'The Walking Dead- TV show ONLY! Only spoilers allowed are about PAST TV episodes!

[Hanni]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

My first thought was if he cut his hand off like that won't he bleed to death?

That was my second thought, not only that but a severely bleeding wound would make you weak and attract more zombies.

[onetwo_threefour]

I know people have a problem with cutting off the hand vs cutting through the handcuff chain. That wasn't exactly my problem since I assume handcuff steel is at least somewhat hardened. What I didn't get uis why he wouldn't saw through what looked to be a fairly skinny piece of rebar that he was handcuffed to. I'd rather go around with a handcuff dangling of my arm than cut off my hand.

As for some of the other objections, I find I can suspend disbelief about most of then, especially in light of some of the spoiler explanations given. It appears that a lot of these issues have been at least considered in the comic version.

[Crispy's Critter]

I don't think it would be very easy to cut through the handcuff chain, as I think it is hardened steel, but that ready rod the other side of the cuffs were chained to would have cut faster and easier than his wrist. That would have been the smart choice

edit: yea, what he said. gotta stop skimming posts

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Cole436

You never find out, the zombiepocolypse stops becoming the focus of the story.

You mind not saying stuff like that?

[Hanni]

I tried to google cutting handcuffs with a hacksaw, ended up with no answers and pages of forum topics about this exact argument.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Hanni

So I have overlooked the little things till now but something that really bugged me about tonight's episode

Spoiler!

if you got the hacksaw why the hell would cut your hand off and not the chain on the cuffs, ridiculous

Still enjoying it and will keep watching but that part annoyed me.

The real answer is because breaking the chain has less dramatic effect than cutting your hand off.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

My first thought was if he cut his hand off like that won't he bleed to death?

that was my first thought too, though remember he did have a belt which he used to get the hacksaw, so he could have been smart enough to tie a tourniquet around his arm

[SeeBass]

I believe the "handcuffs or your hand" scenario was played out at the end of The Road Warrior

but seriously that pipe he was attached to looked like it would have been easy to cut through

[Lil Pedro]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

I believe the "handcuffs or your hand" scenario was played out at the end of The Road Warrior

but seriously that pipe he was attached to looked like it would have been easy to cut through

I was thinking the same thing. That thing was more flimsy than the Oilers defence

[Ark2]

Originally Posted by blankall

The real answer is because breaking the chain has less dramatic effect than cutting your hand off.

Yupp. I think you nailed it. It's too bad though, because personally, I would have preferred to see a pair of handcuffs that had been hacked through rather than the guy's hand.

[To Be Quite Honest]

FINALLY watched the last two episodes. Fun stuff. The third one was really great to watch.

I have read the comic up to issue 72 and apparently this story line will be somewhat different than the comic (some stuff just didn't work well out of the comic universe) so I wouldn't get too worried about "spoiler alerts".

Great show.

[HPLovecraft]

- Bunch of survivors camping in the woods and swapping stories round a camp fire.
- A super confused woman playing two men off on each other.
- A bunch of raggedy-clothed, dirty-faced Others everyone is terrified of.
- WE HAVE TO GO BACK! to the city, that us.
- A redneck everyone hates fighting with the leading man.
- A diverse cast of differing ethnicities.

Hmm, what does this remind me of.

Good show so far. Not a big fan of the guy cutting his hand off with the hack-saw instead of the cuff chain. I have a feeling that was a bit of a red herring, though, and it will have been something else.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

- Bunch of survivors camping in the woods and swapping stories round a camp fire.
- A super confused woman playing two men off on each other.
- A bunch of raggedy-clothed, dirty-faced Others everyone is terrified of.
- WE HAVE TO GO BACK! to the city, that us.
- A redneck everyone hates fighting with the leading man.
- A diverse cast of differing ethnicities.

Hmm, what does this remind me of. .

Two and a Half Men?

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

- Bunch of survivors camping in the woods and swapping stories round a camp fire.
- A super confused woman playing two men off on each other.
- A bunch of raggedy-clothed, dirty-faced Others everyone is terrified of.
- WE HAVE TO GO BACK! to the city, that us.
- A redneck everyone hates fighting with the leading man.
- A diverse cast of differing ethnicities.

Hmm, what does this remind me of.

I know... I know...

Spoiler!

Two and a Half Men?

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

I believe the "handcuffs or your hand" scenario was played out at the end of The Road Warrior

but seriously that pipe he was attached to looked like it would have been easy to cut through

Well the explanation they gave on tonight's episode was that "the saw was too dull" to cut through the cuffs. It was only explained in a single sentence, and yet somehow I'm satisfied heh. Maybe because at least I know they thought about it.

[Igottago]

So correct me if Im wrong, but doesnt a zombie bite generally turn the victim into a zombie too? I was thinking that girls sister would become one.

[CRXguy]

Originally Posted by Igottago

So correct me if Im wrong, but doesnt a zombie bite generally turn the victim into a zombie too? I was thinking that girls sister would become one.

I was waiting for her to open her eyes and bite the sister.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Igottago

So correct me if Im wrong, but doesnt a zombie bite generally turn the victim into a zombie too? I was thinking that girls sister would become one.

it takes awhile after death i think. i was quite glad to see her get chomped on though, terrible actress. that opening scene with the 2 sisters in the boat trying to be emotional was just painful

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

it takes awhile after death i think. i was quite glad to see her get chomped on though, terrible actress. that opening scene with the 2 sisters in the boat trying to be emotional was just painful

The preview for next week flashed a scene that shows that girl's lifeless body on the ground with her eyes wide open, and another scene of a dead arm (which looked like a girl's arm to me) starting to move. So yeah I figure it'll happen.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Didn't they say in the first episode that if you get bit, you will go thru a really bad fever and then you become a walker?? I think I remember something along those lines.

That was quite the last 5 minutes, pretty intense.