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Re: The Walking DeadProbably. But it would have been so cool if they had done - vroom vroom splat, mutha****a!(Original post by Guitarded)
Spoiler:ShowI guess they wanted to preserve the vehicles as much as possible - who knows how long they'll need them for, and how long it'll be before they find new ones.
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Re: The Walking DeadSpoiler:ShowIf you noticed they were armless, and i believe incapable of biting by cutting off their lower jaw. They cover her smell so make her a detterent to the dead. I think one of them was her ex boyfriend too
Awesome finale though, reminded me of playing left 4 dead
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Re: The Walking DeadI distinctly remember that not working when Rick tried it in the first season though, when the rain washed off the blood and guts they slapped on themselves(Original post by daviesblue)
Spoiler:ShowIf you noticed they were armless, and i believe incapable of biting by cutting off their lower jaw. They cover her smell so make her a detterent to the dead. I think one of them was her ex boyfriend too
Awesome finale though, reminded me of playing left 4 dead
Spoiler:ShowAnd why two as well? Surely the ex-boyfriend would be enough
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Re: The Walking Dead(Original post by R.J. Omega)
I distinctly remember that not working when Rick tried it in the first season though, when the rain washed off the blood and guts they slapped on themselves
Spoiler:ShowAnd why two as well? Surely the ex-boyfriend would be enough Spoiler:ShowWell it worked until it washed off, this way she keeps the smell always near her and the rain cant exactly wash the 2 zombies away.
If my memory serves me right, the other was her ex boyfriends best friend, she suffered quite a traumatic few months and its led to her thinking she can converse with them, when infact she is mentally ill. -
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Re: The Walking DeadYea that was because the dead smell was washed off. The two walker pets she has smell dead all the time and apparently keep the dead off her back due to their smell.(Original post by R.J. Omega)
I distinctly remember that not working when Rick tried it in the first season though, when the rain washed off the blood and guts they slapped on themselves
Spoiler:ShowAnd why two as well? Surely the ex-boyfriend would be enough
Spoiler:ShowIn the comics it said her ex-boyfriend and his best friend
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Re: The Walking Dead(Original post by daviesblue)
Spoiler:ShowWell it worked until it washed off, this way she keeps the smell always near her and the rain cant exactly wash the 2 zombies away.
If my memory serves me right, the other was her ex boyfriends best friend, she suffered quite a traumatic few months and its led to her thinking she can converse with them, when infact she is mentally ill.
Interesting(Original post by scoutzawwar)
Yea that was because the dead smell was washed off. The two walker pets she has smell dead all the time and apparently keep the dead off her back due to their smell.
Spoiler:ShowIn the comics it said her ex-boyfriend and his best friend The Walking Dead is fast becoming one of my favourite American series, especially since they ****ed up Heroes 
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Re: The Walking Deadheroes unfortunately was never a good series.(Original post by R.J. Omega)
Interesting The Walking Dead is fast becoming one of my favourite American series, especially since they ****ed up Heroes
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Re: The Walking DeadSeason 1 begs to differ(Original post by .eXe)
heroes unfortunately was never a good series.
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Re: The Walking DeadHumans have been known to do extraordinary things when pumped with adrenaline, there are tales of grandmothers lifting vehicles to free trapped children.(Original post by Ewan)
That scene with dale just really didn't make sense to me, the amount of power that would be required to do that kind of damage is insane. These zombies don't have knives for fingers, they're just like ours as far as I can see.
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I read an instance in on book (it might have been 'Anatomy of an illness' by Norman Cousins-I can't remember) about a kid who had a disease (might have been leprosy but again, my memory is sketchy) and he basically couldn't feel anything so he tore his hands to shreds opening a door which was wedged shut.
People on the drug PCP have also been known to display super human strength.
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Re: The Walking DeadCrimewatch UK is on BBC 1 tomorrow night at 9 PM and you can see real life people being snuck upon in the dark. It's easy to be snuck upon if you are switched off. All it takes is for you to slip in to a day dream and for your mind to start wandering and before you know it, you almost walk in front of a bus.(Original post by Ewan)
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Re: The Walking Dead(Original post by Lil Piranha)
I loved that episode even though I'd read the synopsis before hand it was brilliant.
