i say aaaaaaagggggggggghhh brains aaaaaaaaagh
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 November 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
-o
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Thursday, 4 November 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
lol forks
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 4 November 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
And wrt the bite thing, it's always been zombie lore that the "dead or recently dead" come back to life. The bite just hastens death. You get bit, the virus kills you, you come back as a zombie.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, November 4, 2010 6:39 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah, i spoke too hastily. those are the basic "rules." but many contemporary zombie flicks suggest that only the bitten go shambly. varies film to film though.
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 4 November 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
"only the bitten go shambly"...if this thing goes into season 2, that's our thread title right there
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 4 November 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
cosine
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 November 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Thrice.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 4 November 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
this is pretty good. oddly my friend just published a zombie novel a few months ago (the reapers are the angels, which is really an incredible little novel, very much a southern gothic, owes a lot to Winter's Bone and McCarthy) so it feels like zombies are now really part of the zeitgeist, taking over from those fancy vampires.
― akm, Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
jeez yeah. they're fucking everywhere the last few years. go into any bookshop and there's likely to be a display table dedicated solely to zombie titles. zombie jane austen, zombie survival guides, zombie novels and comics, toys & DVDs, etc. almost more so than vampires, who seem confined to teen & goth (and teengoth) novel series.
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
my son got me a zombie board game for my birthday
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
he's fascinated with zombies even though he can't watch any zombie movies (he's 9)
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
that's not true, he loves white zombie. gonna let him watch night of the comet, too.
Remember zombie banks?
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
oddly my friend just published a zombie novel a few months ago (the reapers are the angels,
a friend of mine is finishing up a literary zombie novel too. i don't think i'm going to tell him about this, since there are some superficial similarities (the ages of the protagonists, for one). :/
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Just read a zombie novel, too: 'Rise Again' by Ben Tripp -- not bad. Doesn't do much that's new, but entertaining and engaging and grim enough. And the protag is a female soldier with PTS, and the two main supporting characters are gay (one male, one female), which was unusual.
I HATE people who look down on telly. (Well, not really.)
I think the problem is that all media have their shitty ends of the spectrum, but TV's is much bigger and much worse, just because you have so much time and so many channels to fill. Plenty of shit movies/albums/books, but for the most part those industries don't have quotas to fill.
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree that TV is totally primo right now. I work for a dvd distributor and I can get my hands on a lot of movie screeners but honestly, I spend so much time watching tv shows that I don't watch a ton of movies any more, not like I used to. And it's not because the movies aren't good. It's just I can't *not* watch my tv shows. There's a few junky shows in there, but for the most part, it's all gold!
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
that totally came out a lot more dickish than I meant it to
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I swear I'm not a dick
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to bump the person that said something along the lines of "I'm not looking forward to the ILX discussion" but I can't find that post anymore
― Life! The Story of Life (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
how about not read the ILX discussion then
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
you first
― Life! The Story of Life (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
re the previous discussion, TV is totally my most-consumed artform at the moment apart from music.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 5 November 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
"consumed" like braiiiiiiiins?
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 5 November 2010 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
hey if you get IFC, try to watch Dead Set, Charlie Brooker's zombie show about life in the Big Brother House after the zombie invasion. 's'fun!
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 November 2010 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
a zombie story in which the survivors achieve some sort of equilibrium w the undead. they're well-defended and well-supplied, surrounded by an sea of hungry corpses, but able to sustain themselves on what they have. it's a delicate balance, though, and the human tendency towards violent conflict threatens it. if you kill one of your fellows, then your group is one less and the zombies one more...
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 5 November 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
That set-up's happened at least twice now in the Walking Dead comic
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Saturday, 6 November 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Again, that's the premise of "Land of the Dead," which in turn sets it up as an explicit satire of the bourgeoisie and nouveau riche vs. the underclass. And sort of from the zombie perspective, too: zombie African-American gas station attendant leads zombie army horde to reclaim Pittsburgh from the corrupt oligarchy!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 November 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
walking dead really doesn't seem to concern itself with issues of class at all and race is only rarely touched on. people have a tendency to focus on the zombies.
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 November 2010 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, though come to think of it, the characters in the comic are overwhelmingly working class, as far as I remember. At least for the first few dozen issues.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 November 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, November 6, 2010 6:11 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
should watch LotD again, as i remember very little other than that it has dennis hopper and is bad (or maybe i just didn't like it).
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Saturday, 6 November 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah josh, you're totally making me wish LotD was better, because it definitely had some cool ideas and potential in it
― Nhex, Saturday, 6 November 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
My greatest hope for this show is that it will help take zombies back from the realm of the "zeitgeist" and especially the ironically cute and quaint, and make them horror again.
― kenan, Saturday, 6 November 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Good luck with that
― koyaani (s1ocki), Saturday, 6 November 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Shush ;)
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Saturday, 6 November 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i liked the episode that was on tonight. it was engaging. didn't see the first one. big fan of the comics. tuesday morning i go back to the land of no cable so.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 8 November 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
it was pretty good. i'm wanting to re-read those issues so i can remember what plots were from the comic and which ones weren't
― Nhex, Monday, 8 November 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
watching the second ep right now and already even better than the pretty dope first ep
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 8 November 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think this episode reflected the comic; as i remember it, there was no "party" and definitely no white power guy.this was a set piece ep and a little less successful in my eyes than the first one. Went fast though! At this rate, a six episode season isn't going to get past the first ten issues!
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 November 2010 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
oh come on michael rooker vs. a guy in a kangol come on
― da croupier, Monday, 8 November 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
this show should be called the walking been there done that
― da croupier, Monday, 8 November 2010 05:37 (thirteen years ago) link
what does that even mean
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 8 November 2010 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― kenan, Saturday, November 6, 2010 6:01 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
if anything this is going to hasten the gentrification of the dead. it'll do for zombies what dexter did for torture porn, i.e. normalize it for a mass audience.
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Monday, 8 November 2010 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
did dexter normalize torture porn?
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 8 November 2010 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
when housewives are kicking back and watching a serial killer carve up hogtied ppl on the regular, I'd say it did
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Monday, 8 November 2010 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link
indeed
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 8 November 2010 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
hell, Dexter completely lost its torture porn edginess around season 3 anyway. i can't remember the last time we got a decent limb-sawing scene.
― Nhex, Monday, 8 November 2010 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say i've been watching this current season and have yet to the visceralness everyone kept talking about
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 8 November 2010 07:24 (thirteen years ago) link
'The Zombies' by Donald Barthelme is a much funnier 'deconstruction' than the godawaful Shaun of the Dead:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EjWaGv5tE38C&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&dq=the+zombies+donald+barthelme&source=bl&ots=OFeZoNS-OR&sig=DO_wVRDV80TXW-_wMe0T1akfTBU&hl=en&ei=v6XXTNy9DsGN4gb5n6CwBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 8 November 2010 07:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i would say that that's a pretty funny story. not laugh out loud funny, but clever in the manner that seems so terribly appealing to people who enjoy feeling more clever than other people. ty
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Monday, 8 November 2010 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
this one kinda made me long for the not-written-by-Frank-Darabont eps to come in the back half of this season.
― Simon H., Monday, 8 November 2010 08:06 (thirteen years ago) link