how the FRICK did the people in the fricking TANK just randomly die? its a frickin TANK, it should literally be able to just steamroll the zombies. what the frick
the walking dead is fricking stupid
how the FRICK did the people in the fricking TANK just randomly die? its a frickin TANK, it should literally be able to just steamroll the zombies. what the frick
Is that supposed to be in the US? That's a British tank.
that season takes place in georgia, not sure why a bong tank is there
pretty hard for them to get their hands on an abrams so they mocked up a chieftain to look like one. think other films have done it as well
>noticing this
Lmao just go live in the sandbox already
There’s LOTS of overlap between here and /k/
>Lmao just go live in the sandbox already
Middle path autism is best autism
They were hacks even in S1. That whole series died in S1E4.
I never made it past the point where Rick and someone else dressed up as zombies, which season one episode was that?
Like 2 I think, my man.
Maybe it ran out of fuel/ammo and the men ditched it.
>deploy tanks to a known chaotic warzone, with full intelligence team giving you support from a command station miles away, hours of maintenance and prep time, etc etc
>don't bring enough gas
frick off
They could’ve also been fleeing some place and they ran out of fuel and got trapped. The military collapsed almost immediatly, and we see some National guardsmen later on still holding onto military vehicles and equipment.
>The military collapsed almost immediatly
I stopped watching the show after season 2, did they ever explain why/how that could have happened? You'd think the military would be the people to have their shit together, aren't they trained for SHTF situations?
>You'd think the military would be the people to have their shit together
Don't look up
Battle of May Island
Battle of Crete
> aren't they trained for SHTF situations?
lol. Sweet naïveté. Militaries are trained to deal with the previous engagement. The history of warfare is a perpetual series of failures to adapt to changing conditions. A real zombie scenario would cripple the world and all the militaries would be totally useless.
Quite easily. Imagine being a colonel with troops loyal to you, you are told to jump straight into the fray with the equipment you currently posses, and you see how your comrades are dying left and right following these orders, chain of command is in shit and it's only getting worse. What do you do, do you jump into the fray or you take whatever equipment you have with your boys who can actually handle it. In fact, Governor was shown to be picking off such military men one by one amassing their shit, it's how he acquired arms he needed for Woodbury.
DotD was the most realistic portrayal of a military unit cut off from their chain of command, which would absolutely have be the first thing to go in order for things to get as bad as they did.
>OR ARE WE JUST JERKIN' OFF HERE
Yeah, and keep in mind, Rhodes went the way he did because his immediate superior died and we can only assume that superior still saw value in Frankenstein's research and why it went on for so long. As a military man Rhodes was following orders, but once he took over and became a leader it took him like what, 2 days to call it quits? And every single troops like their would have such struggles.
Have you seen how awful the current military is and we're not even being attacked? ShaNayNay and her diversity squad didn't know how to land a plane just last week and dove it right into the ocean missing a runway. 90 million dollar plane destroyed in an instant.
It was probably longer than an instant.
A crew member would have to get out of the tank to access the jerry cans strapped to the outside to refuel.
>just get out the tank to refuel bro
>i think they went away
brilliant
>>i think they went away
The tank has viewports all over, and even has infrared or thermal cameras or whatever. These things are made to fight humans that hide in bushes and shoot at them from far away, they sure as shit can detect braindead monsters that just slowly stumble towards it in plain sight.
The Abrams tank gets 0.6mpg.
At that point it was nebulous as to what killed everyone or was in the process of killing everyone, so it was logical that a soldier inside just up and died from "....", you know?
sorry anon but I have no fricking clue what you’re talking about
>tank gets surrounded by zombies
>people inside know they can’t escape but don’t kill themselves just incase help arrives
>help never arrives and they starve / dehydrate to death
Why didnt they just drive away?
Ran out of fuel.
At this point nobody probably knew what the frick was going on.
