Addl wrote:I always wondered why a zombie should "die" after a headshot while already dead.
This!
The way the Walking Dead TV show explained it makes sense to me, enough so that I can accept the whole "headshot kills zombies dead" thing. (At least for that series. And I forget if they do it the same way in the comics...)
Walking Dead (first season) semi-spoilers ahoy! (if you're weird like Hound and wait for the whooooooole show to come out on DVD before you start watching something). Not sure if it's the same in the comic, can't remember. So read at own discretion.
SPOILER! (select to read)They explain somewhere in the first season (forget where, remember the ep but not which one it was) that the "virus" lives in the spinal cord where it connects to the brain, therefore reanimating some of the basic functions, or somesuch. My problem with that is that they see it as a virus. Virus suggests there's a cure coming, and as I've said I'm not down with the concept of "curing" a zombie. I dunno, I may be way off base- maybe a "zombie vaccine"? Eh.
Now, I can't remember offhand if it's been explained the same way elsewhere... so if this is, like, a common way of explaining it, just assume I live in a box or something.
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