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

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.

theres gonna be an amc version? cool!

I started a thread for it.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/wp-content/uploads/wdead2.jpg

this was pretty bad

i've only seen two eps so far, not loving or hatin just yet.

i especially like how the pretty blonde lady has someone to force her not to kill herself at the end, but no one bothers to try to stop the middle-aged black lady.

Well she wasn't from the X-Files after all

i kind of wish that each season was six episodes, and at the end of each season all the characters would have been killed off, and then the next season was a whole new set of characters in some other location dealing with the zombies in their own way. but they still all end up dying eventually.

i wish someone would argue with me about this show being shitty for the next half-hour i'm stuck at work

I disagree that it is shitty because shit can be used as manure and is therefore useful.

i will say that it looked really nice and the effects/makeup were great. everything else about it was meh to ugh

after thinking about it more i suppose this show is "ok" but all the best zombie stories i've seen aren't just scary and grisly but pretty funny, too. this show seems afflicted with that self-serious kinda grim determined soap opera-y march through a storyline that a lot of tv shows have, like the kind of shit that the best shows avoid by injecting humor into the proceedings (sopranos, the wire, justified, etc.) it's not really loose or bizarre enough imo and the humor that exists isn't really ingrained, it's forced. a grim show can work, i mean the shield wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs, but the style was pretty loose and the acting was just merciless and out there, i think that helped a lot. this show has a pretty stoic tone and style and kinda hemmed-in acting and idk, i quit after 4 episodes. maybe 3.

it reminds me of how prison break was this show with a pretty interesting storyline lure but oh so serious about it, increasingly so after time, and it just wasn't any fun.

omar, you missed the worst episode.

that's a good point. but they didn't really bring anything original to the table before either. they would create these setups we've seen hundreds of times in zombie movies and then spend a really long time on them like they were really interesting ideas. the characters were all pretty blank and/or stereotyped. the dialogue was empty. there wasn't very much action or suspense. so there wasn't any good reason to keep watching.

i feel like every time i see or read something zombie-related these days the creator(s) are wishing desperately to be original but at the same time any deviation from the formula seems anathema for them and (they fear) the fans, so it creates this world that looks like any other zombie world alternate universe just with different signifiers here and there to differentiate it from romero or w/e. like on paper it sounds like a zombie fan's ideal tv show but they hit everything square on the nose and it's just zzzz....

i feel like i wish i'd seen the whole season so i could talk about this more. esp this worst episode!

omar that's pretty otm

Frank 'Majestic' Darabont stepping down, possibly quitting the show altogether: http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/frank-darabont-stepping-down-as-walking-dead-showrunner

good

Yeah, good. I predict a rise in gormless zombie attacks and less purgatory portent, but that's good, too.

yeah any take on this material seems more interesting than darabont's tbh

The writing in the comic is pretty dire, though. I don't know how anyone could have expected something magical.

Comic>show, so whatever it does wrong is more right.