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

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.

Fido. xpost

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

Yeah, but Shane and the other guy that were going to go get it never left, because they specifically showed Shane saying goodbye to Jim.

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.

― omar little, Wednesday, December 8, 2010 12:59 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

lmfao

the zombies are angels, actually - think about how much sense that makes

shane needs to be put on trial i think, maybe defended by a dime store attorney they find hiding in some underbrush. a trial sounds ridiculous, sure, but they just want to retain order, bring civilization back to a world made uncivilized by an apocalyptic event. maybe they're being naive, or maybe it's just a way to forget that everyone they know is dead.

psyched to see who the "final five" zombies are

Yeah, but Shane and the other guy that were going to go get it never left, because they specifically showed Shane saying goodbye to Jim.

I think maybe they waited for them to get back before hauling Jim off to the tree? I mean, I guess they could have showed the waiting in real time but . . .

Pro tip: Sometimes in movies and TV things happen offscreen or time elapses.

thanks, pro

http://www.tremendousupsidepotential.com/img/jeff-probst.jpg
i'll go tally the zombies.

just to warn anyone who wants to defend these bad choices with "yeah, but what you DIDN'T see was" arguments, the point is that this show is pretty fuckin' thin in terms of logic

like that the french held out the longest

zombies were just hungry for cigs and baguettes

I'm just saying it never even occurred to me that there was supposed to be no time elapsed from "Jim wants to stay behind" to "Whelp, here's your tree!" Not saying the show is perfect in terms of pacing/scripting/whatever, but we're getting into some THRILL TO THE RETURNING-WITH-THE-RADIATOR-HOSE SCENE!! territory here.

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.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 7:56 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

end of Shaun of the Dead kind of used this as its punchline.

So it turns out they didn't actually fire any of the writers btw.

link?

http://bit.ly/eBq0AW

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

If everything goes according to plan, with nobody around they shut themselves down. If something goes radically wrong, they melt down.

golden globe nomination: http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/2010/12/golden-globe-nomination.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afcWyJhsBXo&feature=player_embedded

^^^a lot better show this way tbh

one minute of zombie death in 300 mins of zombie TV = fail.

do we have a thread on the killing or AMC's versh?

almost feel like we should put it in the Spring 2011 TV premieres thread, but it also feels like the kind of thing that's gonna need its own.