I can see the prison falling within the first episode of next season. Weren't the Governor's people pretty sheltered? They're not cautious or vicious enough to survive for very long in that world. One of them opens the wrong door, zombies burst in, and they run away instead of trying to contain it, mass panic ensues. One of Rick's people will be lost as a consequence of taking the others in, most likely Herschel due to his leg.

 

Bump for the count down to the new season.

27 teasers for the new season

Wonder how they are goign to make the Walkers last this long. They speciifcally said they could eventually starve if not feed to the point they just cant walk or do anything.

 

Is this ebola or something? Swine Flu?

Also, I thought Carol's storytime was excellent.

 

We're back bitches. Hype hype. Character fun time, awesomazing supermarket sequence, shit gonna go down in the coming weeks. Super stoked. Big ol' boner.

WALKER KILL OF THE WEEK:


(In all seriousness, prolly Sasha's. Chick's fierce. Or Glenn's. Or Daryl's. Dammit. Choices.)

 

Looks like Ebola, certainly something that's gonna fuck people up this season regardless with all the little nods to it being transmitted.

Still, good start - the 'who dies' list grew substantially and already ticked off two of the more obvious ones. How a redditor survived that long amazes me.

 

redditor?

/10char

 

I thought it was just an airborne agent of whatever turns you into the zombie? That would make sense as the next big threat as anyone can turn into a zombie at any time.

 

Well, all the nods during the episode point to waterborn, or at least spread via water (the kid coughing in the water barrel at the end, people exchanging all kinds of bodily fluids) or like perhaps it's tied to some kind of disease carried by animals that humans can contract - the kid ate deer, the pig died etc. Either way, anything that kills you = bad considering everyone's a walker once they stop breathing.

The 'redditor' was Carl's friend who died at the end, just not the way I expected. Honestly hadn't noticed how ill he looked, thought he'd get eaten by some random walkers that had found their way in, but on reflection that makes no sense given how thorough and set up the prison appears now.

Combined with the title of next weeks episode and the alcoholic being the last one to hear him go in there (and thus be a witness, sort of), safe to say there's a 3rd major threat present now outside people and walkers.

 

But you have to die first to turn into a zombie, it would probably be more of a threat if they were turned relatively quickly. I don't really know about Ebola but it probably wouldn't be too hard to deal with the aftermath if people were sick for a while/exhibited clear symptoms before they died.

 

I was really hoping they'd use the theory that was in the comics, which was that they are all infected already and it only converts you to a walker if you, whether that's a natural death or unnatural. So far, I haven't seen any evidence to suggest this, especially since that happens within the first 10-15 comics and we're well past that in the show.

 

Rick said at the end of season two that all of them have the disease and will turn once dead. This is something new.

 

Yup, end of season 2 confirmed the comics theory, really they couldn't move away from that as the name of the comic and show itself holds a lot when you realise that/it's revealed.

Ebola's just a guess based off the symptoms the kid was showing combined with the walker at the fence they kept focussing on with the bloody eyes, similar to the ones the kid had once he turned. That and I'd say something that kills you inside a day is pretty scary, it's quite possible it isn't Ebola but some evolved virus/disease that acts far faster, may very well be tied into whatever it is that's inside people that turns them into walkers once they die. Either way, kid was perfectly fine in the morning and then dead by night time.

 

Lots of shit kills with in 24 hours. Ebola it isnt. Way more people would be sick and his liver would be running out his arse. Also there is no way Ebola would show up in Kentucky.

 

The thing with that 'survivor' Clara...liked it, but wish more was done with it.



Going by the way she looked, one of my first thoughts were that she was a cannibal. Her skin was so dirty, but she had that mix of desperate 1000 yard stare and fucked in the head that smelled like cannibal to me.

Plus she had a blade. It could have been her skinning knife.

Clara being a cannibal would have been a better way for things to come back on Rick, playing at being a farmer and man of peace and trusting people again. A hike in the woods with a strange girl will end well.

