The Walking Dead ***With Comic Spoilers***

[Buck]

Sunday Nights at 9pm/8pm (Central) on AMC.

Note from Gonzo:

Spoiler Tag all comic book references please. Anything from episodes that have already aired is fine.

[Bump]

Originally Posted by dtebbe

"Woodbury" is about 7 minutes from my house

The actors and crew are amazingly nice folks..

dude no way! that's bad ass

[aturnis]

Originally Posted by Lprechaun

No shit, ive never said you dont turn when you die.... in fact ive stated very plainly that you DO turn when you die dumbass

Exactly. So stop explaining it as though someone disagrees with you.

[aturnis]

Originally Posted by NewChief

Finally watched last episode. Since the Lori on the phone thing came out: do you all see the genius of the anti-c-section scene now? He "delivered" Lori onto existence when he cut open the zombie that had eaten her? Daaamn.

And that's all Darabont because it doesn't go down like that in the comics.

If that was intentional, which I don't think it was, cool.

[aturnis]

[QUOTE Bump;9145233]everybody knows that, I thought[/QUOTE]

Exactly, that's why I don't see the point in a post of Lprechan's like this:

This is straight from the comic,
Rick says

Spoiler!

"They're dead, BEFORE they get back up--BEFORE they try to eat you--THEY DIE. You said you saw your son die."

Since I think the whole, bite kills you conversation probably just got misunderstood I think this sums it up pretty well.
We were all getting to the same point I think just had slightly different thoughts on it. The good part will be when or if we find out how it happened, if it can be stopped, and at what point does it start to become more about eradicating and less about surviving.

B/c nobody disagrees that you reanimate after death. Everyone does agree though, that unless a bite can be lopped off, you're dead.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Darabont left this show a year ago.

Okay. Whoever is currently writing, then. Or whoever wrote that episode.

[Big Chief Homer]

Originally Posted by aturnis

[QUOTE Bump;9145233]everybody knows that, I thought

Exactly, that's why I don't see the point in a post of Lprechan's like this:



B/c nobody disagrees that you reanimate after death. Everyone does agree though, that unless a bite can be lopped off, you're dead.[/QUOTE]

THIS!!!

If you watch the scene after Big Tiny is bite in the prison.

They ask Rick to help him."you helped the old guy" and rick basically says it the location of the wound.

Rick "Look at where the wound is"

"lets lock him up or sumptin,quarantine him"

Rick "Theres nothing we can do"

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by dtebbe

"Woodbury" is about 7 minutes from my house

The actors and crew are amazingly nice folks..

Nice!

You need to do all you can to let them make you into a zombie so you can have your head chopped off by Michonne! Do this!

[Zebedee DuBois]

I certainly do not have any expertise in this area, but it sometimes seems like they portray the 'stabbing through a skull' bit as a little too easy. I would think it would take a wrist-spraining amount of force to get a knife blade through a skull bone. Perhaps the bones get a little more brittle as they walk around dead.

Any of our resident hunters or mass murderers care to comment?

[dtebbe]

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois

I certainly do not have any expertise in this area, but it sometimes seems like they portray the 'stabbing through a skull' bit as a little too easy. I would think it would take a wrist-spraining amount of force to get a knife blade through a skull bone. Perhaps the bones get a little more brittle as they walk around dead.

Any of our resident hunters or mass murderers care to comment?

. . . or military historians.

There are plenty of instances in the past of people who have gotten knives, swords or other pointy things through the skull. Francisco Pizarro, for example, received several of these from swords in his last few seconds on Earth; they had no problem penetrating the skull, and a knife stabbing downward can deliver a lot more force in a thrust than a rapier can stabbing forward. The upshot is that knives can definitely do penetrate even a full-strength human skull, and they often have.

Incidentally, I've seen people wonder if slashing towards can bisect a skull as well. They also can, but not necessarily from the characters in the show. Thomas a Becket's head was cut right in half with a swing of a sword, albeit from a Crusader knight, who would probably have more upper body strength (not to mention skill with a sword) than anyone you've ever met in your entire modern life. So, can someone use a machete to cut a zombie head in half? Yes. Can short, thin, non-muscularly-developed pizza-delivery-boy Glen? Considerably less likely.

[Lprechaun]

Our "zombie killing group" aka friends fascinated by the thought have been figuring that while the flesh is rotting away it would be odd to think the bones would become "spfter" so to speak... so I cant justify thinking it would be too easy to get a knife in and out of the skull so easily... the comics tough on that BTW.

[Aries Walker]

Oh, getting it out is a different story. There would be many more instances of the knives getting in the bone, or in the suction caused by whatever soft matter hasn't decomposed, than there are in the show.

[Gonzo]

I wanted to verify that stabbing the brain with a knife is possible and as easy as they make it look. So I went to my local mortuary/morgue and snuck in to a wake. I took out my handy K-Bar and yelled, "We must end it before the change or we're all doomed!" I swung the knife down as hard as I could into the skull of the 70-ish old man on display in his husker shirt and red coffin. (I also yelled "GO MIZZOU!")

Sure enough, the knife went right in to his frontal lobe. No problem.
I made bail and I have a psyche review Tuesday since I told the cops that I had to do it to so we won't have another outbreak of zombie Husker fans.

[dmahurin]

****in-a Glenn, ****in-a!

[Lumpy]

Originally Posted by dmahurin

****in-a Glenn, ****in-a!

That's what I'm sayin'! Glenn is a badass!