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***OFFICIAL 'The Walking Dead' TV Series Thread*** (10 Viewers)

So hey, jumped back in because you can't get away from this show. Got all caught up from end of first season on. Its pretty good but still way too cheesy in spots. Like last night's episode. Everything about Andrea was just B movie level. Run into the woods, close cam, bam zombies. Governor chases you to the spooky old warehouse. You escape but don't take his truck. Get caught just before you get to the prison. Dumb girl.

Anyway, I'm interested. The governor is a much more interesting character than Shane that's for sure. Should be a good final two eps.

 
'The Ref said:
I know it's bad form to come into a show thread and #####, esp when you are new to the show. That being said this season isn't good.The first season was about "the zombie apocalypse" and the immediate triage of what happened. It also set up some rules of the new normal.The second season wasn't all that far after. The group was still figuring out what happened. They were still trying to find a new home so they could start the process of starting over. Sure the show had some drama between the two alpha males and you had the dichotomy with the Farm group. But more or less the show was humans trying to survive zombies, setting up a food water shelter supply and starting over.This season has been two factions at War with each other....... why exactly? The whole focus has changed from a show about surviving the zombie apocalypse to a war with one eye willie. Sorry.... lot came off the old fast ball this season. Nobody is worrying about clearing out the zombies out front of the jail. Nobody is worrying about food/water/medical supplies. Nobody is worried about getting electricity back up and running. We got a war with some dude that nobody gives a crap about.
This is pretty common plot evolution in apocalyptic fiction. Maybe it's not for you.
 
So hey, jumped back in because you can't get away from this show. Got all caught up from end of first season on. Its pretty good but still way too cheesy in spots. Like last night's episode. Everything about Andrea was just B movie level. Run into the woods, close cam, bam zombies. Governor chases you to the spooky old warehouse. You escape but don't take his truck. Get caught just before you get to the prison. Dumb girl.

Anyway, I'm interested. The governor is a much more interesting character than Shane that's for sure. Should be a good final two eps.
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So hey, jumped back in because you can't get away from this show. Got all caught up from end of first season on. Its pretty good but still way too cheesy in spots. Like last night's episode. Everything about Andrea was just B movie level. Run into the woods, close cam, bam zombies. Governor chases you to the spooky old warehouse. You escape but don't take his truck. Get caught just before you get to the prison. Dumb girl.

Anyway, I'm interested. The governor is a much more interesting character than Shane that's for sure. Should be a good final two eps.
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Shane was annoying doushnozzle. They really dragged him out longer that it took. It should have been either "You slept with my wife after you left me to die? POW" or "Ok #### happened, let's move on." The governor is a far better villain.
 
So hey, jumped back in because you can't get away from this show. Got all caught up from end of first season on. Its pretty good but still way too cheesy in spots. Like last night's episode. Everything about Andrea was just B movie level. Run into the woods, close cam, bam zombies. Governor chases you to the spooky old warehouse. You escape but don't take his truck. Get caught just before you get to the prison. Dumb girl.

Anyway, I'm interested. The governor is a much more interesting character than Shane that's for sure. Should be a good final two eps.
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Shane was annoying doushnozzle. They really dragged him out longer that it took. It should have been either "You slept with my wife after you left me to die? POW" or "Ok #### happened, let's move on." The governor is a far better villain.
Much bigger fan of Shane. The Gub comes off as unbelievable to me.
 
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'cstu said:
The bad casting of the governor continues to snowball, getting worse. I just don't believe this guy. :shrug:
I guess I'm one of the few that finds him very believable. I could easily see some average guy, middle-manager type becoming like him. I find his character far more interesting than the one in the comic.
Haven't read the comics but I also like him. I thought he was terrific last week in particular during the scenes with Rick.
well, in the comics is is even more twisted and at first I was having some issues comparing Comic Book Guv to TV Guv.... that was until The last couple weeks when the TV Guv has morphed nicely into the disturbed Comic Guv.. The torture room, especially the scene with the Rings at the end of chains connected to poles was :eek: and the TV Guv, IMO fits the role nicely :thumbup:
Agreed.... this week was the first time I really saw the comic gov in the show gov.
 
