The Walking Dead: AMC-channel series Anyone psyched?

Murky said:
There many interesting differences in the comics

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Shane dies a lot sooner. Rick has to go back and dig him before putting him down.
There are wintery conditions on the road from Atlanta. It's always spring or summer on the show.
Dale and Andrea have an intimate relationship - they are a couple
They leave the farm quicker, right after the barn scene, and people get killed in that scene instead of just the roamers.
Michonne saves Otis instead of Andrea
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I wish they would have followed this.... The only thing I have to say is that in the show winter is coming, but hasn't yet arrived. I think its early fall?
 
In the TV show, how far along is Lori's pregnancy? I have completely lost track of how much time has passed on the farm.
 
No idea but she isn't showing, and it was only a couple in-show days (maybe a week?) that she found out she was pregnant. If they are afraid it's Shane's than she must be atleast at a month.
 
I don't know how far along Lori is but
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In the comics, she gives birth in the prison, I think.
 
That's by design, the way they've done it so far is to follow the comic loosely enough that fans who've read the comics still get a new story with surprises.

Can't be sure yet, but it looks like they've picked up the pace from the soap opera farm. I like.

Here's a little four-part mini-story they made for amctv.com, if you want some related stuff.
 
I don't watch TV per se, But I've now rented the first two seasons on DVD and have been extremely satisfied. The advantage of a series over a single movie appears to be that in the series they can explore and develope different ideas and concepts that a movie can't. I'm thinking along the lines of having the idea in season one to camoflage oneself in guts and walk among them. Or the season two revelation that the CDC scientist wispered to Rick that we all have the disease in us - though that was perhaps always implicit since the Romero's original Night of the Living Dead (1968).

One might counter that the various movies have also developed Zombie Theory, but with different writers and directors, there is a lot of variance and lack of a coherent theme - i.e., "fast" Zombies vs "slow" Zombies - "sick" vs "dead", etc.
 
NPR's Morning Edition, just reported that last night's season three premier episode of The Walking Dead had over 15 million viewers - the largest cable audience for that kind of show.

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InSideTV 15Oct12

'Walking Dead' premiere gets fall's biggest rating

The third season premiere of a basic cable zombie drama just delivered a bigger rating in the adult demo than any entertainment series this fall — including all broadcast shows.
Sunday night’s third season premiere of The Walking Dead delivered a huge 10.9 million viewers for its first telecast. But what’s really impressive is the show’s adults 18-49 demo rating of a 5.8.
That’s stunning.

The Walking Dead was already the the most successful basic cable drama of all time in the adult demo. Last night was up more than 50 percent from season two. And if you include The Walking Dead‘s encore telecast in the mix — which is a common habit for cable networks when touting their ratings — the total viewer number rises to 15.2 million. Sure, it’s two airings, but still … that’s edging into NCIS territory.
 
And those viewer numbers are without Dish Network in the mix! As AMC was quite bold about pointing out.
 
Cattle are valuable though. They provide milk, and cheese and things like that. You would eat a dog or cat before a cow I think.
 
Would crows - and other carrion eaters - feed off a moving (zombie) object? Presumably what we should be seeing more is flys and their larvae. Wouldn't that be great on hi-def?

I've been to farms here in Ohio and they are never without farm dogs or barn cats (roaming chickens, roosters crowing, the odd goat). Pitbulls are particularly popular in SE Ohio. Dogs are natural companions and cheap security - and on some farms actually do work. Cats keep the vermin under control. Presumably, they just haven't been written into the script - it's a TV farm. The only dog I remember from the movies was that mutt in the Dawn of the Dead remake - they used him to take stuff to gunshop-guy.

Dogs might be problematic - they'd bark their fool heads off and give the live hiding-humans away every time. And Rick would have to leave everybody to run off an save the missing dog every other episode.

Here's a question for all of you. If flying saucer invasions were Hollywoods' way of dealing with the Cold War, then what does zombification reveal about our society today?:crazyeye:
 
Dogs might be problematic - they'd bark their fool heads off and give the live hiding-humans away every time. And Rick would have to leave everybody to run off an save the missing dog every other episode.
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Don't give them ideas. Carl has a gun and can finally take care of his own damn self without Lori hysterically running outside screaming "Carl's missing!"
 
Yeah, I guess we're beginning to ID the writer's MO.

I wondered why samuria-Black-chick was dragging those two walkers around - they're mules - to carry her stuff.
 
In the comic Mischonne doesn't use them for pack mules that I recall so that something they did with the show. I think one of them was her dead boyfriend. That was something else that was sort of a theme in the comic. People keeping their dead friends or relatives around after they became zombies.
 
Murky said:
In the comic Mischonne doesn't use them for pack mules that I recall so that something they did with the show. I think one of them was her dead boyfriend. That was something else that was sort of a theme in the comic. People keeping their dead friends or relatives around after they became zombies.
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Hahahahh that's not creepy at all.
 
IIRC Michonne uses them to blend in with other walkers. There was a crow in one of the Season 1 episodes, but there haven't been any since, oddly enough.
 
Enough with the squishy sound effects. Seriously it's breaking my suspension of disbelief.

Every time someone touches a zombie it's squissshrhrshshsshsrhsr splisssshrsrs splatttttusrss

Same whenever someone touches a gun. It's SHICK ZCHICK CLICK ZCHICK CLITCKICK

It's so unnaturally loud too. The editing guys really need to lay off the stock sound effects. Yeah we get it, they're disgusting rotting zombies.
 
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