You just named (or discussed) my three favorite shows: Dexter, Breaking Bad and Walking Dead.
I can't believe there's a Zombie Group here. I love this forum.
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You just named (or discussed) my three favorite shows: Dexter, Breaking Bad and Walking Dead.
I can't believe there's a Zombie Group here. I love this forum.
we're a slowly moving...and not very active group...but welcome!
BTW I like Dexter- and though I now have access to 'walking dead' episodes, I haven't watched them yet. Wonder if I'll find time for a walking dead marathon this weekend.
BTW I like Dexter- and though I now have access to 'walking dead' episodes, I haven't watched them yet. Wonder if I'll find time for a walking dead marathon this weekend.
we're a slowly moving...and not very active group...but welcome!
BTW I like Dexter- and though I now have access to 'walking dead' episodes, I haven't watched them yet. Wonder if I'll find time for a walking dead marathon this weekend.
Every season I think Dexter cannot possibly top the prior season and every year they do; it just keeps getting better!
Definately, marathon The Walking Dead this weekend! Is this week the finale? I think I saw someone post that. I hope not, it's really starting to grow on me and this would be a short season. What is it like 6 / 7 episodes? It looks like it may be expensive to produce though so they may have a longer 2nd season if the ratings are good.
Yep, this Sunday is the season finale according to AMC. I'm pretty confident there will be a second season with the contests to win a 'stagger on' role being advertised on every episode. Hope for more of a split season like SYFY is doing with Eureka, half now, take a little break for the competition to get tired, come back after it's played out! If that is AMC's strategy, expect the dead to push up alongside the little daises this spring.
It looks to me like the first season was more of a "Mini-series Pilot" kinda thing to gauge interest. I've heard tell that the Executive Producer (also the writer of the graphic novels, as I understand it) has fired the current writing team in favor of Doctor Who style "guest writer each episode" model. Presumably to maintain more control over the story direction. I've also heard that there's a second season in the works.
Bear in mind, though, I haven't confirmed any of this with my own research.
Bear in mind, though, I haven't confirmed any of this with my own research.
Yup, there will be a second season of 13 episodes by new writers. I think this show is fantastic. It is so well done and realistically scary. Unfortunately, I believe the second season won't start until next October.
I finally saw the first 4 episodes last night. It is pretty good- I enjoyed it. But, (and i may reading too much into it) the zombies almost seemed kind of extraneous before the end of of episode 4. They seemed to be around just so that the living could show just how messed up they (we?) really are... and i think maybe MonsterKenny was right
(yes, this is why i don't watch much TV....)
cause it sure seemed to be the teeth and gums that deteriorated first.
(yes, this is why i don't watch much TV....)
It's due to all that mouth breathing No, there really is scientific reasons behind the teeth looking more elongated and 'nasty', it's the same reason that fingernails and hair looks longer after a corpse has been in the ground for awhile. The short version has to do with the flesh receding with the fluid displacing to the lower parts of the body. That and eating carrion without flossing can't lead to some seriously funky tooth decay too
No, there really is scientific reasons behind the teeth looking more elongated and 'nasty', it's the same reason that fingernails and hair looks longer after a corpse has been in the ground for awhile. The short version has to do with the flesh receding with the fluid displacing to the lower parts of the body. That and eating carrion without flossing can't lead to some seriously funky tooth decay too 
I watched the first 5-6 episodes of "The Event" and then they started doing "flashback" episodes and I started having "Lost" flashbacks and bailed.
By the way George Romero's The Night of the Living Dead was on IFC this weekend... still awesome!
Well, the first season of The Walking Dead is over now. What did everyone think of the final episode? I'm hoping CES has had a chance to watch it already so we don't end up spoiling it for her! On a side note, even my brother noticed how they went back to get the bag of shotguns but still didn't seem to notice the machine gun's laying all over the place... At first I was trying to rationalize that they might have been 'empty' but they showed a couple sitting there complete with locked and loaded belts streaming to the side. I can't help but picture a .50 cal mounted to the top of the RV with another one mounted in the back of one of those pick up trucks. I mean come on, they're rationing out revolvers and half boxes of ammo but turn their noses up at military weapons?!?
