***OFFICIAL 'The Walking Dead' TV Series Thread*** (5 Viewers)

[tonydead]

If expired gas and helium balloons are complaints then the insulin carrying diabetic is really jumping the shark. Since its been almost two years since the outbreak all the even perfectly temperature controlled insulin would have expired. Forget about trying to carry it around in a lunch box cooler in a world where ice is presumably rare. In reality insulin would have been horded early on with 90% of the diabetics dieing within the first year.

 

[Rove!]

All caught up. This is still a good but not great show, but the quality is as good as or better than it ever has been...

 

[The Big Guy]

If expired gas and helium balloons are complaints then the insulin carrying diabetic is really jumping the shark. Since its been almost two years since the outbreak all the even perfectly temperature controlled insulin would have expired. Forget about trying to carry it around in a lunch box cooler in a world where ice is presumably rare. In reality insulin would have been horded early on with 90% of the diabetics dieing within the first year.

If I were diabetic, I would use whatever insulin I could get my hands on and not be worried about the expiration dates on the bottles. Those dates are way too conservative for the most part anyway.

 

[tonydead]

If expired gas and helium balloons are complaints then the insulin carrying diabetic is really jumping the shark. Since its been almost two years since the outbreak all the even perfectly temperature controlled insulin would have expired. Forget about trying to carry it around in a lunch box cooler in a world where ice is presumably rare. In reality insulin would have been horded early on with 90% of the diabetics dieing within the first year.

If I were diabetic, I would use whatever insulin I could get my hands on and not be worried about the expiration dates on the bottles. Those dates are way too conservative for the most part anyway.

Of course you would. Insulin just stops being effective, especially when not kept at the proper temperature. My point was that even if you found some after two years, which you wouldn't because every diabetic needs it to survive, it wouldn't have been kept at temperature and wouldn't even work.

 

[tonydead]

Dumpsters aren't set up high enough to crawl under. They are 3.5 to 4 inches so that fork lifts can get underneath. Anything above 4 inches to 12 or so violates building code and you wouldnt want that big of a gap anyway because you loose capacity.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Some of you people would complain to Jesus Christ. A lot of folks in this thread suffer from

Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)

No it isn't.

 

[Rustoleum]

If expired gas and helium balloons are complaints then the insulin carrying diabetic is really jumping the shark. Since its been almost two years since the outbreak all the even perfectly temperature controlled insulin would have expired. Forget about trying to carry it around in a lunch box cooler in a world where ice is presumably rare. In reality insulin would have been horded early on with 90% of the diabetics dieing within the first year.

if that shark is also a hairdresser, then yes.

 

[renesauz]

If expired gas and helium balloons are complaints then the insulin carrying diabetic is really jumping the shark. Since its been almost two years since the outbreak all the even perfectly temperature controlled insulin would have expired. Forget about trying to carry it around in a lunch box cooler in a world where ice is presumably rare. In reality insulin would have been horded early on with 90% of the diabetics dieing within the first year.

If I were diabetic, I would use whatever insulin I could get my hands on and not be worried about the expiration dates on the bottles. Those dates are way too conservative for the most part anyway.

Of course you would. Insulin just stops being effective, especially when not kept at the proper temperature. My point was that even if you found some after two years, which you wouldn't because every diabetic needs it to survive, it wouldn't have been kept at temperature and wouldn't even work.

This is absolutely true, but in a fictional world where the dead are walking around eating the living, I think these sorts of plot holes can be overlooked.

 

[kentric]

I have read complaints about walkers sneaking up on people, but I try and put myself in the position of:

I havent eaten real food for 2 years

I havent had sleep for 2 years and continuosly go very long stretches with zero sleep and strenuous activity, while not eating and likely not being well hydrated.

Putting those together, it is not hard to lose focus for a few seconds at a time here and there, especially when you are trying to focus on other things. I can easily see a walker just come up behind someone.

It looks bad on TV, but the reality is that it just might actually work that way.

Yes, the reality is that you lose all sense of sight, smell and hearing.

Right. Which is the equivalent of "zoning out" or "daydreaming".

So the people who haven't stepped out of Alexandria in 3 years and are now in the woods aren't on edge and are daydreaming?

 

[Maelstrom]

Glen needed to be alive, those who read the comics know why. Also, lots of parallels this week with the comics, which is probably where some of the tv-show-only-watchers have issues with the story. At least 3, maybe 4, of the current plots are really close to the comics. The writers do this, stray from and then come back to, the comic story-line. Sometimes it works on TV, sometimes it plays out as a bit forced.

Spoiler

Glen has a date with Neegan, that was such a big part in the comics, I can't see them not following through on that. Although I do wonder if this latest scare with Glen was a ploy to see how the audience reacted to him being "dead".

