How do you know things are going bad? Flu like symptoms. Every time crap hits the fan. It's starts with.... Flu like symptoms.

When rick said their all infected fits with how the virus sits in the atmosphere

Wow, this is probably your best video ever a six part miniseries would be phenomenal

All signs point to Paris being ground zero. It would be cool to see some flashbacks in Daryl Dixon if so. Maybe Genet is going to play a big part in the "endgame" we've all theoried about. If she did weaponize the Walkers and release them in America it could end with our group fighting walkers like the beginning bringing it full circle. Maybe even coming up with a plan to destroy all the heards out there in the process. Think about that tales episode from the future too. Just a theory....

I still would like to know what happened to every major city throughout the country. Manhattan, which was the epicenter at the current time before the collapse. Chicago, we heard that it was so bad that a nuclear bomb was about to be engaged to eliminate the threat. I mean, it should have its own season of certain cities before/during/post outbreak of the Wildfire Virus. Season 1 should focus on one city, which can be anywhere in the nation, no main character, just a random individual seeing their POV of the unfolding chaos, leaving the audience relate to the unknown individual, whether if it's a politician, first responder, blue/white collar worker, or just a random homeless off the street. They should heavily focus more on news stations reporting on the unknown and just leave it like that. This goes with the EAS occupation being on every phone/radio posting warnings of the unknown infection.

This would be a great Tales from the walking dead episode. I hope they do Talles again, so much potential and could be kind of low budget because they wouldnt need any top tier actors like danai or andrew or norman.

Robert Kirkman never wanted to have it be A science fiction show.He wanted it to be a Horror show so I don't want to know what caused it.I just love the show Great topic for discussion at work. Another good one, James.

Isn't that kind of "Night of the Comet" where a comet crashes down to Earth, unleashes spores of some kind, and turns everyone into zombies? Or "Undead" did it with meteorites. Don't get me wrong... I'd watch for sure!

Wasn't _Fear the Walking Dead_ supposed to do that?

It's funny because we just experienced the same type of solar flare less than a month ago

I loved hearing your prequel and it sounds plausible to me. I wonder if they might make the whole prequel thing into a new one-off series, I think it might be a fan pleaser? Hi James, yep I'm still here and alive with my crazy cats. I've permanently taken over Davids house and he's in mine, it has been almost 2 years! I hope all is well in Nashville and that you have been behaving yourself lol. I have been watching just not commenting, don't know why just been quiet but I think about you often. Lots of love always from your crazy Aussie cat friends xoxo 🇦🇺🐈🐈‍⬛🕵‍♀️💖

We need a new WD show in Asia, how it has gone wild there, especially in Korea (or Japan) as I've seen Koreans are top-notch when it comes to horror zombie apocalypse live action shows (Japanese also).

I always liked how they made it scientifically make sense in terms of how the illness worked

im pretty sure the space spores 'suggestion' was a sarcastic one by kirkman

They should make the show and its a prequel to every walking dead its called "wildfire" its about a virus origin from the ice caps melting releases a disease that maked people sick but the scientist made it better but worse

Although the hows don’t matter, I love this origin theory. Great video

I wish the producers of the TWD universe had used the anthology to write stories that led to mass creation of the walkers outbreak. I think that would’ve been a better use of story telling.

Rumor has it that it started in a wet market in China. But I don't know that to be the case.

Spores or microbes from space is interesting. I don't like the idea of full alien beings. I would love a prequel series with all new characters and actors.

Great vid and interesting theory, James.

Does anyone still buy into the theory that Breaking Bad is in the same Universe as TWD? My theory is that Walt's Blue Sky drug was getting cut and "copied" by less talented cooks and that played a part in the outbreak.

Hey James! Luv this video...super interesting!!! Would be fun to explore how this all started....what happened?!

Just a side fact but might be interesting. Did you know the end credits song in Season 1/ Episode 1 is called “Space Junk” by Wang Chung. Of all the songs in the world, that’s an interesting choice don’t you think? It could be a hint to where Kirkman and Darabont were going with the show. A small clue but it might support your theory.

0:30 It would need to be a French-American coproduction. France's Canal+ is already used to binational productions.

Sounds interesting! Also sounds very similar to Last of Us to me . I remember something about spores causing infection. I could be wrong. It’s been awhile since I have watched it. Since beginning of watching TWD I have wondered & wanted a reason for all this but realized that we may never get it….this could be a very plausible answer if they ever decide to go there.

What if Rick never got shot in ep1?

Love this video, nice job James! I used to always think that I didn't want an explanation for the virus origin but as the universe has expanded, I could definitely get behind this kind of idea. Coverupts & convenient deaths so that the general public wasn't aware of what was coming resulting in the very worst outcome. I firmly believe that there is other life out there so it's not such a reach to think about some kind of alien spores or DNA entering the Earth's atmosphere this way and because of it's totally different genetic makeup, causing havoc to people. I guess they'd need to explain why it seems to only affect people and not any other species though but yeh, this is way better than a supernatural type explanation - that would just be cheap and too lazy.

