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 son got me a zombie board game for my birthday
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
You watch one of our comedies and you laugh your balls off. You watch a British comedy and you're like "Hmm. *haughty laugh*" It's like reading the New Yorker for two hours.― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, August 13, 2009 7:15 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, August 13, 2009 7:15 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 8 November 2010 08:10 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly though i love barthelme and that stopped being funny once i got the joke by the second sentence imo
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 8 November 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
good second episode. cool to see laurie holden show up, i liked her in the shield.
― omar little, Monday, 8 November 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
SPOILER************Can we talk for a minute about the zombies using rocks to break down the department store door? They can use tools, even rudimentary ones? I don't think I've ever seen that from zombies before.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 8 November 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Romero Zombies slowly gained the ability to organize themselves and use rudimentary tools iirc.
― Gukbe, Monday, 8 November 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
crazy racist way too OTT. some cheesy dialogue. still a lot of fun and a very quick hour.
i liked the distant rolling thunder throughout the episode leading up to the downpour.
xpost: first zombie in Night of the Living Dead uses a rock on the window of the car.
― circa1916, Monday, 8 November 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok, word. Just checking. Carry on.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 8 November 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
first zombie in Night of the Living Dead uses a rock on the window of the car.
― circa1916, Monday, November 8, 2010 6:29 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
i love the idea that you effortlessly called this up from your infinite zombie knowledge brain
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 8 November 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
haha. more like i just watched it last week.
― circa1916, Monday, 8 November 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
this is pretty good! kinda corny, but lots of fun. i'm glad they're already getting away from the (awful) comics.
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 8 November 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
my favorite moment in the comic is around like issue 40 when he literally has rick scream "ITS US! WE'RE THE WALKING DEAD!"
Oy
― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Monday, 8 November 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Francine: They're still here.Stephen: They're after us. They know we're still in here.Peter: They're after the place. They don't know why, they just remember. Remember that they want to be in here.Francine: What the hell are they?Peter: They're us.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 November 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I really dug the final shot. Took it to be "Alright, so - if you took zombies out of the equation, what would be really cool about there being no people around?"
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 8 November 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't even remember the final shot
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 8 November 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I will admit that this made the zombie apocalypse look incredibly appealing to me.
― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Monday, 8 November 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
As a sidenote can I just...we were talking to a couple of friends about "Walking Dead" this weekend, they hadn't seen it but they kept saying "Well, if it's scary then I won't watch it. I like funny zombies."
Zombiests.
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 8 November 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually I think they meant more they like Shaun of the Dead over something like Dawn of the Dead because there's humor but still. Zombies are cool. Don't they see?
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 8 November 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I have to be for real here for a second: I am not watching this shit on Sunday nights anymore. My brain gets going too much with this show, and I never get a good night sleep. All thinking about "Did I lock the back door?" and "What if Rock Carrying Zombie says 'Fuck a Door. I'm a go straight through the picture window.'?" and "If there is a zombie apocalypse, do I go towards downtown LA, the desert, or the mountains? Because fuck the west side."
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 8 November 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
For me, the disturbing thing about a zombie apocalypse is not the zombies themselves, since they are massively improbable. What's not so improbable is the breakdown of every institution created to protect citizens from complete meltdown and Lord of the Flies shit. Who needs zombies when our power grid is so vulnerable and outdated?
― kenan, Monday, 8 November 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Everything about a zombie apocalypse is cool. I would be fine if a reincarnated version or another dimension version of me gets to be part of such apocalypse. I don't think there is any way I'll stop watching this show at this point
― Life! The Story of Life (CaptainLorax), Monday, 8 November 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i would just hope the zombie me wouldn't have back problems.
― Str8 Drapin It (chrisv2010), Monday, 8 November 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
4.7 million viewers for the second episode. AMC has renewed it for a 13 episode 2nd season.
― Gukbe, Monday, 8 November 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
AMC has renewed it for a 13 episode 2nd season.
Score!
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 8 November 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
4.7 million viewers for the second episode.
Daaaaamn. That's a crazy number for cable.
― kenan, Monday, 8 November 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link