not so much virgil "gus" grissom as turgid "pus" wishin-it-was-fred-ward-instead
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
would probably be fair to call him "fred bored" tbh
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
miami snooze
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
it happened!
Didn't like the way capable, tough, non-stereotype black guy Tyreese in the comic seems to have become ham-fisted stereotype 'T-Dawg'― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, November 8, 2010 6:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, November 8, 2010 6:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
lol that guy being named 'Tyrese' always bothered me, way more than T-Dawg possibly could :peers into kirkman's brain and notices he has never met a black man ever:
― Princess TamTam, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
argh that "oh is she about to be eaten or maybe raped, no they're just cute lovers having sex!" cliché barf
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
should have been a cartoon finger or arrow pointing at the ring
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i will raise funds to make this happen on the dvd help me slocki
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the dialogue and yeah the ring stuff was just clumsy as hell throughout this episode. apparently some of the upcoming episodes aren't written by darabont, and I hope that becomes the trend, because I was cringing my way through this last one.
― Clay, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
tyrese is yet to come.i am continuing to hope for better dialoguedo not think i'll be seeing that anytime soonjust want to get the show on the road and get past some initial character deaths really
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
might say he's more like emo williams
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Monday, November 8, 2010 7:11 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
lol i just got this
― Princess TamTam, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd like to give this show more than two episodes, but I gotta jump off. Not doing it for me...
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Enjoying this, will keep watching, but do want to emphasize that "Dead Set" was 10x better.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Enjoying this, will keep watching, but do want to emphasize that "Dead Set" was 10x 20x better.
Fixed.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Enjoying this, will keep watching, but do want to emphasize that I never heard of "Dead Set" was 10x 20x better.
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"Dead Set" was IFC's 5-ep zombie series that just aired -- zombie plague as reality show, or reality show as zombie plague. Not as arch as that description makes it sound -- works both as social comment and straight horror movie. Well-acted, well-written, well-done.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"Dead Set" was IFC's 5-ep zombie series that just aired
Technically it's from 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Set_(TV_series)
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah, so I just learned. Also apparently the writer, Charlie Brooker, is famous if you are from England.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 06:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I spend so much time watching tv shows that I don't watch a ton of movies any more, not like I used to. And it's not because the movies aren't good. It's just I can't *not* watch my tv shows.
This. I also don't listen to much music anymore. :-(
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 10:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Re: The rock-using zombies from upthread, Romero's zombies got progressively smarter. In "Night," one zombie can use a rock. By "Day," Bub the zombie is trained to use a tape recorded and figures out how to use a gun to kill Capt. Rhodes (whom he then ironically salutes). In "Land," they can use guns and become organized.
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
in "diary of the dead" one of them is working on a gender studies PHD
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
This second ep was OK but did go by fast. Not sure what to make of the freshly added racist, or the fact that he was left behind handcuffed to that pipe with a hacksaw nearby a la "Mad Max." Wasn't it Chekov who said something about a hacksaw in the first act? Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if racist dude makes another appearance, either alive or dead.
BTW, I love the gore effects in this, but the gore sound effects suck. They're all cartoonishly "squish crunch squish slop squish." Greg Nicotero needs to recommend a better foley guy.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure they're conflating the later mayor character with the dude on the roof and he'll BE FOLLOWING THE SURVIVORS oh shockers
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
That'd be a bummer, though I understand if the show needs a proper villain to hang around. Though really, the COUNTLESS FLESHEATING ZOMBIES should be good enough.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"men can be worse than zombies" is a continuous law in the kirkman books
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Zombie stories totally need human villains! Zombies are more a background enviornmental threat and context than an actual villain.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if racist dude makes another appearance, either alive or dead.
honestly it hadn't even occurred to me but i guess a lot of the potential fun in a show like this is that human characers can recur as zombies later on, i like that idea.
― deej otm (some dude), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess "the real enemy is OURSELVES" is an inevitable theme in stuff like this but i was bummed that they laid it on a bit thick in the 2nd episode
― deej otm (some dude), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd bet he's coming back alive. That was a Significant Hacksaw.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
So you guys didn't see the "scenes from next episode" bit then.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i fast fowarded through the credits and my remote decided it didn't want to stop for the preview and i was like oh okay i don't need to know anything about next week anyway
― deej otm (some dude), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
people who've read the comic - is there any reason to expect anything from this show (twist, detail, situation, anything) that hasn't already been done in a popular zombie movie?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean other than having no music soundtrack until the closing trip-hop number right before the credits.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
turns out it was all a dream
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I have no problem watching them smear zombie guts all over themselves but a line like "if I ever find my family I’m going to tell them about wayne" really makes me cringe
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I have no problem watching them smear zombie guts all over themselves but ruining the edge of that ax by chopping up a zombie on a concrete floor really made me cringe.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
croupier: um, sorta? some of the zombie rules are fun. some of the character relationships in the macro sense are cool. the jail setpiece is interesting. don't expect quantum leaps; what sets this apart from zombie movie standards is that uh it's really long
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i was afraid of that
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
if yer really curious, there's compilations of the book readily available or single issue cbrs all over the internet
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
In any case this is powers of ten better than Rubicon and is thus far the most fun horror tv show i've seen.
― Zombie Chekhov's Significant Hacksaw (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
― death panel of the mods (Edward III)
would be awesome if a couple episodes ahead the sheriff goes back to his tent for a moment of peace, looks around, and opens up a scrapbook he's been compiling filled with the driver's licenses of all the zombies he's killed.
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
and then when he finally reunites with his family they spend long nights by the fire, paging through daddy's scrapbook of dead zombie licenses
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
meanwhile shane has a similar scrapbook of all the women he's slept with who have dead husbands.
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
some crossover there no doubt
― Zombie Chekhov's Significant Hacksaw (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
it is pretty brutal isn't it? thought them smearing guts all over themselves and hacking up that body was pretty full on for tv...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been dreaming about corpse mutilation on tv for years now
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone who saw the, uh, bathtub sequence from Breaking Bad S1 will know that AMC isn't shy about gore.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Can anyone confirm/deny that this is only a six episode season? I'll be super bummed if it is. Need something to watch on Sundays to fill the Breaking Bad void.
― Darin, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Confirm, it's six eps. Did not know this: "The series is completely shot on 16 mm film."That's kinda rare these days, right?
― Zombie Chekhov's Significant Hacksaw (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Women should be way more offended by sub-Sex and the City (bad enough as it is) vibrator talk than any 'can't turn off the light' metaphor.
― Gukbe, Monday, 15 November 2010 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
dopey dialogue aside, this looks like a good six episode/issue arc; ep 3 was an improvement on ep 2 for my money
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 15 November 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link