THE WALKING DEAD...and all things zombie

Cradles Broken Glass

Woooo, Rick whipped it out last night. Saw some of his Shane side. Although I have to admit, I recognized the one guy from True Blood and was certain he was going to be a new character, it was a little disappointing that he was gone in a flash. I cannot wait for next week's show to see how they get out of this one. I think Glen needs to be disposing of some bodies and fast.

**Edit, I also loved the way Daryl called Lori Olive Oil last night, describes her perfectly. I have always liked her character ok, but she is starting to wear on me a little. She does dumb things at times, like the car....

Riverrunner

I just started watching this show a few weeks ago. I bought Season 1 DVD, and I had seen a couple of Season 2 earlier shows and bits and pieces here and there. So needless to say, yesterday I spent a lot of time staring at the tube catching up so I could watch the new show.

I have to say that I don't think I like Lori. In fact, after watching Season 1 I was disappointed that there didn't seem to be any strong women characters, although Andrea had potential - she just wasn't very likeable. Andrea is the blonde right? Anyway, she seems to be developing into a more interesting and better character now. And Maggie has potential too - just don't know how much longer she will be around.

I thought the new show was awesome - the big zombie barn shooting scene was intense. The first show I saw was when Shane shot Otis so I've disliked him ever since, although he does seem to have some redeeming qualities. I could not watch that scene again yesterday when Shane left Otis to be devoured by walkers. Couldn't Shane have shot him in the head instead of just leaving him wounded to be eaten alive by them, and ultimately becoming one of them?

I was shocked when Rick shot the Phillies guys last night. I really like Rick and his good guy character. I hope he isn't following Shane's lead now.

Anyway, great show and can't wait for the next one.

Dr. Delight

Riverrunner wrote:

I was shocked when Rick shot the Phillies guys last night. I really like Rick and his good guy character. I hope he isn't following Shane's lead now.

Rick realized that he needed to toughen up and become more of a leader. The whole fiasco with Sophia in the barn the entire time weakened the groups view of Rick as a capable leader.

SatansFuton

Riverrunner wrote:

Couldn't Shane have shot him in the head instead of just leaving him wounded to be eaten alive by them, and ultimately becoming one of them?

The walkers are attracted to the living. It's like they said when they lowered the canned ham down as bait for the walker in the well, he didn't take the bait because it wasn't kicking and screaming. That's not to say that the zombies don't gnaw on a dead person. I'm sure once somebody dies while they are eating them they don't walk away once their vitals cease. They're just attracted to the movement and sound. Had Shane killed Otis he would have been just another lifeless corpse laying on the ground they wouldn't have necessarily gone after, at least not while there is a live human in their line of sight (Shane) limping away from them. Leaving Otis alive kicking and screaming between him and the horde allowed for a distraction, as well as a nice plump chew toy to keep them busy.

Personally I haven't been as broken up over Otis getting killed after I saw him on Justified 2 weeks ago playing a total d-bag/murderer/drug dealer type of guy. He made a dope sick guy play Russian Roulette for some pills, then wound of killing him anyway.

SatansFuton

Dr. Delight wrote:

Riverrunner wrote:

I was shocked when Rick shot the Phillies guys last night. I really like Rick and his good guy character. I hope he isn't following Shane's lead now.

Rick realized that he needed to toughen up and become more of a leader. The whole fiasco with Sophia in the barn the entire time weakened the groups view of Rick as a capable leader.

Also, Rick had no choice. It's not like he just decided to make a choice and kill the guys. Dave was going for his gun and fat boy was backing him up. It was a justifiable kill. Self-defense.

pjsteelerfan

SatansFuton wrote:

Dr. Delight wrote:

Riverrunner wrote:

I was shocked when Rick shot the Phillies guys last night. I really like Rick and his good guy character. I hope he isn't following Shane's lead now.

Rick realized that he needed to toughen up and become more of a leader. The whole fiasco with Sophia in the barn the entire time weakened the groups view of Rick as a capable leader.

Also, Rick had no choice. It's not like he just decided to make a choice and kill the guys. Dave was going for his gun and fat boy was backing him up. It was a justifiable kill. Self-defense.

hopefully this is a sign of what Rick will be like from now on

81

Dr. Delight wrote:

I was shocked when Rick shot the Phillies guys last night. I really like Rick and his good guy character. I hope he isn't following Shane's lead now.

not me...it was his cop instinict coming out.

