Infection time varies, so most likely Shane wouldn't have turned for many hours. Rick only took his eyes off Shane for a few seconds, to deal with a more pressing threat. It was extreme bad luck that Shane reanimated in those seconds. (Or rather, implausible writing.)

Mosquitoes don't get malaria either, but they still carry it.

My guess is that some zombies wander around in herds and that herd had wandered within earshot. We see another herd on the freeway in the first episode of this season, and another invades the camp in the first season. Sometimes they group together. We've also seen that sometimes something will set them off walking -…

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That makes me think she's not a major character.

It doesn't help that her role in 24 sucked. Not her fault - the character she was given was predictable (because 24 itself had become predictable) and unsympathetic.

Katniss was a pawn in the first book, too. She's continually manipulated by Haymitch and Cenna. She's largely clueless about what is going on around her. For me, that makes the third book a logical progression from the first.

For me it's the other way about. I didn't understand what the society in the [i]Battle Royale[/i] film hoped to achieve. There was some talk about teaching respect, but as the kids died it was wasted on them, and as the kids hadn't known what was going on at the start, it seemed that youth generally didn't pay much…

Maybe they just weren't familiar with the term "Space Jockey"? It's not mentioned in the film, and it's not obvious. I used to talk about the "pilot species", until internet know-alls put me right.

White males caused the global warming that killed off the Neanderthals.

The host doesn't contribute any genetic material. Hosts breed with each other to make more hosts. They are clearly a separate species, and the Puppeteers are actually bisexual.

It seemed to me that the Careers would be more likely to come from poor Districts than rich ones. If you are poor, it made some sense to put your name in 20 times, and use the resulting wealth to fund your training so you had a chance to survive when the time came. (And even at 20 times, it probably wouldn't.) If you…

The primary purpose of the Hunger Games was to humiliate the Districts. Hence media. It was only enjoyed by those in Capitol, for whom it would be like betting on dog-fights, but everyone had to watch it. That the Districts could pay to send in minor comforts was just more humiliation.

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They aren't broken at the end of Serenity. Arguably they are broken going in; Mal is off the rails and has driven Inara and Book away, and drives River and Simon away during the film, and shoots 3 people outside of his "awake, facing me and armed" rule. By the end he's healed, to the point where he can start teaching…

Human Centipede?

Interesting, but that snopes article is quite weak. It's an argument from personal incredulity from someone who has not tried putting cat and piglet into sacks.

By "pig" they probably mean "piglet", a baby pig that's about the same size as a cat. If it was quiet, and you couldn't see or touch it, you probably couldn't tell the difference. It'd just be something alive in a sack, wiggling.

Dale didn't guess exactly what happened. He had some suspicions but wasn't sure. When he confronted Shane about it, in a questioning way, Shane basically admitted it. (In the previous episode.)

She felt Herschel's wife needed serious medical attention (and thought Herschel could provide it even when drunk). I don't think it had much to do with Glenn, or her husband.