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We don't know the rate of decay, I don't think that has been said.

Do they need to eat, as they are dead? I am guessing the body does not work anymore in blood pumping and breathing sort of way

That, of course, requires very little suspension of disbelief at all, if you've ever visited the Wharf at the weekend.

But they still need some source of energy to move around, undead/dead/whatever. Plus to survive extremes of heat or cold requires some sort of ability to combat those situations, otherwise they'd literally just freeze in the winter, or turn into dust in the summer.

I notice that the series has completely avoided winters, because that's when zombies would start to look a bit stupid.

Why do they need energy, they are dead....

You can't apply biology and physics to Zombies. Because the dead don't move in real life do they?

They're reanimated, not dead.

If they're properly dead then they're just meat, in which case they'd freeze in winter and dessicate in summer, and simply rot the rest of the time.

Oh yes and they'd get absolutely eaten to shit by everything from flies and maggots upwards.

What do you think a dead human body would look like after 540 days out in the open?

Yo momma!

So reanimated means dead that gets up?

You really are worrying about this

It just bugs me, I appreciate it doesn't seem to have that effect on anyone else, but for a zombie series that's pushing out towards two years down the line after the outbreak, I'd want to see the question of what keeps the bastard things going be addressed.

I mean, they have to do that eventually, don't they? Or is it going to turn into the zombie version of Eastenders, and they're all just zombie-ing around twenty years later?

ZOMBIE 1 - 'What you been up to the last twenty years Fred?'

ZOMBIE 2 - 'Ahh you know Bob, just proving to all these dumb humans that perpetual motion was solvable all along, they were just missing a zombie apocalypse.'

I take it as, we don't know why the dead rise. Thus we don't know what keeps them moving etc.

No, they really don't. Any more than they ever have to explain how they're coming back from the dead in the first place. It's part of the setup you just need to accept.

Or give yourself an aneurysm over it for no reason; y'know, whatever works for you.

I think the best thing to do is to assume whatever "woke them up" is also "keeping them going"

Malc

I do accept it insofar as it looks like I have to, and it's not completely ruining the programme and/or giving me an aneurysm, it just diminishes the whole thing somewhat IMO.

For an hour's investment per week (less, with the season breaks and halfway breaks), I'll probably stick with it through ten seasons. But the more time goes on the more daft these zombies wandering around are going to be at a fundamental level IMO.

Also they'd better not kill off Maggie or Tara (formerly known as 'the lesbian one', I've learned her name now, and I suspect she might not actually be a lesbian but is just acting like she is), because they are pretty.

I wonder if they'll ever do a scene like in the film Battery (an ultra low budget zombie flick from 2012, recommended!) where one of the sex-starved survivors clamps eyes on a fresh female zombie that's still arguably quite attractive, and cracks one out.

Yes, it's definitely possible that a network TV show in the US will have a scene where one of the characters masturbates over a zombie. It would be entirely in-keeping with the tone of the show so far.

"Acting like a lesbian"? The fuck?

All that licking of wimmin, and stuffs.

Alive, dead, or other?

Abraham caught her ogling Rosita's boobs in Season 4, so if Tara is not really a lesbian then I guess that's acting like one.

Although if she is a lesbian then it's not proper acting I suppose, which would make it easier for her to do. Or something.

Either way she's well fit.

I ain't judging.

ewwwww

One of the super-zombies in the Ex-heroes series got turned even though his lizard-skin stopped the zombies from biting him because he found zombie Halle Berry and she bit his cock off when he tried to get a blow job off her.

In other news, the most unrealistic thing in this show is how good at pistol-shooting everyone is.

Second episode of this year was rather dull. Can't be arsed to put more of an effort into a review, because they couldn't be arsed to put more of an effort into writing the flipping thing.

Careful, that sort of talk doesn't go down well around here.

I'd say not liking a show about zombies because you don't believe in zombies is more of a problem than just saying you didn't like an episode.

Yes I don't like it, and never said this about it earlier in this thread - 'Finished Season 2 last night, truly awesome stuff. It's not Breaking Bad good, but it's not a million miles off either.'

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I'm not a masochist, if I don't like something I won't watch it, and I certainly won't watch five seasons of something I don't like.

It's just ended up nowhere as good as it could have been, and where it looked like it was going, I guess is how I feel about it.

Interesting article about how Daryl killed Tyreese: http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/02/the-walkin ... n-problem/

That is quite interesting, though I think that the storylines have worked quite well in of themselves. I've got the comics and really had trouble reading them as the dialogue is kinda ropey (at least for the first few that I read) and the character of Rick is an annoying fuckwit. I don't think that the changes are always necessarily bad though. I mean, Shane was only in the comics for a few pages, but he had a good character arc over a couple of seasons in the show.

S05E11 - Much better, strongest episode in a while IMO, albeit not completely without its problems.

Genuinely interested to see what happens in the next episode.

Not much Tara in it though, so a point off for that.

I was going to watch that tonight but got sucked into Sherlock series 2.

I really liked it. The group is in open revolt against Rick and there's a new false dawn. Super. I hope this is as good as The Governor and Rowdy Burns.

'Open revolt' is pushing it a bit, 'civilised disagreement' would be more like it.

The threat implied by Michone when he punched Backpacker Saviour was clear to the rest of the group his behaviour was not to be tolerated and he should wind it in. Later, they went against his first choice and forced a compromise from him.

The Ricktatorship is falling!

The finale is going to be 90 minutes, apparently.

Fucking spoilers!!!

4 realZ!

Yeah, I taught your mum that.

Please. She's like a fire hose.

Needs to be hauled around on a truck and only safely operated by 2 men?

Heh.

That episode was good, me likesed it. Much better than the previous one. Aaron was very well played.

Latest episode was really good.

Some interesting stuff in it.

Also...

This was most certainly the best episode since the Governor. It made the show exciting again.

MUSTN'T CLICK ON THE SPOILERS!

I'll be watching this tonight, as per my comment last week, I'm super-keen to see what happens in the next episode.

And there'll be a new Better Call Saul to watch as well, which is ace.

They've got the props on the wrong side of the bloody wall. That's what you get when you have an architect doing an engineer's job.

I said the very same thing last night.

Yeah this is exactly how I felt about it, the new location gives the whole thing a focal point and a sense of purpose, which IMO it's mostly been missing for a while now. Previously they had the farm, the prison, the governor, getting to Sanctuary and so on - whereas Season 5 has kind of meandered a bit.

A solid episode and once again, really keen to see what happens next week.

Also that hairdresser lass is well nice.

They still need to solve the Daryl problem, from a writer's point of view.

Not really. Fuck the comics.