The Walking Dead

[TommyGunn]

Watched my VHS of the show today.
Perty good show.  Yes, the Glock had a safety   Our hero in the tank at the end shoots the zombie tanker with a Beretta, then removes the mag and racks the slide....thus tossing out a good round, except there was no sound of it hitting the metal tank.
Did anyone get the name of the black man who took the deputy in after he left  the hospital?
Duane.
Remember George Romero's 1968 classic, Night of the Living Dead?  Who was the lead in that, anyone here recall?
Duane Jones ...  who died in 1988 after going to a teaching job at a college.
I wonder if that was an homage to Duane Jones? ..... 

[gunsmith]

an old friend of mine bought a new glock, then paid over one hundred dollars to have a safety put on it!?

Why not just buy a 1911 then??

I thought he used his revolver to shoot the zombie in the tanker, the last round he was going to shoot himself with b4 entering the tank, I commented to my friend that he should have searched the helicopters and military humvee's for weapons/ammo but Jason said I should shut up because I always gripe about those plot holes

[Regolith]

an old friend of mine bought a new glock, then paid over one hundred dollars to have a safety put on it!?

Why not just buy a 1911 then??

I thought he used his revolver to shoot the zombie in the tanker, the last round he was going to shoot himself with b4 entering the tank, I commented to my friend that he should have searched the helicopters and military humvee's for weapons/ammo but Jason said I should shut up because I always gripe about those plot holes

I'd have checked to see if the M1 still had gas in it.  At the very least, it'd be a good way to get out of the city.

And if he'd gotten really lucky, it'd have been equipped with canister shells.

[Iain]

Quite liked it. I'm sure the comic opened with the scene by the petrol station, but I'm not sure that really worked on TV. Would have preferred it to be linear, there was only about fifteen minutes without zombies in the beginning if that scene was removed.

Quite creepy at points, the mother for instance. The half torso managed to almost be sympathetic.

Lot of hype about this one, between this, Boardwalk Empire and next year's Game of Thrones, there could be some decent telly.

[Jocassee]

Quite liked it. I'm sure the comic opened with the scene by the petrol station, but I'm not sure that really worked on TV. Would have preferred it to be linear, there was only about fifteen minutes without zombies in the beginning if that scene was removed.

Quite creepy at points, the mother for instance. The half torso managed to almost be sympathetic.

Lot of hype about this one, between this, Boardwalk Empire and next year's Game of Thrones, there could be some decent telly.

I watched the first episode on Hulu last night before going to bed. (Probably a mistake, but I didn't have any related dreams, so...) The peephole scene was EASILY one of the freakiest I have ever seen. Rare combination of horror and emotional impact.

This will probably be the most extensive piece of zombie lore to appear on the screen yet. I'm still waiting for the mother of all zombie epics from Correia.

[Jamisjockey]

Watched. Loved. Creeped out the wife throughougly.
Some inconsistiences in the production, but it handily beats dancing with the stars....

[mtnbkr]

Yeah, I'm a fan too. 

Chris

[charby]

Watched. Loved. Creeped out the wife throughougly.
Some inconsistiences in the production, but it handily beats dancing with the stars....

Wife likes it, I'm kind of so/so about it so far.

[MicroBalrog]

And if he'd gotten really lucky, it'd have been equipped with canister shells.

That would be of only limited use. Also, the commander's machinegun has been shown to be empty.

[HankB]

I'd have checked to see if the M1 still had gas in it.  At the very least, it'd be a good way to get out of the city.

Doesn't look like an M1.   

Also, I seem to remember reading somewhere that the M1 Abrams doesn't have a hatch on the bottom. (I dunno . . . any tankers here?)

Batteries still worked - it was pretty bright inside the tank. Spacious, too. But maybe the tankers ran out of gas and opened the hatch . . . others left, one was zombiefied and stayed.

[MicroBalrog]

We saw a dead tanker poking out of the commander's hatch.

What happened, I think, is that one of tankers got bit/scratched, and went zombie on the crew. There was a race to get out. Guy in the commander's hatch clearly lost the race.

[mtnbkr]

We saw a dead tanker poking out of the commander's hatch.

What happened, I think, is that one of tankers got bit/scratched, and went zombie on the crew. There was a race to get out. Guy in the commander's hatch clearly lost the race.

Not possible.  They don't go zombie until the bug kills them via fever.  They rise from the dead as a zombie.  They don't "go zombie" all of a sudden.

Chris

[Harold Tuttle]

if you get killed you reanimate

things other than bites kill

the tank is a chieftain, I gather thats what they could rent in Atlanta

[Jocassee]

After looking at this thread I'm a little peeved that we don't really know how this thing started. Did the book give more details?

[mtnbkr]

if you get killed you reanimate

My understanding is that you have to be infected first and the infection is deadly as well.

Chris

[MicroBalrog]

Not possible.  They don't go zombie until the bug kills them via fever.  They rise from the dead as a zombie.  They don't "go zombie" all of a sudden.

Chris

And can you not see a tank crew being too stupid/emotional/dedicated to abandon a sick/injured buddy?

It's about the only way I can imagine a tank crew letting a zombie bite them without there being a MAJOR fight first.

[mtnbkr]

And can you not see a tank crew being too stupid/emotional/dedicated to abandon a sick/injured buddy?

Yes, but I read your statement as if the process were more immediate such as shown in the old zombie flicks.

Chris

[SADShooter]

We've already established that the writers didn't care to research a ubiquitous handgun, and ther's an argument about disposition of a tank crew?

[Harold Tuttle]

"With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a..."

[Harold Tuttle]

here is canon on the first book of The Walking Dead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqPq3s3RdxI&feature=related

[Iain]

"With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a..."

Great song. Takes me back to being 13.

Second episode wasn't so strong. I'm not drawing a comparision in terms of content (although they were escaping in ep2 and there is an actress in common) but I suspect this is going to be on a sort of intelligence/script/production values par with Prison Break. Not the best telly there is, but very good.

[StopTheGrays]

In the comic, were the zombies climbers, runners and tool users? I did not get the impression from the comic that was the case but in episode 2 they were. 

[Ben]

The biker guy is a meaner version of Francis from Left 4 Dead.

[RocketMan]

...were the zombies climbers, runners and tool users? ...in episode 2 they were. 

I noticed that as well.  Most of them behaved as typical, slow stupid zombies, but some were quite capable.   That was certainly different.

[TommyGunn]

Perhaps ability is a function of how bad off the brain is at the time ...
Hard to say.  We don't know what caused this.  In some earlier zombie films even bodies fairly badly decomposed could come back.  Perhaps a fresh-dead zombie with more intact brain cells makes for a better, more able zombie than one that's been in the ground for a few months ....