Simple Fungus

Zombie shows no matter what will get stale and boring as soon as the people begin to settle down in place, the early days are the best. When people are on the move trying to survive not live. What they should be doing is what American Horror Story does, each season a new story. Could easily just make show about about the initial outbreak, how different people around the country or world react and adapt to it. Like The Wire had different perspectives of the drug game, show different perspectives of civilization taking a zombie to the neck. First responders and law enforcement, government and military, media, doctors, civil engineers, utilities. What happens when the system starts to buckle as people stop maintaining it, stop showing up for work, show the dominos falling. With later seasons things could move further up the timeline, our various groups don't join up but they come across one another as things happen. There's no one "every man," it's everyone dealing with the suck. Imagine a season of Walking Dead where the outbreak hits Woodbury and the people against it all, hold it together. Movies should be like this, for superhero flicks skip the origin story. A flashback will do. For zombie entertainment stick as close to the outbreak, collapse, and figuring it out as possible. That's where it's good. After that it becomes another show with the typical people problems of power, corruption, love or lust. It gets boring to survive the zombie apocalypse and eventually it's the same pre-apocalypse people bullshit. That doesn't mean the shows timeline can't progress either. Can start off a few years into it, with a new group but a few familiar faces from past seasons. As this season goes on we learn what happened to some of the other groups we've gotten to know. Not everyone made it or someone was kicked out for being nuts or evil. By the end, this new group we started with maybe no one makes it. I say treat it like evolution, the people surviving the apocalypse aren't the ones who're going to be making a life for themselves. That's for the next generation way down the line. It's do or die for now.

I am stopping at aliens

But as it stands its the French CDC that researched and released the wildfire virus but mistake or on purpose that is never cleared up .

The only thing that bother me with this theory is that it doesnt explain why infected blood/bites kills them. We've seen amputation work to stop its spread and human bites are dangerous but we have antibiotics to combat infections. There has to be a better theory, although this is a really interesting plot for a story, just doesnt fit with TWDU

Aliens

Great video!

I wonder what happened to tobias.

What abkut the cell phone theory causing the virus?

You should be a writer

I would like to know how it started

Well the walking dead is connected to the invincible multiverse. As we know Omni man’s purpose was to make sure nobody rebels when viltrum takes over. What if Nolan failed his mission and was honest with the viltrum and as a result they sent space spoors to destroy everyone on the planet so that by the time everyone is a zombie on earth. The viltrumites would easily destroy any Twd zombie in their path. I’m convinced that Robert kirkman is trying to cook with his multiverse and that people just don’t want invincible and twd to be connected. Even tho to me it would make perfect sense that they would send twd wildfire virus so they can take over the planet

This is the same as what I’ve had in mind as the cause of the outbreak. The only difference is I would bring the spores arrival forward to about February 2010 or 180 days before wildfire went live. That way scientists can detect the presence of the virus without being too concerned until it goes live suddenly in August. I would make the trigger unknown but subsequently discovered by either civic republic or the sixth republic of France as being radiation from the sun with the northern hemisphere in summertime & with 90% of the population being initially worse affected. The trigger needs to be so sudden that society is shocked & overwhelmed before it can recover. Only pockets of civilisation survive to implement emergency lockdowns & no real prevention program is in place because the virus is ‘benign’ & not taken seriously enough before the trigger. That’s may take on what makes it better. Then the US government panics & launches operation Cobalt as they bumble to contain it & don’t understand that killing people is just creating more hosts to activate the virus. By then it’s too late & most of the world has fallen.

Great vid Hope its not space spores that would suck How about magic mushrooms started it all

im confused, is this coming from you or someone else?

😂James, we all know Doctor fauci caused it lol

i perfer if its a mystery

So not the Qu?

See here's the thing I find unacceptable about writing and just downright reject. The concept of a writer having their content be so large but yet refusing to answer crucial questions like that. To me, once they refuse and someone else comes up with something (or by extension when kirkman said space spores), thats it, it becomes definitive regardless of their attempted retcon. When you have writers that just downright refuse to write something definitive but also dismiss other theories, that is not acceptable in the slightest. It's the same scenario for things like half life 3, valve will never finish the story and although the LITERAL SOLE WRITER finished it in his own time, its not considered canon bc "valve didn't specifically say it was" even tho it is definitively regardless of what anyone says, even he himself. But for TWD, in comics, its definitively space spores regardless of how you wanna argue that, and for the show, it was an engineered virus. We are just so far past the point of acceptability, so considering he refuses to come up with anything, its space spores. If he doesn't like that, he can write something better, but in the mean time, thats what it is.

Geeez, leave it to the French to screw things up.

Hey

Did every major city go down at the some time or did one by one go down

Why can it be a science fuction and horror show all in one i am still trying to find out how it happens did it happen before rick wake-up in the hospital