It would seem so. But because of all of the biting-infections in TWD I'd forgotten entirely that anyone could reanimate without being infected by being bitten. In fact, I can't think of any characters on TWD that reanimated who weren't bitten.
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It would seem so. But because of all of the biting-infections in TWD I'd forgotten entirely that anyone could reanimate without being infected by being bitten. In fact, I can't think of any characters on TWD that reanimated who weren't bitten.
Merle is another.
Didn't the Gov. just shoot him, not in the head, so that he'd come back as a zombie?
Fair enough. It's way too early to call this show bad though. Don't watch if you don't like it.
Sigh, the assumption is the neighbor was bit explaining his flu like symptoms. People are looking too deep into it.
I agree with many here. Some hateable characters and bad writing. Not as easy to do without source material to go off of.
I guess I don't think it is as bad as everyone thinks. It seems pretty good to me, the reactions fairly on par with shock. These people don't have the knowledge we all do about the TWD universe yet.
We also know that in the TWD universe that everyone has the virus, so it makes sense that it started with people that die, such as overdosing, or being shot by police. The kept saying homeless, but that I think is because walkers look like that, dirty, etc.
I also like how it seems medical and police have an idea of what is going on, but not really.
We also know that in the TWD universe that everyone has the virus, so it makes sense that it started with people that die, such as overdosing, or being shot by police. The kept saying homeless, but that I think is because walkers look like that, dirty, etc.
I also like how it seems medical and police have an idea of what is going on, but not really.
I don't have a big problem with that part. Some of the characters are really annoying (Mom), they spell out the plot going forward with mister smart fat kid. Then, a 17 year old tells his love to go while is a horrible fever with no idea of what will happen to him (Pretty mature). Typical kids that have either drug problems and act completely stupid. And of course they reject authority. I don't dislike the show per say as I will still watch, but I can tell right now I will have issues with the characters from here on out.
What clues are there to suggest the neighbor was bitten? He had no visible injuries or bandages..... just a hankie over his mouth and he looked very sick.
I was thinking about this a little. Would the druggies who die of overdose have wasted time getting the flu vaccine?
My opinion is the same. I like the pace and direction of the show, I just wish they had some likable characters. So far the father is about the only one. His kid along with the woman and her kids are all throw away characters.
I want to see that fat kid get bitten while he tries to fight it off with his little steak knife.
It's an odd show to watch because I know what'shappening. It's a conflict between wanting to say the mom is an idiot for notputting A+B+C together by now, and saying it's unbelievable because Tobias has.You have to suspend disbelief a little to make it work but that's no differentsee Rick wake up from a coma and immediately start walking and running, evenif he's stumbling. If I want to put on my reality hat, it just doesn'twork that way.
I do remember seeing somewhere that the show runners said that in the TWD TVworld the concept of zombie doesn't exist so you don't see them using that wordor referencing it. I don't remember where I saw that and I probably could bewrong but I remember thinking that it was an interesting explanation for why theydon’t have a frame of reference like saying “oh I remember when I saw that showcalled the walking dead or that movie called world war z. (I don’t believe that’strue in the comics. I seem to remember seeing the word in the comics.)(HopefullyI haven’t broken some book/comic thread boundary by mentioning the comicshere).
I didn't watch TWD from the start. I stumbled on it looking up Breaking Bad onNetflix. I watched the first episode about two weeks before the second half ofseason five started. Two episodes in I was hooked an in full blown binge mode.I’m certainly not there with FTWD, but I find it is also much easier to pick atit because I have five seasons of reference from TWD to compare it to. Thatfive seasons of reference has made me think that TWD isn’t really about zombies.It’s about how people act or respond when the normal rules of society crumble.On the list of things to worry about in that universe the walkers never seem tobe the top threat. It’s the people like the Governor, Terminus, Negan (sorrycomic reference), the Canibals or the Wolves. Sure you have to step carefullyand take certain precautions but the really scary stuff is what the otherhumans do. That “how do people respond when society falls apart” also appliesto the good guys like Herschel (wanting to believe that the walkers were peoplewho could be cured), Carol (going from abusee to stealth rambo bad ***), toCarl (cold blooded killer), and Mischon (going from buttoned up mother andprofessional to ninja warrior). That’s what we don’t have yet in FTWD. We haven’treally seen that conflict of what choices make when society is tumbling (a littlewith killing the drug dealer, but even that seemed to be a reaction driven by adefense mechanism). The second episode is the first time we start seeing normalpeople do crazy, and yet most of that’s in protest because they think thepolice are indiscriminently killing people, but a little bit is the barber’swife letting three strangers into their building when they don’t really know ifthose three are nut jobs. I’ll give FTWD this season (there’s only fourepisodes left) to see if it can bring that sort of thing to the table.
I do remember seeing somewhere that the show runners said that in the TWD TVworld the concept of zombie doesn't exist so you don't see them using that wordor referencing it. I don't remember where I saw that and I probably could bewrong but I remember thinking that it was an interesting explanation for why theydon’t have a frame of reference like saying “oh I remember when I saw that showcalled the walking dead or that movie called world war z. (I don’t believe that’strue in the comics. I seem to remember seeing the word in the comics.)(HopefullyI haven’t broken some book/comic thread boundary by mentioning the comicshere).
I didn't watch TWD from the start. I stumbled on it looking up Breaking Bad onNetflix. I watched the first episode about two weeks before the second half ofseason five started. Two episodes in I was hooked an in full blown binge mode.I’m certainly not there with FTWD, but I find it is also much easier to pick atit because I have five seasons of reference from TWD to compare it to. Thatfive seasons of reference has made me think that TWD isn’t really about zombies.It’s about how people act or respond when the normal rules of society crumble.On the list of things to worry about in that universe the walkers never seem tobe the top threat. It’s the people like the Governor, Terminus, Negan (sorrycomic reference), the Canibals or the Wolves. Sure you have to step carefullyand take certain precautions but the really scary stuff is what the otherhumans do. That “how do people respond when society falls apart” also appliesto the good guys like Herschel (wanting to believe that the walkers were peoplewho could be cured), Carol (going from abusee to stealth rambo bad ***), toCarl (cold blooded killer), and Mischon (going from buttoned up mother andprofessional to ninja warrior). That’s what we don’t have yet in FTWD. We haven’treally seen that conflict of what choices make when society is tumbling (a littlewith killing the drug dealer, but even that seemed to be a reaction driven by adefense mechanism). The second episode is the first time we start seeing normalpeople do crazy, and yet most of that’s in protest because they think thepolice are indiscriminently killing people, but a little bit is the barber’swife letting three strangers into their building when they don’t really know ifthose three are nut jobs. I’ll give FTWD this season (there’s only fourepisodes left) to see if it can bring that sort of thing to the table.
I guess I don't get the Tobias hate. On a scale of annoying characters so far, he really isn't registering as one for me. The mom and daughter though, yikes. And the dad's son.
I guess I don't get the Tobias hate. On a scale of annoying characters so far, he really isn't registering as one for me. The mom and daughter though, yikes. And the dad's son.
Yeah, I actually like Tobias.
The mom can get bittin anytime though.
And make fun of Tobias all you want for carrying around that steak knife, but at least he has some form of protection. Meanwhile, you have the mom at home with her two kids sitting there with nothing and the daughter shining a flashlight out the window at night.
If this is real life and you've witnessed everything the mom has and you still don't have any form of protection, then you deserve to die.
If this is real life and you've witnessed everything the mom has and you still don't have any form of protection, then you deserve to die.
Yes, that was awful. Kid is clearly sick, and the parents just want to get the daughter away, and he has enough knowledge of his fate to send his gf away?