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Subject: The Walking Dead Official Discussion Thread *MAJOR SPOILERS*


Posted by: Duardo

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I kind of figured that is what it was, because the CDC Doctor whispered something to Rick. How come people will turn if they get bit though, is it because they never had the virus, or does it become fully active and rampant when the person gets bit.
I don't think it has anything to do with a bite, because I've seen zombies salivate onto people before and nothing has happened. Perhaps the bite simply kills them and then they turn?


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Posted by: Duardo
It will be interesting to see where things go form here.
Read the comic, and you'll see.
When i get my iPad I will.
I was thinking that to.. How come some of the characters get severe injuries, come in physical contact with a zombie or one that just died and not become infected? For example, when T-Dog severely cut his arm on a door, then Darly kills a zombie and puts it on top of T-Dog to mask him from the Dead. This is a totally different form of zombie experience.. All the other zombies I've seen, if you get any fluid contact, directly or indirectly in or near a wound of some sort, your done.

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  • 03.11.2012 8:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: Duardo
HAHA! I KNEW it would end up with zombies attacking the farm! Called that!

It will be interesting to see where things go form here. I think some characters will die in the finale (obviously) but I'm not sure who..I'd bet Hershel and maybe one or two more. T-Dog just because he's done crap this season.

I think the "steam" you're referring to is either dew, or it's the zombie virus. The Zombie Survival Guide states that the best way to hide from the zombies is to go deep underground and wait 20-or-so years because it's said that the virus would be air-born.

AmX, I don't think hiding on an island would work. Dawn of the Dead is a perfect example of what would happen.
Lol you did call it. If I remember correctly I remember you saying the the lone walker in the fields was predicting for what's to come. Ever since you said that, I knew you were right.


I remember that too. I told all my friends who watch the show how somebody, aka Duardo, thought the lone zombies significance was that the farm would soon be overrun, probably in the season finale. At the end of the episode I was like "OMFG IT'S HAPPENING!!" Good call.

Unfortunately, the death of Shane was spoiled to me and all my other friends from 2 other friends of ours. For some reason I made myself believe that he would die in the finale, so I didn't think Rick was going to kill him. All of a sudden I saw Rick reaching back behind him and I was like "...wtf is he, OMGGGGG!!!" and Shane was dead. That whole scene actually made me forget that Shane was going to die before the season was over, so it still came as a shock to me and my jaw dropped.

I think predicting that the farm was going to be overrun by walkers is a pretty obvious assumption in a TV show about zombies, especially since every other one of their camps ended that way (the CDC, the campground, the building in Atlanta, etc)

Also, the music at the end of this episode was so kickass, when Rick and Carl are standing over Shane's body.

And about the whole zombie-when-not bitten thing...how does that happen? So it's not a viral thing? I don't think the CDC video from season 1 explained this, otherwise it wouldn't be a mystery/surprise in this season.

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I have some questions that I can't figure the answer to:

1. What was the steam coming from Shane's body?
2. How did Shane turn into a Zombie without being bit?

  • 03.11.2012 8:54 PM PDT

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I have some questions that I can't figure the answer to:

1. What was the steam coming from Shane's body?
2. How did Shane turn into a Zombie without being bit?


1. Fog

2. Everyone has the virus, but it only effects them after they die.

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Posted by: Atomic Tea

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2. How did Shane turn into a Zombie without being bit?


2. Everyone has the virus, but it only effects them after they die.

Then what is the significance of the zombies biting them? So now to my understanding...

The virus is airborne, it activates post mortem (if the brain is intact), there is no significance in the bite itself, the zombies are driven to eat and kill everything.


With that conclusion, how are there so many zombies then? They all would have had to have died, but not be eaten by zombies?

Also, there was a guy last season who was bit when the zombies attacked their camp, nobody knew he was bitten, but they found out and he decided he wanted to stay on the road by a tree. I recall him getting a fever from the bite, can anyone confirm/disprove anything im saying?

  • 03.11.2012 9:03 PM PDT

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2. How did Shane turn into a Zombie without being bit?


