BUT for the sake of the dramatic tension, Shane never brought that up because that would have been completely inconvenient for the writers to structure around.
How did Shane get turned into a zombie anyway? I don't recall him getting scratched or bit (bitten??)
Randall didn't get bitten either... I think they are establishing that everybody who dies turns into a zombie now, unless it's headshot that kills you (probably), or burned up, or...
They are already all infected. You have to die for the virus or whatever to come active. I think this is exactly what the guy at the CDC told Rick. Either everyone in the world got infected somehow and when people started dieing, the virus spread or more likely everyone has been infected by getting splattered by zombie blood. I kind of wonder if Herschal's family is infected since they havent been exposed to zombies for the most part. If some of them die the next episode like I think they will (other than Maggie and Herschel, they arent really part of the storyline), we will find out.
The actress that plays Maggie was Taj's love interest in Van Wilder 2. I just realized that. It wasnt a very good movie but she was hot in it.
Yes, I believe they are all infected and the virus becomes activate when they die. In cases of those bitten, I gather they develop the infection and die. Why being bitten would induce it over being covered or sprayed in zombie blood doesn't make sense to me. Particularly since a number of them have had cuts and got zombie blood on them.
Well, if you are bitten and this stuff is like venom, it likely emits so much into the blood stream that it overrides your system. The amount going into the blood stream from a splatter is likely to be minimal. The only person that I think should be turned based on encounters is Daryl. He had an arrow used to kill who knows how many zombies go straight through his core and through or touching vital organs. No way that doesnt turn you. Although who knows how long the virus or whatever stays active.
You remind me of the fat kid from Stand By Me who always tells Gordy how he can make his stories better.
Pretty obvious that Shane thought Rick to be a complete wuss incapable of killing his former best buddy.
I was actually thinking of the Stand when I read that and thought that some people might actually end up being immune to the virus. If it is a virus, some people might be more susceptible than others. Actually, if it is a virus, then most definitely some people are going to be more suspectible than others. Did the CDC guy say whether it was a virus or not?
Well at some point ya got no one to blame if you keep watching it. Watchmen wasn't in the same universe as Sucker Punch - at least as far as bad movies go - but I didn't read either of the source material. I thought Watchmen was okay. Man this episode confused the heck out of me. I thought it was a dream sequence at the end - how did Shane re-animate that fast without a bite? Even bites take like 24 hours.
For a second I thought maybe Shane had knocked himself out when he rammed his head into the tree and perhaphs been attacked by a walker. It's looking like everything is leading back to the revelation that everyone is carrying the virus.
When/where did they reveal this? I guess it does explain how people are zombies that haven't been consumed by other zombies.
When the CDC guy was showing the image of his wife changing. He said the change occurs in as little as 3 minutes but up to like 18 hours or something like that.
So then the question becomes, what happened with the 2 cops who turned without having any bite marks. I don't remember their cause of death being revealed. It's pretty unlikely both would have died of natural causes and then turned, and if they didn't die any other way then that would mean they just flat out turned zombie from something in the air or somehow injested infected blood.
My theory is that the initial outbreak infected most people. The people that are still undead possibly have a kind of immunity, or are just very lucky. The virus is in them but doesn't "activate" until they die. So, a zombie bite doesn't spread the actual virus, but provides a lethal infection.
They could have committed suicide by poisoning themselves or something like that. Or maybe they had a heart attack. The fact that they didn't have bites, gunshot wounds, or any other open wound doesn't mean that didn't die.