Walking Dead

[Ironwood]

Rick also mentioned at the start they'd been drifting apart.  One wonders why.

 

OK, I've seen episode two.  Apocalypse situation, some people need shot in the head.  It's really simple.  Stop having emotional angst about it.  Shoot bad men in the head.  Oh.  And Zombies.

[Tarami]

Her husband was shot, fell into a coma and supposedly got eaten by zombies. She moves on. Good for her.

If anyone's a dick, it's the police partner but I can't even get upset about that.

[waffel]

The guy on the roof will be ok, and will probably free himself.

When the clumsy black guy was running to unlock him, he kicked over a toolbox where one of the tools was a hacksaw. Who knows, it could have landed close enough to guy-on-the-roof (don't remember his name) for him to cut himself free.

or they could have just showed him kicking over the toolbox to show him fall. But I like my theory.


oh, and moving on = fucking your husbands best friend? In a zombie apocalypse? A week after your husband could probably be 'assumed' dead?

riiiiiiiight.

[Cheddar]

We do not know if its been a week.  Or Two.  The hospital was pretty damn fucked up - as if they were under siege.  As far as we know someone was changing out his IV constantly, and once the group decided to move on they left him as a lost case. 

Our only hint of time is the flowers.  I am not a botonist, how long can your average flowers last assuming they have a source of water in the vase?

[voodoolily]

 

[voodoolily]

We do not know if its been a week.  Or Two.  The hospital was pretty damn fucked up - as if they were under siege.  As far as we know someone was changing out his IV constantly, and once the group decided to move on they left him as a lost case.  

Our only hint of time is the flowers.  I am not a botonist, how long can your average flowers last assuming they have a source of water in the vase?

I AM a botanist! Flowers last about a week in water before they start looking like shit. Without water, they dry up. But once they're dry, they stay that way indefinitely, so flowers are an unreliable indicator of the passage of time. Rick's IV bag is, however, a very useful indicator.

Edit: my main beef with them not establishing the timeline is this: the hospital looked like something out of Silent Hill. After a week or two? The fuck? And why didn't any zombies smell the "vivre" on Rick and eat his guts out?

[MuffinMan]

I don't think their intent with the flowers was to accurately show how much time had passed just that time had passed. It's as good a metric as anything else you can find but I honestly don't think they were planning how wilted the flowers were.

[voodoolily]

Yeah, me neither.

[DLRiley]

Ask yourself how long will it take for the US army to roll a tank into the middle of Atlanta because the situation was that bad?

[Mrbloodworth]

Ask yourself how long will it take for the US army to roll a tank into the middle of Atlanta because the situation was that bad?

That is a good point.

TBH I detracted points for the opener. It was cool when 28 days later did it.

[DLRiley]

We do not know if its been a week.  Or Two.  The hospital was pretty damn fucked up - as if they were under siege.  As far as we know someone was changing out his IV constantly, and once the group decided to move on they left him as a lost case.  

Our only hint of time is the flowers.  I am not a botonist, how long can your average flowers last assuming they have a source of water in the vase?

I AM a botanist! Flowers last about a week in water before they start looking like shit. Without water, they dry up. But once they're dry, they stay that way indefinitely, so flowers are an unreliable indicator of the passage of time. Rick's IV bag is, however, a very useful indicator.

Edit: my main beef with them not establishing the timeline is this: the hospital looked like something out of Silent Hill. After a week or two? The fuck? And why didn't any zombies smell the "vivre" on Rick and eat his guts out?

Someone was kind enough to barricaded his room with a bed(or desk). Which come to think of it wouldn't prevent a determined zombie from getting in but whatever...

[MrHat]

He probably smelt like shit too.

[Velorath]

Ask yourself how long will it take for the US army to roll a tank into the middle of Atlanta because the situation was that bad?

That is a good point.

TBH I detracted points for the opener. It was cool when 28 days later did it.

And pointing that out was cool 6 or 7 years back, when the first issue of the comic came out. It's something Kirkman has addressed on a number of occasions.

[DLRiley]

Ask yourself how long will it take for the US army to roll a tank into the middle of Atlanta because the situation was that bad?

That is a good point.

TBH I detracted points for the opener. It was cool when 28 days later did it.

And pointing that out was cool 6 or 7 years back, when the first issue of the comic came out. It's something Kirkman has addressed on a number of occasions.

Didn't read the comic, so please spoil.

[MuffinMan]

I subtracted points at first too but they obviously want you to discover the full-fledged outbreak along with the main character. How else could they do it? Coming back from a mission in space?

[waffel]

TBH I detracted points for the opener. It was cool when 28 days later did it.

Ehrm, yeah it was cool then. Except seeing a guy's dick unnecessarily for a strangely long time. The theater I was in sure got a hoot out of, though.

[Ironwood]

Ask yourself how long will it take for the US army to roll a tank into the middle of Atlanta because the situation was that bad?

That is a good point.

TBH I detracted points for the opener. It was cool when Day of the Triffids did it.

