The Walking Dead thread.

[eynon81]

How come the zombies haven't rotted away yet? has it only been like 4 months in show time or something?

[John Galt]

[The Dharma Bum]

I think it's an awesome series.

[exploited]

Based on my wive's reaction from the other room tonight, I assume this episode was a good one. I heard her yell "Kill them all!"

[The Comrade]

this season has already made up for season 2

[Boris Johnson]

How many of you have read the comic?

I think its probably the best screenplay adaptation to date, actually...

to be honest, I don't really understand most of the criticisms.

1) Zombies are boring, well... the point of the zombies is in proper romero style simply as a constant background threat. Which is supposed to frame the blank slate life-boat style sociology. Going 'its just a stupid zombie show', ok fine. You don't get the point of it, gratz. I hope you enjoy here comes honey bo-bo and revolution instead (that has people fighting with muskets, pew pew pew).
2) Rick grimes is boring. Would you prefer it if he had laser rainbow vision? Again, don't get the criticism. The major criticism that could be levelled here is they are speeding up his 'shellshocked' phase quite a bit. 28 days later actually stole the 'woke up in hospital' thing from the walking dead (srsly, check it out if you don't believe me). The point being, Grimes is meant to be a good guy and generally ok cop, who's suddenly thrown in a post-apocalyptic nightmare and has a leadership role thrust upon him. For the first 40 issues of the comic he's basically meant to be in shock. They did a half decent job of condensing this down to about 17-19 hours. The entire point of the character is... he's not meant to be a latent super commando with the tactical/strategic abilities of sun tzu.
3) Second season being shit, again this is a limitation more of the story they were handled with than anything else. I really don't want to ruin anything. But a big part of the story is a cycle between 'thinking they have made it' to 'shit hits the fan'. You want a show thats all explosions and fireworks where the plot simply serves as links between battle scenes with zero character development. This is not it. In the comic that actually spend even longer at the farm, its meant to represent a first naive safe haven.
4) All the best fiction has boring bits. Sorry, thats the deal. If a fiction is to be good, it has to have verisimilitude to what life is actually life. Actual war for example is i'm told mostly absurdly f**k boring. But thats where all the camaraderie comes from, ya ken? If you're not a patient person well, no point trying to read war and peace.

And what's coming up next is largely considered the best 'bad guy bit' in comics and which sets the tone for the rest of the work. If it were not built up to, e.g. explaining the necessity of a defensible location in this 'new world' however, what follows would make no sense.

[Spider]

I really liked the pilot. The rest of the show has fallen flat for me. I don't respect most of the characters.

[The Dharma Bum]

[Boris Johnson]

Its also fair to note grimes does a lot of staring into the distance, in fact thats mostly what he does until about issue 80 or so.

[The Comrade]

I'm not sure the characters are designed to be respected.