What do you all think of this series so far?
I quite liked it, not a series for the soft minded, but quite nicely made for sure. Some very gripping scenes in there, i especially liked the one where he had to hide under a car and in the tank and also the one where the right wing guy was bent to that place and (almost?) freed by the other guy ( =) ).
Btw also nice to listen on that topic and in general is the out of the game podcast where they discussed it some this week.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/out-of-the-game/id309541693
I had a feeling we weren’t going to see the last of Merle when they left him on the roof. He’s going to be trouble. Can’t believe there are only 3 episodes left this season. Great show.
It follows the original comic very well, especially the casting. So if you want more after the miniseries is done, check it out, but it might give some things away if they do more later.
You’re just talking first season right?
http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/09/01/the-walking-dead-gets-a-second-season-before-the-first-season/
Great show though - been waiting a long time for the zombie apocalypse to come to TV. It’s been done so many times in movies - definitely makes for a great ongoing series.
Whats good about it is that because it is longer than 2 hrs they can concentrate on the finer details of Zombie outbreak survival. So far so good.
I watched the pilot. ::shrug:: We’ve got Romero-esque zombies (without the horror or social satire), the 28 days Later coma and following-the-signal plot devices without the pulse-pounding thrills, and the I Am Legend living semi-normally during the daytime idea.
I don’t see anything new here, and certainly nothing that startled me, shocked me, turned my stomach, made me laugh, or got me thinking. And it’s not that there aren’t new ideas in the genre. Take Fido or Zombies Anonymous, Shawn of the Dead or Zombieland.
I suppose my favorite part was the sub-story about the man who couldn’t shoot his wife.
Yeah, i liked that scene, too.
I like the movies you listed, too but dunno regarding doing a direct comparison between a series based on seeing the pilot and a movie, i mean with a series it builds up things over time instead of laying all out in 2 hours, so yeah, give it some time. I watched all the episodes released on iTunes so far and they´re doing some interesting things there. I feel like so far, after having watched a few episodes this more went to focus on the human interactions than on the Zombies, a bit like the movie Monsters, where there were these things around but it was more about the journey of and what´s going on between two humans.
Just to clarify, Walking Dead actually started before 28 Days Later came out. The hospital scene in both is a reference to Day of the Triffids.
It may be hard to tell at this point, but Walking Dead isn’t really a story about zombies, but about how normal people act when thrown into this apocalyptic situation. They’re practically an abstract oppressor that just gives flavor to the conflict. Cause I guess zombies are more interesting than being constantly chased by bears or something. It’s about those moments where the guy couldn’t shoot his wife. Those kinds of hard choices happen throughout the series. It gets really brutal and dark with barely any moments to take breaths of positivity. It’s all about humanity’s perseverance and what kinds of great and, in some instances, disgusting lengths they’ll go through to prevent extinction and preserve “normalcy”.
I just watched episode 04. I wonder if Merle loaded that truck with zombies for revenge. That idea seems like a tall order considering he only has one hand and has lost a lot of blood, but he seems crazy enough lol.
Wow. That thought hadn’t even occurred to me.
If you are a crazy evil person, and really wanted vengeance against the whole group, you probably know that a bunch of zombies could do more damage than a one handed man.
And it would make sense since the back of the truck was separated from the front. So Merle could have driven there without being threatened by the zombies in the back.
The only challenge would be getting all those zombies into the back in the first place.
Ah The Walking Dead…I missed them so far, but once I get them all on DVR I’m gonna go through them. I actually was one of the stunt zombies in episode 6 in the hospital. I get all shot up.
Also I found out it got picked up for season 2. Sweet!
That ran thru my head, too. If he was zombie himself, then he would have a remembrance of where the camp was and could lead them there. I’ve never seen a zombie use vehicles or anything complex. They have basic “monkey” type tools they use like rocks to break a window.
As a human, perhaps he could put some freshly killed meat in the back of a cube van (as Winning Guy stated) to lure them into the truck and take them to the outside of the camp as he would be “safe” in the cab. The cab is seperate in a cube van.
Not saying it isn’t possible since they’ve changed things a lot from the book, but the attack happened in the comic as well and Merle is only a character in the tv show. IIRC, it wasn’t a planned attack or anything, just a matter of time before a pack ran across their camp. In the books, they’re JUST outside the city, which makes the conflict pretty likely.
This is really interesting, too, since in the books they never go back to a hospital after Rick wakes up at the very beginning. Makes me almost reconsider where I thought the season was going to end…
We quite like it so far, I hope they keep up the quality and it gets picked up for a second season.
It did get picked up for a second season.
–Eric
It has already been picked up for a 2nd season. I believe for 11 episodes.
I just started watching this show and its awsome
–Eric
I have the memory of a… umm… (I had an animal in mind, but I forgot what it was)