It was just so vague as to how they keep working.
There was something I was reading a while ago which tried to lay down rules on how zombies can make sense and work.

there were just a millions things that didn't make sense about it, *WITHIN* the realms of suspending disbelief. TBH i've managed to forget most of the things that annoyed me...

oh, like why when shot through the head was there blood splatters everywhere? why would a rotten corpse splatter liquid blood?
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:16, archived)

Well if you weren't so fucking autistic as to have some sense of imagination you could just pass it off as part of the physiology of their reanimated state.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:18, archived)

Your silence speaks volumes.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:26, archived)

i'mnot silent, i've not stopped typing for 10 minutes. I've just gone over that elsewhere, so i'd just be repeating myself.

( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:30, archived)

difference being I hit the nail on the fucking head.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:32, archived)

no you didn't. my imagination is just fine thanks.

( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:35, archived)

well I came up for a explanation that would be plausible within the fiction just then
where you had failed to.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:53, archived)

A wizard did it.

( Lord Gnome, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:55, archived)

can you prove empirically that anyone has ever confirmed the veracity of a statement by hitting a nail on its head?
because, if not, i'd rather you kept your half-baked logical fallacies to yourself.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:36, archived)

fallacies
hehehehe
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:37, archived)

phallacy envy
sheshesheshe
( vladimir, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:48, archived)

which is the only way to kill a nail
as is well established in the genre
( manolith hooray for me, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:04, archived)

You fucking spastic.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:18, archived)

that's a bit of a shit reply. why bother?

( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:20, archived)

Because it's all I can muster without wanting to reach through the internet and shake you until you stop being autistic.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:24, archived)

Right, so it's not the Walking Dead that confuse you...
just Zombies in general.

Get 'The Zombie Survival Guide'. It will explain everything in detail.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:18, archived)

no thanks. not interested in it.

( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:20, archived)

Then stop being a nobend.
The answers to your questions are available within as a construct within a non-consensus reality. Basically that construct allows you to suspend your sense of disbelief and make sense of the idea of zombification.

Or you know, you could just understand that it's MADE-UP, NOT REAL, AND DOES NOT NEED TO MAKE PERFECT SCIENTIFIC SENSE.

I bet you are the kind of cunt that watches Star Wars and says things like '*sharp nasal inhalation' You know, the spaceship wouldn't make a noise when it exploded and you wouldn't hear the Tie-Fighters because space is a vacumnn blah blah blah'.

You cunt.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:25, archived)

He is exactly that kind of cunt.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:27, archived)

GOD FORBID SOMETHING SHOULD SACRIFICE UNQUESTIONABLE SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY FOR ENTERTAINMENT VALUE.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:27, archived)

I read a really interesting book called "The Science of Star Wars" once.
It didn't just say "that wouldn't happen" but it explained how it could happen if x, y and z.
The bit on Robots I found very interesting though it was written when bipedal robots were only just being realised so it's a little out of date now.
( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:31, archived)

it wasn't awful
I mean, I thought the program itself was awful, when the mental guy was handcuffed on the roof top he could have so so easily reached the toolbag with his foot....

but the zombies just didn't seem as well thought through as they could have been. Obviously you have to accept plenty of things to deal with zombies at all, just didn't sit right with me.

I just don't really go for that sort of stuff though, not going to keep me up all night worrying.
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:32, archived)

The Walking Dead TV series was shit.
The Comic is FAR better.
( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:34, archived)

You see, I like the TV series...
but I agree - the comic is absolutely fucking brilliant.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:39, archived)

Personally I enjoyed the first couple of episodes.
but the last few were, in my opinion, awful.
( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:44, archived)

Change that to THOROUGHLY enjoyed.
I just felt so let down :(
( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:45, archived)

oh yeah, just remembered them. the underground bunker and all that shit.
that was attrocious. I think that might have made sense if it was over an additional 5 episodes, but it was just shite.
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:45, archived)

It's like they started with the start of the comics and slowly started replacing the writers for the tv scripts with people who'd never even heard of a zombie.

( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:48, archived)

I've heard that a few times, I'd imagine it was great.

( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:40, archived)

I think the point was that he couldn't reach the toolbag with his foot.

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:35, archived)

I don't *think* he ever tried. I think he tried with his hand, but never his foot.

( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:38, archived)

I think he actually did. I think you actually saw that happen.

( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:42, archived)

I don't quite remember but don't you see him get the bag and then try to saw through the handcuffs with the saw from the bag?

( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:46, archived)

Yes, he couldn't reach the key and ended up cutting his hand off.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:49, archived)

and why didn't he saw through the pipe?
The nice lovely hollow pipe?
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:49, archived)

Because flesh and bone are easier to saw through and break.

( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:50, archived)

Pfft!
one option leaves you with no hand, and in agony...
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:51, archived)

But he's a cunt so yeah.

( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:52, archived)

The pipe would've been too big for a little hacksaw anyway, but the bolt that he was cuffed to would've probably almost snapped off with a sharp tug.
but hey it's tv.
( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:52, archived)

"but hey it's tv."
well there you go... it's only TV so who cares...

sounds a lot like lots of kids TV. Kids TV can be awesome and so clever, and so many kids pick up on it.
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:53, archived)

Great.
What?
( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:57, archived)

I think Acid Kewpie has a selective memory so he can feel like he's right all the time.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:47, archived)

do you remember him doing that?
I recall seeing him reaching with his hand and being about 2 foot short.
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:49, archived)

What you are saying doesn't actually make any sense. At all.
I'd argue this more, but you are contradicting yourself constantly and therefore it is ultimately pointless.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:35, archived)

I don't think I am, but I do suck at explaining myself
but that's part of the whole point, contradictions and inconsistencies make lots of TV programs / films pointless.
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:39, archived)

I think what you're missing is that it's all fictional and, like vampires, the "rules" vary from writer to writer
Original Mexican Zombies (or is it caribbean zombies) would suddenly realise they were dead and return to their graves if they ate meat.
( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:23, archived)

Wait, people are allowed to make up their own rules when writing fiction?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:24, archived)

Apparently.

( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:26, archived)

The CUNTS.

( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:28, archived)

I thought it was salt?

( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:26, archived)

I read meat somewhere, though you might be right
But it was all superstious stuff anyway so it probably varied greatly depending on who you asked.
( MONO!, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:28, archived)

It's tofu
Zombies are inherently intolerant to soya products.
( Lord Gnome, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:08, archived)