the writers weren't fired, they quit. The only one "fired" was Darabont, and we still have to see what impact that has on the show (the first batch of Season 2 episodes were produced by him)
And Kirkman was the one who wrote the episode you were so bored with, and the one who's also responsible for the characterization of any main player in the story (he and Darabont were essentially the show-runners up until Darabont's departure)
Kirkman's been heavily involved since season 1
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either that, or the revelation that "we ARE the walking dead!" ie. jenner told him that everyone is infected with the zombie scourge, but it only activates upon death.
^ Could very well be. Either one of those would be shocking to someone who has never read the comic series--and both could have been determined by Jenner's blood tests.
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Doesn't make much sense, since we've seen a few times when humans were bitten; then the virus killed and animated them. That implies they were infected by the bite(s).
I think john is referring to these happenings from a comic book standpoint. In the comics, a zombie's bite doesn't actually spread the virus. You see, every human is technically infected, but that gene is dormant--it is only activated by 'general' death. That being said, bites from zombies don't actually spread the scourge, they just cause massive blood loss, and/or infections, that can ultimately lead to death, subsequently causing that person's 'zombie-gene' to activate.
Truth is, any human who dies (no matter what the cause) will transform into a zombie, unless significant brain damage is associated with their death.
So if the television series opts to follow that plot-point, then I think it's very plausible that Jenner told Rick something along the lines of: "everyone is infected. No matter how they die, they'll turn into zombies."
...Or the plot diverges from the comics completely, and we find out that only Rick is infected, but he's inextricably immune to the virus. Hence Shane being so adamant about hearing no heartbeat before leaving the hospital, yet somehow Rick mysteriously reanimates.
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It doesn't seem to follow that standpoint from the comic then.
Morgan's(Lennie James) wife was bitten and he said she died from a massive fever "skin felt like it was on fire" and then turned. Implies the zombie-virus was transferred from the bite and is what killed her.
Same thing happened to the old man's friend and the blonde's sister, iirc. A bite seems to be a death-sentence.
^ People dying after being bitten doesn't rule out the comic's rendition of the virus at all.
As was mentioned by Kirkman: a zombie bite kills you because of infection (which is where the fever comes into play) or blood loss. You don't become a zombie because it was 'passed' to you by the bite per se, you become a zombie because you died. Death (by any means) is the trigger. For instance, if Carl ended up dying after being shot by Otis, he would have still 'resurrected' as a zombie.
Not saying that's the premise the TV show will follow, but it is certainly a possibility.
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The whole theory that she may have whispered "We are the Walking Dead" could've been the more philosophical view on the term.
We are damned. Yet we walk on even though we have no hope.
I don't like the idea of global infection though. Like in the Romero films.
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I also enjoyed the second episode, a massive improvement on the prior one. Hershel's daughter Maggie is hot. Lucky Glenn.
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