A few questions that gave been bothering me :-)

iPink

I LOVE TWD... Best TV since Lost imo!
Have a few things on my mind I'd like to get off that have been bothering me since seasobyn 1.. Maybe I missed something someone else can put me out of my misery!

1. Why are the Walkers so 'in tact'? We know that the majority of them became Walkers after being bitten so why are they all so intact... We know the Walkers don't stop eating when someone dies/the initial bite.. They just keep on munching away yet 99.9% of the Walkers have all their limbs and don't have lumps missing out of them... Once they start they aren't letting you go!

2. The only way to really stop them is through the head yet we often see some staying down after a blow/cut/shot or stab to another part of the body... On a similar vein sometimes we see a disembodied head still 'alive' & going after someone or even a hand at that!

3. Where are all the pets & animals...?? If they've all been eaten up then how come the human haven't been totally eaten up once attacked (see my point no.1)... No walker dogs or cats so obviously the virus doesn't spread inter-species!!

4. Why don't they eat each other? We know they eat the dead so is it only up to the point they change?

5. Where did Lori's bones etc go? Did the walker eat every bit of her...?? And how come we've never seen a fat walker before, we've seen them after feeding...?

6. In season 1 they had to COVER themselves in walker goo & still there was some very tense moments yet Michonne can stroll through big groups of them with a bad limp may I add with only a few guts on her @not even a sniff!!!

iPink

iPink wrote: »

I LOVE TWD... Best TV since Lost imo!
Have a few things on my mind I'd like to get off that have been bothering me since seasobyn 1.. Maybe I missed something someone else can put me out of my misery!

1. Why are the Walkers so 'in tact'? We know that the majority of them became Walkers after being bitten so why are they all so intact... We know the Walkers don't stop eating when someone dies/the initial bite.. They just keep on munching away yet 99.9% of the Walkers have all their limbs and don't have lumps missing out of them... Once they start they aren't letting you go!

2. The only way to really stop them is through the head yet we often see some staying down after a blow/cut/shot or stab to another part of the body... On a similar vein sometimes we see a disembodied head still 'alive' & going after someone or even a hand at that!

3. Where are all the pets & animals...?? If they've all been eaten up then how come the human haven't been totally eaten up once attacked (see my point no.1)... No walker dogs or cats so obviously the virus doesn't spread inter-species!!

4. Why don't they eat each other? We know they eat the dead so is it only up to the point they change?

5. Where did Lori's bones etc go? Did the walker eat every bit of her...?? And how come we've never seen a fat walker before, we've seen them after feeding...?

6. In season 1 they had to COVER themselves in walker goo & still there was some very tense moments yet Michonne can stroll through big groups of them with a bad limp may I add with only a few guts on her @not even a sniff!!!

Sorry for typos & spelling.. On fone!! :-)

PhiloCypher

iPink wrote: »

I LOVE TWD... Best TV since Lost imo!
Have a few things on my mind I'd like to get off that have been bothering me since seasobyn 1.. Maybe I missed something someone else can put me out of my misery!

1. Why are the Walkers so 'in tact'? We know that the majority of them became Walkers after being bitten so why are they all so intact... We know the Walkers don't stop eating when someone dies/the initial bite.. They just keep on munching away yet 99.9% of the Walkers have all their limbs and don't have lumps missing out of them... Once they start they aren't letting you go!

Maybe because early on in the outbreak when the living still outnumbered the dead they were able to fight off their attacker after the initial bite before eventually succumbing , then once they died they became less appetizing to other zeds leaving them relatively ungnawed on.

iPink wrote: »

2. The only way to really stop them is through the head yet we often see some staying down after a blow/cut/shot or stab to another part of the body... On a similar vein sometimes we see a disembodied head still 'alive' & going after someone or even a hand at that!

Just because the characters have moved on after poleaxing a zombie doesn't mean they don't get up off screen , that said say you're right, there could be a few reasons for this, like their back being broken or just general their general state of decomposition leaving them unable to get back to their feet while still being very much alive(if that's the right term)

iPink wrote: »

3. Where are all the pets & animals...?? If they've all been eaten up then how come the human haven't been totally eaten up once attacked (see my point no.1)... No walker dogs or cats so obviously the virus doesn't spread inter-species!!

