The Walking Dead

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[MouthForWar]

No matter how "over done" zombies are, this is the first true zombie television series. That has NEVER been done. We're lucky to have talent like Frank Darabont behind it and to have it based on a fantastic comic. This blows crap like True Blood away any day.

I think we're going to see more big directors doing things with TV. Like Spielberg with "Band of Brothers", it seems like more directors are being drawn towards TV. There are a lot of things you can do in the long form format that you can't do in movies and it seems directors get a lot more creative freedom. I think that's why you see guys like Darabont doing "The Walking Dead" and Scorsese with "Boardwalk Empire." I'm curious to see who else will dabble in television.

[william newell]

I myself am also looking forward to tomorrow night's episode. As for last weeks installment, other than the totally unrealistic car crash(an ongoing Hollywood tradition) and the few similarities to 28 Days Later, this seems like it could become interesting. My only hope is that the characters remain believable, unlike the ones in The Mist. Actually, now that I think about it, I wasn't awfully crazy about The Green Mile either so I'm hopeful that Darabont will suprise me with this venture. Only time will tell... Also, I'm curious, getting back to that car crash...does anyone know if that was an actual '71 Judge that they wrecked? It certainly looked legit and if it was, that's a pretty pricey car to sacrifice in a stunt scene. Oh well, here's to looking forward to the next episode.

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[MouthForWar]

Tonight's episode was alright, but I didn't love it like I did the pilot. Best thing about it was I LOVED the new, more gruesome spin on the Shaun of the Dead "try to fit in with them" thing. Still, I found the pilot to be MUCH stronger.

Aside from the always awesome Michael Rooker, I didn't care for any of the new characters at all. And even with Rooker, EVERY single one of those characters is a bad stereotype in a perfect rainbow of racially diverse characters (racist redneck, ebonics spouting black guy, blonde damsel in distress, etc). The only one of these characters that they even tried to develop was Laurie Holden's character... everyone else just has "zombie fodder" written all over them... shallow characters that are just there for a body count (I'm hoping this isn't the case and they'll be developed more over time).

And there were a couple moments where I was practically yelling at my screen due to character stupidity.

Minor spoilers:

1. When they were covered in the zombie guts and heard the thunderstorm, WHY THE HELL didn't they find a building to enter or stand under something? Instead they just kept walking and let their cover wash off them. This gets even dumber when it starts raining and they are STILL WALKING IN THE RAIN.

2. Instead of diverting the zombies by setting off a car alarm and then driving said car around, why not just set off a few car alarms in one place? Why endanger your life and everyone else's by driving a moving target around when you could just attract them all to one place and be done with it?

3. When the idiot black guy lost the key when he was trying to unlock Michael Rooker's handcuffs, why didn't he either saw the cuffs free with the hacksaw or at least leave him with the hacksaw so he could get out? He obviously wanted to save Rooker, even though he hated him.

Stuff like this is small, I know, but it really gets to me when things have such glaring gaps in logic. This episode was kinda disappointing to me.

Hopefully next week's episode will get back to the feel of the pilot.

[william newell]

...SPOILER ALERT!...




I agree completely, Mouth, especially with points 2 and 3. In fact, there seemed to be set-ups dealing with these 2 issues, I was expecting the "Sherrif"(sorry, I can't remember the characters name right now)to use the hand grenade he took from the dead soldier to lure the zombies once they were far enough away(your idea is better though, setting off a few car alarms would have given them more time) and as to the lost handcuff key, I find it interesting that they made a point of showing the character stumbling over and spilling the tools right before he lost the key. I was baffled that they never showed the tools again...still, it kept me entertained and I'm hoping that they do a flashback episode in the future showing the initial outbreak. That's always been my favorite part of Zombie/Virus movies, the complete and total hysteria as society breaks down, which is one reason I enjoy the first 15 or so minutes of the Dawn of the Dead remake. The total insanity as the character tries to come to grips with a seemingly overnite change in the world as they knew it. Great stuff....but yeah, so far, so good.

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