Reply With QuoteThere was literally no reason for them to have the bit about the blood tests unless Lori is pregnant.
-Tom
We'll see if it comes out with dark curly hair, misogyny and rage issues. :)Originally Posted by delirium
And most of y'all are WAYYYY overthinking this. NERDS!
There was literally no reason for them to have the bit about the blood tests unless Lori is pregnant.
-Tom
The baby is a zombie.
Zombie Fetus is the name of my next metal band.
That's the obvious conclusion. I'm hoping they go with something else, like she's a carrier or something. I deeply and profoundly don't care about the love triangle between the two cops and the whiny brunette.
I find it extremely satisfying when programs don't take the obvious path. Remember in the Sopranos when the shrink was brutally raped and didn't tell Tony about it? That choice elevated her character to another level.
I shall take the counterfactual. Andrea is pregnant. Not Lori. The nausea is a nice giant clue.
Ah, good catch. But why does crazy scientist Noah Emmerich whisper to Rick, "Hey, you know that chick who's staying behind with me to get burned all up? She's got a bun in the oven!"? What would be the point of him telling Rick that?
-Tom
We've got nothing to do for another year but overthink things.
When Rick asks the doctor "how's the blood?" and he answers "no surprises." I immediately thought that somebody's infected.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. I can't remember if she says she's staying after that moment happens though.
Well Blonde lady was all over her dead/infected/soon to be zombie sister.
So what was so special about the samples that were burned up because he was clumsy? It seemed like that was where he was making some sort of progress and when those went up in smoke, he was done. Were they cross sections of a zombie brain or something?
According to Doctor, they didn't even know if it was bacteriological, viral, fungal, or something else. Isn't that like square one of identifying a disease? If he's aware the French were getting close to some kind of cure, wouldn't the French have told him what kind of disease it was? And if he doesn't even know what's causing zombification, how the fuck does he have a blood test to see if someone's infected?
See, this is why you should stay away from "what caused zombies" stories. You end up with a bunch of bullshit because the writers don't know the first thing about medicine. Stick to "it's the fucking zombie apocalypse, no one knows why, how do we survive?"
That was such a weak episode. What a downer.
Freshest infected samples he had.
Not just that, but they were the last bits of the dude's wife. Have a little compassion, Dean!
-Tom
I liked the premise of the show, and after Mad Men, I knew that AMC was capable of making a "HBO quality" series. But unfortunatley Walking Dead just isn't very good. This is another show in the Lost/Heroes style lineage. That last episode was just plain bad.
Whispered: "You're all infected. That includes the bun in the oven. Have a nice trip!"
The doctor was warning Rick that Carl would be undergoing a sudden growth spurt within the next day, so to watch out for him suddenly growing a year's worth over the next few hours.
This makes me want to re-read and re-watch The Andromeda Strain. Everyone should do so if they have not. THAT is how you handle an outbreak.
It occurred to me overnight that this would have been a much stronger episode if the Doctor weren't a doctor at all. He's the IT guy, or the facilities manager, or even a mid-level manager from HR. His wife was the brilliant scientist, and before she died she made him promise to keep the CDC up and running, waiting for the scientists to come back. Because his wife had no doubt that the scientists would see the bigger picture, and instead of short term looking out for their families they'd come back, find the cure, and save everyone's families.
And then instead of a group of high-minded scientists, he gets our ragtag bunch of survivors, and despairs.
FIN
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT!
-Tom
I think the real purpose was simply to be a red herring. We see him freakout over the loss of the samples, see that the group is coming to the CDC, and we start thinking "I bet he tries to use one of them as a new sample, hehe".
The proof is later he admits he knows nothing about zombies "you tell me". So in fact those samples were pointless/worthless. It was just the last contact he had with his wife.
It's kind of funny to me, this I Am Legend(W Smith version) idea of the scientist working all alone to solve the problem. Hey, once civilization had ended and billions are dead there is no point to solving it. It's over and done. Even if you came up with a vaccine, how are you going to:
A)make a big enough batch of whatever it is you need to make
B)inform anyone outside your immediate area that you have the fix
C)get it to them
D)eradicate the threat(zombies in this case)
If your zombie story has the CDC in it, then you're at least pretending that they're some weird natural phenomena and not magical beings. Thus they will eventually rot away (a year max) if you can just survive them. Of course that gets harder if new zombies and new outbreaks keep happening and if getting to close carries the risk of you catching it.
Having a cure at hand would eliminate those worries and you just have to make sure you don't get overrun and killed before the zombies go away again.
What part of "the lit up bits of the CG brain go away and a smaller red lit up bit appears" do you people not understand? :)
-Tom
Not necessarily. The story reflects how the people in it would act. Even if it were magical in origin, unless the characters knew it were magical in origin, a trip to the CDC would still very much be a logical step.
Yeah I think a trip to the CDC makes sense for the local population from a basic "Let's look for help from the authorities" sense, without even bringing a possible cure or treatment into it. It is an official facility after all.
Although personally, lack of radio traffic would tell me there is no authority. My assumption being that even in the absence of internet, tv, landline/mobil, or electrical grid, radios would still work. Therefore, I'd expect to hear tons of radio traffic...IF there was anyone organized out there. No traffic= every man for himself.
Sure guys. If harry Potter shows up in season two commanding an army of undead, I'll take back my words.
I forgot to mention that I also found the MRI color coding mildly annoying. Normal brain activity is cyan, but zombie brain activity, well, that's red. Nerdy, I know.
Mind you, I'm not saying it is magical in nature, I'm just saying that the inclusion of the CDC (in this or any zombie narrative) doesn't automatically imply a natural source to the outbreak.
Because he can recognize what it does to the blood even if he doesn't understand how it works to reanimate the brain.
Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?
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