The Walking Dead Season 2 Trailer

[ShadowX81]

Well to be fair AIDS is different. It spreads quickly because often people remain unsymptomatic for months and didn't know they had it until long after they have spread it to other people. Spanish flu or the Plauge are better examples of how governments stepped in and put a stop to it through basic quarantine proceeures. Im not saying people wouldn't panic (you mentioned yourself how people went ape**** when swine flu hit and that was mostly harmless). But I have a hard time believing that the government and military wouldn't have been able to stop the outbreak or at the very least slowed its spread enough that it doesn't completly consume society in a matter of a week or two.

 

[CB2001]

But I have a hard time believing that the government and military wouldn't have been able to stop the outbreak or at the very least slowed its spread enough that it doesn't completly consume society in a matter of a week or two.

The above quote reminded me of something. Back in 2005, for my Writing Short Screenplays class, I actually written a short film script called Handling The Dead. It involved zombies, and involved the mockumentary style back before Romero did Diary of the Dead. But unlike the typical zombie apocalypse story, the story was about a police officer who was a part of an organized disposition unit who get called out to handle zombies. And basically, with the scenario I presented, the zombies were nothing more than pests like bugs and rats and such, while the organized disposition unit was nothing more than glorified pest control. Honestly, we've seen many versions of the world coming to an end with the zombie apocalypse, but we never see much of a story where the zombie apocalypse occurs, and it doesn't change anything in society.

Then again, with the story, I did go against a lot of typical tropes (like being bitten by a zombie turns you end to one. Basically, in the story I written, if you're bitten you don't die within time and come back. Honestly, if you die, no matter what the reason, you still come back, bitten or not), but the story was more about the cop hating his job than it being an honest "zombie story."

However, I think the reason why a majority of the stories that involve the entire world falling apart from a zombie apocalypse is because it is more interesting to see how human life changes or continues without everything we know. Basically, it's reverting the modern world back into almost into the Wild West period, where all you have is you, any allies that may be with you, your gun and your morals. If they had the government and society continue on without any real conflict due to the zombies, then it wouldn't be as interesting as the world being gone. I guess, in a way, it's the lack of "big brother" being there to help out everyone and leaving it up to the individual to make his or her own choices in surviving that is a compelling part of the zombie apocalypse scenario.

 

[robstyle]

Shadow, that brings back the modern transportation methods. The forms of transpo back when your talking was foot, animal powered or via wind/currents on water. Referring back to the AIDS virus and a modern real world scenario, take a look at the early days and how long it took them to figure it out. Its frightening:
History of AIDS Up to 1986

Now imagine all which happened over the course of years was condensed into weeks. Thats the zombie world. In the times before modern transportation the AIDS virus may not have even spread outside of a small community or even made its mark on history.

 

[ShadowX81]

But like I said, AIDS was able to spread so quicklybbecause it was unsymptomatic for months, and by tthe time someone learened they had it, it had already been passed on to others.
The wildfire virus is almost immeciatly symptomatic, and kills you within a day. And even after you turn, the only way to spread it is through a bite. You can't accidently get infected without knowing it, and you can't accidently spread it to others. Also the advantage the disease has to spread from modern transportation is nonexistant in this case because zombies do not use modern transportation. Honestly any basic quarantine proceedures could have easily contained this outbreak.

 

[Scareb]

It's not always just via a bite. I mean there several ways to be zombified. It depends on what universe you're going with.

 

[robstyle]

Even in the Walking Dead you have infected being transported and even transporting themselves within vehicles. Its a fictional world and as mentioned, zombies are fictional. If you go from zombie film to zombie film im sure there are numerous ways it spread. One had it spreading airborne via smoke into rain, another was a virus, another a chemical weapon....

 

[Melanie]

In France we had only had three episodes ... I can not wait to see the new season !

What you say makes me sad Egon Spengler..

 

[The Hopkinator]

In France we had only had three episodes ... I can not wait to see the new season !

What you say makes me sad Egon Spengler..

Me too Melanie!!! Matter of fact, WHATEVER makes YOU sad,, makes me sad too...:love

 

[Scareb]

And whatever makes hopkinator sad, makes me happy.

 

[EvilRocketeer]

I forgot to watch last sunday's episode....i guess being disappointed in the first few episodes, i wasnt as excited to see the episode...I finally caught a re-run tonight

show is finally picking up a little bit...hopefully it continues to go up hill rather than subsiding in dullness....shane and otis scene at the end made it worth while..

 

[Wolfie138]

Also that the writers seemed to have adopted Kirkmans "any one can die, at any time" policy.

yeah, hardly think that's relevant when you're talking about a sideline character who's only been in about half of one other episode.

this episode was really good, more of what i was hoping for, ie more zombie mayhem. i still think there were bits that could ahve been better : wouldn't running off and trying to lose the zombies in the dark of the woods have been better than running along a road in plain view? And given they set off from the house saying "there were loads of zombies there last time" etc, you'd think once they started being overdue someone woulda gone "hey, maybe they're in troble, let's saddle up and see if they need help". :-/

 

[MooCriket]

^They didn't do that because of Murphy's Law. Once a fat man is sent anywhere involving zombies...they will be soon eating his bacon.

 

[robstyle]

on a side note, it would have been great if fat man was wearing a red shirt.

 

[Scareb]

yeah, hardly think that's relevant when you're talking about a sideline character who's only been in about half of one other episode.

Except it is relevant when the character they just killed off was in the comics a hell of a lot longer then he was in the show.

 

[Kerr Avon]

Except it is relevant when the character they just killed off was in the comics a hell of a lot longer then he was in the show.

And Shane's been in the show a hell of a lot longer than in the comic. Kirkman said he wanted to make the show different than the comic so it wouldn't be predictable. I like what he's done so far.

 

[Scareb]

I'm not complaining at all, just staying that I'm digging the changes so far.

 

[Wolfie138]

Except it is relevant when the character they just killed off was in the comics a hell of a lot longer then he was in the show.

except it's not relevant because this isn't the comics, is it?

 

[MooCriket]

on a side note, it would have been great if fat man was wearing a red shirt.

:lol, Yes...that would have been great!

 

[MooCriket]

Sounds like tonight should be pretty awesome. If you watched the previews for tonight's episode or the Talking Dead after last week's episode, you got to see a glimpse of the well zombie. Looking forward to see how well the make-up/effects are done on this one.

Also can't wait to see more of Glen tonight.

 

[CelticRuins]

I really want to know if they're going to keep to the Hershel's story from the comic...with his barn of DEATH...

I would love to see that!