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

yeah, the ladeez scrubbing clothes and giggling about vibrators was ugh. still really enjoying this despite the occasional cringe-inducing scene. it goes by quickly, i find myself a little bummed when it's over.

I'm still an ep behind but the hacking up zombie & covering themselves with gore scene was lol gross.

I had just finished dinner & felt a mite queasy after that

haven't seen the third episode, but watched the second last night. disappointed at the absence of: inventive special effects, interesting characters, the sorts of things i like paying attention to. dull as dirt, grodyness of wiping oneself down with rotting guts aside.

Don't expect the characters to get any more interesting in the third episode.

I think I'm done. A good survival story requires someone to root for and I really don't care whether Racist Guy, Sexist Guy(s), Woman Who's Cheating On Her Husband, Woman Who's Being Beaten By Her Husband, Or Woman Who Likes Mermaids makes it.

I missed the first episode, but after watching the most recent two last night I'm totally pumped about this show. Love that it's only 6 episodes this season, too.

Ratings actually up on last week to 5.1 million. Skewing male significantly, with 2.1 million of the 3.3 million demo being of that gender.

I wish the zombies had eaten officer-wife-cheater and Mrs-Husband-cheater when they were screwing in the woods.

however now we know that she wasn't really cheating because she was told her husband was dead! not sure i like that explanation, though, since it makes shane less of a sympathetic character and more of a clear villain.

I'm loving this. Most of the complaints are pretty valid, but this show's still entertaining the hell out of me. Shane's shaping up to be the most interesting/sympathetic character, which is kind of surprising.

there is still time for doggy style sex in the woods with zombies running rampant throughout.

Yeah that didn't sit well with me either omar... I hope they don't go the route of making Shane an unambiguous villain like in the comic. That line felt like it was stuffed in to remind the audience that this is a bad guy

"screw the zombies im taking you balls deep"

What's going on with Shane's nose? Is he an ex-boxer?

Lol Chris

we could tell that sex was unholy because he was doing her from behind

zombie cock

I just started reading the comic. Dialog is pretty dire...but I'll hang

"my inlaws live in Atlanta...that's only a 5hr drive from here. That's probablywhere my wife went"

I'm going to shoot in the face

Lol Chris i love how easy it is to get you to work blue. It's awesome.

i can sort of see the lack of nuance people complain about, this isn't mad men or breaking bad, and yet i have found each episode exciting from start to finish. i guess it works the plot tension well and it's got good drama and action. character wise i agree nobody is entirely sympathetic, but the group dynamics are interesting.

Agreed. I really do enjoy the show a lot.

hey racist, saw through the rusty bolt you're cuffed to and keep the hand next time.

oh wait next time you'll only have one hand. good luck running a hack saw with your teeth, zombie chow.

^I was also wondering why he didn't do that.

kerm OTM + why make/keep 3 enemies (racist, his bro and fat pummelled guy) when you could kill them? Getting more into Lost territory and too much lipstick on officer friendly since episode 1. Still <3 this show.

i assume the hacksaw was too dull for metal, but sharp enough for flesh and bone. like that Danny Glover movie.

Maybe he gnawed it off like a coyote. "Aron Ralston ain't got nuthin on me!"

I figured it was a "Mad Max" rip. The zombies were banging at the door and he panicked. "The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes." Etc.

Anyway, I'll watch this show, but this was my least favorite episode. The redneck color is grating on me a lot -Atlanta's not exactly hillbilly country, so I hope they diversify a bit - and when I mentioned the rampant sexism to my wife her reply was "good, I thought it was just me - is this show set in the '40s or something?" This is the first ep that at least alludes to the "woman, get me a beer" vibe, what with Laurie Holden's college educated character and all, and I know the comic quickly evolves into a more equitable division of labor situation, but still.

crucial to remember the areas around Atlanta, but yeah, it's still got a hillbilly vibe.

the show is hardly great television, but it works well enough that I'm happy to run with it, especially as there's not much else on at the moment.

