Walking Dead

[HaemishM]

Well, Enid did have the trick you could use in State of Decay - she set a cooking timer and threw it the other way.

[Ironwood]

Oh Come On.

How did his White Jumper stay that White ?

Seriously

[rattran]

Yeah, I asked the same question. Rick gets bloody from looking at zeds, Father Dickweasel stays pristine popping heads off.

[Raguel]

Yeah, I asked the same question. Rick gets bloody from looking at zeds, Father Dickweasel stays pristine popping heads off.

Maybe it's a metaphor?

I mean the preacher wants to put up a front to the new people that he's a good person, but Rick's all in with blood and guts.

I like this episode even though I think the creators blinked at the end.

[jgsugden]

With so many people gone, God has time to grant laundry miracles.

[Threash]

Just realized the significance of the wolves killing someone in a red poncho.

[Ironwood]

Wife and I got that straight off.   

[Xanthippe]

[Tebonas]

I'd wager they mean in a Red Riding Hood sense. 

[Ironwood]

Yeah, that's what i meant. If there's summat deeper let me know.  In our defence, we watch a lot of Grimm.

[Threash]

Nah, that was it.

[taolurker]

[Strazos]

Yup, Daryl is quite the beast.

[KallDrexx]

Season 6 Comic-con trailer

[HaemishM]

Yep, that looks like Rick is on the way out.

[Tannhauser]

Looks good, but I still want answers.  Maybe a small government cell knows more background or factions that are working toward a cure or more details on what happened to spark this.  Is the rest of the world affected?  And so on.

[Velorath]

Looks good, but I still want answers.  Maybe a small government cell knows more background or factions that are working toward a cure or more details on what happened to spark this.  Is the rest of the world affected?  And so on.

The last question I would assume might be answered by the spinoff which also got a trailer. Everything else is pretty unlikely.

[Ruvaldt]

Is the rest of the world affected?

We already know that it is from the first season.  While they were in the CDC the scientist there told them that France was close to a cure before they lost the ability to continue due to losing power.

[Evildrider]

Looks good, but I still want answers.  Maybe a small government cell knows more background or factions that are working toward a cure or more details on what happened to spark this.  Is the rest of the world affected?  And so on.

Kirkman said that we would probably never too much more info on the outbreak and disease than we have now.  He meant that for the show and comics.  He may change his mind and use Fear the Walking Dead to give more info, but who knows.

[Tannhauser]

Ok thanks.  I was figuring that since the group got to Alexandria, they would stumble upon the answers some where in the capitol wasteland.  I'm tiring of the show in general and if they never get any more answers that just makes me less enthused.

[Ironwood]

I'm curious as to what type of 'answers' might in any way interest you.

I could, for example, spin off a million different explanations in my head.  It doesn't matter at all.  It's not like having a resolution to the why affects the outcome in any way shape or form...

[Tannhauser]

Is there still a government in some form?  Are they still trying to find a cure?  What caused it?  Are nation working together or are some taking advantage?  What about the world's navies? Are they island sanctuaries?  Will the zombies eventually fall apart or will there be a 'War of the Worlds' salvation?  Is there an end to the story or does it just keep going on and on like American Idol until it's finally put down?

I completely understand if this is just a survival horror story but if that's all it is I won't be interested in that forever.

[Ironwood]

1 - Yes.
2 - Probably.  But I suspect most of the energy is being devoted to, well, not being eaten.  Even The Governor had a chap working on it.
3 - Rage Infected Monkeys.  Or possibly that's complete bollocks.
4 - Yes.
5 - Some are.  Some sank when the infected got onboard.  Some are floating palaces of zombie delight.
6 - Yes.  This will take much longer than eradication of living populace, however.
7 - Yes.  Rick Grimes will eventually Die.  It's his Story.


