AMC's The Walking Dead

"Is this bearded guy grain-fed and cage-free?"

 

I only eat non-gmo humans.

 

I won't even think about eating somewhere that doesn't use locally sourced human flesh. Farm-to-table for me.

 

Terminus is the Whole Foods of cannibalism.

 

snout-to-tail turned nose-to-@sshole cuisine

 

I think you meant to post that last one on the running "Human Centipede" thread.

 

Soylent Green is people!

 

I see a lot of folks saying they are glad they didn't give a reason for the breakout in the TV show. Didn't they do that in the Season 1 finale? It was a virus. Jenner's wife was the test subject when he explained how it worked. The CDC and organizations around the world were working on a cure until they lost contact with each other. In fact, Jenner accidentally destroyed his sample in his last-ditch effort for a cure.

And everyone in infected.

So, where am I falling short in the "they haven't explained the origins" complaints/compliments?

 

I think his wife was infected after it started to spread. IIRC, they have never explained where the initial infections came from and how it all got started -- whether it was a natural virus, man-made, some weird voodoo curse, etc. The CDC stuff was just them trying to deal with the spreading zombie threat after it had already started.

 

I guess. But that's still a lot more explanation than was given in the comic (and, for that matter, in Romaro's films).

I guess I inferred that since the CDC was working on it that it had to have been man-made, probably for military reasons.

 

Isn't "virus" usually the stock answer in this genre anyway? I mean, how many times do we need to see a piss-poor deconstruction of society in zombie worlds? I'm OK with the Walking Dead glancing over this as I highly doubt we'll ever look back to before the outbreak, sans a flashback to a character's past (I.E. Michonne's) meant to show why they're doing their present action.
Besides, zombies are just a plot device on this show. The entire idea of this show is the characters. It's not like Lost, which promised something it couldn't deliver. This show has always been, and will always be, about the people at the center of the story, not the story itself.

 

I don't advocate they explain the origin. I was just questioning why everyone said there was no explanation when Season 1 provided one, if only vaguely