I don't entirely understand what you are getting at here , are you saying that if animals are unable to fight off the ravenous zombie hordes before being devoured whole what hope would puny humans have ??? does that actually need explaining ???. Secondly where did you get the idea animals are in short supply, there are still plenty of animals out there hershels animals, the deer otis shot , the Owl from this seasons premiere, the weasel(?) Daryl shot in the cupboard searching for baby formula.

iPink wrote: »

4. Why don't they eat each other? We know they eat the dead so is it only up to the point they change?

They will eat a fresh corpse but once decomp sets in they move on I reckon.

iPink wrote: »

5. Where did Lori's bones etc go? Did the walker eat every bit of her...?? And how come we've never seen a fat walker before, we've seen them after feeding...?

I reckon this is just a plothole as there is not rational explanation for their being absolutely no trace of her remains.

iPink wrote: »

6. In season 1 they had to COVER themselves in walker goo & still there was some very tense moments yet Michonne can stroll through big groups of them with a bad limp may I add with only a few guts on her @not even a sniff!!!

Their goo was being washed away by the rain hers was fresh, as for the limp that would only make her blend in even more I'd imagine.

iPink

PhiloCypher wrote: »

Maybe because early on in the outbreak when the living still outnumbered the dead they were able to fight off their attacker after the initial bite before eventually succumbing , then once they died they became less appetizing to other zeds leaving them relatively ungnawed on.

No it still doesn't make sense to me.. the vast majority of Walkers would have been turned by being bitten yet we never see a walker with bits/chunks missing... Idk maybe its a production mistake but it doesn't add up :-)


Just because the characters have moved on after poleaxing a zombie doesn't mean they don't get up off screen , that said say you're right, there could be a few reasons for this, like their back being broken or just general their general state of decomposition leaving them unable to get back to their feet while still being very much alive(if that's the right term)

Possibly though I don't see many of the survivors leaving a 'live' walker behind them to creep up on them again!


I don't entirely understand what you are getting at here , are you saying that if animals are unable to fight off the ravenous zombie hordes before being devoured whole what hope would puny humans have ???

No that's not what I'm saying at all... I mean where are all the dogs & cats etc... There should be thousands roaming around & in hiding at this stage!!

does that actually need explaining ???. Secondly where did you get the idea animals are in short supply, there are still plenty of animals out there hershels animals, the deer otis shot , the Owl from this seasons premiere, the weasel(?) Daryl shot in the cupboard searching for baby formula.

I get the idea as most families would have at least one or two dogs and maybe a cat or two too so by that reckoning I would think there should be so, me left... Even wandering around Towns etc shots of Walkers chasing dogs etc but we've NEVER seen even one!
Also a couple of cows, a deer, a horse, an owl & whatever it was that Darell shot (over 3 seasons!) Does not equal a big supply to me!! :-)

They will eat a fresh corpse but once decomp sets in they move on I reckon.

Yeah probably right...

I reckon this is just a plothole as there is not rational explanation for their being absolutely no trace of her remains.



Their goo was being washed away by the rain hers was fresh, as for the limp that would only make her blend in even more I'd imagine.

It wasn't all that fresh...must have been at least hours old if not more judging by events that had happened in the meantime whereas in s.1 it WAS much fresher as they only put it on, opened the door & started to walk!! They were literally COVERED with it, head to toe!
And what I meant by the limp was that it would slow her down & make her less able to defend herself... I doubt the Walkers would notice a limp!!

None of this really matters that much to me, I still love TWD... just a few things that have come up for me over the years!! :-) thought it might make interesting discussion

PirateShampoo

The limp was from being clipped in the hip by Merle when he shot her.

wandatowell

What pissed me off in the first season was why was there a tank in the middle of the city.

Ya you can say the tank ran out of fuel but when the fellas inside the tank realized that fuel might be an issue why didnt they start mowing over zombies and drive to where it would be safer to evacuate the tank??


Been ruining my life for two years now.


Well maybe not but still pisses me off

El Guapo!

wandatowell wrote: »

What pissed me off in the first season was why was there a tank in the middle of the city.

Ya you can say the tank ran out of fuel but when the fellas inside the tank realized that fuel might be an issue why didnt they start mowing over zombies and drive to where it would be safer to evacuate the tank??


Been ruining my life for two years now.


Well maybe not but still pisses me off

Maybe the soldiers got out of the tank to search buildings for survivors and got over run by walkers. And there was one left in the tank when Rick got into it. Maybe it broke down and he had nowhere to go.

mackg

Dean09 wrote: »

Maybe the soldiers got out of the tank to search buildings for survivors and got over run by walkers. And there was one left in the tank when Rick got into it. Maybe it broke down and he had nowhere to go.

