The Walking Dead Rises for a Second Season

[Cosplay Horatio]

I saw the episode when it first aired on Halloween night. My wife out of impulse and knowledge of what I liked borrowed The Walking Dead comic books from the library for me and I loved them because of how realistic the zombie apocalypse was portrayed. When I heard about the show while watching a movie I was excited and tuned in. Now I'm tuning in every night. Episode 2 is awesome and I'm on board for both seasons.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I hope it will go on on air for some time, I just love to have a nicely made Zombie series i can look forward to every week.

 

[cobrausn]

Did the racist asshat remind anyone else of a racist Francis?

 

[thiosk]

Well, the Amnesia thing happened in 28 Days Later, Holding up in a place in a big city has happened in Dawn of The Dead, they just did it better. I know that Covering each other in Guts has happened in another series, I just cant think of what.

And infection spread by bite? C'mon. Its gone from unoriginal to absolutely improbable. It would be put down in a matter of hours if that was really the case.

Don't get me wrong, I generally like the series, and I am of the Majority of people who thinks adding zombies to anything immediatley makes it better, but I am not to impressed by the show.

I get the amnesia thing, but I wouldn't call the 28 series "better," by any stretch. I think it has to do with format and opinion, but I was unenthusiastic about 28 days, and found the latter half of the movie especially tiresome. And I mean, its the zombie genre, where else are you going to hold up if not in a rural camp or a large, secured city structure?

As for the guts, I remember it happened in a terrible made for Sci-Fi channel movie. A truly terrible sci fi movie. With zero regard for the guts touching the skin. So again, I wouldn't call that better, by any stretch. I don't think it happened in the RE movies; but we stopped seeing proper zombies there after the first installment.

As for the infection spread by bite, the 2009 paper in Infectious Disease Modeling Research Progress (http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/Zombies.pdf) suggests its not as improbable as we'd like to believe! I think bite zombies remain effective because loved ones do not understand the gravity of the infection, and are delighted when their sickened family members rise up from their state of death. Its not until the zombies are banging on the walls of the shopping centers that folks really seem to pick up on what is going on.

In any case, with this genre theres a lot of willing suspension of disbelief. And in the Walking Dead, the emphasis seems to be more on the human interactions, rather than the gratuitous zombie killing that so characterizes... every... zombie... movie... ever.

 

[fnartilter]

I love both episodes despite the fact that

Spoiler

Zombies are supposed to notice you if you walk covered in gore.

Just curious, was that true in the comic itself and changed in the series (having not read the comic book series)?

They use it once, and it slightly helps, until the rain washes off, or Rick panics and kills a zombie; one of the two .

What bothered me was the introduction of those other characters in the city, other than Glenn. In the comic Rick and Glenn made a relatively easy getaway, without a bunch of tagalongs bitching and screwing things up.

 

[fnartilter]

Im not going to read a comic before I complain about a TV series.

I didnt read the halo Books and complain about the game.

The Halo books are canon, while the TV series is the progeny of the comics.

 

[Samus Aaron]

"No other cable series has ever attracted as many Adults 18-49 as The Walking Dead," AMC president Charlie Collier said. "This reaffirms viewers' hunger for [brains]." Okay, he actually said "for premium television on basic cable," but I think brains fits better in this case.

I find this hilarious. Oh, the possibilities of a simple set of brackets.

As the great Martin Luther King once said, "[Brackets kick ass.]"

 

[Tdc2182]

Well, the Amnesia thing happened in 28 Days Later, Holding up in a place in a big city has happened in Dawn of The Dead, they just did it better. I know that Covering each other in Guts has happened in another series, I just cant think of what.

And infection spread by bite? C'mon. Its gone from unoriginal to absolutely improbable. It would be put down in a matter of hours if that was really the case.

Don't get me wrong, I generally like the series, and I am of the Majority of people who thinks adding zombies to anything immediatley makes it better, but I am not to impressed by the show.

I get the amnesia thing, but I wouldn't call the 28 series "better," by any stretch. I think it has to do with format and opinion, but I was unenthusiastic about 28 days, and found the latter half of the movie especially tiresome. And I mean, its the zombie genre, where else are you going to hold up if not in a rural camp or a large, secured city structure?

As for the guts, I remember it happened in a terrible made for Sci-Fi channel movie. A truly terrible sci fi movie. With zero regard for the guts touching the skin. So again, I wouldn't call that better, by any stretch. I don't think it happened in the RE movies; but we stopped seeing proper zombies there after the first installment.

As for the infection spread by bite, the 2009 paper in Infectious Disease Modeling Research Progress (http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/Zombies.pdf) suggests its not as improbable as we'd like to believe! I think bite zombies remain effective because loved ones do not understand the gravity of the infection, and are delighted when their sickened family members rise up from their state of death. Its not until the zombies are banging on the walls of the shopping centers that folks really seem to pick up on what is going on.

In any case, with this genre theres a lot of willing suspension of disbelief. And in the Walking Dead, the emphasis seems to be more on the human interactions, rather than the gratuitous zombie killing that so characterizes... every... zombie... movie... ever.

I do agree with you on the last part. It does seem to be focusing on the characters which I enjoy, despite the "Bad guy" from episode two.

 

[Necromancer1991]

have you read the Zombie Survival Guide (great book BTW), he flat out states that masking your scent doesn't work (they still smell you), also doesn't the biker guy remind you of anyone...