I Just watched it. It’s either going to be a 90 minute pilot or they are going to have to lose about 15 minutes, since it runs 1:08 or so.
I like it a lot. I like that it’s addressing the fact that such a situation would be incredibly sad, which you don’t see all the much of in most zombie movies. (I Am Legend being a giant exception… God, I still can’t believe how cruel they were with the fucking dog!)
But I’m disappointed in some inconsistencies. We’ll see what the future brings…
By the way, has anyone ever explained why and how zombies are supposed to eat anything at all, much less piles of raw meat?
I am! I’m excited about “The Walking Dead” on AMC.
Why, some of my best friends. . .
I don’t think they eat it,Stoid. They just smear it in the general direction of their mouths.
Yes, it will be a 90 minute pilot.
Good pilot, full of nice homages to earlier movies in the genre. Well done effects, nice and creepy and Darabont plays merry hell with what you assume are standard tropes. The emotion level is excellent, the characters don’t just turn into Rambo at the drop of a hat. I’m definitely looking forward to the rest of the series.
Do you agree that…
It was pretty illogical for the zombies to suddenly get much faster when they were in a group? Because they did, and that kinda ticked me off.
Actually, know that I think of it (and I haven’t read the series in a few months), do the zombies in The Walking Dead eat people at all? I’m pretty sure they just bite them, infecting them 28 Days Later style. Are they really feeding?
Oh yes, they’re flesheaters alright. 
Right, some of the more gruesome scenes are coming back to me… and yet, some people come back as zombies. Which brings me to something that has always troubled me when it comes to zombies. At what point does a zombie stop eating someone as they reanimate? Is it awkward, as the newly undead springs to ‘life’ while someone’s chomping on their entrails?
Internal inconsistencies, or inconsistencies with the comics? Because I seem to remember the writers/director for the show saying they are using the comic as a guide, but aren’t going to be 100% faithful to it.
Internal. A thing is a particular thing or it isn’t.
[Hollywood producer]“Who cares? It’s Science Fiction!”[/Hollywood producer] :rolleyes:
That show is excellent. I can’t believe it took it this long to make it to a channel here. Loved it.
I’m a zombie addict, so I’m very eager to see The Walking Dead.
To answer the OP’s buried question about Rubicon: If you have patience (like the kind required to watch jello set up), it has a good payoff. Excellent cast, also.
I’m looking forward to it, but less so since reading this thread.
I was okay with it. It wasn’t like they were sprinting. When they’re in a pack and all whipped up, they move faster, but it was almost like they were stumbling as they did so. They were still pretty clumsy, just hungry.
Terrific opener. Very much looking forward to seeing how this plays out.
Well I thought that was damn good.
(And it was a little freaky to see post-apocalyptic Atlanta.)
I hope they give us some backstory about how the zombie plague got started and spread.
Loved that they showed what happens when you fire a gun inside a tank.
Much better than I anticipated. I was a bit suprised how graphic it was, considering it’s on cable.
I’m not a big TV watcher, but I’ll be back next week.
YES!