Same here! I'm trying to keep an open mind with it. Much better than last week.It's starting to draw me in now.
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Probably due to the holiday weekend.
Dumb.....beginning of episode, "OK we have to get out of town now!" So, let's go home, keep all this zombie stuff a secret from everyone including the daughter who is shacking up with zombie boy, then go home, not pack anything although we just discussed leaving town.
mom goes to school to get drugs for junkie son, doesn't have the brains to tell daughter to pack stuff while she is gone.
at the school, meets the kid Tobias, the only one with a friggin clue, raids school pantry, leaves food. Walks up to principal zombie even though she just had to RUN ONE OVER with a truck several times.....drop kid with a clue off at his house.
go home, nothing packed, but hey, let's shine flashlights out the windows on the neighbors we didn't tell about the zombies....oh yeah, still do not pack. Still do not explain to daughter wtf is going on, too busy washing blood out of my jacket.....gotta look good for the apocalypse I guess.
meanwhile, dad is shacked up in a barber shop, lights on, looking out the windows for passing rioters to see him, still doesn't tell the barber and his family what is going on and what he has seen....he only had a few hours to do so....about the only thing smart he has done is tell the new wife to gtfo and they will meet in the desert, too late for that.
this family has zero control over their kids, I mean is this even slightly realistic? Explain to your kid who is at the protest wtf is going on, then gtfo out of town. Nope, none of that, instead, we will see these kids doing their own thing for the rest of the season instead of unassing their head from their rectal cavities and grabbing a clue.
i am really not sure how the directors/producers are going to convince me that any of these people would actually survive. It is a real shame, I really wanted to like this show but, like I said in the other thread, this show started dumb and hasn't improved much. I think the producers are relying on brand loyalty from TWD to keep people interested in this show, kind of like licking the last bit of ice cream out of the tub, you want the real ice cream but, you will take the littlest taste you can get if its all gone.
I get what you are saying, but exactly HOW do you explain "zombies" to someone who hasn't seen really strange stuff? So far it seems that dad, mom, and son are all on board. Daughter has no clue and would be in massive denial due to her boyfriend. She wouldn't buy the truth until he bit her. Ex wife and son still aren't on board, but they do know something is wrong.
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Is the word "zombie" trademarked or something? Two shows now, and I haven't heard the word yet. Add in all the seasons of TWD, too.
Thought the dad was going to finally say it. He said something about "they die, and get back up". Geesh, folks, just say it!
At the very least, this show sparks some good conversation with my wife. All the stuff we would NOT do if things "got weird".
No, and my answer may explain some questions people have. In the Walking Dead universe, the concept of a "zombie" is unknown. This world never had zombie movies, books, TV shows, or comics. The word zombie hadn't even been invented. So in this is why what we, in our world, universally know as zombies are known to members in TWD universe as a variety of different names. Come to think of it, to drive this point home, the scriptwriters might not have the cast refer to them as "walkers" in this series, as that term is unique to Rock's group.
LOL! Paul Williams high school! Anybody remember that guy from the smokie and the bandit movie?
Does anybody know what happened to the food the mom and the nerd kid from the school were hauling out?????
Watching the epidemic start is kinda anticlimactic to waking up after a coma to learn the world has gone chomp chomp. I will give it a chance..
I don't think they're going to do this. I think they want a "normal, average man-on-the-street" viewpoint, so that people don't know what is happening or who to believe. They want us to connect/bond with a small group of characters who are trying to survive a seemingly unimaginable event. This way we can "understand" it more.
Yes, I thought that was actually somewhat realistic. The combination of high case mortality, short incubation time, and high contagion were probably not realistic but a lot of the behavioral reaction might have been.I liked Contagion. It did show some behind the scenes methodology of how the CDC/.gov would react to a major threat. The characters were overall good if I recall correctly.
A very good book to read is The Great Influenza Pandemic. It covers a lot of government, medical, and history of disease. It seemed like one problem was that everyone in the house would get sick at once and be too weak to move, so whole houses of parents and children just died due to lack of extremely basic care. No food, water or bathing for days combined with the flu and people just died. We normally don't think of situations like that happening, and they don't, but they did in 1917 - 1918.
Does anybody know what happened to the food the mom and the nerd kid from the school were hauling out?????