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| Hoss | Feb 13 2012, 09:50 AM Post #1 |
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I don't remember if there was a thread on this already. Anyway, there was a new episode last night. I can't tell if it is still season 2 or if this is a new season. Anyway, interested to know if anyone here is following this show. Basic premise is post zombie apocalypse survivors dealing with life, trying to avoid the "walkers" which are intent on attacking and eating them. If someone get bitten or cut or possibly gets zombie goo on them, they will probably get sick and die and wake up as a zombie. The only way to kill a zombie is to destroy its brain. Shooting them is effective, but the sounds of gun fire attracts more of them. They aren't particularly smart, but once on the scent will stop at nothing and will find ways around obstacles. There are good stories in this setting though and the acting is generally pretty good. The main character is a small town sheriff and he and a small clan of odd people are the survivors. The character development is fantastic. They've basically been trying to make contact with authorities, but it looks more and more like the government and military are gone, though we have seen the odd military helicopter. |
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| Hoss | Feb 27 2012, 02:21 PM Post #2 |
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They have a bunch of zombie production photos on their website.![]() If you like looking at nasty undead types. Poor Doug. |
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| fireh8er | Feb 27 2012, 04:44 PM Post #3 |
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It's an awesome show! I've watched it from the beginning. It's must see television! |
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| Dandandat | Feb 27 2012, 09:42 PM Post #4 |
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I don't understand the idea of a Zombie Apocalypse; at some point (like the currant time in this particular show) humans are few and far between... The zombies ought to be deing off. If doesn't mater if your alive or the undead, in order for your musciles to move you need energy, and to have energy you need to eat, if what you eat are living humans and there arnt enough living humans around to eat, you stop functioning. Zombies as a issue for a night (night of the living dead) is sacry, Zombie Apocalypse just doesn't make much sense. |
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| Hoss | Feb 28 2012, 09:55 AM Post #5 |
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Well, Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy doesn't always have to obey the human-perceived rules of the universe. It's a fun show to watch, like Star Trek was. I don't know what keeps all the walkers alive. At one point the people who had them trapped in the barn were feeding them. Perhaps they eat other stuff too. Saw them eating a horse once. Edited by Hoss, Feb 28 2012, 09:56 AM.
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| Hoss | Feb 28 2012, 09:58 AM Post #6 |
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I'd love to just play a walker in an episode of this show. That'd be a lot of fun I think. |
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| fireh8er | Feb 29 2012, 04:45 AM Post #7 |
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Me too!
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| Admiralbill_gomec | Feb 29 2012, 07:44 AM Post #8 |
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Dante is right. In addition, they're dead, as in they're decomposing. What you'd really have is a bunch of undead, writhing or crawling as parts fell off and muscles atrophied. As Dante said, it takes energy to move muscles. It takes a lot to stand and move. In summer the decomposition process increases. In winter they all rot from frostbite. Either way it doesn't look good for zombies. I saw 95% of the first episode while channel surfing. It looked interesting until I realized where it was going at the end. A few years ago the big TV trend was vampires. Now we have zombies. Just can't get excited about either one. Sorry. Edited by Admiralbill_gomec, Feb 29 2012, 07:45 AM.
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| Hoss | Feb 29 2012, 10:51 AM Post #9 |
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What you mean zombies aren't real and this is just fantasy? The next thing you are going to tell me is that they don't speak perfect American English on every planet in the Galaxy. Or that there are no jedi warriors with light sabers in a Galaxy far, far away. Is there no Gandalf as well? Sounds like you would like "reality" shows??? Edited by Hoss, Feb 29 2012, 10:53 AM.
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| Dandandat | Feb 29 2012, 01:01 PM Post #10 |
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I understand what you’re saying all science, fantasy and even most normal fiction requires a suspension of disbelief of some level or another, but there always comes a point where the required level of suspension becomes to great and the story being told starts not to make sense. A Picard who regularly flies faster than the speed of light, which we know is an impossibility at this time, is acceptable because we are to believe that humans invented the technology to do so at some point in time in the future; just as humans have invented all sorts of technologies that seemed impossible until they were invented. But a Picard who simply stands up from his captain chair and starts flying around the room, because hey its fiction and we can do that, simply doesn’t make sense and would not make for a good plot element. Zombies on an apocalyptic scale set in modern times in my opinion is just too far to the unbelievable side to make for a good plot device. It flies in the face of basic biology and physics, you can’t create energy, so the Zombies would simply die off by this time. |
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| Hoss | Feb 29 2012, 01:45 PM Post #11 |
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Well, i disagree. It is a story set in a fictitious universe in which most people have been infected with something that somehow turns them in to flesh-eating zombies. In the Star Trek universe we are to accept all of the aspects of that universe that would seem to be in violation of reality. And in Star Wars, and in Lord of the Rings, and in Spiderman, and in Transformers, etc. etc. I don't see why this is so difficult. In the Spiderman movies you must accept that a radio-active spider bit Peter Parker and instilled him with spider-like abilities, like climbing walls. What is so different? The show is mainly about story anyway. |
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| Dandandat | Mar 6 2012, 10:07 AM Post #12 |
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Ok, my none Zombie Apocalyptic impossibility criticism of this show are two fold. 1) The people aren’t very intelligent and are way to daring if their primary intent is to stay alive. ei, no matter how mad you are, or how much you want to prove a point; no one in the right (or wrong mind) would open a barn full of Zombies to kill them. Too much could go wrong, there would be so many better and safer ways to prove your point. ei, no matter how upset you are at the group for not following your winny dissertation about what it means to be human, you don’t walk five miles into the dark by yourself. And by the way if you see a cow that’s been freshly mangled … it means there’s a Zombie near by … or a chupacabra which is just as dangerous. ei, Zombies aren’t very smart why not set up a parameter around your camp? 2) Like so many TV shows of late, this one is following in the tradition of a non climatic ending. Nothing of significance ever happens, it’s like watching a scripted relate TV show. |
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| Admiralbill_gomec | Mar 6 2012, 05:00 PM Post #13 |
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No, can't stand "reality" shows. Sorry you don't like my opinion, Hoss. I just can't get into the concept, especially now that this show has lasted more than one season. |
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| 24thcenstfan | Mar 6 2012, 08:55 PM Post #14 |
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Never could get into this show. I watched a few episodes at first, but decided I didn't want to watch one continue zombie attack (and counter attack) episode after episode. I like zombies in the short term story wise. Many seem to be enjoying it though. |
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| Hoss | Mar 8 2012, 05:33 PM Post #15 |
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Well, I didn't get the impression that he was five miles from camp, but on the perimeter as the other guys showed up within a few minutes on foot. Second, I don't think that he was wandering, but patrolling the perimeter as he had a rifle. And third, I don't think that he could see the state of the cow as it was dark. My irritation is that they let that boy go running off in to the woods by himself in the first place. And I would much rather open up the barn door in broad daylight (no euphemisms or double-entendres implied) and let the zombies come out where I could see to shoot them from a distance than to go into the dark barn to kill them. But, that's just me. Edited by Hoss, Mar 8 2012, 05:35 PM.
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