The Walking Dead

[goodal]

Have to admit, I didn't see that coming. I knew he had to take care of her though. I really like the series. They are doing what I have always wanted an post-apocalyptic series to do: survive. You don't have to have shoot em up episodes everytime, because that's not how it would be. I like Rick farming and the kids going to school. It makes it more real to me. It takes me a little while to watch it though. It's too gross for the kidoz and misses, so I watch when I'm by myself, which is not very often.

 

[jeb6294]

Got a technical zombie question:

In the typical zombie movie someone gets infected when they get bitten which kills them and turns them into a zombie. In The Walking Dead, since everyone is already infected with zombie cooties and it causes them to turn into a walker when they die, why does it matter if someone gets bitten or not?

 

[Sapper PE LS]

I've wondered that as well, but thinking too hard about this show only leads to disappointment.

 

[Dark Knight]

If you get bitten you die within hours. If you do not, well, the script writers have to find another way to kill you and decide if they are going to let you come back as a walker (i.e. Shane, Sophia).

 

[Sapper PE LS]

Holy crap that was the best walking dead to date. Seriously it was on par with the first season, I was totally on the edge of my seat, hot damn it's good to have my show back. Except that the stupid governor is back, god please kill me now, more governor drama.

 

[EM_PS]

Exact opposite reaction, that episode officially made this season suck more epic-ly than the suckiest parts of Season 2 & 3 combined!. Horrendously slow & single topic plot line, all about Herschel & the friggin' flu bug - seriously, didn't we cover that crap when Carol did the right thing & blazed up some of the sickies?

Best part was Rick & Carl going Predator all over the walker horde and the return of the governor - at least some signs that there might be some more frickin action other than Herschel & his internal angst on actually putting biters down...

 

[Road Guy]

I thought the last 5 minutes was good. But I am over the whole flu story.. I wasn't really digging it...

 

[Dark Knight]

It looks like they are not going to even try to explain the killer flu origins. Why the heck are the walkers jamming the fence? Is the Governor involved?

 

[Sapper PE LS]

EM, this is not nor has it ever been (except the stupid nonsense in season three) an action show. It is an eerie, tense show which since the end of Season 2 this show has forgotten about.

And seriously, the guvner? He screams immature cartoon villain, which has no place in this type of story.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I'm with EM...last episode sucked.

Got a technical zombie question:

In the typical zombie movie someone gets infected when they get bitten which kills them and turns them into a zombie. In The Walking Dead, since everyone is already infected with zombie cooties and it causes them to turn into a walker when they die, why does it matter if someone gets bitten or not?

If you get bitten, you die now, instead of later.

It the greater scheme of things, like in a "100 years from now, what difference will it make" sort of way, it doesn't matter. But for most folks, me included, dead later >> dead now.

 

[EM_PS]

EM, this is not nor has it ever been (except the stupid nonsense in season three) an action show. It is an eerie, tense show which since the end of Season 2 this show has forgotten about.

And seriously, the guvner? He screams immature cartoon villain, which has no place in this type of story.

True - I don't need to be slapped in the face with non-stop action either, it just seemed the whole flu epsidode had just been done a couple weeks back.

And, this is based on a "graphic novel" (i.e. comic book), so consider that in light of the governor. I have not read any of the books, but I do know there are / were other 'villains' in it that were not (or have not been) introduced into the TV series, for whatever reason. Truthfully I think AMC is trying to make the TV version more art-house / cerebral than what it is actually based on. Just my :2cents:

 

[Road Guy]

at this point in the comics the prison was destroyed by the governors assault and the governors dies, tyreese becomes ricks #2, they move to a new area where another governor type takes over the group and kills Glenn (or something like that)

 

[snickerd3]

too many logistic impracticalities/issues for me to sit through an entire episode anymore

 

[goodal]

I liked the latest episode, but was not happy to see the governor again. His character is way over the top. I had hoped we could move past him. For all the people they supposedly saved from the town, we don't get to see that many until we hear they got sick.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I hope that before the season is over, the governor gets a peg leg, hook hand, and parrot to go with the eye patch.

It'd bring in Pastafarian viewers in droves.

 

[Road Guy]

I'm assuming he is the one leading all the zombies to the prison over time...kind of foolish they had all those people but didn't think to brace the fences, add ditches, etc. I would find a low boy and a good size trac hoe and made a nice moat around that part of the prison..

Now I recall the comic, during the 2nd assault on the prison one of the females from wood berry see's the governor ether kill or try and kill ricks baby and she kills the Governor...

 

[Road Guy]

painfully slow episodes..

may check out that almost human show, its got scantly clad sexbots!

 

[goodal]

Are they trying to get us to like the governor? To show he has a heart? Come on! I don't care who he helps at this point, put a sword through his head.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

YEA! Finally some good action!

 

[EM_PS]

Agreed - Rick did a great job using his face to hurt the governor's fists too - why he wasn't shot as soon as he raised the sword against Herschel is a bit mindboggling