Well…after four years on the air I finally got to see Walking Dead. I am stunned that I missed such a good show!
This is how I got to see it. It wasn’t even the Fourth of July marathon—I went to a casino this weekend and saw the Walking Dead slot machine. There were clips of Rick on the horse, Glenn and Rick pretending to be zombies, and an Escape from Atlanta bonus game. I didn’t know it was all from Season 1…
Then I went online to watch (the AMC marathon already begun and I had wanted to start with the first eppys) Wow! Some thoughts: (I’m only one-third of the way into Season 3.
I didn’t see the Sophia reveal coming so I was really duped there.
I just saw Penny with the governor yikes.
With all the main characters dying I thought Hershel would die too.
Game of Thrones actually prepared me for all the main char. deaths.
After the zillionth Rick vs. Shane fight I had a feeling Shane would be offed
Do zombies poop?
at the CDC where the doctor showed the brain scans, if a zombie’s only activity is in brain stem how come they don’t have to shoot out the brain stem to off them?
i finally watch the many, way too many hours of twd this week end. i’m at the last 2 episodes now. the 3 one from the end of 4 is a heart breaker. having read “innocent in death” i wasn’t surprised by lizzie, much different to read something than see it acted out.
i remember when the show first came on, i read the recap for the first show. decided against when i read about the horse.
this marathon hit at just the right time. i was hunkered down for the 4th of july and here was hours of zombie fun.
I binged 3 and a half seasons then watched the last part of season 4 as they aired.
Originally I thought it was just another ridiculous gory zombie flick and avoided it. But I have a FB friend who, every Sunday night, would post things like “My shooooow is on tonight!!!”. She talked about it so much that I finally broke down and started watching it (either on Netflix or Comcast On Demand, I don’t recall).
I was hooked from the start. It was nothing like I expected.
Unlike a show like Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead is full of plot holes. It’s a really, really good show, but if you starting looking too hard you’re going to find all these holes and end up not liking the show. Again, it’s a fantastic show, but it works best if you accept it for what it is and just sit back and enjoy it. When you start poking around at the details (why didn’t they hear that noise, how could this person kill that person, why can that zombie run so fast, why is that one’s skull so soft, WHY DON’T THEY JUST SAY “IF YOU’RE ALIVE SAY SOMETHING” instead of tip toeing around every abounded building and new area, that would be the best way to sort the living from the dead, duh, why do they keep complaining about running low on food and ammo and have yet to run out of either, I can keep going).
Seriously, good show, but you just have to take it at face value and not dig too deep.
i’m with you on number 7. the scan seemed to only show the brain base getting the icky black regen. goo. perhaps when they go for the brain it reaches enough of the medulla? they are doing quite a bit of damage when they stab into the brains. i would reckon the brains of the walkers are decomposing as well and it wouldn’t take much to damage the base.
sometimes the lack of intellectual curiosity drives me bonkers. it took them how long to notice the clock?!?! dale would come through every now and again with the right questions. i would have to bunker with fellow sdmb members. i do believe we would do well. that doctor would have been peppered with questions.
I’ve started calling TWD’s walkers ‘spongehead zombies’.
Actually, I think some characters have run out of ammo. At least, they’re keeping an eye on how much they shoot… most of the time. Some of the time. This is one thing that’s bugged me from the start. First of all, automatic weapons are not that easy to get. I doubt they’d be much easier after a Zombie Apocalypse. Slightly easier, but not something you could grab from the abandoned gun shop. Also, I buy my ammo. It’s expensive. For my 5.56x45 mm, I buy 720 rounds at a time. I’d clean off the Wal-Mart shelf if I bought that much from them. There’s a lot of ammo out there, but I haven’t seen the stockpiles of surplus 5.56x45 mm, .30-06, .30 Carbine, and 7.92 mm Mauser that I did in the '80s.
So everyone knows that ammunition is hard to find and getting harder to find. They know that nobody is making any more. So what do they do? Blast away on automatic! :smack: If I were in a ZA, I’d keep it on semi-automatic and make every shot count. And I wouldn’t have a choice anyway, because all of my AR-15s are semi-automatic.
Good show, though. The last episode, I told the SO…
I’ll bet the people at Terminus are cannibals.
We watched that episode again during the marathon, and this time we both noticed the…
pile of fresh human skeletons
and the SO said I was right. This was backed up by Aisha Tyler’s and Chris Hardwick’s questions/comments. Aisha also said that the well-stocked house at the cemetery in an earlier episode looked like a honey trap. I told the SO I thought it was a trap when we watched the original airing of the episode, and she said she didn’t pick that up. Turns out there was a backstory that was never filmed, and it might not have been. Sure looked like one, though.
