RE: TWD Season 6
October 21, 2015 at 10:14 pm
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2015 at 10:19 pm by Athene.)
(October 21, 2015 at 9:46 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:May have something to do with hemoglobin, according to Zombie Physiology. I'm dead serious...it's a thing.(October 20, 2015 at 12:34 am)Thena323 Wrote: You're right. At some point it would have to mean that there are a lot more survivors than what's implied, in order to explain hordes of the walking dead traipsing through town with regularity. But would the show be nearly as good?
The sad part is, they could have addressed it in the episode where they visit the CDC. They could have used the doc there who was studying the walkers (spoiler/spoiler) to explain the mechanism by which the walkers don't decay as fast as a regular corpse.
Check it out: https://books.google.com/books?id=HsGMxkRtEogC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=zombies+hemoglobin&source=bl&ots=DpK6Jm-iT6&sig=DhgUq9NdiI45YDa2bVgWXp7Q9N0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBGoVChMI6Zzv7vvUyAIVhjo-Ch1oagKA#v=onepage&q=zombies%20hemoglobin&f=false
EDIT: Sorry for the shitty link. Click on Preview Book and go to page 55-56.