The Walking Dead

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Originally Posted by Outlaw

Ahhhhhh, I get it. We were thinking of different episodes. To me, the last episode of season 1 is the barn finale. That may not be technically correct though.

I do dislike the entire "living dead" concept myself". I prefer the "28 Days Later" or "I am Legend" concept where the "zombies" are simply diseased people. Dead people returning to life is kind of ridiculous, but, it is standard in the genre. I particularly hated the crawling torso in the beginning. Unless you go with the supernatural, muscle movement requires metabolism and that does not occur with the standard zombie formula.

Still, I can get over it as the rest of the show is interesting enough for me. I will read the graphic novel after the end of the show.

--Outlaw.

The barn scene is the end of season 2 part 1 (it was split in to two parts).

I agree with you on the 28 Days Later bit though, that's really the only zombie film I've watched that's scared me in some respect because of how believable (and potentially real) it was. That, and the zombies could run, making them more of a threat than an 'oh no now I have to walk reasonably quickly in the other direction' inconvenience. The Walking Dead kind of zombies are really only a threat if you're standing still. Anyway, a bit of a spoiler (I'll put it in small text so people who don't want to see it/haven't figured it out don't accidently read it):

WARNING! HERE BE SPOILERS!!!




The whole point of the walking dead is that it is a virus. Everyone has it, which is why it's the 'walking dead', since the ones left alive are the walking dead, not the zombies themselves. That's apparently (according to 'experts' although I think it's that way in the comic) what Jenner tells Rick at the end of series 1. The whole point of the virus is that it makes you 're-animate' after you die, which is why Shane turned when he hadn't been bitten, there were the zombie cops without bites at the school and there was the zombie hanging from the tree. I suppose it's kind of realistic in that sense, in that it is a virus, but still not really.




At least, that's what the missus tells me anyway, based on the comics plus what a few people who have spent a lot of time thinking about these things have figured out.

EDIT: Ok, text not as small as I hoped it'd be.