AMC's The Walking Dead

Thank you.
But I am with you (and the others) about those who do purposefully spoil the show from what they've read in the comic.

 

I've read ahead on Wiki. I know where the comics go. But I don't think I've ever had the disprespect for those that haven't by listing spoilers here. I've talked about it after the fact but not before.

I understand it happens, but c'mon folks.

 

You also get pissed when you read stuff on Facebook ...

 

So what you're all saying is you don't want any discussion of what could possibly happen in this show going forward because it may or may not have anything to do with/in common with the comic books you haven't read?

Makes sense to me.

Is it really that hard to say "Please ignore that the comic books exist?" in this thread? I have read a bit of the comics and know where the story goes THERE but I would like to be able to speculate where it might go IN THIS SHOW. And, no, I promise, I won't mention the comics at all in these discussions.

 

There's an entire thread for the crossover between the comics and the show. In our Mad Men thread, there's some speculation as to what might happen, but it's all blind and almost all wrong. That's the difference. As I understand it, The Walking Dead show has veered from the comics to varying degrees but ultimately sticks to the script.

You can't blindly speculate. You know the comics, so you have ideas planted in your head. It's like how you can't see The Usual Suspects a second time and not feel as though the twist is telegraphed the entire time. Here's the thing: This isn't the same as talking about twists in The Wire or The Usual Suspects because the episodes haven't even been released or in some cases made yet. But knowledge of what could happen, what happened in the source material, dramatically affects viewing. I don't want to be surprised when they veer from the comic books. I want to watch the show as a TV show.

Most of those who post in this thread stand with me. Those who don't are mostly the ones who have read ahead. There's an entire thread for that. We want to talk about the show. The show that's shown. On our televisions.

 

How come the zombies don't rot?

 

How long do I have to look at that goddamn avatar, Versatile?

 

Well, according to the prisoners ON THE SHOW, the zombie apocalypse ON THE SHOW has been going on for only 10 months. We've already seen some zombies rotting ON THE SHOW and I would imagine that those who don't rot are either recent transformations or are staving off rotting because they're getting a solid and steady diet of human victims. *

* The proceeding opinion is purely speculation based on the events of the television show the Walking Dead, a sci-fi imagining of the graphic novels of the same name. Any similarity to the comic books is not intended and though the author of this post has read some of the graphic novels, he has not read far enough to know, definitely, for sure, what happens in relation to this question. For more information, please visit www.amc.com.

 

So, for those of you who have read the comics, who dies next?

 

If you are an extreme spoilerphobe, I'd think it'd be easier to just not watching any shows based on pre-existing source material.

 

As schiezainc so eloquently stated, it hasn't even been a year for most of these zombies. So I get why they are fresh, sort of. What I don't understand is why there are so many in-tact corpses. How are all these people dying? Or are these all meant to be from-the-grave corpses? I suppose there's a good percentage of people who are bitten or scratched but escape, only to die alone. But that doesn't account for why there are so many outside, wandering around. If you escaped a zombie attack, you'd lock yourself up. And in theory, once you become a zombie, you'd stay locked in that room until someone freed you. And it doesn't make sense that these zombies rose from the corpses of the dead before this whole zombie apocalypse. How would one of these zombies, who have shown no more strength than humans and no rational-thinking capacity, dig their way out of their own graves?

I'm not. I knew the ending to The Usual Suspects before I watched it. That was fine. I just don't see the need in this case, not with an entire thread devoted to the comics.

 

Or maybe some of the zombies are folks who killed themselves but didn't destroy their brains?