(02-11-2014 01:36 AM)Ned Low Wrote:  

(02-11-2014 12:05 AM)Volkmar Wrote:  Love the show, but I brought this up on my FB and got some interesting responses... Aside from season one where everyone was apparently a professional marksman, as anyone with a gun fired headshot after headshot with virtually no misses, my one other major problem with the show is that if having jawless, armless zombie "pets" really is effective in warding off other zombies, why wouldn't EVERYONE do that? After all, any person in the group could go anywhere they want, day or night, and get any rations, clothing, medical supplies, ammo etc they need without fear of being attacked. It seems to me that everyone would have a couple "pets" just as a basic survival tool. Also seems to me that the group would've even had a group of them walking around inside their jail grounds not only to mask their human presence from the hoards of zombies outside the grounds, but for use when they needed those extra supplies. All they'd need to do is rope a couple of 'em up and take 'em along, get what they need unimpeded, and return safe and sound with said zombies for further use another day.

I'm sure that some would not have the stomach for it; in this episode, Carl seemed ready to let his pop bite him rather than having to shoot the old man. Beth wanted to kill herself and the two characters who died in "TS-19" chose the easy way out. Personally, I think that my will to survive is pretty strong; I would rather live a suffering life than none at all (to a degree).. but some would rather just die and be done with it.

You're right though... it would make sense to just cut em' up and keep them tied up.

I think not everyone has the skill to do that, either. I mean she does it with a sword from a distance. Big difference when you're used to just creating head trauma for the kill. Removing that lower jaw without getting bit or damaging the brain would be no easy task. I was even wondering how she did it, the angle of the cut etc without removing the head or cutting into it. Pretty precise work if you think about it.