I definitely think Shane got infected on the bus. if you remember, he cut his own hand and smeared the blood on the doorframe to attract the walkers, and then did it again after killing a few.

Not sure if you guys are following the entire series or not. Shane's turning, as well as the turning of the hostage, proves that everyone is infected and the act of dying is what turns these people into walkers. We now know that everyone who dies, will come back as a walker, until such time they take a bullet in the head or the brain is destroyed.

Not sure if you guys are following the entire series or not. Shane's turning, as well as the turning of the hostage, proves that everyone is infected and the act of dying is what turns these people into walkers. We now know that everyone who dies, will come back as a walker, until such time they take a bullet in the head or the brain is destroyed.

While I got fed up and turned it off after a couple episodes early into it's 2'nd season,I have been keeping up with this tread however.

I have not followed the written or illustrated series either but it would seem to me that in order to offer something more than a limited, close ended story as well as continue the oratory on humanity and hope,to have everyone already infected and in essence on the path to inevitability would make any further episodes moot.

If The Walking Dead is to continue and for viewers to care about this rag tag group,hope has to be offered,does it not? it's not like the CDC is still around to offer a viable cure or perhaps it's all a bad dream like Dallas an eon ago.

I disagree. Knowing that you'll come back as a walker when you die is no reason to give up hope as far as I'm concerned. Live your life, as you have it. As long as everyone knows to put a bullet in your head once you pass, what's the big deal? Let's say for instance, in our modern day as we live today, we all found out something terrible in that when you die you come back as someone bad or evil. Is that going to disrupt how you live your life today? If so, why would it? See what I'm saying? For the show's cast, I don't see how knowing the dead come back as walkers factor into their willingness to live and move forward.

I was pissed when Dale died. Like I was legitimately pissed, he was a good guy and reminds me of my grandfather. As for Shane, he was been an asshole for a while now, but I really didn't expect this last episode. This week will be real bad when the walkers get to the farm

While I got fed up and turned it off after a couple episodes early into it's 2'nd season,I have been keeping up with this tread however.

I have not followed the written or illustrated series either but it would seem to me that in order to offer something more than a limited, close ended story as well as continue the oratory on humanity and hope,to have everyone already infected and in essence on the path to inevitability would make any further episodes moot.

If The Walking Dead is to continue and for viewers to care about this rag tag group,hope has to be offered,does it not? it's not like the CDC is still around to offer a viable cure or perhaps it's all a bad dream like Dallas an eon ago.

 

You can still have babies and live a life. It just means 'dead' has taken a new definition. Once you re-claim the Earth, destroying the brain in death will be no different than having an open casket. It'll just become ritualized.

I keep sayin: best way to take on zombies is using spear-like weapons, and using riot shields / machetes up close. These creatures are dumb, just create a trap for them and turn it into a meat grinder. Just ensure you have the means to escape if overwhelmed. Pro tip: Using a ravine or bridge, draw zombies over the edge to their demise. They're like lemmings.

I think im done watching... Shane's gone. My only hope is if Daryl picks up a little of the Shane's legacy. Otherwose I think its going to jump the shark a bit and become a little boring.

 

If the show starts to track back towards the comic (and Shane's death and impending zombie invasion of the farm makes me think it has), you will have good reasons to watch.

I don't understand if a swarm of zombies is coming why don't they just run em over with some farm equipment. A combine harvester would wipe em out quick. Plus you could easily pick quite a few off while they are walking across the field

A combine harvester would wipe em out quick. Plus you could easily pick quite a few off while they are walking across the field

 

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Not sure if you guys are following the entire series or not. Shane's turning, as well as the turning of the hostage, proves that everyone is infected and the act of dying is what turns these people into walkers. We now know that everyone who dies, will come back as a walker, until such time they take a bullet in the head or the brain is destroyed.

