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PostPosted: 03-22-2012 06:37 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Memphis wrote:

Yup, there is a 13th. It's then Rick says he was (apparently) told at the CDC by scientist guy that they already carry it, though far as I recall, we weren't shown this exchange.


we were shown it, but we couldn't hear it.




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PostPosted: 03-22-2012 09:51 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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:olo: :olo: :olo: :olo: :olo:


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PostPosted: 03-22-2012 11:11 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


At first I was like "you turn when you die, so what? just make a bullet to the head part of the grieving ritual."
I totally forgot the religious implications, the news that they are all infected, would have on their morale.




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This show sucks.
Why dont we drive around and deplete all our ammo, let two people die and then leave..instead of just leaving when you see 300 walkers coming from a half mile away. Then that dipshit who pulled the RV up to the barn, then parked it..then looked out the door...no big deal. Sharpshooters hanging out the window in moving car headshot after headshot.
Loved the dramatic barn burning farm abandoning music, I'm really going to miss that place...entire season shot in 1 location, I was hoping for another 13 eps at the farm...rofl.
I cant stop watching this trainwreck, I seriously hope everyone dies except Daryl.




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PostPosted: 03-22-2012 11:33 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Not to mention Grandpa with his trusty never-need-reload shotgun and their ability to hit headshot after headshot from a moving, bouncing vehicle. Then later on the zombies were going down from abdomen shots. Good call on the blonde being able to carry a heavy carryall of guns while running from night to mid day the next day. That was brilliant :|.

They really really need to get someone to choreograph the infected. There's a great bit in the 28 Weeks Later behind the scenes where they show how they prime all the zombies before shooting them so they have an overall homogeneous character, in Walking Dead they just do whatever the fuck they want. Some amble, some jog, some flail their arms and some are inanimate, some feel pain and others don't, some show signs of intelligence where as others are autonomic. it's a fucking shambles.

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:olo: :olo: Balsa wood fence.

There was a nice bit where they broke a barbed wire fence and all tripped over it. That was probably the best bit in the finale.

Also fuck them for killing Bill, he and Daryl were the only ones worth any salt.



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PostPosted: 03-22-2012 07:15 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


u guys whine too much. It's a great show - be grateful you are alive to watch it.




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It’s more than a bit of a mess and i agree completely when people get pissed that the show has no clear rules of behaviour for the zombies and how the story has annoyingly large gaps of logic and how it progresses way too slowly compared to the comic.

There’s occasional bits of awesome and it’s totally cool that there’s a show about zombies that’s doing well, but to the zombie purist this show is a painful affair. There’s just too many mistakes, too much sloppiness, not nearly enough grittiness - and what bothers me most of all is that it’s far too much of a soap opera.

Still… it’s a show about zombies and i loves me some zombies - so i’ll keep watching. And whining because it apparently won’t ever live up to my expectations.



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Ryoki wrote:
...it progresses way too slowly compared to the comic.

There’s occasional bits of awesome and it’s totally cool that there’s a show about zombies that’s doing well, but to the zombie purist this show is a painful affair. There’s just too many mistakes, too much sloppiness, not nearly enough grittiness - and what bothers me most of all is that it’s far too much of a soap opera.


Well in all fairness what works in comics doesn't always work for tv or movies and verse visa.
And because consumers are such spoiled brats I have no doubt whatsoever that if the show had more grit that people would complain that there's too much. Or at the very least the action and intensity would be so constant that it became boring.




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PostPosted: 03-23-2012 06:11 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I felt that the 2nd half of season 2 struck a nice balance between undead action and crazy people drama. :shrug:




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To be honest, comparing the pace of the show to the pace of the comics will lead you a cropper. The comics generally go "One trade paperback slow, one with lots of action", and as TPBs are collections of 6 or so comics, the series is following the comics quite closely in terms of pace.




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shaft wrote:
This show sucks.
Why dont we drive around and deplete all our ammo, let two people die and then leave..instead of just leaving when you see 300 walkers coming from a half mile away. Then that dipshit who pulled the RV up to the barn, then parked it..then looked out the door...no big deal. Sharpshooters hanging out the window in moving car headshot after headshot.
Loved the dramatic barn burning farm abandoning music, I'm really going to miss that place...entire season shot in 1 location, I was hoping for another 13 eps at the farm...rofl.
I cant stop watching this trainwreck, I seriously hope everyone dies except Daryl.


I agree with all of that except for the show sucking. Carl's so fucking stupid I'm actually hoping he gets brutally rent asunder and devoured alive by zombies.




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phantasmagoria wrote:
They really really need to get someone to choreograph the infected... ...Some amble, some jog, some flail their arms and some are inanimate, some feel pain and others don't, some show signs of intelligence where as others are autonomic. it's a fucking shambles.


lol they're mindless zombies and you want them choreographed? What a stupid criticism of a show you can't stop watching.




