The Walking Dead: AMC-channel series Anyone psyched?

So is the strategy to just wither to nothing but an old one legged man? I got the mistrust thing, but that has to be balanced with actually establishing a self sufficient group. Why the he'll have they not started growing crops yet besides Rick ensuring they have no able bodied people capable of doing so?

And they STILL haven't attempted to go to any military site.
 
That's where the show is a lot different from the comics. If you're disappointed with the show try them instead.
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In the comic, at the prison, they grow crops and they also visit a national guard base.

From tonight's episode, I get the reason for having the long guy out there with nothing but a back-pack begging for help. They are trying to illustrate that you cannot make it alone. I just don't buy that someone who had made that long on their own would be unarmed and begging someone to help them. More than likely they would have have been smart enough to hide when they heard the car coming and would be armed with at-least some sort of hand-to-hand weapon.
 
The mentioned crops in the show, they just never do it. Probably because every able bodied man they meet they either murder or abandon. I get the you can't make it alone thing, which is why they should have picked up the back pack dude.

So have they gone through a winter yet, at which point all the zombies become corpsicles?
 
They wintered between season 2 and season 3. The show is set in Georgia near Atlanta so I don't know if it would get cold enough there to freeze the dead in their tracks. Less time elapses in the comics. Winter doesn't seem to be a issue for the walkers as far as I can tell.
 
Murky said:
From tonight's episode, I get the reason for having the long guy out there with nothing but a back-pack begging for help. They are trying to illustrate that you cannot make it alone. I just don't buy that someone who had made that long on their own would be unarmed and begging someone to help them. More than likely they would have have been smart enough to hide when they heard the car coming and would be armed with at-least some sort of hand-to-hand weapon.
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I felt like that guy wasn't a loner, but rather a survivor from a recently killed-off group. Which would explain why he's looking for help, and why he doesn't have a weapon.

Also, I have to say, fantastic episode tonight, I loved it. I wish they did more vignettes like this, cutting down the amount of characters and putting in them episode-long situations allows for fantastic characterization/dialogue to occur. Also, I got a very "Fallout" like feeling from the episode (post-apocalyptic craziness, also Arkansas), which only made it better.
 
Georgia gets cold. North Georgia around Atlanta usually gets snow. The fee zing and thawing should render The zombie bodies useless. He'll, do zombies drink water? The GA heat should have turned them all to jerky too.
 
They're reanimated corpses that eat people. We probably shouldn't think too much about the biology of it.
 
Murky said:
From tonight's episode, I get the reason for having the long guy out there with nothing but a back-pack begging for help. They are trying to illustrate that you cannot make it alone. I just don't buy that someone who had made that long on their own would be unarmed and begging someone to help them. More than likely they would have have been smart enough to hide when they heard the car coming and would be armed with at-least some sort of hand-to-hand weapon.
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what if he was just cast out by his group five minutes before?

what bugged me the most about this episode is that not telling the audience what is at stake is terrible story telling most of the time. (weapons, the photograph)
 
ace99 said:
They're reanimated corpses that eat people. We probably shouldn't think too much about the biology of it.
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If the show had kept it at that so would I, but they went to quite some lengths to make their zombies realish with the CDC episodes. Granted they failed miserably and caused more plot holes than they solved, but there you have it.

That's one of the reason I like magic evil zombies, they work because of magic and evil!
 
Joecoolyo said:
I felt like that guy wasn't a loner, but rather a survivor from a recently killed-off group. Which would explain why he's looking for help, and why he doesn't have a weapon.

Also, I have to say, fantastic episode tonight, I loved it. I wish they did more vignettes like this, cutting down the amount of characters and putting in them episode-long situations allows for fantastic characterization/dialogue to occur. Also, I got a very "Fallout" like feeling from the episode (post-apocalyptic craziness, also Arkansas), which only made it better.
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If not for the show theme (cannot survive alone) I would have guessed it was part of a trick. He acts like a person needing help out on the road. Get the car to stop then his pals emerge from the woods. That's not how was it though.

So this dude somehow made it this long after the Zombie Apocalypse started without being able to defend himself?
 
Patroklos said:
The mentioned crops in the show, they just never do it. Probably because every able bodied man they meet they either murder or abandon. I get the you can't make it alone thing, which is why they should have picked up the back pack dude.