It's really unfortunate that our protagonists not only got caught up in a zombie apocalypse, but in one where everywhere that turned into a zombie was a ninja prior to the turn.

Andrea walks up to a tree with the camera out far enough to see that there aren't any zombies super close to her. The ground is a bunch of crunchy dead leaves which, as we all know, are really loud to walk on even if you're trying to sneak around (which zombies aren't). Somehow she doesn't hear a zombie crunching on these leaves to walk up right behind her (maybe she was listening to her ipod and we just couldn't see the headphones?). Then, we see two zombies enter the frame at about 6 feet away from exactly the direction she was looking the whole time.

Same thing in the warehouse. We hear how loud Andrea's footsteps are even when she's trying to sneak around, yet the zombies keep creeping around corners without anyone hearing a thing, even the same governor who somehow had the keen sense of hearing to hear a bucket in a warehouse fall over while he was driving around in his loud ### truck.

At least we found out what the Governor's day job was prior to the zombie apocalypse. Bear hunter. That explains why he was able to track down Andrea out in the huge wilderness not once, not twice, but three times.

I love the series, but this week was probably the worst episode so far. I'm so glad Mazzara and his B-movie shenanigans are gone after this season (in spite of the last two good episodes leading up to this one).

 
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The way the zombies materialized out of thin air last week has me assuming that there actually aren't any zombies – they're just a mass delusion caused by chemical warfare and nobody is aware of it yet. Either that or they're beginning to evolve and take on poltergeist powers.

I haven't read the comic books, so I apologize if either of those are spoilers.

 
I will agree that shane was a tremendous doushnozzle, but he had a lot more depth of character.
I'd say he was different. I wouldn't call it depth though.
Shane was never really deep. The Gov is far more complicated and deep that Shane ever was.
I like Shane more as a character but I agree the Governor is a deeper and more complex character. There really wasn't more to Shane than met the eye.
 
The way the zombies materialized out of thin air last week has me assuming that there actually aren't any zombies – they're just a mass delusion caused by chemical warfare and nobody is aware of it yet. Either that or they're beginning to evolve and take on poltergeist powers. I haven't read the comic books, so I apologize if either of those are spoilers.
It's actually all Carl's dream.oops, spoiler.
 
It's really unfortunate that our protagonists not only got caught up in a zombie apocalypse, but in one where everywhere that turned into a zombie was a ninja prior to the turn.

Andrea walks up to a tree with the camera out far enough to see that there aren't any zombies super close to her. The ground is a bunch of crunchy dead leaves which, as we all know, are really loud to walk on even if you're trying to sneak around (which zombies aren't). Somehow she doesn't hear a zombie crunching on these leaves to walk up right behind her (maybe she was listening to her ipod and we just couldn't see the headphones?). Then, we see two zombies enter the frame at about 6 feet away from exactly the direction she was looking the whole time.

Same thing in the warehouse. We hear how loud Andrea's footsteps are even when she's trying to sneak around, yet the zombies keep creeping around corners without anyone hearing a thing, even the same governor who somehow had the keen sense of hearing to hear a bucket in a warehouse fall over while he was driving around in his loud ### truck.

At least we found out what the Governor's day job was prior to the zombie apocalypse. Bear hunter. That explains why he was able to track down Andrea out in the huge wilderness not once, not twice, but three times.

I love the series, but this week was probably the worst episode so far. I'm so glad Mazzara and his B-movie shenanigans are gone after this season (in spite of the last two good episodes leading up to this one).
If i had to make excuses to make all those things more plausible,id have to start with the zombies were ''resting'' as we have seen them do in other episodes .Im guessing they were sitting against trees right near where Andrea stopped in the woods and just kind of popped up . Then id have to say that there is only one way to the prison if you stay off the roads and the gov`na guessed right...3 times haha
 
:lmao: Did you guys stop watching after about episode 5 of season 1? No one has "slowly turned" into a zombie. People have slowly died and then reanimated as zombies. Important distinction.
They definitely made it seem like Jim was turning (including flashes like Shane had) and not dying of E.coli or whatever infection he got from a bite.
 