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PostPosted: 03-23-2012 09:15 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
phantasmagoria wrote:
They really really need to get someone to choreograph the infected... ...Some amble, some jog, some flail their arms and some are inanimate, some feel pain and others don't, some show signs of intelligence where as others are autonomic. it's a fucking shambles.


lol they're mindless zombies and you want them choreographed? What a stupid criticism of a show you can't stop watching.


you're a clueless moron.



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PostPosted: 03-23-2012 10:06 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


in fact:



obviously it's a different type of infection, but the walkers in Walking Dead just have no direction what so ever. They're shit.

I have no defence as to why I watch this garbage, I think because maybe I want it to be better than it is because they're fucking up such a good concept that no one else will be able to get IP on again for fear of copying it, even though they blatantly rip off L4D repeatedly and shamelessly.



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One of my favourite scenes from any film ever. This is on par with the helicopter bit in Apocalypse Now:



Pity the rest of the film is shit but oh well.



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shit shit shit shit

everything is shit when seen through eyeliner




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phantasmagoria wrote:
One of my favourite scenes from any film ever. This is on par with the helicopter bit in Apocalypse Now:



Pity the rest of the film is shit but oh well.

agreed on both counts :up:
the rest of the movie is about as much fun as trapping your finger in a door, but the intro was excellent - the way it moves from a family meal to chaos, carnage, terror and flight in a matter of minutes is brilliantly handled.

on intros, that made me google this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIMnAbII2s8 (the hidden, 1987 - jump to 0.27 for the start of the movie).

just saw the last episode and have to whine along with everyone else - this show needs to hire an actual tv writer, a writer who's done soap operas or something. feel like i have to watch it because the comics are so awesome, but it just makes me rage at the screen. i don't care if they change all the characters or fuck with the mythos, just don't fuck with the basics of making tv drama. there are saturday morning cartoons with better developed characters and group dynamics than this - and they manage it in 15 minutes with a few lines of dialog instead of eleventy thousand hours of NOTHING HAPPENING while everyone sits around smelling their fingers and bleating about the feelings they're apparently having.

but there's bound to be another writer shuffle for the next season - and maybe now that michonne's turned up, things will get better.




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phantasmagoria wrote:
you're a clueless moron.


Ok...then clarify how something that is mindless should show choreography. Better yet, explain WHY something that is mindless should show choreography.

Perhaps you don't know what the word "mindless" means?




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phantasmagoria wrote:
One of my favourite scenes from any film ever. This is on par with the helicopter bit in Apocalypse Now:



Pity the rest of the film is shit but oh well.


Zombieland Rule #1 saved him.



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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
phantasmagoria wrote:
you're a clueless moron.


Ok...then clarify how something that is mindless should show choreography. Better yet, explain WHY something that is mindless should show choreography.

Perhaps you don't know what the word "mindless" means?



The problem is that some of the actors playing zombies are mindless and some of them aren't. Only some of them feel pain, only some of them focus with their eyes and their movement dymanics are completely random. Watch the first video I posted. Just because they're zombies doesn't mean they don't need proper direction. In fact BECAUSE they're zombies and because they're mindless they must absolutely have strict direction. The whole point of zombies is that there's no individuality, they're a hoard with no personality or identity.

You're a fucking idiot and I'm not going to discuss this any further with you.



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phantasmagoria wrote:
The problem is that some of the actors playing zombies are mindless and some of them aren't. Only some of them feel pain, only some of them focus with their eyes and their movement dymanics are completely random. Watch the first video I posted. Just because they're zombies doesn't mean they don't need proper direction. In fact BECAUSE they're zombies and because they're mindless they must absolutely have strict direction. The whole point of zombies is that there's no individuality, they're a hoard with no personality or identity.

You're a fucking idiot and I'm not going to discuss this any further with you.


lol you've been sniffing too much codpiece

You didn't even attempt to answer my question, you just repeated what you posted previously.

"The whole point of zombies??"

lol dude you take this shit way too serious




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Zombieland Rule #1 saved him.


he could have just hid quietly on the roof




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phanty, how are you able to infer mindlessness and pain responses of the walkers? They all seem to function according to the same basic rules, I don't sense the inconsistencies between individual walkers that you seem to do.




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yeah phanty you dropped the ball on that one. I don't see anything wrong with slight variations in their behavior... after all who's to say how zombiefication affects each indivisual? how about how long they have been turned? I don't see a rulebook anywhere...

"The whole point of zombies is that there's no individuality"
you just made that up, I can tell by how little sense it makes.

Now I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt. They may very well suck at choreography, but I don't see anything wrong with the end result.




