The Walking Dead

i don't watch this show but...


I watched an episode last night. It was ok. Everyone was sick in the prison and who wasn't sick was out looking for medicine to help heal the sick ones.


Like I said, it was ok episode.


and they do drive down the middle of the road.

I've never had sex before, but I hear its good.....:rolleyes:
 
In real life gas goes bad in a couple months. They've been out there for at least a full year. We know there is a winter long time skip between Season 2 and 3 at the very least.

Not to mention they aren't the only survivors. The Governor had a group, those mauraders they met in Season 2 are presumably still around, there was the military group killed in Season 3 and gas probably ranks up there with medicine and bullets in this world.

But like I said gas goes bad, the fact that they are driving at all is absurd.
 
and...

Yes. The gas thing was interesting.

A corpse in hot, sunny environments photo degrade and thanks to maggots is further reduced. Within a year there is no walking zombie. Maybe a blind, boney zombie crawling on stumpy limbs.

How does something dead have working nerves to see and hear?
 
Yes. The gas thing was interesting.

A corpse in hot, sunny environments photo degrade and thanks to maggots is further reduced. Within a year there is no walking zombie. Maybe a blind, boney zombie crawling on stumpy limbs.

How does something dead have working nerves to see and hear?
Clearly you are overthinking this.
 
Yes. The gas thing was interesting.

A corpse in hot, sunny environments photo degrade and thanks to maggots is further reduced. Within a year there is no walking zombie. Maybe a blind, boney zombie crawling on stumpy limbs.

How does something dead have working nerves to see and hear?

Magic. Anything directly related to zombies works because the plot says so.
 
Yes. The gas thing was interesting.

A corpse in hot, sunny environments photo degrade and thanks to maggots is further reduced. Within a year there is no walking zombie. Maybe a blind, boney zombie crawling on stumpy limbs.

How does something dead have working nerves to see and hear?

Cracked.com did a story on why a zombie plague would not last very long, and decomposition was a major reason.

I would think survivors could smell walkers before seeing them, I have a co-worker I smell before I know they are there, and they are alive, well, sort of.
 
I doubt the smell thing would work. The entire area would stink. IT would be like smelling the forest before a tree snuck up on you.
 
I'm a fan of the show, it's getting a little stale. It was refreshing to see the governor at the end of this weeks show.

I think the first episode of this season kind of hit the nail on the head for me, when Zack before he died asked Daryl what he did before the plague.

We're invested in all these characters and know nothing about any of them save for Rick and even then we just know he was a cop.

There's not a lot of character development.

Rick has angst, Hershel tells him to think about it another way, Daryl does bad ass things. Carols character went from being zombie bait to Andrea during the season gap to being
kicked off the island within 4 episodes.

I won't stop watching, but it could use some work. And I don't even read this comic.
 
There's no reason to read the comic there Green Lantern. The show and the comic only follow each other in broad strokes. Like say 1989 Batman and The Dark Knight are both stories about a relatively young Batman and his first run in with the Joker but yeah you don't need to watch one to figure out the other.

I guess those are valid complaints but what these people did before is completely irrelevant. The Zombie Apocalypse neatly divides the world into before and after and the before simply doesn't matter unless like Herschel it has provided you with a relevant skill set.

I guess you could call it character development but it's really just pointless trivia. We know Daryl was a borderline criminal from a dead beat family that once lost him for a few days and only Merl even noticed he was missing.

The show has done a pretty good job of mixing things up and keeping things from getting stale and rotating the cast hard enough that you can believe that anybody is in danger. Which is rare. Most shows you know who can't die and will find away out. Currently Rick and perhaps Carl are the only people that I would drop into a pit of doom and expect they'd come back out.
 
New woman, Lily, looks like Maggie.

And The Govenor, all cleaned up on Talking Dead, really looks like Liam Neeson.
 
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New woman, Lily, looks like Maggie.

And The Govenor, all cleaned up on Talking Dead, really looks like Liam Neeson.

Agree with both! Love the Governor, good show last night.
 
I want to love this show so much. It gives me flashes of brilliance like, say , the end of the "Nebraska" episode...or the first half of Season 3...

Ultimately though, it makes me question why I keep watching. The writing is so inconsistent, the characters seem to behave more to serve the plot than themselves. It so fucking frustrating. I don't hate the show, but I hate that it doesn't ultimately become the greatness that it constantly teases us with.
 