I still haven’t watched anything from Season 1 and I’m so frustrated that I missed it during the marathon – turns out I was either working or sleeping for most of them I know I’m still missing some of the who’s who of relationships, but as was said upthread, I’m not looking for plotholes – I’m in it for the story and the character development. Oh, and watermelon head zombies
My husband, OTOH, has watched it from the very first episode. I didn’t start getting into it until midway through Season 2 because, really…zombies?!? The first episode I watched all the way through was…oh look, Zombie Sophia. I still don’t know how she ended up as a zombie. Was she bitten? Did she have the virus like the kid at the prison? I also missed the first episode with The Governor, so feel free to clue me in.
I still can’t watch more than a couple of episodes in one sitting. I don’t deal well with onslaught after onslaught of zombie decapitations. I sometimes have to run out of the room :eek:
Season 2 was pretty much a snooze-fest, except for the absolutely wonderful finale. But yeah, this is a very enjoyable show overall. I’d give it a solid B+. It’s no Mad Men or Breaking Bad, but still very good.
I was that way about Game of Thrones and then watched every episode over the last two weeks.
However, I’ll never watch Walking Dead. Just too many guys talking like Jack Donaghy/ Devon Banks face-off. The gravelly voice, the dramatic pauses. Not for me.
I had the opposite reaction. I was primed to love this show, but ultimately it has disappointed. The plot holes and the (failed) focus on character development make it mostly annoying to watch. I still watch, mind you, but I’m mostly annoyed.
It’s fine if you can get over how persistently stoopid the main characters are. Given a choice at any juncture of something sensible in the A.Z.A. era and something that would be short sighted while waiting for FEMA to come rescue your town after a hurricane, count on the latter.
I was initially heartened by Brad Pitt’s character in World War Z because he did one smart, sensible, coping thing after another in the first fifteen minutes. Then the rest of the movie happened. WD has had four seasons to knock some sense into their characters. Hasn’t happened yet. At least it’s not a total snooze-fest like… certainly rabidly-loved fantasy series.
My wife and I really enjoyed the show for the first season or two. Then I started to grow bored of it for basically the same reason as others here have mentioned. My wife still liked it for the third season (so I watched, too), but we’ve both grown tired of it by now.
I can see why some people are still way into it, as it has its appeal, it just doesn’t have what I want to see in a show of that type.
There was one episode, I think the third season closer, that we both thought was absolutely brilliant, but we also thought it was leagues beyond where the show was, generally.
Exactly my experience. In fact, with the OP in the middle of the third season right now, I’d almost advise them to stop while they’re ahead. It’s not getting any better.
And it’s sad/funny because I watched some random five-minute segment from season 4 during their weekend marathon and what did I see?
A guy is pissed because his wife is missing. Everyone else says he should give up. So they get into a fist fight. During fist fight, zombies approach, but only one guy notices. Idiot guy grabs and machine guns and starts randomly spraying bullets in full-auto fire mode. Then the rest of the group comes to kill the zombies. But the idiot guy with the machine gun shot out the gas tank of the group’s car, so now they have to walk.
Finally done with season 3 but felt lukewarm at the end since I thought we’d see a grandiose death of the governor. Also felt underwhelmed by Andreas death and becuz I peeked at spoilers beforehand. Thoughts, I felt so saddened by Morgans episode, but was there a red herring? I thought Shane saw Duane and Morgan walking to Atlanta in season 1 or it was a random black dad and his son. I do enjoy mnitpicking as Ido it to shows I love!
So Morgan never went to Atlanta and has been stuck in ricks hometown. And then it hit me how far did ricks group go, did they just circle around and around Georgia? Might as well go back to ricks hometown looks dang safer than battling it out with the governor!
I’m finally done. Took me a week to finish out the four seasons since I could watch only after work. Wow. Gathering up my thoughts:
I thought the Governor idea worked up to the whole heads reveal. Then I got really weirded out (nope not heads or Penny) but him getting some random people to go with him to storm the prison. And that I thought he would die this grandiose death in the finale, only for him to wander around and try attacking the prison again.
I could see where folks complained the stories dragging out to episodic lines (like what happened with Lost?) since the seasons were stretching out to 16 eppys per season. I honestly thought AMC did just 10 eppys/season like Mad Men, or that Mad Men does less cuz it makes less money?
I know I’m still missing some of the who’s who of relationships, but as was said upthread, I’m not looking for plotholes – I’m in it for the story and the character development. Oh, and watermelon head zombies 
(Seriously. Lots of Brits in that show.)