They just decided to wander off?

I thought it was a dream too but there were zombies that seemed to all have been hit by falling trees or lightning or something. It really didn't explain things very well at all.

May I just add that it was apparently 100 miles to Washington and they'd travelled 40 miles by the time of this episode and the last which is, like, pretty far to walk and occassionally drive so their provisions might be low.

Disagree. They've created this glorious fiction about a post apocalyptic world that's almost tangible. I could care less whether it has TV drama in every episode: I switch off my brain, turn out the lights and wonder how I'd survive in this new world amongst the horrors. It has, so far, nailed the experience for me.

It was a tornado, people! Geesh.

Disagree. They've created this glorious fiction about a post apocalyptic world that's almost tangible. I could care less whether it has TV drama in every episode: I switch off my brain, turn out the lights and wonder how I'd survive in this new world amongst the horrors. It has, so far, nailed the experience for me.

Yep. It is absolutely believable in almost every sense (perhaps more so now than in the earlier series as it has time to develop itself rather than the helter skelter run to the finish that was series 1).

Piffle! What the fuck are the zombies running on this far into the outbreak? How are they 'surviving' freezing winters and blazing hot summers? What is their fuel?

This does not make sense and has never been explained.

Who gives a fuck? It's also not been explained how they're coming back from the fucking dead but, weirdly, that doesn't seem to bother you. And it misses the point anyway. If you're going to enjoy a 'trad' zombie story of any kind you need to suspend a lot of disbelief about the set up to be able to buy into the drama that stems from it. If you can't do that then it's not for you, but to look past the most obvious stuff (i.e. that whole pesky 'undead' thing) just to froth over something relatively inconsequential as if that was somehow derailing the bloody impossible fiction of it all's just the bizarre viewpoint.

Zombie stuff isn't (generally) about the zombies and how they function, it's about how the people left alive react to the pressure of the situation.

The zombies have gotten more rotten as the series has gone on.

Also, they infected didn't die off a month after 28 days later. 28 weeks later they'd only secured Canary Wharf, and even then there were loads of the fuckers running around Westferry Road.

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

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.

So reanimated means dead that gets up?

You really are worrying about this

I mean, they have to do that eventually, don't they?

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 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.

All that licking of wimmin, and stuffs.

Alive, dead, or other?

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.

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.

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