[quote]four60 wrote:
am I the only one wondering how they can afford to waste all that ammo??[/quote]
No, you are not. Unfortunately none of the writers are wondering about it. They have stopped scrounging for weapons all together. The group has somehow gotten more violent/hardened but the same group that will go back into Atlanta for a fucking bag of shotguns and deer rifles waltzed past all the M4’s outside the CDC, voluntarily disarms, and has Lori going for the de-facto chair of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Regards,
Robert A[/quote]
Yeah, plus the issue with Rick’s big dick revolver. I remembered that in Season 1 Shane hooked him up with 3 or 4 rounds and he’s been gladly running around capping walkers with his magical .357 bullet factory, even lent it to Otis for some gratuitous zombie killing.
Also, several hand guns magically appeared like the additional Glocks and Beretta. They only had this one sports bag of guns/ammo so where does all the plentiful handgun ammo come from? Surely not from “no gunz on this farm”-Hershey…[/quote]
I don’t know for what reason they deviated from the books on this one, but in the graphic novels, the scene where they escape downtown Atlanta by smearing zombie guts all over to mask their odor comes about because they went back in to find a gun store and stock up on ammo. There is even a bit of dialog after the fact where someone says something like “we have enough ammo to teach people to shoot now.” If I recall, Glenn is actually pushing a whole shopping cart full of guns and ammo through the town. I
Changing that scene to be in a department store had no immediate benefit, and opened up the questions about where the hell the bullets came from. Seems to me like sometimes they made changes just for the sake of making changes.[/quote]
That makes a lot more sense. The only thing that they got in the department store was a stupid dolphin necklace.
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Christine, what was your opinion on Shane’s meltdown last Sunday? Have you switched sides yet?[/quote]
I understand his frustration. Zombies are fucking dangerous and catching them and feeding them chickens is just plain dumb. Was Hershel planning on building another barn once that one got full? What about the food? Wasting a good chicken on a zombie while the living scavenge for food?
Someone needed to meltdown and wake the rest of them up to reality.
Shane is crazy, but he is also right (and still hot).
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Christine, what was your opinion on Shane’s meltdown last Sunday? Have you switched sides yet?[/quote]
I understand his frustration. Zombies are fucking dangerous and catching them and feeding them chickens is just plain dumb. Was Hershel planning on building another barn once that one got full? What about the food? Wasting a good chicken on a zombie while the living scavenge for food?
Someone needed to meltdown and wake the rest of them up to reality.
Shane is crazy, but he is also right (and still hot).[/quote]
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Christine, what was your opinion on Shane’s meltdown last Sunday? Have you switched sides yet?[/quote]
I understand his frustration. Zombies are fucking dangerous and catching them and feeding them chickens is just plain dumb. Was Hershel planning on building another barn once that one got full? What about the food? Wasting a good chicken on a zombie while the living scavenge for food?
Someone needed to meltdown and wake the rest of them up to reality.
Shane is crazy, but he is also right (and still hot).[/quote]
Valid points. Thank you for your input.
Christine: President and Founder of Team Shane.
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I will miss him when he gets Pecked by that Zombie Chicken no one seen because they all got sad when they seen the Zombie girl.
As a general point, why is Herschel’s behaviour considered crazy for believing there is a cure, when he hasn’t seen the ‘science’ behind the plague? Isn’t he just trying to quarantine the walkers?
[quote]roybot wrote:
As a general point, why is Herschel’s behaviour considered crazy for believing there is a cure, when he hasn’t seen the ‘science’ behind the plague? Isn’t he just trying to quarantine the walkers?[/quote]
Because they are dead.
The only cure would be for them to stop attacking the living and then bury/burn the bodies.
[quote]BlueLineCretin wrote:
any of you jokers read the “day to day armageddon” books? I’m new to the zombie genre, thanks to this show, and i’m itching to read more zombie gore.[/quote]
I started reading The White Flag of the Dead series which are pretty damn good … I finished the second book (there are 4 in the series at the moment) about a week or two ago
[quote]roybot wrote:
As a general point, why is Herschel’s behaviour considered crazy for believing there is a cure, when he hasn’t seen the ‘science’ behind the plague? Isn’t he just trying to quarantine the walkers?[/quote]
Do you think he hasn’t witnessed an attack? If his family was in the barn I’m guessing he has seen what they can do…
[quote]four60 wrote:
am I the only one wondering how they can afford to waste all that ammo??[/quote]
No, you are not. Unfortunately none of the writers are wondering about it. They have stopped scrounging for weapons all together. The group has somehow gotten more violent/hardened but the same group that will go back into Atlanta for a fucking bag of shotguns and deer rifles waltzed past all the M4’s outside the CDC, voluntarily disarms, and has Lori going for the de-facto chair of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Regards,
Robert A[/quote]
Yeah, plus the issue with Rick’s big dick revolver. I remembered that in Season 1 Shane hooked him up with 3 or 4 rounds and he’s been gladly running around capping walkers with his magical .357 bullet factory, even lent it to Otis for some gratuitous zombie killing.
Also, several hand guns magically appeared like the additional Glocks and Beretta. They only had this one sports bag of guns/ammo so where does all the plentiful handgun ammo come from? Surely not from “no gunz on this farm”-Hershey…[/quote]
I don’t know for what reason they deviated from the books on this one, but in the graphic novels, the scene where they escape downtown Atlanta by smearing zombie guts all over to mask their odor comes about because they went back in to find a gun store and stock up on ammo. There is even a bit of dialog after the fact where someone says something like “we have enough ammo to teach people to shoot now.” If I recall, Glenn is actually pushing a whole shopping cart full of guns and ammo through the town. I
Changing that scene to be in a department store had no immediate benefit, and opened up the questions about where the hell the bullets came from. Seems to me like sometimes they made changes just for the sake of making changes.[/quote]
The whole point was to establish Rick as the leader and show his character. If they had a surplus of ammo they could have given it up to the Vatos and released Glenn. In fact, the Vatos would have gotten there way before them so the bag had to be the most accessible source of weaponry. Meeting the Vatos was a pivotal point in uniting the group because up until then, the group was on the verge of tearing itself apart. Rick brought organization and trust.
[quote]roybot wrote:
As a general point, why is Herschel’s behaviour considered crazy for believing there is a cure, when he hasn’t seen the ‘science’ behind the plague? Isn’t he just trying to quarantine the walkers?[/quote]
He’s crazy because they obviously have rotten flesh hanging off of their bodies. Even though he’s just a veterinarian, he should know that no person would be able to survive a septic wound like that for very long, much less months. He’s in denial and crippled by thinking the answer is in the Bible. The only zombie in there didn’t moan and bite people.
[quote]roybot wrote:
As a general point, why is Herschel’s behaviour considered crazy for believing there is a cure, when he hasn’t seen the ‘science’ behind the plague? Isn’t he just trying to quarantine the walkers?[/quote]
Because they are dead.
The only cure would be for them to stop attacking the living and then bury/burn the bodies.
[/quote]
He doesn’t know they are dead. Rick and co have seen the process first-hand, Andrea put her own sister down.