Now, if you want to take all those answers at complete and total face value, you must now ask yourself a question :  What the hell does it matter ?  In terms of Rick and Co, NONE of these things will be important until, Oh, I dunno, Season 18.  That's what this story is. It's Rick's story.  Until it becomes Daryls story.  Or Chorals story.  But, basically, these questions Do Not Matter and you'd be better off re-reading World War Z.

I think you may end up being more interested in Fear TWD tho.

[jgsugden]

A little Google will reveal what Kirkman told to his comics guys to get them to make the comic... nothing contradicts that far out explanation... but I think everyone will be happier with no explanations. The only things I would like explained is how did so many people  end up changed, but not eaten to the point their zombie was not immobile. We've already seen 1 zombie eat one entire person..

[Cyrrex]

Yeah, not only are there too many zombies, there are also way too many just aimlessly wandering the country side.  Sightings should be rarer and rarer all the time, considering how much empty land mass we are talking about.

Not to mention the fact that most of the survivors that are still around have about a 50,000 to 0 K/D ratio.  Once the weak have been culled from the human population, the tide shoud quickly turn in the other direction and human would start to re-assert itself.  I guess the zombies never go away, because anyone who dies can become one, but killing them is so easy that it would eventually be a trivial problem.

All of which ignores the fact that this is a zombie apocalypse story and who gives a fuck.  Just please don't kill of hot milf too early next season and I'll be happy.

[Merusk]

Never look at the science or logic of a zombie situation that lasts more than a few days. It all requires you to shut off your brain more than a Bay Transformers movie.  Accept that there are zombies everywhere and they eat people.  End of backstory now on to the "humans are the REAL monsters" survival part.

[HaemishM]

^ THIS. ^

Goddamn logic trying to fuck up all the fun.

[jgsugden]

...but ... but ....http://www.zombiesurvivalcamp.com/

[Cheddar]

New trailer was awesome.  Darryl 4 prez.

[Velorath]

Pretty good way to start the season, essentially heading immediately into the No Way Out story arc.

[apocrypha]

Yeah, solid start.

However, I can set aside a lot of nonsense, like the impossible physics & biology of zombies, etc, but where did they get the bloody helium balloons from?!

[jgsugden]

... but where did they get the bloody helium balloons from?!

1.)  It isn't exactly like someone rushed out to use up all the helium tanks in flower shops when the apocalypse went down, or 2.) Not terribly hard to fabricate helium if you know the science. 

I've always thought they'd start making a bigger deal out of finding good uses for the stuff that was left behind after the first wave of looters passed through an area...

[HaemishM]

Such a good episode and makes for such a stark contrast with the disappointment of Fear the Walking Dead. I swear they must have blown their entire effects budget on all those made up extras but it was worth it. The scale of the zombie parade was insane.

The black and white for the "flashbacks" kind of irritated me - and this from someone who loves black and white as an artistic choice. I think it was because it just looked like something shot in color that was turned into black and white post. It seemed to lack the kind of stark contrast that true black and white should have had.

[apocrypha]

1.)  It isn't exactly like someone rushed out to use up all the helium tanks in flower shops when the apocalypse went down, or 2.) Not terribly hard to fabricate helium if you know the science. 

Wait wait wait wait wait wait right up now goddamnit. You're telling me that they went hunting for florists or, I dunno, clown supplies shops? Or set up some kind of electrolysis or whatever Rick Sanchez style helium extraction doohickey? Instead of using, I dunno, *rags* or something?

[skepticism intensifies]

Anyway. I swear I'm starting to recognise some of the zombies. Wife & I had to go back and re-watch the last episode of last season because we'd forgotten wtf was going on and there was one zombie in particular who was gnawing on the window of the car that Daryl & the bloke from Ah-Ha were trapped in that I just know I've seen in it several times before.

[Nevermore]

2.) Not terribly hard to fabricate helium if you know the science.

Is there a practical way of 'fabricating' helium that doesn't involve liquid natural gas or slowly capturing helium from decaying uranium?