Found out that the AMC channel has a new series called The Walking Dead. It is about a group of people trying to get away from zombies.
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There have been a lot of good word-of-mouth reviews from my friends and co-workers who watch it. I enjoyed the pilot. I still have to watch episode 2 (DVR'd), even though it was said that episode wasn't very strong.
Apparently there's supposed to be a different atmosphere to this zombie tale. The creators/writers are trying to make you feel sympathetic to the zombies. They didn't want to be that way, but ended up that way, and even though they are walking around doing their zombie thing, you can tell by some of them that there are cries for help when the living are about ready to put them out of their misery.
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This is one of our favorite new shows. We got a lot of build-up for it at Comic-Con this year (including a several hundred strong zombie walk through San Diego). Solid characters (with only a couple of central casting stereotypes), great suspense and action (and violence and blood and...), good pacing. Shocking, in a way, that it airs on basic cable.
The 90 minute series premiere was a great introduction, but I actually thought episode two was even better. It's still life and death stakes, it's still incredibly gory and graphic, but there's just a dash of humor that was much needed.
I'm not sure how a zombie movie will work as an open-ended series in the long run, but so far, it's great. Can't wait for part three on Sunday.
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From the first episode it seems that Rick was in a coma for about a month.
One thing I couldn't understand about is about the girl crawler in the first episode. Assuming her legs were removed during the zombied process won't she had bled out and not be able to function as a zombie?
Best scene in episode two is the one where the gang in the department store was about to start to chop up the walker and after Rick goes through the walker stuff and Glenn makes mention that the walker was an organ donor.
So far there has been no mention of how things got started.
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I'm finding the more people they introduce, the less I like the show. I still like it a lot, but... they're going to a pretty well-worn library of central casting stock stereotypes that make it hard for me to take some of the drama seriously. "LOST" did the same, but gave the characters more depth... even the ones that were cartoonish at first (i.e. the redneck, the misunderstood minority, etc.). The only standard issue character missing is a pregnant woman (which my wife and I deduced after lining up each one, one to one, with "LOST" characters).
The additional characters also mean more subplots and wheel-spinning with interpersonal conflict... which is a staple of any story, I know, but... there's a lot left to be told about the world they're in.
Still, I like the mix of action and suspense, dark humor, and their willingness to take things slow and get "talky" or even pensive and quiet when the story calls for it. Its movie-quality production also helps.
I was horrified to learn that this first season is only six episodes long, meaning that we're already halfway through!
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According to Oceanic Digital Cable guide the 6th and last episode of the season will air on Sunday (12/5) at 8pm HST with encore presentations at 9pm HST and 11 pm HST.
The first 5 episodes of the season will also on Sunday starting at 2:30 pm HST.
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While the last episode (of the season) didn't hint to the origin of the disease it did try to explain the nature of the disease. It also explains what happen to the people, it seems if the disease didn't convert a person to a walker (or geeks according to Glenn), one dies either by their own hand or got killed by the military.
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No blatant, hair-pulling cliffhanger to close the impossibly short season, which is a relief after five "LOST" season finales. Apart from what the scientist whispered to the cop, there's no explicit dangling question beyond what the group does next.
Of course, "redneck missing a hand" and "father and son with walkie talkie" are still out there somewhere.
I was enjoying the drama right up until the pyrotechnic close, in which we're apparently seeing the most destructive explosion possible besides a nuclear blast, and yet not a hair on grumpy partner's head is singed after merely ducking down in an open Jeep.
I know the show plot is diverging significantly from the graphic novels that inspired it, and I'm almost curious enough to seek them out to see how else the story might have unfolded.
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To be fair grumpy partner's (Shane) jeep was the farthest from the blast. However I am kind of surprised that the closest auto which was Dale's R/V had no damage to the windshield.
The one thing I found strange is how come Rick didn't keep track of the gernade, it was kind of lucky an adult had it and not one of the kids.Last edited by helen; December 6, 2010, 09:36 PM.
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Sort of noticed that Daryl seemed more of team player on today's episode, but he didn't flinch much when opening up the stomach contents of recently dispatched walker.
Another strange thing is the three walkers sitting down inside of a church.
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