The Walking Dead - new series AMC

[brandbll]

Well. this is how liberal Hollywood views the fine citizens of Atlanta. In fact this is how Californians and New Yorkers view the fine citizens of everywhere else in general. A bunch of hapless wife-beating retards in 70's Winnebago's.. I'm literally shocked that the sheriff's little kid didn't have a banjo in his hands and corncob pipe in his mouth. And no wonder the divorce rate is 50%.. Two whole weeks of apocalypse and the slut wife is already pokin the protagonist's best friend..

Any good southern kid knows how to catch a bullfrog (which apparently has become a forgotten skill among these hapless hics - even the professed expert at it knows nothing).

Why are there so few guns available? And why is there apparently a huge ammunition shortage?

That was my problem with the opening episode. These are walking zombies. How can you not hold down a hospital or anywhere for that matter with a few 10-20 squads of soldiers with heavy machine guns? Not to mention a tank. They flock to you because of noise, just run their walking dead asses over and squish them. You could kill them all without firing a single round from that thing. But hell, you could just waste them away with the machine gun on top if you felt like it. And yes, why is there no ammo? This is america. There is guns and ammo all over the place. There's even gas stations all over the place that sell basic kinds of shotgun and rifle ammunition.

That being said, the third episode was a little better. Enough that i'll at least give the fourth episode a shot.

 

[Mee_n_Mac]

And why did the sheriff jump out of a perfectly good M1-Abrams, tucked in all safe and sound like a bug in a rug instead of just clearing the whole area with one or two anti-personnel grenades? Even if you didn't understand all of the intricacies of how to operate a modern tank, you don't think a multi-million dollar piece of equipment like that doesn't have an operator's manual in the glove compartment? :lol:

Yeah that bothered me too. I'd have at least looked to find a way to start the tank and failing at that, used the grenade (the writers made sure we saw him pocket). I'll see the 4'th episode tonight.

 

[silylene]

WTH are you guys sniffing, dropping, smoking?

How can you be such bigots about folk from your own country?
I've been watching and see something totally different!
Ok, the accents are funky, but except the 2 rednecks and that fat wife beating freak, the rest of the characters are quite eloquent.

Try watching the episode again, without your blinkers on!

The show is fairly faithful to the graphic novels.

In a survival situation, you would not be able to pick and choose who you ended up with.

Hmmm, let's see whom we have as characters....
bigot white redneck who gets left handcuffed on top of building.
white redneck brother with anger management problems and a crossbow.
fat lazy wife beating redneck who is too stupid to know not to make a bright fire.
wife of fat lazy wife beating redneck with bad hair who keeps returning to him to be beaten again.
redneck owner of a 1970's Winnebago who accumulates tools (and refuses to share...I am guessing he isn't a socialist).
stupid redneck companion of the owner of the 1970's Winnebago.
small-town cop partner who is nailing the wife, and has no clue how to catch a bullfrog (although he claims to be an expert) and also has anger management issues.
happy friendly black family lacking either an urban or southern accent (?).
blond sisters, one of whom can't figure out the gun's safety. I am guessing in subsequent episodes we will find they were both raised in a trailer park.
wife who jumps in bed with partner after her husband goes missing for only a few weeks
kid who grew up in a small Georgia town, yet doesn't know how to catch a bullfrog (???)
smart resourceful young adult of East Asian decent whom is fascinated with fast red cars.
protagonist cop who keeps making tactical errors and lacks a Georgia accent.

Still I have enjoyed the show.

 

[space_tycoon]

It's okay. If you've seen one zombie movie you have basically seen them all. I loved 28 Days Later though.

On a side note, it's amazing that American television is fine with showing obscene levels of violence and gore, but still panics at the sight of a bare breast.

 

[brandbll]

Well, last night is probably the last episode i'll care about enough to watch. This show has just gotten extremely corny and stupid. I had such high hopes for this show, and then they pull this mexican stand off with this hispanic gang and the guy digging, and the girl who got her neck bitten which was the worst acted out and corniest moment in the whole movie. Oh and then the brother and every little step they track him. The whole thing is just getting to be stupid. This show has been a big time let down so far.

