The Walking Dead

[KRCummings]

I just want to say that I don't like the term walkers. I think it's dumb. If this were to happen now they'd be called zombies because that's how the populace sees them after decades of movies and books. Nobody would call them walkers or anything else except maybe for G or ghoul or Zack like is used in World War Z and even then it's mostly a military term.
You'll find the best zombie movies and books don't call them anything so that they avoid this whole problem. I think that's probably the wise move but of course it's too late now. They're walkers whether I like it or not.

 

[MNGuy]

Part of it was two episodes ago, when Rick and Shane found the two zombie gaurds w/o any bites or scratches.

Also kind of set up when they found the hanging suicide zombie, I think his legs were chewed off after he hung himself.

 

[KRCummings]

Also kind of set up when they found the hanging suicide zombie, I think his legs were chewed off after he hung himself.

I forgot about that one but yeah, they didn't bring it up but in retrospect it makes a lot of sense.

 

[MNGuy]

Hey, wait a minute, what about all the bodies they've encountered without head wounds, in their travels, that didn't turn? Did the zombie virus mutate?

 

[Morcheeba]

The producers of the show covered it already, Walkers aka The Walking Dead, actually means the human survivors. So whenever they refer to them as Walkers they are mirroring themselves in a way.

Calling them Zombies is so blase.

 

[Morcheeba]

Vegas has Daryl being the last Walker to survive it all.

 

[KRCummings]

Hey, wait a minute, what about all the bodies they've encountered without head wounds, in their travels, that didn't turn? Did the zombie virus mutate?

Have they really encountered many though? I was thinking about this and really can't think of any examples. Of course It's been two full seasons so I can't remember every body in a show full of bodies.

 

[MNGuy]

The producers of the show covered it already, Walkers aka The Walking Dead, actually means the human survivors. So whenever they refer to them as Walkers they are mirroring themselves in a way.

Calling them Zombies is so blase.

Hard to break old habits.

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Now I should be able to call them zombies . . . . DOH!

 

[Farrah]

This is from Wikipedia, and it's not sourced, but it makes sense...

The zombies are the classic slow walking Romero style zombies, which originated in Night of the Living Dead. Following classic Romero-rules, everyone who dies, for any reason, will re-animate as a zombie. Even someone killed by a gunshot wound with no zombies involved at all will re-animate as a zombie. Zombie bites are not how the "infection" is spread. Instead, zombie bites and saliva cause infections that are 100% lethal. Characters have speculated, but cannot confirm, that whatever causes zombies to re-animate is some sort of virus that everyone in the world is technically infected with but is only triggered by death. It is known, however, that upon death, it can take anytime between three minutes and eight hours for the corpse to reanimate

 

[Wrong Element]

Hey, wait a minute, what about all the bodies they've encountered without head wounds, in their travels, that didn't turn? Did the zombie virus mutate?

I think that's the implication. I wonder if that relates to what the CDC guy whispered to Rick?

Now that Shane's gone, I kind of wish they had made his character less of a one-dimensional loon. I feel about him a lot like I felt about Dale--both of them represented a defensible point of view in this new world, but they were both so obnoxious most of the time that it was hard to take them seriously.

 

[Morcheeba]

Hard to break old habits.

Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers. Walkers.

Now I should be able to call them zombies . . . . DOH!

Fine. Do what you will. Shane who stormtrooped this fucking show to what it is died. Not once but twice.

 

[KRCummings]

Vegas has Daryl being the last Walker to survive it all.

Regardless of the meaning behind the title and any philosophical aspects of the writing, the living people are not called walkers. Stop doing that. That thing you do with the crazy and the stupid and all that. Just stop.

 

[Morcheeba]

Regardless of the meaning behind the title and any philosophical aspects of the writing, the living people are not called walkers. Stop doing that. That thing you do with the crazy and the stupid and all that. Just stop.

The WALKING DEAD are named after the living people/survivors. As in, Walkers. I couldn't make that up if I tried.

 

[KRCummings]

The WALKING DEAD are named after the living people/survivors. As in, Walkers. I couldn't make that up if I tried.

I often wonder why the Lord has chosen to test me in this way.

 

[Morcheeba]

I often wonder why the Lord has chosen to test me in this way.

Subjecting yourself this way when Shane, yes Shane, has been killed twice and that there will no longer be a Shane come next season.

I MEAN WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!

 

[clutch1]

Not to mention this Carl kid showing up all over the place like the kid from The Grudge.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

I think that's the implication. I wonder if that relates to what the CDC guy whispered to Rick?

I'm thinking he whispered something like "Hey, I know you probably don't know much about virus transmission, but this virus is passed through blood, air, and worst of all, mosquitos."

