So by that logic, all of the characters just have to make it another couple of weeks, and they'll be so much more mobile than the walkers that they won't have to worry about them. I'm guessing that doesn't get written into the script. That bothered me a lot as well. Maybe she wouldn't have gotten sick, but she would have freaked the hell out at a minimum.
I don't know what you're all on about. I like it and I try not to think about details like consistency, as long as I'm glued to the screen. Zombies simply walk faster when they see a prey.
I'm sure if I cared more about the characters and what happens to them, I'd notice the inconsistencies less.
I'm pretty sure that blood contact transference of the virus has never been mentioned in The Walking Dead; just bites.
But I'm not glued to the screen. That's part of the problem. I have a lot of times to pick up on these things.
Yeah I never get watching something to nitpick every little detail, if those things bug people so much, turn the channel.
And scratches I think. If they can rub guts on themselves, not sure why blood contact would infect them. This thread reminds me of going to the World Cup in Korea and having a great time cheering for the team and then going on BigSoccer and reading all the shouting about hating Agoos, Clint Mathis playing time, etc. and realizing how miserable I should be. I should stay out of this thread because so far I've enjoyed the show just for entertainment and now y'all might make me feel like I need to think it out more! I actually thought episode 1 was more fun than 2 though - the search the stomach scene in episode 1 I thought was really funny - and all the drawn out graphic gore was a good way to re-start the story after a long time off. What I'm really impressed about is that the token Asian who adds extremely little to the group dynamic has made it this long. Seems like both minorities days are very numbered. The smell thing was a noticeable inconsistency for me - and I thought about the visual thing - but it didn't really explain it very well. When it rained the guts off, weren't they more vulnerable? Either they can smell human or they can't.
I happened upon The Mist on TV and found out that the actors playing Dale and Andrea had shared the screen before in that movie. In fact, in Melissa Suzanne McBride there is a third cast member that was in both The Mist and the Walking Dead.
So the instinct meter went off in my head last night... Why would Shane do what he did? I felt that either the show's writers needed to make a bad guy among the humans, or they just screwed up and wrote something illogical... i don't think that it went with his character at all... wouldn't he have done it earlier? I hated seeing that killing... it was unnecessary and just downright cold...
The show has deviated so much from the comic now that I wonder if they're going to do some of the major things that occurred in the comic. And as soon as I saw that opening scene I was thinking to myself, full metal jacket. The look he made in the mirror sealed that for me.
I thought that was the strongest episode of the season so far. That hanging zombie was pretty creepy.
I actually thought it was consistent with the dark side he has shown from last season. He seems capable of some messed up stuff. The inconsistency that I thought seemed weird is that the hunter dude now seems much more socialized and less hostile then I remembered him.
Daryl is just being rational. Without his brother, he can choose to try to survive on his own, or join up with the group. And he has little to gain by being an asshole all the time. Even though I think I'm right in saying that the comic book Shane didn't quite survive this long - so they are deviating seriously from the comics with that - his behavior was seriously in line with the character from the source materials. What I haven't seen yet is Carl displaying the first signs of his nascent sociopathy. Perhaps they will not include that in the TV version?
Couldn't he have achieved the same thing by shooting him in the head and spared him being eaten alive? would have been easier to retrieve the bag.
It was completely logical. He shot Otis as a last resort once he realized they both couldn't escape. They were both too slow, and Shane needed some time to get away since he was injured. Shane did what he had to do to survive. He didn't do it out of joy.
Plus he thought he had more of a chance to evade the zombies than Otis did, and he had to save Carl. Made sense to me.
He did.....nevertheless, it was survival of the fittest. Not saying it was moral, but it was logical.
Best episode thus far. At least we can start talking about the character and avoid the nitpicking over whether a zombie would prefer paper or plastic.
As I was watching them limp away from the horde, I thought to myself that Shane should shoot the fat one in the leg. Remember kids, you don't have to be able to outrun the horde, just the guy your running with.