Do the zombie's eyes and inner ear workings rot?
The rest of the body seems to be decaying. Would blind and deaf zombies still be a threat?
shareThat dosent happen , cos "zombie magic"
Otherwise you'd just be looking at a bunch of skeletons by now
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As mentioned in the above clip from episode 1x06, the CDC guy Edwin shows the gang what actually happens when a person dies and turns into a walker. In the video from the CDC it's shown that the infection reanimates/regenerates/restarts the brain stem.
The brain stem controls the automated functions of the body including movement, heart pumping, breathing etc... One other thing it does is provide the ability for life to receive, process, and adjust certain functions related to attention, vision, sleep, hearing, arousal, and temperature control.
Since the infection doesn't restart the rest of the brain (almost as if engineered), the person is gone, the ability to judge and understand is gone. Only primal instinct of self exists.
The heart is still pumping what it can regardless if the blood is oxygenated. The brain stem is still sending signals for basic functions such as walking, seeing and hearing. Tho the vision/hearing of a Walker does diminish over time, what vision/hearing they do have the basic function of the only part of the brain (the brain stem) uses to guide the Walker.
I theorize that the infection that regenerated/restarted the Walker possibly is doing this continuously. Again, it's almost like the infection or virus responsible is intelligent in some way or either engineered by someone or some thing.
“One other thing it does is provide the ability for life to receive, process, and adjust certain functions related to attention, vision, sleep, hearing, AROUSAL, and temperature control.”
Damn, you mean the zombies are all walking around with boners? Gross!
This past episode went a long way to proving that the zombie magic theory in the post above yours might be the correct one after all. There can only be a supernatural explanation for how a bodiless head can make sounds without a set of lungs or diaphragm. It must be some sort of evil curse at work. Most likely a Voodoo curse since they commonly deal with the dead returning to life.
The heart is still pumping what it can regardless if the blood is oxygenated. The brain stem is still sending signals for basic functions such as walking, seeing and hearing. Tho the vision/hearing of a Walker does diminish over time, what vision/hearing they do have the basic function of the only part of the brain (the brain stem) uses to guide the Walker.
This explains a fresh body with tissues and organs that are still viable.
It does not explain how a decomposed walker can see or hear. Or how the body is completely rotted and decayed but the eyes are perfectly intact.
But that's part of the suspension of disbelief. The premise of the show is the dead reanimating. Just exactly how that happens can be overlooked for the sake of the show. It just is. share
and the skulls get softer and the teeth get harder
shareYou got it. I don't have anything against zombie fiction. I watched the first two seasons of this show before getting tired of it and I love zombie movies... BUT. Don't try to justify your damn zombies with nonsense science. It's never going to work.
Either you have infected people with some sort of galloping rabies (28 Days Later did a nice job aside from the disease working INSTANTLY) or you have dead people shambling or running to eat the flesh of the living... And it's hard to make any sense of that. Oh, you can talk about part of the brain being active, but that doesn't explain the muscles and nerves operating throughout the body without a fully functional cardiovascular system to support them. Your best bet is to introduce some alien organism that grows throughout the body and, more or less, wears the rotting flesh as a suit and replaces most everything else around the skeleton.
Or you could invoke the supernatural. Maybe Hell IS full... There's a nifty series of books by Brian Keene that uses full-on Evil Dead style possession by horrid extra-dimensional entities with the depressing certainty that by the time they are done, nothing will survive, not even a microbe.