The Walking Dead Discussion Thread: Season 4 Episode 1

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[ConjunctionJunction]

I will be out and about tomorrow afternoon, so I'm posting the discussion thread now.

[CatherineofAragon]

Hi, laplata!

[laplata]

Hi! :)

[ConjunctionJunction]

BTTT

[Marcella]

Is this the live thread for tonight?

[CatherineofAragon]

It sure is-—hello, Marcella!

[Marcella]

YES! WALKING DEAD, HOW I MISSED YOU!

[CatherineofAragon]

LOL! I can’t believe it’s here, after all these months.

[txhurl]

D’you see that little girl trying to put walkers into a protected class: ‘they’re just different’.

[laplata]

D’you see that little girl trying to put walkers into a protected class: ‘they’re just different’.

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Good observation.
She’ll find out how “different” they are.

[Redcitizen]

Carl will be the last one standing next to Darryl. He’s getting to be a hardcase.

[CatherineofAragon]

"D’you see that little girl trying to put walkers into a protected class: ‘they’re just different’."

Just like a liberal! She reminded me of that commercial with the zombie..."Let's not go labeling people!"

She's gonna be trouble.

[CatherineofAragon]

What’s going on with Tyreese? It’s like he’s losing his nerve....

[laplata]

Good observation. He’s probably just tired of all the gore and having to be on his toes all the time.

It looks like somebody was feeding rats to the Walkers through the fence to draw in more Walkers.

[CatherineofAragon]

I hope he doesn’t get weak....he won’t live long if he does.

Wonder if it was the walker-tolerant kid feeding the rats? Or other kids she might have convinced that walkers are just “different”....

[laplata]

I don’t think the liberal girl would feed a rat to a walker because that would be too mean to the poor little rat. LOL

She’d probably sacrifice another one of the kids before she’d hurt a walker. Liberals suck.

[laplata]

“D’you see that little girl trying to put walkers into a protected class: ‘they’re just different’.”
Just like a liberal! She reminded me of that commercial with the zombie...”Let’s not go labeling people!”

She’s gonna be trouble.

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Carl will deal with her.

[ConjunctionJunction]

It’s like 2 years into the zombie apocalypse. Have they not learned about the buddy system yet? And do they not have an infirmary for sick people?

[laplata]

Good points.

It’s going to get more intense. Now they have a walker inside their living quarters.

[HanneyBean]

Please add me to the ping list!

I liked the S4 premier, but it wasn’t without some flaws. For instance, why didn’t Rick ask Herschel to examine Violet the pig? He’s a vet after all. That seemed inconsistent, especially as tending livestock would necessitate making sure they were well cared for, and you would assume they would be concerned over sick livestock.

Did anyone else think the Irish woodswoman looked liked she might be more then just a dirty faced psycho? I was expecting her to be some kind of hybrid or cannibal. Do you think there may be something more to expect from that encounter, even though she’s dead? Why didn’t Rick shoot her in the head to keep her from becoming a walker?

And Ron is, I think, going to be a problem down the road. His (implied) drinking problem may cause an incident later on.

I’m freaked out to think that Daryl might be responsible for Patrick getting some kind of virus. Otherwise, him licking his fingers before shaking Patrick’s hand was just a massive red herring to the viewers (and it could be).

I’m excited about this season. I think it’s going to be full of twists.

[Optimus Prime]

I bet you 10-to-1 that the kid who dropped dead died from the Zombie Virus that makes them all turn into Walkers when they die. My guess is that:

1) Unlike Rick and the rest, he was uninfected.
2) He became infected when he came into contact with Daryl's saliva.
3) The zombie virus kills most people that it comes into contact with.

Part C has actually been my theory from the start, because there's no way the Zombie Apocalypse could've happened if all the virus did was turn people into Walkers when they died for whatever reason. Not enough people die every day to produce enough Walkers to obliterate civilization. The virus had to have killed people, too, and fast, for civilization to have become overwhelmed so quickly without anyone really knowing what was going on or how it happened.

Given that this kid dropped dead less than 12 hours after getting sick and IMMEDIATELY came back as a Walker, that explains how the apocalypse went down. The virus spreads, a large chunk of the population is killed off by the virus within hours of infection and they immediately come back as Walkers. That would produce more than enough zombies to obliterate civilization in a short amount of time without anyone really understanding how it happened.