There was a marathon for last season or something. My question is, has the show ever given a reason as to what makes the zoombies tick? Ignoring real world physics of course.

Of the stuff I watched, in a couple episodes they had corpses that were basically as close as you could get to being skeletons and they were still moving around.

Money keeps them moving with the show

I see.

Never saw any episodes beforehand but holy shit that prank with the dude who got "eaten" when surrounded on a dumpster and then a couple episodes later got saved by the camera angle before crawling under the dumpster was pretty funny.

Then like five episdoes of filler later he gets conked on the head.

They're like basically an unexplained plot device and just require a little suspension of belief to enjoy the rest of the show. TWD is less about zombies (not that that isn't a fair bit of screentime in some episodes) and more, like class said, about the people with their different factions reacting to the crisis and the new world in which they live.
It's a soap opera with gore... and I'm not ashamed to like it.

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on February 12, 2017, 10:29:19 PM

They're like basically an unexplained plot device and just require a little suspension of belief to enjoy the rest of the show. TWD is less about zombies (not that that isn't a fair bit of screentime in some episodes) and more, like class said, about the people with their different factions reacting to the crisis and the new world in which they live.
It's a soap opera with gore... and I'm not ashamed to like it.

Admit it you just like it because it has sexy cadavers walking around.

I like my cute dead girls to be not moving and offer me no resistance.

Quote from: SecondClass on February 12, 2017, 10:23:13 PM

S1 finale has it partially explained, pretty much the brain "restarts" after death, but it only controls functions needed for movement.

How the energy is produced to keep those muscles moving is beyond the point of the show. The zombies are the initial crisis, but they don't have to make sense, they just have to be. How they're reacted to, by humans as individuals and societies, is where the real conflict lies.

I get that. But the show stretches that when it shows me toasty the zombie in a biker helmet who's been burned to near ash still able to move or the two peachy waterlogged toilet abominations in the sewers of Alexandria.

In both cases there's no muscle left at that point.

That's what I said - the logic of how the zombies function isn't important. It's magic, karma, Allah's wrath, whatever. The show is disliked by Romero for the same reason it's actually good: it's not about the zombies.

Quote from: Sαndtrap on February 12, 2017, 10:28:44 PM

Quote from: SecondClass on February 12, 2017, 10:23:13 PM

S1 finale has it partially explained, pretty much the brain "restarts" after death, but it only controls functions needed for movement.

How the energy is produced to keep those muscles moving is beyond the point of the show. The zombies are the initial crisis, but they don't have to make sense, they just have to be. How they're reacted to, by humans as individuals and societies, is where the real conflict lies.

I get that. But the show stretches that when it shows me toasty the zombie in a biker helmet who's been burned to near ash still able to move or the two peachy waterlogged toilet abominations in the sewers of Alexandria.

In both cases there's no muscle left at that point.

That's what I said - the logic of how the zombies function isn't important. It's magic, karma, Allah's wrath, whatever. The show is disliked by Romero for the same reason it's actually good: it's not about the zombies.

I was also thinking as I watched, the drama would intensify big time if the show had runners as oppossed to only walkers. They seemed to do a decent job of doing some tension in certain scenes with walkers. But if they added runners that'd change the game.

Never saw any episodes beforehand but holy shit that prank with the dude who got "eaten" when surrounded on a dumpster and then a couple episodes later got saved by the camera angle before crawling under the dumpster was pretty funny.

Then like five episdoes of filler later he gets conked on the head.

Yeah that fakeout was pretty dumb and pissed off a lot of people.

Quote from: Rain on February 13, 2017, 04:08:03 PM

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Money keeps them moving with the show

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