Walking Dead
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I think a form of mutated rabies combined with some sort of a brain controlling parasite (something like Leucochloridium paradoxum - search for zombie snails) would work best to explain the phenomenon in my opinion.
In this type of story, its almost always better not to explain it. At least until near the very end, if ever.
Perfect example. And hell, other than the Eugene angle (which thus far has only mattered to the story at all by giving them a reason to travel in a certain direction) it hasn't really been important to the story.
I kind of like that we don't know. We are seeing this story from the perspectives of the people that we're following. They have no idea. Heck, they probably know more about it than 99.9% of the people still living in this world because they spoke with the doctor at the CDC and we got to see that exchange. This group miraculously getting an explanation of the disease would be too much of a deus ex machina to keep me interested in the story itself as opposed to the writing of the story.
On the Eugene topic - and I haven't read the comics so don't no spoilers please whether I'm right or not - I just get the sense that he's full of **** about this cure thing. I mean, he gets his own personal security detail because he's convinced them that he knows something. Him lying could be saving his own life (intentionally or otherwise).
Pretty much the same thing I was thinking regarding Eugene. I think we'll know either way before the end of the season.
Why isn't Maggie freaking out more that her sister is missing? And why was she OK with getting on a bus and leaving while her sister is still missing?
While I haven't read the comics, either, I have read some background stuff online so I know who and what Eugene is and isn't, and I'm withholding it intentionally in order to not make some of the same mistakes I've made in the GoT thread. What I will say, though, is the show in certain aspects is so different from the comics (Daryl and Beth don't even exist in the comics, Carol offs herself early on in the comics whereas she's a continuous badass in the show, her daughter Sophia is still alive in the comics whereas she's been long dead in the show, Lori survives giving birth to her daughter in the comics but both die in the battle for the prison, whereas in the show Lori dies giving birth but the daughter survives, etc), that just because Eugene is "one thing" in the comics doesn't mean he couldn't be totally opposite in the show.
I had watched this show regularly through the first three seasons. I was so disappointed in the season 3 finale that I gave up and stopped watching (after a season-long build-up, no resolution on the Governor storyline - incredibly frustrating, and just poor writing that unfortunately rears its ugly head on occasion with this show).
I only recently caught up with season 4 on Netflix and now the start of season 5. So I know this is behind the times, but I will still share it:
I only recently caught up with season 4 on Netflix and now the start of season 5. So I know this is behind the times, but I will still share it:
I was genuinely disturbed by the Terminus scenes, especially the slaughtering at the trough with the baseball bat and throat slitting. To me this took this show to an entirely different level; not a good or a bad thing, just different.
I know some of you have said that the comics make the show look like the Disney Channel so now I'm curious as to what kinds of depravity go in those comics.
I know some of you have said that the comics make the show look like the Disney Channel so now I'm curious as to what kinds of depravity go in those comics.
There was no terminus but they did run into cannibals on the road who capture Dale I believe. They were eating him instead of Bob who wasn't in the comic. The Caniballs told a story which Gareth lightly touched on with the bear cubs, that the surviving caniballs even ate their own children to survive. Rick and company slaughtered them all in cold blood, some slowly if I remember correct. Also, Rick only had one hand because the governer chopped it off when they met. Don't even get me started on what he did to Michone.
Yeah, comic is far darker. Carl was much darker also.
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