You do know that anything with an internal combustion engine requires fuel ,right?
very verbose way of saying outta gas
its too unrealistic for me, I couldnt get into it.
Why bring a tank to fight zombies anyway?
no idea
Zombies cant get in at all and theres a heavy caliber machine gun on top that would shred everything. why yall moronic
There’s 5 million people in Atlanta, I don’t know how many rounds a tank can hold but I’m guessing less than 5 million.
I didn't say it has endless infinite ammo like it's on Godmode. what is wrong with you ppl. running out of ammo against zombies is the classic thing because it makes sense
Well then what’s your fricking point? How would you win against a horde of zombies in a tank with no ammo or gas?
Work on your reading comprehension goddamn man. When I said "shreds everything" i meant that it's a powerful tool.
And my point was that if there’s more everything than bullets (there is) then it doesn’t fricking shred everything. If you’re talking from a strictly capability standpoint then yes the machine gun will shoot zombies but it won’t shoot the zombies behind building or cars because machine guns can’t shoot through buildings or cars. So you’re wrong there too. Also mounted m240s are notoriously finicky it’ll probably jam after 50 rounds or so and then the zombies are on you. Tank=moron-mobile in the zombie apocalypse.
What about a tank with an AGMS, a flamethrower and razors on the sides?
I’ll answer that after you tell me what the A in AGMS stands for and why it would apply here.
Automatic grenade launcher like on Cobra.
You knew I caught you and decided to go full moron. Thanks for playing.
Still cool Idea to throw everything at zombies. Modern Army should shredded zombies by billions. I mean seriously this is Cyberpunk now.
Yeah I always had a problem with most of the buildings standing in the population centers. The first thing they would do is bomb the frick out of every city with more than a million people in it. Up to and including nukes.
>can't shoot through buildings or cars
Bullets can penetrate lots of walls and they sure as shit penetrate cars. I'm not sure what you're rambling on about dude or how it relates to what i said
>lots of walls
>buildings
Are these the same thing?
7.62 won’t penetrate an entire car you dummy.
Those guns are more than capable of killing multiple enemies in one shot
No, I don't agree. Anything a tank's machine gun can do a conventional gun can. And you can be more mobile and just shoot at all the zombies from range.
But you don't need that. Stay at range, take a rifle, literally shoot each and every last zombie before they can slow walk to you. Fall back as needed. I really think involving tanks is stupid unless you're fighting Resident Evil bioweapons or running Zombies.
Tank has everything that can fight zombies. Even flameflower. This is bs fr fr.
Why don't people in an apocalypse use bicycle as a means of transport?
Because you could get easily grabbed off one or blow a tire from riding over shit on the road? or that you're an easy target for an ambush idk anon why dont you tell me
Try riding your bike in detroit as an example
>tanks would be useless
>bicycles would be useless
Okay then geniuses, what vehicle/method of transportation is zombie apocalypse certified?
A tank would be impractical simply because of the fuel consumption and putting a target on your back for other survivors. A bike could be decent if you can avoid dense mobs, but then you can’t carry the supplies or cover the ground you need to in more sparsely populated areas. I’d say a good 4x4 truck or jeep. Not too wide in order to maximize chances of squeezing through road blockage or navigating through forest. Stick to the least populated areas you can find, locate a body of water, scavenge, hunt, fish for food until it all blows over in a couple months
>I’d say a good 4x4 truck or jeep
>fuel consumption
Trick up your bike with these babies and you're good to go.
If you lived in just the right area, where you could bike 20-30 miles into nothingness, that would work. Full hiking bag on your back, water bladders and freeze dried food strapped to every surface
What? Zombies will run out faster than fuel. But sending one tank to kill all zombies is stupid. Need at least helicopter to drop fuel and ammo and other supplies.
STAAARS
i'd like to see a zombie get up into an aeroplane
Parkour
Hang glider
wouldnt you be landing on the fricking things? if you had said a jetpack i would of bought it
Nah you have a machete and some throwing stars. Gotta watch out for those volatiles tho.
