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
Very happy to see them deviate from the funny books, even if it wasn't a great episode in itself.
Last shot is the freedom-porn of most post-apocalyptic fiction, innit? Aside from the vampire-zombies of I Am Legend, I thought Will Smith's life looked pretty nice (at least for a short time).
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 8 November 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Really, I thought Will Smith's life in that movie was depressing as shit
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 8 November 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Last shot is the freedom-porn of most post-apocalyptic fiction, innit?
Kept expecting a zombie to pop up from the back seat.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Monday, 8 November 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Does the guy playing Shane remind anyone else of a young Fred Ward?
http://www.bscreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Jon-Bernthal-walking-dead.jpghttp://www.sonyclassics.com/masked/288x216stills/fw_full.jpg
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 8 November 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Running around Time Square hunting deer, chilling out to some Bob with your awesome German Shepherd. I mean, yeah, the complete lack of human companionship would be rough after a while - but for about a month having an entire city to yourself would be A+++++++.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 8 November 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
the only problem with that fantasy world is you'd have to share it with ted nugent
― omar little, Monday, 8 November 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
haha me too xxp
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 8 November 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't like the way capable, tough, non-stereotype black guy Tyreese in the comic seems to have become ham-fisted stereotype 'T-Dawg'
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, 8 November 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
The guy is ham-fisted, I mean.
I didn't even put that together. Is Tyreese in the group from the start of the comic or do they run across him later? Maybe the real Tyreese will show.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 8 November 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe I'm wrong--I just checked the comic, and Tyreese and his group of survivors don't turn up until issue 7 or so.
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, 8 November 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Stereotypes aside, I can't see them trading a badass former NFL player for a chubby dude in a Kangol.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 8 November 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
YESSS
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
ep 2 was ok
cast still reminds me of generic made-in-vancouver shows
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
he's like an unlikeable and somewhat uncharismatic fred ward.
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
might say he has the 'wrong stuff'
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
might say he's more like emo williams
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
not so much virgil "gus" grissom as turgid "pus" wishin-it-was-fred-ward-instead
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
would probably be fair to call him "fred bored" tbh
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
miami snooze
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
it happened!
Didn't like the way capable, tough, non-stereotype black guy Tyreese in the comic seems to have become ham-fisted stereotype 'T-Dawg'― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, November 8, 2010 6:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, November 8, 2010 6:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
lol that guy being named 'Tyrese' always bothered me, way more than T-Dawg possibly could :peers into kirkman's brain and notices he has never met a black man ever:
― Princess TamTam, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
argh that "oh is she about to be eaten or maybe raped, no they're just cute lovers having sex!" cliché barf
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
should have been a cartoon finger or arrow pointing at the ring
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i will raise funds to make this happen on the dvd help me slocki
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the dialogue and yeah the ring stuff was just clumsy as hell throughout this episode. apparently some of the upcoming episodes aren't written by darabont, and I hope that becomes the trend, because I was cringing my way through this last one.
― Clay, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
tyrese is yet to come.i am continuing to hope for better dialoguedo not think i'll be seeing that anytime soonjust want to get the show on the road and get past some initial character deaths really
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Monday, November 8, 2010 7:11 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
lol i just got this
― Princess TamTam, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd like to give this show more than two episodes, but I gotta jump off. Not doing it for me...
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Enjoying this, will keep watching, but do want to emphasize that "Dead Set" was 10x better.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Enjoying this, will keep watching, but do want to emphasize that "Dead Set" was 10x 20x better.
Fixed.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Enjoying this, will keep watching, but do want to emphasize that I never heard of "Dead Set" was 10x 20x better.
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"Dead Set" was IFC's 5-ep zombie series that just aired -- zombie plague as reality show, or reality show as zombie plague. Not as arch as that description makes it sound -- works both as social comment and straight horror movie. Well-acted, well-written, well-done.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"Dead Set" was IFC's 5-ep zombie series that just aired
Technically it's from 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Set_(TV_series)
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link