The Walking Dead Season 2 Trailer

[R.P. McMurphy]

The open wound idea is that the virus had recently mutated, only now (not in any other previous episodes) allowing for infection by airborne transmission through their open wounds instead of only through the direct physical contact through a bite as originally thought. Plus, with the T-Dog example, even if it was airborne previously, you would still have to die before coming back but now death by ways other than a walker would still result in zombification.

However, I agree with those saying that it looks like everyone's got the virus no matter what!

 

[Kerr Avon]

No virus. No mutation.

 

[CelticRuins]

Well, not to keep coming back to the comic here, but I believe they suggested that it is airborne. I did like the CDC addition, since the comic still hasn't given us a full look at how the virus came into being. They almost came to a conclusion, but it turned out that the "scientist" claiming to have inside information, that they met up with, was merely a high school science teacher and a really bad liar.

All deaths in the comic, that were not related to zombie inflictions, came back to life. IE: Herschel's two twin daughters that aren't in the show, Shane, Tyrese, etc. And 3 of these were decapitated heads.

Basically it seems that the stopping of the heart results in the virus' trigger. Which means the zombie bite isn't what causes it; it's just what kills you.

 

[Kerr Avon]

Basically it seems that the stopping of the heart results in the virus' trigger. Which means the zombie bite isn't what causes it; it's just what kills you.

Right, as pointed out, a walker's bite and scratches carry so many regular pathogens that they are typically fatal unless limb is removed and cauterized pretty quick.

 

[CelticRuins]

Which means there could be a cure, like the T-Virus' anti-virus.

Again, I do hope that they show more information to the virus. That was one of my main discrepancies with the comic. Though it's pretty much been stated that the comic will end as bleak as possible.

 

[Kerr Avon]

Which means there could be a cure, like the T-Virus' anti-virus.

Again, I do hope that they show more information to the virus. That was one of my main discrepancies with the comic. Though it's pretty much been stated that the comic will end as bleak as possible.

Nonononononononononono.

Did you see the "no"s above?

No cure. It just HAPPENS. It doesn't matter why it happens. It just does. THERE IS NO CURE. People who die who have not have massive brain trauma will become walkers. That is the rule.

The only thing that MIGHT be curable is the horrible pathogens related to what grows in a dead body and gets passed into open wounds and bites and scratches. Massive doses of antibiotics might help prevent the death caused by those pathogens, but they aren't responsible for the dead getting up and walking. It will happen once the body dies, regardless of cause except brain damage.

You people are stuck on some kind of biological cause, where there is NO evidence of some such thing. A curse from god, hell being full, a voodoo spell on the world, radiation from the Van Allen belt, all that is just as likely the case.

 

[firesprite]

Nonononononononononono.

Did you see the "no"s above?

No cure. It just HAPPENS. It doesn't matter why it happens. It just does. THERE IS NO CURE. People who die who have not have massive brain trauma will become walkers. That is the rule.

The only thing that MIGHT be curable is the horrible pathogens related to what grows in a dead body and gets passed into open wounds and bites and scratches. Massive doses of antibiotics might help prevent the death caused by those pathogens, but they aren't responsible for the dead getting up and walking. It will happen once the body dies, regardless of cause except brain damage.

You people are stuck on some kind of biological cause, where there is NO evidence of some such thing. A curse from god, hell being full, a voodoo spell on the world, radiation from the Van Allen belt, all that is just as likely the case.

There's also no proof that it's 'God's will'.

 

[Kerr Avon]

There's also no proof that it's 'God's will'.

No, but as explicitly stated by Kirkman, this is the world they live in and it can't be changed. So expectations about finding a cure, or seeing anything about a virus (really why is this easier to believe than a curse by God?) is not going to happen.

With the possible exception of the fake Doc who strings along the group and was lieing the entire time about any cure.

Really, it's just ignorant to want to keep focusing on a 'virus that can reanimate the dead.' It's just not possible. Learning anything about it is something that's going to be completely fictional that it's going to violate rules of Thermodynamics, Entropy, biological processes, and god knows how many more things that it'd be insulting to the audience to pass it off as any kind of explanation of what is causing the dead to rise. A supernatural reason at least by definition can violate such laws and remain 'plausible' as an explanation. A wizard did it.

