Decided to give The Walking Dead a try (never seen it before despite the hype), and I must say I have questions.
- Why can the zombies smell? Why can they see? Why can they hear? None of the brain regions responsible for these senses are functioning.
- Why are they hungry? Their digestive system is inexistent.
- Why isn't their flesh falling off? With the amount of time passed since patient 0, the "walkers" should be just walking skeletons.
Cont’d
- they seem to easily raid pharmacies and grocery stores for supplies of medicines and food. Why not pay a visit to a Radio Shack and stock up on walkie-talkies and batteries?
More questions:
- why did it take them two complete seasons to start using silencers?
- how can you have picnics and bbq parties around a campfire without setting up at least a simple fence around the perimeter first, while in the midst of a zombie apocalypse?
Almost every zombie attack results in the victim being eaten by a mob of dead walkers.
- How comes there are such large crowds of newly made zombies everywhere? Shouldn’t their numbers dwindle and gradually disappear because “older” zombies would simply devour everyone instead of just biting them and waiting for them to “ripen”?
Prison raid episode.
They had arrived at the abandoned prison in vehicles with full tanks of fuel, I presume.
- why was it necessary to venture inside the prison buildings in complete darkness? Each such facility is equipped with generators. They are always placed somewhere outside. Fuel up the generators and switch the lights on before you go in to clear the place of zombies 💁♂️
The hacking off the leg with a hatchet.
- how would that save the old man who was bitten? Blood takes less than a minute to travel around the whole body, so the zombie virus has long spread through the system already. The pain shock from having a leg hacked off through the bone with a hatchet (it took multiple attempts too) and with no anesthesia at all would simply kill him right there.
The katana wielding ninja chick.
She’s followed around by two armless zombies with chained collars who appear to have had their jaws removed.
- why don’t they lunge at her and attempt to gnaw her with their toothless mouths? Is the hunger of zombies contained in their teeth?
Norman Reedus’s handless brother’s bayonet prosthetic.
- why is the prosthetic so conveniently long? Surely not to hide his perfectly healthy hand inside, right? 🤭
- How did the armless brother manage to rot into a month-old corpse in just the half hour it took his brother to find him?
Whenever main characters need to fight through a crowd of zombies, they conveniently offer their heads and approach the characters with their arms limp by their sides.
But whenever the plot needs someone killed or bitten by a zombie, the zombie straight away grabs them and bites them.
- why is that? (I know, I know, so the show can happen)
With all that being said, it's a better show than The Last Of Us.
There, I said it.
- how are corpses still bleeding after having roamed the earth for months on end? (I’ve already let go the point that rotting flesh has a tendency to fall off the bones in mere days)
One of the biggest loopholes is that everyone is infected equally and is bound to turn into zombies no matter how they die.
— what significance can zombie bites possibly have on already infected people? Isn’t it like sneezing on somebody who’s already down with the flu?
- why are zombies sometimes so weak and powerless and get pushed around like rag dolls, and easily have their limbs ripped off and even their heads squashed with bare hands, but at other times they are so incredibly strong that a 270 pound bodybuilder can’t get free from their grip and gets eaten?
A gang of zombies once attacks and eats a horse alive. Seeing how easily their heads are bashed in with wooden sticks, how easily their skulls get crushed into mushy puddles with kicks, and knowing how thick and hard horse hides are that even lions may have a hard time biting through,
- how did a bunch of zombies who’s jaws are held together with a prayer manage to rip that horse apart with their teeth in mere seconds?
Zombies seem to wander around aimlessly until they spot a potential victim in their direct line of sight, immediate vicinity or if the victims make noise. When zombies aren’t detecting any potential witnesses, they revert to aimless wandering.
- why do the zombies keep attacking opaque walls of the town in season 6? They can neither see, nor hear, nor smell the people behind them. Shouldn’t they become confused once they hit a wall and lose track of their prey and go away?
My goodness, and I thought I had a penchant for over analyzing art. 🤣
@see_the_sus
I wouldn’t say that’s over analyzing, these questions just naturally pop up in my mind while watching because these glaring inconsistencies and obvious nonsense are instantly throwing me off 😃
I'm just being a brat. 😁
Much of what you brought up is pretty normal for all zombie movies, IMO. When it comes to horror flicks, I tend to ignore most inconsistencies partly cause I'm usually screaming and have my hands, or a pillow in front of my face. 😆
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Every zombie attack is accompanied with growls and hoarse hisses and other terrifying monstrous sounds.
- What acts in place of missing lungs and vocal cords in zombies?