It is all very unrealistic. Zombies in TWD can still move with just their heads in jars. Even with half a body (blood already spilled out) they move.

I'm not very educated so maybe I just don't understand.

I can get that it's possible for the muscles to keep moving for a bit due to the calcium ions required for exposing the myosin binding sites of the muscles fibers since calcium ions are stored in the sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane of the fibers and they would still have a little supply of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) which is the molecule that stores the energy for the motive power of the muscle, but how does this ADP get replenished with no blood flow to the muscles? With no replinishment of glucose to the muscles, no ATP (this is the triphosphate version) is formed. Yes, I know, ADP can be converted to ATP through other mechanisms like the breakdown of creatine phosphate adding to the ADP but that still requires blood flow to supply the creatine phosphate. And what about the oxidation required for it all to work? Where does the oxygen come from? (Head in a jar of water shouldn't work). 

Lucem (Just An Asshole) Ferre said
It's not that they are dumb, it's that it adds effect. None of this is plausible so why go so far into detail about such trivial shit?

It's like, wouldn't a Star Wars movie be really fucking boring if they made it realistic? There is no sound in space, so all those sound effects they put in the movie would be gone. It would just be pure silence as you watch lasers fly into an aircraft and it explodes.

oh yeah, star wars is no exception.  

what im on is the fundamental flaws in the story premises.  

as a star wars example, they did fine using the force as a 'magic wand' [warp drives, insane viruses, genetic engineering, mutant superpowers, all 'magic wands', you see], until george tried to get just a little bit scientifical about it, with the midichlorian thing, and fucked it right up.  

that kinda shit stands in the way of suspension.  sound in space, or however the hell a lightsaber or hyperdrive is supposed to work, thats easier to let ride.  

So it's not stupidity and ignorance, it's just making it more entertaining.  

if done well enough.  

But, yeah, I've been preaching to tons of people over the years that a zombie apocalypse wouldn't even be possible because we'd fix it before it could even get out of control.

i know a guy, hes on his way to being a full-on doomsday prepper.  he sincerely believes that the 'zombie apocalypse' is coming.  or at least, that its a real thing that might happen, and its important for him to be ready for it.  hes got like thirty boxes of ammo stowed away.  creeps me out a bit, actually, since ive always maintained that the secret appeal of the modern undead genre is that it gives you an excellent reason to shoot your friends and neighbors.  

ive talked to about a dozen other people who think it could actually, really happen, too.  

People are so quick to jump to conclusions that I'm  sure the first person to even seem like a zombie would be killed. But that would just make a boring television series, wouldn't it? A few Zombies emerge, they wipe most of them out. Obama makes a speech. The congress debates issues on zombie control. By law a corpse has to be shot in the head when first noticed. They start doing Zombie treatment research. A 6 month treatment that might help people fight zombieness. Dozens of underground remedies surface claiming that the 6 month zombie treatment is a huge rip off, the government is just trying to take your money, they are hiding the true cure. The cure is marijuana.

i would watch this, if it was done right.  the apocalypse happens to the zombies, not to us.  

add it to the list of awesome flh forum movie ideas, and when someone wins the lottery, well film it.  

LuckyNumbrXIII said
They did this. It was called 2001: a space odyssey, and it was great!

even 2001 had a few little problems.  all in all, though, about as close as anybody has gotten so far, to 'realism'.  no glaring mistakes.  

but then, no wookiees or lightsabers or desperate run-n-gun escapes from undead hordes, either.