I agree this never struck me as odd at all.

DeepBlue

iPink wrote: »

6. In season 1 they had to COVER themselves in walker goo & still there was some very tense moments yet Michonne can stroll through big groups of them with a bad limp may I add with only a few guts on her @not even a sniff!!!

Well Michonne was wearing the same clothes for ages so I'd say she'd have been a bit whiffy even before she got walker goo all over here.
No doubt that extra bit of Walker goo brought her over the threshold of "Eau de Walker" :pac:

What bugged me about the last episode is - did Rick borrow Steve Austin's bionic eye? 'Cos how the hell did he spot Michonne down at the fence from all the way back up at the prison?

dori_dormer

DeepBlue wrote: »

What bugged me about the last episode is - did Rick borrow Steve Austin's bionic eye? 'Cos how the hell did he spot Michonne down at the fence from all the way back up at the prison?

I think it was the bright red shopping basket that she was carrying. Walkers dont usually go shopping

platinums

That Owl at teh start of S3 , I was really hoping Zombie Owl#!!! then he shot it and ate it. such a let down.

In fact Zombie Cow, in the last episode of S2, he was eaten to bits but I suppose its a given that animals aren't affected.

bb1234567

Itd be cool if animals got infected too! Might make things a little tenser, anyone remember those dogs from I am Legend? :cool:

storker

bb1234567 wrote: »

Itd be cool if animals got infected too! Might make things a little tenser, anyone remember those dogs from I am Legend? :cool:

Yes indeed. Very nasty.

Stork

wandatowell

Dean09 wrote: »

Maybe the soldiers got out of the tank to search buildings for survivors and got over run by walkers.

A tank wouldnt really be the greatest use when searching for survivors though. Great for getting the Army out there but is it really much use with all the noise it would make? And what if they did find survivors? Im pretty sure there wasnt much room in the tank so how many survivors could it hold including the soldiers?? Not many id guess.

Plus if it got to the stage where zombies were roaming the streets like that surely the Army would be more concerned with trying to contain the horde before searching for survivors.

And id be very surprised if a modern tank like that broke down, it seemed to have been just rolled off the assembly line But ya I'll conceed that mayhap it did suffer mechanical issues.

giggii

I imagine that if the were at the point of bringing armoured tanks onto the streets that it had become more of a containment mission than a rescue one. All of the evacuations had most likely taken place before this and bringing in the big guns (literally) probably had the purpose of nuking the walkers and containing the infection...

DeepBlue

Wasn't there a flashback in one of the series where it showed Shane and Lori and camp dinnerbell first arriving at Atlanta to find it in flames and being bombed by the military.........which would explain the tank.

Washout

also is there some degree of intelligence.

in season 1 we had morgans wife knowing how to open a door.. and also a walker using a rock to break glass in Atlanta when they were stock in the clothes shop-

PhiloCypher

Washout wrote: »

also is there some degree of intelligence.

in season 1 we had morgans wife knowing how to open a door.. and also a walker using a rock to break glass in Atlanta when they were stock in the clothes shop-

Their was lots of behaviours displayed in that season that later had to be ignored for plot reasons , the Climbing dead for example

username123

PhiloCypher wrote: »

Their was lots of behaviours displayed in that season that later had to be ignored for plot reasons , the Climbing dead for example

Yeah, Im re-watching season 1 and the walkers were certainly a bit niftier!!

They were able to climb over fences, climbed on the tank, used lumps of masonry to smash through glass........

bb1234567

They should have kept the somewhat intelligent walkers, made it more tense. well to me it did anyways.

PhiloCypher

PhiloCypher wrote: »

the weasel(?) Daryl shot in the cupboard searching for baby formula.

Possum

And they were smarter because they were city slicker walkers.
Shopping on the high street, only eating the finest humans from M&S.

Why the tanks? Surely you don't need a bullet repelling vehicle that's so slow and a sitting duck when it breaks, a Monster Truck would've been better! Imagine a scene like that

wandatowell

DeepBlue wrote: »

Wasn't there a flashback in one of the series where it showed Shane and Lori and camp dinnerbell first arriving at Atlanta to find it in flames and being bombed by the military.........which would explain the tank.

If the Army was going to blow up a city would an air attack be a smarter move? Quicker even.

Martyn1989

username123 wrote: »

Yeah, Im re-watching season 1 and the walkers were certainly a bit niftier!!

