The Walking Dead

[Hashish]

Boy, oh boy, has this show ever lost the plot. What a downward spiral the show is on. The writers for this year absolutely SUCK. We all have the flu, let's risk our lives to go get some antibiotics.

It's bad enough that they're making the flu look like the Ebola virus, but to propagate the myth that you need antibiotics for the flu is just shockingly evil. How the fuck did a show that was this great sink so fast? Especially when they have such excellent source material to draw from. The comic is kicking ass harder than ever. I am really disappointed.

As I was watching the latest episode, I was thinking how much I just really want all the characters to die except Rick and maybe the two black dudes from The Wire.

How long until Game of Thrones comes back?

 

[Sportsaholic]

My son got me hooked on this last year and I was glad he did....Now it just SUX ASS!!! They blew it, I doubt it will last past this year.

 

[MadJack]

I hate that I can't read these threads. I'm waiting for the season to end and then I'll watch them all in a marathon.

 

[MadJack]

I'm just starting Justified Season 2, and liking that series a lot.

 

[Morris]

I couldn't wait for the new season to start. Sunday nite I shut it off after 30 mins. It was that bad. I'll give it another chance but doubt I'll be very interested.

 

[Hashish]

I don't know if I'm glad or sad to hear that it's not just me...

ANTIBIOTICS!!!! :nono:

It is more believable that there could be a virus that causes zombies than that antibiotics can fight the flu. Where are the fact checkers on this show? Good grief!

I'll probably finish out the season, but most of the time I will probably be praying for characters to get eaten. I was just begging those zombies to eat Carol! This last episode, I checked the time three or four times to see how much longer it was going to drag on.

 

[Sportsaholic]

They need more hot chicks to join the group......:0008

 

[ImFeklhr]

It's really hard to sustain a long running show with little to no real character development. I am stuck about midway through the governor season and they are kinda trying to develop the characters, but it's a little too late.

For as much as these characters have endured it would be nice if we cared about them a bit more. It?s like Rick is the only real person on the show and everyone else is just a prop to further his story arch. Except his story sorta stalled by the time he found his family and until they tried to have him go crazy, which didn?t work for me. I appreciate their attempt at addressing post-traumatic stress, because honestly they should all be walking nervous wrecks after all they have been through, but the writers just don?t do a good job at managing their characters.

And my pet peeve is how they address big packs of zombies. Sometimes a group of 50 or so zombies is treated as a simple clean up job. Other times 10 zombies is treated as an insurmountable problem. Ok OK I can suspend my disbelief with most of the zombie stuff, because it?s just fantasy. But frankly it?s ridiculous the civilization ?ended? because of slow moving zombies. I mean there are packs of humans surviving in rural Georgia, wouldn?t there be some government or military power reemerging at this point?
Remember this is not zombies crawling out from the grave, this is just people who are infected and turn when they die or are bitten. So the max number of zombies is limited by the amount of humans on the planet. And in every ?battle? the humans seem to kill zombies at a 10 to 1 margin or more. So at this point wouldn?t the humans have won the war? Even if the zombies got a ?head start? by sneaking up on people and converting half the population of the earth. At some point the remaining humans would just pick them apart and dwindle their numbers. Shit the 10 year old boy seems to have killed enough about a million zombies without a problem.

Not sure where they can go from here. I will eventually catch up, and probably keep watching, because who doesn?t love zombies? And who doesn?t love post apocalypse themes? But if you want to sustain a good show for YEARS based around these themes, you need to really tighten up the universe you have created.

This show drives me crazy. :facepalm:

 

[Hashish]

It's really hard to sustain a long running show with little to no real character development. I am stuck about midway through the governor season and they are kinda trying to develop the characters, but it's a little too late.

For as much as these characters have endured it would be nice if we cared about them a bit more. It?s like Rick is the only real person on the show and everyone else is just a prop to further his story arch. Except his story sorta stalled by the time he found his family and until they tried to have him go crazy, which didn?t work for me. I appreciate their attempt at addressing post-traumatic stress, because honestly they should all be walking nervous wrecks after all they have been through, but the writers just don?t do a good job at managing their characters.

And my pet peeve is how they address big packs of zombies. Sometimes a group of 50 or so zombies is treated as a simple clean up job. Other times 10 zombies is treated as an insurmountable problem. Ok OK I can suspend my disbelief with most of the zombie stuff, because it?s just fantasy. But frankly it?s ridiculous the civilization ?ended? because of slow moving zombies. I mean there are packs of humans surviving in rural Georgia, wouldn?t there be some government or military power reemerging at this point?
Remember this is not zombies crawling out from the grave, this is just people who are infected and turn when they die or are bitten. So the max number of zombies is limited by the amount of humans on the planet. And in every ?battle? the humans seem to kill zombies at a 10 to 1 margin or more. So at this point wouldn?t the humans have won the war? Even if the zombies got a ?head start? by sneaking up on people and converting half the population of the earth. At some point the remaining humans would just pick them apart and dwindle their numbers. Shit the 10 year old boy seems to have killed enough about a million zombies without a problem.

