The Walking Dead *SPOILERS*

[the chi]

And what happens at a certain point when they are totally rotted? Do they fall apart and cease to exist?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by the chi

And what happens at a certain point when they are totally rotted? Do they fall apart and cease to exist?

They just need a nervous system. They will keep going as far as I know. They haven't found a cure to date and ended up fighting with a lot of other survivors.

Some of the characters take out the teeth of zombies (neutralizing their turn people into zombie powers) and keep them around. This one girl kept an ex boyfriend and a friend on a chain that way. She said they stopped attacking after awhile.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by the chi

Lets consider however the shock the poor dude would be in, who gives a crap HOW it happened, all he wants to do is find his wife and son. And survive. Lets not forget that.

I'm wondering if the wife was boinking the partner before it all happened tho...if no, she sure didnt waste any time.

I think she was... Looking back at the conversation in the opening scene and how they are interacting in the last episode, it seems like Shane has been working the situation for a while.

Originally Posted by Trip

Yeah, this is based off a comic book that's several years old.

For those that like more info, the bite causes an infection and kills a person and reanimates them. You can get bit and then cut off the part you got bit on and not become a zombie.

The zombies can be wanderers or stationary. The wanderers wander around and chase food. They will chase forever. The zombies will react to other zombies and form packs because they think the other ones are chasing food. The statinonary ones will wait for food to come near them and react.

Pretty standard zombie fare.

[Trip]

In the comic book, it was not a predating the event affair. She only did it after and gets prego from it. She has the kid and eventually ends up dying from an attack by another group of survivors that have gone crazy. Rick ends up talking to her on the phone after her death, it's kinda weird.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by the chi

And what happens at a certain point when they are totally rotted? Do they fall apart and cease to exist?

They become animated skeletons.

[Trip]

Another thing is Shane is killed by Rick's son and they bury him. Never been bitten by a zombie. Rick digs him up later and finds out he has been zombified without infection. So there is something more to the zombifiying.

[the chi]

Okay, why does Rick's son kill Shane? I gotta know.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by the chi

Okay, why does Rick's son kill Shane? I gotta know.

Lori and Shane don't tell Rick they shagged. Eventually Lori starts siding with Rick and goes against Shane and tells Shane that he should knock off any attachment he has to her and that it was completely a mistake because she was an emotional wreck and she loves her husband. Shane goes insane and goes into the woods. Rick follows him not knowing the whole story. Shane hints he banged Lori and points a gun at Rick and about to shoot him. Carl followed, and he isn't not happy to see someone kill his father and plugs him through the neck.

I am changing the title to spoilers

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by the chi

And what happens at a certain point when they are totally rotted? Do they fall apart and cease to exist?

This has always been my "why I hate zombie movies" pet peeve. It is also my, "why I hate animated cords, sticks, rocks, etc movies". Zombie movies have always tried to base themselves in some kind of science, which I like, but when you have something without muscles, nerves, ligaments, etc moving around, I change the channel.

[Inferno]

I like zombies

I like turtles too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y