Now that Shane's gone, I kind of wish they had made his character less of a one-dimensional loon. I feel about him a lot like I felt about Dale--both of them represented a defensible point of view in this new world, but they were both so obnoxious most of the time that it was hard to take them seriously.

Dale was the character with the most dimension, second is T-Dawg...oh wait, he's got no dimension thanks to minimal lines.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The reason they aren't called zombies in the series is that one of the differences between the Walking Dead Universe and the real one is apparently Romero never made his films or got popular. The term zombie was never made in that verse and every group calls them something different.

 

[Beco]

Seems like the season just started, now its ending.....

 

[Morcheeba]

I often wonder why the Lord has chosen to test me in this way.

Here's one to test you... another Howard Stern story.

'The Walking Dead' is his new favorite show and he's been talking about it for weeks after catching up on every episode. Robin Quivers is a HUGE fan, as well.

The other day Stern was leaving his Sirius studio and Ronnie his Limo Driver/Body Guard was doing his best to explain to him why Shane died per the comic books. That he died during Comic Book #6 but lasted 18 television episodes, blah blah.

So coming into Sirius as they were leaving was Jon Bernthal: SHANE! He's such a huge Stern fan that he knew not to approach Stern in the corridor but when he kept overhearing them discussing Shane this, Shane that, he finally removed his hoodie and said Hey, It's Me! Shane from the Walking Dead!

Howard and Ronnie almost shat themselves. Said it was the weirdest thing ever. There they were talking about how fucked up it was for him to get killed off but speak of the devil... said they couldn't stop talking about how weird it was to meet him that way all the way back to Stern's pad.

 

[Morcheeba]

Oh, and here's a great interview w/ Jon Bernthal aka Shane

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/03/11/jon-bernthal-shane-walking-dead-shocker/

Why Ralph (Howard's geekboytoy) got him to appear on GeekTime that airs tomorrow on Sirius 101 but Howard went with another Whitney Cumming's interview is beyond me.

 

[moonglow18f]

The producers of the show covered it already, Walkers aka The Walking Dead, actually means the human survivors. So whenever they refer to them as Walkers they are mirroring themselves in a way.

Calling them Zombies is so blase.

I don't see why this is such a big deal. The reason they don't call them zombies is because there aren't any zombies in that universe. They're not doing it to
'mirror' themselves or some zen crap. The guy in "Nebraska" referred to them as 'lame brains'. His buddy driving the truck in the next episode referred to them as 'roamers'. It's the same reason these things didn't immediately get shot in the head and put down in force when they showed up - zombie culture doesn't exist in this show.

Is that so far fetched? I mean, I never saw a Friday the 13th film where they were like "Did ya see those other six movies this guy was in? You hear that music, you fucking run!"

Also, it took time before the virus went airborne, that's why you see dead people in cars and such but aren't zombies, the virus evolved which only makes sense considering the amount of it that must have gotten into drinking water and the smoke inhaled when burning bodies, just t name a few things. In fact, it could be argued that it's not a zombie bite (aka, the virus) that kills it's victims in a fever, but all the diseases that would gather in an undead mouth. The virus just takes over from there. Anyway, Rick knew about the evolving virus as soon as Jenner told him when he left from the CDC, we just never saw it till now.

 

[moonglow18f]

The reason they aren't called zombies in the series is that one of the differences between the Walking Dead Universe and the real one is apparently Romero never made his films or got popular. The term zombie was never made in that verse and every group calls them something different.

Sorry, didn't see this, thank you, your explanation was far clearer than mine.

 

[Beco]

I don't see why this is such a big deal. The reason they don't call them zombies is because there aren't any zombies in that universe. They're not doing it to
'mirror' themselves or some zen crap. The guy in "Nebraska" referred to them as 'lame brains'. His buddy driving the truck in the next episode referred to them as 'roamers'. It's the same reason these things didn't immediately get shot in the head and put down in force when they showed up - zombie culture doesn't exist in this show.

Is that so far fetched? I mean, I never saw a Friday the 13th film where they were like "Did ya see those other six movies this guy was in? You hear that music, you fucking run!"

Every slasher movie isnt a Jason movie, thats true. We use Zombie like we say, Kleenex or Bandaid....Zombie, the word, is part of our nomenclature....

Thanks for the explaination....now I must try to read these books this series is based on....

 

[clutch1]

Oh, and here's a great interview w/ Jon Bernthal aka Shane

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/03/11/jon-bernthal-shane-walking-dead-shocker/

Why Ralph (Howard's geekboytoy) got him to appear on GeekTime that airs tomorrow on Sirius 101 but Howard went with another Whitney Cumming's interview is beyond me.

They had Andrew Lincoln using his full on british accent a week ago too.
Please don't tell me Ralph and John Hein are gonna be the only ones to have a career at Sirius when Howard retires.