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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSolly Mack
(90,762 posts)will eventually die out? (and become walkers)
I'm not being contrary or a smart-ass. I wonder the same thing.
Can it end well?
Does it ever really have to end (the show), since survival never ends? (until you go extinct/die off)
Smaller and smaller pockets of the living, where the birth rate can't keep up with the death/walker production rate. Doesn't bode well for a happy ending.
I just don't know.
Iris
(15,652 posts)Do they have to eat to remain undead?
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)No real new Zombies because people know that all are infected so they head shot them
Iris
(15,652 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)And the cold can slow them down. They can get stuck in deep mud and water.
They can burn but it doesn't necessarily kill them. If they're consumed by fire (to include their brain) they die the final death.
Not sure there has been much consistency on the question though. (in the show)
Someone else might know more about it. Sorry!
Iris
(15,652 posts)And this season the herds seem bigger so there might be something going on there but I'm with you as far as not really seeing an consistency in that regard in this show.
dr.strangelove
(4,851 posts)Its about life in the new world with zombies. will the zombies eventually rot out, I think they will. But as long as there are people, there is a source for new zombies. Will they eventually reach some sort of equilibrium, I think so. But the real threat is other survivors, not zombies.
If you are asking will there eventually be a cure, no I do not think so.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)dr.strangelove
(4,851 posts)The other survivors and te zombies are all a part of it. As is the loss of industry, agriculture and such. Its why people with skills will become very valuable, like Herschel, Milton and possibly Eugene. If Eugene really is a scientist (which I doubt) he will be more valuable than any weapon, even without a cure. If he took the levels of engineering, physics and chemistry necessary to get a doctorate and do work on the genome project, he will have a wealth of information needed to survive. But farmers, mechanics, engineers and such, are worth far more than the Ricks and Daryls of this world, if you can keep them safe. That is why the prison was a good idea, but they need to find a more secuire prison like setting. Something with stone walls and more people to defend attacks.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)I don't know how the show will use his character but he does have needed skills.
I think all kinds of skills are needed...those like Hershel's (which they've lost for the most part) and those like Daryl's and Rick's. It's just different skills are needed more at certain times than others. In a more secure environment each would perform their skills in their own little niche, making for a community like most communities - people doing different jobs. Kinda like they do now. The group seems to play to each others strengths. Or at least they did try before the loss of the prison. Only certain people went out on runs because they showed the skill set necessary to make those runs as safe as possible, for example.
Daryl can track, set traps for food, and he's good in a fight. Rick has leadership skills which, I think, are important.
I agree they need a more diverse skill set. New people along the way can bring those. Also, people are just going to have to learn new skill sets. Adapt.
Right now they're in a kind of limbo and are being hunted. They need trackers, fighters, and food gatherers right now. But they also need people who understand that science didn't die out just because the world went crazy and things learned haven't been forgotten. (mechanics, engineers, farmers)
brooklynite
(94,489 posts)This isn't like LOST, where there was expectation of a resolution of the story line.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Would fans be satisfied if the story is left hanging?
Even if the survivors find a safe place, how will they process all they've seen and done? "Walking Dead" could refer to either those already bitten or to Rick's group.
rug
(82,333 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)maybe they find some sort of large sanctuary type area, but most of them die on the journey there. Carl is the only one who makes it with Rick dying in his arms? Or, they make it to the sanctuary and find they have a vaccine or something, but only in limited supply due to lack of facilities so they have to hole up there until the walkers die off.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)It can go either way.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)TWD is such a smash hit that I imagine all bets are off. Did Roddenberry end Star Trek? Lucas sure didn't end Star Wars before he sold it all to Disney. I know I wouldn't kill my golden goose.
But sure it can end well.
my_best_self
(8 posts)But I cannot wait to find out.
orleans
(34,045 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)It's my understanding that the television series is loosely based on the comics, so maybe they contain clues about the ending. Somehow I doubt it will ever end well, though.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)with no end in sight that I can see.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I actually did the Wikipedia thing later last night to check into the comics. It looks like there are quite a few differences between the comics and the television series.
Comics or TV, this is one dark series. Of course, nobody said the zombie apocalypse would be pretty.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)definitely darker. I enjoy both, though. However, on the show, we had Beth attempting suicide. In the comics, we had the teen daughter of one of the characters actually kill herself as part of a suicide pact with her boyfriend.
Plus, I think now that we're into season 5, it might be difficult to kill off some of the more popular characters.
Baitball Blogger
(46,698 posts)have land to grow crops. Seclusion would eliminate two major problems: Infections from stranger danger zombies, and competition from other humans.
The people who do make it into this colony would have to be very disciplined. Part of their protocols would involve secluding the infirmed. Even pregnant women would be a major concern because both baby and mother would have to make it through a 9 month pregnancy and delivery for the two to survive. But, reproduction would be vital, because, without access to a lab, the only way out of a zombie apocalypse would come from a genetic mutation that would bring forth a generation that was immune to the virus. (They can also hold out for the virus to mutate on its own to become less deadly or that our own immune system finds a way to ward it off.)
All this assumes that everything that we know today about the virus on the Walking Dead, doesn't change. But a critical factor to ensuring that the human race survive, is to eliminate the threat from outside, so that the men can spend some time as farmers, instead of soldiers.
In a nutshell, unless they are able to produce progeny that develops an immunity to the virus, it won't end well for the human race as long as people are expected to become zombies, whether they're bitten or not.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)there was some sort of safe zone in the mountains of Vermont, or somewhere like that? The cold would slow down the zombies from that movie, and the mountains limited access to other unwanted types.
(Not sure if that was the actual ending, or the alternate one.)
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)A snow topped mountain stronghold. Plenty of water in spring/summer. Might even have lakes/resevoirs available. Better to defend from both living & dead.
charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)The US used the Rocky Mountains to defend the West Coast. Rick and the Gang are just a small group in the wilds of Georgia, cut off from society. For all we know, the US Military could've carved out a similar safe zone.
valerief
(53,235 posts)would capture the zombies' attention and keep them enthralled for all eternity.
Sequel would be The Sitting Dead.