The Walking Dead: TV Series (Comic spoilers in tags with warning)

[Kamos]

Oh look a sheriff fighting zombies. Should we help?
Nah lets get some coffee.

[danzig]

Well what better time to fetch a Caffè Mocha during a zombie apoc then when they are distracted by a fool with a pistol! Perfect distraction.

[Gelgoog]

And yeah maybe zombies are overdone now a days but for some reason I just never get tired of them or of post apoc films/novels. Just something about loneliness, claustrophobic nature of them, there is no rest, no there is real safety, every day is a fight just to get thru it.

plus a zombie apocalypse never ends. Even if society recovers, some shambler sitting at the bottom of a lake will bite some fisherman and it starts tall over again. You can also bet no one would ever want to be buried in the ground again.

[Kamos]

Well what better time to fetch a Caffè Mocha during a zombie apoc then when they are distracted by a fool with a pistol! Perfect distraction.

The line will be minuscule as well! Brilliant!

[IronBrig4]

You can also bet no one would ever want to be buried in the ground again.

Actually, you wouldn't have to worry about zombies coming from underneath the ground. For one thing, zombies reanimate within hours or even minutes. That means they'll have turned into zombies long before they could make it to the funeral home, much less the cemetery. Second, coffins are built tough so that even if a corpse reanimated underground, it would be impossible to break through the metal or heavy wood casing. Remember that a zombie has the same muscle mass it had in life, except that its strength will decay over time because its damaged or strained muscle tissue cannot heal.

[Niles Crane]

Actually, you wouldn't have to worry about zombies coming from underneath the ground. For one thing, zombies reanimate within hours or even minutes. That means they'll have turned into zombies long before they could make it to the funeral home, much less the cemetery. Second, coffins are built tough so that even if a corpse reanimated underground, it would be impossible to break through the metal or heavy wood casing. Remember that a zombie has the same muscle mass it had in life, except that its strength will decay over time because its damaged or strained muscle tissue cannot heal.

I think if it were the case that all people who died from now on became zombies, the recently deceased should all be chucked into a garbage compactor. Certainly, that can only (realistically) be provided for in hospitals and prisons, but it should go some way toward reducing the problem.

[danzig]

I think if it were the case that all people who died from now on became zombies, the recently deceased should all be chucked into a garbage compactor. Certainly, that can only (realistically) be provided for in hospitals and prisons, but it should go some way toward reducing the problem.

Not so sure, I would consider any closed environment such as a prison and a location that would be accepting the sick/injured (and dead) from the outbreak would be the more dangerous places to be. Honestly Id just bomb the crap out of every hospital and prison with an outbreak just to be sure, initially it will be one of the highest area of infection.

[Niles Crane]

Not so sure, I would consider any closed environment such as a prison and a location that would be accepting the sick/injured (and dead) from the outbreak would be the more dangerous places to be. Honestly Id just bomb the crap out of every hospital and prison with an outbreak just to be sure, initially it will be one of the highest area of infection.

I'm not sure how effective bombing hospitals and prisons would be. A zombie missing an arm and a leg might be less effective, but it will still come after you. Nuking it and the surrounding countryside is the only way to be sure.

[EireEmerald]

Saw the premiere and thought it was great, even though zombies have been overdone in recent years I like their take of a zombie apocalypse.

Here's a funny still from the next episode.





Can you see it?

took me a while to see the tw guys! HAHA

[Gelgoog]

Actually, you wouldn't have to worry about zombies coming from underneath the ground. For one thing, zombies reanimate within hours or even minutes. That means they'll have turned into zombies long before they could make it to the funeral home, much less the cemetery. Second, coffins are built tough so that even if a corpse reanimated underground, it would be impossible to break through the metal or heavy wood casing. Remember that a zombie has the same muscle mass it had in life, except that its strength will decay over time because its damaged or strained muscle tissue cannot heal.

yes I know all of this. I was referring to the fact that no one would want to be a zombie stuck pounding on a coffin door for eternity in the off chance that something of your old self remains. This also assumes that the zombie plague is an airborne virus, where as most of the genre assume that if you have not been infected with a bite that if you die you stay dead. Only day by day Armageddon has it being an airborne virus that reanimates after any normal death (assume you brain is intact).