 

[silylene]

I still liked it...let the show develop out...

 

[andrew_t1000]

Episode 4, was unreal, more twists and turns than Greenhill Road!

And the last few minutes!

"Oh, I remember why I dug all those graves..."

 

[Sonjiin]

Well, last night is probably the last episode i'll care about enough to watch. This show has just gotten extremely corny and stupid. I had such high hopes for this show, and then they pull this mexican stand off with this hispanic gang and the guy digging, and the girl who got her neck bitten which was the worst acted out and corniest moment in the whole movie. Oh and then the brother and every little step they track him. The whole thing is just getting to be stupid. This show has been a big time let down so far.

The Mexican stand off was played out a bit cheesy like, but the leader did have a point when speaking with Rick. Stating that there are plunderers and people that are willing to take control over the weak. That the "gang" was just a face and a show to scare people off that may be trying to hurt or steal from them. Lets be honest here, if you saw 10+ guys (Mexican, white, black) any color with guns and numbers wouldnt you think twice about going in and trying to pillage? It was a smart move to make and by the looks of it it worked.

How was the girl getting bit bad acting? It was a simple concept, girl comes out of the RV and a zombie comes up from the side and bites her arm then neck. Starts a chain reaction of the camp getting attacked. It was only a matter of time that it happened.

To me, the worst part of the show is when the wife beater gets attacked by a zombie in the tent. Why does he not have a weapon on hand at all times? He opened the tent door then sees it and just is frozen, I guess he can beat his wife but cant hit a zombie? LAME.

Im still loving the show and there are some great twists and turns during each ep. 2 Eps left in this season...Darn.

 

[andrew_t1000]

To me, the worst part of the show is when the wife beater gets attacked by a zombie in the tent. Why does he not have a weapon on hand at all times? He opened the tent door then sees it and just is frozen, I guess he can beat his wife but cant hit a zombie? LAME.

It's my experience that guys like that are NEVER much chock when faced with someone who can fight back.
As to why no weapon, easy answer, he was sulking!

 

[brandbll]

I still liked it...let the show develop out...

Yeah, might as well seeing as there are two episodes left. Still, i'm left a little disappointed so far when i consider how it matches up to other AMC shows.

 

[andrew_t1000]

Yeah, might as well seeing as there are two episodes left. Still, i'm left a little disappointed so far when i consider how it matches up to other AMC shows.

Has anyone else been getting into Rubicon?

 

[Couerl]

I still liked it...let the show develop out...

Yeah, might as well seeing as there are two episodes left. Still, i'm left a little disappointed so far when i consider how it matches up to other AMC shows.

I concur.. Might as well let it play out and also a bit disappointed. I was glad that they cleaned out some of the cast though including the wife-beating, inbred, child molester. The young blond was scrubbed for no apparent reason, maybe just cutting costs or dad didn't teach her adequate zombie defense skills during all of those countless childhood hours fishing in the boat?
There still remains old one handed hank, who is really the only bad guy left to dispatch with, assistant sheriff and younger brother notwithstanding. Maybe he'll emerge as leader of the zombies or something. I had a notion that one of the zombies might emerge as some zombie general as was the case with that Will Smith flick not too long ago but, we'll see.

Oh well, clearly in the next episode they'll have to bug out and we'll see if the protagonists are smart enough to pick a suitable location this time and if they use their resources to go shopping and get adequately prepared/geared up. The footage shows them on the outskirts of Atlanta presumably, perhaps 10 miles from the city proper and in an old quarry. Just doing a quick glance on google maps it seems that Atlanta is rather sprawling with suburbs stretching many miles out beyond the city. I've never been there myself so I hesitate to jump to any conclusions but, it seems like a poor place strategically speaking to hold up against zombies. We still have yet to discover whether this epidemic is localized or worldwide and of course any causes or potential cures and whatnot but, it seems at least with choppers still flying that one military base or more have withstood the initial zombie holocaust. If they can get there in the next two episodes before the season ends I'll hold out hope for a new and better season next year complete with air cav anti-zombie units and I love the smell of burnt zombies in the morning etc.

