Slit their throat I guess...Really? Carol cutting the Z's throat and putting out that fire. Awful lot of blood for a dead person with a non functioning heart not to mention completely ignoring one of the most fundamental Zombie rules...
shareI thought that was ridiculous as well. At first, I said to my wife, "Oh shit! That was a whisperer. It had to have been, with all of the blood. It's on now!", but... nope. Just more bad writing. Such a disappointment. Instead, the "big offense" is carol crossing some imaginary border and overlooking a cliff, apparently.
shareCarol was inside Whisperer territory on that ledge. Alpha is just a little insane, so any violation of their borders is going to bring retribution. So much as one step over the line is enough. Carol could've retreated from the edge the moment she appeared and wouldn't have been spotted. I think at least part of her wanted to be seen. That way there'd be no more walking on eggshells and no going back. She wants to kill Alpha, and isn't going to rest until she does.
shareYeah, no doubt, I agree, but the main point of the thread stands. I'm not sure that they have ever shown that amount of blood to be in a walker, at any point, let alone at this stage of decomposition, if decomposition is even taken into account. That is widely debated.
shareThey've cut walkers open and had their organs fall out, always plenty of blood with that. We still have no idea what the zombie pathogen is. Maybe the blood is important as a reservoir. But it's not like they've been consistent about other things. In the first season we saw the dead retain some basic skills, like turning doorknobs or using rocks to bash windows in. Not so much since then. Some walkers are slow and uncoordinated while others are fast and aggressive - nothing like World War Z aggressive, but a lot more than some of the others. Why should that be? Have the slower ones accumulated more internal damage, or something like that?
shareUmm, they've all breached the border when they went to put out that satellite fire, FYI, which Alpha was aware of and that's why they were moving their pack again. Just because she noticed Carol over the cliff changes nothing.
Also, watch the 2nd episode.
Already have, thanks. Doesn't make it any better. I love Morton as an actress, but this whole "border war" thing is beyond silly. Sorry. It seems to actually be about her daughter; which would be much better. Fingers crossed. I do appreciate Carol's stance on it.
share"I want mah dudder" - the episode...
shareWalkers have always bled. Whatever animates the corpses is preventing them from decomposing in a normal way. The fact that walker blood dries black like ink tells you it must be full of the mystery agent - which no doubt stops it from congealing, and keeps it liquid.
That scene of Carol using blood to extinguish a burning zombie was a little silly though, considering the trees right next to them were on fire. And you're right that it shouldn't have killed the walker to have her blood drained. They forgot to have Carol deliver a quick thrust to the skull. Oops!
It also annoys me whenever they stab a walker up through the jaw with a tiny knife that can't reach the brain and that somehow kills it.
shareYeah they've been sloppy about that too. There are sometimes strikes both from below and from the side that wouldn't penetrate the brain and shouldn't kill the walker, but they drop anyway.
shareYeah. The ease at which they dispatch them winds me up. It seems like all they need is a sharpened carrot and they're good to go. It's quite the juxtaposition compared to how easily they get surrounded/snuck up on by zombies. I mean, FFS, post a few scouts a few hundred meters away from the group so they can run and warn the main group in case a herd of ninja zombies is approaching.
But no, hundreds of stumbling zombies are just appearing out of the woods without making a single sound to give them away. Fucking lazy writing that the writers should be ashamed of.
But no, hundreds of stumbling zombies are just appearing out of the woods without making a single sound to give them away.
Because the zombie actors act on cues :P
sharehere are sometimes strikes both from below and from the side that wouldn't penetrate the brain and shouldn't kill the walker, but they drop anyway.