They were able to climb over fences, climbed on the tank, used lumps of masonry to smash through glass........

I think they were able to run up the stairs when Merle was chained to the roof.

The Walking Dead Zombie Rules released before season 1 was released are as follows, taken from here http://www.tv.com/news/are-the-walking-deads-zombies-following-the-shows-own-rules-27028/

Zombie Rule #1: Ability to run is based on the amount of time a zombie has been undead, and how much decay has set in.
Zombie Rule #2: Zombies decay but at a much slower rate than humans, and it's still possible to differentiate between young and old zombies.
Zombie Rule #3: Zombies are like lions: if they've eaten, you can walk by them without fear, but a pack of hungry zombies will attack you.
Zombie Rule #4: The quickest speed of any zombie is a shambling run. see Night of the Living Dead. NO sprinters exist.
Zombie Rule #5: Zombies are not dexterous. They cannot pick up or use any items more complex than a rock or a stick.
Zombie Rule #6: Zombies have poor eyesight but they do have a strong sense of smell.
Zombie Rule #7: Zombies cannot speak but can communicate by pack mentality. The herd tends to move together if they sight food.
Zombie Rule #8: There is no overt recognition of people or places, there is a sense of familiarity that can dictate where a zombie moves.
Zombie Rule #9: There's no known cause of the zombie mutation, but it's suspected to be a virus or infection.
Zombie Rule #10: Once you're bitten you'll die and reanimate as a walker. How long it takes is related to the nature your bite.

Yakuza

Washout wrote: »

also is there some degree of intelligence.

in season 1 we had morgans wife knowing how to open a door.. and also a walker using a rock to break glass in Atlanta when they were stock in the clothes shop-

I'd put stuff like that down to the relative freshness of the zombies in S1. The only major plot hole is the zombie that climbed the chain link fence, in the same series they couldn't climb up the ladder Glenn and Rick went up to get to the group on the roof. Climbing up stairs isn't a stretch for a shambling bunch of zeds esp. when they're being funnelled by the walls of the stairwell.

Blazer

dori_dormer wrote: »

I think it was the bright red shopping basket that she was carrying. Walkers dont usually go shopping

only seeing this now but you just made my day

Conmaicne Mara

Was there a helicopter over flying the city in season one, or was it in the opening credits. I can't clearly remember, anyway what was the story with that, if there ever was one?

Martyn1989

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Was there a helicopter over flying the city in season one, or was it in the opening credits. I can't clearly remember, anyway what was the story with that, if there ever was one?

Rick heard a helicopter as he arrived into Atlanta, thats how he ran the horse practically into the herd of walkers.

Me and the gf are rewatching season 1 at the moment, the walkers were not shown running up the stairs when Merle was locked there, they are shown moving quite fast earlier in the same episode though. We realised that Merle was only in 2 episodes, and not that much screen time between them, he left quite an impression though.

They show one walker begin to make a bit of headway climbing up the ladder Rick and Glenn climb up, but cut to the next scene and hes back down again.

redrums

1. Why are the Walkers so 'in tact'? We know that the majority of them became Walkers after being bitten so why are they all so intact... We know the Walkers don't stop eating when someone dies/the initial bite.. They just keep on munching away yet 99.9% of the Walkers have all their limbs and don't have lumps missing out of them... Once they start they aren't letting you go

I wouldn't have thought the majority were bitten since everyone is infected when alive , They don't need to be bitten to be Zombied and others that were attacked would have been attack by maybe 1 or 2 zombies and could have got away before turning

Lord TSC

RE: The Tank.

I've read a few times that the first episode of season two was originally going to be a flash back to the soldiers inside the tank, explaining how the tank actually got there. There was a reason the tank had ended up where it was. They just ultimately abandoned the plan to do that episode, so it's left up to our imagination what happened

I think, if I remember right, that one of the zombies in the tank was one of the main actors from the US version of Being Human, albeit noncredited. He was to do that episode which got cut.

