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Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 3:35 pm
by caldwell.the.great
I just read the first five issues. Pumped to see how they do this on the show.
POURING MY BIG GLASS OF BEER FOR THIS EVENT!!!!
1L + zombies + chili =
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 3:53 pm
by caldwell.the.great
eh_d wrote:caldwell.the.great wrote:I just read the first five issues. Pumped to see how they do this on the show.
POURING MY BIG GLASS OF BEER FOR THIS EVENT!!!!
1L + zombies + chili =
that definitely does sound awesmoe my friend
I'm pumped. My buddy made some of his special chili and I have one of these:
It's the size of a frickin' oil can!!!
Speaking of the show:
I also half yelled "oh shit" when he turned the corner in Atlanta. I hadn't thought about the lack of "jumpy" scare tactics until I came here and read this thread. Definitely appreciate the pace they're setting and the lack of typical horror gimmicks. Show is way more dramatic and focused on the characters because of it.
Still, him making his way into the tank was one of the most intense scenes I've ever seen on a television show.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:04 pm
by Wang Mandu
From Blintzes to Crepes wrote:I enjoyed the scene in the premiere where the father had a hard time shooting his zombified wife even though he knew it was the best thing to do.
That scene sold the show for me. The music was perfect...just barely there but adding to the sadness and soul crushing. Really well done.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:37 pm
by wheatgurm
caldwell.the.great wrote:I just read the first five issues. Pumped to see how they do this on the show.
POURING MY BIG GLASS OF BEER FOR THIS EVENT!!!!
1L + zombies + chili =
Kick ass. Iv got me 3 bottles of Fred for this.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:04 pm
by bloodybloodlicker
What a great show! Fuck!
Smearing oneself with zombie guts is brilliant. I don't think a movie has done that before - right? Too clever!
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:18 pm
by bloodybloodlicker
Streven Adler wrote:bloodybloodlicker wrote:
Smearing oneself with zombie guts is brilliant. I don't think a movie has done that before - right? Too clever!
it's been done.
Ah. In what movie(s)?
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:21 pm
by caldwell.the.great
Not quite as impressed by this episode. Still good, but it meandered a little too much, or stuttered like it wasn't sure where to go. The detour into the sewers felt like a time waster.
They're doing a good job following the issues I've read, but they're obviously cutting and pasting things together in this episode moreso than in the first. Hopefully that doesn't end up being a problem.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:32 pm
by ThE GodDamN BattletweeteR
what the fuck ?
a white man calls a black man and the black man looses the beat down ?? totally unrealistic.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:36 pm
by Coelacanth
Nice.
I'm glad I got to see this.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:01 pm
by chrusti(ns)anity
eh_d wrote:what would you do if you had the chance to rid the world of racists
I'd have just left him there. ESPECIALLY if I were the black dude. When the key got dropped, I laughed and did the sad trombone. One less Tea Partier, boo fucking hoo.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:23 pm
by Mendicant
bloodybloodlicker wrote:What a great show! Fuck!
Smearing oneself with zombie guts is brilliant. I don't think a movie has done that before - right? Too clever!
I was giggling like a school girl when it was obvious what they were doing
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:35 pm
by doomeddisciple
13 episdoe 2nd season confirmed already.
Move over sexy vampires, rotty zombies are on the march.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:38 pm
by Whee of the Dead
Second episode and the show already went downhill.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:17 pm
by skin & bones
whatever, it wasn't quite as good as the first episode, but it was still solid.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:29 pm
by Iron Goldie
chrusti(ns)anity wrote:
I'd have just left him there. ESPECIALLY if I were the black dude. When the key got dropped, I laughed and did the sad trombone. One less Tea Partier, boo fucking hoo.
I made a comment while watching it about how during the zombie apocalypse, idiots still have the time to be racist.
On the flipside, I gotta admit, it didn't take them long to write in the herp a derp, racist stereotype.
The scenes with Glenn at the end in the car ruled. Though I have to ask
What the fuck is up with the Lori/Shane thing on the show? In the comic it was a one night stand right? What is it, a recurring thing on the show? Do not want.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:04 pm
by doomeddisciple
they gottsa flesh it out a bit more for the telly I guess
Can't get enough zombie action?
http://www.filestube.com/source.html?ur ... ombie-war/
This is a link to an audio book of Max Brook's World War Z for those wanting something to check out while waiting for Ep3.
