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Another jump the shark moment
posted by RaySTAFFMOD on March 25, 2018 at 11:27 PM
Negan's forces are going to attack Hilltop and Negan has come up with the idea of coating their melee weapons in walker grue in the hope that those cut by them will then die and zombify, IT DOESN'T WORK How many times have we seen walker guts and gore and blood pour all over our heros bodys why had open cuts and gun shot wounds and they were fine. Are we going to have brand new rules for walkers now???
Reply by tmdb53400018
on March 26, 2018 at 2:27 AM
I don't think that they jumped the shark... take the recent ep wherein Negan and Fr Gabriel both covered themselves with walker insides to try to survive the multitude of zombies around them. Gabriel got sick, Negan did not. It just seems like a Russian roulette situation to me, meaning it's possibly fatal, possibly not. That's why they only use this tactic when things get really dire, like when the walkers overtook Alexandria.
This doesn't seem to apply very neatly to Mr. Nick on "Fear the Walking Dead," however, who used to put walker blood on his skin repeatedly.
Reply by Ray
on March 26, 2018 at 3:02 AM
They have done this numerious times and the times during the fights. IT NEVER HAPPEN BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply by tmdb53400018
on March 26, 2018 at 3:08 AM
SPOILER BELOW.
I might've missed some of these moments you're referring to. But take Tobin, for example; he suffered a deep stabbing in the chest with a blade coated with said grue. It should be treated like a bite by a walker.
Reply by Je_suis_le_vampire_Lestat
on March 26, 2018 at 5:25 PM
The writers always just do whatever is convenient to them at that moment. That's also why characters are quite stupid a lot of the time and zombies can sneak up on people whenever the script needs it.