Helicopter
>can land basically anywhere
>plenty of room for supplies
>how many bandits will have AA to take you down?
>only needs one pilot
>no zombies can ever possibly get you
>hq overrun? take your helicopter and gtfo
>tricky to fly
>becomes unusable or a thousand times more difficult to use in the lightest of weather
>can barely carry enough supplies for one person let alone multiple and every lb of weight complicates every other issue with helicopters
>zombies hear and see you wherever you go and will hound you at every location you drag them to
They aren't as useful as you think. Stealthier and quieter transportation is way more useful.
skateboard, you can just avoid the slow moving
zombies
>Okay then geniuses, what vehicle/method of transportation is zombie apocalypse certified?
Which ever car brand wants to do product placement in the show in question.
Because walking doesn't pose a threat
Because your vehicle runs without a scared source
Because a bike is not literally the easiest tool to maintain and efficient to get to places
>Try riding your bike in detroit as an example
Black folk ride with me
Do you really think they bought those bikes? Lol
because only children ride on bicycles
What are we, a bunch of Dutch homosexuals?
Potverdikkie wat een belediging :3
There's broken glass everywhere and it constantly shreds my shit up, and society hasn't even collapsed yet.
The purpose of the unexplained tank is to show that the world is in total chaos. All shows and movies about post apocalypse scenarios use this.
I imagine the tank ran out of power, and the tank crew couldn't escape because the tank was continually surrounded by walkers and they didn't have near enough ammo, so they slowly dehydrated/starved to death and/or died of exposure to the Georgia heat. They probably kept expecting rescue from the rest of their unit, too.
I imagine their final days could be compared to being cooked alive in an oven.
There is kino scene in one of the early seasons of Fear The Walking Dead where one of the characters is speaking via radio to a Russian astronaut
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Imagine dying of thirst or lack of oxigen while watching an Earth with no more lights.
Tanks would be useless in a zombie scenario. Offensively they are only really effective at taking out other tanks, probably not many zombie tanks out there to fight, defensively they require infantry support. Most importantly, tanks break down all the fricking time and require constant maintenance. Tank crews have to get out all the time to maintain things or it all falls apart.
>probably not many zombie tanks out there to fight
give it a couple seasons
>tanks would be useless
>literally pancakes human bodies and weights tons do a pack of zombies wouldn’t even slow it down.
You didn’t think very hard on this reply. Did you write this episode?
>run over pack of zombies
>one of them gets stuck in the treads, tank's stuck
>welp.avi
Bodies don’t get stuck in treads. Not even the shitty communist Chinese tanks had that issue let alone a more modern day tank. Have you seen what the full weight of a tank does to a body? Try harder
>this regard thinks human bodies have the same consistently as a dense log
Plz tell me you aren’t this fricking stupid and this is just a troll reply
55 tons of metal running over bodies with a wet mass of 200lbs at best? No, mate, those bodies will be goo. Tienanmen square kinda proved this with the photos of pancaked bodies. Your 300 mates, undead or living aint gonna have a chance in heaven of slowing down a tank. Bodies aren’t solid logs no matter how many fricking mcchickens you stuff down that fat gullet.
How many bodies would it take to stop a tank? A thousand? 100 thousand? What’s the over under?
I'd say it would take quite a LOT of squishy popping meat bags. Far more shown in any of the scenes with the tank. The point being, just like in the op, the tank shown should have easily steamrolled every single body present. It's a 55 ton tank, not your mommy's 3000 lb suv. We're talking a machine that is heavier and has more power behind it than a bulldozer that literally pushes thousands of pounds of solid,dense, rolled up dirt. A crowd of zombies ain't gonna do shit to hold it back even if they were capable of the presence of mind to pile on only one side and all together try to hold it still
lol tanks get stuck on logs, piles of human bodies would stall it out completely. And all it takes is for one zombie to crawl on top and bite the guy who has to get out to clear the treads. moron.
