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[The Walking Dead] Season one is over "Man I'm gonna get shitfaced drunk, again"
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In other news Crysis could use some zombies.
In other, other news I find it hilarious someone found the terrible shit in the pilot that involved humans to be fine but a horse being eaten alive made them go 'fuckthis'.
I've got a friend like this. I'm all 'yay, animals' and whatnot, but there's far worse.
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Eh, it's just a show.
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I was watching this with my dad, I had neglected to inform him that it was a TV show and not a movie, so when we reached the end he was all "that's unfair"
However, who the fuck cares? Zombie movies are great.
Some thoughts:
- I remarked while watching that the actor playing Rick was doing a great Gulf South accent, which apparently is hard to pull off since just about every actor that tries ends up coming up with a cartoonish Tennessee/W.Virginia/Texas accent. Turns out the guy is British. Go figure, right? So the best Southern accents on American TV right now are all done by Brits or Australians. Weird.
- As far as the show getting bleaker, it is something that can turn audiences away, but audiences are more apt to turn away from unlikable characters than they are charismatic characters in unsavory situations. There are enough bleak TV shows in the annals of programming history to at least give this one a chance. It can't be Bleaksville 24-7, but as long as the audience has someone to root for, they'll take a lot of bad shit thrown at them.
- The show would do well to resolve the "Survivors in the Woods" subplot, because every time it pops up it's like the show throws on the e-brake. The scope of this show has started off so large, and I think dragging it down into "my best friend is sleeping with my wife who thinks I'm dead" melodrama bullshit is a buzzkill. More zombie killing, less human moping.
There is also, however, a lot of zombie killing to liven it up.
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You are thinking about this tactically, and not strategically. What happens to the civilian population during all of this? Panic, massive amounts of panic. Food shortages, water shortages, power outages are all going to be happening. What happens when some military man shoots some crazy fucks zombie wife? He is going to go ballistic. What happens when all of the people the military are supposed to be protecting run out of food and water because society has collapsed? There will be mass hording and looting etc. People will be doing raids on the military, because hey they have food and guns! Military people will start shooting civilians because they will ultimately have no choice, and with every person that dies in this panic, a new zombie is born. So zombies will win by fear alone. It's not the zombies we should fear, but it is ourselves. Or to quote FDR, "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself."
You're not going to like this show.
What makes The Walking Dead good IS the "human moping". This show is not so much about the zombie apocalypse, but how people would change during it. It's about the human condition. There's zombie killing, but there's more deaths from other live humans than zombies.
There's several issues of this comic where you don't see a single zombie. If you're only in it for the zombies, unfortunately... you may be disappointed.
It's almost like there are too many variables to consider in a hypothetical situation like a zombie apocalypse that debating about things like military effectiveness is meaningless...
Well you've convinced at least one person. I never thought about it, but now that you've brought it up it makes a lot of sense that a modern military would have literally 0 trouble with a zombie outbreak.
also spawnbroker that is PERFECT for the governor, absolutely dead on
That ending, holllyyyy shit.
Overall I liked it. I wasn't blown away, but I love zombies and the more mainstream they get, the more we will get exposed to quality material like this. I guess my biggest complaint is that it didn't feel complete, more like a rough cut.
When I think about a zombie apocalypse, I think about how easily shit like SARs, H1N1, Avian Flu and the Black Plague spread. It's a disease and in this global community, we've shown a complete incompetence towards battling contagious disease in it's early onset. A zombie outbreak would be treated like a pandemic and initially people would try to calm and contain zombies so they could attempt to treat their symptoms rather than put them down. This alone would cause many deaths. To contain such an outbreak the world economy would have to shut down, all flights grounded, all boats harboured, nobody comes in, nobody goes out until the world over has a handle on this new way of life. That's a completely unprecedented act and our leaders wouldn't be quick to do it, once again this would cause many deaths.
The only way the military could possibly fight off a zombie apocalypse would be to bunker down and wait for the initial panic to cease, then begin re-taking the country, piece by piece. Fighting it as it happens would be nigh on impossible. It's a numbers game and there's gonna be waay more corpses than fighters.
The American military has an active personnel of 1,477,896 according to wikipedia and it's estimated that 1,137,568 are actually in the States. Under NORMAL circumstances about 250,000 to 300,000 die everyday. There's 310,607,000 people in the US alone. In The Walking Dead, EVERYONE comes back as a zombie. So Day 1 of the outbreak, there's between 250-300k zombies worldwide JUST from natural causes and nobody has a clue. The military would not mobilize on day one and that many zombies are going to kill and subsequently create an exponentially greater amount of zombies. The amount of damage that could be done in just one day would be astronomical. By the time the army does mobilize it's going to be too late. How will the army fight off such great numbers? Even if they could contain it, the world would be changed forever because the threat never goes away.
MAYBE the American Army could "save" America if they had a contingency plan against zombies and mobilized on day one... but there's a shit ton of countries out there that don't have the military personnel and resources to do such a thing. Canada would be fucked and all us Canadian zombies could easily pour over the unprotected border towards America. Many countries would be lost to the dead entirely (China and Japan would be super screwed).
I think the reason it feels that way is
I can say that it's the same here in Sweden. New tv series finds their way to dubious channels for starters, and if they are really popular and requested that takes about a year. Notable exception is Stargate Universe which came to a non-dubious network about 6 months after its premiere. Otherwise they're generally only fast to import sit-coms.
Spartacus season one just started here three weeks ago.
Somebody... get to work on a zombie RTS. That's the only way we'll figure this out.
This kinda assumes that the soldiers will maintain discipline in the face of a pretty horrific situation. The most likely scenario is that the military probably started making a concerted effort against the zombies after it would've been most effective because the government would've still be trying to "save" the infected. The soldiers would likely have been surrounded because infected people would've been brought behind the front lines. By the time people figured out how the zombies actually work, it was probably too late.
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By the time the army was mobilized and responded, it would be too late. There wouldn't be a country left to defend. And that's not even counting the fact that the soldiers themselves are more than likely going to say "fuck your orders, i'm going to save grandma."
Is Sunday, 9 PM going to be the time, and will they all be an hour and a half? Also, is AMC the last channel on the planet without HD? Honestly....
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AMC has an HD version of their channel... it's just not available everywhere
EDIT: The Walking Dead compendium is currently #68 on Amazon's book sales list and TWD has 2 of the top 10 spots in graphic novels (Scott Pilgrim has 5. I guess Vol. 5 isn't that popular).
Yeah, let's keep in mind here
Last part I remember was basically the older guy