 

[brandbll]

Well, don't hold out your hope, things aren't looking too good when it comes to finding the actual military base.

And ya know, i'm actually finding the only character i really like is the red neck guy with the cross bow. He seems to be the only character that seems real in this whole damn thing. The main character likes to act like he's Andy Taylor from Mayberry who can do no wrong. Then we have Deputy Barney Fife who is on the edge and is apparently so jealous he's willing to kill his friend and sheriff. Lady who sat there with her dead sister for days on end.

Then out of no where the Mexican family just decides they're going to Birmingham to be with their "own people." Ummm OK, because this makes any sense at all. Crap like that just messes with the flow of the story. It has no relevence. You'd be better off killing the Mexican family in the first raid then just abruptly stopping the story so you can tell us they are going to go to Birmingham.

Then we get this CDC guy. They try to ram his character down our throats in a mere couple of minutes. And apparently he is the only single person locked down in this whole entire complex? WHY!?!?!? How can he possibly be the only person still alive? What i don't get in the first place is if you saw the place was in shambles, why wouldn't you get right back in your convoy and keep moving? Why would you bother trying to trap yourselves like rats in some building when obviously they had already failed at that spot?

We still have no idea what happened to the one handed racist and the son and father from the beginning. There seems like a lot of loose ends to wrap up with only one episode left, especially considering that undoubtedly a whole new set of problems will be opened with this CDC guy.

 

[Couerl]

Then we get this CDC guy. They try to ram his character down our throats in a mere couple of minutes..

Ya, the old "on the edge of a nervous breakdown" mad-scientist explica-gag was a little over the top. Also the abandoned heavy machine gun post and of course, another M1-Abrams (recycled prop from ebay no doubt :lol: )..

 

[brandbll]

Then we get this CDC guy. They try to ram his character down our throats in a mere couple of minutes..

Ya, the old "on the edge of a nervous breakdown" mad-scientist explica-gag was a little over the top. Also the abandoned heavy machine gun post and of course, another M1-Abrams (recycled prop from ebay no doubt :lol: )..

And i like how the CDC door opens and it looks like they are about to board an alien space ship, or go through some sort of teleporter.

 

[silylene]

Then we get this CDC guy. They try to ram his character down our throats in a mere couple of minutes..

Ya, the old "on the edge of a nervous breakdown" mad-scientist explica-gag was a little over the top. Also the abandoned heavy machine gun post and of course, another M1-Abrams (recycled prop from ebay no doubt :lol: )..

And i like how the CDC door opens and it looks like they are about to board an alien space ship, or go through some sort of teleporter.

I was expecting a tractor beam.

 

[Couerl]

I was expecting a tractor beam.

That's extremely funny. :lol: I'm going to see if I can find the ratings for the show someplace.. Seems like a lot of love/hate going on in zombie land. I'm also noticing "zombie apocalypse" is a big buzzword in society at the moment. Even my kids are saying it complete with giggles and dorky looks on their faces. I think we as humans in general all have a sense that we could become zombies or get the old pompei and herculaneum treatment or global baking at any given moment and I'm wondering if that lingering anxiety (media driven) doesn't affect us in some way en masse. Wait a minute, I've reasoned it out,.. I'll call it Pre Traumatic Apocalypse Dissorder, PTAD. :geek:

 

[docm]

I'm going to see if I can find the ratings for the show someplace....

The ratings have steadily increased since its premiere, going from 5.3 for its premiere episode to 5.6 for last weeks. Most series show at least some dropoff early on, but not this one.

These are very high ratings for a cable series. A great comparative example would be vs. HBO's huge hit True Blood which caused a helluva stir in the industry with a 5.1 - and it has the advantage of nekkid vampire sex

Walking Dead is also showing very high DVR numbers, which are a reflection of viewer loyalty.

BTW: AMC just announced a deal to release Walking Dead season collections on DVD and Blu-Ray.