While only two episodes in, AMC's The Walking Dead has already posed some tricky moral questions. Also, tons of awesome exploding zombie heads.
Officer Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to a world overrun by zombies. In the comic and the show, it's not clear how long he's out. (My guess is at least a year.) During that time, his wife, Lori, and son, Carl, have joined up with a group of survivors in the outskirts of Atlanta. Now he has to find them-- and survive. Oh, and Lori is now sleeping with Shane, Rick's former coworker and friend.
So, let's say your guy was in a coma during a zombie apocalypse. And let's assume, for the sake of your son and for the continued survival of the human race, you're not going back for him. How soon would you shack up with his best friend at the makeshift survivor camp? What's an appropriate mourning period, given the fact that your day-to-day life now consists of running from flesh-munching zombies?
Remember that, for all intents and purposes, your guy is either dead or a zombie. At best, he's not coming out of the coma. (Or so you assume.) Also, you're now living in a post-apocalyptic world that makes The Road look like Cancun. It's safe to say you're under just a wee bit of stress.
And what happens with your guy comes back? Do you immediately ditch your "zombieland" lover for the one you were with back when the world was all sunshine and puppy dogs? The friend has protected you and your son from zombies, and been a source of comfort in, shall we say, unique circumstances. It's a new world. Where does your heart lie?
Of course--zombie plague notwithstanding--love always wins out. It'll be interesting to see who Lori chooses over the course of the series. In the meantime, let's hope everyone survives to see the recently announced second season.
(Here's another related question: If your guy zombie-ed out, would you be able to put him down for good with a well-placed shot? This dilemma played out in the first episode, and it's safe to we'll see it come up again.)
What do you think of The Walking Dead so far? Are zombies the new vampires? Or are you sick of both? (And what about mummies? They're the Rodney Dangerfield of the monster world-- they get no respect!)
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Officer Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to a world overrun by zombies. In the comic and the show, it's not clear how long he's out. (My guess is at least a year.) During that time, his wife, Lori, and son, Carl, have joined up with a group of survivors in the outskirts of Atlanta. Now he has to find them-- and survive. Oh, and Lori is now sleeping with Shane, Rick's former coworker and friend.
So, let's say your guy was in a coma during a zombie apocalypse. And let's assume, for the sake of your son and for the continued survival of the human race, you're not going back for him. How soon would you shack up with his best friend at the makeshift survivor camp? What's an appropriate mourning period, given the fact that your day-to-day life now consists of running from flesh-munching zombies?
Remember that, for all intents and purposes, your guy is either dead or a zombie. At best, he's not coming out of the coma. (Or so you assume.) Also, you're now living in a post-apocalyptic world that makes The Road look like Cancun. It's safe to say you're under just a wee bit of stress.
And what happens with your guy comes back? Do you immediately ditch your "zombieland" lover for the one you were with back when the world was all sunshine and puppy dogs? The friend has protected you and your son from zombies, and been a source of comfort in, shall we say, unique circumstances. It's a new world. Where does your heart lie?
Of course--zombie plague notwithstanding--love always wins out. It'll be interesting to see who Lori chooses over the course of the series. In the meantime, let's hope everyone survives to see the recently announced second season.
(Here's another related question: If your guy zombie-ed out, would you be able to put him down for good with a well-placed shot? This dilemma played out in the first episode, and it's safe to we'll see it come up again.)
What do you think of The Walking Dead so far? Are zombies the new vampires? Or are you sick of both? (And what about mummies? They're the Rodney Dangerfield of the monster world-- they get no respect!)
His bandage needed to be changed, no way he was out for a year. Probably not much more than the month mentioned for how long the gas line has been out. Month and a half, two at the outside and that would be pushing it.
Omg Rick's wife is awful! It seems like she shacked up awfully fast with Shane. She's in for a rude awakening whenever Rick finds them!
As far as your related question about double-tapping your zombified significant other - my man and I already had that conversation. We both know that we are definitely to give each other head shots if either of us ever gets bitten. You have to talk about these things, just like you have to talk about financial matters or who's going to clean the house.
I love zombies much more vampires, and I do think there is a rising hype about zombies over vampires.
I'm writing about the length that Rick was in a coma for. You say a year, and I think about a month because of something that was said in the first episode. However, neither is plausible because how could he survive with no food or water? There's no one there to feed him, and IVs don't last more than a day or two. How could he have survived? He would have died in a couple days from lack of water.
I'm about halfway through the comic and they haven't said how long Rick was out for. I would guess a few months at least, considering how bad things have gotten when he wakes up. I wonder if we'll find out.
