This is the only explanation I will accept! <3

 

It is the only logical explanation

I miss him and the rest of the crew and also, I want to make raspberry noises with my mouth on his tummy!

Thankfully my blu ray will arrive early October and my son in law is chomping at the bit to watch it with me!

 

I don't want to be correct, but I really think they're going to take the immunity angle with it. It'll be terrible if they do, but that's what I keep thinking.

 

I am slowly starting to think the same thing. Kicking and screaming the whole time.

 

I don't understand, what would be so terrible?
Take the immunity "angle"? Where would they go with that?

 

I don't think they'll go that way. Immunity . Not at this time . Kirkman has pretty much rejected that, in so many words .

My only thought is that it could be a haircut from 'World War Z' ...where Alejandro is already dying from some terminal disease, and so the 'infection' didn't take . That would be disappointing .
I'm still of the opinion that Alejandro has ulterior motives ...his dialogue with Nick about 'trust'; thus implying his own trustworthiness . At this point he doesn't appear to be a power hungry despot, but power does strange things to people ...even benign or 'good' ones .

 

Because we've had 6 seasons of TWD and in all that time, not even at the freakin CDC is there ever a single mention of some people being immune. If we were to all of a sudden find out that "Surprise! Some people are immune to it!" it would just be a terrible inconsistency. Sure, it's possible that we simply wouldn't have encountered this at any point previously, but it's extraordinarily unlikely.

The immunity thing is also just kind of an overplayed archetype within the zombie genre.

 

He had a real person bite him to make it look that way. It's BS.

 

I'm not accepting the immune idea either. Last I talked about this a few weeks ago I pointed out that we knew little of the specifics of how he got the bite, not sure where Liza(that the right name? Haven't got all the new characters down yet) was when she 'saw' it happen, etc.

We now have a much more complete explanation. Al ran into a crowd that was mixed humans and zombies trying to save the addict. He simply got bit by a regular person, not a zombie. In all the mad rush and confusion who would be paying close attention to this one incident amongst everything going on. Liza saw him get bit and he told her it was a walker, and she believed him. No reason not to. She saw him fighting in the crowd, saw someone bite him.

Hell even Al may not know that it was not an infected who bit him. Again with all the fighting, pushing, showing he may have been bitten by a regular human mad with rage and assumed if someone bit him, it must have been an infected.

 

To me, having the possibility of immunity is also way too convenient. It kinda negates the whole last 6 years in a way. It's the equivalent of Pam waking up to Bobby obliviously taking a shower.

 

Thank you both for the explanation.

People being immune wouldn't be the end of the world, because more people die - not because of the infection, but rather because their jugular has been ripped out. It would just mean that not everyone turns after they die, or maybe they will still turn after they die, because once DEAD, their immune system would stop functioning.

hmmm, my head is spinning.

 

On the immunity front, there is another possibility that could prove interesting. The concept from 28 Weeks Later where the person bit is immune, but they are a live carrier and anyone who exchanges body fluids (bloody cut, etc. get your mind out of the gutter!) will turn.