Even the scientist at the CDC 'familiarized' himself with an M4 since there were plenty of them around. Speaking of, why the hell didn't they at least take the one HE had? Even if they didn't intend to fire them on full automatic, the ammunition could have potentially been used in different rifles.
Even the scientist at the CDC 'familiarized' himself with an M4 since there were plenty of them around. Speaking of, why the hell didn't they at least take the one HE had? Even if they didn't intend to fire them on full automatic, the ammunition could have potentially been used in different rifles.
I agree about the military weapons. It was driving me crazy when he first went into Atlanta and was just riding past Hum Vees and tanks with perfectly good .50 cals mounted on top of them! Not all those Hum Vee's gas tanks could possibly be empty. And the dwindeling fuel at the CDC? Hasn't anyone ever heard of syphoning?!? Like I said, there's tons of military vehicles parked right outside that couldn't possibly all be empty. And I'm guessing those tanks run on high octane.
I wasn't as bothered by them not taking the doctor's gun as you but I was livid they didn't think to grab a couple of crates of his booze!
On the positive side... the acting was really good. There were some great monologues. Much better than I expected. The opening scene with the guy handcuffed to the roof was great (episode 3 or 4 mabye). Much better writing than I expected. The sets/CG were very impressive too for a cable show.
All in all, I liked it. It's definately growing on me. Looking forward to season 2!
OMG, the scene with the crazy guy handcuffed to the roof....yikes, cringe....had to remind myself that he was acting. Course i was also trying to figure out why they were all sitting around the campfire without a care in the world right before the big zombie attack. I mean they knew the zombies were around.... 
BTW, I haven't seen anything beyond episode 4 so far, but have never been bothered by "spoilers" Spoil away
BTW, I haven't seen anything beyond episode 4 so far, but have never been bothered by "spoilers" Spoil away
Well the tanks and hummers (military ones at least) run on diesel which should have been fine for the generators if not their own vehicles but there is the chance that the scientist did drain them to prolong his research but the director didn't feel like wasting the 10 seconds it would have taken to explain it On the other hand, they didn't really have enough time to siphon and feed the generators since they all waited until the clock was down to 1 hour before asking what it was for... Not asking what a timer is for (to me at least) is like not asking what the shiny red button does before leaning right next to it. A very Darwin Award worthy mistake to say the least.
Yeah, Merle's character (handcuffed racist) and his brother are bound to play a larger role somewhere down the story line, I can just feel that. Hell, I think everyone that gets more than a line or two is going to die a horrible agonizing death sooner or later but I'll keep watching just to see how the interplay works out before they bite it!
If they decide to stay close to the original storyline (which I got a brief synopsis of from my friend who read it), they'll be going to a prison next where they'll set up a more permanent 'camp'. I have a feeling that is what the scientist whispered into his ear there at the end, the location. I could be wrong as I don't don't know exactly how they decided to go to the prison in the first place, but that is where the bulk of the story took place.
On the other hand, they didn't really have enough time to siphon and feed the generators since they all waited until the clock was down to 1 hour before asking what it was for... Not asking what a timer is for (to me at least) is like not asking what the shiny red button does before leaning right next to it. A very Darwin Award worthy mistake to say the least.Yeah, Merle's character (handcuffed racist) and his brother are bound to play a larger role somewhere down the story line, I can just feel that. Hell, I think everyone that gets more than a line or two is going to die a horrible agonizing death sooner or later but I'll keep watching just to see how the interplay works out before they bite it!
If they decide to stay close to the original storyline (which I got a brief synopsis of from my friend who read it), they'll be going to a prison next where they'll set up a more permanent 'camp'. I have a feeling that is what the scientist whispered into his ear there at the end, the location. I could be wrong as I don't don't know exactly how they decided to go to the prison in the first place, but that is where the bulk of the story took place.
I was going to ask people what they thought the scientist had whispered into the sheriff's ear...
My guess is that the scientist told him someone in his group is infected in a slow progressing manner... perhaps like the scientist's zombie wife. Because when the bloodwork comes back earlier in the episode he does not say "no one is infected" he says "there were no surprises". Just my guess.
