The Walking Dead Season 4
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Yeah I said the same thing. I'm already waiting to see whether they have that big Army truck and the Humvees the Governor's guys left. At least one had a .50 cal on it. That would be something the writers would write out and hope people forget.
If it was realistic, you could only stay at a place for so long. After awhile you're going to start having to go out farther and farther to find supplies. Eventually you exhaust all the supplies in the immediate area. I think last episode they said something about going a mile or two out when they went for supplies.
Jannix Quinn
Sr Member
If a country cop and a kid who's never fired an automatic weapon before can take out that group of zombies, then I think a squad of trained soldiers could pretty easily put down a small town. It is hard to take the zombie threat seriously in this show.
If this ever happen in a real situation. IF mind you i think it could be cottoned in a short time if everyone stayed cool and collected.
Its all about numbers. That myth busters special showed how guns were actually less effective when facing a zombie crowd than a weapon like an axe. Of course over time though, you'll tire out to be less effective, but the swarms took down the gun wielder faster than the axe wielder
its really a matter of evading the big swarms, something the trained soldiers had no choice to face
Jannix Quinn
Sr Member
Jamie had the worst conditions. He started surrounded and couldn't move out of his circle. In the same episode they showed you could get past a group. Also, all his guns were single shot paint guns. He had no full automatic anything. I'd like to see the same test against a guy on top of a bus with a SAW or something.
Or a tank. No amount of Living-Challenged Americans are going to stop a tank.
Or a tank. No amount of Living-Challenged Americans are going to stop a tank.
robstyle
Master Member
not sure if the comic ever touched on this but is it possible the outbreak is slower in spreading than anyone considered? Say maybe it takes up to and over three months to cross loosely based area of land. Reason would be those that have turned tend to go where the food and noise is as obviously shown in the series. In other words if this all started in, say the port of New York, it would be up to two years to reach Los Angeles, unless helped by vehicle travel of any kind. This could account for seemingly endless amounts of walkers as there are still fresh people dying off. Dead tissue will only last so long.
Therefore just as with 28 Days Later the powers that be put of a front line to close off said parts of the country, no in or out.
Then again im still laughing at whomever thought it a great idea to have a crashed helicopter on top of a single level retail building then have zombies just fall through the floor as they walk by weak points.
Therefore just as with 28 Days Later the powers that be put of a front line to close off said parts of the country, no in or out.
Then again im still laughing at whomever thought it a great idea to have a crashed helicopter on top of a single level retail building then have zombies just fall through the floor as they walk by weak points.
Sir Angus
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The CDC guy said its everywhere and all the other CDC bunkers he was in contact with have all gone off-line. I'm guessing it spread more like the "12 Monkeys" virus with a single "patient zero" but multiple ground zeroes spreading rapidly before authorities had a clue what they were dealing with.
fuzzylover
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Uhhh, you know Adam is a well respected member here, right? :facepalm
Riceball
Master Member
Depending on the nature of the contagion that's a very unlikely scenario given the speed of modern day travel, especially air travel. If the zombie virus is a slow incubating one and can be spread by air or simple contact of the infected or surface the infected has touched then it would spread like wildfire very easily as soon as patient zero boards a plane or someone that they have come in contact with does.
.:MirrorminD:.
Sr Member
I wonder if they are ever going to show winter on the show? I want to see what happens to the walkers. Also have they ever mentioned what happens when a walker is electrocuted? My dad keeps telling me they should have electrified the fence at the prison. I said that would take too much gas for a generator and the walkers would probably just twitch, not necessarily die.
CB2001
Master Member
Well those two areas are covered by the other versions of The Walking Dead. In the start of Volume 2 of the comics, the Atlanta group come across a frozen corpse in the snow. At first, it didn't seem alive, but it began to make noises. It was apparent that the Walker they encountered was frozen stiff and couldn't move. So, winter would either slow them down or stop them to a certain degree, until spring came back again, to where they'd be back up and moving around.
For the Tell-Tale Game The Walking Dead: The Game, in Episode 2, Walkers can be electrocuted with an electric fence. The only problems are these: 1. they'll either still have ahold of it or fall onto it, making it a choir for the humans to clean off. 2. The generator that you use to power the fence would keep running out of gas, and eventually, you'd have to keep finding it and risk the possibility that one day, you won't be able to find more gas.
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