Walking Dead Continuity Question

[The_Cannon]

So I'm re-watching the first season of The Walking Dead on Netflix and something just popped in my head. If you haven't read the comic or seen the first season this is a spoiler, but since we know that when you die no matter what you come back as a zombie, in the first episode when Rick is looking around the abandoned gas station how are there decaying bodies in the cars? Wouldn't they have re-animated?

[carpanfan96]

If they didn't manage to get out then they would have starved to death from not being able to eat any flesh.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

possible lurkers. get too close to them and they wake up and bite you.

in the comics it becomes very difficult later on to tell what is a corpse and what is a lurker

[The_Cannon]

I was thinking lurkers at first too but Rick was right next to them and they didn't move at all. I've been trying to keep the comics and the TV show separate in my mind and this has been bugging me.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

there were fugtons of dead bodies outside the hospital that hadn't been reanimated; or maybe they had and had already been put down

[Reapuh]

Yeah...the hospital did have a lot of dead bodies, but there was Military there. So, yeah, they prolly put them down....but, then again they did get overrun by zombies..

[The_Cannon]

Yea that's whats confusing and now that I think about it, it couldn't have been starvation. In the comics Rick found out about the whole 're-animation' thing at the prison. By that time Shane had been dead for a WHILE. But when Rick went back to kill Shane again he was still alive after he dug up the grave so clearly the zombies don't starve. I don't know if it was just something the producers put in the show to heighten the fear and drama, or what, but it's buggin me.