It's true, Merkavas have been proven to be absolutely useless. I hope this is the conclusion you were hoping for 🙂
>lol tanks get stuck on logs
No they dont anymore grandpa, it was a problem in ww2. Modern tanks can chew stones
Tank with an AI also drone tank.
They had originally planned on doing a whole flashback scene showing how the solider ended up there. I think they said he was bitten but I'm not entirely sure. I dont understand why you think any of that is unbelievable, whether he was bitten or died of dehydration. Anyway there's some information out there on what they orignally planned. the soldier zombie was played by an accomplished actor not an extra
Yeah, forgot his name, but he was also in Days Gone, which is funny considering the name of this episode.
Sam Witwer, he’s also been in pretty much every Star Wars video game for the past 20 years.
That's the man.
Why not kill all zombies with AI drones? Walking Dead is moronic.
what about the fact that the entire show they struggle to make it from state to state across the country but somehow in the new spin-off Daryl Dixon is in fricking France somehow.
just as dumb as the eagles and the Lord of the rings.
That's explained. He starts freelance work for some outfit collecting zombies for whatever reason, starts a fight which is forbidden, they take him prisoner and they're taking all the zombies on a boat back to France and they feed ppl to the zombies during the trip. you can say it's bad writing or whatever but it makes rudimentary sense. They're doing experiments and making super strong zombies. Why they need zombies from across the Atlantic ocean I don't know. I guess that's the biggest plot hole.
What about how is Maggie still driving around in a fricking bronco in the New York show? Gas goes bad after about 6 months.
Everything is converted to Ethyinol at this point
Fuel conditioner exists
>That's explained.
the eagles in lotr have also been explained ad nausium. The poster you are replying to therefore meant:
>there is a rational explanation but I'm going to ignore it and pretend like I'm above room temperature IQ by acting as if I've spotted a plot hole
the military being moronic is essential to zombie movies, there's as much a point to questioning why the tank is there as to asking why zombies can only get killed via headshot. It's just the way the rules are.
I mean how much fuel does a tank use?
They're really fricking heavy and that engine needs some juice to move it.
300 gallons every 8 hours, apparently
About 1 mile per gallon, or 235l/100km for your standard abrams
For zombie apocolypse media to work it heavily relies on everyone making the worst decisions ever
so of course they'd bring tanks into civilian areas with no way to refuel them
Literally no zombie media would ever work if it didn't have stipulations like return of the living dead, or romero's stuff, like reanimating regardless of if you're bitten and don't have head trauma
otherwise outbreaks would hardly ever spread
I think conventional zombies that aren’t supernatural and transmit from bites would still explode in urban areas, but would die off in a few days. Lots would get away, many suburbs and most rural areas would stave it off completely. Depends on the specifics of course, but there would be some hordes
I could buy that if there was some catastrophic event that initially turns 5% of the entire population at once, otherwise, it'd just never get off the ground - biting is such a shitty vector for infection.
In the early half of season 1 of Fear TWD, they talk about there's some new flu going around. Very quickly school buses begin showing up with only a handful of students on board, so we're to assume they were sick with the new virus going around and stayed home. so it's canon for Walking Dead
Isn't every human infected regardless? at least that's what they said in season 1.
I guess some people got very sick from it initially, then as it spread people gained more resistance naturally, or were already resistant from getting sick. however literally everyone is a carrier of sorts even without any ill effects, until they die and then the virus reboots a tiny core part of the brain. i'm just guessing. Fear established some initial virus that made many sick, some of which died to that, to kickstart zombie epidemic
It's bad writing. Kirkman tries to reinvent the wheel and apply science to an inherently supernatural phenomena and just makes a plot hole ridden mess with it.
I actually wouldn't mind a more ambiguous explanation or even a supernatural one, but he went full moron with it.
