"The Walking Dead" - Does anybody else watch it?

Nah. Fish won't want anything to do with that zombie flesh. In fact all life clears out of the area and fishing becomes sparse. In this scenario, supposedly, a sudden drop in fishing success coudl signal dead in the area.

There is a story about this that has been done, I'll dig up the link it's a good one. Who knows? After all it is all in our individual imaginations is it not? Believe what you want. It's fiction.

 

A more likely scenario playing out was in a movie called 28 days.

Basically the virus makes folks perpetually angry...they are still fully alive but they're criminally insane and want to tear apart anything "non-infected" in their path. A highly contagious blood borne virus. One drop and you're infected.

A somewhat more realistic scenario than the reanimation of a dead person that craves flesh.

In 28 days, the infected were highly mobile and highly agitated...eventually they'd starve to death and this was explored in the movie also. However the virus spreads so quickly that there is never a shortage of newly infected hosts.

Very plausible, as the virus was man-made to incite violence in chimps. I could see those mad scientists at DARPA creating a virus like that. An infected chimp bites a human and the virus spreads quickly...militaries are overwhelmed as the infection is almost instantaneous...

The Walking Dead has more plot holes than swiss cheese...the fact it's a serial TV show I suppose has appeal...but it ignores plot development and stresses character development...
dare I say to please the female audience.. Hence the new female "super-hero" hooded figure with her two zombie boy friends.

This show is relationship driven...it belongs on Lifetime.
People are discussing what character is going to "hook-up" with whom.

Give me a break.

And that's the bottom line up front.

 

Almost all shows are relationship driven.

I loved that movie One more reason to hate animal rights activists. Did you see the sequel? It was equally as good.

 

Yeah, great movies....explored the zombie genre from a creative perspective and makes the scenario almost plausible.

 

It's called 28 days later....isn't it? Then the sequel is 28 weeks later. 28 days was a movie with Sandra Bullock.

But, I love both of those movies (not the Bullock flick). Very scary possible reality I thought.

 

Yes, 28 days later and 28 weeks later.

I stand corrected.

Paraphrasing a quote by a military officer in that film...
"there's really no difference between the infected and the non-infected"

A social commentary that indeed we humans are prone to violence and killing one another at alarming rates, even in the absence of a "virus" which makes the infected violent.

 

Walking dead, is not really about zombies.

I was surprised in the second series, the focus changed to intense relationship battles. The acting was superb and for such a low brow sci fi series. It surprised me with shakespearen lofty efforts. Love, revenge. anger, jealousy. To murder, all over one woman.

"The course of true love never did run smooth"

 

New webisodes confirmed for before the season 3 premier but no indication as to which character (or walker) will be dealt with. A part of me wouldn't mind a few more of them they are very good and help to flesh out the early days of the outbreak.

 

The last webisodes were not about the main characters, they were about the half zombie woman Rick killed in the first episode, so I imagine these webisodes won't have any major characters in them.

 

Oh man I love this show. I watched season 1 and downloaded the second season and watched all of that. I am eagerly awaiting the third now. I freakin' love me some zombies...er I mean 'walkers' because apparently nobody ever saw a zombie flick in this show. xD

I was trying to find the comic online too but I can only find random chapters.

 

YEA..."The Walking Dead" is back!!!
Quite an opening episode of season 3, I'd say!
It should be fun!

 

First episode of the season followed the comics almost to the T. I'm glad we will get to meet some of the prisoner characters. They were some of my favorites.

 

I had the DVR set, came home and began catching up. As soon as the leg was chopped off my DVR said it was done recording........................surely that isn't how the episode ended was it?

 

Well I have Dish...and they dropped AMC. Any idea if Amazon on Roku will have the episodes within 24hrs? I am so bummed! Where can I watch it???

 

just so you know, once AMC saw that they had a hit in "the walking dead" and "breaking bad" they upped their price to carry their channels. You can't just carry AMC, they force you take their bundle which nobody watches but you must pay. It's akin to extortion.

 

Amazon has the episode up right now. They are up about 8 hours after they premier live. They cost 2.99 an episode or you can buy the season for 5% off.

 

Not like you HAVE to pay if you don't want to. Personally, I choose to pay whenever the option is made available to me. But I will not pay 60 dollars a month for 100 channels when I only want to watch 1 or 2 shows a week. Luckily AMC is kind of enough to offer their episodes on Amazon. So I don't have to pay for cable to watch them. But Showtime is not as nice. And even though I would love to pay to watch Dexter I'm not given that option. So I find other ways to watch it that showtime probably doesn't appreciate.

