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Vigo:
They showed that in terminus they were carefully separating the meats and had a meticulous system. They either know there is a danger, or are at least scared of the possibility and taking a number of precautions. I'd assume cooking it thoroughly would probably kill the virus off. Were those Bob burgers served medium rare or well-done?

jdbailey1206:

--- Quote from: horizon on October 23, 2014, 02:16:19 pm ---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?

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But Herschel was bitten in the leg and it was swiftly amputaded. We dont know where Bob was bitten and the virus had time to course through his body. Thus infecting everything. Even his peg. Which was then transfered to the termites.

horizon:
Maybe I am just not remembering people turning fast from a bite. I just remember people bleeding out quickly from cuts to the throat or hips, near your major arteries, and ending up dead quickly from that. So being bitten by a walker speeds up the death? But no matter how you die, you will turn eventually.

dkersten:
That's the big hole in the show.. they are already infected, so getting scratched or bit shouldn't matter.. They should have said that everyone is infected with a mutated version that turns you when you die, but the walkers have a different strain that will turn you right away if you get scratched or bitten by them (or something along those lines). But then even that wouldn't explain how they could be swimming in zombie juice with scratches and cuts all over their bodies from recent fights and not get infected with the part that will turn you right away... It just doesn't make sense, and they are patching that hole by just making it up as they go, not explaining anything. You get scratched or bitten and you turn, but get zombie blood, guts, saliva, or anything on an existing cut and you don't...

Once they defined a rule, they need to stick with it or they break the story. I am trying hard to just ignore it and pretty much ignore the zombies because I don't even think they matter much any more. They are the environment, and you just adjust to an environment to survive. This show is more about the struggle of humans in an environment where there is no inherent safety and no law to bring repercussions to those who do evil. Rick said it to his son in the last episode: you just don't get to let your guard down any more, ever, no matter what. That is what the environment has done, it has made it so you need to be vigilant every second of your life or you will die. And the story is about how to survive and make a life in that environment. They could have made it monsters, rabid animals, aliens, or ghosts and the story would not need to change. They are trying too hard to keep the show about zombies and not about the human condition, and they need to either give it up or start defining the specifics.

Just my opinion though, lol..

dkersten:

--- Quote from: horizon on October 23, 2014, 02:37:20 pm ---Maybe I am just not remembering people turning fast from a bite. I just remember people bleeding out quickly from cuts to the throat or hips, near your major arteries, and ending up dead quickly from that. So being bitten by a walker speeds up the death? But no matter how you die, you will turn eventually.

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Yes, basically what they are saying is being bitten or scratched makes you deathly sick and in a matter of hours you die and turn. But since they are already infected, it doesn't make any sense.

In the first two seasons there were a bunch of examples of people getting bitten or scratched and dying from it. Since then, once someone is bit, the rest of the crew either shoots them or just leaves them to be eaten because they are gonna turn even if the bites don't kill them. Hershel made it because they chopped the leg off before it had a chance to get to the rest of his body, but they still watched him to see if he would get the fever and turn.

They don't talk about it anymore because it is just assumed that it is understood. After each fight they ask each other if they are OK, and are really asking "did you get bit or scratched".. No need to take another half of a show to watch someone get a fever and die a few hours later, it is better to just rip necks open, stick knives in their brains, and other crazy gruesome stuff like that..

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