The Walking Dead
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It deviates a lot more than people realize, I was surprised myself (I read it after the fourth season ended). Beth isn't in the "graphic novels" at all, though Hershel did have nine children (only Maggie's alive now). Also Sophia and Andrea are both still alive though Carol and Judith are dead. Also, they go to the farm, then to the prison, and then back to the farm for a while before Abraham and his group bring a herd on them and they have to leave.
~Thylo
Pootle
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Cannibalism Nano, they where knocking them out unconscious and then slitting their throats so they could bleed, they where then being butchered to feed the Terminus dwellers. Very graphic I must say, that trough scene as you say is a close to the illegal line I think they have come so far.
A great opening episode though.
nanoboy
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Well, I get that they were cannibals. But why are they cannibals when the Guvnor's and Rick's groups weren't/aren't? Why don't they just hunt like everyone else? I suspect that the flashbacks would shed some light on what changed them from being the cattle to being the butchers. And do they really need so much meat?
Cannibals are pretty much a major part of any post apocalyptic fiction. In the GN the Hunters are a bunch of people who suck at hunting animals hence why the hunt people. Kirkman has always said that was a dumb reason when he wrote it originally. Having the Termites and their twisted little revenge idea makes much more sense than them being just a bunch of dumb rednecks.
nanoboy
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Haven't they heard of the brain disease that cannibals get? Kuru?
Anyway, who has seen episode 2? Did the guy they are eating piece by piece get bitten by a walker in the cess pool?
And also, can zombies in this universe live indefinitely without food? Those zombies in the cess pool have probably been down there for months or even years...
Yeah Bob was bit. Though if they play it like in the comics they won't get sick from it.
That's something that seems to differ. In the comics and in season three, it seemed as though they needed to eat or else they would slowly rot away (though without functioning digestive systems I'm not sure how that worked) but then you do have walkers like the ones in the cess pool who wouldn't have eaten in a very long time yet are still as deadly as their fed counterparts.
~Thylo
In Season 1, Jenner told the group the Walkers need to eat and are starving to death just at a much slower rate than us. Milton reinforced that (in private conversation with the Governor) in S3.
And as far as Kuru, the Hunters all distinctly had a "nervous twitch" in the GN be it meth withdrawls, inbreeding, or Kuru. Whatever suits you for the reason I guess. They aren't implied to be of sound mind at all.
And as far as Kuru, the Hunters all distinctly had a "nervous twitch" in the GN be it meth withdrawls, inbreeding, or Kuru. Whatever suits you for the reason I guess. They aren't implied to be of sound mind at all.
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Seems our Hunters are being dispatched before the midseason break with Beth's weird "Cop Cult" being the main story arc. Fear the Hunters only lasts 1 Volume of the Comic anyway while everything we have seen before up to this point is 10 Volumes (that is from the GN). Fear the Hunters also included things like Telephone Crazy Rick, and the Ben/Billy story (what inspired the Grove the episode where Carol shot the little girl) in its 6 issues. Very short story arc.
Seems our Hunters are being dispatched before the midseason break with Beth's weird "Cop Cult" being the main story arc. Fear the Hunters only lasts 1 Volume of the Comic anyway while everything we have seen before up to this point is 10 Volumes (that is from the GN). Fear the Hunters also included things like Telephone Crazy Rick, and the Ben/Billy story (what inspired the Grove the episode where Carol shot the little girl) in its 6 issues. Very short story arc.
Pootle
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Back wind a bit, I think that they have become cannibals out of ease. It is easier to kill a 'living' human than hunt for meat, more food and less energy wasted getting it and the humans come to groups seeking sanctuary. They were possibly/probably in a situation were it was starvation or cannibalism, and cannibalism won, so to speak.
Outside of TWD, I once saw a documentary about cannibalism, once humans have (or we could say choose) to eat human flesh to survive and get the taste for human flesh they seem (in what I have seen) to readily accept it much easier than I could have ever imagined.
nanoboy
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Yes, I find this one difficult to fathom given America's proud hunting culture. There must have been a few Termites who were successful hunters pre-apocalypse, especially in Georgia!!
On a slightly related note, who's looking forward to the spinoff that we are promised (next year?)?
In the GN the whole point about why they became cannibals is they were ****** hunters in the first place.
nanoboy
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What's it about? Have they announced anything?
~Thylo
Do a quick search for it and you will find a few reliable websites with news about the spinoff. There will be more Latinos (their words) and it will follow a new group of survivors in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak.
Has everyone seen episode 3?! Wow that was intense!
~Thylo
~Thylo
nanoboy
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Has everyone seen episode 3?! Wow that was intense!
~Thylo
Yeah they are all intense. Rick keeps his promises. Who did Daryl call to in the bushes? I think it's someone we haven't seen in the show yet.
Very, very true. I suspect it's either an injured Carol or maybe they ran into Morgan, though that then raises the question of where's Carol. But I don't think the next episode will answer us just yet and it seems it'll be an all Beth episode.
~Thylo
nanoboy
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Very, very true. I suspect it's either an injured Carol or maybe they ran into Morgan, though that then raises the question of where's Carol. But I don't think the next episode will answer us just yet and it seems it'll be an all Beth episode.
~Thylo
That's a good point. It makes sense that the next episode will be about Beth.
Why would he have to call out to Carol though? She knows the group already. I didn't th about Morgan - yes, that's a good suggestion.
Well when I said all about Beth, I mean it seems as though it's going to show Beth wherever she's at and simply show her for the entirety of the episode. That's what it the trailer suggested anyhow.
That's a good point, not sure. Maybe they weren't sure if the group was still there or heard the gunshots from earlier and Daryl was scouting.
~Thylo