I think there is plenty of hillbillies in some parts around Atlanta... it's just that I'm accustomed to not living in those parts and the main metro areas aren't redneck at all. However, I remember being at I-Hop in the past year and overhearing some older ladies talking about how one of them got physically abused by her husband - I guess it happens

are* plenty

feel like i should be loving this show, but i'm barely even liking it. i think i'm done with TWD. first episode was underwhelming, and the deviations from the cast and plot of the graphic novel aren't adding up to something strong enough in its own right to sustain my interest. pacing in the third episode was incredibly indulgent for a season with a six-episode run; wall to wall on-the-nose dialog was even less forgivable. okay, i'll admit that i was happy when Norman Reedus showed up. but his character (and his brother's) can hardly be considered inspired additions to Kirkman's stock ensemble.

when do we get to the prison? do we ever?

isn't it pretty plausible that in the zombie apocalypse people have been migrating around, grouping together with people from different areas? and maybe that more of the survivors are from the rural areas than the big cities? (xpost)

good point. and rural folk have guns

much more plausible that kirkman and kirkman-ite writing team just paint with broad brushes

that too. but all the OH JEEZ ATLANTA IS NOT REDNECKY stuff is a little weird to argue about.

tru

the "redneck"/"hillbilly" stuff, period, is a little weird tbh

one thing's for sure, they barely had to change Atlanta at all for the show!

This was the first episode I ff'd through part of -- there was SO MUCH "people conversing intensely at the camp" I couldn't take it all in.

Think they did the family reunion too early on, sets up a lot of crappy melodrama and muddles the main character's motivation. Best part was them slaughtering the lone zombie.

Agree that finding the wife and kid came way too quickly, but they only have 6 episodes so the pacing is bound to be a little off. They introduced all those characters from the department store in the 2nd ep because they wanted to establish a cast as soon as possible. Apparently the pacing will be a lot different in the second season.

show's got a good atmosphere and sense of place. when they're in the camp, in a tent, at the quarry, etc., it feels like it. i guess i'm comparing it to something like LOST where everything felt phony.

Think they did the family reunion too early on, sets up a lot of crappy melodrama and muddles the main character's motivation. Best part was them slaughtering the lone zombie.

― reckon you should stfu (bnw), Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:01 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah, for some reason when the series began I thought 'guy looking for his wife and kid' would be like this never-ending quest, like looking for the one-armed man. Whatever, I'm on board with wherever they're going.

I've got no problem with the rednecks and hillbillies. I'm just a bit bugged that so far it's (more or less) only rednecks and hillbillies, or at least the rednecks and hillbillies are in charge in the most broad "I'm gonna teach y'all how to catch frogs and eat squirrel" way. I'd reckon that more than just the working class folks in and around Atlanta have and know how to use guns, so I'm not sure that's it. I do seem to recall that this batch of survivors is more from the sticks and went to Atlanta in search of help. Why they're still camped out a mile or two from downtown is another matter, but I assume they'll be moving soon enough.

Anyway, I was impressed by how little class had to do with the comic, as if everyone knew that this far along there was no point in snobbery, racism, etc. It didn't feel right that only three episodes into a six ep arc I was all "get on with it!" but then, reading 70+ issues of the comic in more or less one swoop probably spoiled me.

Oh, and I don't think we have to worry too much about Shane as villain, because somewhere out there is a pissed off, one-handed, coke-sniffing, er, racist redneck. Because the one-hand thing makes him more subtle, you see? Eventually I hope he gets an eye-patch, too.

(Come to think of it, it's Holden's college edumacated woman that didn't know how to take the safety off the handgun, so maybe they taught the shootin' right out of her at that fancy school of hers!)

the atlanta stuff upthread is kinda stupid, isn't it made explicitly clear in episode 1 that there was supposed to be a refugee centre or some sort of refuge in atlanta, people could have come from anywhere...

an episode ago ricks wife was taking it deep in the woods from shane, now she doesn't want to talk to him or want him around?

also are we gonna get an explanation on how this zombie apocalypse came to be?

did you guys WANT a suspense-filled season finale with the guy finding his family at the end of the episode, cue orchestral score? it was totally a good thing that they got it out of the way early and without too much ado.

Don't y'all see, though? Rick's wife is female and therefore weak, and needed a man ASAP not just to care for her and her kid in the zombie apocalypse but to give her a little action. I mean, what, it'd been a couple of weeks, right? And he did say her husband was dead and all. Plus, the prospect of everyone you know being torn apart and eaten is a little sexy, isn't it? /sarcasm

The chronology of this show is still pretty vague. I assume a few days at least pass between eps. When Rick wakes up in the hospital obviously it'd only been a few days with him unattended (otherwise he would have died of dehydration), and perhaps up to a week or so since the zombies first appeared. But how long has it been since he woke up? Weeks? At least in the comic you could gauge by length of beard, but these dudes are staying pretty trimmed and tidy so far.