The Walking Dead

[Magus]

"Hey you! Yeah you! The dumbass in the tank!"

This TV show was exactly as good as I expected. Incredibly well-acted (especially for that guy from Jericho wimping out about killing his undead wife, apparently over and over again), and looking extremely promising.

My favorite part was, of course, the finale. Riding through the apparently empty streets of Atlanta...then rounding a corner and running into an absolute army of zombies. Hell yeah. Can't wait to see next week's episode.

Also, I was surprised by the amount of violence and gore this show featured, even having watched three seasons of Breaking Bad. I think this show is definitely pushing the boundaries of basic cable. It could easily have been done on HBO or Showtime with no one batting an eye (though there was a lack of gratuitous sex scenes. One of those is always shoehorned into every episode of an HBO show like Boardwalk Empire). Some of the designs were freaky as hell (especially Legless Lady in Park, holy crap). Definitely high caliber stuff.

If you are unaware of what I am talking about, The Walking Dead is a zombie survival TV show that has just premiered on AMC. It will be on Sunday nights at 10:00 for the foreseeable future.

Can't wait for next week...

[Carade]

My only real complaint is that the CGI blood splatters could have been better.

[TDK]

This is definitely my new favorite show. I have *always* wanted a weekly zombie survival show, and I've read the Walking Dead graphic novel, upon which this show is based. The author of the graphic novel series is one of the main people in charge of the show, too, which just rocks.

All in all, this makes me quite look forward to the end of the weekend because it means zombies and awesomeness.

[Premmy]

Definitely an interesting show so far I wonder how long it can last at high quality, though.

[EVILNess]

So did anyone else watch the premiere? I thought it was actually superb and thought it caught the essence of the comic very well.

I was kinda worried that the story wouldn't flow well as a tv series, but they have banished my fears for the time being.

[Viridis]

Well, someone (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?t=39044) did.

[Fenris]

Threads merged.

[Mannix]

the zombies were a little too coordinated for my tastes.

[Magus]

At least they didn't run after people like in so many modern movies. There seems to be little point in the horde of zombies trope in such a scenario since realistically even one would be difficult to fend off without getting bit and two would be next to impossible. They always manage to in the movies but it makes no real sense. Whereas if the zombie is shambling it makes sense that you can escape from them. One in full control of its body would be hard as heck to fight off hand-to-hand, and it would increase in impossibility with each one added to the scene.

The thing I thought was kind of weird about the zombies in this one was that they sit down and basically veg-out or sleep if nobody's around, as opposed to wondering aimlessly forever in search of prey, instead they seem to be adopting a "playing possum" approach to prey which doesn't really make a lot of sense. That or they actually get tired which also makes no sense.

[Pip Boy]

I vedge out and wait for something interesting to happen all the time. Who's to say zombies don't get bored? It seems to me like they're the 100% reactive kind of zombies. If they hear a noise, they investigate, otherwise they find a nice comfy place to relax.

Loved the first episode though, trying to find the second. I just hope this show doesn't turn into lost. "The zombies are mutating! Now they're invisible! And Oh my god we better press this button every day or DIE!"

EDIT: Looks like episode 2 got right on that whole gratuitous sex scene thing you were talking about.

[EVILNess]

I was kinda upset with the whole department store thing, not because of the deviation of the original plot (Which I don't really mind. If I wanted to see the verbatim original plot I have the comics.) but because it was kinda... well... pointless.

The only real merit I saw in it was the fact that it lengthened the action in Atlanta a bit, because in the comics it was more of a get in, holy shit moment, and then Glenn gets him out. I guess they kinda wanted to get some action under the show's belt since pretty much the whole comic is them laying low and avoiding combat and the interpersonal drama that goes on knowing that holy shit they are probably going to die horrible deaths. Incidentally, I liked Show-Glenn better on first impression than I did Comic-Glenn. I hope he sticks around and doesn't drive off into the sunset.

[Pip Boy]

Glenn, like the others, seemed to be a member of the camp they had set up outside the city, so its most likely he'll head there next. It seems he'll probably go back there with the others. He's the most intelligent person in their group thus far, and should know that driving off by yourself, even in a nice fancy car, is suicide.

EDIT: Am I the only one that laughed when the black guy told the white trash in the leather vest to be more positive?

[Magus]

That guy who plays the racist biker dude is like the god-kind of playing racist biker dudes, he's been in like a million things as a similar bigoted character (well sometimes he's just a military strong-man). I wonder what he is like in real life, he is probably some kind of daisy-chain stringing liberal.

I haven't read the comics so I can't really comment on how the mall episode deviates from the plot. To me it was just an "episode" in the overall story arc. But I mean Rick did find a grenade so I'm sure that will turn up again. Chekhov's gun and all.

[Funka Genocide]

Everyone at work was going bananas about this show, and I mean, come on. Weekly zombie show?

I have since ended my 11 year hiatus on cable television.

[Magus]

Shouldn't that have ended already with Breaking Bad?

If you include premium cable shows it should've ended years ago, between Boardwalk Empire and some of the other shows...

[Premmy]

But I mean Rick did find a grenade so I'm sure that will turn up again. Chekhov's gun and all.

I swear to GOD that entire episode I was on edge waiting for him to throw that damn thing.

[Magus]

Yeah, I figured they were going to use it to weaken the gate in the sewer, but apparently it is being saved for something (hopefully something awesome).

[The Sevenshot Kid]

I caught this show on Halloween night and it was amazing. I've never read the comics so I don't have something to compare it to, but the show manages to keep me entertained and invested in what the characters are doing. Can't wait for the new one tonight.

[Magus]

lawl Merle Dixon really can't be the smartest guy in the world after tonight's episode. I mean, seriously, sawing off your own hand? I expected it to happen, of course, but there are so many reasons it is a bad idea. For one, you could easily bleed to death, and he's already dehydrated so it'd just increase the chance he'd pass out, and two, it seems like even if you were afraid you were about to die of thirst it would still be a better idea to try like hell to saw through the handcuffs, or alternatively, THE PIPE YOU ARE SHACKLED TO, as I'm pretty sure that pipes are easy as hell to cut through with hacksaws even if handcuffs aren't.

Maybe Merle was completely out of his mind with thirst at that point, though, so maybe it makes sense in his head.

Also, when the hell is Rick going to use that godforsaken grenade?

[Carade]

I thought the implication was that he jumped off the building, I mean the door to the roof was still all padlocked.

[Magus]

Nah, I don't think so. That was more to allow us to be surprised, I think. He might have gotten down another way, probably.

[Pip Boy]

I still think it doesn't make sense that he cut off his own hand instead of the handcuffs. He'd already asked for the saw before so that he could use it for just that, which should have foreshadowed cutting the cuffs and not his hand. If they wanted to go with the "cuffs are too hard to cut through for the saw" thing, thats fine, but there should have been some marks or something on the cuffs where he tried and failed, and in the video the cuffs looked just fine. As much as I want everything about this show to be perfect, I think we can just chalk this one up to the writers giving him an Idiot Ball (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdiotBall).

EDIT:I never tried putting a url in a spoiler before, but it appears to show through. Not a big deal, since that particular phrase doesn't give anything away, but did we already know this was happening?