Not necessarily. Just because they reanimate after dying if their brain is intact does not mean that EVERYBODY has the virus. Maybe they've obtained the infection via blood transfer before, yet it didn't take over their body until after dying.

Not necessarily. Just because they reanimate after dying if their brain is intact does not mean that EVERYBODY has the virus. Maybe they've obtained the infection via blood transfer before, yet it didn't take over their body until after dying.

 

Could be. I'm trying to remember how the two Philly thugs were shot. Wasn't the skinny dude killed with one center mass shoot? And the fat kat was shot twice with the second shot to the dome?

i thought shane turned into a zombie because he got stabbed by a knife that most likely had zombie blood on it. however that doesnt explain the guy that got his neck snapped

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If you read the graphic novels, you know that everybody already does indeed have the disease that reanimates people into zombies after death (given the head is intact). Interestingly, this isn't exposed until much, much, much later in the series (just recently really). Could the show deviate from this? Maybe. But maybe that is what the Doc back at the end of season 1 whispered to Rick-- that everybody was in fact already infected, but that it was dormant until death.

Not necessarily. Just because they reanimate after dying if their brain is intact does not mean that EVERYBODY has the virus. Maybe they've obtained the infection via blood transfer before, yet it didn't take over their body until after dying.

 

 

Could be, but I'm betting on my theory.

Could be. I'm trying to remember how the two Philly thugs were shot. Wasn't the skinny dude killed with one center mass shoot? And the fat kat was shot twice with the second shot to the dome?

This is true. The skinny dude WAS shot once COM. If everyone was already infected, he would have come back.

This just occurred to me. Daryl used his knife on the kids leg while he was interrogating him two episodes ago. He's also used that knife to kill several walkers. I'm sure that he's only washed it with water, things aren't exactly sterile.

This just occurred to me. Daryl used his knife on the kids leg while he was interrogating him two episodes ago. He's also used that knife to kill several walkers. I'm sure that he's only washed it with water, things aren't exactly sterile.

 

He's used that Ka-bar on everything, including gutting the rodents he catches and eats.

When dealing with such a "deadly" pathogen, why on earth would you want to get close to the infected, that just dumb. Any infectious blood that gets on you, the conditions will not be very sanitary to begin with,

 

The whole new idea of the infected i believe has to do with the evolution of the virus. Why would a bite turn you with out killing you, and now if your killed for non-zombie related death will cause you to turn..if were talking about the same virus. Something has changed, but we don't exactly know what or how.

every zombie movie/show is the same. people get extremely close with the infected, with no sanitary precaution whatsoever. case in point, when the blonde shot her sister, after she died then turned in her arms. sitting there, holding a soon to be zombie, is stupid. so is putting a pistol under her chin and shooting her, barely a foot away from your own face. if a single scratch could infect you (not counting the plot point that its already airborne), then a face full of spattered blood will certainly infect you.

 

i put it down as creative license, and the fact that it wouldnt make for good looking tv to have every character wearing a face mask, goggles, and a face shield.

The bite could cause you to die from infection. Kinda like a Komodo dragon but after death your a walker.

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The bite could cause you to die from infection. Kinda like a Komodo dragon but after death your a walker.

 

Both cases involve being infected, if you die from an infection from the bite, why dont you die from the infection with out the bite? The infection is what kills the not the bite, the bite is the mode in which the infection is transmitted. if the transmission of infection changes the symptoms should still remain the same. hence my understanding of some kind of evoloution, maybe the CDC had something to do with it during the research.

Komodo dragons have a bacteria in their saliva that causes infection which causes death. So you die from a bacteria infection and you virus takes over on death.

It's a Zombie slaying Ninja with zombie slaves!!!!

It's a Zombie slaying Ninja with zombie slaves!!!!

Hahah!! i thought the same thing.

Komodo dragons have a bacteria in their saliva that causes infection which causes death. So you die from a bacteria infection and you virus takes over on death.

 

I see what your saying now.

Michonnnnnnnnne, finally.