The high-wire act was straight outta the comics, as is the walls being breached by the horde. Also, the show left people on the outside, I believe rather than having to have them actually get out (via the wire like in the comics).

Also, the scenes with Carol and porchdick's son, that's mirroring the comic story where Carl has to kill the other boy, so I fully expect that to happen in the finale. I don't remember the guy Daryl ran into much but I think he was from the comics as well.

 

[tonydead]

If expired gas and helium balloons are complaints then the insulin carrying diabetic is really jumping the shark. Since its been almost two years since the outbreak all the even perfectly temperature controlled insulin would have expired. Forget about trying to carry it around in a lunch box cooler in a world where ice is presumably rare. In reality insulin would have been horded early on with 90% of the diabetics dieing within the first year.

If I were diabetic, I would use whatever insulin I could get my hands on and not be worried about the expiration dates on the bottles. Those dates are way too conservative for the most part anyway.

Of course you would. Insulin just stops being effective, especially when not kept at the proper temperature. My point was that even if you found some after two years, which you wouldn't because every diabetic needs it to survive, it wouldn't have been kept at temperature and wouldn't even work.

This is absolutely true, but in a fictional world where the dead are walking around eating the living, I think these sorts of plot holes can be overlooked.

Disagree, I just finished reading One Second After where the main character's daughter is a diabetic in a dooms day scenario. I think the story is much better when the information is accurate, plots believable, logical, sustainable and connectable. Even if it is ultimately a work of fiction.

 

[cstu]

The only thing that's changed about the show is that you've been watching long enough to realize the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.

 

[shuke]

This thread may be the worst thing on the internet.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

This thread may be the worst thing on the internet.

 

[ghostguy123]

Dumpsters aren't set up high enough to crawl under. They are 3.5 to 4 inches so that fork lifts can get underneath. Anything above 4 inches to 12 or so violates building code and you wouldnt want that big of a gap anyway because you loose capacity.

Bad and lazy writing. All building codes should be checked prior to every scene.

Nice catch

 

[ghostguy123]

If expired gas and helium balloons are complaints then the insulin carrying diabetic is really jumping the shark. Since its been almost two years since the outbreak all the even perfectly temperature controlled insulin would have expired. Forget about trying to carry it around in a lunch box cooler in a world where ice is presumably rare. In reality insulin would have been horded early on with 90% of the diabetics dieing within the first year.

If I were diabetic, I would use whatever insulin I could get my hands on and not be worried about the expiration dates on the bottles. Those dates are way too conservative for the most part anyway.

Of course you would. Insulin just stops being effective, especially when not kept at the proper temperature. My point was that even if you found some after two years, which you wouldn't because every diabetic needs it to survive, it wouldn't have been kept at temperature and wouldn't even work.

This is absolutely true, but in a fictional world where the dead are walking around eating the living, I think these sorts of plot holes can be overlooked.

Disagree, I just finished reading One Second After where the main character's daughter is a diabetic in a dooms day scenario. I think the story is much better when the information is accurate, plots believable, logical, sustainable and connectable. Even if it is ultimately a work of fiction.

This is SCIENCE fiction.

If you need everything to perfectly follow the laws of physics, chemistry, and for everything to follow nothing but perfect logic, then why would you bother with this show in the first place. A zombie show based on a comic book didn't give it away that that wasn't going to happen??

 

[The Big Guy]

Dumpsters aren't set up high enough to crawl under. They are 3.5 to 4 inches so that fork lifts can get underneath. Anything above 4 inches to 12 or so violates building code and you wouldnt want that big of a gap anyway because you loose capacity.

Bad and lazy writing. All building codes should be checked prior to every scene.

Nice catch

So the show fabricated their own "building code violating" dumpster just for that scene?

 

[Thunderlips]

If expired gas and helium balloons are complaints then the insulin carrying diabetic is really jumping the shark. Since its been almost two years since the outbreak all the even perfectly temperature controlled insulin would have expired. Forget about trying to carry it around in a lunch box cooler in a world where ice is presumably rare. In reality insulin would have been horded early on with 90% of the diabetics dieing within the first year.

If I were diabetic, I would use whatever insulin I could get my hands on and not be worried about the expiration dates on the bottles. Those dates are way too conservative for the most part anyway.

Of course you would. Insulin just stops being effective, especially when not kept at the proper temperature. My point was that even if you found some after two years, which you wouldn't because every diabetic needs it to survive, it wouldn't have been kept at temperature and wouldn't even work.

This is absolutely true, but in a fictional world where the dead are walking around eating the living, I think these sorts of plot holes can be overlooked.

Disagree, I just finished reading One Second After where the main character's daughter is a diabetic in a dooms day scenario. I think the story is much better when the information is accurate, plots believable, logical, sustainable and connectable. Even if it is ultimately a work of fiction.

This is SCIENCE fiction.

