5/6 of the first season is over. We're introduced to a new character and FINALLY we might get some info about the lead-up to the present predicament the world is in. Jenner is a scientist with the CDC in Atlanta, locked away alone for months with no contact with the outside world. He doesn't even know if anyone else is alive as his outer security cameras only show corpses piled up all around town. As he's recording a video diary we get two new nuggets of info: It's been 194 days since "wildfire" was declared and 63 days since the disease went inexplicably global.
What we don't know is what wildfire is. Could be a mutated vaccine he was working on, could be a random outbreak from nature, could even be an offshoot from a passing comet. Who knows? But over the last 6.5 months the situation has been getting worse, and about 2 months past it became apparent no place on earth was safe from it. Which begs a few questions, like, is Atlanta Ground Zero for the problem and as you go farther away the problem is less pronounced? If so, that could be even worse for people living far from the city as perhaps there was a flash point phase where healthy people got sick without being bitten by a walker. Perhaps the disease was airborne first and then altered. (Which would go a long way towards explaining why there are so many zombies walking around. Normally a body decomposes to liquidity within a month without preservatives. Perhaps whatever is causing the walkers to reanimate serves as a preservative too?) Maybe one reason family groups survived is because they carry a resistant gene. Again, who knows?
This episode ended with a classic cliffhanger, with a reinforced steel door opening up and spilling white around our heroes, totally a movie poster moment. Good development, good acting, good characterization. Can't wait for the next and final chapter of the season to give us more of the story.
PS- the old man with the beard and Glenn, the Asian pizza delivery kid, make this series. They are consistently the voice of self-preservation balanced with logical reasoning.
What we don't know is what wildfire is. Could be a mutated vaccine he was working on, could be a random outbreak from nature, could even be an offshoot from a passing comet. Who knows? But over the last 6.5 months the situation has been getting worse, and about 2 months past it became apparent no place on earth was safe from it. Which begs a few questions, like, is Atlanta Ground Zero for the problem and as you go farther away the problem is less pronounced? If so, that could be even worse for people living far from the city as perhaps there was a flash point phase where healthy people got sick without being bitten by a walker. Perhaps the disease was airborne first and then altered. (Which would go a long way towards explaining why there are so many zombies walking around. Normally a body decomposes to liquidity within a month without preservatives. Perhaps whatever is causing the walkers to reanimate serves as a preservative too?) Maybe one reason family groups survived is because they carry a resistant gene. Again, who knows?
This episode ended with a classic cliffhanger, with a reinforced steel door opening up and spilling white around our heroes, totally a movie poster moment. Good development, good acting, good characterization. Can't wait for the next and final chapter of the season to give us more of the story.
PS- the old man with the beard and Glenn, the Asian pizza delivery kid, make this series. They are consistently the voice of self-preservation balanced with logical reasoning.