:lmao: Did you guys stop watching after about episode 5 of season 1? No one has "slowly turned" into a zombie. People have slowly died and then reanimated as zombies. Important distinction.
They definitely made it seem like Jim was turning (including flashes like Shane had) and not dying of E.coli or whatever infection he got from a bite.
That is a real good point. I happened to watch some of the black and white ones and I remember them dropping him off. I do recall the zombie flashes and he wasn't dead yet. I have it DVR'd and I'll see if I can check it again.
 
It's really unfortunate that our protagonists not only got caught up in a zombie apocalypse, but in one where everywhere that turned into a zombie was a ninja prior to the turn.

Andrea walks up to a tree with the camera out far enough to see that there aren't any zombies super close to her. The ground is a bunch of crunchy dead leaves which, as we all know, are really loud to walk on even if you're trying to sneak around (which zombies aren't). Somehow she doesn't hear a zombie crunching on these leaves to walk up right behind her (maybe she was listening to her ipod and we just couldn't see the headphones?). Then, we see two zombies enter the frame at about 6 feet away from exactly the direction she was looking the whole time.

Same thing in the warehouse. We hear how loud Andrea's footsteps are even when she's trying to sneak around, yet the zombies keep creeping around corners without anyone hearing a thing, even the same governor who somehow had the keen sense of hearing to hear a bucket in a warehouse fall over while he was driving around in his loud ### truck.

At least we found out what the Governor's day job was prior to the zombie apocalypse. Bear hunter. That explains why he was able to track down Andrea out in the huge wilderness not once, not twice, but three times.

I love the series, but this week was probably the worst episode so far. I'm so glad Mazzara and his B-movie shenanigans are gone after this season (in spite of the last two good episodes leading up to this one).
:goodposting: This season has been awesome imho but sunday night's episode was terrible. Soap opera terrible...i was half expecting the guv to reveal that he is not actually the guv but his evil twin.

 
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The way the zombies materialized out of thin air last week has me assuming that there actually aren't any zombies – they're just a mass delusion caused by chemical warfare and nobody is aware of it yet. Either that or they're beginning to evolve and take on poltergeist powers. I haven't read the comic books, so I apologize if either of those are spoilers.
It's actually all Carl's dream.oops, spoiler.
:thumbup: :lmao:
 
:lmao: Did you guys stop watching after about episode 5 of season 1? No one has "slowly turned" into a zombie. People have slowly died and then reanimated as zombies. Important distinction.
They definitely made it seem like Jim was turning (including flashes like Shane had) and not dying of E.coli or whatever infection he got from a bite.
"Jacqui and Jim pile up bodies. Jacqui notices blood on Jim's shirt. "A walker bit Jim," she announces. Jim lifts his shirt, revealing a deep wound.""In the RV, Rick tells a feverish Jim theyíre going to get him help, but Jim is delirious.""En route to the CDC, the RV's radiator hose bursts. While Shane and T-Dog drive ahead to find a replacement, Rick checks on Jim, who is in agony. "Leave me here," Jim says. Rick suggests he's delirious, but Jim insists his head is clear: "I want to be with my family," he says.Outside, Dale advocates respecting Jim's wishes. Lori agrees, and the group carries Jim to a nearby tree. "Thanks for fightin' for us," Dale tells Jim as the group departs."http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/spoilers-inside-the-walking-dead-105-wildfirePretty evident that Jim is dying from his injuries and is not slowley turning
 