If you need everything to perfectly follow the laws of physics, chemistry, and for everything to follow nothing but perfect logic, then why would you bother with this show in the first place. A zombie show based on a comic book didn't give it away that that wasn't going to happen??

The insulin thing is a small, basic real world rule thing that A) does reinforce lazy/ignorant writing and B) pulls the viewer out of the world (albeit momentarily) because it's not real world believable. It'd be akin to Glenn walking thru a house....opening a refigerator, pulling out a gallon of milk and just chugging it down.

 

[tonydead]

They even mess up the science fiction part. We' ve seen badly burnt zombies still roaming around yet in episode 5 supposedly a small forest fire wipes out a large herd. The fire barely blackened the trees and left smaller branches and twigs untouched. Walkers were attracted to the fire they said and just walked right in. Why isn't this ploy used more often? Shoot, would have worked great when we had them all trapped in the quarry cooooral!

 

[Loan Sharks]

And now some memes

Walking dead fans right now

rick

Poor T dog

hide and seek

 

[ghostguy123]

If expired gas and helium balloons are complaints then the insulin carrying diabetic is really jumping the shark. Since its been almost two years since the outbreak all the even perfectly temperature controlled insulin would have expired. Forget about trying to carry it around in a lunch box cooler in a world where ice is presumably rare. In reality insulin would have been horded early on with 90% of the diabetics dieing within the first year.

If I were diabetic, I would use whatever insulin I could get my hands on and not be worried about the expiration dates on the bottles. Those dates are way too conservative for the most part anyway.

Of course you would. Insulin just stops being effective, especially when not kept at the proper temperature. My point was that even if you found some after two years, which you wouldn't because every diabetic needs it to survive, it wouldn't have been kept at temperature and wouldn't even work.

This is absolutely true, but in a fictional world where the dead are walking around eating the living, I think these sorts of plot holes can be overlooked.

Disagree, I just finished reading One Second After where the main character's daughter is a diabetic in a dooms day scenario. I think the story is much better when the information is accurate, plots believable, logical, sustainable and connectable. Even if it is ultimately a work of fiction.

This is SCIENCE fiction.

If you need everything to perfectly follow the laws of physics, chemistry, and for everything to follow nothing but perfect logic, then why would you bother with this show in the first place. A zombie show based on a comic book didn't give it away that that wasn't going to happen??

The insulin thing is a small, basic real world rule thing that A) does reinforce lazy/ignorant writing and B) pulls the viewer out of the world (albeit momentarily) because it's not real world believable. It'd be akin to Glenn walking thru a house....opening a refigerator, pulling out a gallon of milk and just chugging it down.

I mentioned it before actually, but why did the girl pass out? It's rare to pass out from HIGH blood sugar, and if it was low, obviously insulin isn't going to do anything but kill her.

Lazy to not have a medical professional sitting alongside the writers.

 

[ghostguy123]

Dumpsters aren't set up high enough to crawl under. They are 3.5 to 4 inches so that fork lifts can get underneath. Anything above 4 inches to 12 or so violates building code and you wouldnt want that big of a gap anyway because you loose capacity.

Bad and lazy writing. All building codes should be checked prior to every scene.

Nice catch

So the show fabricated their own "building code violating" dumpster just for that scene?

Everyone is lazy.

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Dumpsters aren't set up high enough to crawl under. They are 3.5 to 4 inches so that fork lifts can get underneath. Anything above 4 inches to 12 or so violates building code and you wouldnt want that big of a gap anyway because you loose capacity.

Bad and lazy writing. All building codes should be checked prior to every scene.

Nice catch

So the show fabricated their own "building code violating" dumpster just for that scene?

Everyone is lazy.

but not too lazy to complain on the internet 5,000 times a season

 

[The Big Guy]

They even mess up the science fiction part. We' ve seen badly burnt zombies still roaming around yet in episode 5 supposedly a small forest fire wipes out a large herd. The fire barely blackened the trees and left smaller branches and twigs untouched. Walkers were attracted to the fire they said and just walked right in. Why isn't this ploy used more often? Shoot, would have worked great when we had them all trapped in the quarry cooooral!

Except for the small fact that the greenhouse burned walkers were not stopped and we're lying there dormant and burnt.

 

[Thunderlips]

If expired gas and helium balloons are complaints then the insulin carrying diabetic is really jumping the shark. Since its been almost two years since the outbreak all the even perfectly temperature controlled insulin would have expired. Forget about trying to carry it around in a lunch box cooler in a world where ice is presumably rare. In reality insulin would have been horded early on with 90% of the diabetics dieing within the first year.

If I were diabetic, I would use whatever insulin I could get my hands on and not be worried about the expiration dates on the bottles. Those dates are way too conservative for the most part anyway.

Of course you would. Insulin just stops being effective, especially when not kept at the proper temperature. My point was that even if you found some after two years, which you wouldn't because every diabetic needs it to survive, it wouldn't have been kept at temperature and wouldn't even work.

