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Nowhere Man

11-01-2010 09:24 PM

I watched it earlier today, and was quite impressed.

The pacing was great, the acting was pretty solid all around, and I was honestly surprised by how good the zombies looked too. The "bike girl" zombie in particular was fantastic: the way they were able to do it without making her look like a puppet or done with CGI, but actually look like someone who's been torn in half and is still moving around. Very impressive effects work.

Swiss Ultimate

11-02-2010 05:13 PM

loved it so much I played l4d2 for an hour after.

Lock Jaw

11-04-2010 04:29 PM

Just watched it. I'm not big into "zombie" stuff, but this was pretty good.

Was totally drawn in by everything.

Schlomey

11-04-2010 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hanso (Post 3304109)

Pretty good emotion. It is AMC so this will be a Character driven show.

That black dude trying to kill his wife, while staying strong for his kid was a good scene.

This.

Lock Jaw

11-04-2010 05:03 PM

I have decided to read the comic book concurrently with the TV show.

So I'm gonna read up until it gets to the point where it leaves off in the latest episode.

Lock Jaw

11-04-2010 05:18 PM

Well, that was fast. First ep = roughly one and half issues.

Ermaximus

11-05-2010 11:29 AM

I watched this on demand last night and was blown away by the character development. This show is going places. Still can't believe his wife and kid are with his old partner from the force. I'd also like to know how long the main character was in a coma/the hospital.

Londoner

11-05-2010 08:04 PM

What a bloody great first episode. Haven't been this excited about a tv show in a long time.

mitchables

11-06-2010 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 3306992)

Well, that was fast. First ep = roughly one and half issues.

right? he wakes up in the hospital on the second page ffs :'(

Lock Jaw

11-06-2010 01:28 AM

Yeah... I thought I was gonna be reading like... the first TPB or something, but no... not even two issues.

Jeritron

11-06-2010 01:54 AM

I've read the first few issues as well, and I'm really happy with how much the series is getting out of it.
There's really a lot of potential there in a television series to delve much deeper.

Eklipse

11-06-2010 01:58 AM

I kinda feel as though his wife was cheating on him with his partner before the coma, but I dunno...havent seen the books.

Downloaded in HD because I missed the premier and loved it.

Hour long episode was better than Romero's last 3 films.

Loose Cannon

11-06-2010 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Ermaximus (Post 3307930)

Still can't believe his wife and kid are with his old partner from the force.

wow, didn't even catch this. just watched it. what was said to clue us in that it was them? probably said thier names and it went right over my head.

really good show. I'm glad they are pacing everything to build the characters

the horse getting nabbed sucked though. hate watching animlas die. I really believed the Sheriff was a goner for a second. love the forshadowing when Morgan says to the sheriff watch you ass when you see a group of the dead.

glad I found another show to watch as they are pretty thin right now

The Destroyer

11-06-2010 11:54 AM

Well you saw the partner leading up to where Rick gets shot. You later see the same guy kissing some woman. You then see a picture of this same woman and the kid in Rick's car.

Loose Cannon

11-07-2010 11:28 PM

Michael Rooker is on the show :love: one of my fav actors. he always plays the bad ass guy

Loose Cannon

11-07-2010 11:58 PM

they left him on the roof :mad:

Jeritron

11-08-2010 12:40 AM

Don't worry. The guy dropped his bag of tools including the hacksaw (Jim Duggan). Plus they'll go back for him.
Little will they know he's going to be free already. And very angry. DA DA DAAAAAAAA

P.S. I haven't read the next issues. I'm just talking out my ass. But probably.

Hanso Amore

11-08-2010 09:29 AM

Wife is mad slutty.

Like your husband hasnt been dead for more than a few months and you are getting hit from behind in a field while some strangers watch your kid?

Dunno.

Loose Cannon

11-08-2010 10:17 AM

yea, that was pretty hot.

The Destroyer

11-08-2010 10:17 AM

At least she had the decency to take her ring off. The slag.

Good second episode. Maybe I just watch too much TV, but the instant I heard the first bit of thunder I thought "yeah, it's going to start raining and wash the zombie guts off them".

CSL	11-08-2010 12:22 PM

I don't read/don't care about/know little about comics so I have no previous 'affiliation' to The Walking Dead but this is fast becoming one of my favourite shows.

CSL	11-08-2010 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeritron (Post 3311000)

And this. But I don't think they'll go back for him.

Ermaximus

11-08-2010 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Loose Cannon (Post 3310882)

Michael Rooker is on the show :love: one of my fav actors. he always plays the bad ass guy

http://www.happyhorror.com/pix/Mr_Sv...ael_Rooker.jpg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hanso (Post 3311193)

Wife is mad slutty.

Like your husband hasnt been dead for more than a few months and you are getting hit from behind in a field while some strangers watch your kid?

Dunno.

My thoughts exactly. Wonder if she'll go for the dp when her husband magically shows back up next episode.

