Walking Dead Season Two

[Gillfan]

Ah...but is everything else really shut down? We know zombies smell, hear, and see, so those senses must be processed, even if in just the most rudimentary fashion.

[zombiehorror]

Ah...but is everything else really shut down? We know zombies smell, hear, and see, so those senses must be processed, even if in just the most rudimentary fashion.

Unfortunately hearing and seeing are just kind of cool on film (though they do require muscle), who wants a bunch of blind and deaf zombies bumping/stumbling around everywhere?!?  Unless of course they are the Blind Dead there wouldn't be anything terrifying about that!

There are nasal muscles but of course the most important function of smelling is using your lungs, which of course a zombie has no use for!  But obviously the lungs would have to function in some capacity if sense of smell is present?!  There have been many instances in The Walking Dead where as long as a walker doesn't see you they go right by, have there been instances were they've used smelling in order to locate humans?!  Sounds like just another aspect of zombies that is best not thought about!

[ramsey37]

There are nasal muscles but of course the most important function of smelling is using your lungs, which of course a zombie has no use for!  But obviously the lungs would have to function in some capacity if sense of smell is present?!  There have been many instances in The Walking Dead where as long as a walker doesn't see you they go right by, have there been instances were they've used smelling in order to locate humans?!  Sounds like just another aspect of zombies that is best not thought about!

In season one, episode #2, Rick and Glenn covered themselves with gore from a chopped-up zombie to walk through the streets of Atlanta unharmed. A zombie girl walked up to Glenn at one point and made a point of sniffing him. Clearly, zombies in the show *can* smell the difference between the living and other zombies. I'm guessing it has to be at close range though.
George

[Jethro]

I know it it's probably no big deal to most people but did anybody notice Hershell fire about 17 rounds through his shotgun without reloading it?  A Remington 870 shotgun holds four rounds plus one in the chamber.  When he fired there was no recoil and I'm pretty sure the flash was computer generated.  Also, when they arrived at the CDC building in season !, there were M-4 carbines laying around which no one picked up and would have been an excellent weapon to use, probably thousands of rounds of ammo nearby too.
Reminds me of watching Combat as a kid when Vic Morrow would shoot hundreds of rounds from his 30 shot magazine in his Thompson without reloading.  Or The Man from Uncle would escape from something and karate chop a THRUSH bad guy and not take his gun.

[Unknown Primate]

I did notice that, Jethro!

[zombiehorror]

Yep, noticed the "never needs loading"-video game shotgun as well

And good call on the two "scent" instances ramsey37, I'd forgotten those.

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

I remember the scene in Season One where Rick had to get all covered in stinky guts so the zombies wouldn't smell him. For some reason, in the first episode of Season Two all they had to do was hide under broken down cars and a whole herd of zombies would walk right by and not smell anybody.

[Gillfan]

I remember the scene in Season One where Rick had to get all covered in stinky guts so the zombies wouldn't smell him. For some reason, in the first episode of Season Two all they had to do was hide under broken down cars and a whole herd of zombies would walk right by and not smell anybody.

Perhaps by season 2, nobody smelled very fresh, living or dead.

[Sean]

Perhaps by season 2, nobody smelled very fresh, living or dead.

And any shower taken after they reached the farm was taken with fat, bloated zombie-schmutz well water.

[Moonshadow]

I did notice that, Jethro!

Me too! I kept waiting for him to reload... it was like, WTF?? But then, they also had everyone head-shotting zombies while zipping around the farm. It's night, the targets are moving (albeit slowly) the cars are moving and bouncing...yet these mostly untrained people are taking out walker after walker! And really, the things are so slow, couldn't they have just stopped or driven slowly to shoot them?

[Gillfan]

I also wondered why they didn't use farm machinery to try to kill them.
I don't know what they are called, but the big cutter thangs on a tractor used during harvest time should wreck havoc on zombies
.

Also, I think that if I had been them, with all thise time on the farm, I would have dug a dozen or so Burmese Tiger Pits.

[ramsey37]

I also wondered why they didn't use farm machinery to try to kill them.
I don't know what they are called, but the big cutter thangs on a tractor used during harvest time should wreck havoc on zombies
.

Also, I think that if I had been them, with all thise time on the farm, I would have dug a dozen or so Burmese Tiger Pits.

The farm equipment probably wouldn't have been kept near the house, so it wouldn't be practical to wade through a sea of zombies to go get the tractor. Also, a tractor driver would be pretty exposed to zombie attack. At least in a truck or car, you'd have *some* protection.
The tiger pits aren't a bad thought, but I think most of the group was too preoccupied with their own drama to really think about walkers showing up enmasse. People don't always make the best decisions in crisis situations
George

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

Me too! I kept waiting for him to reload... it was like, WTF?? But then, they also had everyone head-shotting zombies while zipping around the farm. It's night, the targets are moving (albeit slowly) the cars are moving and bouncing...yet these mostly untrained people are taking out walker after walker! And really, the things are so slow, couldn't they have just stopped or driven slowly to shoot them?

Did you not watch the show? when Maggie and Glen stopped the car, zombies were all over it....yeah, slowing down or stopping is a brilliant idea...not.

Perhaps he reloaded during all the commotion?? the camera wasn't always on Hershel...so who knows, maybe he did reload??

[zombiehorror]

Did you not watch the show? when Maggie and Glen stopped the car, zombies were all over it....yeah, slowing down or stopping is a brilliant idea...not.

His point wasn't that they should have been stopping to shoot the zombies but that the likely hood of hitting a moving target (albeit a slow one) from a moving vehicle is highly unlikely....even for someone with years and years of training!

Perhaps he reloaded during all the commotion?? the camera wasn't always on Hershel...so who knows, maybe he did reload??

I don't think that the amount of time that the camera was not on Herschel was sufficient enough for reloading and he would have had to have pockets full of shells as well!  I didn't count the shots but I think he went well over 5 during one of his melees!

[Moonshadow]

Did you not watch the show? when Maggie and Glen stopped the car, zombies were all over it....yeah, slowing down or stopping is a brilliant idea...not.

His point wasn't that they should have been stopping to shoot the zombies but that the likely hood of hitting a moving target (albeit a slow one) from a moving vehicle is highly unlikely....even for someone with years and years of training!

Exactly, especially when you add to it the fact that they would have to make head shots each time! I just don't think they would be doing anything other than wasting ammo that way. Besides, there were plenty of times during that attack where it appeared that the folks in the cars had a lot of room around them to take a few steady shots and drive on.