Ah! I didn't catch that one. That also opens up the possibility that Ms. Pukesalot is pregnant OR that wifey and deputy share an STD that hasn't had time to fully manifest in him yet... Hmmm, he didn't really show any dramatic reaction that resembled something of that magnitude though. Plus, if one of them were infected, then he would not have 'done everything he could' to research a cure, he could have gone with them and tried to rough it. I'll have to watch the finale again and look for more subtext or nuance now that I know that I've missed something that big.
I only saw it once too, might need to see it again. I don't know about the reaction... it seemed to me he grimaced and shook his head pretty good but just couldn't deal with it right at that second due to the impending air explosion. But, forget Ms. Pukesalot, what if the sheriff's wife is pregnant? How long was that Sheriff in the hospital?
In the Doctor's video log at the start of the episode he said, "It's day 63 since the infection suddenly went global.". So minimum 3 months that the Sheriff was out, as there was no hint of the infection whatsoever when he went into the coma... if either of them are pregnant it can't be much more then that or they'd start showing.
As for the "no surprises" comment... I would think STD in anyone = surprise; unless the Dr. got some personal information from one of the survivors that wasn't revealed to us... Likewise wifey pregnancy = surprise, as I can't think of any reason he might suspect otherwise... Most likely scenarios I think are Pukey's either pregnant or infected. Of the two, infection was my immediate impression, which would also explain the Sheriff's relative lack of reaction, since she spent roughly 12 hours hanging onto her infected, dead and undying sister. Perhaps continued exposure to the infection without having the infection transmitted through biting alters how it grows in the body.
The exposure thing is strictly speculation, but I do think Pukey being infected in some way is most likely.
Dont think the sheriff's wife is pregnant but sure one of them is infected. Hopefully the sheriffs friend what a punk lol.
Well, LIFE, is a sexually transmitted disease after all Wifey pregnant would register on the shock scale since he'd only been back for about a week. Merle's brother showed up the morning after he arrived and they went back out the next day or two at most. Spent the day in the city and returned that night. Next day was burials and planning/confrontations. Left in the morning and the CDC was within 100 miles. The blood was drawn before they went to bed so... about 4-6 days. Even super spermies couldn't alter the hormones that fast. So with that time line there'd be no question as to who snuck into the woodpile for the sheriff... The sister being infected... They did make a point to NOT get the blood and guts on their exposed skin or eyes when they tried to blend in and the sister had plenty of blood on her hands but I didn't see her rub her eyes or anything. Hmmm, she was shaking in the shower so it might have been the fever setting in. You might have nailed that one CooL_SpoT. But I think that's a plot hole that the scientist didn't try to further his research knowing that he had a fresh TS20 on hand. He'd have known that before they went to sleep so there would have been time to load equipment/supplies into the vehicles, download a copy of the software he'd need, and inform them that he'd be needing to raid either a hospital or a medical supply store in the future... Hell, I think a good University would have the basic research equipment up to and including the centrifuge (better public schools have them!). Producing the proteins required for a vaccine or cure... I know it can be done, I just don't have the specific knowledge of how... yet
Wifey pregnant would register on the shock scale since he'd only been back for about a week. Merle's brother showed up the morning after he arrived and they went back out the next day or two at most. Spent the day in the city and returned that night. Next day was burials and planning/confrontations. Left in the morning and the CDC was within 100 miles. The blood was drawn before they went to bed so... about 4-6 days. Even super spermies couldn't alter the hormones that fast. So with that time line there'd be no question as to who snuck into the woodpile for the sheriff... The sister being infected... They did make a point to NOT get the blood and guts on their exposed skin or eyes when they tried to blend in and the sister had plenty of blood on her hands but I didn't see her rub her eyes or anything. Hmmm, she was shaking in the shower so it might have been the fever setting in. You might have nailed that one CooL_SpoT. But I think that's a plot hole that the scientist didn't try to further his research knowing that he had a fresh TS20 on hand. He'd have known that before they went to sleep so there would have been time to load equipment/supplies into the vehicles, download a copy of the software he'd need, and inform them that he'd be needing to raid either a hospital or a medical supply store in the future... Hell, I think a good University would have the basic research equipment up to and including the centrifuge (better public schools have them!). Producing the proteins required for a vaccine or cure... I know it can be done, I just don't have the specific knowledge of how... yet - Status
