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the strigoi aren't really as deadly as they were in the beginning

posted 8 years ago by everymanaking6488
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a simple whack with a baseball bat and they're dead.

Kinda like walkers on TWD. Deadly in the beginning but even a simple knife used effectively can bring them down.

[–] mpboylanjr-54038 8 years ago

Well once there heads are removed or crushed , and the brain stem is detached any living thing would die. I'd say that it shouldn't be so complicated or that there's only one way to kill them. Making up different ways, whether they be as small as a knife into the brain or a 50. Caliber bullet is better than just slicing their heads off only. It leaves more to the imagination IMO.

THERES NO ROOM IN MY CIRCUS TENT FOR YOU !!!!

[–] sandifay62 8 years ago

Probably because the people that have to kill them get stronger and better at killing them.

At first people were more scared and freaked out so a lot of people froze, now they're are aware and expect them.

[–] General_Haberdashery 8 years ago

Probably because the people that have to kill them get stronger and better at killing them.

To me it seems like they definitely got weaker.

Even their blood doesn't seem to have the 'auto=infect' reaction like it did before.
The worms in the blood could burrow through clothing but now it's far less consistent. You can just shake it all off.

Hitting one of them with a blunt object takes them out now.
We're talking about a bat here. You don't need high intelligence or amazing skill to just swing it.

[–] sandifay62 8 years ago

you need strength and to know where and how to hit things just right. Same goes for knife use or the use of every weapon or fighting skill. The more you do it the better you get. If the enemy doesn't change in their fighting abilities they seem physically weaker. Confidence plays a part, too.

This show has a lot of dumb things happening, but this element seems plausible. Beside, we don't know that as the strigoli gets smarter theyir bodies might get weaker. There's more story to tell. But I guarantee if the main characters didn't get better at killing them, people would complain about that, too.

[–] getsomegrpes 8 years ago

What about the worms getting through clothes? Consistency in a show makes up for weak writing...a bit.

[–] MisterFranks 8 years ago

Now that there are millions of them, constantly growing in a section of New York that has been under lock down since the beginning, they have been powered down, since logic dictates that this show has become 28 Weeks Later, and the solution is for all the infected cities to get nuked.

[–] panik65 8 years ago

The worms are less dangerous, I believe in an early episode, one burrowed right through someone's skin (the examiner at the morgue). Now they have to crawl up your nose or eyes it seems.

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[–] serenity159 8 years ago

My explanation for it is that before with very few of them the Master had more control and guidance over each worm.

~Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes~

[–] panik65 8 years ago

Yeah whatever. Your imagination does not excuse bad or uncoordinated writing, OK? I can make *beep* up too!
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