The biggest most glaring plot hole for me is flesh that only rots superficially and can last through years of exposure to heat, cold, and wet. After the first winter there shouldn’t have been anymore zombies.
Whatever the contagion is, it must slow down the decay process, like maybe it counteracts putrefaction caused by bacterium. That would have to be the case. It would seem supernatural to our limited understanding. There will always be new discoveries you know.
You mean except for all the clearly putrified zombies?
I mean it slows it down considerably. Something is slowing it down considerably.
>basically
>I think
>I feel that
>we're to assume
>my canon is that
>I guess
Sweet, it's headcanon time
Cry about it piss baby.
is me and point out where I said any of those phrases, it’s been years since I watched the show and wasn’t sure if I remembered correctly. It’s not head canon you turbonerd.
I'd actually argue the opposite, Kirkman tries to reinvent the wheel by ACTIVELY avoiding the science. The most scientific explanation Walking Dead has ever had was in CDC, 100% Frank Darabont invention.
Kirkman on the other hand couldn't give less of a frick about origins of the virus. Personally if I were Kirkman or Frank Darabont I would've given multiple explanations from time to time like Night of the Living Dead did (at one point scientists were asked if it was cosmic radiation or some shit and they just nodded to journos and said, yup, that must definitely be it!)
He should have stood firmly against the inclusion of the CDC on the show then, or at least had their conclusion be as baffled as everyone else.
everything known about the virus comes straight from there and fricks up the ambiguity by applying science to it that simply doesn't work.
To be honest, CDC was an attempt, but wasn't even a good one and didn't clarify anything. In essence it doesn't ruin anything at all, it just spoils Rick earlier than he was supposed to know that everyone is infected. CDC episode is hated by cast and show members because of what it did to Shane predominantly (rape attempt).
If anything, I wish CDC had gone harder with wrong conclusions and ideas, so that future explanations would've made it make less sense. But they never went with anything at all. But overall, I don't think CDC introduces any logic that contradicts or ruins rules established by Kirkman. Everybody turns unless they are shot in the head, that's all there is to it.
Nah the CDC guy and what he revealed gives the premise just enough kinda plausible science behind it to set it apart from what came before. i think probably most of the audience was just fine with it.
>kinda plausible science
That's the point, it's not plausible science in the least and leaves more unintended questions than it answers, and not in a good way.
They'd have been best off keeping it ambiguous or omitting any kind of explanation entirely, leave it for people to speculate on.
the episode didn't offer any plausible science though. The guy literally just showed Rick his observations and said he doesn't know what the frick's going on, but everyone is infected (or has the capacity to become a walker after dying). It's not plausible science, it's just an observation.
Nah he gives kinda plausible science
What science? He just named Wildfire virus and that's it.
Possibly Frank could have had some ideas for future seasons with it. Only Ymir knows. Actually, the bigger contradiction Frank did against Kirkman is that Kirkman went out of his way to make sure zombies are nothing but empty husks of flesh. Frank however injected it with George Romero rules in S1 (which contradicted the research Governor did in S3 directly to hammer in the point there is nothing left inside walkers)
it's kinda plausible though, we learn we're all infected
kinda plausible if you really think about it
>it's kinda plausible though, we learn we're all infected
Which is Kirkman invention, not Darabont.
It also doesn’t fricking change anything for their day to day lives except making sure when someone dies they also have to be stabbed in the head. I have no idea why so much importance was placed on it.
>I have no idea why so much importance was placed on it.
How many times did they lose dozens of people in their various communities because someone died and no one stabbed them? They probably lost hundreds of people like this so it's clearly important
Everyone is infected. The bite from a zombie just has a 100% mortality rate without a very quick amputation.
The flu was just that, a flu - it's never touched upon or explained again. The flu may have killed some people but it didn't cause the infection.
