I think the one thing everyone can agree on is that the show is at it's best when it's zombie related tension/chaos and they need more of that and less "human interest" touchy feel stuff.

I wouldnt read too deep into that, as far as im aware the science in that was more made up than in the average shampoo advert.

I agree. The high point of the show for me was when Rick and Asian kid were walking with the zombies. The tension in that scene made me stand up.

Show completely sucks. The pilot was pretty damn good, and for the show to come to what it is now is pretty disappointing.

So there's hundreds of thousands of rabid biting zombies and you walk around in a tanktop? I think I'd go find a puncture resistant kevlar bodysuit or at least a chain-mail/plate-mail knight armor suit from a museum or something.

The writing is pretty campy. Hope it gets better.

GOLD

I LOL'd at the incompetence of the soldiers

I just downloaded the Walking Dead comic series. Interested in reading it.

Somebody told me the finale was going to be terrible but I had to watch it anyways. So disappointing. Are those rumors about the show firing it's writers true? That is the only way I'll watch another episode.

So nobody knows if the zoms are decomposing or not?

Does their digestive system work or does the flesh just sit in their stomachs?

So many questions due to bad writing.

Really dude, that's what your thinking about, whether or not they can poop?

no, I trying to figure out if the survivors could just wait it out. Let the geeks decompose then come out of hiding. Probably just over thinking it.

But thanks for putting that mental image of zombie poop in my head.

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I find myself getting mad that they don't talk about this as a strategy. Then I remind myself that if it were a viable strategy, it would make for the worst TV ever, and I half forgive it.

I do think they missed an opportunity for the doctor to say something like "the decomposition only occurs to a point, so we can't just wait it out"

But these aren't two of them.

Why not? The zoms see, hear, smell, and eat. So only their senses and motor control work and nothing else?

If they don't decompose then, unless they are walking solar collectors, it's got to be because what they eat sustains them. It's a total plot failure that this hasn't been addressed. I can't turn off my brain and drool at the TV. It has to make some sort of sense or the survivors are just as brain dead as the geeks.

They'll never address it. So you can stop watching the show and posting in the thread now.

Please stop. If you don't understand why this is so stupid then there is no hope for you.

OK if YOU say so. Where you been all my life.

Troll much. Looking at your posting history the answer is yes.

If you don't want to discuss it put me on ignore. No reason to torture yourselves.

Only a moron would expect a full explanation of the digestive system of the zombies from the show. There are a thousand reasons for this, the foremost being why the f would the scientist waste their extremely limited time studying how they digest human flesh when trying to figure out and cure the disease is the predominant issue? And it has been like 60 days since the outbreak, you expect the digestive system to have been fully looked into by a quickly dwindling suicidal/zombiefied pool of people who have the qualifications to do so? And you don't get how incredibly lame this would be on TV? The idea that the viewer requires a full breakdown of how the zombie biology works in order to watch the show is idiotic, and the idea that this has not been presented constitutes a failure in the show is doubly idiotic.

An lol at looking up my posting history.

Facts:

1, they are faster when they eat - this indicates they do get nourishment in some sense.
2, we have seen in the half chick who was severely decomped in the pilot that they dont die from severe injury and we can assume from rapid decomp in comparison to the others that without eating (she will lose the race to the dinner table, lol) they do break down to some degree.

We cant just assume they will starve to (re)death however. But until learning otherwise i would assume not, they will just become exceptionally weak and slow like the half chick from the first ep.

Right now im assuming its closer to the Romero zombies than the 28 Days Later zombies, which were really just crazy people. So they wont entirely die off if they wait it out like happened between 28 Days and 28 Weeks. The method of transfer seems to be like the classic Romero zombie - bite transfer, maybe through normal death too though we have yet to see this - rather than some kind of blood born infection like 28 Days had.

They obviously decompose, remember one of the first zombies was decomposjng that he ended up killing to end its suffering.

f u phill

Thanks for the serious answer Phill. *And Omar

Do we know that zombie was decomposing? We have seen zombies continue trying to eat as long as their brain was functioning, perhaps the half zombie from the first episode was simply cut in half.

Zombie biology is clearly quite different, as the brain stays alive period no matter what happens to teh body.

Thus the body might starve and decompose, but the zombie brain will keep going till the body just falls apart and isn't mobile anymore.

And it'd take along time for that to happen. Plus zombies could feed on animals and maybe each other if they really had to.