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emotions sure are running high over a tv show

anyone would think apple had released a new product or something




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i still don't understand the point of trolling over things like this, but jules is good at it.

GONNAFISTYA wrote:
lol you've been sniffing too much codpiece

You didn't even attempt to answer my question, you just repeated what you posted previously.

"The whole point of zombies??"

lol dude you take this shit way too serious

2/10 - wilfully ignorant comeback and finished with copping out. that was wretched, like watching you try to run.

[xeno]Julios wrote:
phanty, how are you able to infer mindlessness and pain responses of the walkers? They all seem to function according to the same basic rules, I don't sense the inconsistencies between individual walkers that you seem to do.

7/10 - familiarity, wide-eyed inquisitiveness, changing the focus of the argument. i can imagine someone responding to this seriously before they've had a chance to think it through.

back on topic, phant is right. as a propmaker, he's probably going to be looking at anything that uses make-up/sfx more closely than most folks (especially after that bit with the balsa-wood fence), but there were four of us watching this at our house yesterday and we all noticed how inconsistent the extras were too. now that i've actually thought about it, think it might be partly because they were trying to get shots that matched the comics (and they did, very well) - but then maybe carried on filming from those positions instead of using their 'trained' zombies and getting all the other extras that they just brought in to play the herd out of the way. it would probably have added half a day to filming to do that - hopefully next season their budget will go up again - and hopefully they'll get rid of that whining bitch with the short hair, even the shape of her head annoys me.




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4days wrote:
back on topic, phant is right. as a propmaker, he's probably going to be looking at anything that uses make-up/sfx more closely than most folks (especially after that bit with the balsa-wood fence), but there were four of us watching this at our house yesterday and we all noticed how inconsistent the extras were too. now that i've actually thought about it, think it might be partly because they were trying to get shots that matched the comics (and they did, very well) - but then maybe carried on filming from those positions instead of using their 'trained' zombies and getting all the other extras that they just brought in to play the herd out of the way. it would probably have added half a day to filming to do that - hopefully next season their budget will go up again - and hopefully they'll get rid of that whining bitch with the short hair, even the shape of her head annoys me.


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Carl is starting to irritate me. He's the cause of all their problems. If he hadn't fucked about in the woods, that zombie never would have gotten loose and ripped the old dude's stomach open. If he hadn't shot Shane and just told his father to turn around so he could stab him, the huge horde wouldn't have heard the shot and would have walked right past the house. If he hadn't delivered that horribly forced and awkward "Do it, Dad, do it," line in the barn when his father was about to shoot the prisoner, the whole mess would have been done with and Shane never would have had an opportunity to lure his buddy into the woods. Plus he keeps wandering into the middle of conversations he's meant to never hear, despite being told to stay somewhere else. Little fucker.

Despite the fact that there were countless problems with the last few episodes, I'm glad to see it picking back up and see them get on with it. I've been tempted to give up on the show here and there, but something keeps dragging me back. Maybe it's like what others have said: zombie shows are few and far between, so I should lower my standards and be happy there's one on that's even half decent. Plus it has the potential to be even better, given the source material. Here's hoping. :up:

shaft wrote:
This show sucks.
Why dont we drive around and deplete all our ammo, let two people die and then leave..instead of just leaving when you see 300 walkers coming from a half mile away. Then that dipshit who pulled the RV up to the barn, then parked it..then looked out the door...no big deal. Sharpshooters hanging out the window in moving car headshot after headshot.
Loved the dramatic barn burning farm abandoning music, I'm really going to miss that place...entire season shot in 1 location, I was hoping for another 13 eps at the farm...rofl.
I cant stop watching this trainwreck, I seriously hope everyone dies except Daryl.

Every time they pulled the trigger it was a wasted bullet, even the perfect headshots which seemed to occur with every shot. Apparently becoming a zombie makes your brain a super magnet as well as give you an insatiable appetite for human flesh. They're in cars, FFS, just drive around.

phantasmagoria wrote:
They really really need to get someone to choreograph the infected. There's a great bit in the 28 Weeks Later behind the scenes where they show how they prime all the zombies before shooting them so they have an overall homogeneous character, in Walking Dead they just do whatever the fuck they want. Some amble, some jog, some flail their arms and some are inanimate, some feel pain and others don't, some show signs of intelligence where as others are autonomic. it's a fucking shambles.

To me, that seemed to be the whole point. Each zombie has their own traits. The zombies that have been dead for less time probably have more energy left from not needing to eat, and can afford to flail about, whereas the older ones are worn out and simply can't raise their arms as frequently. We've seen in the past that fresh zombies still exhibit a teensy bit of intelligence, like looking into the eyes of their target, so that explains why some are smarter than others in a horde; we just didn't see them recently get turned. The feeling pain bit, however, I agree with. No zombie should ever wince.



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