Cast List For the WWZ Audiobook
Max Brooks: Max Brooks
Arthur Sinclair: Alan Alda
Jurgen Warbrunn: Carl Reiner
Philip Adler: Jürgen Prochnow
Saladin Kader: Waleed Zuiater
Joe Muhammad: Dean Edwards
Jesika Hendricks: Michelle Kholos
Ahmed Farahnakian: Maz Jobrani
Todd Wainio: Mark Hamill
T. Sean Collins: Henry Rollins
David Allen Forbes and Paul Redeker / Xolelwa Azania: Eamonn Walker
Ajay Shah: Ajay Naidu
Serosha Garcia Alvarez: John Turturro
"The Whacko": Rob Reiner
Bob Archer: Jay O'Sanders
General Travis D'Ambrosia: Dennis Boutsikaris
Christina Eliopolis: Becky Ann Baker
Kwang Jingshu: Steve Park
Nury Televadi / Tomonaga Jiro: Frank Kamai
Ernesto Olguin: John McElroy
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:06 pm
by blastocystosis
Iron Goldie wrote:
The scenes with Glenn at the end in the car ruled. Though I have to ask
What the fuck is up with the Lori/Shane thing on the show? In the comic it was a one night stand right? What is it, a recurring thing on the show? Do not want.
Yeah I wasn't too thrilled on that either. It's making Lori look more like a cunt than anything, especially with her looking like she has the mindset of Shane being a replacement father to Carl. But I'm sure this will be rectified in the next episode and she'll show regret for it like she did in the books.
But overall this episode was kind of a drag. Too much focus on the racism/added characters to the show that werent in the book. Is T-Dog supposed to be Tyrone? I hope not. I liked the themes that Darabont was going for and it fit perfectly. But it dragged out waaaaay too long. A whole episode of them in the city was unnecessary.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:36 pm
by Whee of the Dead
Too many new characters killed the isolation and dread that the first episode set up perfectly. The fact so many people escaped the zombie infested city without one person getting killed kinda made the zombie threat miniscule. And the after school special "pull together" speech was ughhh.
I don't really like how the main guy can pull off a headshot every time he shoots, especially when he's running in terror.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:28 pm
by chrusti(ns)anity
Whee of the Dead wrote:Too many new characters killed the isolation and dread that the first episode set up perfectly. The fact so many people escaped the zombie infested city without one person getting killed kinda made the zombie threat miniscule. And the after school special "pull together" speech was ughhh.
I don't really like how the main guy can pull off a headshot every time he shoots, especially when he's running in terror.
maybe it's the same way dead people can come back to life.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:48 pm
by doomeddisciple
I loved it, and my lady - who 9/10 walks out of a room when I'm watching a zombie horror flick was asking to watch more after the second episode.
The guts part sets up Michone's entrance later on perfectly.
I think in the conext of the TV series vs the more spaced out comic is that having the group incident and getting away with it allows them to push Rick's leadership of the group early in the piece.
There were a couple of annoying things but on the whole it was awesome.
If anything with the all of the survivors surviving - It goes against 99% of zombie fiction where someone has to be at least bitten in every single confrontation.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:56 pm
by Hypnagogia
doomeddisciple wrote:
If anything with the all of the survivors surviving - It goes against 99% of zombie fiction where someone has to be at least bitten in every single confrontation.
not sure if they'll do it, but it's entirely possible that one of them got some splatter in their mouth/eye/skin while Rick was axing the corpse.
I kept thinking that they were too close while he was swinging that thing...
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:11 pm
by doomeddisciple
Hypnagogia wrote:
not sure if they'll do it, but it's entirely possible that one of them got some splatter in their mouth/eye/skin while Rick was axing the corpse.
I kept thinking that they were too close while he was swinging that thing...
Even though he warned them about it? If it happens, my vote is the black woman as she's the only one I don't remember from the early issues of the comic - But I may be wrong
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:19 pm
by doomeddisciple
I resisted re-reading the old ones, but I am still keeping up with the new.
I like that the show isn't using the comic as a storyboard as it does keep it fresher - BUT - There's a few things that simply HAVE to happen or it just won't work.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:20 pm
by chrusti(ns)anity
Streven Adler wrote:you know, i made sure not to re-read the comic before watching this, just so i wouldn't be a whiny fucking fanboy crybaby in case they changed anything. this was i can enjoy the show for what it is.
Re: The Walking Dead (now it starts)
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:31 pm
by Whee of the Dead
I always look at the book/comic/movie/tv shows as seperate entities, changes never bother me.