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The Walking Thread (The Talking Dead?)

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    ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Yeah but in all likelihood the zombie outbreak took a good week or two to spread, during which the hospital would have been operating largely as normal.
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    Man that one chick in the hospital

    all the skin torn off and showing nothing but underlying muscle? Goddamn this show is graphic.

    Hell yes its worse than most zombie films, fucking loved it.

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    It's also not like the zombie shit started the day after he got shot, he was healing in the hospital for a decent amount of time before shit went down seems like

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Balefuego wrote: »
    It wasn't a police horse though


    pretty sure police horses go through training for that shit

    to an extent, yes

    but a horse's natural behavior in a situation like that is to bail via trampling the bajeezus out of anything in its way

    i'm not saying that the idea of a mob of zombies taking down a horse is completely unbelievable

    just that the way it was shown in this episode was pretty lame and pretty suspension of disbelief breaking, for me anyhow

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Horse sausages!

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    ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I'm fine with the guy's IV lasting that long, but I did think it was cheesy that the clock stopped. The batteries just so happened to die during those couple weeks?

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    my fiancee literally covered her face with a pillow during the horse-devouring and asked me to tell her when it was over

    she did this at no other point in the episode, nor has she done it when we watched any other gory thing (watched [REC] with her last night, watched Piranha 3D with her a few weeks ago)

    but she used to horseback ride competitively and grew up riding horses and stuff

    so

    empathy's funny like that

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    It wasn't a police horse though


    pretty sure police horses go through training for that shit

    to an extent, yes

    but a horse's natural behavior in a situation like that is to bail via trampling the bajeezus out of anything in its way

    i'm not saying that the idea of a mob of zombies taking down a horse is completely unbelievable

    just that the way it was shown in this episode was pretty lame and pretty suspension of disbelief breaking, for me anyhow

    the point about the fact that a mob of actual people would give way to a freaked out horse while the zombies wouldn't even give a fuck is a good one though

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    MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I need a gif of black zombie lady doing the pigeon look through the peep-hole stat

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    They can give you horse sausages but they can't say fuck

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    StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    IVs are 8 hours, tops.

    I've never had one last longer than 8.


    Then again, I'm generally dehydrated when I have them.

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    ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I just hope this conversation take place at least once:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBFgiOklqmw

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    also this is the first zombie thing i have ever watched where i felt a person reacted appropriately to seeing a zombie of one of their loved ones

    except maybe shawn of the dead, strangely enough?

    in most films people seem to get over the fact that this is someone they used to know and love that they gotta now kill alarmingly quickly

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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    lets argue about tv comas and the physics of horsetrampling for ten pages

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    ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Seriously though, the bike lady, goddamn, I couldnt look away.

    Snowbeat this is a zombie thread, zombies are an excuse to let insane details run wild. It was pretty much the only interesting thing about World War Z.

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    lets argue about tv comas and the physics of horsetrampling for ten pages

    what if the horse went into a coma

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    UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Clearly the the arc of the zombie outbreak can be measured by the flowers on the table next to the hospital bed

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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    what if the whole thing is the horse's coma dream

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    lets argue about tv comas and the physics of horsetrampling for ten pages

    what if the horse went into a coma

    IV saddlebags

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    man the part where he slowly walks through a beautiful park to the crawling bike-lady was weirdly moving

    "i'm sorry that this happened to you"

    that was probably the most touching moment in the episode for me

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    lets argue about tv comas and the physics of horsetrampling for ten pages

    what if the horse went into a coma

    IV saddlebags

    what if the horse
    was spiders?

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Ubik wrote: »
    Clearly the the arc of the zombie outbreak can be measured by the flowers on the table next to the hospital bed

    this is probably the best measure, but trouble is after they die they pretty much look the same for weeks on end.

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    ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    It's also possible that the last holdouts of the hospital only just recently left, and had been keeping him alive until then. There weren't any "walkers" wandering the halls after all.

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    George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    the horse was dead the whole time

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    StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    man the part where he slowly walks through a beautiful park to the crawling bike-lady was weirdly moving

    "i'm sorry that this happened to you"

    that was probably the most touching moment in the episode for me

    I actually think that was Piedmont Park.

    Which ironically is inside Atlanta proper. I figured they only shot parts here and the rest elsewhere. Maybe not.

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    ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    man the part where he slowly walks through a beautiful park to the crawling bike-lady was weirdly moving

    "i'm sorry that this happened to you"

    that was probably the most touching moment in the episode for me

    Same definitely, zombie movies rarely deal with this kind of thing, the horror of the condition itself.

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    FrankoFranko Sometimes I really wish I had four feet so I could dance with myself to the drumbeat Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I'm watching the repeat right now
    funniest part was
    torso of zombie woman crawling forward as guy crys and awkwardly bikes away

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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    And really, the horse was a good idea in theory. The situation went downhill more when he turned that corner

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    UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    The horse looked pretty unhealthy to begin with

    But I'm no horseologist

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    ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Franko that is a funny part if you're Jeffry Dahmer

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    also i liked that the kid seeing his zombie mom made him totally spaz in a fashion that made a great deal of sense

    and the dad was like "i know, i know, but cry into the pillow so we don't all die from this"

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Ubik wrote: »
    The horse looked pretty unhealthy to begin with

    But I'm no horseologist

    he really should have checked the teeth

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Javen wrote: »
    And really, the horse was a good idea in theory. The situation went downhill more when he turned that corner

    i absolutely loved that

    before that it, was just a handful of zombies here and there

    even the zombies he encountered in Atlanta he was literally like "oh that ain't shit"

    then he turns the corner and OH FUCK

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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    this show is pretty great

    i like that they're going to allow it to have a pretty good buildup

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    also i liked that the kid seeing his zombie mom made him totally spaz in a fashion that made a great deal of sense

    and the dad was like "i know, i know, but cry into the pillow so we don't all die from this"

    Also the shower

    Seems like hadn't seen a hot shower in probably weeks, to be that happy about it.


    After what they'd been through, things like a hot shower make you feel like a human being again.

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    ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I feel like a colossal dick for mentioning this, but how exactly would a tank crew get overrun? I feel like they could've just rolled their way across the landscape. Im guessing it ran out of gas or something.

    Also there needs to be more bodies in certain areas, I feel that with the amount of guns americans have, there should be WAY more dead zombies.

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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Whenever I watch a movie or a show where that thing happens my mind immediately goes to Han Solo in A New Hope

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    ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    So do you guys think those zombies in the bus actually went back in there as zombies and just chilled out? Or did they die there and just hadn't moved the whole time?

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Prohass wrote: »
    I feel like a colossal dick for mentioning this, but how exactly would a tank crew get overrun? I feel like they could've just rolled their way across the landscape. Im guessing it ran out of gas or something.

    Also there needs to be more bodies in certain areas, I feel that with the amount of guns americans have, there should be WAY more dead zombies.

    it probably ran out of fuel and so the crew just abandoned it

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    man the part where he slowly walks through a beautiful park to the crawling bike-lady was weirdly moving

    "i'm sorry that this happened to you"

    that was probably the most touching moment in the episode for me

    I was not sure whether
    it was just some random woman who he felt obligated to because it was the first zombie he really interacted with

    or if he thought it might have been his wife

    it felt very ambiguous, but maybe I missed something

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    UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Zek wrote: »
    So do you guys think those zombies in the bus actually went back in there as zombies and just chilled out? Or did they die there and just hadn't moved the whole time?

    They could have went back

    I think the zombie wife/mom shows that there's still a little of the person in there

    so if they were habitual bus riders in life . . .

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