AMC zombie series from Frank 'Majestic' Darabont - The Walking Dead

I was serious about zombies dancing in formation fwiw

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"at this point" = 1 episode!

I am amused by the idea of a zombie version of Twilight!

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"at this point" = 1 episode!

it was a looooooooooong episode

well i mean at this point i don't see any real signs of trying to attempt anything really different, but at the same time i'm not really complaining.

have come to the depressing conclusion that most horror fans don't want anything really different

this kinda reminds me of shakey mo on the literary fiction thread - something can be interesting and different without having some crazy, genre-exploding formal element. not that 'the walking dead' is an example of this.

something can be interesting and different without having some crazy, genre-exploding formal element.

I'm not all "every zombie movie must be CRAZY and FREE", just think the walking dead fails on both of yr points

xpost Because the hospital zombies were all locked in the DO NOT DEAD INSIDE room.

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl)

That is a very interesting name for a room

― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE)

You don't have a DO NOT DEAD INSIDE room? Where on earth do you entertain visiting friends? Honestly!

man, you miss one fucking word...

DO NOT FUCKING DEAD INSIDE

every implication I can think of for inflection of this sentence is terrifying

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Is this a deconstruction?

haha sorry I wasn't mocking the missing a word, I just wanted to make that joke...

DO NOT FUCKING DEAD INSIDE BERSERKER!

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i thought you were making fun of the fact that if you read the words in rows instead of columns, it said something like DON'T DEAD ENTER INSIDE

xp

if this show was more awesome it would have paused while the hero tried to parse that phrase until finally getting it

"don't be dead, enter inside?"

I don't die if I go in here

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I did read it across at first and was all, huh?
DON'T DEAD OPEN INSIDE

CAFETERIA for extra lulz

I thought the zombies had written the sign as a lure, like those coyote-written signs to lure the road runner
FREE FUD HEER

lol

ya hah

haven't watched this series but I think the comic is just a rehashed zombie story. it brings nothing new to the table.

after reading enough about this series, the "new thing" seems to be a zombie story that continues. Kirkman said his reason for starting this was his disappointment in not being able to see what happens next. i'm totally fine with this approach, actually this is kind of what i want. a very classic zombie story that just keeps unrolling beyond what we typically see.

the pilot wasn't at all boring to me. this is actually very much what i wanted. a zombie story with a lot of quiet and discovery.

a very classic zombie story that just keeps unrolling beyond what we typically see.

otm!

I'm glad these are some OG Ramero-style zombies who just sort of amble haphazardly w/o being able to run. Zombies already have strength in numbers - giving them hyperkinetic musculature on top of that was just sorta unfair imo.

*Romero

Rambero

otm

I loved this show. I am not much of a zombie fan but this was pretty ace.

I really dug it too but I was amazed by a. how quickly our hero adapted to waking up in a brave new zombie world, and also b. his complete lack of curiosity as to how the fuck this happened. I'm having Lost deja vu where you're wondering why nobody asks each other basic questions about the situation. I would be badgering anyone within reach to tell me how long I was out, how extensive it is (Alabama? North America? northern hemisphere?) But they've got to pad this out, so I accept that.

Intrigued by the piles and piles of pristine military hardware lying about - somebody somewhere (hoping for a zombie Dennis Hopper with an eyepatch) is amassing a serious army if all this is just around for the taking. I'm sure they'll get to that at some point (zombie virus moved quickly through close-knit groups or some such).

Sorry if this has already been addressed - somebody was telling me this is a six-episode season. That right?

that is correct.

Thinking about this a day later, it does seem good-but-not-great. But my objections to the acting were silly, I think. If you're going to make an upmarket show in a b-grade genre, unknown actors that are a bit clunky are part of the spirit of the endeavor. I'm impressed by how much genuine love went into this show.

how can you tell how much genuine love went into this show

cannn you feeeeeel .... the gooooore .... toniiiiiiiiiiiiite

Thanks for six-ep clarification. I was wondering if popping zombies in the head and people crying as they cap a spouse would get pretty old by episode 11.

Saw Monsters the other night and now I'm mixing up which post-apocalyptic bleak deserted landscape belongs to which show.

yeah the hero did seem to get over the whole "the world is destroyed, the dead are eating the living" shit pretty quickly.

how can you tell how much genuine love went into this show

If you have to ask...

exploding zombie heads and long closeups of crawling zombies and buzzing flies over blackened corpse feet = LURVE imo

wow kinda suprised to see so many people down on this show - i watch lots of crazo horror stuff and yeah most of it might be a little more edgy and OTT and better in many ways than this, but im still down with the "HOLY SHIT A GORY ZOMBIE MINISERIES ON THE TV AWESOME" reaction tbh.

esp considering that like 99% of TV horror attempts have been unmitigatedly fucking awful

^

no idea what the comix are like, but i am hoping this goes in the direction of... deadwood!

hours and hours of survival horror is not interesting, and lost-style soapy shit among the survivors isn't either. but people figuring out how to live with each other and build ad-hoc institutions of stability in extreme circumstances is super interesting imo

any chance of that?

thats my hope, but i havent read the comics either.

part of my optimism tho is that a miniseries or series or whatever handled right could totally fulfill that long arc post societal breakdown/rebuilding in a way that zombie movies never ever can - all respect to the dawn/day of the dead stuff or 28 days/weeks, but commenting on it isnt the same as showing it happen.

I read a little bit of a current issue of the comic and it involved a lot of people on a farm standing around and yelling at each other

about leaving the toilet seat up or down, I'm sure.

also peeps saying the gore/FX aren't up to par may i please direct you to another comparable low tier cable network called SYFY which should maybe change yer feelings about that.

i think the gore is good

i dont think the fact that it is a zombie show alone is reason enough to give it a pass... i mean, i like zombie movies but it's not like they're exactly underrepresented in pop culture

dreading the inevitable mummy movie renaissance