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Originally Posted by CSL (Post 3311337)

And this. But I don't think they'll go back for him.

I think they will because the sheriff wants his guns back and he'll already be there so I don't see him leaving the guy on the roof to die. Plus the blokes brother will surely make him go back.

RP	11-08-2010 01:18 PM

Sarah Wayne Callies has an amazing ass

RP	11-08-2010 01:41 PM

ron the dial

11-08-2010 06:40 PM

love this show so much. love it even more because sarah wayne callies is the woman i want to marry, and i had no idea she was going to be on it.

wwe2222

11-08-2010 06:54 PM

AMC orders 13 more episodes for next season

Swiss Ultimate

11-08-2010 07:08 PM

I'm stoked about the grenade.

Jeritron

11-08-2010 08:39 PM

Covering themselves in Zombie guts to blend in was pretty clever. I've never seen a zombie story actually explore how zombies are able to detect humans, let alone see the humans pull something like that to try to blend in. In Shaun of the Dead they acted like zombies to get through a crowd, but that was more of a joke.
This presented an actual explanation.

Hopefully they keep doing new things like that.

mitchables

11-08-2010 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RoXer (Post 3304738)

What did they deviate from? I don't read comic books so I'm curious.

sorry dude missed this for whatever reason before. and yes you are using deviate correctly.

SPOILER: show

well, largely, they're deviations of expansion rather than leaving anything out. in kirkman's comics, he doesn't really spend a lot of time on building the characters before getting to the zombies. rick gets shot on page one, wakes up in the hospital on page two, and spends a few pages at morgan's house (who does not have any kind of backstory involving his wife and being unable to put her down). morgan does not tie rick up in the book or get all 'i will kill you if you try anything' on him; in fact he seems quite trusting, mostly because rick is not in a hospital gown and thus not visibly injured when duane hits him with a shovel. dude just lets him recover on the couch til he wakes up.

riding a horse into the city is essentially the same, but the intermission in the tank doesn't happen - rick manages to flee the zombies without taking refuge in a tank and gets pulled down an alley by glenn who then takes him up onto the rooftops and helps him get out of the city.

the second episode shuffled stuff around considerably - firstly, when glenn rescues rick there is no-one else with him in the city - it's just glenn. he takes him straight back to camp, which is the first you actually see of it in the book. in fact, none of the characters in that group in the city exist in the book except for glenn and andrea, but she was not in the city at any point early on. they figure out the guts strategy because they need to go back for supplies. but again, just rick and glenn. they take, like, a shopping trolley and some weapons, the rain happens, and again, they simply outrun the zombies. no elaborate plans with street race cars and delivery trucks.

that seems to be the biggest thing, the show has definitely 'amped up' the book, not that it really needs it once it gets into later chapters. but the start of the novel really wasn't this action-packed.

also the emphasis on the lori/shane relationship - in the book lori is not really painted as all that willing a partner in the whole deal; i agree the show is kind of portraying her as a bit of a skank.

mitchables

11-08-2010 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeritron (Post 3311000)

wouldn't matter if you had, that character (and everyone else on the roof bar andrea, rick and glenn) was not in the book.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeritron (Post 3311946)

kirkman has used the near 80 issues of the book to really explore heaps of facets of the zombie apocalypse that haven't or couldn't be explored in standalone films or books or whatever; especially the nature of how zombies, their bites, etc work. there's some interesting new takes on long-thought 'traditional' ideas about zombies throughout, so hopefully they keep them in.

RP	11-09-2010 10:04 AM

I love the chick taking it in the ass right off the top of the show. It's like Brady Anderson hitting lead off HR's for the Orioles in the 90's

The Destroyer

11-09-2010 12:54 PM

Probably the only form of effective post-apocalyptic contraception. Would you want to bring a child into a zombie infested world?

RP	11-09-2010 01:41 PM

No i agree. I wouldnt risk it at all. She's swallowing it for sure.

thedamndest

11-09-2010 03:47 PM

According to the Dawn of the Dead remake, if you are pregnant and you get bitten you will bear a zombie baby. If you are infected but have not yet become a zombie and you get a chick pregnant will she become a zombie or have a zombie baby? Is this covered in the books?

Hanso Amore

11-09-2010 04:27 PM

HEre is why I hate internet people. On another forum, a guy claimed he was never watching this show again, because the red card Glenn stole cant be hotwired in real life because it has a transponder key, and mistakes like that ruin shows.

For real. Who cares?

thedamndest

11-09-2010 04:30 PM

But he is okay with the living dead.

Hanso Amore

11-09-2010 04:36 PM

Right. Same guy also complains that There is no bottom hatch on that model of tank.

Loose Cannon

11-09-2010 04:40 PM

that guy's definately not nailing any chicks from behind

CSL	11-09-2010 05:10 PM

http://tv.popcrunch.com/wp-content/u...n-bernthal.jpg > http://prisonbreak.download-tvshows...._miller1_0.jpg

Took that bender like 4 seasons.

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