So have they gone through a winter yet, at which point all the zombies become corpsicles?
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well, they do have a few able bodied women as far as i can tell, plus asian guy.

also, another reason why them growing crops is missing from the story is that there really is not a lot that makes the prison all that valuable at the moment.

they could just pack up and run, instead of sitting there in a partly overrun fortress with way to few people to defend and no weapons, waiting for the the governor's private army to come.
 
What would you do if world was overrun by zombies?

According to the creators of this show, you would focus all your efforts (and your scarce resources) to kill other survivors in a battle over...

... wait, I forgot. Over what, exactly?

Yeah, I don't get this show.
 
Yeekim said:
What would you do if world was overrun by zombies?

According to the creators of this show, you would focus all your efforts (and your scarce resources) to kill other survivors in a battle over...

... wait, I forgot. Over what, exactly?

Yeah, I don't get this show.
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It's not a likely scenario which is probably what makes it so fun. People get to laugh it off as impossible and just enjoy all the drama and violence on the screen. Zombies are like the infinite enemy, but they aren't "villains" in the same way as a person with a choice about what they do can be. Every good story needs a conflict between people who have choices to make.
 
Murky said:
If not for the show theme (cannot survive alone) I would have guessed it was part of a trick. He acts like a person needing help out on the road. Get the car to stop then his pals emerge from the woods. That's not how was it though.

So this dude somehow made it this long after the Zombie Apocalypse started without being able to defend himself?
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He's probably been with said group since the beginning, and they probably did a majority of the work for him. He just got lucky in escape.

I mean, its only been a year, there's bound to be a few stragglers still left.
 
Joecoolyo said:
He's probably been with said group since the beginning, and they probably did a majority of the work for him. He just got lucky in escape.

I mean, its only been a year, there's bound to be a few stragglers still left.
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I guess you can read into it whatever you want. They didn't really give us enough info on the guy to determine why he is still alive. Did his camp just get over-run? We don't know.
 
Murky said:
I guess you can read into it whatever you want. They didn't really give us enough info on the guy to determine why he is still alive. Did his camp just get over-run? We don't know.
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They didn't tell us much but there was a lot of information. His pack was clean and he didn't look that bad so he was likely part of a group that got overrun or something. I didn't like the episode. I don't like the long speech episodes. They could have done 15 minutes less of that stuff and had another story line.

On dealing with the govenor. Their town is comprised of close knit buildings and there is no efficient fire fighting service. Four of Rick's group could easily hit them late evening with 4 containers of gas. Set the town on fire and flush the people out at night amongst the zombies. A triggered car alarm and a couple of shoots into the engine blocks of a few vehicles and chaos would rein. But I'm always looking on the bright side anyway.
 
IAM said:
They didn't tell us much but there was a lot of information. His pack was clean and he didn't look that bad so he was likely part of a group that got overrun or something. I didn't like the episode. I don't like the long speech episodes. They could have done 15 minutes less of that stuff and had another story line.
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It might have been a little more interesting if we had more backstory on this character. I hate when writers just throw some random goober into the story for no other reason than to ignore them then kill them later.

On dealing with the govenor. Their town is comprised of close knit buildings and there is no efficient fire fighting service. Four of Rick's group could easily hit them late evening with 4 containers of gas. Set the town on fire and flush the people out at night amongst the zombies. A triggered car alarm and a couple of shoots into the engine blocks of a few vehicles and chaos would rein. But I'm always looking on the bright side anyway.
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The Governor and Rick's group have different goals and motivations. The Gov wants to control his own little fiefdom. Those who serve him get to live and those who don't get to die. Rick's group just wants to keep their close-knit group alive as long as possible. At this point in the story that's what they are about. They could care less about the town of Woodbury. If it wasn't for the Governor being a psychopath bent on destroying them they would probably just ignore it.
 
Murky said:
It's not a likely scenario which is probably what makes it so fun. People get to laugh it off as impossible and just enjoy all the drama and violence on the screen. Zombies are like the infinite enemy, but they aren't "villains" in the same way as a person with a choice about what they do can be. Every good story needs a conflict between people who have choices to make.
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The thing is, it does not make it fun - at least, not for me - but irritating.

It's like an alt-history.
"What if zombies/dragons/Martian invaders were real?" would be an interesting alt-hist.
"What if x were real AND most people suddenly started acting without rhyme and reason?" - not so much.

But that is just me...
 
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