Walking Dead 4.2

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I really dislike Carl.

More so than usual.

Ohhhh! Ha thanks for clearing that up I was so intrigued with all our guessing(!)

I thought theyd worn the body armour in an earlier season? Sure glenns gf had it on before (her name has gone right out my head)

Maggie

Maggie. It's usually me who forgets people's names. I can't remember the names of Tyreese's sister, his dead girlfriend, Psycho Lizzie's sister, the girl who's with Glenn now or her sister. I do remember the name of the sister's annoying daughter who dug up a walker in the mud - Megan.

Did they wear body armour? I don't remember. They've become quite casual among the walkers. I suppose you might because they're slow and unless there's a swarm of them they're easy to pick off. So perhaps you would relax.

limited we've got a gang

But really, it makes sense. They all wander around in sleeveless vest tops - well the women do anyway. I get that it's hot but I'd rather sweat a bit and cover up then be bit! Someone else upthread said about wearing denim I think to prevent bites? Anyone seen World War Z? Brad Pitts character thought ahead!

Moomins when the Guv attacked the prison the first time Maggie and Glenn both wore the body armour then. Think they may have worn it when clearing out other parts of it too?

Minion I think Darryl would look rather fetching in a Mrs Weasley type knitted jumper. Problem is I can't actual knit anything although in all seroiusness it is something I have been thinking about starting

Ah yes monroe think you are right, knew id seen them in it before.

Yes , no sleep last night so can barely remember my own name

Ive never been a big carol fan but must admit was pleased to see her the other night. Do you think shes been watching the prison all along? I did wonder if she was covering for lizzie killing people but then when they met those two young people in that house and rick wanted them to stay put but she sent them out to look for food and they were killed I changed my mind. Think sge is probably capable of killing if she thinks the groups at risk

Why don't they just find an island, kill the zombies that are there and problem solved! They could be like Swiss family Robinson

And what I want to know is, where are the animals and wildlife?! We've only seen pigs (though I didn't start watching til season 3 so I could be missing something)

Zombies would wash up on shore so not sure islands are good! Every tide would deliver a fresh batch!

A sea wall with spikes?

I love how much thought we all put into this

I wondered about the animals too... well we know the zombies will eat animals, look what happened to Ricks horse in episode 1. But you'd think there would be more animals around, quick ones like cats that can easily outsmart a zombie.

haven't we see Darryl hunting deer or something at one point? And then there were psycho Lizzie's rabbits.

Id camp out in a big house with lots of land and make dp dig a deep trench all around it with Spiky fence either side (havent thought about this much, honest)

moomin Tower of London will probably be free! saves your DPs back.
I'm heading there anyways, pack a rucksack, riot gear, raid a few homes along the Thames estuary, voila... Fancy it?

What about wildlife that eats carrion? What about big powerful animals like grizzly bears? They would make short work of those slow moving walkers....

I also wonder, will it ever get to a day where most of the zombies have been killed and people see them so rarely that they are almost forgotten about? Surely it would get to that point eventually?

I'm with the Cruise ship plan I can cook from anything, sew and am very fit (boxing/running/kettle bells/bit of kickboxing) so would be pretty handy in combat! Please let me on the ship, pretty please!

what about living on a little island like Lindisfarne? It'd be really easy to keep the zombies out once you'd cleared it and when the tide came in you could relax.

Finally watched and can read thread / avoided it till now

Yah for Judith being alive

Surprised carol showed up

Lizzie was def trying to kill Judith

So quite possibly she did kill the other two and carol covering for her

Didn't we say that ages ago?

Glen - why / how did he stay at prison and not on the bus

What made the bus stop

Hopefully rick will forgive carol as she has JUDITH

Hope all 5 groups meet up soon

Doesn't seem they travelled fa so weird to think another gang/safe place was so near

Running - permission to come aboard

Bkondes - I think Glenn got back off the bus to look for Maggie but no idea why it stopped or why they all turned although you did see one with a bullet wound in it's head so I think they at least tried to fight back

I agree they don't seem to have travelled far at all. In fact when I think it was glenn and Tara made their way back to the road I thought it looked exactly the same as when they all met up after the attack on the farm

Bkondes should obviously say blondes, sorry!

Minion not sure id make it all the way to london, not with these noisy little people

In The Stand, which is my go-to manual for post-apocalyptic survival and which I've read so many times I could quote, animals quickly start to invade the human spaces. Particularly deer, because there are loads of gardens to graze on and no one to chase them away.

It happens in I Am Legend too, but it's not as good though.

So there'd be loads of deer and rabbits and other prey animals and more predators like foxes and feral dogs and cats. Probably not so many horses because people usually geld male horses so it would take a bit of time for mares to meet up with a stallion and breed and not that much time has passed. Same with cattle and sheep, I suppose.

Are there bears and wolves and cougars around Atlanta?

There'd also be thousands of crows and rats feeding on corpses. Actually a big crow or some kind of buzzard would probably have a go at a living walker and keep swooping off. Packs of feral dogs would pick them off too.

What drives me mad is that apart from a bit of flu, which was quickly cleared up, there are no other disease outbreaks.

The place is full of corpses. The dead in their houses are okay but there are thousands of walking dead which are rotting.

You could catch cholera because you stupidly keep killing walkers and getting covered in goo and leaving their bodies by the fence, near where Farmer Rick is growing potatoes and drawing water FGS.

The other thing that irritated me is that the dead walker pile by the fence never got any higher but you never saw anyone clearing them away.

Daryl apart, they're mostly soft city dwellers, so they probably would want to eat all the tinned food that had been left in people's houses rather than hunting and butchering a deer.

But they might start to do it because tinned food would get boring and maybe it would be safer to kill a passing deer rather than risking going into a walker-infested building - like Glen and Maggie did while casually browsing in that chemists for Lori's pregnancy test. Didn't they even have sex in the condom aisle?

Can you tell I've thought about this a lot?

I realise that my version of The Walking Dead would more realistic with a lot of mundane tidying up and DIY and less heroic spiking of walkers.

Possibly not quite as interesting though. I wonder why I've never made it big in Hollywood?

You're right Limited there would be carrion eaters everywhere - in fact, didn't they see a few vultures/buzzards circling overhead in the last episode? There would be hundreds of them feasting on all the bodies, surely! (it's probably too complicated to film that though, so they don't bother)

I've always wondered about contamination from eating wild caught deer using Darryls arrows which have shot a hundred walkers... but they all have the disease anyway.

I enjoy these post apocalyptic shows precisely because I like to see how people survive in these circumstances. They don't show much of that in TWD. Does anyone remember a series set in the UK where everyone was dying off from a mystery disease, and the survivors made it up to Scotland? That was good.

I Am Legend gave me nightmares. Partly because I have a dog which is identical to the dog in the film. I had to google it to find out whether the dog died before watching, to prepare me. It still gave me nightmares.

What I want to know is where are all the child walkers? They're nearly ALL adults. In the crowd scenes, I think they're 100% adults.

Where are the kids? And teenagers?

I've also been avoiding this thread as only watched it last night.

Lizzie is weird and definitely one to watch. I reckon she will be doing some shock murders as we go on. I also wonder if she killed the others and Carol is covering for her. She would have killed Judith and used the excuse that she was crying and drawing attention from Walkers. I found it quite upsetting to watch. MrPP had to remind me it's only a show and the director would be yelling cut! Perhaps I'm getting a bit too involved! When I saw Tyreese carrying her my first thought was "he could really do with a sling"

I was also really really surprised to see Carol.

Anyone else think that Maggie's accent seems to have gone a bit Deep South this season?

This episode had me properly jumping.