 

[Ironwood]

The more I think on it, the less I like Whore Lori.  In the comics, she merely made one mistake and regretted it enormously.  I guess it's more dramatic to have her be a whore who likes it from behind while her wedding rings look on, but it bothers me a little.

Perhaps it's meant to.

[Vision]

The more I think on it, the less I like Whore Lori.  In the comics, she merely made one mistake and regretted it enormously.  I guess it's more dramatic to have her be a whore who likes it from behind while her wedding rings look on, but it bothers me a little.

Perhaps it's meant to.

If there was ever a way to measure such a thing, I think that episode 2 is responsible for the most people screaming "whore" simultaneously at a single person/character in all of history. In fact, every time I see her in a commercial I can't help but mutter "slut" under my breath.

[Velorath]

Ask yourself how long will it take for the US army to roll a tank into the middle of Atlanta because the situation was that bad?

That is a good point.

TBH I detracted points for the opener. It was cool when 28 days later did it.

And pointing that out was cool 6 or 7 years back, when the first issue of the comic came out. It's something Kirkman has addressed on a number of occasions.

Didn't read the comic, so please spoil.

Not a spoiler.  Kirkman was asked about this again recently by Entertainment Weekly, so here's his response:

"Welcome to my life seven years ago. It was complete coincidence. I saw 28 Days Later shortly before the first issue of Walking Dead was released. That first issue came out in October of 2003 and 28 Days Later was released in the States in June of 2003. So we were working on our second issue by the time I saw it. It was going to be a matter of somehow trying to restage the entire first issue, because it was a very similar coma opening. I made a decision—which I pretty much regret at this point—I said, “You know what? It’s so different [from that point on], I will probably never hear anything about this.” And I was wrong. It was a little annoying. But great minds think alike, right?"

[DLRiley]

Oh that's sad 

[waffel]

The guy on the roof will be ok, and will probably free himself.

When the clumsy black guy was running to unlock him, he kicked over a toolbox where one of the tools was a hacksaw. Who knows, it could have landed close enough to guy-on-the-roof (don't remember his name) for him to cut himself free.

 

[Ironwood]

Yes.  Almost certainly.  The foreshadowing was there.

[Surlyboi]

So good.

And rednecks are so dumb.

[Bunk]

I think enough details were dropped in the last episode to confirm that the outbreak had been going on for more than a week or so. They made it pretty clear that the hospital kept running after the outbreak started. Assumably, nurses were still around changing his IV, and there was a plan in place to medivac the patients. They had hundreds of bodies piled up at the hospital, so obviously there was some organized effort to control the outbreak for a while, until eventually it overran them. So assumably he woke up a few days to a week after the hospital fell.

Now that does bring in to question
Zombie impossiblities - fuck off - zombie disease obviously converts ADT or P or whatever out of the guts the zombies eat, thus why they are always hungry. Duh.

Wife may be a whore, but she tries to deal with it in episode three. Partner guy has anger issues.
Only one real nitpick -

[Triforcer]

In the third episode, how in the hell  

[Arthur_Parker]

Only one real nitpick -

[Bunk]

In the third episode, how in the hell  

To be fair, they did show in the first episode that many of the streets were deserted if there was nothing to attract the zombies. Rick rode all the way in to downtown before he saw any. Thus why the people in the store got pissed off when he started shooting in the street and attracted so many of them.

[Typhon]

And yet we're drowning in vampire shows.  Fucking DROWNING in them.  And I'm not hearing a lot of 'but vampires couldn't exist.'  Cause, you know, Porphyric Anaemics, right ?  Oh, and you put a couple of sluts in Tron and it's ok too.  Hell, you want suspension of disbelief problems ?  Did you watch Dexter ?  Good God.

I sat as a kid and watched NotlD and I couldn't sleep for weeks.  I love zombies.  And you assholes are ruining it for me.

Adenosine Triphosphate.  Really.  You drag me back to Mr Kelly and my biology lessons when all I want to do is watch some guy say 'The Basements the place to stay !  We'll be safe there' as his daughter eats his fucking guts.

(Actually, was it Mr Kelly ?  I'm not sure he did Biology.  I remember his daughter though.  She was hawt.  I wonder what happened to her.)

HELL YEAH!  Didn't read the rest of your usual "I'm Ironwood, hear me roar!" crap, but I can get onboard with that!

[Ironwood]

It's a shame.  Your opinion means so very much to me.

[Threash]

I thought it was hilarious that they were afraid to eat the zombie chomped deer but boondock saints dude was hunting with arrows he pulled out of zombies and wiped on his pants.

[Surlyboi]

Well, he IS a redneck.

[DLRiley]

If we had a zombie Apocalypse the rednecks will be the first to survive.

[Teleku]

If we had a zombie Apocalypse the rednecks will be the first to survive.

Because zombies eat brains?

[DLRiley]

If we had a zombie Apocalypse the rednecks will be the first to survive.

Because zombies eat brains?

Rednecks are less likely to live in the city.
Rednecks are more likely to own a gun.
Rednecks are probably more prepared for living outdoors.
Rednecks are more liking to have blue collar skills necessary for rebuilding post apocalyptic world.