Talking The Dead to Death:
My In-Depth Analysis of The Walking Dead - Season One
Part 3 of 3
by Dianthrax
(*Note: This article contains mature subject matter, some language, and my twisted sense of humor. Reader discretion is advised.*)
(Editor's Note: Continuing from Talking The Dead to Death Parts one and two.)
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I think he's going to eat the deer... |
Walking Dead Animals:
So are animals just like, immune to the whole walking dead infection thing? Because I've seen crows picking at the bodies of the dead and they seem ok. I suppose you could say that 10 minutes after that the crow drops dead but then there wouldn't be very many birds or rats or other critters left if eating the infected killed them. And if that's true and it is deadly to them, where is the line drawn? Do flies die after they land on an infected? Because the first thing a fly does when it lands is spew out digestive juices and then start sucking them back up along with everything they managed to melt down, ie: the flesh or blood of the infected.
What about things like worms and beetles and other soil-dwellers who will help with the decomposition of the bodies that were infected but then put down or pick-axed in the head? If a walker fell into the water at the quarry would it and everything in that area become toxic? And what about the larger mammals- are they immune or could they rise too?
Did the deer Daryl tracked which was killed by a walker suddenly wake up and run off into the woods craving the flesh of other deer while everyone was distracted by all the squirrel-tossing and illegal choke-holding going on after Rick explained what became of the charming Merle Dixon?? Are there zombie dogs like in Resident Evil or cats like in Pet Semetary?? I'm sure most of them just ended up getting eaten, or maybe the virus just kills them dead with no brain re-activation. At least you wouldn't have to worry about roaming packs of walker dogs or fighting off a zombie Grizzly Bear- though that would be ridiculously awesome to see!!
If any animal should come back as a walker it should be that horse from the first episode that Rick rode into town on.
He totally lied to that horse; tempting him with stories of salvation and other horses for company in order to lure him away from home where there was a nice field with grass & shade and he could roam around unbridled and free. In reality Rick was just using him and instead of a sanctuary he led that poor trusting animal directly to his horrible and gruesome death!
A death where, if you watch closely, all kinds of flesh ripping and grabbing goes on but there's no actual biting/eating/chewing! You see one shot of one walker gnawing on a piece of something bloody and the rest is a feeding frenzy without any "actual" eating.
What's with these extras?! I mean, come on! If I was in there I'd be chewing and ripping all over the place with pieces falling out of my mouth and spilling down my jaw until even the camera people started to get nauseated! In the original Night of the Living Dead Romero's budget was so limited that they had to use cast-off meat from a butcher shop to simulate people's insides. Those actors ripped and tore into actual warm, smelly, rotting animal flesh for realism and these fools can't even chew on some fake rubber intestines for a few takes?? Weak-sauce.
Random Thoughts:
How would you like to be the guy who was too lazy to put a new roll of toilet paper on the handle thingy inside the RV, making Amy's death all your fault?
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Atop the RV defending against a herd. |
If you had just replaced it she would've been able to do her business; no problem. That way when the walkers attacked camp she would be safely inside the RV. Instead she had to open the door to ask if they were completely out of TP, which was when a walker popped out of nowhere and took a chunk out of her arm. So because some fool didn't replace the empty TP with a new one, Amy is dead and Andrea is a mental case. There's a lesson in there for all of you super-annoying people who don't replace the rolls; your selfishness will kill someone!!
Where exactly did Ed get all his cigarettes and why was he the only one you ever saw smoking? You know the statistics so odds are at least one other person is a smoker in that group. And if that's the case they'd know Ed was hoarding smokes and they'd shank him just to get one. Yet all you ever saw was Ed. Only the "bad-guys" in TV and movies can be seen smoking anyway. Well bad guys and Europeans.
But on a related note- even more difficult to find after the world ends than cigarettes I'd imagine, how did Merle manage to be high on (what I'm guessing is Meth since that's most common for guys that have served time in prison) and to have a stash of more? Did he and Daryl raid the local drug-dealer's house and take everything they could find? Is Merle a dealer who just kept everything he had and left? He doesn't seem like he'd be smart enough to run his own Meth lab, but Daryl does. Daryl isn't on drugs, though, so maybe he just makes them/sells them and is sort of willfully blind to the fact that Merle samples their product more often than he should.