A better question is, if every human is infected and the bite is 100% fatal, what happens if a human bites another human? why does death turn the bite fatal?
Aside from shitty writing, of course.
If I remember correctly the dead carry the active virus and the living carry the dormant virus, when a human dies the virus activates and gets them up and moving. That’s not how viruses work but whatever.
Right. Death allows it to flourish throughout the dead flesh.
> if every human is infected and the bite is 100% fatal, what happens if a human bites another human? why does death turn the bite fatal?
Uh, frick
you got me
A better question is, if every human is infected and the bite is 100% fatal, what happens if a human bites another human? why does death turn the bite fatal?
The whole 'everyone is infected' thing really hurts this fricking show, doesn't it
Zombies can’t climb ladders so why doesn’t everyone just build their towns elevated? What are they, moronic?
>A better question is, if every human is infected and the bite is 100% fatal, what happens if a human bites another human? why does death turn the bite fatal?
An even better question is there's a guy who dies of old age in fear the walking dead and he reanimates. If his brain literally ceased functioning, how'd he turn? that's one of the main catalysts is to have an intact brain.
>For zombie apocolypse media to work it heavily relies on everyone making the worst decisions ever
this is my biggest issue with zombie media, everyone is painfully moronic
a scene from the walking dead that sticks with me for exactly this reason is when carol is finding a walker to practice a C-section on, they are at the prison, everyone is concerned about zombies stacking up at the fence attracting more zombies and damaging the fence
carol is at the fence, she finds the zombie she wants, she kills it, then she gets maggie to lure the other zombies away, there were 5 or so more at the time, carol then drags the body through while the other walkers are distracted, carol and maggie both then frick off leaving the 5 zombies banging on the fence
why the frick wouldn't you just kill them? you dont have to try and distract them when retrieving the zombie you want and risking it fricking up and getting bit and you dont leave them banging on the fence attracting more and fricking up the fence
Not excusing the moronic writers here, but modern wars are won by crippling the enemy's capability to produce armaments and resources. Assuming SHTF in civilian areas so bad that workers quickly fled or became scarce it isn't unbelievable that supply lines suffered a domino effect of breakdowns. This would have led to many units retreating and guarding what few scattered and unorganized ammo factories/fuel refineries were left.
the dams also broke so there was no electricity
Their commanding officer turned into a zombie and gave them an order to get out of the tank. Even if he was a zombie he was still their commanding officer. Respect
So far we have:
>Tanks are are literally incapable of fighting anything besides other tanks.
>Tanks only hold enough fuel for 1 minute of operation
>Tanks are slower than people on foot, and get rekt the moment they hit a single pothole
>You can't see shit out of a tank, not even a horde of slowly stumbling humans
>Random survivors can easily take on a tank
Anything I missed?
>Tanks are literally incapable of fighting anything besides other tanks.
Basically. They can blow shit up but that’s not a big help against a crowd of zombies, especially with limited ammo
>Tanks only hold enough fuel for 1 minute of operation
Might as well, since you’ll never find enough to refuel after a day of use
>Tanks are slower than people on foot, and get rekt the moment they hit a single pothole
Not that one
>You can't see shit out of a tank, not even a horde of slowly stumbling humans
Depends on the tank, but you can probably see well enough
>Random survivors can easily take on a tank
Yep, just takes balls and something that burns or produces smoke
Or a magic invincible redneck with a hand grenade that blows up something designed to have things blow up in it but this time is different somehow.
The grenade is designed to blow things up so it evens out
What’s a tank shell designed to do and how is it propelled?
It’s designed to penetrate the target and explode inside and it uses an explosion but grenades are made of harder metals like titanium and diamond for greater explosions
The tank is 1
The grenades is -2
That equals -1 so the grenade wins
Do you read the stuff you type? Or is it just slamming your booger hooks down on a keyboard and hope English comes out?
