The Walking Dead | Season 8 | Episode 13 | Do Not Send Us Astray [AMC] [SPOILERS]

At least Fear The Walking Dead is back in 3 weeks as this stuff is really testing now.

Yep, wondering the country with his stick.

expectationlost wrote: »

I thought It was agreed that everyone had what ever dissease that zombieism is, if you cut somebody with a non-zombie person guts you could probably give them infection they could die from without medicine, is it all just faster.

I remember reading a lot of discussion about the science of TWD and the zombie virus some years ago.
The most “plausible” explanation, I thought, was that the virus, though it is present in living humans, is in a dormant non-aggression stage of its lifecycle.

Upon death of the host, the dormant virus would enter the aggressor state, beginning to utilise the now defunct host’s anatomy as a vehicle.
The most likely detection method used by the virus to detect death and activate may be the drop off in oxygen levels of the cells. Body temperature could not be relied on as readily, since warmer environments, such as you may find in Southern US summer, could maintain the corpse around the 37 degree mark, delaying deployment.

When a zombie bites a living human, or they are cut or stabbed by a weapon contaminated with zombie gore, active aggressor stage virii enter the living body through the wound, and begin trying to carry out the process of multiplying and taking the wheel, so to speak.

Because the aggressor form of the virus cannot go backwards in its lifecycle, any more than a butterfly can become a caterpillar, it cannot just go back to dormancy, so it fights the immune responses and wins, producing necrotic tissue, initially nearest the wound site. This process begins to activate the dormant virus in those now dead tissues producing “backup” for the initial invasion force. The process continues exponentially until total death of the host occurs and the virus gains total control of the corpse.

This is how some like Herschel managed to survive by lopping off a limb before it spreads through the circulatory and other system which are still working.

Too many episodes in each season now. Bits of action followed by people talking. And nothing but ****e coming out of their mouths as well. Judith for example.

It's now getting agonising to watch.

mojesius wrote: »

-where is this never-ending supply of ammo coming from?!

and the petrol!

fritzelly wrote: »

Seriously why bother watching it just to bitch about it?

In the hope that what was a great show finds its direction again.


What's the story with not being able to hit a person with an assault rifle yet a few arrows shot into the air hit loads of people. They managed to shoot out the saviours lights with a few shots yet couldn't hit the people standing up on the back of the trucks.

The first walker who managed to take out two people, from behind, FROM THE DIRECTION THEY HAD JUST BEEN FACING THREE SECONDS AGO, has to be some breed of super-walker (runner?) to have been that effective. The guy in the med-bay, maybe I can buy it that it was dark enough and the walker was behind something so he didn't see him. But the woman guarding outside... he literally came up behind her from the side she had just come from in an open area. How can the writers and directors not manage to frame this in a way that works, eight seasons into the f*cking show?

Also, he's been a background character for years. I recognise him, but don't remember anything he's done bar maybe disagreeing with Rick about something and I can't remember him having any kind of bond with Carol. That's how bloated the show is with side characters, who inevitably just become fodder to not have to kill off main characters but still keep the show bloody.

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

I thought the same thing from watching the first half of season one... has it improved?

I've watched all three, and while it does improve, that improvement is on the back of a terrible season 1, and an atrocious season 2, so any improvement desn't necessarily make it that good. The characters are still annoyingly idiotic a lot of the time, and the story lines are as stupid as TWD too, but it is actually better than what's come from TWD in the last two years. They're also not afraid to kill off main characters at a fairly regular pace.

I've stopped watching TWD now, since about 3 episodes ago. I'm only hear to see if anyone exclaims about a suddenly (and unlikely) great episode that I might come back to it. Probably watch the final episode, just because...

stronglikebull wrote: »

I've watched all three, and while it does improve, that improvement is on the back of a terrible season 1, and an atrocious season 2, so any improvement desn't necessarily make it that good. The characters are still annoyingly idiotic a lot of the time, and the story lines are as stupid as TWD too, but it is actually better than what's come from TWD in the last two years. They're also not afraid to kill off main characters at a fairly regular pace.

I've stopped watching TWD now, since about 3 episodes ago. I'm only hear to see if anyone exclaims about a suddenly (and unlikely) great episode that I might come back to it. Probably watch the final episode, just because...

I watched half of S1 of Fear The Walking Dead and lost interest.
Hearing what a time sink it is and knowing first hand how awful TWD has gotten, I won't be taking a chance on Fear.

I thought Tara did get hit with an infected arrow. When they came up to tell her what was after happening at the end of the episode, I assume that was to let her know that she's going to die..

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

Sooner Henry gets killed, the better. Another waste of screen time.

The fact that I have absolutely no idea whatsoever who Henry is, and furthermore, couldn't care less, probably says all that needs to be said about my current relationship with this show.

I feel at this stage that I also owe you an apology for introducing you to it in the first place.

Only finally sat down last night to watch. Started falling asleep after 10 mins. Switched it off after 15 mins. Cancelled the linked recordings on the box. I've finally given up on the show. Sad, but it's turned into aimless, pointless, septic storytelling.