When is a giant clock with red numbers counting down ever a sign of imminent safety?? In fact, when is a countdown ever really a good thing outside of New Year's Eve or a Space Shuttle launch?? Did you think something fun was going to happen when the clock reached zero at the CDC? That's something I would have noticed and asked about right away. And I don't mean I'd wait and ask Jenner like Dale did; I'd ask the building computer thing Vi to get a strait answer. And did none of these people take bio-chem in school?? How does no one know what a "building decontamination" is?! If that were me I'da cleaned out the place then grenade-ed through the window way before anyone could lock me down with rocket-resistant doors!
Then Jenner had to be a first-class douche all the way to the end, telling Rick that there will come a time when he won't be grateful to him for letting them all out of the building, whispering something to him as a final parting gift.
I know there has been much speculation about what Rick was told and that everyone has their own theory. Here is mine:
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Shane looking on at Rick and Lori. |
He told Rick that Lori is pregnant. I think he told him how many weeks along she is, and possibly who the father is too. All of that is info that you can find out through testing someone's blood and the good doctor had everyone's. This could be the kind of info that Jenner might consider something that would make Rick regret not staying and dying not only because it reveals his wife's infidelity, but also because being pregnant/having a newborn in this world has got to be the worst situation EVER.
When your preggers you're so vulnerable and unable to really run or fight in your last few months. Then having a baby; how are you supposed to hide with a baby?? It's not like you can explain to it not to cry because it'll attract walkers! You'd probably end up like that poor woman in The Pianist crying "Why did I do it?! Why did I do it?!" over and over after she accidentally smothered her own baby to keep him quiet while trying to hide from the Nazis. Plus if the worst happened and you ended up seeing and hearing your baby being eaten...there's no coming back from that shit. No one sees that and survives. Not mentally.
So if it's true and that's what he whispers to Rick- that Lori is knocked up- I just want to say that I totally called it and I'm awesome. And if it turns out that's not the case well, then I didn't call it and I'm just naturally awesome for other reasons.
Does becoming a survivor automatically make you an excellent shot with any kind of weapon the way becoming a walker turns you into the equivalent of an un-dead human bloodhound? Because Glenn ran into camp during the attack and began popping off shots into the heads of walkers with one arm and without using the gun's sight as easily as a teenage boy pops the zits on his chest! Didn't he say he was a pizza guy before this? Do you people understand how difficult it is to get a head-shot on a moving target - even a slow-moving one- with a pistol at any real distance without any kind of stance or taking the time to seriously aim? That answer would be "pretty damn."
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Season 2 Still. |
My theory is that Glenn must be a freaking rock star at all FPS games and that's why he's able to do what he does. Which just goes to show that playing videogames is a good thing; it could even end up saving lives. That should be an advertisement: "In case of a zombie apocalypse make sure you and your loved ones are prepared- by playing lots, and lots of First Person Shooters on our video game console! The game you play today could save your life tomorrow."
Sadly I could see Xbox doing something like that.
Damn it all! I have so much more I want to discuss! Plus now that season 2 has premiered this past Sunday October 16th at 9pm I'm just going to end up with that much more to pontificate upon. Maybe I should just do this semi-regularly? Or I could start watching that new show comes on afterwards- The Talking Dead. It's all about fans and their questions/board posts/discussions/tweets and stuff relating to The Walking Dead. Or I could do both- that way I could talk about the show and the talk-show and share what I think of that, too! How awesome would that be for all of you, eh??
So I guess for now this will have to do. Sunday has passed and I've gotten myself psychologically ready. Plus I need to make a zombie costume to wear to the Premier Party at my friends' Megan and Scott's house.
Fortunately I'm the kind of person who always has spirit gum, latex wounds, face putty, fake blood, and random severed body parts on hand.
I'm the biggest hoarder of random shit and the MacGyver of all craft projects.
Neither White Meat Nor Dark Meat,
-Dianthrax
Season 2 Stills Gallery
Photo Sources: http://www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead and http://www.yfrog.com/user/wwwbigbaldhead/photos
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