The Walking Dead 6.3 "Thank You" (spoiler alert)
Rick and his group get caught up in a dangerous little town on the road back to Alexandria. Meanwhile, Daryl, Sasha and Abraham continue to lead away the remaining walkers away from the safe-zone.
Next week, for episode 4, we get a special 90 minute Morgan flashback episode to find out how & why he became the jedi master that he is currently.
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Spoiling Dead Fans over on Facebook is usually pretty accurate - they're reporting that tonight, we see - swipe to the right [font color=white]the death of Nicholas, and also the death of a person that's been with TWD since season 1. 
That said, people are jumping through hoops over there to say that death is a dream, a hallucination, etc. Of course, they could leave us with a cliffhanger that won't be resolved until episode 5 if we get the flashback next week. [/font]
It would be funny if the WD writers used the Star Trek kiss of death. 
I wouldn't miss him either, but I think they want him around a while longer. We'll see Enid again, and I think Carl will too.
Still, someone needs to always stay behind and protect Judith. I am Team Judith to the core.
I want her growing up to be the shit-kicker she is destined to be.
It seems like Glenn's time - but that might have more to do with the comics than the show. Comic book readers accept Glenn's death as a real possibility, but the show likes to mind-fondle people.
Glenn is coming into his own, being a mentor and leader, so he has to go. LOL
It's a Ricktatorship world. Course, what if they kill off Rick? Just look for me in the corner, sucking my thumb if they do. If Judith dies, I'll be in the same corner but in the fetal position, pulling on my hair.
If Daryl bites it, I'll be the loud, soul piercing wailing sound everyone in the known universe hears.
But I exaggerate.
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So, walker blood getting on you, even on and in scratches and cuts, won't do it.
Below is just me thinking out loud. Trying to build a bridge, so to speak, to how Kirkman could be thinking. I know I'm using the broadest sense of the science involved.
Probably (based on the thinking that) because infected blood knows infected blood, and everyone is already infected. So maybe the body doesn't detect a foreign matter when walker blood gets on you because it isn't foreign. Some "people" have the active infection/virus (walkers) and some with the dormant infection/virus (live humans).
A bite leads to an infection - not THE infection/virus, since everyone is already infected/virus with that - but a killer infection with no cure (so far).
Still, death from a bite depends on where you were bitten and if they can remove the now infected limb quick enough. If the limb/bite area can't be removed, you die from an infection and death triggers the infection/virus. I haven't decided which it is yet. Bacterial v. viral. I'm leaning toward viral. The walker infection, that is. Not the bite. That's bacterial, I think. Could be spores, but I don't think so. Just one that has no cure since, well - who's looking for one during the zombie apocalypse? Not the CDC.
Death triggers the dormant walker infection/virus. So I have to die, by some means, to become a walker.
Stabbing with bone is probably the cause of death. Reanimation a byproduct of the death that triggers the dormant walker infection/virus.
Let's imagine that walker bites produce a super staph infection, for the sake of labeling, some sort of super MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Something along those lines.
This is all just hypothetical. But we do know that aerobic bacteria is present during early decomposition. We know that the decreasing availability of oxygen produces anaerobic bacteria. We know that Staph is part of the aerobic stage of decomposition and Clostridia is present during anaerobic decomposition. What if a walker body is stuck in those 2 stages of decomposing? A happy, though deadly, median, so to speak. So much so the walker body now produces an super infection that is both aerobic and anaerobic? (MRSA-Botulism/Tetanus)
All present in their mouth.
So, the bite kills because it's made up of deadly infections humans need treatment for in the best of times (MRSA, Botulism, Tetanus) - but a new bug, combining some of the most deadly bugs, is not one where a cure is possible at present. Mostly anaerobic, since no oxygen present in the dead. (maybe) So, more like Botulism and Tetanus than Staph. Maybe. Spores lie dormant too though, so...
(Thing is - is there oxygen present in the dead? Or just the air they are exposed to walking around that keeps things alive in their mouth? Something new with elements of both? I recall Jim having chills, fever, and severe bone aches/spasms and that touch caused him pain...like Tetanus would. So maybe the dead are suspended at the putrefaction stage...but they do seem to eventually rot, only slower...so maybe not suspended so much as an incredibly slow rate of decomposition...or maybe the walkers we see with bone exposed are not decaying and the exposed bone is where others have fed)
So we die from a bite that causes the deadly infection. Whatever it is.
But since we are already infected with the walker infection/virus then our bodies already know that strain and don't react to walker blood getting on us (or in our cuts, mouths, etc.. ) We already carry it inside of us. We have learned to live with it already. We've adapted to being its host. It lies dormant in our bodies. Sort of virus-like.
Something in death triggers it.
Maybe there is a certain amount of walker blood that is dangerous though. Maybe Kirkman is only using the broadest sense of how bacterial and viral infections work - which leaves open a lot of questions. Questions that can't be answered with what we know to be true since we're living in a world where the dead walk. Maybe that's part of the point - you can't apply the thinking of what used to be to what is happening now. Everything has changed.
I don't know. I'm just speculating.
ETA: Rick got cut with the machete he pulled out of the walker. He braces with one hand, pulls with the other, kills the walker - looks at his cut. I think he slices it when he pulls the machete out.
He does take a moment to look at the wound, and that does seem to indicate there's some concern for the wound. However, I'm not sure that means it is infected or will be infected with walker cooties. There might be a storyline where it does get infected, as any cut could get infected, creating tension - will he lose the hand or won't he? From interviews I've read, the show's creators/directors lean toward his not losing his hand.
But, you never know. Maybe he will lose the hand, but not from walker cooties - instead from regular old infections and the lack of antibiotics and prompt cleaning/treatment. Last week there was some mention of the dwindling supply of food - could mean less of everything, to include antibiotics.
to Alexandria to amputate his hand. Maybe not---that would suck having a 1-handed Rick but he would still kick ass. 
Native Alexandrians are being grumpy.
Idiot with a gun causing problems. 
Got scared and nervous. Reacted poorly. Shot one of their own.
He got shot instead. 
He didn't get bit as well, did he? I don't think so - I think they got the walker off in time, but I could be wrong.
Nicholas is still having to fight his urge to run scared.
it certainly has 
Unfortunately, I couldn't find her picture. She is the close friend of the woman on the right.
or rather, Julie Lake.
I just did a google and she looks like a completely different person in real life.
/revision/latest?cb=20150302120936Boomkat featuring Taryn Manning.
Manning was in a zombie movie before. ("Zombie Apocalypse"
But you probably know that.
I just love Manning.
I think the other actress in the one time trio is Julie Lake - meth head w/ bad teeth on the show. Emma Myles is the actress on the right.
They'll have to assume he's dead.
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And Glenn is trying to get under the dumpster. Way too much distance between Glenn's head and the off center chest being ripped open.
The things you notice when you're aren't yelling at the TV because some idiot decides to off himself and takes Glenn down with him.
Nicholas is still a POS. I don't care if his death ultimately saves Glenn. (for now)
ETA: OK. Watched it a 3rd time. I know, I know. Not so sure about Glenn trying to make it under the dumpster. There is movement from a body on the ground that seems to be heading in that direction, but the camera view is above the feeding frenzy at the time. It could be nothing more than walkers shifting the bodies of Nick and Glenn.
I normally watch each episode several times. For many reasons.
Maybe he's part boneless cat.
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In fact, I'd venture to say that Glen would be pretty well protected if he could slide under that dumpster.
and, it's not just that one.
Love to read these threads after the hubster and I watch the dvr'ed episode the next night. 
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