AMC's 'The Walking Dead' - Frank Darabont zombie TV show.

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After seeing the third episode I'm wondering if anyone can answer a question I've got?

Why, when the bloke stuck on the roof gets a hacksaw would he cut off his hand rather than cut through the handcuffs or the pipe securing him there?

They did say it was to blunt to cut the metal...
 
lol yeah sure, I could go a few more kid shootings. :D
Nah I was just hoping for something unexpected or clever really. It seems like quite an easy place to live, the walkers are slow and dumb, and they have endless shops which seems to be full. I can envision myself just blowing up masses of them for fun.
The people annoy me, they have endless cars, (for ramming) endless empty shops (which seem to have stuff in) and they aren't using them. (like taking the parts of the sports car instead of going to the motorway full of cars on the way to the city)

Bit of a rant, I suppose you meant to appreciate that its harder than it looks.


i see your point, but i dont think they would like to risk the team going on a rampage to kill anything and everything, remember that any noise heard would bring a horde of zombies, so really looking for gun shops would be a potential risk, also looking at the zombies they are on the first part of decaying which means as food for them become less and less, the zombies will be more determined to get food.
 
Episode 1 (maybe 2) seems to indicate that they don't cease living until the flesh is entirely rotted away... without animals/shotguns interfering, I'd say 6-10months depending upon it's location (and amount of brains!) :eek:
 
something ive never been clear on is how long it would take a zombie to presumably die of starvation...?

enjoying the series so far btw. :)

They're already dead, they can't die from starvation. (28days 'zombies' were different because they weren't dead)

They fall apart quicker than they 'starve'
 
I have watched the first 3 eps, and from the director and screenplay adapter of shawshank, I would have hoped for this to me more gritty, and not so easy.
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Only the first one hour episode was done by them. I'm hoping that they do not have 13 directors and 24 scriptwriters as that is what killed off Lost, Heroes etc for me
 
i bet if u only cut your thumb off u could get out of handcuffs ^_^

ive been in those police ones which are much tighter

They were police ones weren't they? And what do you mean police ones are much tighter anyway? They're only much tighter if they're done up tighter :confused:.

As for only sawing off your thumb, it depends how tightly they were done up by the sheriff. One assumes very.

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The camp being attacked is an interesting one...they already had one zombie attack them that high up, yet took no extra precautions or made no apparent changes to their behaviour based on this. They should have built a barracade or something, or moved higher up or somewhere easier to defend like on top of a steep rock.
 
i know they are already dead dead. what im saying is, to die properly do they just rot to death or something then?

The zombie slowly decay's as the source of food is limited. the human inside is dead, but the virus is what keeps the brain alive, the virus feeds of flesh.
 
Well in the first ep there was that zombie with only half a torso, and no legs, and one arm. If they can still keep going like that, then I doubt a bit of "rotting" will stop them anytime soon :cool:
 
Zombies take much longer than normal to decay because they repel the organisms and animals which would normally aid the process. It's basically down to environmental factors.

Think of them similar to having pain insensitivity, you gradually damage parts of your body to the point where they stop working/get cut off. You can shoot them all you want but they'll keep on coming because they won't react to getting hit.

Destroying the brain/brainstem is they only way to put them down for good

I'm going to have to read the Zombie survival guide again :) Clearly none of these survivors have
 
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They were police ones weren't they? And what do you mean police ones are much tighter anyway? They're only much tighter if they're done up tighter :confused:.

As for only sawing off your thumb, it depends how tightly they were done up by the sheriff. One assumes very.

i meant the new modern ones that dont have the chain inbetween they are tigher and u cant move your wrists apart.

tighter as in they have more ratchet things in them
 
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When the Camp was attacked how many were survivors didn't make it?

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Amy and Ed died, but i'm pretty sure I saw someone else get bite. Can't remember his name but the guy who was digging the graves. Pretty sure he gets bitten in the comic as well.

Also, anyone else going to be watching the zombie programme on national geographic?
 
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Where's the cheapest place to source the comics folks? Are they worth a read?

A CGC issue #1 of Walking Dead went for $1800 on ebay a week or two ago so I wouldn't bother with the actual comics. Just stick to the trade paperbacks, I got 1-4 on ebay for £3 each around a month ago, an excellent read. I just wish the series would stick a little closer to the source material.

Oh yeah...it's been bugging me for a while, a lot of people saying it essentially rips off 28 Days Later with the guy being in a coma at the beginning then waking up in a hospital. For those who don't know, this idea was pitched to Image before 28 Days Later even came out :)
 
Oh yeah...it's been bugging me for a while, a lot of people saying it essentially rips off 28 Days Later with the guy being in a coma at the beginning then waking up in a hospital. For those who don't know, this idea was pitched to Image before 28 Days Later even came out :)

Not to mention of course that the whole waking up in the hospital to find the apocalypse outside was done 60 years ago in day of the triffids , which 28 days later was paying homage to itself.
 
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