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

I thought that was just the rotten meat supply.

i've been told season three is a grand improvement
is this really true? i need it to be at least twice as good as the second season to even think about trying again.

it's twice as good

"I still don't understand why short haired lady wanted to operate on the lady zombie, is she assuming Lori will have to have a c-section?"

I think it was just an excuse for her to cut some zombie bitch

sigh okay i'll try it

that last moment between rick & laurie was OMG COLD

i kind of love rick for that; and feel some sympathy for her being so outcast with her family while being so pregnant & needing the support she cant get

But why? because they had a squabble last fall? They weren't like that at the farm right before they left.

i love this show, btw. this has come up before, i think, it seems to be flawed and has dumb dialogue and a few stupid characters and yet i watch it religiously, as soon as i can download it the day after us broadcast.

i didn't have a problem with Rick's change; he'd been holding in a lot of suspicion and anger at Lori for a long time, and I think the combination of being forced to kill Shane, risk everything to protect what is obviously Shane's kid, and raise Carl as a potential psycho killer (I mean, remember that crazy scene at the end of S2 where he WANTS to watch that guy get executed?) cracked him and now he's putting all the weight on her

that last scene was really good though. the choice of "we" instead of "I" especially

Yeah, good point.

"I still don't understand why short haired lady wanted to operate on the lady zombie, is she assuming Lori will have to have a c-section?"

She explicitly says that Lori had her first kid with a c-section so Hershel had been presuming it was likely a c-section would be necessary for kid #2 and had been walking her through the procedure.

I'm on mega blood-thinners right now and so this show FREAKS me out w/r/t bleeding the last couple weeks.

I'm really glad I stuck through the really terrible first couple seasons on the hope they'd figure it out (hey! It's a genre show, so lets just do a genre show instead of a relationship show!) which they seem to have finally done. Bravo to these first couple episodes of season 3.

Seriously, though, the first couple of eps of season one and two were good, too. This show has trouble sustaining itself without a whole bunch of standing and somber talking. At least season 3 apparently features, you know, zombies.

i love the beginnings and endings of almost every episode. kinda like Lost in that way. they get me going. okay, now i'm really going until i catch up.

Yeah, whole lot of plot you missed. Zombies, and, um. Zombies.

Would be great if a happy ending to the series was all of the zombies rotting to bones and everyone living in a world where they merely have to shoot whoever ends up dying in the head as a precaution.

i think that's the end of world war z. except like north korea is all underground zombie theme park.

i gotta give the show credit - they are generally very good with their cold opens

watched the two new episodes. like them just as much as the old episodes. looking forward to the rich dudes in the next episode. they looked like rich dudes anyway in the preview.

Man, just catching up on the second season, and every time I think it's not that bad, someone does something stupid or the show crawls to a halt or whatever. Some good set pieces, but mostly a lot of wheel spinning.

*something cool seems like it might happen*
*standing around talking about the something cool that might happen for a long time*

d.j. conner as zombie slayer is SUCH an improvement this season. that kid was really the only character that bugged me during season 2.

yeah he's turning out to be a much better character this season, now that he has things to do and they've given him some skills/personality

Kinda creeped out when he and Herschel's youngest daughter interact - is it supposed to be flirting?

yeah. in the book the girl's much younger.

Can't be too picky in the zombie apocalypse.

they all must be masturbating like crazy

only a matter of time before herschel is caught defiling a zombie corpse

Why in season 2 does Rick insist on using a revolver that keeps running out of ammo when he could get some crazier gun that holds more bullets?

i dunno. it's a mystery. doesn't seem like they really looked hard enough for better guns. they must have passed a ton of local cop shops on their way from atlanta. just one of those things its best to ignore. like: if you are on the run for months on end you are probably covered in cuts and scrapes AND zombie blood! i mean, that can't be healthy. or why they insist on wearing as little clothing as possible when one scratch can kill them.

Because it's hot outside?

If it were the zombie apocalypse, I would be strapped like a first person shooter.

they AREN'T covered in scrapes and cuts is my point. and they totally would be. they are living like racoons and fighting monsters 24/7 and wearing tank tops.

I also wondered how they all aren't constantly getting sick with all of the perpetual hygiene and nutritional struggles.

Rick's a white-hat lawman, he has to carry a good old-fashioned revolver
No-goodnik Shane preferred a Glock

I usually found myself wondering why they didn't all get nice new rides like Shane's crossover SUV.

With all the up close zombie killing, how has no one gotten some spray up in their eyes/nose/mouth? If a zombie bite can induce the infection to take over, wouldn't swallowing zombie?

i would be wearing pots & pans like a xena-loving raimi.

Ah, but they're all infected already! The bite just speeds the process, but I don't think gargling zombie guts will turn you into Dr. jeckyl.

I get why they do it, but scary zombie growls makes them less scary.

i mean okay its hot but ONE SCRATCH! and they are fighting them up close and personal. get some heavy duty riot gear. now they have the riot gear...

No milo has a point- what is about biting that isn't also the same if the zombie blood is ingested? Is it about the bite directly into the blood stream? Or is it that zombies have zombie-poison in their teeth?

unrelated but in the last ep, when maggie had her v tearful & heartfelt moment with Herschel, I was v impressed at the way the makeup department managed to use makeup to make her look like she wasn't wearing makeup. her face was kinda broken out, she was dirty, sweaty, her lips were chapped...she looked so real, I was really impressed by that

but yes, scott's right. need more cuts and bruises.

The zombie mythology is that everybody that dies comes back as a zombie, but getting bit by a zombie leads to infection and rapid death. And then you come back as a zombie. Which makes (zombie) sense, since dead things are massively septic.

Wrapping up season 2. These people spend an inordinate amount of time walking around in the woods or dark. Or both. When they're not bickering.

s3 has been going at a very nice click so far. Really, really hoping they can keep it up.

You know, if zombies tear their prey apart and consume them, wouldn't that significantly limit the number of new zombies to the freshly dead or wounded?

Also: why are the zombies so angry? Always growling and snarling.

Worst solemn line in season 2: "Christ promised the resurrection of the dead. I just thought ... he had something a little different in mind."

You mean most hilarious line

Would have been better if it was delivered as a joke and not as a "makes you think ...'

Also, what kind of stupid reveal is it that everyone is infected? It only matters once you're dead, anyway, so why would anyone living care?

oh they finally dropped that bon bon eh