Topic: The Walking Dead

[Belmontoya]

I've been watching this show since it premiered on Halloween many years ago.

Now it's hard not to watch the Walking Dead and not think about what you would do in a zombie apocalypse scenario, but that's not exactly what I'm here to bitch about.

I'm bitching about one small thing. A thing that actually drives me nuts.

We know that the zombie bites give the victim a horrible fever that kills them within a day or 2. We also know that supplies are scarce, and that loud noises like guns draw the attention of other zombies. So we see a lot of people using different weapons on the show. But I'm here to say that almost all of them are idiots. Here's why...

THE NEVER MAKE AND USE SPEARS!!

Fuck me. A spear. A weapon that's been around since the stone age. It's perfect. You can make a spear out of a stick, with a reasonable range of up to 10ft. If I were Rick, I would have everyone equipped with long spears. A zombie approaches, you stick it in the head with your spear from a safe distance away, and you're safe. If it somehow manages to get past the spear, then use your close range weapon like a knife, machete, or whatever. Shields wouldn't hurt either. And you can make them out of a trash can lid.

But spears!!! Everyone should have a spear! We see a guy with a bow staff, but he's too stupid to sharpen an end of it or attach a knife to it.

Seriously, this has been driving me nuts for so long. Every fucking person in a zombie apocalypse should have spear of some kind...

Let's not get into how everyone should be wearing better protection. I understand Georgia is hot but we see characters running into known zombie zones in short sleeves and sleeveless shirts equipped with a pocket knives facing zombies. Anyone that stupid deserves to get bit. It drives me nuts.

That's my biggest bitch. We haven't seen one person smart enough to use a spear, when everyone should have one as a first go to weapon for dealing with 1 or a small number of walkers.

I had to vent this somewhere... Sorry!

But has anyone else noticed this and been annoyed by it? Hey Walking Dead, take a lesson from Seven Samurai. Equip everyone with spears.

I would be the Eric Lecarde of Walking Dead.

[X]

What drives me nuts about The Walking Dead is that because it is based on scientific explanations it falls flat on its face. HARD. No excuses, it just does. In fact here's a link to a website that explains it all...

http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html

The Walking Dead cannot survive as long as it has without some sort of supernatural explanation, and that's because a scientific one does not adequately dismiss all the nonsense the show has produced. Zombies that look mummified and are still able to move? Not according to science, therefore supernatural. Zombies that look like orange-red paste on the roads and are still trying to take bites out of people? Not according to science, therefore supernatural. A zombie with no meat on its bones that's still able to move about? Not according to science, therefore supernatural. Need I go on? Yet the creators and writers of the show expect us to believe otherwise. Not happening guys. Do your f@#kin' research 

[Lumi Kløvstad]

What drives me nuts about The Walking Dead is that because it is based on scientific explanations it falls flat on its face. HARD. No excuses, it just does. In fact here's a link to a website that explains it all...

http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html

The Walking Dead cannot survive as long as it has without some sort of supernatural explanation, and that's because a scientific one does not adequately dismiss all the nonsense the show has produced. Zombies that look mummified and are still able to move? Not according to science, therefore supernatural. Zombies that look like orange-red paste on the roads and are still trying to take bites out of people? Not according to science, therefore supernatural. A zombie with no meat on its bones that's still able to move about? Not according to science, therefore supernatural. Need I go on? Yet the creators and writers of the show expect us to believe otherwise. Not happening guys. Do your f@#kin' research 

You linked to one of my favorite pieces.
X, marry me and have my babies. XD

In addition, there's nothing that Walking Dead does that The Last Of Us doesn't do better.

[Belmontoya]

The Last of Us was great.

But seriously? No one else is pissed about every character ignoring spears?

Also, why are we sure that The Walking Dead is going for a scientific explanation? A supernatural one wouldn't bother me.

The lack of spears bothers me more than that would.

