THE WALKING DEAD...and all things zombie

81

going back to the car topic....

by my math, this shit has been going on for about 2.5 years now right? oct 2010. right?

cars sure are running well for having to be fueled by stale gas.

i'd be getting myself a diesel 4X4 and setting up a bio diesel plant to fuel it with fresh fuel.

Better Dan

81 wrote:

going back to the car topic....

by my math, this shit has been going on for about 2.5 years now right? oct 2010. right?

cars sure are running well for having to be fueled by stale gas.

i'd be getting myself a diesel 4X4 and setting up a bio diesel plant to fuel it with fresh fuel.

I don't think it's been that long in show time..only less than a year I think..maybe one year max. The only big jump that I can think of is during the winter (between seasons 2 and 3). They have only had to survive one winter.

Riverrunner

Lots of questions. Rick decides they need ammo and guns to fight the war with the governor. So he makes a supply run to his home town which must be fairly close apparently. There is no over night stay and it all takes place in day light. So why in the hell didn't they make a supply run there before? If he has been so concerned about Morgan why didn't he go there and look for him if they were that close? And if the prison is in the same region as Rick's home town why didn't Rick know about the prison before? Maybe I'm just assuming but he acted like finding the prison was an accidental discovery. He was a police officer. He would know about prisons in his state, and especially near his home town. Also, they spent all last winter driving around scavenging. When trying to survive a winter wouldn't you go back to your home town where you knew the locations of all of the stores and restaurants and who had guns?

And yes, driving the same vehicles for a year without ever seeing them gas up makes me crazy. I keep wondering where they are getting gas. But I don't think it has been 2 or 3 years. The apocalypse supposedly happened in the summer, then they went through one winter on the run, and now they are back in the summer. So it seems like the time period has been around 1 year.

stickfig13

Riverrunner wrote:

Lots of questions. Rick decides they need ammo and guns to fight the war with the governor. So he makes a supply run to his home town which must be fairly close apparently. There is no over night stay and it all takes place in day light. So why in the hell didn't they make a supply run there before? If he has been so concerned about Morgan why didn't he go there and look for him if they were that close? And if the prison is in the same region as Rick's home town why didn't Rick know about the prison before? Maybe I'm just assuming but he acted like finding the prison was an accidental discovery. He was a police officer. He would know about prisons in his state, and especially near his home town. Also, they spent all last winter driving around scavenging. When trying to survive a winter wouldn't you go back to your home town where you knew the locations of all of the stores and restaurants and who had guns?

And yes, driving the same vehicles for a year without ever seeing them gas up makes me crazy. I keep wondering where they are getting gas. But I don't think it has been 2 or 3 years. The apocalypse supposedly happened in the summer, then they went through one winter on the run, and now they are back in the summer. So it seems like the time period has been around 1 year.

All of the above could be explained by longer episodes.

F5AgainstOne

stickfig13 wrote:

Riverrunner wrote:

Lots of questions. Rick decides they need ammo and guns to fight the war with the governor. So he makes a supply run to his home town which must be fairly close apparently. There is no over night stay and it all takes place in day light. So why in the hell didn't they make a supply run there before? If he has been so concerned about Morgan why didn't he go there and look for him if they were that close? And if the prison is in the same region as Rick's home town why didn't Rick know about the prison before? Maybe I'm just assuming but he acted like finding the prison was an accidental discovery. He was a police officer. He would know about prisons in his state, and especially near his home town. Also, they spent all last winter driving around scavenging. When trying to survive a winter wouldn't you go back to your home town where you knew the locations of all of the stores and restaurants and who had guns?

And yes, driving the same vehicles for a year without ever seeing them gas up makes me crazy. I keep wondering where they are getting gas. But I don't think it has been 2 or 3 years. The apocalypse supposedly happened in the summer, then they went through one winter on the run, and now they are back in the summer. So it seems like the time period has been around 1 year.

All of the above could be explained by longer episodes.

Just because it hasn't been explained, doesn't mean it cant be explained.

I just want to know who is going around and keeping all the lawns cut...

Bronx Bombers

F5AgainstOne wrote:

I just want to know who is going around and keeping all the lawns cut...

rival.

we need the show to be an extra 30 minutes now just to see the group siphon gas at a near by station?

great episode last night. i thought about rick and michonne growing feelings for one another, i am glad they touched up on that topic during talking dead. rick and female figure in the front seat, son in the backseat. just how things "were" at one point in his life. i like how they are really starting to develop her character and open her up a little bit.

carl is still the most unsupervised kid in television history. i get he is getting older and needs to take on a certain level of responsibility at this point in the game, but the kid is 80 pounds soaking wet and armed with only a 9MM and pocket knife?

81

Bronx Bombers wrote:

F5AgainstOne wrote:

I just want to know who is going around and keeping all the lawns cut...

two well done posts.

