Re The Walking Dead (spoiler if you haven't seen last night's episode yet)

[Duer 157099]

Why do walkers eat some people (like Otis) and then others just get a little nibble taken out, like Sophia?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. Maybe she was nipped, ran off, made to the farm and croaked under the care of the Vet.

Off to the barn with her.

Maybe we will see a flash-back of the saga of Sophie.

[Duer 157099]

2. So then every walker was a runner first?

Otis had a bit of lead keeping him from running...

But then every walker was someone who escaped being eaten by walkers?

[Flaxbee]

3. I don't know much zombie lore, either - why some people are eaten

and others have enough left of them to become walkers. :shrug:

Poor Sophia.

[NewJeffCT]

10. well, Otis could very well be a walker

just one without much flesh on his body, so he's unrecognizable.

[Flaxbee]

13. yup, I thought of that. And if zombies "know" anything, he knows how

to find Shane! :D

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. Well look at the experience WE have had.....

A good number of people we saw get infected lived but then were shot by loved ones or fellow survivors.

Perhaps most/a lot people didn't have the luxury of getting put down by a loved one.

If you think about it, the walkers aren't particularly immediately deadly - unless you are swarmed. There had to be a time-frame, before critical walker mass was reached, when a good percentage of people fought off attacks and lived - for long enough to become a walker and not walker feed.

I just can't see why more military encampments wouldn't survive. They would have the means to weed out the infected before they went zombie. I gotta think there is more military out there.


And how long are these walkers going to live with no food? since they don't eat other walkers.

[charlie and algernon]

11. You gotta read World War Z

I know it's not the same universe as Walking Dead, but WWZ goes into the big picture world reaction to a zombie outbreak. In that book, a lot of people survive and the US is able to form a large army capable of wiping out all or most of the zombies in the country.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. That sounds like my cup of tea. I really like the government(s) reaction piece...

... when it come to end of the world stories.

I mean, who cares what Tom Cruise and his daughter are doing? That's why I didn't care for the new War of The Worlds. Even Independence Day was better.

[NewJeffCT]

14. true, a lot of people survive in World War Z

but, I think it was still 2/3 of the world that was wiped out, including most of China (Chongqing was a city of 30 million, now a city of 50,000). I think it was about 2 billion that survived, if I recall. Could be less?

still, the premise of almost every zombie apocalypse story out there is that the government(s) fuck up the initial response, which allows it to get out of control. (i.e., the Battle of Yonkers)

[Marrah_G]

17. No- they only eat until the victim is turned

sometimes they are only partially eaten when the virus takes over and then the zombie no longer sees them as food.

[MissB]

4. Very plausible on the flashbacks.

I remember looking at IMDB after the episode when she got lost in the woods and tho I don't recall the exact numberof episodes, it seems like she is still around for more. And since she is most certainly dead now, it's either flashbacks or dream sequences (ala Merle).

I'll take flashbacks, please.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Now that you mention it, my SO looked up episodes and I think you are correct.

But I try not to spoil it for myself by over analyzing or researching. Another DUer posted, in hidden spoiler graphics, what happens in the comics. I didn't look.

[NewJeffCT]

9. Since the walkers are generally pretty slow

I'm guessing that is what happens. Plus, in the beginning, people might not have realized that you needed to kill a walker by literally blowing its brains out.

[Supply Side Jesus]

7. I'm betting she got bit, ran off and died.

Otis found her stuck in the mud and brought her back to the barn. If only Shane or Rick would have asked Otis before he became the main course.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. The mud is a pretty good bet as they focused on searching the river.

[Marrah_G]

15. She was probably bit and escaped and later died

Zombies come from viruses who's main goal in life is to spread itself. Most zombie lore has the zombies not actually needing to eat human flesh but instead just having that instinct as a way to spread the virus.


Yes I am such a dork and a huge fan of Zombie / Apocolypse genre. I think I have every book made, have seen every movie and am SOOOOOOO excited for WWZ to come out.

For answers to more Zombie questions I would like to suggest :

http://maxbrooks.com

[NewJeffCT]

16. Some people are upset with what they're doing with World War Z

The book is written as a history of the zombie war, with the main character interviewing various survivors, and then the narrator putting it all in chronological order to show how it unfolded.

From what I heard, the movie is going to show the zombie apocalypse as it is unfolding, and Pitt playing the narrator who tries to warn the people of the world to no avail.

[Marrah_G]

18. Nooooooooooooooooo - well damn

[Marrah_G]

19. Ohhh one other thing

Check out WWZ on audio book- Has a great cast including Alan Alda. I loved it- hearing it outloud makes it really come alive.

[NewJeffCT]

20. The audiobook was very good

though, it is not complete, if I recall.

To me, it was pretty obvious that the president was supposed to be Colin Powell and the VP was Howard Dean (The Whacko)

[alphafemale]

21. Heartbreaking.

And didn't at least some of the people from the farm know there was a little red-headed walker in the barn?

Maybe that was why Herschel was so vehement about them leaving.

(btw-Just got around to seeing it tonight on DVR)

[texanwitch]

22. I agree.

The farm people knew about her.