I'm not sure if this has been brought up, but does it seem weird to anybody else how there are no fat zombies? Unless the series takes place in the 80s or 90s, I'd say at least half the zombies should be fatties. 
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The zombie trapped in the well in season 2 was a bloated fatty. But in truth, they're eating whatever brains and flesh they can find. High in protein... not so much sugary carbs that pack on the lbs. Also, these things are decaying day by day, so I wouldn't expect half of them to be fat... quite the opposite.
nutty_gnome
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Another plausible explanation for 'no fatties' is that the zombies are extras trying to break into film or modeling and most of those folks are not fat because they know being slim will increase their chances of getting work.
Frankly, I don't want to see a buncha fat zombies on TV. I see enough of that at the mall.
Frankly, I don't want to see a buncha fat zombies on TV. I see enough of that at the mall.
rifraf
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The comic has fat zombies, but a recent interview with the head of makeup and effects talks about how they have to use skinny, gaunt, thin people because makeup is an "additive process". The amount of makeup and applications they have to use to make them look as good as they do would look really bad and cheesy on normal/fat extras.
Well, rigor takes a couple of hours to set in. So, if they turned within the first hour or two they would be fine as long as there's something to continue the production of ATP, or replace it with another mechanism. If not, even the quick turn zombies would go through a dormant phase (rigor lasts 48 or so hours).
I'm not sure if this has been brought up, but does it seem weird to anybody else how there are no fat zombies? Unless the series takes place in the 80s or 90s, I'd say at least half the zombies should be fatties.
Agreed, there should have be some fat zombies, or at least chubby zombies (chumbies?). Aside from that one in the well, there haven't been any noticeable ones in series. Also, he was shirtless and most of the other zombies have been fully clothed, so it's harder to tell.
haha! Well that feeling being put aside, one of the most annoying/hated zombies from the L4D series for me was The Boomer. Nothing like rounding a corner and blasting one in close range, getting covered in zombie bile and then being swarmed by other zombies/infected.
Uh-huh. Mason jar and moonshine is what I see, but you go on with your refined wine line.
That would explain only biting instead of eating people. It could be further explained by saying the virus doesn't care / doesn't know / hasn't evolved the consciousness so much about fueling its present vehicle as it does spreading itself to another.
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Has anyone paid attention to the flashes that occured just before Shane, Jim, and a few others, were reanimated? They have the same exact flashes of the same slimy, blood covered goblin looking dude (I don't think it's just a random zombie)... Almost like the virus comes from one source, and the memories and visions of that source are then implanted into everyone who contracts the virus. Sort of like the vampires in the Underworld movie tasting blood and seeing the past memories of other vampires, except in this case the zombies are then controlled by those memories to act as puppets for the host source -- like a hive mind. The converted living all the same hazy eyes with the red ring around the iris even though nothing traumatic happened to injure their eyes...as if they're receiving the same vision feed. Zombies also tend to travel in herds so this entire idea makes some sense.
CreamyGoodness
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Mostly because it will be that much harder to punch it...
CreamyGoodness
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Missing hand... favors kicking @ss to punching it...
So far as they know, most of humanity is wiped out. They've picked up people along the way already. Sometimes for the good. Sometimes for the bad. They have to take those chances. Everybody does in this situation.
The prison situation was a great example of weeding out potential friend from foe. Greaser guy was bad news, they pegged him as it and took him out. They took out the guy who reacted the most violently to his death too.
That may or may not have been the right thing to do. Maybe that guy was pals with greaser guy. Maybe he was just protecting the security he had in his own group. To them, Rick's group are the outsiders. These are the choices people have to make.
Yup. The dude with the bat had to die. If he is going to respond violently at all, he's a threat to the rest of the group. And like the ginger guy with the thick accent was saying, the two they killed were in prison for violent reasons whereas the two still alive were there for non-violent offenses.
Doesn't make sense because they were so worried about that other group finding the farmhouse and they they meet a group of prisoners and they don't react the same. Just weird to me I guess my guard would be up all the time.
rifraf
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Rick tends to not kill unless his hand is forced or he feels an immediate threat to his family. The other two prisoners, if locked in their own block can't hurt them as the group's block has its own doors with its own keys. That's how I'm seeing it, hard to go to the comics as this is different from the books.
dudius
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Is it just me, or is Andrea more hate-able already than she was in the first two seasons?
aygov
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Not as hate-able as Lori, but she is next on my, "Must be mauled by a horde of zombies" list.
rifraf
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Ditto. She's very different in the show vs the comics, and not for the better.
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