 

[CelticRuins]

The whole 'God's Will' thing is hokey. Sorry, but it is.

Are you going 'Lost' on me here?? If it ends like that, I'm flipping over a table -_-.

Seems that Resident Evil's bio-engineered zombies/mutants would think otherwise, sir.

 

[Kerr Avon]

The whole 'God's Will' thing is hokey. Sorry, but it is.

Are you going 'Lost' on me here?? If it ends like that, I'm flipping over a table -_-.

Seems that Resident Evil's bio-engineered zombies/mutants would think otherwise, sir.

Pretty sure you won't have to worry about that, because Kirkman has said there's no plan to ever explain what is causing the dead to rise. It's not the point of the comic or the show.

I love RE, but the point of that is man's arrogance in developing a weapon he can't control and it turning on him. That's different from WD's purpose. Even though the T-virus is impossible too.

 

[CelticRuins]

To add: Why is it so hard to think that man kind would and COULD end it's self? It's more possible than impossible. With the constant threat of chemical warfare and threats, it's only right to think that human's could create something that terminates their fate.

 

[Kerr Avon]

To add: Why is it so hard to think that man kind would and COULD end it's self? It's more possible than impossible. With the constant threat of chemical warfare and threats, it's only right to think that human's could create something that terminates their fate.

I'm not arguing that. I'm just arguing it's impossible to create a virus, or a virus to occur, that can reanimate a dead body that then goes around killing the living.

 

[CelticRuins]

I love RE, but the point of that is man's arrogance in developing a weapon he can't control and it turning on him. That's different from WD's purpose. Even though the T-virus is impossible too.

Hmm, well that's why it's fiction . Of course there's no possible way to come up with some crazy pathogen, such as a zombie virus in OUR world. There's weird rumors of it being tried. And you also have the voodoo-esque zombie. While not dead, you're not there.

I like how we're debating over a fictional virus :lol!

 

[crabra comander]

But if ***** made the virus it WOULD be possible!

 

[Kerr Avon]

But if ***** made the virus it WOULD be possible!

Yes, if a Wizard made it, then it could happen. Supernatural sources area exactly that, ones that violate and exist outside any laws of the universe we know of.

 

[Kevin Gossett]

I'll echo Kerr Avon's sentiments here... Kirkman has said that not a lot will come of the cause of this happening, because it isn't really a detail that needs focusing on

 

[CelticRuins]

Yes, if a Wizard made it, then it could happen. Supernatural sources area exactly that, ones that violate and exist outside any laws of the universe we know of.

Or an alien virus. Also not 'God's Will'. It WOULD be possible for alien-type virus, not known to us to infiltrate our world through a meteor. This has been done before yes, but if you want to throw out all the possibilities.

 

[Kerr Avon]

Or an alien virus. Also not 'God's Will'. It WOULD be possible for alien-type virus, not known to us to infiltrate our world through a meteor. This has been done before yes, but if you want to throw out all the possibilities.

No biological process can make dead people stand up and start killing people. Dead is dead.

 

[crabra comander]

No biological process can make dead people stand up and start killing people. Dead is dead.

:thumbsupHow can someone with a broken neck move?

Or no pulse=no blood flow.

As far as alien viruses, only if it was a biological entity that moved through the whole body, giving it the ability to move. But that's just redonkcoulous...

 

[firesprite]

:thumbsupHow can someone with a broken neck move?

Or no pulse=no blood flow.

As far as alien viruses, only if it was a biological entity that moved through the whole body, giving it the ability to move. But that's just redonkcoulous...

Really? Did you guys never do that experiment in high school biology where you hooked a dead frog up to electrodes to see it move? The nervous system can still conduct electricity after the organism is dead.

To me, the idea of an organism invading and utilizing the central nervous system to move itself around in a dead body is no more or less likely than 'god did it'.