I want to love this show so much. It gives me flashes of brilliance like, say , the end of the "Nebraska" episode...or the first half of Season 3...

Ultimately though, it makes me question why I keep watching. The writing is so inconsistent, the characters seem to behave more to serve the plot than themselves. It so fucking frustrating. I don't hate the show, but I hate that it doesn't ultimately become the greatness that it constantly teases us with.

Huh? I haven't slept since inception.
 
Finally saw this week's episode and wow it's kinda odd. I know we're not that far into the season, I think six episodes or so and if it's anything like Merl they might very well keep a character around and not use them at all for an entire season or longer but it seems like the Governor outlived his usefulness to the story. It's nice to see what he's been up to but I feel that was an entire wasted episode that should have been built up of extras for the DVD or youtube stuff (maybe even with a much lower budget) Or hired Telltale to make a new video game based around the governor. Anything but wasting one of our episodes on something that's gonna take a long time to connect to the plot and could most likely have been summed up as people trust the governor. How the hell do you think he maintained a town?

With the disease dying down I assume I'm much more curious what the main cast is up to especially since this shows lack of calendars makes it difficult to tell how much time has passed. Does anybody even have an educated guess as to how long they've been out there other than it's no less than six months (three of winter which we know happened between Season 2 and Season 3) and not a lot of years because Carl is still a relatively young man?

That actually strikes me as odd in hindsight. Old Man thought keeping track of time was important, I would think that there would be enough people and enough watches (increasingly rarely worn today but it's not like I threw them out I just don't wear them now that everybody has a cell phone with the time) that nobody seems to know the date even though season one had people still celebrating birthdays just for the sense of normalcy it gave. And maybe they still do just off camera.

Hey, where did KRCummings go?

What Sko said. Had me snowed too, but I never really cared. This is the internet and you're all dirty liars about your real lives. I don't much care with the exception of when you claim it grants you some kind of authority on a given subject. Otherwise meh.
 
Finally saw this week's episode and wow it's kinda odd. I know we're not that far into the season, I think six episodes or so and if it's anything like Merl they might very well keep a character around and not use them at all for an entire season or longer but it seems like the Governor outlived his usefulness to the story. It's nice to see what he's been up to but I feel that was an entire wasted episode that should have been built up of extras for the DVD or youtube stuff (maybe even with a much lower budget) Or hired Telltale to make a new video game based around the governor. Anything but wasting one of our episodes on something that's gonna take a long time to connect to the plot and could most likely have been summed up as people trust the governor. How the hell do you think he maintained a town?

With the disease dying down I assume I'm much more curious what the main cast is up to especially since this shows lack of calendars makes it difficult to tell how much time has passed. Does anybody even have an educated guess as to how long they've been out there other than it's no less than six months (three of winter which we know happened between Season 2 and Season 3) and not a lot of years because Carl is still a relatively young man?

That actually strikes me as odd in hindsight. Old Man thought keeping track of time was important, I would think that there would be enough people and enough watches (increasingly rarely worn today but it's not like I threw them out I just don't wear them now that everybody has a cell phone with the time) that nobody seems to know the date even though season one had people still celebrating birthdays just for the sense of normalcy it gave. And maybe they still do just off camera.

What Sko said. Had me snowed too, but I never really cared. This is the internet and you're all dirty liars about your real lives. I don't much care with the exception of when you claim it grants you some kind of authority on a given subject. Otherwise meh.

You know, two or three shows ago, they had something about giving a Watch to Rick. Hadn't thought about it much, but time.....they lost track of time or something....interesting. Love the Gov, he is so great. Rick and clan can get a little old, so I'm glad they added a new storyline.
 
You know, two or three shows ago, they had something about giving a Watch to Rick. Hadn't thought about it much, but time.....they lost track of time or something....interesting. Love the Gov, he is so great. Rick and clan can get a little old, so I'm glad they added a new storyline.

Not that I really think Rick's clan gets boring too often but if they are boring it's time to cancel the show, not start giving one shots.

If they WERE going to start giving one shots I'd be much interested to see a time lapse of what happened to the black guy. (Granted that would be difficult since I'm sure part of what got him written off is the same thing that killed that little girl in season 2. Kids get old fast.)
 
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