The Walking Dead

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Anyone else saw the first episode of season 3? what did you think?

[frankiej]

I am just about to watch it.

[JohnDG]

I've read the entire comic book series, so I think they half assed the show but none the less its interesting seeing the comic series become a tv show.

Here is a link to the first half of the original comic series if anyone is interested there are 90 issues. This only has up to issue 53, if anyone else can find the rest please share I would like to re read this series again in whole.

http://www.scribd.com/collections/284903...ish?page=1

[TaraJo]

Cool! Thanks! I've been wanting somewhere to read through the comic series!

[Cinjin]

Of course I watched it. I'm a diehard zombieist. Best show on television right now.

As for the episode itself. The group has changed into a lean mean fighting machine and I liked the fact that the producers made everyone more hardened - which of course is what would happen to a group who spent the winter scavenging through houses and what not.


As for the comic series ... who gives a shit. Everyone ALWAYS says that same old cliche: "the book is better"
To that I have to say: This show/movie isn't a book and if ANY movie followed a book to the letter it would be a 6 hour movie that was long and boring. The author of a book has a luxury that a movie/TV producer doesn't have: unlimited amount of time and space to create his story.

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I realy love how after all that time the zombies have rotten down to this stinking mess.

[Darkstar]

I realy love how after all that time the zombies have rotten down to this stinking mess.

And yet they are still structurally capable of movement...

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And yet they are still structurally capable of movement...

dont bring realism into a zombieapocalypse! that doesn`t work this way.
imagine playing Half Life and Gordon Freeman suddently starts talking.

[Cinjin]

I realy love how after all that time the zombies have rotten down to this stinking mess.

And yet they are still structurally capable of movement...

The real truth is that in reality, even if it were possible to create a walking zombie immediately after death they would have a very short shelf life.

The biggest problem to overcome is that a dead body left outdoors decays extremely quickly, and the reanimated brain stem that supposedly powers a zombie would decay as well. At the very most, a zombie might have a month long life span but even then, it is likely that his legs would not be able to move him around for that entire duration either. The muscles would become useless as they quickly putrefy.

Nonetheless .... I LOVE zombie movies.

[Darkstar]

And yet they are still structurally capable of movement...

The real truth is that in reality, even if it were possible to create a walking zombie immediately after death they would have a very short shelf life.

The biggest problem to overcome is that a dead body left outdoors decays extremely quickly, and the reanimated brain stem that supposedly powers a zombie would decay as well. At the very most, a zombie might have a month long life span but even then, it is likely that his legs would not be able to move him around for that entire duration either. The muscles would become useless as they quickly putrefy.

Nonetheless .... I LOVE zombie movies.

It depends on the type of zombie. If they are traditional undeads, that would indeed be a problem. Virus pseudo-zombies, though, bring up plenty of other problem, like how the host can survive the infection at all and why they suddenly want to bite people. But, yeah, zombie movies aren't about the realism.