81

rival. wrote:

we need the show to be an extra 30 minutes now just to see the group siphon gas at a near by station?

i don't need to see that....i do need to see some common sense take over.

would you pick something like this



or something like this

PearlJamaholic

81 wrote:

rival. wrote:

we need the show to be an extra 30 minutes now just to see the group siphon gas at a near by station?

i don't need to see that....i do need to see some common sense take over.

would you pick something like this



or something like this

depends how rare fuel is, whether youre trying to save some for a generator for the winter, noise that may attract zombies, plenty of reasons to pick a smaller car.

81

PearlJamaholic wrote:

81 wrote:

rival. wrote:

we need the show to be an extra 30 minutes now just to see the group siphon gas at a near by station?

i don't need to see that....i do need to see some common sense take over.

would you pick something like this



or something like this

depends how rare fuel is, whether youre trying to save some for a generator for the winter, noise that may attract zombies, plenty of reasons to pick a smaller car.

tons of empty cars along side the road. most trips they have made so far have only been a few miles.

i'd take my chances in a diesel powered 4x4 vs a little front wheel drive crossover. you can run over the zombies and not even feel them. stuck in the mud..ha...flip the 4x4 switch. need to haul shit...toss it in the bed. car blocking the road....drop it into 4 lo and push it out of the way.

i'd also look to bolt on a nice big steel gurad on the front end for zombie smashing fun.

mca47

They have a Dodge Ram pickup. Glen was driving it during the shoot out at the prison. I'm guessing they chose the Hyundai to go into town because it makes more sense if they are trying to conserve fuel AND need some cargo room for supplies. It is too bad they didn't find an all wheel drive variety of that car though!

I thought it was one of if not the best episodes this season.
Good to see Michonne open up a bit too.

If I was Rick I would have tried to get more guns from Morgan....no reason one dude needs the firepower for a small army. Well, at least they know where they can go to get more!

mca47

This show is such a joke. They have neither showed them siphoning gas or taking dumps. I want to see it all otherwise it's not believable. :fp:





But yeah....where are they taking dumps? Toilets don't work, they don't show anyone going out back to poop in a hole. :think:

pjradio

could do without seeing them shit...suspension of disbelief and all that

i'd say fuck it & go to a bigass lake and commandeer a bigass houseboat and anchor right offshore.

PearlJamaholic

81 wrote:

PearlJamaholic wrote:

depends how rare fuel is, whether youre trying to save some for a generator for the winter, noise that may attract zombies, plenty of reasons to pick a smaller car.

tons of empty cars along side the road. most trips they have made so far have only been a few miles.

i'd take my chances in a diesel powered 4x4 vs a little front wheel drive crossover. you can run over the zombies and not even feel them. stuck in the mud..ha...flip the 4x4 switch. need to haul shit...toss it in the bed. car blocking the road....drop it into 4 lo and push it out of the way.

i'd also look to bolt on a nice big steel gurad on the front end for zombie smashing fun.

Diesel would even be harder to come by and most cars on the road dont even use it, so cant siphon any if you run out on a trip....

stickfig13

All BS aside. They obviously know where they are at because they found Rick's hometown. Why don't they just leave the prison and find a new spot. Avoiding the impending war with the gov. I guess we don't have a show if they do that. There are plenty of things that aren't great for the story.....Like where they poop


Last night's episode was vintage WD. I loved it!

eeriepadave

81 wrote:

pjsteelerfan wrote:

Oh, and Michone must be a Ninja

picture dropped near door....

zombies near door....

zombies never leave door....

picture recovered....


:fp:

yeah i thought how the hell did she do that. I was waiting for someone to bring that up on the Talking Dead, but don't think they did. I fell asleep about halfway through.

mca47

pjradio wrote:

could do without seeing them shit...suspension of disbelief and all that

i'd say fuck it & go to a bigass lake and commandeer a bigass houseboat and anchor right offshore.

We still don't know if zombies can swim. :fp: But yeah, I'd seek out a nice island.

Dr. Delight

81

PearlJamaholic wrote:

81 wrote:

PearlJamaholic wrote:

depends how rare fuel is, whether youre trying to save some for a generator for the winter, noise that may attract zombies, plenty of reasons to pick a smaller car.

tons of empty cars along side the road. most trips they have made so far have only been a few miles.

i'd take my chances in a diesel powered 4x4 vs a little front wheel drive crossover. you can run over the zombies and not even feel them. stuck in the mud..ha...flip the 4x4 switch. need to haul shit...toss it in the bed. car blocking the road....drop it into 4 lo and push it out of the way.

i'd also look to bolt on a nice big steel gurad on the front end for zombie smashing fun.

Diesel would even be harder to come by and most cars on the road dont even use it, so cant siphon any if you run out on a trip....

Lots of diesel out there in truck stops.

You can make biodiesel with the right knowledge.

Gas will ultimately go bad and ruin the fuel system. I'll take my chance with diesel ocer the long term.