Was Gabriel bitten?
he seems to have the fever at the end.
shareI think he's faking in order to find out where the doctor is located in the compound.
shareI hope that is the case.
shareCool, I like this. That partially explains why he even bothered to mention to Eugene that "Dr. Carson 2" was Maggie's obstetrician. Gabriel has even shown the ability to plan ahead before-- the fake graves for Maggie and Sasha, for example.
shareI don't know, I think he's genuinely ill from covering himself in zombie juice. Negan did that little speech about people getting ill from it as it's putrefied bodily fluid, excrement and such. Get some of that in your mouth and your body will not like it. I think Gabriel has concocted some plan and purposely ingested some to get access to the doctor. That or he's a colossal klutz.
Without Negan's speech, I gather the writers would figure the viewers would question just why Gabriel got ill when we've seen it time and time again with no ill effects even when done with young and old with more at risk immune systems.
Again, just more sloppy writing as we've come to expect.
Nothing sloppy about it. Dumbed down, maybe. Sloppy would be without any thought and this show has more thought put into it than 99% of the dreck on television.
shareSloppy in the sense of requiring Gabriel to get ill from this particular foray into zombie guts adornment is what I'm saying. If from the start they'd been a line like, 'hey, don't get any of this stuff in your mouth/cuts whatever as it could make you ill' then fair enough. But suddenly having it be dangerous now as it's convenient for the writers, if you get me.
shareIt's not suddenly dangerous. Rotting bodies are dangerous in the real world.
Sloppy is that all of them are supposedly infected already but a bite has significance beyond simple infection.
Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It has always been dangerous, but only now in TWD universe is it acknowledged that it's dangerous as it's needed for the plot. So all the times all the other characters getting plastered in the stuff has just been down to luck that no one got ill...
Yeah, as much as I'm a fan of Romero, the Romero rule of 'everyone is infected and a bite causes death' is something I'm not into.
In the earlier seasons, doesn't Rick at some point advise others to not let any of the blood and guts of the dead get in contact with their mouths and eyes? I seem to remember that. It's still convinient tho, how Negan had to bring this up again, just before Gabriel gets sick.
shareWell that's interesting if you're right.
They certainly don't seem to worry about doing it on FTWD. Well, the addict guy at least.
Yes, he does say that, but I think that was before he knew if those actions would cause irreversibly harm. Remember what Dr Jenner said at the CDC? [spoiler] All humanity is infected[/spoiler].
shareYes, I believe Rick said it in season 1 before he and Glenn did the first ever zombie guts walk. As lennonforever says, they didn't know they were all infected then. And as McQualude said, the only sloppy bit is the thing about being bitten somehow accelerating the already existing infection, and that's something they (and we) only learned about in season 2.
shareYes, that's where I remember it being from. You just confirmed it. I'll play the episode later on to confirm it.
shareThe writers really confused a lot of people with that "everyone is infected" line. The source material followed the George Romero zombie rules where all body reanimated as long as the brain was intacted. They never explained the cause or said anything about an infection. Zombie bites and zombie bodily fluids were lethal.
If Gabriel got sick from the zombie guts it will probably give the saviors some ideas in their fight against Rick.
Yes, I've heard that about the source material being more ambiguous (which is a very good move). Reminds me there are many aspects of Darabont's vision for the series that I'm really glad didn't come to pass.
shareDidn't Rick get stabbed by a knife or sword in his hand that had either just been thrust through a zombie or was thrust through a zombie and into his hand almost instantaneously? I wondered if that would cause him to get infected but obviously that didn't happen.
shareHe got a nasty spike through the hand when he was fighting that spiky iron maiden type thing in that pit in that ridiculous trash people place. Can't remember if there was another incident. It was certainly bandaged and bloody for a long time. They didn't seem too concerned with wound care and keeping it clean then.
shareYeah, it was just the spike. Maybe he would have contracted some kind of infection, but not the same one the walkers carry. As long as it didn't get in contact with infected blood before making contact with Rick, of course.
shareYou can't assume characters are reliable. Just like in real life, people say things that aren't true, even if they believe them.
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