AMC's The Walking Dead

That's who I figured you meant and I agree. And amazingly enough, the way she went in the comics was even more brutal. (I know. I know. We have a comics thread. I still can't help but make the comparison when Lori's death is brought up.)

 

There was also the old man in Woodbury who died of cancer. He came back and tried to eat whathisface with the glasses. That whole thing seemed designed to show that the walkers are just beasts trying to feed.

 

And then whatshisface died after being stabbed by the Governor. So their have been plenty of "natural" deaths throughout the show.

 

Wait? What? Not so fast!

 

That's terrific.

 

Did anyone else feel the woman Rick met in the woods look like she had already begun to turn before her eventual decision? (didn't want to spoil anything for those who may not have seen the ep, yet)

 

They made her look like a walker to fool us when she first showed up, it seemed like. After that, she was just annoying with that Irish accent in rural Georgia.

Q: Why are walkers that are mutilated to the point they are just upper bodies and heads still driven to eat people? Not as if their empty stomachs are growling. They don't have stomachs.

Q: If the prison residents keep killing walkers at the fence, won't the subsequent waves of walkers start to climb up on top of them, further stressing the fence to the point of collapse? It isn't as if the survivors can get out there to regularly move the carcasses and burn them. Numbers are too great, right?

Also: If I was living in that prison, I'd either find a way to lock my cell door at night or, failing that, I'd stack up a bunch of empty cans or other noise-makers to wake me if someone shuffled too close. The chances that a fellow resident could die-and-turn in the hours from g'night to g'morning just seems too great -- along with the possibility of a walker somehow breaching the perimeter -- to just sleep unprotected. Even after a year or whatever.

 

I don't consider anyone who was killed by another person as someone who died a natural death. The cancer guy applies, and I guess that Lori does too.

I should have clarified my original point. This is the first time that someone has just died naturally without any supervision. The cancer guy was restrained. Lori had two people with her. This kid just dropped dead and nobody knows he's dead yet. How do you bounce back from that?

 

1) Their brain is telling them to eat, not their stomach. That's why you have to take them out in the head

2) I think they mentioned it briefly in a scene between Daryl and Carol, but they clear off the fences and burn the bodies when they have a lull in walkers.

 

Rick listening to headphones ... they must have found a lot of batteries and cassettes/CDs for that to happen. Probably not the wisest use of batteries.

Then again ... it's the Walking Dead, where the grass is always mowed and where the group can do a "sweep" of a store and not notice there's a big-ass helicopter crashed on top of it.

 

Spoilers just in case someone's starting from the beginning...

I don't know if I agree. Dale's death was the loss of the group's moral compass. Shane was the No. 2 male star and co-leader of the group. The losses in the CDC, the ones who chose to die there rather than live on. Poor Otis, which showed the beginning of the end of Shane's mental health. Lori's death (and later Andrea's) were both necessary because the characters sucked and were hated by a big group of the fan base because they were written to be so stupid. I don't care what Kirkman and the others say about ignoring fans' and critics' complaints, (nor the comic books because the TV audience has different expectations, e.g., Darryl becoming a main character). Lori and Andrea were killed off because fans and critics said they were the worst characters on the show and were turning folks off.

 

I disagree 100% on Lori's death. She had to die (and died in the comics). And her death was monumental because it's changed the entire dynamic of the group. Half of the conversations back at the camp during this episode could be linked to Lori's death: Rick's unwillingness to kill, Glen and Maggie discussing whether bringing a baby up is possible, even Carol teaching the future generations has something to do with it.

And Andrea wasn't that hated until the third season, so that makes no sense. They didn't go into the third season planning to let her live, then do a 180-degree turn with most of the season filmed.