Is there any way The Walking Dead ends well?

[hedgehog]

[Solly Mack]

1. Dunno. Do you think people will always find a way to survive or do you think humans (the living)

will eventually die out? (and become walkers)

I'm not being contrary or a smart-ass. I wonder the same thing.

Can it end well?

Does it ever really have to end (the show), since survival never ends? (until you go extinct/die off)

Smaller and smaller pockets of the living, where the birth rate can't keep up with the death/walker production rate. Doesn't bode well for a happy ending.


I just don't know.

[Iris]

6. Would the walkers ever die of starvation?

Do they have to eat to remain undead?

[alphafemale]

8. I am just guessing they would eventually rot to quivering bitey goo

No real new Zombies because people know that all are infected so they head shot them

[Iris]

12. Nice image! n/t

[Solly Mack]

9. I think it was mentioned once that they can starve but I don't know if they die from it.

And the cold can slow them down. They can get stuck in deep mud and water.

They can burn but it doesn't necessarily kill them. If they're consumed by fire (to include their brain) they die the final death.

Not sure there has been much consistency on the question though. (in the show)

Someone else might know more about it. Sorry!

[Iris]

11. I had read that they slow down in cold weather.

And this season the herds seem bigger so there might be something going on there but I'm with you as far as not really seeing an consistency in that regard in this show.

[dr.strangelove]

18. It doesn't end

Its about life in the new world with zombies. will the zombies eventually rot out, I think they will. But as long as there are people, there is a source for new zombies. Will they eventually reach some sort of equilibrium, I think so. But the real threat is other survivors, not zombies.

If you are asking will there eventually be a cure, no I do not think so.

[Solly Mack]

19. I agree. No cure. I also agree that the real threat is the other survivors.

[dr.strangelove]

20. The show is about the new world

The other survivors and te zombies are all a part of it. As is the loss of industry, agriculture and such. Its why people with skills will become very valuable, like Herschel, Milton and possibly Eugene. If Eugene really is a scientist (which I doubt) he will be more valuable than any weapon, even without a cure. If he took the levels of engineering, physics and chemistry necessary to get a doctorate and do work on the genome project, he will have a wealth of information needed to survive. But farmers, mechanics, engineers and such, are worth far more than the Ricks and Daryls of this world, if you can keep them safe. That is why the prison was a good idea, but they need to find a more secuire prison like setting. Something with stone walls and more people to defend attacks.

[Solly Mack]

30. I read the comics so I know the truth about Eugene. (no spoilers)

I don't know how the show will use his character but he does have needed skills.

I think all kinds of skills are needed...those like Hershel's (which they've lost for the most part) and those like Daryl's and Rick's. It's just different skills are needed more at certain times than others. In a more secure environment each would perform their skills in their own little niche, making for a community like most communities - people doing different jobs. Kinda like they do now. The group seems to play to each others strengths. Or at least they did try before the loss of the prison. Only certain people went out on runs because they showed the skill set necessary to make those runs as safe as possible, for example.

Daryl can track, set traps for food, and he's good in a fight. Rick has leadership skills which, I think, are important.

I agree they need a more diverse skill set. New people along the way can bring those. Also, people are just going to have to learn new skill sets. Adapt.

Right now they're in a kind of limbo and are being hunted. They need trackers, fighters, and food gatherers right now. But they also need people who understand that science didn't die out just because the world went crazy and things learned haven't been forgotten. (mechanics, engineers, farmers)

[brooklynite]

2. What makes you think it ends?

This isn't like LOST, where there was expectation of a resolution of the story line.

[hedgehog]

3. I'm figuring on the typical televison series cycle - 7 years and done.

Would fans be satisfied if the story is left hanging?

Even if the survivors find a safe place, how will they process all they've seen and done? "Walking Dead" could refer to either those already bitten or to Rick's group.

