I don’t think it’s really the same thing. This is more like a spaceship with working gravity, but most of the people are floating around anyway for no reason, until the plot requires it, and then a few people use the gravity. Then we go back to everyone not using the artificial gravity (even though it would be really useful and logical to do so), until the next time a few people use it because plot.
ETA: Plus, there are a number of post-apocalyptic shows and movies without working power, so I’m not sure why it would be difficult to film it. But, my objection is that in the world they’ve created, there is working power and phones, and everybody seems to know it, but nobody uses these things because… well, who knows?
Don’t forget about Facebook & Twitter still functioning 3 yrs after the collapse of civilization. :dubious: Or was Citizen Z just going through stuff archived on an NSA server?
Alright, I have to take some of it back. We actually enjoyed the last episode, and laughed many times. I think I’m starting to get the hang of it. “Too much death; too many dead soldiers; too many zombies.”
OK, killing off Garnet sure was unexpected. :eek: I really felt sorry for the “Resurrected” too; couldn’t they get a less degrading existence like being used in a zombie brothel (which we probably won’t get to see until the team makes it to NV).
When they were at the refinery and decided to jam the pulley wheel instead of cutting its drive belt, I was ready to stop watching. However the series grows on you after a while.
Killing the supposed protagonists seems to be an odd choice as well, as they are nearly halfway across the US. Realistically once you get past Kansas and if you avoid the major cities, zombies really shouldn’t be a problem anyway.
Amusing show that occasionally shocks.
Good for a season, but they really haven’t got enough story left for more than that.
Just watched S! on Netflix.
I had very low expectations of this show, but man, was I pleasantly surprised!
The humor is what won me over (doc is my fave).
Seriously, the humor in this one our horror/drama stands up to some of the best sitcoms running today.
I also recently Netflixed this. Made it, surprisingly, through the entire season. Brain dead entertainment that I don’t need to pay attention, good when I’m doing other things.
As for zombie speed, the newer the zombie, the faster (it was mentioned in one episode). Zombies turn ridiculously quick in this world though. And how is it that no one in a dining hall could figure out how to brain one zombie before he made dozens?
Oh well, it’s a good counterpart to shows I have to actually pay attention while watching.
As a huge fan of The Asylum and all SyFy Sharknado-type efforts, I binged watched the shit out of it and enjoyed every minute. DJ Qualls, Tom Everett Scott and Harold Perineaux are the requisite “names”, though Scott and Perineaux are already dead. Can’t wait for season 2.
I’m enjoying this show far more than The Walking Dead. I really liked TWD comics, and the tv show feels like a weekly penance at the moment. Z Nation has a much more enjoyable (post apocalyptical) worldview. IMHO
I feel like TWD tries to be a Serious Drama, and has moments of brilliance, but then fails in incredibly irritating ways that always have me on the edge of giving up on it.
Z Nation, bless it, knows exactly what it is, and makes no apologies or grabs at glory. You know when there’s a zombaby in the first episode, just what you’re in for. Ironically, this allowed me to be rather impressed by things like the development of Murphy, or the cosmonaut episode.
The other nice thing is that the situations may be laughably implausible, and there may be huge plot holes, but generally the characters act like real humans. As opposed to TWD, where characters often do unbelievable things because the only story engine they have is your classic Idiot Plot.
I’m loving this show, just caught up with the second season. I haven’t even watched a single episode of Walking Dead, it looked too serious for me. I like zombie stories that keep their sense of humor. Although even Z Nation gets serious at times. It reminds me very much of the movie Zombieland, which was great. DJ Qualls is definitely my favorite character as Citizen Z. The George RR Martin cameo in the last episode was hysterical.
Yes there are stupid things, the biggest annoyance factor for me is one moment they’re killing hordes of zombies, and the next everyone suddenly gets stupid and starts dying very easily, or suddenly they need to run away from a few zombies when moments ago they were kicking ass. Things like that aside, it’s filled with really fun moments that keep me watching.
Though I blasted the early episodes for being stupid, as evidenced on the first page of this thread, I must admit I find Z Nation much more fun than TWD, and if I had to choose which to cancel, I’d sacrifice the latter at this point.
(which we probably won’t get to see until the team makes it to NV).