Samwise
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Bows also have the advantage of reusable ammo. Pretty hard to reuse or make new bullets.
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Nevermore
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With bows you still need to have good aim to hit the head. I'm with katana-lady.
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Ironwood
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Bows also have the advantage of reusable ammo. Pretty hard to reuse or make new bullets.
This argument doesn't really hold weight with me. Show is set in the Heartland of America. I'm still a little puzzled as to why they're not swimming in bullets.
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Because scavenging makes boring TV and running out of ammo makes for teh drama.
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Ironwood
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Given what happened every single time this group went scavenging, I suspect that they should have done more of it for more drama and maybe left the fucking reality TV type bantering and human interection to itself.
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Threash
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I just read an interview with Sam Witwer (Aiden from Being Human, the apprentice from Force Unleashed) were he mentioned he played the zombie inside the tank on the first episode of season 1 because Darabont had already cast him as the lead on a prequel about the fall of Atlanta that was going to be "Blackhawck Down with zombies", but it went out the window when they got rid of Darabont :(.
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angry.bob
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It really sounds like they fucked things up when they got rid of Darabont. The outline he gave for that episode you're talking about (Episode 1 of Season 2) sounds like it would have been great as well as showing how the group got together. Despite AMC claiming that no one would notice the lower budget, it's pretty clear it's showing.
What really pisses me off is they probably did it to pump more money into Mad Men, which I find boring as fuck with bad dialogue and bad acting.
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TheWalrus
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They also shipped out hell on wheels at same time if I recall.
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I got around to watching this finally and i found it interesting how little had to be done to Atlanta for the filming.
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Starts up again tomorrow night, for those still interested.
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WHERE'S CARL??!
Yeah, still watching it. Previews look interesting.
As for Hell on Wheels, the 2nd season was really good and slowly slid down. But they killed off a major character that I really liked, so I think I'm done with it.
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angry.bob
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But they killed off a major character that I really liked, so I think I'm done with it.
But did they... dumdumdummmmm! I'm not sure which one you meant, but neither one was shown in a terribly convincing dead state, and conversations regarding one of them step around mention them being dead.
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Tannhauser
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I know who you're talking about and he's an awesome character. But I was referring to the woman and it showed quite clearly she was dead. With all the deaths and the arrest of Chief O'Brien, they have cleaned too much house IMO.
As for Walking Dead, I applaud two different storylines at two different places. Andrea has really got her shit together.
Lastly, a note for both shows; STOP KILLING YOUR ATTRACTIVE FEMALES.
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I went to the channel online to see if I could watch on their site and it warned me not to get DISH or I wouldn't be able to watch them. I feel threatened.
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angry.bob
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I know who you're talking about and he's an awesome character. But I was referring to the woman and it showed quite clearly she was dead. With all the deaths and the arrest of Chief O'Brien, they have cleaned too much house IMO.
As for Walking Dead, I applaud two different storylines at two different places. Andrea has really got her shit together.
Lastly, a note for both shows; STOP KILLING YOUR ATTRACTIVE FEMALES.
Yeah, bringing her back would stretch credulity too far. She was pretty obviously dead with the one exception no one said she was dead out loud. You have a very solid point about too much house cleaning. It felt more like a Series Finale than anything else. Where they're going from here with two main characters and half a dozen fringe characters and pretty much every other character of note dead is beyond me. It'd be like like if indians raided Deadwood and everybody on both sides died except Al Swearengen and people loyal to him. An exciting season of people sitting in the Gem playing cards and boning hookers. But in a boring way that's different from how they did that in the show.
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Gas masks rule.
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I love gas masks. They're very sexy. Dead horses for lunch? Not so much.
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tazelbain
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Solid opening.
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Stewie
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Can someone explain why they didn't just
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Segoris
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Can someone explain why they didn't just I just attributed it to not taking the risk of having zombies overrun the fence based on the comment from a previous episode where a horde of walkers can tear down a house I liked s3e1, though I would have liked more with the Andrea storyline
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Still a solid start. Easily better than almost all of season 2.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Tannhauser
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I agree. Felt a bit more realistic and their decisions and actions made sense.
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Numtini
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I loved the episode. To me the essence of the zombie genre is the feeling that it's all falling in on you and the claustrophobia is amazing for pumping that up. I didn't even need zombies to be clawing at the walls.
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Yeah that was a really good season opener. Hopefully the AMC honchos realised that they could either do this cheap or do it well, and that if they chose the former they would just kill it. Fingers crossed it doesn't degenerate into Dawson's Creek with zombies again.
Going to be very interesting to see how they handle Carl & Beth, given that they're (at a guess) 12 and 14 years old. Are they going to get told no shagging for 6 years, are there going to be some difficult discussions or are the writers going to steer clear of the whole idea?
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Someone pointed out that the actors are actually like 13 and 26ish respectively.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Someone pointed out that the actors are actually like 13 and 26ish respectively. Lol, nice one :p They do a good job of making her look younger on the show, and my googlefu has failed to find her date of birth, which just makes me think of this.
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angry.bob
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At least now the group is testing amputations for bites.
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At least now the group is testing amputations for bites.
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tazelbain
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Rewatch episode 1.5. Zombies have infectious bite (like a komono dragon) the makes it agony for the infected move. It was assumed that next step was for the bitten to become a zombie, but it wasn't shown. For all we know the bitten will make a full recovery if they can survive long enough.
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At least now the group is testing amputations for bites.
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I'm assuming that a live, healthy person can fight off the zombie juice. A zombie carries a super strenth dose because they're "dead" and their immune system no longer fights off the zombie juice. So a wound from a zombie can overcome the immune system and turn someone while they're still alive. A scratch might be dangerous, but it might not. It's storybook science, so probably doesn't make sense for a "real" disease, then again, I haven't read the books and have not totally ruled out a truly supernatural nature to the zombieitus yet.
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Evildrider
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In the first season Jim gets a nonlethal bite, but he slowly succumbs to the virus that is passed on from it.
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TheWalrus
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I'm assuming they're going with the old "a rotten dead thing has a whole bunch of bacteria/virus living in it". Bites are bad, mmkay?
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Tebonas
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Indeed! It makes the most sense if the thing that turns you Zombie doesn't kill you, but ptomain does.
In theory a freshly turned Zombie wouldn't be lethal yet, if that is the case.
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