2. Everyone has the virus, but it only effects them after they die.

Then what is the significance of the zombies biting them? So now to my understanding...

The virus is airborne, it activates post mortem (if the brain is intact), there is no significance in the bite itself, the zombies are driven to eat and kill everything.


With that conclusion, how are there so many zombies then? They all would have had to have died, but not be eaten by zombies?

Also, there was a guy last season who was bit when the zombies attacked their camp, nobody knew he was bitten, but they found out and he decided he wanted to stay on the road by a tree. I recall him getting a fever from the bite, can anyone confirm/disprove anything im saying?
The bites slowly kill the person who was bit. Depending on where and how many bites.

  • 03.11.2012 9:04 PM PDT
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  • 03.11.2012 9:10 PM PDT

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Shane, you were a loose cannon, but you were our loose cannon. You will be missed.

He screwed another guy's wife... I'm glad he's gone.

  • 03.11.2012 9:11 PM PDT

Signatures are for squares.

Everyone is already infected, they literally are the walking dead.

The virus just doesn't take effect until after you die. The bite isn't what infects you, because the virus is airborne. The bite simply kills you(decaying mouth is going to be filled with bacteria which will cause infections which will cause death.)

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Posted by: privet caboose
Everyone is already infected, they literally are the walking dead.

The virus just doesn't take effect until after you die. The bite isn't what infects you, because the virus is airborne. The bite simply kills you(decaying mouth is going to be filled with bacteria which will cause infections which will cause death.)



But they don't just bit. They will eat you whole.

  • 03.11.2012 9:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: HeftyPredator X

Posted by: privet caboose
Everyone is already infected, they literally are the walking dead.

The virus just doesn't take effect until after you die. The bite isn't what infects you, because the virus is airborne. The bite simply kills you(decaying mouth is going to be filled with bacteria which will cause infections which will cause death.)



But they don't just bit. They will eat you whole.


Well that's obviously going to kill you which will result in reanimation...

  • 03.11.2012 9:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: privet caboose
Everyone is already infected, they literally are the walking dead.

The virus just doesn't take effect until after you die. The bite isn't what infects you, because the virus is airborne. The bite simply kills you(decaying mouth is going to be filled with bacteria which will cause infections which will cause death.)


The thing I keep wondering after this is, is there any hope then? If there's an answer that's a spoiler then don't tell me, I was just putting the question out there.

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Posted by: HeftyPredator X

Posted by: privet caboose
Everyone is already infected, they literally are the walking dead.

The virus just doesn't take effect until after you die. The bite isn't what infects you, because the virus is airborne. The bite simply kills you(decaying mouth is going to be filled with bacteria which will cause infections which will cause death.)



But they don't just bit. They will eat you whole.
Ok?

If somone ONLY gets bit then escaped getting eaten then...

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  • 03.11.2012 9:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: HeftyPredator X

Posted by: privet caboose
Everyone is already infected, they literally are the walking dead.

The virus just doesn't take effect until after you die. The bite isn't what infects you, because the virus is airborne. The bite simply kills you(decaying mouth is going to be filled with bacteria which will cause infections which will cause death.)



But they don't just bit. They will eat you whole.
Ok?

If somone ONLY gets bit then escaped getting eaten then...

Then they're still going to die. Watch the season 1 finale. I don't remember all the details, but the virus (when you get bit?) slowly kills your brain. You die, and then get reanimated. Your brain starts back up, but you only have base instincts. You aren't capable of thought anymore.

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Posted by: Lord Spartan GH

Posted by: HeftyPredator X

Posted by: privet caboose
Everyone is already infected, they literally are the walking dead.

The virus just doesn't take effect until after you die. The bite isn't what infects you, because the virus is airborne. The bite simply kills you(decaying mouth is going to be filled with bacteria which will cause infections which will cause death.)



But they don't just bit. They will eat you whole.
Ok?

If somone ONLY gets bit then escaped getting eaten then...