This is absolutely true, but in a fictional world where the dead are walking around eating the living, I think these sorts of plot holes can be overlooked.

Disagree, I just finished reading One Second After where the main character's daughter is a diabetic in a dooms day scenario. I think the story is much better when the information is accurate, plots believable, logical, sustainable and connectable. Even if it is ultimately a work of fiction.

This is SCIENCE fiction.

If you need everything to perfectly follow the laws of physics, chemistry, and for everything to follow nothing but perfect logic, then why would you bother with this show in the first place. A zombie show based on a comic book didn't give it away that that wasn't going to happen??

The insulin thing is a small, basic real world rule thing that A) does reinforce lazy/ignorant writing and B) pulls the viewer out of the world (albeit momentarily) because it's not real world believable. It'd be akin to Glenn walking thru a house....opening a refigerator, pulling out a gallon of milk and just chugging it down.

I mentioned it before actually, but why did the girl pass out? It's rare to pass out from HIGH blood sugar, and if it was low, obviously insulin isn't going to do anything but kill her.

Lazy to not have a medical professional sitting alongside the writers.

If she's taking insulin....doesn't she know it has to be refrigerated for a period of time?

Come on.....burn a 10 sec conversation between Darryl and one of the three that when they left, the guy whose base they left from had a generator with medical supplies and he was forcing her to make love in an uncomfortable place so they stole it/some of them and ran off. As someone said before...there's a much better story in the genre that deals with the inability for insulin to survive and the death sentence that that is for the people who need it. You didn't get that sense here.

 

[kupcho1]

This thread may be the worst thing on the internet.

May be?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

"The Japanese and other Asians are inventive. They can turn a dumpster into a basement."

--Reggie White

 

[tonydead]

They even mess up the science fiction part. We' ve seen badly burnt zombies still roaming around yet in episode 5 supposedly a small forest fire wipes out a large herd. The fire barely blackened the trees and left smaller branches and twigs untouched. Walkers were attracted to the fire they said and just walked right in. Why isn't this ploy used more often? Shoot, would have worked great when we had them all trapped in the quarry cooooral!

Except for the small fact that the greenhouse burned walkers were not stopped and we're lying there dormant and burnt.

They weren't walkers until after the fire. HTH.

 

[cstu]

My thoughts on the midseason finale.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

This thread may be the worst thing on the internet.

May be?

There's always Tubgirl.

 

[3C's]

No idea if fake or if already posted here in this cluster####. https://www.facebook.com/312892942142854/photos/a.362599527172195.78256.312892942142854/872766712822138/?type=3&theater

 

[The Big Guy]

No idea if fake or if already posted here in this cluster####. https://www.facebook.com/312892942142854/photos/a.362599527172195.78256.312892942142854/872766712822138/?type=3&theater

Another bad attempt at making us watch some god awful show?

 

[3C's]

No idea if fake or if already posted here in this cluster####. https://www.facebook.com/312892942142854/photos/a.362599527172195.78256.312892942142854/872766712822138/?type=3&theater

Another bad attempt at making us watch some god awful show?

No, that happens in the first hour.

 

[3C's]

We gonna replace jumped the shark with shimmied under the dumpster?

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

Yeah, like I read that.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Yeah, like I read that.

 

[ThaPenguin]

Needs more paragraphs. Lazy writing.

 

[MikeIke]

Crap, the gekko virus has contaminated another thread. How can we possibly contain it?

 

[Loan Sharks]

I just hope tonight I get to see what the in flight movie is on the plane miniseries.

 

[snogger]

Yeah, like I read that.

 

[The Big Guy]

At least one side attempt at going up to DC and seeing if there is anything going on governmental style. Sort of like when they tried to go to the CDC or wanted to go to a fort to look for some remnants of human control left in the world.

 

[comfortably numb]

I have nothing to do at 9PM tonight!

I may start watching Low Winter Sun!!

 

[ghostguy123]

Zero chance anyone reads that

 

[mr roboto]

I read it, and he's right

 

[tommyboy]

Needs more paragraphs. Lazy writing.

My eyes bled

 

[Maelstrom]

I read it, and he's right

I disagree, but didn't want to quote that mess. That might be tainted by what I know from reading the comics, but there is an overarching story here, and it is straying from the "find shelter, find shelter isn't safe, find new shelter" formula.

 

[ghostguy123]

The #### hasnt even hit the fan yet.

I am too lazy to look, is it a 90 minute episode tonight?

 

[GreenNGold]

I was hoping Maggie would die there.

 

[modogg]

I was hoping Maggie would die there.

same here. and it's only a 60 minute episode (40 minute probably), they have a lot to do before the hour is up, need to speed up some of these shots with Sam and other filler

 

[mr roboto]

Carl is terrible