Last year I bought every episode of Dexter on Amazon. This year that option was not available.

Networks need to get smarter and realize that young people in my generation are starting to figure out that they can watch anything that's on cable without having to pay for cable. Whether we have permission to do so from the networks or not. And while most of us are more than willing to pay, we're not going to wait for the networks to get with the program and offer online streaming.

 

Excellent! Thanks! I'll be watching tonight

 

Yes, I know that....only because I called Dish and had it out with them. They explained the situation pretty well...I'm still mad, but more at AMC now than Dish. I almost dropped them. Apparently, they are still in battle with AMC, they have had so many requests for them to solve it. Breaking Bad is another series that I love.

 

AMC makes quality TV and they should be paid for their work. They have two of the best shows on TV. That's impressive.

I'm extremely happy with AMC not just for the quality of their shows but the fact that they made these shows available to people like me who don't have cable or dish. They are both dinosaurs. We live in an age where any information can be picked up on demand. So why am I still paying for a bunch of shows I don't want to watch? Why can't I pay for shows episode by episode? Or even channel by channel.

I don't think Cable TV will last much longer as it is.

 

will someone answer my question about what happened after the leg amputation...............

and about bundling, it's the content people. For example, if you want to carry ESPN on your Cable/Dish/IPTV network then you must offer ESPN on every package including the cheapest, low cost. Also, they force you into taking other channels and they must be put into a package.

The USA content people do not want to go the way of music where you can pay for only what you want to consume.

Also, there is such a huge embedded investment by big firms such as Comcast and Verizon. Also, Comcast owns controlling interest in NBC/Universal so do you really think they want to make their content available ala-carte?

What will eventually happen is indie companies will offer their content more and more on the web and as they gain market share then the "bigs" will need to open up. It will eventually become a pay per view or pay to subscribe and will be done via broadband and not on closed networks like it is today. But, we're still a long way away because actors of hit shows demand a premium as do all in the food chain.

But, it's tough to create a smash hit and very expensive. Also, for every hit there are flops and that has embedded costs.

 

there are 2 terms used today

cord cutting and cord shaving

cord cutting is as it sounds, people are dropping cable/dish completely and pulling the locals off air and then using broadband for NeEtflix, Hulu etc.

cord shaving is subs who are dropping premium channels and extended packages and filling in with Hulu/Neflix et al and saving $30 per month and more.

To combat this, telcos and cablecos charge a premium for just broadband to the home if you take no other service be it voice and video. Also, they are rate shaping so when you hit a certain amount of data your throughput drops or they perform DPS (deep packet inspection) and throttle you on certain applications such as streaming video and even VOIP.

So, there is much which must still be worked out here in America and it's all driven by the content people (including the stars) which are the same folk who pronounce their love of socialism but are as 1%er as it gets when it comes to their turf.

 

At the end of the episode the leg was amputated and suddenly in the background a group of figures pop up from the cafe. At first the audience is meant to think they are zombies. But as we get a closer look we see they have expressions on their faces. And we get a closeup of one of them saying "Holy (*)(*)(*)(*)..."

I can't tell you if the Dr. survived the amputation. Because the comics and the TV show are a bit different. But in the comics amputation is a successful method for dealing with zombie bites on legs and arms. Since the disease only affects you when you're dead, amputation is the best way to prevent the wound from killing you. So it's likely the Dr. survived.

 

wait a minute; more ALIVE people on the show? How could they be in the prison when it was over-run by the dead and required a killing field unless they end up being prisoners.

things that make you go hmmm

how can the wife be that far pregnant yet the boobs still so small? The director missed that detail

Also, why hasn't Jamie Lee Curtis' hair grown in all of that time?

and last but not least, who keeps mowing all of the lawns and pruning the trees and bushes? Maybe the walking dead do landscaping so they don't get caught in high grass.

 

They're prisoners who surived by locking themselves in the cafe and eating the food and water in the kitchen. They haven't seen the light of day since day 0.

As for Lori's breasts....she's malnourished. The body tends to digest sources of fat first. And that's what breasts are. Fat. I imagine she will have trouble breast feeding when/if the baby is born.