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Did Rick Unknowingly Infect Shane??

Discussion in 'Episode 212 - Better Angels' started by doubletap93, Mar 13, 2012.

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  1. STRINGS

    STRINGS Well-Known Member

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    It bugged me that Randall even turned. My logic is going by the "Romero Zombie Rules":
    --Shane broke the little weasel's neck...now I'm no medical doctor, but I've seen enough zombie flicks to know that even zombies/ Walkers can be killed by wringing their necks. So if Randall got his neck twisted causing massive spinal cord & brain stem injuries (basically along the same lines of the scenario where a human is shot in the head or has a traumatic head injury via car crash causing death and therefore won't turn into a Walker), he shouldn't have been able to turn...
     
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  2. H5N1

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    That was a nagging point for me also..

    Would have made more sense for Shane to have stabbed him..
     
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  3. Tony Davis

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    Well, the walkers heads are still "alive" even if they are decapitated, isn't it the same thing?
     
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    But then in another scene I think the gov killed a walker by snapping its neck..

    I think Scott G will be more mindful of continuity..
     
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    I don't remember him snapping a zombies neck. We know heads still turn.
     
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    Right, but Jim is the only case where we saw the effect of the bite first hand, and its progression. We don't know how quickly him or anyone else turned after death, so we can't know exactly what determines the speed in which a person turns.

    I think we didn't see it because it wasn't necessary, and we were following the Atlanta group. He was left behind, so I think it flowed without his perspective.
     
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  7. rabscuttle1

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    The only fact that is known is that everyone turns at different speeds.
     
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    Actually, in Romero's films if you chop a zombie's head off the head continues to live. You see this in Day when a zombie gets its head copped off with a shovel. You see the zombie's head on the ground and it's eyes are still looking around. Also in TWD the heads in the Gov's fish tanks were still alive. Braking Randall's neck wouldn't have kept him from turning. However, I don't think he should've been able to move. He should've been a snapping head on a paralyzed body.
     
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  9. STRINGS

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    I would even have been cool with that. It just seemed weird & sorta forced. Would have made more sense if Daryl & Glenn have either found Randall completely dead, OR as you stated having turned but a Walker paraplegic...
     
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    Yeah, Z's receive the same signals we do or they wouldn't be able to move. So it would make sense that a broken neck or back should paralyze them the same as a living person. And had it went down that way I think it would've been a much creepier and believable scene. That's my opinion anyway.
     
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