>They can blow shit up
>but that’s not a big help against a crowd of zombies
how can someone type that with a serious face
Go and try to kill a million ants with a handgun and report back how it goes.
It depends on the bullet.
It’s a lot more than I expected, but that’s not going to get you very far against thousands
That’s not an M1 Abrams, that’s an English Chieftain which can hold 64 rounds max.
>Basically
lmao
Country A has tanks and infantry. Country B just has infantry. You're telling me that if country A and B went to war, A's tanks would just be chilling around, doing absolutely nothing? Those big guns and machine guns can't be used against anything else? Hell, you're telling me that for the last however many decades all of the armies of the world are just building / buying tanks for the sole purpose of removing something that poses no threat? What are you smoking, dude?
>Yep, just takes balls and something that burns or produces smoke
lmao. Ok so now you're telling me tanks aren't even necessary to destroy other tanks, they exist just for the hell of it. Bro, I have no idea what you're smoking, but it's not getting into any semi-modern tanks with a NBC system.
we’re talking about zombies you fricking sperg. what, you’re going to plant your feet on your own obvious hyperbole that tanks literally can’t do anything but shoot other tanks? of course they can. that doesn’t prove anything
>we’re talking about zombies you fricking sperg
homosexual you made the dumbass claims. stfu
are are literally incapable of fighting anything besides other tanks.
Tanks are major infantry killers, especially tanks that have a heavy MG or autocannon as a secondary weapon
only hold enough fuel for 1 minute of operation
Western tanks typically have fuel for 12-24 hours of operation or 300-500 miles. Most western tanks also additionally have a smaller more efficient auxiliary power unit for keeping most of the systems running while the main engine is off
are slower than people on foot, and get rekt the moment they hit a single pothole
Modern French, German, Japanese and American tanks can travel at near highway speeds
>>You can't see shit out of a tank, not even a horde of slowly stumbling humans
Most modern western tanks have modern optics making it very easy to see around you. Some even have a full 360 degree camera setup where you wear a VR-like headset and can basically see through the tank armor via multiple cameras
survivors can easily take on a tank
If they have an ATGM or another tank maybe
In short, lazy writer that couldn't even look up basic cool tank factz
>this raving lunatic is on the loose in a crumbling society
>you're asking how the people in the tank died
AY TANK, LEMME DRIVE YOU SOMEWHERE
>*grabs his crotch*
>'MASK YOU SUM RICK
>OP runs out of fuel and battery charge
HOW IS THIS TANK DEAD HOW HOW HOW ITS A TANK
THE POPE'S EXORCIST
Fear the Walking Dead had the right idea, but it realized it like a piece of shit. It did showcase military trying to sort of still create containment zones and then suddenly one day abandon their posts. It was just 100% tension free and nonsensical, they weren't shown particularly to struggle until the very final raid, they just sort of built a fence, stood there and went, that's it, we give up. S1 was laughably pathetic.
Tanks are fricking long range artillery, why the frick would you drive into the middle of a city in the first place if you absolutely plan on using one
It happened while Rick was asleep. You are not supposed to think about it.
>zombie show
>99.9% of characters die by sudden bites instead of getting overwhelmed
>They don't wear body armor because it smells bad
Tbh, I could buy characters like Glenn not wearing armor because freedom of movement with these zombies is more important than armor. You can outpace them by breaking into a light jog, by season 4-5 they don't even run from them, they just walk from them, that's how little threat they represent, only in numbers walkers pose any threat. And when they have numbers over you, armor wouldn't necessarily help as they'll just overwhelm you eventually until you have to push through wall of rotten meat. However, it is moronic they never have riot gear on hand at all times just in case. A dozen of people with riot gear on would've mowed down the S6 walker horde no problem.
