It is good to see that they eat rats/horses/deer as well as people but those food sources are LONG gone. So how do they survive? We know how their brains reactivate and work but that does not diminish their need for calories. Dr. Jenner indicates that the outbreak is 180 days old and while there would have been easy pickings for the Walkers at first by now they would be starving, (seemingly they do not eat other).

Is there something in the comic to suggest why they can survive without food?

I was afraid Merle would become AMC’s version of The Governor and that would just suck. I think Michael Rooker was wasted on Merle’s character. How great would he be as Abraham? Sure they’d have to tape some hair on his head, but just picture it.

And I completely missed out that Ben and Billy were written out of the series. I’m a bad TWD fan.

When this is gone over early in the show it is contingent on the fact that the characters are seen. They’re shown hiding around corners and such often enough and yet they remain undetected; so the scent issue was just something in regards to maintaining camouflage when openly moving within view of the walkers.

Other than that, several months have passed since the initial outbreak; perhaps the zombies are beginning to truly decay and their faculties are fading? That could explain the bodies in the cars as well. Once zombified they didn’t have the mental agency to get themselves unbuckled and out of the cars (doors that can’t simply be broken through have shown to be troublesome for the walkers). Unable to get out of the car, those walkers starved and ceased to hold the spark of undeath.

Yet they walked right past them under the car.. that’s the first thing I noticed anyway..

And that is why this show is complete drivel in comparison to the source material.
The books far and away make you root for a wide selection of characters, only to kill them shortly thereafter in a way that is internally consistent. The only one person in the series with a “hero character shield” is Rick, and he still ends up getting mangled horribly relatively early in the series.
The zombies were/are just a backdrop for a tale of mortality (and the horror that entails), as well as morality in a crisis.
The only thing this show has going for it is the “novel” premise.

“1.why is it that the zombie herd didn’t smell them like they did in season one?
2.Why would Shane be hung up on his friends wife when he has a hot blonde right there?
3.How the hell did T dog not die after bleeding like a gallon of blood and then is just patched up and fine a minute later?
4. Why are they so attached to that RV? the keys should be in most of those cars so just jump from one to another like in Zombieland or find an RV dealership.”

2&4 are major plot points in the comic series. With that said, its’ obvious that the producers of the show are just trying to cash in from the comic book fandom, even if it defies the internal logic of the show.

If you like the show and want to continue watching, whatever you do, don’t read the books.
You’ll find the TV series laughable if you choose to read them.

1) Kill that old dude. I hate him. He is the worst actor by far.
2) I really liked this episode. It seems they will go deeper into each character life. It seemed more mature.

bye