:lmao: Did you guys stop watching after about episode 5 of season 1? No one has "slowly turned" into a zombie. People have slowly died and then reanimated as zombies. Important distinction.
They definitely made it seem like Jim was turning (including flashes like Shane had) and not dying of E.coli or whatever infection he got from a bite.
That was episode 3, correct? When a zombie somehow got a significant bite on Jim's chest without harming his shirt?They were leading us down the "bite/scratch = turning" path in the early stages of the show. Things have changed since then, which some here haven't seemed to notice. :shrug:

 
:lmao: Did you guys stop watching after about episode 5 of season 1? No one has "slowly turned" into a zombie. People have slowly died and then reanimated as zombies. Important distinction.
They definitely made it seem like Jim was turning (including flashes like Shane had) and not dying of E.coli or whatever infection he got from a bite.
"Jacqui and Jim pile up bodies. Jacqui notices blood on Jim's shirt. "A walker bit Jim," she announces. Jim lifts his shirt, revealing a deep wound.""In the RV, Rick tells a feverish Jim theyíre going to get him help, but Jim is delirious.""En route to the CDC, the RV's radiator hose bursts. While Shane and T-Dog drive ahead to find a replacement, Rick checks on Jim, who is in agony. "Leave me here," Jim says. Rick suggests he's delirious, but Jim insists his head is clear: "I want to be with my family," he says.Outside, Dale advocates respecting Jim's wishes. Lori agrees, and the group carries Jim to a nearby tree. "Thanks for fightin' for us," Dale tells Jim as the group departs."http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/spoilers-inside-the-walking-dead-105-wildfirePretty evident that Jim is dying from his injuries and is not slowley turning
isnt this all just ####in semantics at this point?
 
:lmao: Did you guys stop watching after about episode 5 of season 1? No one has "slowly turned" into a zombie. People have slowly died and then reanimated as zombies. Important distinction.
They definitely made it seem like Jim was turning (including flashes like Shane had) and not dying of E.coli or whatever infection he got from a bite.
"Jacqui and Jim pile up bodies. Jacqui notices blood on Jim's shirt. "A walker bit Jim," she announces. Jim lifts his shirt, revealing a deep wound.""In the RV, Rick tells a feverish Jim theyíre going to get him help, but Jim is delirious."

"En route to the CDC, the RV's radiator hose bursts. While Shane and T-Dog drive ahead to find a replacement, Rick checks on Jim, who is in agony. "Leave me here," Jim says. Rick suggests he's delirious, but Jim insists his head is clear: "I want to be with my family," he says.

Outside, Dale advocates respecting Jim's wishes. Lori agrees, and the group carries Jim to a nearby tree. "Thanks for fightin' for us," Dale tells Jim as the group departs."

http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/spoilers-inside-the-walking-dead-105-wildfire

Pretty evident that Jim is dying from his injuries and is not slowley turning
Explain how he could get sick so fast from a bite?
How long does it take for these symptoms of E. coli O157:H7 infection to occur?

Symptoms usually appear within 2 to 4 days, but can take up to 8 days. Most people recover without antibiotics or other specific treatment in 5-10 days. There is no evidence that antibiotics improve the course of disease, and it is thought that treatment with some antibiotics may precipitate kidney complications. Antidiarrheal agents, such as loperamide (Imodium), should also be avoided.
 
:lmao: Did you guys stop watching after about episode 5 of season 1? No one has "slowly turned" into a zombie. People have slowly died and then reanimated as zombies. Important distinction.
They definitely made it seem like Jim was turning (including flashes like Shane had) and not dying of E.coli or whatever infection he got from a bite.
That was episode 3, correct? When a zombie somehow got a significant bite on Jim's chest without harming his shirt?They were leading us down the "bite/scratch = turning" path in the early stages of the show. Things have changed since then, which some here haven't seemed to notice. :shrug:
My theory is that his sickness wasn't caused by the bite and they just assumed it was because they didn't know everyone was already infected.JIM IS ALIVE!

 
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The idea that people die from infection within a few hours or even a day of being bit by a person with a dirty mouth is laughable.

 
The idea that people die from infection within a few hours or even a day of being bit by a person with a dirty mouth is laughable.
So is a show about Zombies. But you know.... it is entertainment,I think the GovNah is more laughable myself at this point....
 
