The Walking Dead (Season 4)

Well I made a new thread since the last thread was based on season 3 and season 4 just started Sunday.

Spoilers:

So it looks like the sickness is... waterborne now?

I don't think it's in the water, I think the dead pig has something to do with it, and perhaps Daryl passed it to that kid when he licked his fingers before shaking his hand.

So animals are contaminated now?

And how would his licking his fingers pass it to the kid? (I know you probably don't know and they'll answer it in up coming episodes. But I'm just speculating out loud).

If the sickness is triggered at death, then at this point it'd be.. saliva-borne? Food borne? The previews for future episodes look like the jail goes into full scale walker takeover mode, so I'm assuming some of the people in jail turn.

And what was up with Rick burying his gun?

Yeah I can see the virus jumping to animals and mutating somehow.

I think Rick's gun was symbolic of him trying to put some of his recent past behind him. He's tired of all the killing and violence.

Hold the phone! Did the new season start?

yeah, first ep was a bit slow. assume it's just setting some things up.

Rick didn't bury the gun, he found one that seemed to be randomly buried. But I agree that he seems to want to avoid all the violence around him now, which is why he doesn't want to bring his gun on food runs.

There were a ton of special effects this week, but did anyone else think they looked kind of shitty? When the zombies were falling through the ceiling it looked like one of those terrible SyFy channel movies; I don't know why, but I found that kind of distracting.

So animals are contaminated now?

And how would his licking his fingers pass it to the kid? (I know you probably don't know and they'll answer it in up coming episodes. But I'm just speculating out loud).

If the sickness is triggered at death, then at this point it'd be.. saliva-borne? Food borne? The previews for future episodes look like the jail goes into full scale walker takeover mode, so I'm assuming some of the people in jail turn.

And what was up with Rick burying his gun?

On 2nd thought now maybe the deer Daryl killed was infected? They seem to be setting it up so that animals are now carriers. I'm sure we'll find out.

Yes i think that's a good point. Remember there was the sick boar in the woods that died right before Rick met the irish-sounding lady that had whatever it was in the bag "eddy"...

But i'm pretty sure in the comics animals 100% cannot get infected so maybe this is the show's take on things...

Couldn't it be just a regular kind of disease is spreading? Like swine flu? Everyone is already infected with the zombie virus so once they die the turn anyways.