Just watched the latest x files too. Damn that was sweet.

[X]

X, marry me and have my babies. XD

Dude, that's impossible unless this were a gender bender manga! Are you on something, lol?

Also, why are we sure that The Walking Dead is going for a scientific explanation? A supernatural one wouldn't bother me.

Well the series is still running and they've not finished it to the point of giving out the final explanation as to what caused the zombie outbreak. My bro's room mate is in it for the long haul, but he's also shaking his head at the lack of common sense that the writers and creators of the show seem to possess. We'll know if they've shot themselves in the foot multiple times when the series gets to that point of offering THE awaited explanation.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Dude, that's impossible unless this were a gender bender manga! Are you on something, lol?

Oh oh... I'm interested in this! 

I haven't watched the Walking Dead since I am not fond of Zombies unless they appear in video games.

[Belmontoya]

Honestly I hope they never do explain it.

Sometimes it's best to leave things unexplained.

I saw the witch over the weekend and loved it. Virtually nothing was explained it that movie every mystery getting an explanation or a back story isn't always exactly realistic either with antagonists.

Sometimes we never know. That can make a mystery more terrifying. Like Jack the Ripper.

[Lelygax]

Maybe their logic is to never use a piercing weapon? I've only watched season 1, but if you pierce a body there isn't a risk that the weapon will be stuck? Surely a spear made for cut too like these on Soul Edge/Calibur would work wonders. Your idea seems a lot better than going kung-fu or using a knife like in Resident Evil.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Spears are less practical for fighting zombies than clubs.

A zombie can't do jack to you without functional limbs, and a club can shatter those, especially since the zombie has no way of absorbing proper nutrients and minerals to strengthen bones. Ergo, they will progressively weaken to the point where impacts will functionally destroy their skeletons. It may not "kill" the zombie, but it removes their ability to function as a threat.

A club doesn't require advanced training to use, can be made from almost anything, and shatters fragile zombie bones.

Best weapon, all around.

[piscesdreams]

I think the spears aren't used because they're too big for confined spaces.  They also would break easily if they were just made from your everyday branches.  But they would be good in the Alexandria Safe Zone.  Though, we do see spears propped up OUTSIDE the Alexandria Safe Zone and outside of Morgan's "clear" zone.

To throw my hat in the ring, and I'm not just saying this because the type of forum this is, but if I ever found myself in that kind of world I would carry a good strong chain.  Sure they're heavy-ish, but not overly heavy.  They're durable, double as tools and one good whack and you're golden.  Downside: don't whack yourself.

[Claimh Solais]

I don't know how caught up you are with the series,

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but Morgan used them frequently. In episode 6.04, which is a lengthy flashback episode about Morgan and how he got his whole "All life is precious" mentality after just recently being "I GOTTA CLEAR" last time we saw him, you see that he's been using spears to fight the walkers for a while, though they were more sharpened sticks than sticks with rocks attached.

In fact,

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in said episode, the man he meets (Eastman) even carved the pointed end of his spear in order to turn it into a staff, which is the weapon that Morgan is currently using now in the series.

As far as the way walkers function and such, Robert Kirkman already confirmed that no, that will never be explained. And I'm happy about that. When you begin going into how they function, how it started, etc. that's when loads of plot holes begin showing up.

The BIGGEST thing that bothers me is that at the end of season 1 (1.06, I believe), Dr. Jenner stated that only the brain stem of the walker is revived, not the entire brain. Which then meant that the brain stem had to be destroyed to kill the walker. But throughout the show you see them hitting them wherever the hell on the head and killing them. Michonne has even just straight up cut the top of a walker's head off multiple times, not even hitting anywhere NEAR the brain stem, and they still die.

Whatever, though. The show has been enjoyable for me, and I didn't even get into it until around August last year.

EDIT: Also, I think that they don't use spears since most of the time they encounter walkers, they're fighting them up close, and spears suck up close.