On a slightly off-topic note, OMG A WALKING DEAD BOARD! I'm going to have fun here tomorrow

Penn

redrums wrote: »

1. Why are the Walkers so 'in tact'? We know that the majority of them became Walkers after being bitten so why are they all so intact... We know the Walkers don't stop eating when someone dies/the initial bite.. They just keep on munching away yet 99.9% of the Walkers have all their limbs and don't have lumps missing out of them... Once they start they aren't letting you go

I wouldn't have thought the majority were bitten since everyone is infected when alive , They don't need to be bitten to be Zombied and others that were attacked would have been attack by maybe 1 or 2 zombies and could have got away before turning

Two reasons:

a) Someone may have been bitten, managed to escape or were saved by another, and eventually died of their wounds, thereby becoming a walker (more so in the month or two after the initial outbreak where people didn't know everyone was infected and would turn after death)
b) They may have died of natural causes rather than being bitten. Any type of death which keeps the brain intact turns you into a walker, so they might have died naturally and turned.
c) (I know I said two reasons and this is a third but this is a guess rather than a reason) The outbreak may have caused most people to die. So some people might have been less resistant to the virus/disease and died pretty much instantly or within a few days, which would explain why cities etc were overrun so quickly. So they wouldn't have been bitten, but instead died naturally because of the virus/disease and turned into a walker

bb1234567

Penn wrote: »

Two reasons:

a) Someone may have been bitten, managed to escape or were saved by another, and eventually died of their wounds, thereby becoming a walker (more so in the month or two after the initial outbreak where people didn't know everyone was infected and would turn after death)
b) They may have died of natural causes rather than being bitten. Any type of death which keeps the brain intact turns you into a walker, so they might have died naturally and turned.
c) (I know I said two reasons and this is a third but this is a guess rather than a reason) The outbreak may have caused most people to die. So some people might have been less resistant to the virus/disease and died pretty much instantly or within a few days, which would explain why cities etc were overrun so quickly. So they wouldn't have been bitten, but instead died naturally because of the virus/disease and turned into a walker

I hope that they say thats what happened. It makes it far more plausible, like in I am Legend.

Loomis

It's a fictional zombie apocalypse so I tend to give it a bit of slack.

The only thing still bothering me is the typo in the thread title tbh

Blatter

One thing that I've noticed is the distinct lack of walker children in any of the episodes. The only ones I can remember have been Carol's daughter and the governor's daughter.

Out of the tens of thousands of walkers that have appeared in the series so far, it's hardly realistic to see such few children, especially seeing as how vulnerable they would be when they're alive.

Loomis

Blatter wrote: »

One thing that I've noticed is the distinct lack of walker children in any of the episodes. The only ones I can remember have been Carol's daughter and the governor's daughter.

Out of the tens of thousands of walkers that have appeared in the series so far, it's hardly realistic to see such few children, especially seeing as how vulnerable they would be when they're alive.

First episode; Rick encounters a little girl. Great scene.

Blatter

Mr. Anderson wrote: »

First episode; Rick encounters a little girl. Great scene.

Ah yeah, forgot about that. Still, 3 child walkers and all female ones is pretty unrealistic. Don't understand why they haven't had a lot more in it.

bb1234567

Its because its a bit unorthodox for a cable tv show. People generally dont like seeing children dying/ being murdered on a tv show really...Why, I dont know, its just a tv show , its not like its real. But I suppose they dont want to hurt their ratings.

Martyn1989

bb1234567 wrote: »

Its because its a bit unorthodox for a cable tv show. People generally dont like seeing children dying/ being murdered on a tv show really...Why, I dont know, its just a tv show , its not like its real. But I suppose they dont want to hurt their ratings.

They've used the child walker to add impact now and again, if we keep seeing child walkers well stop caring.

giggii

Martyn1989 wrote: »

They've used the child walker to add impact now and again, if we keep seeing child walkers well stop caring.

Exactly, they give the shock factor.
Sophia, Penny and the little girl at the start of season one were all there to add impact on the storyline, the characters and us the viewers. the fact that we only see them every once in a while adds to that.

username123

Its been bugging me that walkers seem to have a universal outfit of grey, drab, torn, baggy clothes. Why are some of them not wearing stronger colours?

Martyn1989

username123 wrote: »

Its been bugging me that walkers seem to have a universal outfit of grey, drab, torn, baggy clothes. Why are some of them not wearing stronger colours?

They don't have Penneys in the USA

Dandelion6

Blatter wrote: »

One thing that I've noticed is the distinct lack of walker children in any of the episodes. The only ones I can remember have been Carol's daughter and the governor's daughter.

Out of the tens of thousands of walkers that have appeared in the series so far, it's hardly realistic to see such few children, especially seeing as how vulnerable they would be when they're alive.

The walkers are the ones who got away from the zombies before dying. Children probably wouldn't be able to get away, and would be eaten.

Nervous Wreck

username123 wrote: »

Its been bugging me that walkers seem to have a universal outfit of grey, drab, torn, baggy clothes. Why are some of them not wearing stronger colours?

