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TomWeaver999 wrote:An overseas CHFB lurker e-mails me that in the version seen in Southeast Asian territories, the crashed car's airbags don't deploy on impact but its psycho-gunmen bags do, accounting for the extra men's (seemingly) unaccountable materialization in the car following the crash.
Nov 4 10 11:30 PM
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Loved it! I've watched the opening episode several times and found THE WALKING DEAD to be top-notch entertainment and miles above the zombie fare released by Hollywood over the last several years. The lapses in logic don't bother me (with the exception of the basic police procedure of clearing the vehicle for any threats) any more than they do in 97% of the other genre films I enjoy.Sure, there are a few nits to pick. Handling the Glock semiautomatic like it has a manual safety (Glocks have an automatic safety built into the trigger) and the scene where Grimes escapes into the belly hatch in an Abrams battle tank (they don't have one, though the tank looks like an M60 Patton -- which does have a belly hatch -- tricked out to look like an Abrams), etc. I liked what the show got right. Firing the .45 inside the tank would be extremely disorienting. Having fired a .45 in an enclosed space without ear protection I can only imagine what it would be like to do so in the tin can confines of a tank. But most of all I found the pathos in the first episode to be compelling as the survivors attempted to cling to their humanity. The father trying to summon the strength to release his wife from her undead existence; the compassionate killing of the female half-zombie; the simple joy of a hot shower -- these moments propelled the series into must-see TV for me.
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gcalan wrote: Overall, I really enjoyed this episode.My major complaint is, it wasn't very scary.
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Nov 5 10 2:45 PM
TomWeaver999 wrote: I never saw THE ROAD WARRIOR. Now I'd like to!But even if "my" idea is too much like ROAD WARRIOR, I still think that'd be better than "too much like the 1000 movies where doofuses do stupid stuff in order for the zombies to get 'em."
frightenstein wrote: I liked the show. The acting and makeup was quite good. But I must say (and I know this is nitpicking) but did anyone think the song that came up at the end completely inappropriate for the story and the mood of the show. It works to use a pop song at the end of Mad Men, not a show about a zombie apocalypse. Anyway, I really enjoyed the show but that one moment took me out of the mood the show had created.
TomWeaver999 wrote: That's it EXACTLY, and you hope the guy in the story will do what you told yourself YOU would do, so that you can see how it might have worked out for you. But he doesn't. He kept doing things that I, and you, and everybody else in the world, wouldn't do in a million years. For example, once he learns that zombies are attracted by noise, he takes a long long walk into the woods where there are zombies ... and if that's not imbecilic enough, he even fires his noisy gun while he's out there! So far he's such a through-and-through D u m b a s s, it puts a huge dent in the "What would *I* do now?" fun.
Nov 7 10 2:07 PM
GaryP11111 wrote: I liked what the show got right. Firing the .45 inside the tank would be extremely disorienting. Having fired a .45 in an enclosed space without ear protection I can only imagine what it would be like to do so in the tin can confines of a tank.
I liked what the show got right. Firing the .45 inside the tank would be extremely disorienting. Having fired a .45 in an enclosed space without ear protection I can only imagine what it would be like to do so in the tin can confines of a tank.
AnthonyOsika wrote: ...and who'da known an Abrams doesn't have an escape hatch? Man, you learn something every day here!
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Nov 8 10 2:19 PM
If Tomatoes are a fruit.... Isn't Ketchup technically a smoothie?
Nov 8 10 4:16 PM
TomWeaver999 wrote: Not much story progress in episode 2, other than introducing some new characters who join the Hero on his rounds of "We gotta get out of here, gogogogogo!!"
Mitchellmania wrote: Very cool show!! I think it's more like survival horror, than just strait out scares.
Nov 8 10 5:15 PM
AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for a second season, the network announced Monday.
The order for a 13-episode second season comes after just two episodes of the first season have aired. The Halloween-night series premiere scored 5.3 million viewers, the largest audience for any original series telecast on AMC. Sunday's second episode brought in 4.7 million viewers.Link
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