re: walking dead 3-11 (no spoilers about finale)

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Maybe Carl was so scared he couldn't talk? Carl basically closed his eyes to pull off that head shot. Nice shooting.

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i know i'd have to concentrate to shite my pants, because i would have.

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That's the blonde daughters boyfriend. She made a comment the other week about "I dated him for 3 weeks, and then the zombies come and now I'm supposed to be married to him?"

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Yeah I'm assuming since A) this guy has had zero lines and B) it looks they will be moving on from the farm next week, this guy might as well be wearing a red Star Trek uniform.

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this guy might as well be wearing a red Star Trek uniform.

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Yes indeed. That dude is zombie chow come next week I bet.

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quote:He also started pointing the gun at Rick before shane even rose Definitely this. He just so happened to get bailed out by zombie Shane. And agreed that a "Dad, look out" or "Dad, turn around" or something like that would've been helpful.

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I was thinking last night when this scene took place, that Carl has a buddy/dad connection with shane, due to Rick ignoring him alot. And that Carl was upset that Rick killed Shane. This or maybe thought Rick was a talking walker. Either way, the scene was tense.

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28DL wasn't that way.

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While 28 Days Later is obviously inspired by the Zombie genre the "infected" aren't technically zombies as they are not dead and the dead are also not coming back to life. The infected in 28 Days Later are all still technically alive. Even the director has stated this wasn't a zombie film.

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Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead weren't like that. I've seen NotLD before, but it's been forever though, so I don't remember that one. But this is from the NotLD Wiki plot summary:

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In George Romero's zombie world the dead regardless of the cause come back as zombies.

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I've seen a decent bit of zombie movies, and I don't remember a single one that is what you're talking about, where all you have to do is die. And I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's certainly not common enough to be "zombie 101."

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Again LSUZombie is correct. It is common knowledge in the zombie genre that the dead will re-animate regardless of the cause. Not all follow this rule, but as I stated earlier in the George Romero world this is the case.

For all those asking about why the dead weren't re-animating in front of the hospital in season 1 it is because they all appear to be shot in the head.

I re-watched season 1 this week and at the hospital scene all of the bodies they showed had gun shots to the head or visible trauma to the head. Seems to fit with the typical zombie story line that we are all infected.

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CocomoLSU

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What the heck is your gripe against me?

I didn't spoil anything for anyone. Yeah I read the comics, but things aren't happening in the show like in the comics.

In defense of all my posts... I'm watching at the same time as everyone else. Going purely on what I see happening in the episodes and previous episodes. If you pay attention to the details it's all very common used ploys in story telling. (Also like the way you edited out the posts I had that were completely wrong)

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Now Shane is gonna lose his f*cking mind again and try and kill Rick.

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Lori goes and tell Shane all this stuff about how she is sorry and is grateful to him and gets inside his crazy head. We have seen Shane fly off the handle multiple times this season and just a few episodes ago he attacked Rick and almost killed him. So it's an easy jump to make that with what Lori has just told him he would fly off the handle.

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Shane is trying to get Rick to him self.. and have another "Otis moment"

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He killed Randle and ran himself into a tree to fake an injury, and then suggested they split up to look for Randle. What did you think he was trying to accomplish?

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The guy at the CDC told Rick that they can come back alive as zombies even if they have never been bitten.

The "virus" is now inside us all.. and regardless how you die (of natural causes) you will become a zombie.

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This is purely a guess on what Jenner told Rick. The fact that you will come back regardless...Randle is killed by Shane and comes back as a zombie. Connect the dots!! Yes this happens in the comic books, but the fact that they keep saying over and over "there are no bites or scratches" means they were building to something. I wasn't sure if this was just something that happened in the comics and not in the show, or was going to be in both. But I wait to bring it up till it was presented in the show and Randle had already come back.

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Shanes comes back as a walker?

Carl finally mans up?

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Again, connect the dots... on the Shane part.

The last few episodes have been almost entirely on Carl's arc as a protagonist. He goes from defiant, to scared, to guilty, to remorseful, (completely giving up the gun saying he never wants to shot again) and then the slow build from when Rick gives him the gun saying he won't always be around to protect him or the group. What is this building to....... do you think all dialog and actions are just meaningless? If you actually pay attention everything is pretty much laid out for you... I didn't know exactly what was going to happen (I was wrong quite a few times... I thought they might make Shane kill Lori (as revenge for stirring the pot) and Carl save his mother (as referenced to the speech from Rick)

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Enigma

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Damn, man, you are incredibly intuitive.

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Yeah I read the comics

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Never mind.

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If Randal had his neck broken then how the frick is he walking around? I'm no zombie physiologist and granted it is fantasy fiction but in a world where the water is wet and the sky is blue I'm assuming you still have to have an intact spinal cord to get up on your two feet, infected brain or not. Shouldn't he have just been laying on the ground with his head lolling about?

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Yeah I thought that too. Guess it's one of those things you have to look past. Central nervous system needs to be intact even though the brain is unharmed.

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if not for your comic knowledge of carl killing shane I highly doubt you'd have guessed Carl was going to be the one who kills shane. No you don't outright spoil things, but you use your knowledge of what you know from the comics and apply it to where the writers may go. They're educated guesses, not you simply pulling shite from what the show gives you

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Enigma, I'm sure you don't mean to dude, but the comic knowledge is so ingrained in you that you probably don't realize how much your discussion reflects it.

I'm a big fan of the comic too and that's why I try to stay away from the prediction game in these threads. It sucks sometimes that I can't get into that kind of discussion but I'm not playing on the same field as non-comic readers and there's no way to change that.

I will still engage in discussion on things that have happened(ex. Did Carl draw on Rick or Shane?) but that's all post episode discussion. I stick to the spoiler threads for everything else. Hopefully the posting in those threads will grow so it'll be more fun for us but I really think it's probably best if you stay away from pre and in-game speculation type talk.

Just a suggestion.