Artistic license. The grey, drab clothing is representative of their dismal existence.

WildRosie

username123 wrote: »

Its been bugging me that walkers seem to have a universal outfit of grey, drab, torn, baggy clothes. Why are some of them not wearing stronger colours?

Maybe before they turned they went on the run without any of their own stuff and they're now wearing other people's clothes that they picked up along the way. They've been wearing them a long time by now and have been roaming around forests etc, eating people and are now very well coated in grime and blood. I think as well it's cos when they come as herds they look more cohesive and threatening because they all kind of melt into one and it also gives them a better chance of creeping up on people because they blend into the landscape.

Lord TSC

I dare anyone here to wear the same clothes for months on end and not have the color fade on them :P

El Guapo!

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

I dare anyone here to wear the same clothes for months on end and not have the color fade on them :P

Challenge accepted.

Ill report back here in April.

username123

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

I dare anyone here to wear the same clothes for months on end and not have the color fade on them :P

But theyve been drab since episode 1 of season 1!!

etloveslsd

username123 wrote: »

But theyve been drab since episode 1 of season 1!!

Rick comes out of the coma in episode 1. A while after the outbreak. I hope that doesnt need spoiler block outs ;-)

iPink

Mr. Anderson wrote: »

It's a fictional zombie apocalypse so I tend to give it a bit of slack.

The only thing still bothering me is the typo in the thread title tbh

Lol the joys of auto-correct & posting from your smart phone!! ;-)

Nervous Wreck

iPink wrote: »

Lol the joys of auto-correct & posting from your smart phone!! ;-)

One of those times when the term 'smart phone' seems like an oxymoron... :pac:

cjmcork

Santa brought me S1 and S2 on DVD, so my first time watching them on the telly as opposed to the laptop..........so I've a few 'that's bugging me' questions:

1. how did the animals on hershel's farm survive so long - how come they were never killed by walkers?
2. similar to iPink's first question - when someone is bitten, how come some walkers eat them as din-dins, and some don't (say for example Sofia wasn't eaten after she turned) - this isn't meant to be like a buffy / angel thing where some of them are food, and others are turned to be vampires..........so what gives there??
3. how come Hershel's gaff still looks completely normal - lights are on light a flipping lighthouse!

and a random comment - E8 of S2 (the one where they eventually 'find' Sofia) still gives me goosebumps

and one more observation - Andrea, when she was bunking down with the Guv - they show her getting dressed in one scene and the undies are starch white - I mean, seriously!!!

WildRosie

cjmcork wrote: »

1. how did the animals on hershel's farm survive so long - how come they were never killed by walkers?

I'm guessing that the farm never really got overrun because they weren't killing the walkers, only capturing them. They couldn't have done that with a herd. Maybe the horses/cows were able to outrun the walkers? Also the only time we've seen walkers eating animals (I think) was the horse in S1E1 when it was surrounded and S1E3 when a walker was eating the deer that Daryl shot, when chickens were fed to the walkers in the barn and at the beginning of S2E1 when they were eating a dog I think, which is probably easier to catch than a horse or cow.

cjmcork wrote: »

2. similar to iPink's first question - when someone is bitten, how come some walkers eat them as din-dins, and some don't (say for example Sofia wasn't eaten after she turned) - this isn't meant to be like a buffy / angel thing where some of them are food, and others are turned to be vampires..........so what gives there??

Maybe they got away? Like Jim in season 1, then died from infection from the bite and then turned.

cjmcork wrote: »

3. how come Hershel's gaff still looks completely normal - lights are on light a flipping lighthouse!

Can't help you there. It is weird. They seemed to have an unlimited supply of fuel.

cjmcork wrote: »

and a random comment - E8 of S2 (the one where they eventually 'find' Sofia) still gives me goosebumps

Me too! I started shouting at the laptop the first time I saw it. That whole scene is great. I'm currently rewatching it and am on S2E2 and will have to resist the urge to skip ahead to that one now!

cjmcork wrote: »

and one more observation - Andrea, when she was bunking down with the Guv - they show her getting dressed in one scene and the undies are starch white - I mean, seriously!!!

It's Andrea. Just chalk it up to one more annoying thing about her. Come E9 she had better step up and do something amazing or else she should be gone. She's too grating - from her whinging and moaning the first time we see her, to essentially abandoning Michonne to her whiter than white knickers now. Have I masked my dislike for her well? :P