Animals May Prevent Zombie Apocylpse

Found an article that talked about how animals may prevent zombies from getting too out of control.  This basically talks about how there are different species of animals who would devour undead hordes.  There are a lot of carrion eaters out there and a slow moving group of zombies would be great targets for them.  It goes on to describe the different specific animals in different species that would be the biggest threat to zombies.

This article was pretty interesting and it showed me something that I had never really thought about before.  When we see zombie movies you rarely if ever see any animals.  In the Walking Dead there has been some birds, a horse, a deer and not too much more.  This gets me wondering if they could make a zombie movie that incorporates this fact.  They could have animals attacking the zombies in addition to the living then again that would make for a short movie.  

What do you guys think?

Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 3 review

This episode was not as sad as the last one, but it had a good amount of action this time around.  We get some things answered in this episode and some new questions raised as well.

Hunt for Murderer
Leaving off from the last episode the group began to search for who was responsible for setting two members of the group on fire.  Tyreese was pretty confrontational at the beginning of the episode.  I can empathize with him because he had just lost someone he loved.  This seemed to mirror what Rick went through with losing Laurie.  It seemed that Rick was trying to use his previous experience with loss by trying to talk Tyreese down.  It was surprising that both of them came to blows with each other.  This ended with Rick repeatedly hitting Tyreese in the face.  I had almost thought that Rick had gone crazy again with him getting that look in his eyes.  It seems that they are all feeling the strain.

Sickness Spreading
It looked like everyone is starting to get sick.  Sasha has gotten sick as well as Glenn.  The last one surprised me because he is a important character and they are putting him in a precarious position.  I can only hope that they do not kill him off as his relationship with Maggie is getting interesting.  It will be surprising to see who gets sick next.  It looks like Hershel may be next because he has had more contact with the infected people.  If he does then I do not think he would survive at his age and condition.

Carl and Hershel go for a walk
It was interesting seeing the interaction between Carl and Hershel.  It seemed like Hershel was trying to become something of an adviser to Carl.  When they come into contact with the walkers in the woods Hershel told Carl not to shoot them.  This surprised me because they are all like shoot first ask questions later.  It seemed to me like he was trying to teach Carl that he doesn't have to be violent all the time.  This just seemed like a lesson that will be hard to apply in their world.

Voice on Radio
The best part of the episode was at the end where they hear the voice on the radio.  I kind of wonder who the person is?  I have heard some think that it is the Governor but it just does not seem like his style.  He would not try and send out a message to get people to come to him.  He was more likely to kill people rather than bring them to Woodbury.  I think that it is someone we have yet to meet.  I guess we will have to wait until the next episode to find out.

Poll Results for Governor's return

It seems a majority of you think that the Governor will return to the show sometime this season.  I have been hoping we will see a showdown between him and Rick or Michone.

Maybe we will see him attack the prison when they are at their weakest.  This does go with his character in that he does like to hide in the shadows and strike. They have lost a good amount of people so this would be a prime opportunity.

Parody Video of Congressional Zombie Bill

This is video from a while ago in which a actor playing John Haller, who is supposed to be the Republican representative for Philadelphia, talking about the Homeland Terrorism Preparedness Bill.
During discussing this bill there were a few things that Haller said was classified.  One of these things was something dealing with "flesh eating" and then he said classified.  This was when you could tell what exactly he was talking about. He then immediately said something about spewing and escape which just makes this more confusing.  It is a funny video to watch and when I first saw it I thought that it was real.  What do you guys think of it?

Walking Dead Season 4 episode 2 review

This episode was a pretty sad one compared to the previous episode.  Besides that though it was a pretty good episode.  Let's get into some of the more interesting things in this episode.  As I have said before there will be spoilers.

Feeding the Zombies

We still do not know who is feeding the zombies the rats.  At first I thought it was the little girl Lizzy but now I am not so sure.  It was pointed out after the show that the flashlight was held up higher then the little girl could be able to do.  I was hoping we would get an answer when Sasha saw the rats piled up near the fence.  We never got an answer because of the problems with the fence but I feel that at some point we will get an answer.

Cell Block Attack

I felt sorry for that guy that gets killed by Patrick because that was the worst way to go.  I just wondered how nobody heard two walkers stumbling about in the cell block.  Another question that I have is how did so many people turn so fast?  I thought it took a good while for someone to turn and yet how did so many do that in that amount of time?  This all goes back to how nobody heard a thing.  They could not all have been deep sleepers.

Rick's Reluctance

A major part of this episode was Rick's reluctance to taking back the leadership role.  He seems to want to be in the background helping instead of out front.  You could see this when Daryl asks him what they should do about the walkers trying to get through the fence.  Rick seemed to not want to give him a answer and seemed to want someone else to do his job.  I think that he just wanted to start living a more normal life where he is not always making life or death decisions.  He wanted to be with his son and live a calmer existence.  This unfortunately could not happen given the world they live in so he stepped back into his role.  I especially liked him putting his gun belt back on.  I will be curious to see if this issue pops up again somewhere down the line in this season.

Sickness Descends on the Group

We find out that what killed Patrick was not some new strain of the zombie virus but some kind of sickness like pneumonia.  This will be interesting to see because with this disease you have no idea who has it.  Anyone could die suddenly and become a walker.  It looked like some people in the group were already starting to become paranoid of this fact.   This paranoia is probably what lead to the death of Tyreese's girlfriend Karen getting cremated.  They have not said who has done it but I think it was Tyreese's sister Sasha because in the preview we see him confronting her about something.

Michonne's breakdown

I kind of want to know more about Michonne's background due to her reaction to the baby.  It was just so odd the way she acted when she held the baby.  It makes me wonder if something has happened to her in the past.  Hopefully we may get some idea as to what has happened to her in the past.

Zombies invade Mythbusters

Last night's episode of Mythbusters was pretty interesting.  Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the shows hosts, wanted to see if three myths they selected from zombie lore were true or not.  The first one was whether an axe or a shotgun can kill more zombies.  The second one was whether you can outrun zombies.  The last one was whether a horde of zombies can push through a barricade.  To help them with this they brought on Michael Rooker who plays Merle Dixon on the Walking Dead.

Testing the first myth was the most fun to watch.  They had acquired about a thousand extras to dress up like zombies and come at them like a horde.  Adam had a foam axe with dye in it so he knew which zombies he had killed.  He looked like he was having fun trying to hit all of those zombies.  The most interesting thing to watch was Jamie with his paintball shotgun.  They had made masks for the zombies to wear so they could shoot them in the face.  It looked a lot like those zombie shoots I see all the time.  I don't want to say who won but it was kind of obvious before they even began testing.  

The second myth was not as exciting.  They just had Tori, Kari, and Grant, who are the other people on the show who help test the myths, running past the zombies.  The only thing interesting during that was when they had to come up with ideas to distract the zombies.

The third myth was fun to watch mainly because Michael Rooker was getting back into being Merle.  Throughout the whole show he acted normal but when he stood behind that barricade he just changed.  He even flipped the bird at the zombies through the barricade which was pretty funny.

How would you survive a Zombie Horde?

While watching this new episode of the Walking Dead it got me wondering as to how I would survive in that kind of world?  People that I have talked to all tell me their plans for what they would do.  Some say they would hold out in their houses while others say they would take off to the wilderness.  Movies as well as television have tried to tackle the subject but it would be impossible to predict unless it happened.  I am not saying that something like this could actually happen.  If something like this did then I would be generally surprised.

Have many of you ever thought what you would do if placed inside a situation like the Walking Dead?  Where would you go? Who would you include in your group?  Who would be in charge of your group?