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

Does the guy playing Shane remind anyone else of a young Fred Ward?

YESSS

ep 2 was ok

cast still reminds me of generic made-in-vancouver shows

he's like an unlikeable and somewhat uncharismatic fred ward.

might say he has the 'wrong stuff'

my favorite moment in the comic is around like issue 40 when he literally has rick scream "ITS US! WE'RE THE WALKING DEAD!"

might say he's more like emo williams

not so much virgil "gus" grissom as turgid "pus" wishin-it-was-fred-ward-instead

would probably be fair to call him "fred bored" tbh

miami snooze

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

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:

argh that "oh is she about to be eaten or maybe raped, no they're just cute lovers having sex!" cliché barf

should have been a cartoon finger or arrow pointing at the ring

i will raise funds to make this happen on the dvd help me slocki

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.

tyrese is yet to come.
i am continuing to hope for better dialogue
do not think i'll be seeing that anytime soon
just want to get the show on the road and get past some initial character deaths really

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

I'd like to give this show more than two episodes, but I gotta jump off. Not doing it for me...

Enjoying this, will keep watching, but do want to emphasize that "Dead Set" was 10x better.

Enjoying this, will keep watching, but do want to emphasize that "Dead Set" was 10x 20x better.

Fixed.

Enjoying this, will keep watching, but do want to emphasize that I never heard of "Dead Set" was 10x 20x better.

Fixed.

"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.

"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)

oh yeah, so I just learned. Also apparently the writer, Charlie Brooker, is famous if you are from England.

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. :-(

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.

in "diary of the dead" one of them is working on a gender studies PHD

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.

pretty sure they're conflating the later mayor character with the dude on the roof and he'll BE FOLLOWING THE SURVIVORS oh shockers

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.

"men can be worse than zombies" is a continuous law in the kirkman books

Zombie stories totally need human villains! Zombies are more a background enviornmental threat and context than an actual villain.

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.

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

I'd bet he's coming back alive. That was a Significant Hacksaw.

So you guys didn't see the "scenes from next episode" bit then.

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

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?

i mean other than having no music soundtrack until the closing trip-hop number right before the credits.

turns out it was all a dream

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

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.

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

i was afraid of that

if yer really curious, there's compilations of the book readily available or single issue cbrs all over the internet

In any case this is powers of ten better than Rubicon and is thus far the most fun horror tv show i've seen.

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)

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.

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

meanwhile shane has a similar scrapbook of all the women he's slept with who have dead husbands.

some crossover there no doubt

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...