AMC's The Walking Dead

The more I think about this, the more it bothers me. As someone else noted, why would the zombie have stopped eating the cow? If he really was "full", why would he then try to eat Dale?

 

Maybe the zombie didn't eat the cow -- it was still moaning and mooing and shit when Dale walked up to it. I don't know ...

 

I thought that at first...thought maybe it had cut itself open on barbed wire...but they talked about it on Talking Dead after and the zombie did eat the cow, but it didn't finish.

Maybe the zombie ate the cow earlier and it was just dying slowly? Dale just came around when the zombie was "hungry" again.

 

Do zombies ever get full? Every explanation I've ever seen is that it isn't exactly hunger that drives zombies to eat the living. Something about them suffering and eating living flesh temporarily eases their suffering.

 

I've heard the same, outofplace, and that explanation would mean to me that they won't eat any dead flesh. So if the zombie started eating the cow and it died in the process of being eaten, the zombie would stop eating it.

 

But the cow wasn't dead in this case. So I'm not sure what to make of it still.

 

The cow was alive, half alive, and it's innards were all over the place along with some wounds on its neck.

It makes zero sense for a zombie to get "full" and just walk away. They devour all living flesh in sight. It's the bane of their being. IT'S THE ONLY THING THEY DO.

It's just more lazy, plot-forced writing.

 

I just got around to seeing this week's show.
1. I won't miss Dale.
2. I'd like to feed Carl to a walker.

 

Agree on both counts, Joe.

 

I guess I'm the opposite, then, because I'll miss Dale and I still like Carl.

 

Agreed on both counts, Joe and Colton.

 

As for the cow. Almost certain that cow was dead and that it had reanimated. ZOMBIE COW! It was making noises, but it seemed zombie-ish to me.

That would explain why the walker left it there if they do indeed only eat living flesh. (Then again, that wouldn't explain the whole Bar-B-que scene in the original Night and the remake when the idiots shot the gas pump).