>Tbh,
headcanon boy's back
It's not even a headcanon, just an assessment, schizo
You can still outrun them with body armor, but that's not my point. Like I said almost every death by zombies was when they surprise thr characters and bite them in the leg or something or when TWD does that thing where zombie materialise out of thin air and these deaths wouldn't happen if they had body armor on
>Like I said almost every death by zombies was when they surprise thr characters and bite them in the leg or something or when TWD does that thing where zombie materialise out of thin air and these deaths wouldn't happen if they had body armor on
That's true for first two seasons and they simply didn't have their hands on any riot gear.
However, in later seasons people kill more people than zombies do (unless it's people throwing zombies at people which is a tactic in later seasons). Around season 4 or 5 zombies have turned completely into some sort of low tier animal that just happens to aggro on everyone. Hell, Kingdom soldiers were actually all wearing body armor, but they were probably mostly against bullets from other people.
too many moronic nit pickers in this thread. zombie movies are all moronic after the first day. 50 trained men can kill unarmed savages all day every day. police and military and militia would reestablish order in a week. its simply too easy to kill hoards of mindless humans
They give some kinda plausible science as to why that isn't the case though
What if they are feral and turning to zombies was within seconds? It's almost guaranteed that infected cities would fall before the national guard arrives
>What if
Who cares, we're dealing with pre-established rules, however shitty kirkman's writing may be
By having it an identifiable infectious strain everyone is carrying takes away all ambiguity.
Supernatural > Shitty unexplainable airborne virus
Wait, why can't it be both? Shitty unexplainable airborne virus is just one of explanation that could or could not be true, it has no bearing on Kirkman deciding that everyone who dies without a headshot will turn into zombie because that's the kind of rule he came up with regardless.
> Why are stupid shows stupid?
Yeah it's a real mystery, Scoob.
Yeah bro just do a flip over the zombies land in the tank, turn it on and drive it through them all and shoot them all. It's that easy man.
>11 seasons later
>most still use knives to take out walkers
>no one uses bycicles
>eugene being able to make handmade bullets is basically forgotten
there's too much shit that wouldn't make sense in a real apocalypse but i cba to write
i'm at s11e16 and i'm really only watching it for eugene and daryl so i can then move on to his spin-off
and negan, oops
just not sure if I'll watch Dead City also, Maggie is fricking annoying
I know I'll be watching.
Dead City is shit, Daryl's spin off is better than most of TWD.
Wasn't this also in the 1st season whe the zombies were written to be "smart"
Did you actually still keep watching
Maybe one of the soldiers turned into a zombie while inside and killed the rest
It's not just a maybe, it's a definite plausibility. Not only that, a lot of people don't realize how plausible the downfall of military is in the context of Walking Dead, because, before they realize what's going on, all the wounded they treat are zombie time bombs essentially.
>It's not just a maybe, it's a definite plausibility
still here shitting up the thread with headcanon's huh
Yeah I just realized how moronic that sounds. It's like my brain died and ESL virus kept typing.
>It's not just a maybe, it's a definite plausibility.
I don't think you know what these words mean.
tanks don't run on piss unfortunately
Even then someone would have to open the hatch and piss on it while being surrounded by zombies.
wasn't there supposed to be an episode dedicated to following the soldiers in the tank to find out how that happened?
it got scrapped
obviously
Why hasn't anyone made an entirely supernatural zombie show(recently)? Think GOT but mostly about zombie attacks with a powerful lich as the primary antagonist.
In a civil unrest scenario passive displays of force would be used to suppress riots, demonstrations and whatnot. APCs, tanks, jeeps would all be used and likely wouldn't be supplied with live ordinance. Much like the local PD putting an extra cruiser near a speeding hotspot or intersection as a deterrent.
I haven't watched season 1 since it aired, didn't the crew wake up when he was trying to wait out the horde?
The dead guy in the tank was played by Sam Witwer and the original plan was to have a prequel episode showing how it ended up there(I think the idea was to do this for a few things, whenever something unexpected showed up to do either a prequel or small online episode).
But then Frank Darabont was fired and the idea was dropped.