inadvertently) and perhaps had actually been sent out to find groups to lead to terminus. I seem to recall last season he mentioned he had been with more than one group in the past...

I do wish they put more effort into the whole "infected" thing though.. So everyone is infected, but getting a scratch or bite turns you into a zombie right away.. So if they are swimming in a flooded basement full of zombie juice, killing them in the water and filling the water with more infected zombie juices, and they have scratches and cuts all over their body (from the last big fight), wouldn't that be no different than getting scratched or bit by a zombie? It creates a disconnect in the logic, destroys the suspension of disbelief, and makes whether or not Bob was scratched kind of irrelevant to ponder.. Either they will make him infected enough to turn without dying first, or they won't, and you can't use any kind of logic to make an assumption ahead of time because the rules are inconsistent..

So throwing out any logic whatsoever, I am thinking a couple possible story lines with Bob:
1) he is infected and was gonna die anyway, not he is getting eaten too. Poor Bob.
2) he was part of terminus to begin with, met Rick's crew and was supposed to lead them back but decided he didn't like those guys and is now getting eaten by them because he "went rogue"
3) he is infected and now that they are eating his infected flesh, they will all get sick and turn..

I didn't read the stories so I don't know if Bob has any significance there, not that it really matters for the show..

Navigation

 Message Index

Go to full version