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EDIT: Renewed for a second season. "The Walking Dead"

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Pheran said:
If you expect people to act rationally in the middle of a zombie apocalypse after they've watched their loved ones die, you are amazingly clueless.
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I am almost always up for a good suspension of belief, but only when it comes down to plausible things.

For example, I hated the movie Torque. One, because street bikes don't really have torque. Two, because the idea of taking a street bike across rough terrain at 60+ mpg and then jumping on a speeding train and then stopping the bike in mid-air to land between railroad cars, is just utterly fricking stupid.

How about Transporter 2. Jumping a car 200' in the air, rolling it over, hooking a bomb, and then landing the car perfectly while the bomb blows up is just utterly fricking stupid.


Now TWD isn't that bad, but let's take a second here.

1. Guy is left alone, screws up the last sample when the lab blows itself up.

2. Guy lets people in, doesn't tell them that it's a lost cause, but if they want to come in and blow up with him, they're OK to do that.

3. Guy doesn't offer them anything if they choose to go, just lamely tells them to come in, then checks them for the disease, even though they'll all be dead in a few hours.

4. Guy then won't let anybody leave and decides on a mass suicide.

5. Mass suicide driven by a self-destruct mechanism when power runs out, so the "bad stuff" doesn't get out. Sorry, but this is the worst of all. The "Bad stuff" isn't floating around near the computer terminals. Blow up the labs with the samples (like the decom. lab), but why the whole CDC. Dumb.


I am *not* trying to be a nit-picker, and, overall, I *really* like this series. However, this last episode just seemed poorly thought out and full of holes, far more holes than I can just walk away and say "Hey, it wasn't perfect, but overall it was a good show". It wasn't, it was terrible compared to 1-5, and I hope they really pick things up.

I do really like Rick, great character, a little flawed, not too super-human hero, but enough to get the job done. Hard to believe he's the same guy who did Love Actually.
 
Pheran said:
I've read the comics and I like the show. It seems to me like most of the nitpickers haven't read them.
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comments on the tv program reflect the TV program. FOr an adaptation ins whatever media to consider itself successful, it should require no reference to outside sources.

that would be a failure.

There is no reason for me to go to the comic books outside of something extra that I want to get in to. These adaptations stand on their own, as they always should.

Invariably, fans of the original source will always complain about something missing, or something changed that they don't like as they fail to accept that such things probably don't belong in a separate media form.
 
LegendKiller said:
I am almost always up for a good suspension of belief, but only when it comes down to plausible things.

For example, I hated the movie Torque. One, because street bikes don't really have torque. Two, because the idea of taking a street bike across rough terrain at 60+ mpg and then jumping on a speeding train and then stopping the bike in mid-air to land between railroad cars, is just utterly fricking stupid.
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😀

you sir, get it.

:thumbsup:
 
I'm not sure what TWD has to do with cheesy action movies, but whatever...

I guess I just don't have a problem with the CDC guy acting irrational. As a matter of fact, I'd have a bigger problem if he acted 100% rational, and made every decision spot-on.
 
Fingolfin269 said:
I guess maybe he preferred dying via explosion as opposed to being eaten alive. I can see some merit in that line of thinking.
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That's pretty much what he said and what he told them to expect if they leave. Either die quick and painless here or live in hell on earth and be eaten alive later.
 
zinfamous said:
comments on the tv program reflect the TV program. FOr an adaptation ins whatever media to consider itself successful, it should require no reference to outside sources.

that would be a failure.

There is no reason for me to go to the comic books outside of something extra that I want to get in to. These adaptations stand on their own, as they always should.

Invariably, fans of the original source will always complain about something missing, or something changed that they don't like as they fail to accept that such things probably don't belong in a separate media form.
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You misunderstand my comment. I'm not telling people to go read the comics, nor am I suggesting that you need to read the comics to appreciate the show. I was just objecting to Kev's statement that the comic book readers were the ones "picking apart the show".
 
Wingznut said:
I'm not sure what TWD has to do with cheesy action movies, but whatever...

I guess I just don't have a problem with the CDC guy acting irrational. As a matter of fact, I'd have a bigger problem if he acted 100% rational, and made every decision spot-on.
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the main thing, again, is that he felt it was his right to exterminate every living human. That isn't really a product of simple irrationality due to stress--it's the symptoms of some kind of whacked-out fictional video game villain, or Bond villain, or something.

Sure, I expect him to make plenty of irrational decisions, but to then believe that it is is sole duty to determine, in his mind, the sum end of the human race is just too far-fetched. that went from acting irrationally to silly super villain crazy-town.
 
Pheran said:
You misunderstand my comment. I'm not telling people to go read the comics, nor am I suggesting that you need to read the comics to appreciate the show. I was just objecting to Kev's statement that the comic book readers were the ones "picking apart the show".
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Oh.

:thumbsup:
 
Watched the episode late. Thought it was meh. Barely 5 seconds of zombie action. I came for the zombie - where is the zombie?
 
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Andrea looks like a younger Kate Vernon.
 
zinfamous said:
the main thing, again, is that he felt it was his right to exterminate every living human. That isn't really a product of simple irrationality due to stress--it's the symptoms of some kind of whacked-out fictional video game villain, or Bond villain, or something.

Sure, I expect him to make plenty of irrational decisions, but to then believe that it is is sole duty to determine, in his mind, the sum end of the human race is just too far-fetched. that went from acting irrationally to silly super villain crazy-town.
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I couldn't agree more and we're going to see more of this if they continue to "re-invent" the story just so it fits into some studio head's crazy preconceived notion of good television.
 
Wingznut said:
I'm not sure what TWD has to do with cheesy action movies, but whatever...

I guess I just don't have a problem with the CDC guy acting irrational. As a matter of fact, I'd have a bigger problem if he acted 100% rational, and made every decision spot-on.
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It's the fact that suspension of belief in those movies is almost as bad as that needed for the final episode.

A Jonestown massacre is dumb.
 
About the blood testing thing: when the cop asked the doctor what are the results, the doctor replied "its standard."
I think this comment is hinting that everyone is already infected, and will become zombies themselves when they die.

oh and btw: FEAR ME! RAWRRRR
 
Keep in mind the "final" episode was shot thinking it might be the final episode, they didn't know for sure the series would be continued by AMC, but of course they couldn't kill everyone off either.

Sure there were some holes in the plot in every episode, but I kind of liked the last episode myself.

The CDC guy thought he was doing them a favor by letting them in, knowing the place was going to destruct soon. He also said he wasn't the brains(bad pun) of the outfit there and couldn't figure out what was causing the Zombie condition, his wife and the other people that left, off'd themselves were the one's to do that, he was just the computer guy.
The blonde girl looks to be pregnant, maybe by the old guy??
 
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Is it possible they did two endings for the show? If it wasnt renewed, boom goes the dynamite. Otherwise, they do escape for the next season. Regardless of how the CB read, if the ratings were not there, they could have axed everyone.


Peace

Lounatik
 
I just watched the season, thought it was definitely good but not great. Will definitely continue to watch.

I'm glad the blonde chick didn't die at the end.

I'm not going to read the whole thread, but I figure Jenner whispered to Rick that his wife is pregnant with Shane's baby...which I figured was the case as soon as Jenner told Rick that the blood tests were normal or whatever. Thoughts?
 
I guess I'm the only one here that didn't think the series is all that good. It just didn't grab me. This is the first tv show I've watched in years and the only reason why I bothered watching every episode was boredom.
 
I just finished watching the last episode.

The blast from the building would have shattered all the windshields on the vehicles, no?

MotionMan
 
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