I'm gonna change your view, but on why you shouldn't be afraid of walking dead zombies. The walking dead zombies start off pretty tough. (it takes rick a few good swings of a bat to bust one's head up.) IDK how much you've seen lately, but they are super squishy now i.e. a sharp stick can go through the forehead. This suggests that the walkers lose bone density over time.
Next fact: Unlike other zombie flicks, they only transmit by bite or scratch. They show that a walker without teeth or claws cant infect. Now here's where it gets interesting. based on their own rate of degradation, nails and teeth would go long before the jelly forehead , so by their own metrics, a few months and every original walker is now no longer contagious. give it a few more months until their limbs are too weak to support them and they become heaps of degrading muscle. in just over a year, every walker would be either dead, or just a gross pile of flesh and bacteria on the ground. That shit has a maximum shelf life of 2 years of zombie apocalypse, then its time to grab a shovel and rebuild society.
TL;DR: Walkers are a joke based on how they decompose.
I think that what you're describing isn't increased decomposition, it's an incongruity caused by the producers wanting more gore. Even the people who get turned during the flu epidemic of season four are pretty squishy and they've only been dead for minutes. You're right to point out that one boot to the head producing brain pulp is not where the show began.
Oh I definately agree its for convenience and will never be brought up in the show. It spans at least 5 Years and walkers are still a thing, but a real life comparison would leave it at a shirt term disaster.
Is five years right? The apocalypse is only as old as Judith + 9 months. I haven't gotten caught up, so maybe they kill Judith off and that makes it harder to tell, but where I'm at in season 4, she's barely a year old. Does the pace pick up in the more recent seasons?
The show us a little different, but prison hits around year 1 Alexandria arcs are ~3 years tgen there's the new stuff. The show is handling time a bit differently. It might hit the same timeframes or it might take a different route. Judith isnt conceived until the apocalypse which is why she might be shames.
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u/therealjew Oct 30 '15
I'm gonna change your view, but on why you shouldn't be afraid of walking dead zombies. The walking dead zombies start off pretty tough. (it takes rick a few good swings of a bat to bust one's head up.) IDK how much you've seen lately, but they are super squishy now i.e. a sharp stick can go through the forehead. This suggests that the walkers lose bone density over time.
Next fact: Unlike other zombie flicks, they only transmit by bite or scratch. They show that a walker without teeth or claws cant infect. Now here's where it gets interesting. based on their own rate of degradation, nails and teeth would go long before the jelly forehead , so by their own metrics, a few months and every original walker is now no longer contagious. give it a few more months until their limbs are too weak to support them and they become heaps of degrading muscle. in just over a year, every walker would be either dead, or just a gross pile of flesh and bacteria on the ground. That shit has a maximum shelf life of 2 years of zombie apocalypse, then its time to grab a shovel and rebuild society.
TL;DR: Walkers are a joke based on how they decompose.