1x02 - Guts (Page 2 of 4)

yes, i turn into one every weekend

Oh yeah, chicks dig the dropping jaw.

That, sir, is propaganda. Zombies don't eat brains. Zombies eat flesh in general.
Oh the ignorance  

At least I had arguments. Also, it would be nice to say what I quoted wrong and the antilogy of my arguments.

Well, I don't think that all zombies can climb fences. It probably depends on the physical strenght of the person when he was alive.

i don't belive so. you could have been ironman when you were alive, but if you are dead, your muscles will start to deteriorate. so dead people should not be able to have tons of strength.

this discussion is ridicilous some zombies run, others climb and some even open doors - becouse they are all like snowflakes 

well the physiology of zombies can be very very complicated. musclememory for example: the art of running and climbing and the rest of those basic movement related stuffs should already be recorded in muscle memory, due to thousands of years of evolution - so zombies should be able to run and climb and do basic movement orientated stuff...
as for the strenght of a zombie. well this is tied to the detoriation of muscles and flesh, but how much muscle was there in the first place, and can zombies really feel fatigue? no they can't. so in some cases it doesn't really matter how strong a zombie is 'couse they dont get tired.
and don't they eat flesh just for the purpose of somesort of regeneration???

hmm. well you have good points here. and noone know's what kind of this "virus" was that turned them zombies. so yeah this actually might be quite personal thing. some people might be weak do to that mutation and some normal or stronger than before death.

BB did hit on a bunch of things that did bug me. The whole guts thing, while suspenseful and predictable, bugged me for many reasons. Firstly, they used zombie guts to mask their scent...so they wouldn't smell like humans in a crowd of zombies. Well, in my mind, if I were a zombie, I wouldn't even be able to smell guts anymore...I'd be desensitized to it, having been around hoards of zombies for days or weeks. Any hint of fresh human scent wouldn't really be masked by the smell of guts, because I can't smell guts. Hearing and sight are way more dependable anyway...so a)I'd want to eat them because I could hear them whispering to each other, b)I'd want to eat them because they don't look pasty and dead like the rest of us, or c)they might be zombies, but I've seriously got the munchies, and they look as good as any human to me right now.

...actually, on that note, I always wondered why zombies never ate each other...I mean, dead flesh is still flesh.

In any case, I do like the show...though I'd certainly write it differently.

-Rob

Well you're drawing lines to regular human physiology, where you have muscle memory/motor learning, neural pathways that have been established through practicing movements for many years. However, the zombies in this series can't really have any of that. First of all, many of them were so injured upon death that any regular physiology would have fallen apart long ago. How does the zombie with only half a torso live? How do they coordinate movements after having part of their brain eaten?

Since the brain is seemingly their only vital organ (only thing that can actually kill them), there is definitely something supernatural involved, and any known physiology will not apply whatsoever. For instance, the zombies don't need a beating heart or a working liver, their muscles will not require nourishment to function and so forth. So I am guessing that their muscles won't really deteriorate at all. The human immune system won't function without blood flow and energy, and the "use it or lose it"-saying won't mean squat.

So being supernatural and not requiring energy, it's not even sure that their muscles will work the same way; That the number, thickness or type of muscle fibers will come into play, and you can't claim that a strong person becomes a strong zombie, since the way of reproducing the persons exact former strength would be to use the muscles in the same way, through means like ATP and undamaged motorneuronpathways.

The nose is extremely sensitive. Guys that used to work at the local paper mill (awful smell) couldn't notice the scent of the mill after a while, but if someone ate pizza before their shift, they'd notice it on their breath.

What I'm saying is that the air is probably already saturated with zombie scent, and the nose would be desensitized to it. Their strategy didn't nullify their own scent...so in effect, their scent would have been just as pronounced if they didn't cover themselves in guts, and if the crowd of zombies had two more zombies in it.

It really only takes a few particles of something for us to be able to smell.

-Rob