[TV] The Walking Dead - Page 225

On October 22 2012 20:39 p4NDemik wrote:
They don't establish that the bite is "supernatural" in the comic. They all thought that originally but once non-bitten people re-animate they all realize that was naive and wrong. They established this same thing at the end of last season. Everyone knows that there is nothing crazy about the bite itself that kills you outside of serious infection. If you have proper tools you can save them. The only thing supernatural is the way the virus kicks in after someone dies. The infections that cause the death are nothing mankind hasn't seen before.

I think the problem here stems from the lack of explaining whatever Carl brings back from the infirmary. I don't recall at any point in the episode them even showing the characters administering antibiotics. Maybe I missed it or maybe its just they had the proper drugs and assumed the viewer would assume that.

On October 22 2012 20:57 Dosey wrote:

What? Then how the fuck did the virus spread in the first place? If it's treatable then the hospitals should have been able to treat it properly, and the outbreak surely would have been prevented! That is a very naive assumption from you and completely baseless. No infection from a simple bite can kill a strong, fit human being within hours/days. I don't even think a Komodo Dragon bite is THAT deadly, and they have some of the nastiest bacteria in their mouth, coupled with even venom glands.

On October 22 2012 21:15 p4NDemik wrote:
Calm down.

How did the virus spread: we don't know, hasn't been explained yet as far as I have read in the comics and certainly not in the show. Probably airborne, maybe water contamination, possibly other ways. Bottom line - no one knows.

Whether the initial infection is treatable logically doesn't matter. Why? Because regardless of the cause of death if the brain is still in tact with no trauma they come back as the living dead. Even if the doctors are able to keep those who are bitten alive the number of people around the world that die naturally and came back would lead to massive numbers of infections, more than hospitals were prepare to handle. Something like 150,000 people die every day on this planet. That would have been 150,000 more new zombies every day, just from natural deaths. On top of that the huge number of infections and bites would start to compound the problem rapidly. The problem for the CDC, doctors, and scientists worldwide would not logically be treating the people who have been bitten. The problem was always figuring out how the actual zombie-turning virus or whatever you want to call it operates and stopping the re-animation process. If they couldn't stop the dead from coming back to life then being able to save those who were bitten didn't matter.

The comic doesn't lay this all out for you but it explicitly says that nothing about the bite itself is "supernatural."

On October 22 2012 21:51 p4NDemik wrote:
Dude, infections that we know of right now in real life aren't bull shit either. At all. Once sepsis sets in people can die really freaking fast. Within days. Modern medicine has done amazing things to curb just how bad infections can get, but in the absence of it or if our medical infrastructure was completely overrun people would die that fast and it wouldn't be a freak occurrence at all.

You say everyone who is bitten dies within 3 or 4 days. That's a poor assumption to make about anyone who is bitten in TWD universe based on a few characters who got bitten on the show and got no proper medical care aside from a few bandages and well wishes.

On October 22 2012 22:18 zbedlam wrote:
Is that really annoying lady with the short hair that keeps trying to mother Daryl in this season? Also does Lori still have a lot of screen time?

These two characters really killed this show for me in season 2.

On October 22 2012 22:33 rei wrote:
what kind of bullshit is this? if everybody already infected and only reanimated when they die then why would ppl turn undead while alive when they merely were bitten? Getting bit in the fucking leg will not kill a normal human being. Then there must be something in the undead's saliva that reacts with the virus already in the host? but if that's the case wouldn't all the host's own saliva turn react with the virus? or would it be that the virus only exist in the blood stream, and the human immune system produces something that try to counter the virus but also puts something in the saliva as a by-product. and if a live host ever lick his own wound he would turn to undead. So what in the fuck? somebody explain.

On October 22 2012 22:58 p4NDemik wrote:
Either that or I need to re-read the comics and responses by Kirkman to the letters, which I'm basing much of my analysis off of.

On October 22 2012 22:33 rei wrote:
what kind of bullshit is this? if everybody already infected and only reanimated when they die then why would ppl turn undead while alive when they merely were bitten? Getting bit in the fucking leg will not kill a normal human being. Then there must be something in the undead's saliva that reacts with the virus already in the host? but if that's the case wouldn't all the host's own saliva turn react with the virus? or would it be that the virus only exist in the blood stream, and the human immune system produces something that try to counter the virus but also puts something in the saliva as a by-product. and if a live host ever lick his own wound he would turn to undead. So what in the fuck? somebody explain.

On October 22 2012 23:04 blug wrote:


That's what I don't really understand, I personally think the whole "We are all infected" thing doesn't make all that much sense. You could argue that the Zombies saliva paired with the wound just causes the infection to go out of control and just fucks up with your immune system. However, if you already are infected, does that mean if you cut your leg accidentally does that mean you will turn since you are already infected?

Perhaps the infection within the Zombies is a mutated strain of the virus and if that gets paired with a regular persons blood stream they get fucked over.