 

Hnnnnnnng! October is such a wonderful month! Football, baseball playoffs, NC Meet-up, and Walking Dead! I was really hoping the Kill of the Week was going to the Medic Noob guy scooping out zombie brain while he was trapped under the booze rack. (can't remember his name, don't really care because he's T-Dogg 4.0 and there can only be one black guy on the show at a time. He won't last.) Alas, it was not to be - Daryl had to get his curb stomp on!

Clara, I figured, was a cannibal with all that talk of eating raw meat and... other... things. Crazy bitches be crazy and the Ricktator attracts them like flies. Andrea (don't miss her at all), Lori (sluuuuuuuut) and Clara. Basically every female that isn't Carol.

Speaking of Carol, holy ninja fuck with the knives! Rock on with that! But Daryl better quit getting cozy with her, everyone around Carol dies. Her husband, T-Dogg, Axel, seriously, woman is a shit magnet. Also happy to see Carl chill out some, losing the hat, reading comic books, not carying around a pistol with a baseball bat suppressor, naming zombie!pigs and such. Still, at the drop of a hat I bet Orochi!Slayer!Carl could jump right back to the forefront and murder all the zombies.

As far as Patrick's disease is concerned, my vote is any viral hemorrhagic fever (would include ebola, but I'm not gonna be that specific). VHFs get my vote due to the fever and bleeding we see Patrick displaying right around his time of death.

 

So, I had been thinking of long-term strategies and stuff. (Because everyone there is regularly angsting about having nothing, nothing to look forward to. And the big dramatic premise of the series is how the survivors are the real walking dead, leading lives of fear and misery, fighting and clawing for survival and inevitably failing, just fruitlessly prolonging the agony before the final extinction of the human race.) The final plan should look something like: get to water, get a boat, get to an island (Niihau in Hawaii has a population of 130 as of 2009), clear it of walkers, profit, repeat with nearby islands, profit some more.
Really, the thing about zombies is that although there are lots of them, they're still finite and can't procreate on their own. So if everyone just adopted a 10-kills-a-day policy, the problem would be solved in Carl's lifetime. (I realize there would still be kinks to be worked out, like making sure that nobody dies alone, making contingency plans for inevitable outbreaks, but it's solvable.)

On an unrelated note, a walker as portrayed on TV is a perpetuum mobile, and oh my so much useful stuff could be done with them. (Even if they eventually wither, that's a lot of free energy.) In the far future they could out-compete solar panels and wind turbines as the eco-friendly power source.
And while the world is still preindustrial it would be neat if their usefulness became apparent and so culturally sanctioned. Like tribes with beliefs that the ancestors never really go away, but stay on helping and watching over the clan, only now it would be quite literal. Everyone gathers to say their final goodbyes to grandma, she passes, we de-jaw her and oh look, now she plows our fields.

OK, I'm gonna go catch up with the new season now.

 

I would really like to see a good portion of the walkers getting so staved as to be almost useless. Its been close to two years since the first out break, lets say a year and a half since the first wave of feasting took place.

With so few survivors per living walker, a lot of them wouldnt of had food in over a year. And the few that did, would have more energy and thus get more kills and thus more energy, so we would have different grades of walkers, near starves, medium scavengers, and rather fed effective ones.

 

Every time I watch the show I really wonder why nobody got the idea to install some siren at a place away from the prison where you can trap the zombies and then light them up or drive them over. Would be an effective way to clean up areas to some degree.

 

Common sense? In my zombie genre? I think not!

Otherwise people would do sane things like wear body armor (of which there are many kinds of full body suits) and use infared imaging to avoid walkers and large groups. Nevermind the relatively high capacity for large scale destruction available to military and paramilitary groups and anyone (like a few of the members here on the board) who could make explosives to deal with large numbers of them simultaneously. By the way you know the government has devices to control large populations of people that they cant use because of the danger to the public if they did? Disregarding chemical sprays and the like, sonic weapons to shatter eardrums exist.

 

Or a wall over 2m tall.