Riverrunner

I wrote a post in response to the above comments, but it dissapeared. Not going to re-write it, but will just say that after hours of staring at the tv yesterday afternoon & last night, I must have had blurry vision because it wasn't clear to me that the Philly guy went for his gun, although I thought maybe he had. And I would have wanted to shoot the fat guy for pissing in the floor, but probably would not have been justified.

Also, I agree that the Zombies like live meat.

Cradles Broken Glass

Riverrunner wrote:

I wrote a post in response to the above comments, but it dissapeared. Not going to re-write it, but will just say that after hours of staring at the tv yesterday afternoon & last night, I must have had blurry vision because it wasn't clear to me that the Philly guy went for his gun, although I thought maybe he had. And I would have wanted to shoot the fat guy for pissing in the floor, but probably would not have been justified.

Also, I agree that the Zombies like live meat.

That fat guy was annoying, the other dude by himself would have probably not been so bad. However, I think he went for his gun too. I also think that aside from survival for his family, Rick also did it to earn his place on the farm with Hershel.

Dr. Delight

Anyone have a link to the teaser for next weeks episode?

Riverrunner

I have a question for you guys that have watched this show for a while. I am beginning to wonder if I dreamed this or hallucinated. I swear that last year sometime I saw part of a Walking Dead show in which one of the farm girls took a bite out of a horse. It was a real emotional scene in which the main group was confronting the farm group (I can't even remember which characters or actors it was). And somebody shot the old guy I think. The only thing I can figure is that this was an alternate ending that I saw? Because I saw nothing like it yesterday, and there wasn't anything on the Season 1 DVD either.

I am half embarrassed to ask this, especially if it never happened. Then I guess I need to go to a different thread, i.e. is there a mental health thread? : )

pjsteelerfan

Cradles Broken Glass wrote:

Riverrunner wrote:

I wrote a post in response to the above comments, but it dissapeared. Not going to re-write it, but will just say that after hours of staring at the tv yesterday afternoon & last night, I must have had blurry vision because it wasn't clear to me that the Philly guy went for his gun, although I thought maybe he had. And I would have wanted to shoot the fat guy for pissing in the floor, but probably would not have been justified.

Also, I agree that the Zombies like live meat.

That fat guy was annoying, the other dude by himself would have probably not been so bad. However, I think he went for his gun too. I also think that aside from survival for his family, Rick also did it to earn his place on the farm with Hershel.

They both went for their guns, the guy behind the bar first. I agree, I think Hershel was impressed by the way Rick handled it.

SatansFuton

Riverrunner wrote:

I have a question for you guys that have watched this show for a while. I am beginning to wonder if I dreamed this or hallucinated. I swear that last year sometime I saw part of a Walking Dead show in which one of the farm girls took a bite out of a horse. It was a real emotional scene in which the main group was confronting the farm group (I can't even remember which characters or actors it was). And somebody shot the old guy I think. The only thing I can figure is that this was an alternate ending that I saw? Because I saw nothing like it yesterday, and there wasn't anything on the Season 1 DVD either.

I am half embarrassed to ask this, especially if it never happened. Then I guess I need to go to a different thread, i.e. is there a mental health thread? : )

I think you dreamed it. Other than the pilot in which Rick got attacked on his horse, I haven't seen any horses get eaten. And nobody has shot Herschel. At least not yet, though Dave Navarro seemed to be advocating it on Talking Dead last night. The farm group didn't appear until Season 2, so it wouldn't be something you'd see on the Season 1 DVD.

Lizard

just started watching this on marathon yesterday....my husb could not believe I watched hours and hours of a zombie show!!

anyway.....can someone tell me the short reason as to why the zombies came to be?

Riverrunner

SatansFuton wrote:

Riverrunner wrote:

I have a question for you guys that have watched this show for a while. I am beginning to wonder if I dreamed this or hallucinated. I swear that last year sometime I saw part of a Walking Dead show in which one of the farm girls took a bite out of a horse. It was a real emotional scene in which the main group was confronting the farm group (I can't even remember which characters or actors it was). And somebody shot the old guy I think. The only thing I can figure is that this was an alternate ending that I saw? Because I saw nothing like it yesterday, and there wasn't anything on the Season 1 DVD either.

I am half embarrassed to ask this, especially if it never happened. Then I guess I need to go to a different thread, i.e. is there a mental health thread? : )

I think you dreamed it. Other than the pilot in which Rick got attacked on his horse, I haven't seen any horses get eaten. And nobody has shot Herschel. At least not yet, though Dave Navarro seemed to be advocating it on Talking Dead last night. The farm group didn't appear until Season 2, so it wouldn't be something you'd see on the Season 1 DVD.