Not sure where they can go from here. I will eventually catch up, and probably keep watching, because who doesn?t love zombies? And who doesn?t love post apocalypse themes? But if you want to sustain a good show for YEARS based around these themes, you need to really tighten up the universe you have created.

This show drives me crazy. :facepalm:

I won't address the character development (or lack thereof), but I will take on the reason the zombie plague would be nowhere near over by now. Robert Kirkman has stated in the comic's letters page that there are 5,000 zombies for every one human left alive. That is a whole lot of killing to clean that up. I think most people would just be struggling to get by at this point in the apocalypse, which is pretty much what you see in the show. I think it was five years for them to clean them all up in World War Z, and that was a pretty "realistic" look at what would happen during an event like this.

 

[pel7]

I have no idea what you are talking about, the show is still frecking fantastic.

Who said they have the flu? The flu does not cause you to spit up blood. It is some kind of sickness where they need some antibiotics,lol.

 

[Hashish]

I have no idea what you are talking about, the show is still frecking fantastic.

Who said they have the flu? The flu does not cause you to spit up blood. It is some kind of sickness where they need some antibiotics,lol.

They have said it was the flu multiple times. More specifically, it is swine flu. Remember the sick pig? Of course the flu doesn't make you spit up blood! That was one of the points I was making. Even if they had never mentioned flu (which they most certainly have numerous times), I would love to hear your speculations as to what kind of disease it could be that cause blood to pour out of your mouth like you are a feeding vampire. Just ridiculous.

 

[PAChicky]

I can't wait for Justified to start again. I'm contemplating watching Sons of Anarchy on Netflix. Zombies just don't do it for me :mj07:

 

[ImFeklhr]

I won't address the character development (or lack thereof), but I will take on the reason the zombie plague would be nowhere near over by now. Robert Kirkman has stated in the comic's letters page that there are 5,000 zombies for every one human left alive. That is a whole lot of killing to clean that up. I think most people would just be struggling to get by at this point in the apocalypse, which is pretty much what you see in the show. I think it was five years for them to clean them all up in World War Z, and that was a pretty "realistic" look at what would happen during an event like this.

Fair enough. 5000 to 1 makes sense as an explanation of why things are still fucked up. That would mean about 60,000 American's left alive.
But how could this sort of thing ever GET to 5000 to 1? I mean it's ridiculous to think that only 1 out of 5000 people managed to lock their doors and stay inside during the initial stages. If all you had to do was not let someone moving at about 50% normal speed walk up and bite your face off, I'd like to think more than 60,000 people in this country would have figured out a way to survive.
Now I don't need to answer that question in order to suspend my disbelief and enjoy the show, but it makes for interesting cloud-talk.

 

[Morris]

Hey maybe being a zombie isn't that bad there's a shit load of them and they seem content. They just walk around looking for something to eat.

 

[Sportsaholic]

Hey maybe being a zombie isn't that bad there's a shit load of them and they seem content. They just walk around looking for something to eat.

Sorta like Jack whens he's on a bender................:0008:0008

 

[gardenweasel]

Fair enough. 5000 to 1 makes sense as an explanation of why things are still fucked up. That would mean about 60,000 American's left alive.
But how could this sort of thing ever GET to 5000 to 1? I mean it's ridiculous to think that only 1 out of 5000 people managed to lock their doors and stay inside during the initial stages. If all you had to do was not let someone moving at about 50% normal speed walk up and bite your face off, I'd like to think more than 60,000 people in this country would have figured out a way to survive.
Now I don't need to answer that question in order to suspend my disbelief and enjoy the show, but it makes for interesting cloud-talk.

just put treadmills around the complex....zombie problem solved.....

 

[SixFive]

Whole lot of thinking going on for a show about a zombie apocalypse.

I still like it, and I think there will be better episodes to come.

They also are speculating flu, and besides Hershel, they are all lay-people. Maybe it is a bacterial illness that antibiotics will help. Sometimes the flu or a virus will cause a secondary bacterial infection that antibiotics will help. Don't let a mystery illness kill the show for you. :0008

One of the things that killed the series ER for me were innacuracies in disease presentations, treatments, and causes that I could pick apart. That's a show that should have been 100% medically accurate. The Walking Dead is not.