So... how are walkers staying underwater?

[Sédrio]

Kill the brain and the walkers goes down. They always specify to aim for the head, and more specifically, the brain. Except... how are they able to function underwater? If destroying the brain does it for them, I would assume the lack of oxygen would stop their brain to function, thus drowning the infection. Or are these walkers just able to work without oxygen?

[plan9]

Yep, that'd be correct, lol. Most of them don't have working lungs or digestive systems, either, so how do they keep moving, why are they hungry, how can they hear and where does that food go (haha)? It just requires a lot of suspension of disbelief, usually accomplished with a good story.

[Sédrio]

Originally posted by plan9:

Yep, that'd be correct, lol. Most of them don't have working lungs or digestive systems, either, so how do they keep moving, why are they hungry, how can they hear and where does that food go (haha)? It just requires a lot of suspension of disbelief, usually accomplished with a good story.

If they don't have working lungs, how are they making noises with their mouth? If their lungs are done for, they wouldn't have the muscles or the means to bring in the air. That's like the head zombie in the first Walking Dead game; It makes noise when it shouldn't. Same thing with the hearing, if they can hear and make noise, they would just stop functioning when going in the water.

I guess it's there for the story, as ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ as it sounds. It would've made more sense if destroying the brain, period, would stop them completely. tbh I'm just mad about the lake scene. Oh well.

[plan9]

Well, the undead have always had unusual traits, like, well, being undead, lol. You really just have to go with the story (if it's god enough) on anything "supernatural". TWD really isn't much more than an expansion of the original Night of the Living Dead, which used pretty much the same ideas. TWD just goes further than one night (the first night) in an old house. Actually, it might be closer to Dawn of the Dead (Night's sequel).

[Xerica]

its a virus that keeps all vital areas working after death ><.watch the undead series when they finally make it to world health organization. it shows what happens when a subject dies

shooting the brain disrupts the neural pathways the virus created after death. so yes , the heart is pumping.a little bit, the lungs are working a little bit , ears, etc. the body IS STILL decomposing ust a slower rate. hence the walking dead.

[plan9]

I don't really care what sort of weird, impossible stuff they come up with, personally - I'm interested in the story and for me that junk gets in the way of the story. I mean, some walkers are half there and/or missing vital organs - you could take everything out and they would still be "alive"/undead and you just plain can't move around when your muscles are rotting (not even shuffling/stumbling along).

If you like that psuedo-science stuff, cool. For me it's just a plot device to try and explain the impossible when they want to move the story in a certain direction.

[Sero]

In one of the saferooms in L4D somone has writen this on the wall:
"They don't eat, they don't sleep what keeps them going?"
It's safe to assume that they also don't breathe.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, have you never seen a walker head still moving after Michonne has lobed it off?

[Sédrio]

Originally posted by Sero:

In one of the saferooms in L4D somone has writen this on the wall:
"They don't eat, they don't sleep what keeps them going?"
It's safe to assume that they also don't breathe.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, have you never seen a walker head still moving after Michonne has lobed it off?

Seeing as the zombies from TWD and the infected from L4D are two different things, this doesn't apply here. They have to be breathing to make noise, so I would assume the infected do breathe.

[Sero]

Originally posted by Sedrio:

Originally posted by Sero:

In one of the saferooms in L4D somone has writen this on the wall:
"They don't eat, they don't sleep what keeps them going?"
It's safe to assume that they also don't breathe.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, have you never seen a walker head still moving after Michonne has lobed it off?

Seeing as the zombies from TWD and the infected from L4D are two different things, this doesn't apply here. They have to be breathing to make noise, so I would assume the infected do breathe.

No, they don't have to breathe to make noise, they merely have to push air around.

BTW: That sentence from L4D DOES apply to TWD. Those zombies may eat but they don't digest. They just burst once they have eaten too much.

[MorningLightMountain]

Originally posted by Zerican34:

its a virus that keeps all vital areas working after death ><.watch the undead series when they finally make it to world health organization. it shows what happens when a subject dies

The TV series isn't canon to the games so anything in it is irrelevant.