Wow! I'm scared now.

SatansFuton

Lizard wrote:

just started watching this on marathon yesterday....my husb could not believe I watched hours and hours of a zombie show!!

anyway.....can someone tell me the short reason as to why the zombies came to be?

That hasn't been covered yet. You should go back and watch Season 1, but there isn't an answer. In the beginning Rick gets shot after a high speed pursuit, when he wakes up from his coma the zombie apocalypse has been going on for a while and the hospital/town he is in has already fallen for the most part. None of the survivors really know how all of this has happened. Except for maybe Rick, as a guy from the CDC whispered a secret to him which judging from the look on Rick's face was shocking, and we're still waiting to hear what that is. Though we're supposed to find out at some point during the remainder of Season 2.

Lizard

Thx satonsfuton.

Riverrunner

Thank goodness for Google. I"M NOT CRAZY! Just confused. I must have seen a piece of this movie and got it mixed up with TWD. Sorry, don't mean to derail the thread, just trying to redeem myself.

http://zombie.wikia.com/wiki/Survival_of_the_Dead

Muldoon and O'Flynn face off - Muldoon's one wish is to prove O'Flynn wrong about the zombies, hoping to get the creatures to eat something other than human flesh. Muldoon's latest example is Patrick's daughter Jane, attempting to get her to devour a horse. A farmhand, Chuck (Joris Jarsky), brings out a herd of captured zombies to watch Jane's attempt to eat the horse.

She doesn't, and Janet returns with Boy, giving Crockett and the O'Flynns their weapons back. Janet attempts to reach out to Jane, who bites her twin sister. A gunfight erupts between the two families. Chuck switches sides and gets shot by Muldoon for his trouble. Dying, he releases the zombie herd and is devoured. The gunfight's focus changes to the zombie threat, and they eat and kill most of the ones in.....

neilybabes86

Riverrunner wrote:

Thank goodness for Google. I"M NOT CRAZY! Just confused. I must have seen a piece of this movie and got it mixed up with TWD. Sorry, don't mean to derail the thread, just trying to redeem myself.

http://zombie.wikia.com/wiki/Survival_of_the_Dead

Muldoon and O'Flynn face off - Muldoon's one wish is to prove O'Flynn wrong about the zombies, hoping to get the creatures to eat something other than human flesh. Muldoon's latest example is Patrick's daughter Jane, attempting to get her to devour a horse. A farmhand, Chuck (Joris Jarsky), brings out a herd of captured zombies to watch Jane's attempt to eat the horse.

She doesn't, and Janet returns with Boy, giving Crockett and the O'Flynns their weapons back. Janet attempts to reach out to Jane, who bites her twin sister. A gunfight erupts between the two families. Chuck switches sides and gets shot by Muldoon for his trouble. Dying, he releases the zombie herd and is devoured. The gunfight's focus changes to the zombie threat, and they eat and kill most of the ones in.....

romero's worst ever

i understand what he attempted to do...but it just didn't work

SatansFuton

neilybabes86 wrote:

Riverrunner wrote:

Thank goodness for Google. I"M NOT CRAZY! Just confused. I must have seen a piece of this movie and got it mixed up with TWD. Sorry, don't mean to derail the thread, just trying to redeem myself.

http://zombie.wikia.com/wiki/Survival_of_the_Dead

Muldoon and O'Flynn face off - Muldoon's one wish is to prove O'Flynn wrong about the zombies, hoping to get the creatures to eat something other than human flesh. Muldoon's latest example is Patrick's daughter Jane, attempting to get her to devour a horse. A farmhand, Chuck (Joris Jarsky), brings out a herd of captured zombies to watch Jane's attempt to eat the horse.

She doesn't, and Janet returns with Boy, giving Crockett and the O'Flynns their weapons back. Janet attempts to reach out to Jane, who bites her twin sister. A gunfight erupts between the two families. Chuck switches sides and gets shot by Muldoon for his trouble. Dying, he releases the zombie herd and is devoured. The gunfight's focus changes to the zombie threat, and they eat and kill most of the ones in.....

romero's worst ever

i understand what he attempted to do...but it just didn't work

I haven't seen that one. I kind of gave up on Romero after "Diary Of The Dead", but I thought Survival seemed interesting, until I saw a commercial for it on AMC (I think they were doing a zombie marathon that Romero hosted leading up to Season 2 of Walking Dead) and saw the zombie riding the horse, at that point I decided against watching that one too.