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

god that scene where they're talking abotu missing their vibrators was so so bad, was this talked about upthread

i would love it if you'd watch the fourth episode and came back to us with your thoughts

i can make that happen

SPOILER

so did the doctor tell andrew lincoln that his kid is carrying?

Either that, or that everyone already has the disease whether they've been bit or not

Hmm, I can't remember if that was a plot point in the comics or not. Seem to think it was? Or maybe I'm thinking of something else, from World War Z. Regardless, in these sorts of stories everyone has to have the disease, bit or not, because otherwise how would the dead come back to life in the first place, without a first-bite, as it were?

http://goremasternews.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/love-at-first-bite.jpg

They kind of hit you over the head with the CDC doctor's name: Edwin Jenner. Just a few letters difference to throw you off though. But for this show, that's subtlety.

I... liked the finale. Much more than the previous couple of episodes. But maybe I'm just a sucker for Lost-style imminent death in a basement "suspense."

Haven't watched it yet, but I could have sworn Darabont promised there would be no cliffhanger. So he's a liar-pants?

there's no cliffhanger

Wow that was a bad cgi explosion. I enjoyed the finale though. This season has been perfectly adequate for my needs; I expected it to be a watchable and occasionally exciting programme about zombies, and it is.

yeah the awful CGI was really terrible-looking and depressing, considering how great the actual zombies looked on this show

Man, that last episode was a real stinker, right down to the talking computer and the, um, grenade deus ex machina. "Oh, by the way, I've been carrying a grenade in my pocket - do you think that might help?"

I've actually hated the CGI throughout this thing - the zombie make-up has been great, but pretty much all the kills have been all "Resident Evil (the game) level graphics. My only hope for this show is that these first few eps were apparently rushed, and with new writers and more time things can only get better.

yeah the firing writers thing is totally encouraging, if they get someone more talented to take this ball and run with it now that they've got a hit they might really have something

Here is a grenade. Perhaps you, the master of grenading, can use it to unlock that window.

my roomates theory is his wife is pregnant

some shonky physics in the last ep. shouldn't a thermobaric weapon toss everything in its immediate surroundings around a bit ~shrug~

zombies are kinda shonky science /par excellence/ tho so I'm not grousing

I don't think mad doctor told Rick they were all infected. Or maybe he did and at the start of the 2nd season they all turn into zombies and the show is about them looking for braiiiiins. Would make the show a whole lot better because I don't see how they could write bad dialogues for zombies. I guess he probably told Rick that his wife is pregnant though.
Don't think I'll watch s02 because this show has become really awful really fast.

maybe he told rick that all of rick's companions are lame shitheads and who gives a fuck /slocki

don't take the red herring bait; the "whisper whisper whisper" was the lamest par of that ep and dug deep into LOST bullshit
i'm in for one more season because new writers new writers new writers new writers
man, when they showed ads for breaking bad i remembered how much i missed that show.

lol I gave up on walking dead and started watching breaking bad

They're also going to have a crossover special called Walking Bad.

Walking Bad Men

i'm in for one more season because new writers new writers new writers new writers

― Lou Ferrigno (Hulken) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, December 7, 2010 7:08 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

didnt darabont fire the writers cuz he was doing all the writing himself?

Don't think he said just what was up, but the implication was he was going to rely on freelancers for the time being. Which could be the way to go - contract out to genre nerds who know what's up a la "Star Trek."" Regardless, when your show is being run/produced by one of Hollywood's top-paid rewrite guys, expect him to have a hand in every script.

if they go all "what zombie adventure will the crew run into today" with a thruline of longer plot threads, a'la xfiles, this show could take off.
the real important equation is "more zombies in episode = more enjoyment I get from said episode"

totes. more actual suspenseful shit, less boring people hanging out in tents, imo

and FUCK human on human violence, this is a goddamn zombie show.

the sequence where dude ran away from military executing patients in the hall into the arms of the undead underlined my distaste for this "WHO IS TRULY THE MONSTER DO U C" bullshit

My first thought was that the doctor saw the attempted rape over one of the security cameras.

i dont think i need to even see the remaining eps, i can just figure them out from these dumbass plot points you guys are talking about

I'm just waiting for the xmas special, the Walking Dead in a Winter Wonderland.

s1ocki or just keep reading this thread, you'll sure get one over on yourself then.

that's what im saying

At least Carl the kid finally got to taste wine and say "ew gross!"

Haha, that was such an awful scene. The acting is uniformly terrible in this, but as long as they keep up the gore and some of the great shots (some of the framing is incredible) I'll probably keep watching.

I still can't believe they blew their final episode budget on a lame underground compound and not on, you know, zombie hordes.

^^^

if they go all "what zombie adventure will the crew run into today" with a thruline of longer plot threads, a'la xfiles, this show could take off.
the real important equation is "more zombies in episode = more enjoyment I get from said episode"

― Lou Ferrigno (Hulken) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, December 7, 2010 9:53 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

idk i think the survivalism aspect is more interesting than the zombies

here's how every zombie encounter will go down: there's a horde of zombies, a bunch of them will get shot/chopped in the head with an axe, someone maybe gets overwhelmed and eaten and it's real sad ;_;, repeat

o come on tamtam, u know the comic better than that

I thought they were out of fuel when they got to the CDC, which was why they couldn't get back in the car and go to Fort Benning when it looked like the CDC was empty. But how is this problem solved at the end of the episode? It's clear Jenner didn't have surplus gasoline. Also, once they were in Atlanta and the CDC looked shut, why wouldn't they go back to the nursing home and take shelter there?

Probably the same reason why they had to stop the RV when the hose burst, but yet it was suddenly not an issue once they dumped the guy that was bit against the tree and left him to die.

scientist guy had a long fucking time to figure out how to fix the auto-destruct in that fucking joint too. maybe keeping some of the lights off in that cavernous place, not playing classical music while you're running experiments and not taking hot showers every night woulda been a good call to conserve energy? Pretty sure that google voice of god thing was a pretty big power suck to leave on all the time too.

They did a facile "oh, there's a service station just down the road, I'll go get a hose while you dump the dude against the tree" bit, but the lack of fuel is a total whoops -- unless S2 picks up 20 minutes later with everybody walking down the road with gas cans.

renewable energy my friends. they used zombies as fuel...

Has there ever been a zombie story set hundreds of years after the beginning of the plague, with the living and the dead having co-existed for generations? If not, my idea.

what would be awesome is if over time in 'the walking dead', the zombies and the humans are forced into some kind of, shall we say, uneasy alliance. maybe eventually there would be zombie/human love stories in the mix? maybe this alliance would be on the run from more "evil" zombies, and the humans and the good zombies have to find a new home. there should also be one character who has visions of the future depicted in bad art.

Odds of ever seeing those nursing home gangsters we've grown to love ever again? None.

They didn't go to the fort because it was 150 miles away and getting dark. Or something. "CDC" lab was living large, given the limited resources. That lame throwaway line about fossil fuels was no excuse for lack of solar power.

How long would power remain on with no one manning the stations, btw? What happens to nuclear?

yeah and shane would take a zombie doggystyle in a trash bin.