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« on: August 26, 2019, 12:39:51 am »

I sort of lost interest after season five.

I started watching a few episodes again, and I noticed one big possible plot hole in the series.

Sometimes, to blend in, survivors will smear themselves with walker viscera.  I don't understand why they don't do that every day.  Why not use it like sunscreen?
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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2019, 01:38:42 pm »

I imagine it would be incredibly unhealthy to wear rotten flesh every day.  Disease, but also transmission, if you had open sores and stuff.  And you'd probably get really sick from having unclean hands when eating, etc.

And it would be stinky and gross, 24/7/365.
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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2019, 02:08:22 pm »

I have only watched a small portion of one episode, but I would say the whole zombie thing is the biggest plot hole.

There certainly are feasible post-apocalyptic setting that would be more believable—- eg solar flair or manmade EMP blast that destroyed all electronics; affects of climate change; war; epidemic that causes mass death and panic, but without violating basic laws of biology; etc.
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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2019, 02:34:17 pm »

Zombies aren't a plot hole.  They exist consistently within the rules the show has provided.
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« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2019, 02:44:33 pm »

I still watch TWD but have quit watching FTD.  In TWD the zombies are kind of a sub plot at this point. They typically have a much harder time with "others" than they do with the dead. It's a soap opera that happens to revolve around the zombie apocalypse.
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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2019, 02:46:24 pm »

Zombies aren't a plot hole.  They exist consistently within the rules the show has provided.
Actually, wouldn't a dead body constantly outside in the elements basically decompose and fall apart within the first few weeks of death? Dead bodies decompose. Once you got past the first few months, the hoards of zombies would basically be less and less until there were very few left.
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« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2019, 02:51:12 pm »

I read it normally takes eight to twelve years to decompose to a skeleton. They are in the 10th year of the apocalypse so they should be pretty thin at this point. hahaha
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« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2019, 03:15:11 pm »

Actually, wouldn't a dead body constantly outside in the elements basically decompose and fall apart within the first few weeks of death? Dead bodies decompose. Once you got past the first few months, the hoards of zombies would basically be less and less until there were very few left.

Even if that's true with real dead bodies, the way the show works is that these bodies aren't decomposing at the same rate.  So long as its logically consistent with itself, it's not a plot hole.


But even to answer your question, the Walking Dead seems to borrow many of the zombie rules as outlined by Max Brooks (Zombie Survival Guide, World War Z).  In his books, the virus called Solanum slows traditional decomposition, along with a host of other perks.
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« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2019, 04:21:54 pm »

I read it normally takes eight to twelve years to decompose to a skeleton. They are in the 10th year of the apocalypse so they should be pretty thin at this point. hahaha
You don't have to get to skeleton level. Once the muscles, ligaments, and connective tissue is gone, none of it is gonna work anyhow. Without blood flow the nerves and tissue dies and it's over. No muscle contractions and they ain't moving much of anywhere.

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« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2019, 09:32:50 pm »

I remember some review of Resident Evil Extinction that mentioned that a base in the desert is one of the best possible locations in a zombie outbreak.  Any zombie in the desert would turn into jerky as stiff as wood within 2 weeks.
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« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2019, 12:12:50 am »

Carol uses it in the first episode of the fifth season, to blend in with the walker herd as she approaches Terminus.

When the place went up, the Terminus residents tried shooting their way out of it, but Rick ambushed them. 

I would have smeared myself with walker viscera and blended it.
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