Tags wrote:Tonight's episode was particularly slow, though the military response was interesting it seems a lot of troops were used for a relatively insignificant neighborhood. And of course consistency was tossed out again. First they just know the boyfriend was infected by the bite, then tonight they say they know nothing and have no idea how it's spread?! *facepalm*
It's an aspect of denial of the situation. If you watch the dude's out there working in the back yard with zombie neighbor trying to get at him and eat him for hours on end. At one point he looks over to the growling GRAY corpse and is like "Good morning _____"
When they saw the boyfriend they knew he was sick. They could tell he was sick and were trying to get their daughter out. They didn't say "he got infected from a bite" they saw that he was sic and saw that he was bit (Throat I think?)
Back around to the neighbor trying to get through the fence, the wife goes over (With a LITTLE hammer. lol) and is standing there an inch out side the zombie's thrashing grip looking at her trying to work up the courage to kill her(again) Because it was her friend and all. And the husband comes over. Now... he tells her more or less they can't kill her that she might just be sick.. but they know she's not. The chick is rotting there. her skin's gray and her eyes are all milky and she's reverted to a feral mind state. That's not going to get better. There's no pill for that. lol Mouth to mouth isn't going to work.
So we can surmise, one of two things 1) We're again seeing aspects of confusion and denial. "Zombies aren't real, what I'm seeing must have a logical explanation. Logical explanation would say this is some sort of sickness that's affecting people, making them eat other people and out of their minds. Like fast acting rabies, that also makes them insensitive to pain untill the brain is destroyed."
OR 2) The guy has come to the realization that they ARE zombies, and that's really messed up, but wishes to save his wife the mental trauma of killing her best friend who helped her out while pregnant and all that. A pretty significant thing. If you can keep your wife from having to put a hammer into the brain of her zombified neighbor and friend, you do so.
#2 does gain significant validity in the context of the episode. Blonde wife at one point tells 'old' wife, that if she ever gets zombified, that oldwife has to kill her so husband doesn't have to. That it would 'break 'him.
So then we see Blonde wife about to kill her friend and husband 'stops' her from doing so.... maybe for the same reason. Because he doesn't want the action to 'break' her.
Though there is likely aspects of #1 in there too. You may note at the end of the episode they lie to the military too. Listing off 9 people that 'live' in the house, when in reality it's 3 + our Dumbassdruggy son that we rounded up+my ex wife and son that lives across town +3 people we picked up along the way.
They also lie about the dude who's head was splattered on the wall by the barber. "Our dog died" well yeah, your dog did die. You sat there with a shot gun in your hands and let the zombie eat your dog who was trying to save your life..... (( DUDE!?!?)) But that's not what wass in the hole. The dude who's head you splattered was in the hole.. the dog went out in the trash.
(( and wow.... I mean I know the people in LA are blasie and all, but multiple people taking out the trash during a zombie rise? that's some heavy duty denial right there. Do you think the trash guys are rolling that day??))
What I think we're seeing, and what they're showing us, is the people in the situation refusing to accept the situation as it's being presented. How the average every day person wouldn't just jump instantly to 'OH CRAP!! ZOMBIE!!!" in a 'real life' situation, and how that inability to accept the supernatural, works against humanity and in the zombies favor. "They're not undead coming to eat our flesh, they're just sick.. we should help them" type thing, on a massive scale.