The Walking Dead

[ardillacid]

Anybody watching it?

[sidemunch88]

i like to wait a season before getting into a season

[ardillacid]

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i like to wait a season before getting into a season
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You start everything in the second season?

[sidemunch88]

I just like to see it all at once

[BG45]

I've only seen the pilot episode, but it looks good so far!

[kujo]

It is INCREDIBLE!!!!

Have you read the comics, BG?

[sidemunch88]

I LOVE ZOMBIES!

[Semper Catholic]

Zombies, Lady Gaga, and Bacon. Overexposed.

Pilot looked good, but it's slowly turning into a cookie-cutter zombie movie spanning 15hours instead of 2.

Geeky Asian guy, stupid rednecks, and the"group" making dumb mistakes like having a party shortly after discovering a zombie in the woods is face palmable.

[YMNolan]

I've seen the first 2 episodes. I like it, though sometimes it's a little too hardcore for me (and I'm not talking the Zombie parts, gore doesn't bother me). I have read the comics but it looks and feels more graphic on TV. Still, I plan on keeping up with it.

[kujo]

[quote name='Semper Catholic' timestamp='1290771333' post='2189364']
Zombies, Lady Gaga, and Bacon. Overexposed.

Pilot looked good, but it's slowly turning into a cookie-cutter zombie movie spanning 15hours instead of 2.

Geeky Asian guy, stupid rednecks, and the"group" making dumb mistakes like having a party shortly after discovering a zombie in the woods is face palmable.
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Quite the opposite, in my opinion. Far from the typical zombie survival flick, this show is investing a great amount of time and energy in character development. Instead of relying solely on elaborate set pieces that allow them to showcase the extremes of the genre, they writers have attempted to create dynamic, complicated characters who are struggling to make ends meet in a post-apocalyptic world. And while there's only been 4 episodes, I imagine that this attention to characterization will continue in the future, offering us the opportunity to emotionally-invest in the wellbeing of the central characters, a prospect that is entirely unique in nearly all zombie lore.

And while the stereotypes are there, I think that you'll see that what we perceive isn't going to be what is the truth. An example is the wife--she came off as cold and detached, not to mention shaddy, after shacking up with her husband's best friend. [spoiler]But once it was revealed that she thought he was dead because the other dude told her he was, she didn't seem so awful anymore.[/spoiler] It's a slowly evolving process, much like we saw in LOST, where the definition of "Other" was constantly changing and the "bad guys" were continuously being revealed as less-than-nefarious.

In other words, give it time. There are 2 more eps in the season and I bet you'll enjoy the way it ends. I'd suggest you pick up the comics...they're pretty awesome, too.

[kujo]

This person agrees with my LOST comparison:

[quote]If the first episode of The Walking Dead was characterized by reverence toward the lost people, and the second was characterized by the inhumanity of those left behind, then the third episode, “Tell It to the Frogs,” struck a welcome middle ground as our camp of survivors began to develop a rough societal framework reminiscent of the early days of, dare I say, Lost?

You’re flinching at the comparison, I know. But doesn’t it seem apt to say — especially after everyone clamored over whether The Event might be the next Lost (whatever that means, it is not) — The Walking Dead shares at least some of characteristics that made the first season of the departed, genre favorite so charming.* The Walking Dead, in “Frogs” particularly, is grounded in the same kind of reluctant microcosm, though obviously formed under different circumstances.

It’s not only the rag-tag-group-of-survivors-all-dealing-with-their-drama element that smacks of Lost — though some familiar archetypes are definitely being invoked in that arena. It’s the hierarchy of roles that the survivors, as they fight over squirrel meat, car alarms and general domestic abuses, are beginning to flesh out. For example, Grimes — who this week reunited with his son, wife and partner (the latter two have been sleeping together) — is stepping into the camp leader role, dictating morality as, in the end of the episode, he decides to return to fallen Atlanta for a left-behind survivor. And in that role, he certainly shows hints of Jack Shephard’s familiar God-complex. “I found you, didn’t I?” he asks wife Lori, who responds by quietly calling attention to his cockiness.

(Another great Grimes line? After Daryl throws a loop of squirrels at the sheriff for leaving his brother shackled to a rooftop, he says: “I’d like to have a calm discussion on this topic. Do you think we can manage that?”)

Grimes’ partner, Shane Walsh, seems to be emerging as a sort of rival to Grimes’ leader — especially considering the square rejection he’s handed by Grimes’ wife near the episode’s end: both she and her son are, from this point on, off limits, which seems sad and a touch extreme in a village where role models and frog-catching coaches are limited. But Walsh’s role is not to be frog-catching coach, as he proves when he steps in to settle a nearly camp-wide domestic dispute in Grimes’ absence — a dispute that proves, as camp-mates rush to aid, that the high premium the survivors place on life isn’t eroding as quickly as the gentle zombie-dispatch technique did. (A noise moratorium now dictates bludgeoning. No more CG blood spatters for you!)

But in an episode very nearly devoid of that type of violence (except for the incident with the forfeit venison) the characters really drove the story, which was what was charming, to me at least, about Lost’s first season.[/quote]

Source: [url="http://www.movieline.com/2010/11/on-the-walking-dead-our-survivors-might-be-castaways.php"]Is "The Walking Dead" the New "Lost?"[/url]

[Guest Spuddies]

It has become one of my awaited shows to watch every week now. I'm into zombie, undead movies on the most part and this has been a great 4 episodes so far.

[Sternhauser]

Much as I love zombie flicks, what happened to the "V" remake series? That's what I want to know.

~Sternhauser

[YMNolan]

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Much as I love zombie flicks, what happened to the "V" remake series? That's what I want to know.

~Sternhauser
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My wife and I have been wondering the same thing. It got really good towards the end.

[kujo]

[quote name='Sternhauser' timestamp='1290969862' post='2189689']
Much as I love zombie flicks, what happened to the "V" remake series? That's what I want to know.

~Sternhauser
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I think it starts back up after the holidays. I kinda lost interest after the first 3-4 eps. Did it get better?