[rug]

4. I hope not.

[NewJeffCT]

5. At best, it would be some sort of bittersweet ending

maybe they find some sort of large sanctuary type area, but most of them die on the journey there. Carl is the only one who makes it with Rick dying in his arms? Or, they make it to the sanctuary and find they have a vaccine or something, but only in limited supply due to lack of facilities so they have to hole up there until the walkers die off.

[Solly Mack]

10. Sounds about right. It would be in keeping with the show so far, I think.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

7. IIRC, the writer hasn't finished the comic series.

It can go either way.

[GOLGO 13]

13. Kirkman has stated he has an "ending" in mind but

TWD is such a smash hit that I imagine all bets are off. Did Roddenberry end Star Trek? Lucas sure didn't end Star Wars before he sold it all to Disney. I know I wouldn't kill my golden goose.

But sure it can end well.

[my_best_self]

14. I think not.

But I cannot wait to find out.

[orleans]

15. i don't watch the show but i think your answer is in the title. n/t

[NaturalHigh]

16. I've never read any of the comics.

It's my understanding that the television series is loosely based on the comics, so maybe they contain clues about the ending. Somehow I doubt it will ever end well, though.

[NewJeffCT]

17. The comics are ongoing

with no end in sight that I can see.

[NaturalHigh]

24. Thanks.

I actually did the Wikipedia thing later last night to check into the comics. It looks like there are quite a few differences between the comics and the television series.

Comics or TV, this is one dark series. Of course, nobody said the zombie apocalypse would be pretty.

[NewJeffCT]

29. to be honest, I think the comics are

definitely darker. I enjoy both, though. However, on the show, we had Beth attempting suicide. In the comics, we had the teen daughter of one of the characters actually kill herself as part of a suicide pact with her boyfriend.

Plus, I think now that we're into season 5, it might be difficult to kill off some of the more popular characters.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. They would have to find a secluded environment where they have their own water source and

have land to grow crops. Seclusion would eliminate two major problems: Infections from stranger danger zombies, and competition from other humans.

The people who do make it into this colony would have to be very disciplined. Part of their protocols would involve secluding the infirmed. Even pregnant women would be a major concern because both baby and mother would have to make it through a 9 month pregnancy and delivery for the two to survive. But, reproduction would be vital, because, without access to a lab, the only way out of a zombie apocalypse would come from a genetic mutation that would bring forth a generation that was immune to the virus. (They can also hold out for the virus to mutate on its own to become less deadly or that our own immune system finds a way to ward it off.)

All this assumes that everything that we know today about the virus on the Walking Dead, doesn't change. But a critical factor to ensuring that the human race survive, is to eliminate the threat from outside, so that the men can spend some time as farmers, instead of soldiers.

In a nutshell, unless they are able to produce progeny that develops an immunity to the virus, it won't end well for the human race as long as people are expected to become zombies, whether they're bitten or not.

[NewJeffCT]

22. If you saw I Am Legend with Will Smith

there was some sort of safe zone in the mountains of Vermont, or somewhere like that? The cold would slow down the zombies from that movie, and the mountains limited access to other unwanted types.

(Not sure if that was the actual ending, or the alternate one.)

[GOLGO 13]

23. Excellent choice

A snow topped mountain stronghold. Plenty of water in spring/summer. Might even have lakes/resevoirs available. Better to defend from both living & dead.

[charlie and algernon]

25. And remember WWZ the book

The US used the Rocky Mountains to defend the West Coast. Rick and the Gang are just a small group in the wilds of Georgia, cut off from society. For all we know, the US Military could've carved out a similar safe zone.

[valerief]

26. I haven't watched the series, but I would think somehow Fox News

would capture the zombies' attention and keep them enthralled for all eternity.

Sequel would be The Sitting Dead.

[pinboy3niner]

27. To them every channel is the Food Network. :) nt

[valerief]

28. Bwahahaha! Good point.

[DebJ]

31. LOL. That's too close to reality.......... n/t

[DebJ]

32. A zombie-killing virus mutates and attacks the zombies. n/t