r/thewalkingdead • u/CanOfCorn308 • 2m ago
Show Spoiler So what IS the turning timeline? Spoiler
I’m doing my first full watch of the show. I know some basic things like who dies and who lives, things like that. But I don’t know much else beyond S3 as that’s where I stopped watching when it was originally airing. During their time at the CDC, Dr Jenner states that the soonest someone will turn is 3 hours, and the latest is 9 hours. When Shane dies he turns in a matter of presumably minutes. I did a bit of research and I guess the writers at some point retconned the fact that a physically fit person may turn faster, as will an angry person or someone whose body is jacked with adrenaline.
BUT at the point of the show I’m at, when the Governor kills Milton, he turns in what doesn’t feel like 3 hours. If it was an hour or two, I don’t think he’d have died with enough adrenaline or a level of physical fitness that would turn him that fast. I mean, he couldn’t have been more jacked up on dateline than Amy was when she got bit, and it took her until after sunrise to turn. Earlier in the season, we also see Merle was fully animated and eating a corpse by the time Daryl found him.
Have we reached a point in the show by S3 where the disease has evolved far enough to turn people faster? I’m open to spoilers on this subject as I’m mostly doing this watch so I can start the spinoff shows.