So I just started watching The Walking Dead.
Yeah, I know. Late to the party as usual.
The past few days AMC has been running a pre-season 4 marathon, and since there was nothing else on, I thought what the hell…find out what everyone's been raving about.
Now my DVR is full, goddamnit!
Love the story, even though I've never been a big Zombie fan. But the characters are engaging and I got sucked in. Trouble is, it's so intense I can only take about 3-4 episodes at a time before I have to turn it off.
Speaking of sucked, Hello Rick!
But with all Zombie stories, I have one question to ask: What happens when everyone who is not a zombie is eaten and/or converted? The ecology just isn't sustaining. If Zombies can't eat Zombies, what happens when their food supply runs out? And won't they all just eventually decompose anyway?
I guess it's kind of like parasites or bacteria that kill their hosts.
All of the living people are infected, and will zombify when they die. So, as long as there are still people, there will always be SOME zombies. But yeah, in most zombie stories, they don't have to sustain the concept indefinitely. But TWD is sort of time compressed, I think. It's been on for 3 years, but I think much less time has passed in the story.
That is one of the many zombie questions that usually don't get answered in movies. In the book World War Z the answer is yes, they eventually decompose. In The Walking Dead, based on a graphic novel—that is about 50% different then from the series—it is sort of a parallel word because in this world the entire concept of zombie never existed…not in books or movies.