Walking dead season 2 tonight

[makattak]

If you read the comic books, it comes out that biting apparently isn't the only form of transmission.

I think that could shake things up soon

Ewww.... Which character seduces a zombie? (Or is it the other way around?)

[Fitz]

You immediately went there. LOL. There's nothing about them having sex.

[TommyGunn]

I just caught the latest episode.  Lack of interpersonal skills and information sharing had me shouting at the tv. So nothing new 

You know what may be more effective than ranting about how bad things are and how it changes folks... talk about your time at the CDC that granted you direct knowledge about the nature of the walkers and how any hopes for a cure are absurd.  

I was WONDERING why that wasn't brought up in the cop's discussion with the vet ....wondering if it won't be brought up next week. 

[kgbsquirrel]

Almost any "horror" movie would be especially short if any of the characters weren't spectacularly dumb. Obviously, the applies especially to a "horror" television series.

(I'm guessing it's because the writers are lazy.)

[Jamisjockey]

Almost any "horror" movie would be especially short if any of the characters weren't spectacularly dumb. Obviously, the applies especially to a "horror" television series.

(I'm guessing it's because the writers are lazy.)

QFT. 

[MicroBalrog]

QFT. 

Please, I can come up with 15 hooks for horror films that are do not depend on the protagonists being morons.

Of course that's because I'm smarter than the average Hollywood writer.

Then again so is a doorknob.

[SADShooter]

You also have, perhaps somewhat wrongly, a higher opinion of the prospective audience.

[CNYCacher]

You also have, perhaps somewhat wrongly, a higher opinion of the prospective audience.

The "Sniper" episode of Castle was pretty hard to watch in that respect.

[MicroBalrog]

You also have, perhaps somewhat wrongly, a higher opinion of the prospective audience.

This is why I am not a socialist.

[Jocassee]

I just stayed up all night catching up on Walking Dead instead of my sleep. My suspension of disbelief is still intact and I enjoyed it immensely, although I wish Rick's wife would stop being SO DAMN STUPID.

Darryl is still my favorite character.

[Fitz]

I just stayed up all night catching up on Walking Dead instead of my sleep. My suspension of disbelief is still intact and I enjoyed it immensely, although I wish Rick's wife would stop being SO DAMN STUPID.

Darryl is still my favorite character.

Yeah. Darryl is mine too

[Ned Hamford]

Yeah. Darryl is mine too

Ditto

Anyone else thought it poor play when directly asked if the group had any medicines his stash [earlier used to save the black guy] went pointedly unmentioned?

I mean, they were raiding a pharmacy, had a doc [of a sorts] doing surgery and other care for them, it just seemed needlessly anti-social.  Hoarding isn't the proper choice when at a safe house that is giving you care.  And the whole no guns things... and them being ok with it.  Zombies!  But then again, seeing the group... I'm frankly not sure how much I'd trust them with a pointy stick either. 

[Jocassee]

Aside from the "disarmament clause" one thing that has really made this show for me is the gun handling and training being shown.

[gunsmith]

If you read the comic books, it comes out that biting apparently isn't the only form of transmission.

I think that could shake things up soon

I have not read the comix yet, but in 28 days later a guy gets infected by a drop of infected blood in his eye

[gunsmith]

series finale was pretty good, not quite what I expected

[CNYCacher]

series finale was pretty good, not quite what I expected

Yeah.  I did NOT see that coming at all!  Glad to see Rick stepping up to take care of business as everyone else cowered, including Deputy Psycho who was just saying Rick isn't fit for this world.

Damn fine mid-season finale.  I can't wait for the fallout from that when everyone realizes that Hershel knew the whole time.

[Declaration Day]

I'm certain the group will be leaving the farm at this point.  Shane wants to take the place over, which in real life would be prudent.  But the story can't stagnate, so they will load up and move on.  I predict that Maggie will leave with them.

[Jamie B]

I'm certain the group will be leaving the farm at this point.  Shane wants to take the place over, which in real life would be prudent.  But the story can't stagnate, so they will load up and move on.  I predict that Maggie will leave with them.

Spoiler alert, darn it!

Probably correct on these.
The other question is who fathered the baby??
I wonder if they will have to lave the farm now, though, as the barn walkers have been dispatched.

[Jocassee]

I watched the mid-finale last night.

Darryl is growing a soul. Shane is losing his (if he ever had one). Rick seems to have his feet back under him after Carl's accident.

Dale is always thinking two steps ahead, but lacks the forceful personality necessary to guide the group and seems to be firmly placed in the caring advisor role. Perhaps he alone sees the division shaping up between morality/idealism (Rick) and ruthless utilitarianism (Shane).

[Jamisjockey]

Moar spoilers:

Spoiler alert, darn it!

Probably correct on these.
The other question is who fathered the baby??
I wonder if they will have to lave the farm now, though, as the barn walkers have been dispatched.

It doesn't look like it, watching the previews from next season.

It's gonna be a long 3 months!

[Pharmacology]

Forget guns and armored vehicles. These aren't fast or smart zombies.
For this type of zombie, give me a snow blower...
http://youtu.be/-4d31XgzGYk
At worst, you might need to weld on some glass protection armor/covering.

I remember getting excited during that one scene in the department store when a zombie was using a rock to bash in a window.

The writers seem to have forgotten about it.

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About the alternative methods of virus transmission: I cringed every time someone "passionately" bashes a zombie's face in, with blood flying everywhere.

[AZRedhawk44]

So, anybody think they're finally done with all the secrets that were about to drive everyone to mass slaughter and/or fracture the little group?  Glenn even commented on how stupid all the secrets were.  Shane and Rick both know about Lori's pregnancy.  All opinions are out in the open.


I think the next episode will end up with hundreds of walkers descending on the farm due to the noise of all the gunfire from killing the dozen or so in the barn.

I was amazed with the poor marksmanship and the fact that it took multiple shots to put down many of the walkers, even though Shane demonstrated in an apoplectic fit that they don't react to torso shots at all, prior to busting down the barn door.  If they face several hundred walkers at once, they can't be that careless with ammo.  Their little "cleansing" must have cost them over 100 rounds of ammo, just for a dozen walkers.  They have to do better.  These were slow walkers, not "rage" zombies or smart ones.  It would have been very easy to 1-shot each of them.  Or kill them some quieter way.

[HankB]

Even after Shane's demo on the captured walker - which showed that ONLY headshots work - I couldn't figure out why they were blazing away at these (conveniently slow) walkers with torso shots.   

Dale needs to have a little "attitude adjustment" with his hoplophobia - I mean, taking the guns out to the swamp and hiding them?  (Shane was much nicer to him than I would have been.)


SPOILER: I figured Sophia was going to end up as a walker and the group would meet up with her again, I just didn't expect her to be in the barn.

[Harold Tuttle]

heck, a cattle chute and some sledging platforms could of saved all that ammo

[Jocassee]

heck, a cattle chute and some sledging platforms could of saved all that ammo

But that wouldn't have been nearly as dramatic.