I agree with all those who question how long Rick has been out. There's conflicting information. For instance, in the first episode we see Rick wake up and move his way out of the hospital but yes, someone had to have changed his bandages, he had to have expelled some bodily functions, eaten, drank water, etc etc, BUT a few of the bodies outside his room were decomposed as if quite a bit of time has passed--more than a month. And those flowers he got from Shane are of course wilted, dead, and dry. So it's confusing.
Anyway, as for the whole Shane, Lori, Rick triangle, I am not sure who she will pick. Shane might have benefitted from that talk he had with Rick about how Rick was a little closed off to Lori and she was frustrated, so Shane might've been open to her and she saw something in him that she didn't see in Rick (if that makes any sense). BUT, that doesn't mean that she doesn't love Rick still. She obviously does, as we saw when she had that necklace with her wedding ring on it--thouh, that scene turned a little R rated as soon as she took the necklace (and other articles) off. Lori is going to be torn, for sure. My heart believes she will choose Rick. He didn't leave her, he was shot and was in a coma. He didn't take her for dead--he KNOWS in his heart that she and Carl are alive and he is looking for them. She doesn't know that yet, of course, but I want to believe (my girly cheesy side wants to believe) that Rick and Lori will be together again someday.
If my spouse turned into a zombie, it would take everything I have to put them out. I can understand why that guy (name escapes me) hasn't shot his zombie wife yet--he's still grieving-- but once he accepts what she is, he will do what he needs to do and what she would have wanted (to go on in peace). Essentially, I would need to mourn a little before blowing my zombie-love's head off.
I'd shoot him in the head when he first got bit.
As for the shacking up with Shane, I don't blame her. The world has come to an end for a lot of these people. I'd grab the nearest penis and have at it!
hmmmmm......i'm kind of caught between shooting them before they turn zombie, there bye saving them a bit of dignity, or pulling their teeth and keeping them as a pet, that's really a no digity option.....but both are viable options in a post apocolyptic zombie world. hopefully though, we could avoid all that nonsense by quickly removing the infected tissue....just saying......
i think we can all agree that it is an unrealistically long time..
he could have been in the coma for a long time before the zombie apocolypse, but one might assume that his wound might be better healed if his coma'd out body had a good amount of time under the care of the hspital. he could have been in the coma with the zombies raging around him for a long time, as the wilted flowers and rotting corpses suggest. for all we know there could be side plot that some person, with a bizarre sense of responsibility stayed by his side till the bitter end while he was in his coma making sure he had fluids, and just before the start of our story tragically died luring the zombies away from rick's hospital room door....ok that's a bit far fetched, but still............
my mother and i have been in a mild dispute over whether or not Lori's actions are excusable. i say they're not ideal, but understandable, and she hates her. i say it was established in the first ten minutes of the first episode that 1) they were having marital troubles and 2) she wasn't as good as one might hope at keeping her son's best interest in mind (tearing down his father in front of him was cruel and thoughtless, that doesn't make her a bad mother, but it does call her judgment into question just a little bit). So however long Rick was in the coma before the zombies, i'm assuming Shane was there to support Ricks family, add onto that that he was there for Lori and her some whent he zombie outbreak occured, that's grounds for feeling alot of grattitude and maybe a bit of bebt, as well as loyalty and affection, and in the need for something normal and stress relieving in the face of unspeakable horrors. What i don't like, is that after everything that Carl has witnessed, it is again a little thoughtless of Lori to be shacking up with Shane. It's not giving Carl time to grieve before she replaces his dad, that's gotta hurt. i don't know if i want rick and lori together, i don't think she's a bad person, but i do think the time may have been running out on their marriage before, writers don't let you know those bits of info for no reason, and in a post apocoliptic zombie where any day could be your last, why settle for an unhappy marriage....for that matter why ever settle for an unhappy marriage, if it's gonna end, the zombie apocolypse may have adjusted the timeline a bit, not the outcome.
You are my partner in freelance, Nick, and I respect your coma too much to shack up with your girlfriend for at least a month.
That said, I am totally going after her coworker.
You are my partner in freelance, Nick, and I respect your coma too much to shack up with your girlfriend for at least a month.
That said, I am totally going after her coworker.
I can't wait until Carl shoots and kills Shane. I hate the guy with a passion.
I've seen the show and read the graphic novel... and the real answer of coma time for Rick is? One Month. In the graphic novel, somewhere about 20-30 pages in, Rick gets asked where he has been since it started a month ago, which is of course a coma.
Rick could have not been out no longer that a week. Or he would have suffered dehidration. No one to change his pissy underwear or for God sakes how was he going to do #2. It would have been all over his gown. The Zombies would of for sure left him alone.
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