but the kids were so afraid of this shoveling man!!!!!! :grin: also his quote about remembering the"dream" he had was kinda like an arnold quote out of an 80's flick. just seemed cheesy (i know arnold quotes are shiznit but i needed a ref. point)
This episode was awful except the last 10 minutes. Couldn't they have at least gotten better actors for all of the cheesy gang stuff to make it somewhat tolerable? The season is wrapping up in 2 episodes and the only stuff that matters in progressing the story was the last 10 minutes.
Wow, you guys didn't like it much... I haven't even seen the 1st episode cause I still catchin up with the comic books... Should I dive into the series or just stick to the books??
Based on many of the comments on this thread, most of you have very limited imaginations. Bizarre gang hideout aside, I think the series has been great so far.
i was about to say the same thing, pic doesnt come up for me, but i know who you're talking about. that dude has made his career playing that role. getting old
The whole dream thing was kind of Lost-ish - in a bad way. I really hope they just keep this show simple - survivors vs. zombies and not introduce too many supernatural elements.
I thought the episode was pretty good, in fact all the ones I've seen have been decent. It's not necessarily the most compelling thing I've watched, but it's good entertainment. The brother with the crossbow is starting to become one of my favorite characters. I actually thought it made perfect sense to tie up the man digging the graves. He wouldn't explain why he was digging them, wouldn't stop, wouldn't get water. And the situation started to escalate when he brought up Shane's beat down of the abusive husband. Guy was acting a little crazy. At that time he was a risk to himself and possibly others. So it makes perfect sense for Shane to cuff him and tie him up so he could calm down. As for the retirement home...if they were able to seal all the windows and doors in time and kept relatively quiet, why wouldn't they be able to survive there? And the gang members didn't act like gang members? Well they weren't gang members. My only complaint with that scene was the "easy out" that occurred when the grandmother showed up. I was really curious how Rick expected to survive a mass gunfight like that. I figured he had some other plan in mind besides just walking up to the front door and refusing to give them the guns. The man's dream. Why is it so far fetched that he would have a dream about zombies invading the camp and killing people? The zombies had breached the camp already, so it was only a matter of time. Sure as hell bet I'd probably be having nightmares about that same thing. My question here is why wasn't anyone standing guard? And why hadn't they put security measures into place to prevent the zombies from just strolling right into camp. Seems pretty vulnerable. No reason to stop watching though...as long as it's a post-apocalyptic wasteland of zombies, I'm there.
They telegraphed the sister's death a little bit too much for my tastes. It was pretty obvious within the first couple of minutes of the episode that she was going to die very soon. Also, from my perspective, I don't understand why they and the retirement home people are so obsessed with a bag of shotguns in the street when you could go to any sporting goods store and get 10x as many, and much more ammo, and a whole bunch of crossbows, knives, chainsaws, and other things. This is the South after all. There has to be a Gander Mountain or Cabela's around somewhere. I also don't understand why they are camping out in the open. When the first zombie showed up, it should have been painfully clear what was going to happen. In fact the leader explained the situation so that it was clear they all understood. At that point, any rational group would have gone searching for a defensible structure. Failure to do so was criminally negligent. Right now, this show is decent-to-good mindless zombie entertainment, but not particularly ground breaking or special given how saturated the zombie genre has become.
I agree, the episode was a little weak. The irony: It was the only of season one's episodes written by the creator, Robert Kirkman. That may have been why it was a tad convoluted. He's a noob to writing scripts. However, I agree with tehG l i d e - the acting on The Vatos part was really poor. And gramma shuffling out into the middle of an impending gunfight...lame. The whole thing was character development for Rick. He's a good person. Despite it's flaws, I did enjoy it. Amy's death was straight out of the comic. Jim losing it was out of the comic (I don't remember the details). The deviations from the comic... I can live with so far. I think a big chunk of them are for character development. I really like Daryl, the crossbow redneck. And we definitely haven't seen the last of his brother, Meryl...
Finally got around to watching the first episode, thanks to Entertainment Weekly pumping it up. Good stuff. Gotta catch up. Thank you Comcast On Demand.
This might be completely irrelevant, but didn't Rick take a grenade from when he was stuck inside the tank? And if so, what happened to it?
How privileged are we as a nation to have a Horror based t.v series?? When was the last Horror t.v series broadcast on air??? This is the best show on t.v right now, and my favorite genre is Horror, how fortunate is that!!! This show is kind of like 'Lost' but with zombies and not sure what came first the Walking Dead books or Lost series???
I was thinking about that myself, especially last episode. I thought maybe he'd pull it out in the middle of the stand off as a trump card of sorts.
