The whispers don’t make a lot of sense to me. They don’t cover themselves in blood yet they can walk among the dead? The daughter nor Henry didn’t even have a flesh mask yet they were shuffling around like they were walkers?!?! And why were they in character when there were no walkers around? That was just weird.
shareWe say the same thing when watching this show, then we look at each other and say "turn your brain off". I just can't believe a bunch of grown up, very well paid people can sit in a writers room and sign off on this shit and not feel totally horrible about the terrible quality of this show. I would be embarrassed and ashamed to say I write for Ted.
shareAgreed. The writing is so awful now. It moves at the pace of a soap opera. I've never enjoyed a season of TWD like I did season 1 but later seasons were still very good. The drop off at this point is just insane.
shareThat is true, it basically just cuts at this from the most core level that it can...that the concept of a zombie itself is just dumb.
At the very core.....how do any zombies somehow ignore each other but immediately attack with vigor any non zombie? We all have torsos, heads, arms and legs but we don't question that for some reason they can tell the difference.
This blood/guts concept is what they offered us in season I.....the smell. That was ridiculous in the fact that humans don't have the noses of a blood hound. Human smell is rather basic. No human could walk in the smell of decay and stink and magically discover....these 20 bodies stink but this ONE doesn't. All we could smell would be the rotting stink and nothing else. We couldn't pick out and zero in on one person that doesn't smell. The entire concept of zombies developing super smell with human biology nose parts through death is cheap.
You are cutting to the core. How can any zombie tell the difference between a non dead human and dead human?
Based on the way the whisperers show it....it is just pure sight. A non dead human looks clean and fresh and a dead human is all rotting and decayed looking. Of course based on this a recently changed human would still look fresh to them.
With the walkers having limited brain function, how good are their senses anyway? Hearing, sight, smell has to be compromised.
shareBut the episode where Darryl shot the Whisper in the leg, the guy yelled and the walkers attacked him? So I guess the walkers depend on sound too? I don’t know.
shareThis.
Hans has cut right to the core of the issue: the concept just doesn't work. The problem, and it's a common one, is when writers attempt an explanation, but don't think far enough.
Ah well. No work of art is flawless.
Michonne never had to. She just had two on chains and never had a problem. I'm guessing it's the "dead smell", not the "dead guts smell". I mean, the Walkers don't all walk around with blood and guts exposed and they don't attack each other. So I'm guessing it's as long as you can mask your living smell (which must be different than smelling dead...to walkers....who should have no worming sense of smell....then you're good.
shareIf you recall, she'd cut the arms and lower jaws off those zombies. So it was a non-issue. . .she was actually using THEM as camouflage.
shareThat's my point. She didn't need to cover herself in gore or wear their skin...she just had to have two of them to lead around and the walkers never noticed her.
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