The Walking Dead

[BigC208]

Been reading the comic series since it began in 2003. They strayed from the comic book storyline. I had a hard time getting into the characters because of preconceived notions. I see the two as seperate now and enjoy them both. It's more about human survival than zombies as the story unfolds. People are worse enemies than zombies. One thing that's pretty close to the comic is that none of the core characters are spared. People get killed off left and right and that keeps the show unpredictable. Dale and Sophia were suposed to die much later in the storyline and they kept Shane around a lot longer than in the comic. Also, Ricks son, Carl, killed Shane as a normal, non zombie, human being. Another thing that's not clear on the show is how/why people turn zombie. In the comic it's shown that everyone who dies, zombie bitten or not, returns from the dead unless decapitated or shot in the head. I recommend everyone who likes the show to read the comic also.

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by Outlaw

What was "sci-fi" about the last 2 episodes and what explanation was missing?

--Outlaw.

i dont want to spoil it, but overall, i think the scientific explanation given in the last 2 episodes (m ireally not sure if it was just in the last one tough) by that cliche "desperate scientis" characther, to be a joke, and nothing new / interesting at all.

either a story has a good mood and its nice to see for the killing, and doesnt try to come up with science to justify all things, or it simply as to be coherent (as in flashforward, who was completely impossible, yet coherent).

but this is my opinion, most of my friends didnt care for it, and kept on watching.

[Outlaw]

Originally Posted by pupo162

i dont want to spoil it, but overall, i think the scientific explanation given in the last 2 episodes (m ireally not sure if it was just in the last one tough) by that cliche "desperate scientis" characther, to be a joke, and nothing new / interesting at all.

either a story has a good mood and its nice to see for the killing, and doesnt try to come up with science to justify all things, or it simply as to be coherent (as in flashforward, who was completely impossible, yet coherent).

but this is my opinion, most of my friends didnt care for it, and kept on watching.

Ahhhhhh, I get it. We were thinking of different episodes. To me, the last episode of season 1 is the barn finale. That may not be technically correct though.

I do dislike the entire "living dead" concept myself". I prefer the "28 Days Later" or "I am Legend" concept where the "zombies" are simply diseased people. Dead people returning to life is kind of ridiculous, but, it is standard in the genre. I particularly hated the crawling torso in the beginning. Unless you go with the supernatural, muscle movement requires metabolism and that does not occur with the standard zombie formula.

Still, I can get over it as the rest of the show is interesting enough for me. I will read the graphic novel after the end of the show.

--Outlaw.

[Kupsised]

Originally Posted by Outlaw

Ahhhhhh, I get it. We were thinking of different episodes. To me, the last episode of season 1 is the barn finale. That may not be technically correct though.

I do dislike the entire "living dead" concept myself". I prefer the "28 Days Later" or "I am Legend" concept where the "zombies" are simply diseased people. Dead people returning to life is kind of ridiculous, but, it is standard in the genre. I particularly hated the crawling torso in the beginning. Unless you go with the supernatural, muscle movement requires metabolism and that does not occur with the standard zombie formula.

Still, I can get over it as the rest of the show is interesting enough for me. I will read the graphic novel after the end of the show.

--Outlaw.

The barn scene is the end of season 2 part 1 (it was split in to two parts).

I agree with you on the 28 Days Later bit though, that's really the only zombie film I've watched that's scared me in some respect because of how believable (and potentially real) it was. That, and the zombies could run, making them more of a threat than an 'oh no now I have to walk reasonably quickly in the other direction' inconvenience. The Walking Dead kind of zombies are really only a threat if you're standing still. Anyway, a bit of a spoiler (I'll put it in small text so people who don't want to see it/haven't figured it out don't accidently read it):

WARNING! HERE BE SPOILERS!!!




The whole point of the walking dead is that it is a virus. Everyone has it, which is why it's the 'walking dead', since the ones left alive are the walking dead, not the zombies themselves. That's apparently (according to 'experts' although I think it's that way in the comic) what Jenner tells Rick at the end of series 1. The whole point of the virus is that it makes you 're-animate' after you die, which is why Shane turned when he hadn't been bitten, there were the zombie cops without bites at the school and there was the zombie hanging from the tree. I suppose it's kind of realistic in that sense, in that it is a virus, but still not really.




At least, that's what the missus tells me anyway, based on the comics plus what a few people who have spent a lot of time thinking about these things have figured out.

EDIT: Ok, text not as small as I hoped it'd be.