The idea that people die from infection within a few hours or even a day of being bit by a person with a dirty mouth is laughable.
:goodposting:The only real zombie is a soulless supernatural zombie. And catching that kind of zombification ain't like catching a cold, son. There's always witches or voodoo involved.I'd keep an eye on Michone, or maybe Andrea.Possibly Milton.
 
McFarlane was promoting his wacky theory on the Talking Dead that Milton was an evil genius controlling the Gov. I think that's ridiculous but Milton knew Philip prior to the ZA and may have been part of his original group. It seems possible that Milton was the brains and organizer behind Woodbury while Philip took the leadership role. While Milton keeps in the background I think he has a much larger role than is being let on.

 
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Chimpanzees share about 99% of human DNA - it's likely that they would be susceptible to the zombie virus, right?
No, the chimps made the virus/disease. This is just the beginning of the chimps ruling the Earth.
Cornelius: [reading from the sacred scrolls of the apes] Beware the zombie Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills only for lust. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's brain. Let him not infect in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
 
The way the zombies materialized out of thin air last week has me assuming that there actually aren't any zombies – they're just a mass delusion caused by chemical warfare and nobody is aware of it yet. Either that or they're beginning to evolve and take on poltergeist powers. I haven't read the comic books, so I apologize if either of those are spoilers.
It's actually all Carl's dream.oops, spoiler.
:thumbup: :lmao:
STOP POSTING STUFF FROM THE COMICS!!!1!
 


While I am assuming a scratch might not always lead to death, i.e. there is something that has to pass from zombie to living to "infect" them which always happens in bites. With scratches, I assume that you have to draw blood from the living and pass the "virus". If you are in a death match with a zombie and they scratch you, chances are you will be infected bad enough that you will turn.
What virus? The one that everyone is already carrying? We're still worried about being infected with that?
We have no idea what "it" is or what zombies "pass" to us when they bite people. Every single bite on this show has turned someone, so again, there is something that zombies infect people with that causes them to die. I didn't say the virus that the zombies infect living people with is the same as that which reanimates them. Obviously, everyone on the show has the reanimation virus and it doesn't kill them. That said, do people live after being bitten (without amputation to stop the infection from spreading)? I am pretty sure we have not a single shred of evidence that someone bitten didn't die with a bite, again without a timely amputation. I've been watching the show, I understand the difference between death and reanimation. Feel free to show me an example where a zombie doesn't pass something to the living in a bite or deep enough scratch to kill them.Remember Jim's bite mark? Pretty sure that if Dale bit him like that, Jim wouldn't have died. So, the zombie bite passed something, possibly a virus, that killed him. That was my point.
Nope. It has been pretty clearly established that the bites cause you to get sick and die due to a regular, but very virulent, infection (not ZOMBIE INFECTION) caused by the extremely dirty, bacteria-laden zombie mouths. Scratches could cause you to die (and then turn) if they got infected as well (again, not ZOMBIE INFECTION). Whether a person dies quickly or not is pretty much on their immune system. The writers may take liberties in the sense that "e-coli" wouldn't kill in a few hours, but I can live with that. Everyone carries the ZOMBIE INFECTION but it is inert until death, at which time it reanimates the corpse. So far it has varied in how long reanimation takes.

There isn't a "second" virus that activates the first, they are all carriers, if they die, they become zombies. They don't need to be scratched or bitten, they don't slowly turn into zombies - they may slowly die, but then they come back.

 
It's really unfortunate that our protagonists not only got caught up in a zombie apocalypse, but in one where everywhere that turned into a zombie was a ninja prior to the turn.

Andrea walks up to a tree with the camera out far enough to see that there aren't any zombies super close to her. The ground is a bunch of crunchy dead leaves which, as we all know, are really loud to walk on even if you're trying to sneak around (which zombies aren't). Somehow she doesn't hear a zombie crunching on these leaves to walk up right behind her (maybe she was listening to her ipod and we just couldn't see the headphones?). Then, we see two zombies enter the frame at about 6 feet away from exactly the direction she was looking the whole time.