But then, how does that go along with the numerous amounts of zombies? They all only got bit, then escaped? Or everyone all of the sudden died from unrelated causes, and were reanimated?

It doesn't fit together.

  • 03.11.2012 9:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: Atomic Tea

Posted by: Lord Spartan GH

Posted by: HeftyPredator X

Posted by: privet caboose
Everyone is already infected, they literally are the walking dead.

The virus just doesn't take effect until after you die. The bite isn't what infects you, because the virus is airborne. The bite simply kills you(decaying mouth is going to be filled with bacteria which will cause infections which will cause death.)



But they don't just bit. They will eat you whole.
Ok?

If somone ONLY gets bit then escaped getting eaten then...

Then they're still going to die. Watch the season 1 finale. I don't remember all the details, but the virus (when you get bit?) slowly kills your brain. You die, and then get reanimated. Your brain starts back up, but you only have base instincts. You aren't capable of thought anymore.
Exactly. The same happens if you die without getting bit. I don't understand what you're trying to get at.
Posted by: HeftyPredator X
But then, how does that go along with the numerous amounts of zombies? They all only got bit, then escaped? Or everyone all of the sudden died from unrelated causes, and were reanimated?

It doesn't fit together.
You get bit, you slowly die, then you become a zombie. You die from anything without the brain being destroyed, you become a zombie.

How does it not fit? I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

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  • 03.11.2012 9:25 PM PDT

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What are you trying to get at? I don't understand what you're trying to say anymore. Everyone has the virus. It spread. It's impossible to get away from it. That's why the CDC guy was trying to work a cure. It wasn't for the people already dead. It was for the already living.

Nobody knows the process of why it doesn't activate when they're living. Hasn't been revealed yet. Maybe they explained in the comics.

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Posted by: Atomic Tea
What are you trying to get at? I don't understand what you're trying to say anymore. Everyone has the virus. It spread. It's impossible to get away from it. That's why the CDC guy was trying to work a cure. It wasn't for the people already dead. It was for the already living.

Nobody knows the process of why it doesn't activate when they're living. Hasn't been revealed yet. Maybe they explained in the comics.
I think you misunderstood my post a few posts ago :P

  • 03.11.2012 9:29 PM PDT

so you want a source?


try this

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  • 03.11.2012 9:34 PM PDT

The way I look at it, you get bit, you slowly bleed to death(which is why reanimation times are different depending on your wound, shane got stabbed in the heart, instant death), you die and your brain shuts down, starts back up, bam Zombie.

EDIT: Something to think about, skeletons don't come back as the brain is not there. What if, Zombie's have a certain life span, as they're body and cells aren't alive, only the brain cells.

So that would mean over time a Zombie's brain could decay and rot, and they would cease to be a zombie anymore, in a sense.

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  • 03.11.2012 9:36 PM PDT

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It was saddening to see Rick, the main character who had maintained his composure throughout the entire show, scream and nearly cry over the truth of the new world. His scream just penetrated my heart, a scream that shows the realization of this hell that they are now in.

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Finally Shane's dead. About damn time.

Also, evidently everyone turns into a walker when they die, they don't need to get bit. Bet that's what Jenner whispered to Rick at the CDC during the season 1 finale.

  • 03.11.2012 10:35 PM PDT


Posted by: ACEGABE1
Could be like left 4 dead where the virus infects and turns most people into zombies but there are a few that are left normal. They are not immune. Just carriers.



Doesn't work like that.


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It was saddening to see Rick, the main character who had maintained his composure throughout the entire show, scream and nearly cry over the truth of the new world. His scream just penetrated my heart, a scream that shows the realization of this hell that they are now in.


I think what hurts him more then realizing it's survival of the fittest now and trying to keep Dale's words in the group. What hurts him the most is seeing how Carl is growing.

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Posted by: ACEGABE1
Could be like left 4 dead where the virus infects and turns most people into zombies but there are a few that are left normal. They are not immune. Just carriers.



Doesn't work like that.


How so?

  • 03.11.2012 10:45 PM PDT