[TV] The Walking Dead

Manually locking them, or auto-locking? I think the argument is no one would want to lock themselves in without a way to get out, not just that they can be locked. I would hope prison doors could be locked.
If the doors were auto-locking, then Rick and Carl wouldn't need to lock them. They'd just have to close the doors.

Season 3 shows them close a door, put the key in, turn it, and take the key out.
 
You have to wonder which death is worse. A zombie could walk right through your privacy curtain and chomp you, in which case you die an excruciatingly painful but short death. On the other hand, you could be locked in there and the bars would provide complete security. If the guy with the keys dies or runs off, however, you'd die a slow, agonizing death from dehydration while the zombies growl and try to reach through the bars 27/4.
 
You have to wonder which death is worse. A zombie could walk right through your privacy curtain and chomp you, in which case you die an excruciatingly painful but short death. On the other hand, you could be locked in there and the bars would provide complete security. If the guy with the keys dies or runs off, however, you'd die a slow, agonizing death from dehydration while the zombies growl and try to reach through the bars 27/4.
What I'd do is make sure my door cannot be locked. I'll break the lock, fill it up, whatever it takes so that it doesn't work. Then get my hands on some rope and tie it snugly between the bar cells and the bed. Limited options but better than open without some level of security. Now it doesn't protect against humans much but if someone would die or a Z get near, they'd have a gate to open and it wouldn't be easy. Even if it would, it would move the bed thus waking me up.
 
Rope might be kind of hard to come by. You know what wouldn't in prison? Handcuffs and chains.
Chains would be an upgrade to rope and make even more noise to signal any tampering. Hand cuffs could be used as a locking mechanism bed side. (not sexual)
 
What I'd do is make sure my door cannot be locked. I'll break the lock, fill it up, whatever it takes so that it doesn't work. Then get my hands on some rope and tie it snugly between the bar cells and the bed. Limited options but better than open without some level of security. Now it doesn't protect against humans much but if someone would die or a Z get near, they'd have a gate to open and it wouldn't be easy. Even if it would, it would move the bed thus waking me up.
Or you could keep the key in your cell in the corner. If you die and turn into a walker you won't have the thought process necessary to unlock the cell. I wouldn't trust anyone else with the key.
 
World War Z's (film) retarded 'social engineering solution' for Korea was to:

Remove everyone's teeth
Not dumb so much as way, way too much effort. An easier solution would be to issue hard plastic masks that everyone needs to wear 24/7. Put a little hole too small for a mouth but big enough for cut up food on the front so people can still eat.
 
I thought Carol was the one that was feeding the walkers at the fence. She had mentioned before how it was a problem and they needed to do something, I thought that was her way of forcing them to do something.
 

North_Ranger

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My money was on
the crazy little girl who gave the zombies names and was glad that the dead come back alive. She seemed like the kind of person who might be just crazy enough for that kind of shit.
 
I'm actually kind of disappointed that we had a reveal of
the Governor
already. I honestly thought we'd got a season or two before that came back into play. I guess that's going to the big final catalyst to get them on the move again?
 
As for who was feeding the walkers, my thinking is the same as North Ranger's.

I don't think anyone had to cause the fence build-up. Walker herds roaming around would eventually stumble onto the prison. If it was empty, they'd keep walking, but with Farmer Rick and the others walking around in plain sight, it's going to attract attention.

What I'm curious about is the disease itself. At the veterinary college, they encounter walkers infected with the flu (or whatever it is) and we see blood out of their eyes, etc. Thing is, I really doubt that many people were alive in there and suddenly were overcome by this as recent. So it must be capable of spreading into the walkers OR comes from them.

As for people:
I'm not surprised the Governor is back already. I'm glad they're milking some of the stuff from last season, like Rick's concerns about how Carl is growing up, but the Governor is the biggest antagonist the show has and I don't think they'd go the season without him.

Also, I kind of doubt we've seen the last of Carol.
 
This is off-topic to the current discussion, but I had a thought recently about zombie biology. Totally over thinking things, but just a thought.

At the end of the first season, at the CDC, they showed how a zombie's brain functions are reduced down to minimalist. Specifically, it shows brain activity to be in the old brain, where functions that all living things - human and animal - share. So if that's the case, wouldn't damage done to only that part of the brain kill a zombie? They're not even using the higher brain functions at all, so they could keep working, anyway. So those knife stabs, like the ones Carol would do, really wouldn't stop them, right?

But yeah, I'm totally over thinking this. It got me thinking about it recently when, before I dropped out of the program a few weeks ago, we'd been learning about the biology of the brain.
 
There was a Talking Dead episode a few weeks back where they stated the crazy little girl wasn't feeding the walkers. The flashlight was just held too high up for somebody of her height.
 
Absolutely loved this episode. Glad to see Hershal with a shotgun again, ya know? Just can't keep that guy down. Him and Carl could take on god damn anything.
 
As a fan of the Novels I'm royally pissed off at this episode. That's all I'll say to avoid spoilers.

I know they're not supposed to follow the plot of the books/comics but they royally fucked up a character. It'd be as if Michone had been introduced as a scared little defenseless woman who needed to be protected all the time.

Ugh I'm so frustrated.
 
As a fan of the Novels I'm royally pissed off at this episode. That's all I'll say to avoid spoilers.

I know they're not supposed to follow the plot of the books/comics but they royally fucked up a character. It'd be as if Michone had been introduced as a scared little defenseless woman who needed to be protected all the time.

Ugh I'm so frustrated.
I don't know how you can have this complaint after Andrea.

You have to treat them as new characters.
 
I don't know how you can have this complaint after Andrea.

You have to treat them as new characters.
I did have a problem with the Andrea (Carol too) changes too. This one though, this one is even worse.

I have no problem with them changing plot points, but why bother using names that mean something to the fans and just change them in a way that would only be negative.
 
The comics suck.

The show was awesome, now is decent... I liked the latest episode. It was a breath of fresh air. The show needed it. The actor playing governor is top notch.

I can't stand the whole prison shit, they do survival completely wrong.
 
I can't stand the whole prison shit, they do survival completely wrong.
Going back to the last weeks episode...

I found it kind of funny that they had a literal cart full of guns, and yet they decided not to use it until the zombies breached the fence. I understand you don't want to "waste" ammo(though I am sure you have a ton, it being a prison and all), but it will be much worst now that you have two massive holes in the fence that zombies can just stroll on through. Anyone could see those logs were not going to last forever.
 
The comics suck.
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I found it kind of funny that they had a literal cart full of guns, and yet they decided not to use it until the zombies breached the fence. I understand you don't want to "waste" ammo(though I am sure you have a ton, it being a prison and all), but it will be much worst now that you have two massive holes in the fence that zombies can just stroll on through. Anyone could see those logs were not going to last forever.
It's not a matter of waste, it's a matter of sound. For more walkers and other people.
 
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