I'm not sure how effective bombing hospitals and prisons would be. A zombie missing an arm and a leg might be less effective, but it will still come after you. Nuking it and the surrounding countryside is the only way to be sure.

nukes would only be effective if a zombie was inside the blast radius to be disintegrated. Most people who die in nukes die from severe burns and radiation. Therefore you would be better off using conventional bombs that don't irradiate huge areas. Fuel air bombs would probably be the most effective when dealing with zombies.

[Angrychris]

I enjoyed it alot. The main characters friend who took his wife and son looks like a cross between the bear jew and richard astrada. You would think there would be alot more zombies walking around and cities burned to the ground.

[danzig]

nukes would only be effective if a zombie was inside the blast radius to be disintegrated. Most people who die in nukes die from severe burns and radiation. Therefore you would be better off using conventional bombs that don't irradiate huge areas. Fuel air bombs would probably be the most effective when dealing with zombies.

Yeah plus defeating a zombie apoc by creating a nuclear one isnt exactly an improvement. You'd much rather have zombies blow even into pieces then you would for them to be stumbling around with burns...its not like horrific burns are going to bother them much and they would still be a threat.

You would think there would be alot more zombies walking around and cities burned to the ground.

That is some what explained away in the comic by the fact many of the zombies are a type that will just stay where they were when changed unless they are attracted by noise or other zombies moving in one direction ie the zombie in the tank. The other zombies are however roamers, Kirkman really hasnt explained why/what the difference is just that it does exist.

[nightwar]

Remember that Walking Dead was written before 28 Days Later, so it's not ripping off that movie.

I'm not sure if the Governor can make it into the first season, because there are just way too many events that happen before they meet up with him.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Carl shoots Shane.
They meet Tyreese and company.
The gated community.
Carl gets shot and they meet Herschel.
Discovery of the prison and all the people who die there (eg. the twins get their heads cut off).

no it was'nt 28 days later was before, almost a full year before the comic.

[danzig]

no it was'nt 28 days later was before, almost a full year before the comic.

Yes but its not like Kirkman decided a day after 28 Days to start a zombie comic series, as with everything it takes time from idea to actual product and the time frame is small enough that cant accuse him of ripping the idea off. Plus as pointed out Resident Evil used the same open several years before both. What we are talking here is maybe 10 mins of similar opening then all three go off in vastly different directions.

[Angrychris]

the show seems to take bits of info. from a variety of zombie movies

[Pontifex Maximus]

Looking forward to seeing the second episode tomorrow.

[Niles Crane]

Yeah plus defeating a zombie apoc by creating a nuclear one isnt exactly an improvement. You'd much rather have zombies blow even into pieces then you would for them to be stumbling around with burns...its not like horrific burns are going to bother them much and they would still be a threat.



That is some what explained away in the comic by the fact many of the zombies are a type that will just stay where they were when changed unless they are attracted by noise or other zombies moving in one direction ie the zombie in the tank. The other zombies are however roamers, Kirkman really hasnt explained why/what the difference is just that it does exist.

Doesn't the US have enough nuclear bombs to destroy the world twice over? I would much rather see an uninhabitable Earth than let the zombies win.

[danzig]

Doesn't the US have enough nuclear bombs to destroy the world twice over? I would much rather see an uninhabitable Earth than let the zombies win.

Er why if it would be containable thru conventional bombing? You are talking extinction of the human race!

[EireEmerald]

[Gelgoog]

Er why if it would be containable thru conventional bombing? You are talking extinction of the human race!

nukes when used on large cities will have a large amount of their blast blocked by buildings. Normally the radiation would take care of people in said buildings, but zombies need their brains destroyed so really your only effecting the few inside the blast radius who disintegrate. The rest just have severe burns and worse yet are walking radiation sponges who survives would not want to be within a 100 ft of. Worse yet, you have quarantined an entire city due to radiation which could pick up on the winds and effect survivors down wind. No nukes are about the worst thing you can use on zombies....against the living they work great.

Now conventional bombs work pretty well. For instance a fuel air bomb when dropped creates a huge explosion that would pretty much liquefy anyone person within reach. Napalm will cook a zombie alive, its organs will boil and flame will pretty much crawl into their eyeballs up into the brain....dead zombie.
We have bombs in our inventory that mimic the destructive capabilities of a nuke without releasing deadly radiation, and any smart military commander would realize this.

American cities could be saved(nuking LA wouldn't hurt ) ) via citizens militia in conjunction with the armed forces. So there is no real need for nukes.