"Never Let Your Guard Down: The Walking Dead: Season 5" Topic

""Hunt or be hunted." Catch up with the remaining survivors in the Season 5 premiere of The Walking Dead, Sun., Oct. 12th at 9/8c."

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Amicalement
Armand

But like in so many films and TV series, it is people letting their guard down and acting in such a insane manner that allow many of the plots to continue!

Tally Ho!

Totally agree. How many movies have the line: "Let's split up to search the dark castle/cave/alien ship"??

My favorite was when they were in the prison and nobody locked doors while they slept. All it takes is one person falling on a bar of soap and it is game over.

Never split your forces, and always turn the lights on when entering a room.

"Mommie, can I go play in the woods?"
"OK, but be careful!"

The entire lot of them should have been dead by the end of episode 5 – if it took that long.

My main problem with the show is that it has to take place in an alternate universe, where no-one has heard of zombies in their modern incarnation (since 1968, when Night of the Living dead came out). I'm pretty sure that even the least-geeky person in America knows enough about "zombies" to shoot them in the head.

I still watch it, though…

If they kill groups of fellow survivors at the pace in the series there won`t be anybody left . Still a must watch series.

Zombies bite with teeth that are no stronger than human average. All they have to do is break the skin to infect you. Why does no one wrap their forearms in old magazines and duct tape and wear work gloves?

Pretty excited for the new season! It's nice to see more survivor vs. survivor action! :)

My main problem with the show is that it has to take place in an alternate universe, where no-one has heard of zombies in their modern incarnation (since 1968, when Night of the Living Dead came out).

It does. That's spelled out explicitly in the letter pages of the comics, and in various interviews and in Talking Dead regarding the show. It's why no one ever says the word "zombie" in the comic or show.

I'm pretty sure that even the least-geeky person in America knows enough about "zombies" to shoot them in the head.

So do the people on the show.

Oh, and on the subject of bite strength – Max Brooks made the point in World War Z that zombies aren't subject to pain and can thus bite much harder than the average human, as a broken tooth or muscle pain will not stop them from exerting maximum effort the way it would with a human.

Food for thought, even though it's a different universe/mythology.

And Glen does wear riot gear with padded gloves and sleeves.

Yeah, but Glen wears the riot gear in shootouts with the Governor's bad guys, when it just slows you down and doesn't stop bullets.

How the group from the "Walking Dead" should go on a mission:

"Guys, you three will form a search party and proceed, quietly clearing house by house. You two will form a close in security/fire base to protect them. You three will form a perimeter security force to guard against herds or marauding survivors that might otherwise surprise us. Our communications will be these clickers: once for "alert signal/here I am", twice for "where are you" and three times for "emergency". Our rally point, in case we are separated, will be the crossroads a half mile north. Here are your sketch maps of the area. We've cross-leveled ammunition to ensure we're carrying compatible loads and have both close-in weapons for silent destruction and semi-auto for emergencies. Our vehicle is parked 200 yards in that direction, concealed and facing out for quick egress, keys in the ignition. We're each carrying tourniquet and first aid kits. Any questions?"

How the group from the "Walking Dead" actually goes on a mission:

"Hey guys, let's check that out. Say, who went with them, anyway? I thought Carl was with you!"

After the Brad Pitt movie I do not consider Max Brooks an expert on anything Zombie. I wish I could erase that crappy movie from my Brain.

Muy buen trabajo Amaia!
Congratulaciones!.

Amicalement
Armand

JPattern2:
I know, I find that a cheap 'out'. How long would the walker "plague" have lasted if every morgue tech, cop and kid on the street knew to destroy the head when someone dies?

Darthfozzywig:
Well, the people on the show doo now, but it wasn't always so. And people they run into sometimes seem not to have figured it out even now.

Well, the people on the show doo now, but it wasn't always so.

Because they learned.

And people they run into sometimes seem not to have figured it out even now.

Because it's a storytelling device to contrast the main characters with what "normal" folks are like. Dynamic characters change, but it's helpful to show something/one that hasn't changed to highlight the difference.

It's why Tolkien put "The Scouring of the Shire" at the end of the Lord of the Rings, to contrast just how much the four hobbits had changed. They don't look all that mighty when in the company of Aragorn, et al, but when they get home it's obvious to all how much they've changed/been changed.

Unless you're Peter Jackson, of course, who cut that and inserted tavern scene just like he did at the beginning of Fellowship that had the four hobbits doing just like they did at the beginning of Fellowship to show that essentially nothing at all about the four hobbits had changed in the slightest, except that Sam might just now be able to ask a girl out if prodded a bit.

Not to pick on you, but…

I know, I find that a cheap 'out'. How long would the walker "plague" have lasted if every morgue tech, cop and kid on the street knew to destroy the head when someone dies?

How long would ebola last if every morgue tech, cop, doctor, etc knows that you should wash your dang hands and not get people's blood and other bodily fluids on you?

How long would AIDS last if everybody knew to put on a dang condom?

Never underestimate the stupidity/short-term thinking/etc of humans. We're even dumber that TV show characters!