[Xerica]

Originally posted by MorningLightMountain:

Originally posted by Zerican34:

its a virus that keeps all vital areas working after death ><.watch the undead series when they finally make it to world health organization. it shows what happens when a subject dies

The TV series isn't canon to the games so anything in it is irrelevant.

could of fooled me because everything they said in the games is the same in the tv series. so that leads me to believe you have no clue what you are talking about. do your research because I did. you are wrong.

[MorningLightMountain]

Originally posted by Zerican34:

Originally posted by MorningLightMountain:

The TV series isn't canon to the games so anything in it is irrelevant.

could of fooled me because everything they said in the games is the same in the tv series. so that leads me to believe you have no clue what you are talking about. do your research because I did. you are wrong.

Nothing similar to what Jenner tells Rick's group in the finale of season one has ever been said in the game and the series is still not canon to the games.

[Xerica]

Originally posted by MorningLightMountain:

Originally posted by Zerican34:

could of fooled me because everything they said in the games is the same in the tv series. so that leads me to believe you have no clue what you are talking about. do your research because I did. you are wrong.

Nothing similar to what Jenner tells Rick's group in the finale of season one has ever been said in the game and the series is still not canon to the games.

sad. you didnt look it up :(. it is a virus , eveyrone is infected , takes over after dead. same thing in the series, the WHO showed them what happens to the "subject" once they die and what the virus does. again you need to look crap up.

[MorningLightMountain]

Originally posted by Zerican34:

Originally posted by MorningLightMountain:

Nothing similar to what Jenner tells Rick's group in the finale of season one has ever been said in the game and the series is still not canon to the games.

sad. you didnt look it up :(. it is a virus , eveyrone is infected , takes over after dead. same thing in the series, the WHO showed them what happens to the "subject" once they die and what the virus does. again you need to look crap up.

Yes I'm aware of the specifcs of what causes the Walkers in The Walking Dead which means you've entirely failed to grasp the point I made. The TV show isn't canon to the games.

[Xerica]

Originally posted by MorningLightMountain:

Originally posted by Zerican34:

sad. you didnt look it up :(. it is a virus , eveyrone is infected , takes over after dead. same thing in the series, the WHO showed them what happens to the "subject" once they die and what the virus does. again you need to look crap up.

Yes I'm aware of the specifcs of what causes the Walkers in The Walking Dead which means you've entirely failed to grasp the point I made. The TV show isn't canon to the games.

lol mmmkay if you believe it, you believe it but i know your are wrong. it is ok to be wrong some of the time. Interesting that they made a tell tale game about michonne mini series and the whole problem with her in the tv show is in the game. ( family members deaths? hint hint? strange they used TV series infomation about Michonne and input it in the game. very interested lol.there is no talking sense into you. Have a nice day and stay ignorant :)

[MorningLightMountain]

Originally posted by Zerican34:

Originally posted by MorningLightMountain:

Yes I'm aware of the specifcs of what causes the Walkers in The Walking Dead which means you've entirely failed to grasp the point I made. The TV show isn't canon to the games.

lol mmmkay if you believe it, you believe it but i know your are wrong. it is ok to be wrong some of the time. Interesting that they made a tell tale game about michonne mini series and the whole problem with her in the tv show is in the game. ( family members deaths? hint hint? strange they used TV series infomation about Michonne and input it in the game. very interested lol.there is no talking sense into you. Have a nice day and stay ignorant :)

I just love the irony of your posts. How you clearly told me to look up a scene I more clearly directly referenced than yourself, which you stated was the World Health Organisation when it's the CDC which is in the TV show and the WHO appears in World War Z. Unless you're trying to suggest Clementine was imparted information on Walker biology from the resurrected Keith Moon.

You do realise Michonne has the same backstory in both the comics and the TV show right? But if the show is canon please reconcile the following deviations from the comic. Shane never meets Hershel as Carl kills him in the sixth issue long before they get to Hershel's farm. Alan dies in the show on Hershel's farm yet in the comics dies after the Governor's assault on the prison. While on the point of the assault on the prison that's when Lori dies still pregnant and not after giving birth to her daughter. I'm not completly up to date on the comics as I've only read up to issue 144 but if the show is the same canon as the comics and the games why is it that Daryl and Merle have never appeared in it?

And I'll pre-empt a possible response. The Lilly in the games is an entirely seperate character from the one in the comics whose backstory is detailed in The Walking Dead novels.