The show is based on an Og-damned comic book, fer cryin’ out loud. It’ll never be Oscar/Emmy/Golden Globe material, except maybe for exploding noggin special effects.
[Raises hand] There is reasonable and compelling conflict potential in meeting other survival groups that are also smart, i.e. not just a bunch of sheep led by a psychopath.
And if the zombies are too easy, ramp them up. Different strains of the zombie disease, including some that get naturally selected because they let the host retain some intelligence.
What kind of loser would surrender the world to zombies? That’s like letting a toddler take your lunch money. Smart characters would recognise that the first generation zombies are a finite threat - every zombie they kill will not be replaced.
Why are you guys in such a hurry for this show to play itself out? I see complaints about filler, but it’s a TV show. That’s how they work. Every week a new problem, generally solved by the end, more problems that last longer. I think if anything it goes TOO fast. I want to see mundane details. I don’t mind some stupid. Humans can be stupid, especially when they have no foreknowledge and it’s happening to them in real time. Not everybody thinks fast.
I loved this episode more than any I’ve seen in a while, even if Rick’s accent grates on my nerves.
It doesn’t sound that bad to me, and I am in neighboring Arkansas.
His accent DOES sound more like Arkansas! I’m in Tennessee but I was guessing he was supposed to be Georgian. Do you know anyone who really says “thangs” without it being a sort of joke?
Read this story and get addicted, makes TWD look like Sesame Street, plus it doubles as a “how to prep for an emergency” instructional thread
That’s fine as long as they don’t go overboard with zombie intelligence. Hell the first modern zombie movie, Night of the Living Dead, had some zombies capable of very crude & basic tool use (Cemetery Zombie broke Barbra’s car window w/ a rock, Karen stabbed her mother to death w/ a trowel). What I don’t want to see is a zombie ridding horses or spontaneously becoming smart enough to use firearms & organize other zombies into a militia.
Uh, yes.
Heck, you are in Memphis, are you not? That is next door.
My Mother was from Finley, TN and I recognized the accent on CNN when some emergency medical technicians drove their ambulance to NY on September 11 to offer help.
Why not? The Og-damned comic book won the 2010 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series, basically the comic equivalent of an Oscar. There’s no reason the series can’t be as intelligently written as (the early issues of) the comic.
I want to see what those guys are doing - that’s the part of the apocalypses that interests me, how people live in the new world.
{Raises hand, too}The book Day-By-Day Armageddon tried to eliminate their zombies by nuking them, and created SuperZombies! by doing so. The zombies can be anything the writers want them to be.
Agreed. They make movies from video games and tv shows from Twitter accounts - you don’t have to stay at the level of your source material.
I’m on day 83 and it’s an interesting story but everything seems to be so convenient for the group, especially survivalist mom who already had months of home-canned everything stockpiled, plus all sorts of solar powered everything. They “find” so much necessary equipment and food and everyone is so well-prepared and the children so well-behaved it seems as unrealistic as the abounding stupidity on TWD.
I always assumed “It’s a Memphis Thang” was a joke. 
I guess it’s jut more in the way he says it that turns me off. I don’t recall his accent seeming quite so noticeably faked until the past few shows.
If they aren’t capable of shoring up the fences, why don’t they have Michonne make a bunch of new pets and fill the area between the two rows of fences with them? We’ve been told that once they can’t eat they get fairly docile, and they seem to act as repellent or at least camouflage against intact walkers, so other than maybe the smell (and honestly, by now everyone should be used to the smell) I don’t see much downside.
They could even have people grab a couple of pets to go keep the zombies away when they have to do something stupid outside the fence, like unclog a muddy hose on a tiny bridge.
Heck, if the smell of walker acts as a repellent to other walkers, wouldn’t killing walkers along the fence line eventually shield the prison, i.e. kill walkers along the fence, move down, attract walkers, kill them, move down, attract more walkers, kill them… until the outer fence is surrounded by a perimeter of dead (well, doubly-dead) walkers. That should shield the entire facility.
I read a couple of days, then I couldn’t read any more - all I was doing was scrolling through her endless recipes and lists of what they were eating.
I’m on Day 26, and while I like the different perspective and love the journaling aspect, I cannot understand how they think they’ll keep their food supply a secret for long when they’re cooking so many fragrant and varied meals outside. I mean, I know they are kinda forced to at this point, but I don’t get how they think they’ll be secure for very long. But I like her writing much better than the writing on this show…
I’ve been glossing overt those parts. Any paragraph that begins with Breakfast or Lunch or Dinner… skip, but they taper off around Day 25.
That whole concept makes no sense and is best just forgotten. It really was just introduced so Michone could look bad-ass for all the Comic Book Guys. It doesn’t make a lick of sense when you think about it.
By the logic it was presented as, yes, a line of docile walkers staked in a row along the fences would shield them. Of course, a line of NOT docile walkers would have the same effect, and that would mean you could never get a large group interested in the same goal (like overrunning a fence) in the first place.
That scientist guy in the governor’s town was also experimenting with removing their mouths and stuff, so it’s not just Michone looking bad ass.