Same thing in the warehouse. We hear how loud Andrea's footsteps are even when she's trying to sneak around, yet the zombies keep creeping around corners without anyone hearing a thing, even the same governor who somehow had the keen sense of hearing to hear a bucket in a warehouse fall over while he was driving around in his loud ### truck.

At least we found out what the Governor's day job was prior to the zombie apocalypse. Bear hunter. That explains why he was able to track down Andrea out in the huge wilderness not once, not twice, but three times.

I love the series, but this week was probably the worst episode so far. I'm so glad Mazzara and his B-movie shenanigans are gone after this season (in spite of the last two good episodes leading up to this one).
:goodposting: This season has been awesome imho but sunday night's episode was terrible. Soap opera terrible...i was half expecting the guv to reveal that he is not actually the guv but his evil twin.
:lmao: Good way to put it.
 
Cannot believe how dumb some of you guys are...no way was Morgan the one who burned the zombie pit. You guys try way to damn hard to make this show more than what it is...it's zombie soap opera...and not a very good one at that...at points.

This episode was chocked full of ridiculous. Govnuh and his super powers...Andrea and her incredible stupidity. But it is what it is...it's the only zombie show on television...so I don't have a choice but to keep watching.

I truly wished someone like HBO or Showtime would take on the zombie genre and put real good writers behind it...like the guys from The Wire, Game of Thrones or Breakin' Bad. I realize we're talking about a zombie show but damn...we shouldn't have to ignore so much stupid crap.

On a sidenote...the Gov's henchman starts talking mess to me about "taking up knitting" and I blast his @zz while he had both hands on the rope and toss his body in the pit.

Am I the only one that was hoping that Andrea got blasted by Rick as soon as she popped up from the weeds?

 
The idea that people die from infection within a few hours or even a day of being bit by a person with a dirty mouth is laughable.
So is a show about Zombies. But you know.... it is entertainment,I think the GovNah is more laughable myself at this point....
Pretty sure it is possible to catch cholera and die, within a day, if left untreated. Look perfectly healthy in the morning and dead by bedtime.
 
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And that awful character Lori is DEAD. Anything else and the show just needs to go off air.
what :confused: and if you truly want the show to go off the air, here is a quick thought.. No one is forcing you to watch it so don't..

I'm blown away by the number of people who have so much time on their hands they spend it watching a show they don't like.

 
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And that awful character Lori is DEAD. Anything else and the show just needs to go off air.
what :confused: and if you truly want the show to go off the air, here is a quick thought.. No one is forcing you to watch it so don't..

I'm blown away by the number of people who have so much time on their hands they spend it watching a show they don't like.
I don't think tdoss said that, but I also don't think tdoss gets the sarchasm. Maybe there were a couple hamster_13s when Lori first died, but I am pretty sure every comment about Lori being alive this season has been a joke.
 
And that awful character Lori is DEAD. Anything else and the show just needs to go off air.
what :confused: and if you truly want the show to go off the air, here is a quick thought.. No one is forcing you to watch it so don't..

I'm blown away by the number of people who have so much time on their hands they spend it watching a show they don't like.
I don't think tdoss said that, but I also don't think tdoss gets the sarchasm. Maybe there were a couple hamster_13s when Lori first died, but I am pretty sure every comment about Lori being alive this season has been a joke.
BS. Its pretty clear Lori is the one who burnt the zombies
 
And that awful character Lori is DEAD. Anything else and the show just needs to go off air.
what :confused: and if you truly want the show to go off the air, here is a quick thought.. No one is forcing you to watch it so don't..

I'm blown away by the number of people who have so much time on their hands they spend it watching a show they don't like.
You just summed up 90% of the people in the FFA...go into ANY TV Show thread and it's just insane at how many people do this.I always enjoy the Lost thread...some people spent years doing this...

 

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