But why they didn'tSpoiler:Showuse the vehicles to mow some of the herd at the farm down escapes me. OK it wouldn't have necessarily killed them all but it would certainly slow them down and save ammo. Plus, it'd be a hell of a lot of fun Spoiler:ShowI doubt it'd be 'fun', given the whole scenario. As for why they didn't do it; when T-Dog hit one walker the car struggled not to dramatically slow down or spin out. Realistically, even in a truck, hitting things the size of humans would be very hard to do and continue to maintain control or momentum. As we saw with Maggie when the car slowed down, you can quickly be overwhelmed.
I thought it was excellent, though there were a few points I'd raise....
Spoiler:ShowThe enormous swarm of walkers was well worth having, tension wise, but the 'explanation' offered at the beginning of the episode for their getting to the farm was pretty far-fetched. A handful of walkers spy a helicopter going past and so they all start migrating towards the farm.
I'm unsure how Maggie and Glenn managed to make it out alive. I'm glad they did, don't get me wrong, but they stopped in the middle of a huge crowd of walkers for a good long time, yet the walkers weren't able to get through the windscreen or even surround the car. Given that one walker got through Lori's windscreen a few episodes back in a relatively short time, you'd have though that twenty plus walkers would have been able to do it. Likewise, it was a bit unbelievable that none of them were behind the car.
At the beginning of the episode, there seemed to be the potential for any of the characters to be killed off. In the end, they went with the safe 'kill off the excess characters', the two characters that have had little or no relevance to anything. It seemed like killing off characters for the sake of having some deaths to ratchet up the tension. The way they were killed seemed like they wanted it to happen. I forget both their names now, but the guy who drove the RV to help Rick and Carl off the roof seemed a preposterous death. He could've let them onto the roof, made sure they were going down onto the car/jumping off and driven off. Instead, he abandoned the wheel and went for a slow motion stroll through the RV, before being killed in an almost Shaun of the Dead's David style of death (pulled through the doors while doing absolutely nothing to prevent it). It seemed that he hadn't even bothered to lock or in any way secure the door. The woman was picked off a bit at random from the group of three, and realistically Hershel's youngest daughter wouldn't have made it out of there either.
The final negative point was the ease of the group's reunion. I wanted the central characters (i.e. the group from Series One, as it is now, and Maggie/Hershel, kind of Hershel's other daughter) to make it and be reunited, but it all felt a bit easy. Daryl and Carol's ride past the walkers was a bit like a ghost train, where they lunged out of the sides of the road yet were totally unable to move forward or in any way react or pose a real threat, despite the incredibly slow pace of the bike. Likewise, one minute it was 'will we ever find them?' and tension/drama, and in the next, literally every one of the cars, with everyone except Andrea, appeared. Good not to let it drag on, but they could've at least made the reunion a little more tense/harder.
The character with the hood - who's apparently a woman - had two armless zombies on chains. They seemed a bit gimpy, and the whole scene seemed a bit odd in general. Very convenient too (though most near-death rescues are in The Walking Dead tbf).
Genuinely wasn't expecting Rick knowing that everyone is infected to be the case, but it did tie the story together nicely. Lori's reaction seemed to be more to do with the way that Rick was sounding like Shane in his callous 'he was always dragging on me' monologue. Not sure why he didn't make more of a thing of the gun pointed at his head at that stage.Last edited by zjs; 19-03-2012 at 21:12. -
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Re: The Walking DeadI remember watching the film 'wanted'. I really enjoyed it but some of the scenes were absolutely absurd and I was like 'there's no way that would ever happen.' If everything on TV and the movies was realistic, it would be boring as hell. There was a guy on Amazon who gave the Walking Dead a negative review because of various discrepancies and he was questioning the logic of a show (yes the logic of a show with zombies in!); he just didn't get it at all.(Original post by zjs)
Spoiler:ShowI doubt it'd be 'fun', given the whole scenario. As for why they didn't do it; when T-Dog hit one walker the car struggled not to dramatically slow down or spin out. Realistically, even in a truck, hitting things the size of humans would be very hard to do and continue to maintain control or momentum. As we saw with Maggie when the car slowed down, you can quickly be overwhelmed.
I thought it was excellent, though there were a few points I'd raise....
Spoiler:ShowThe enormous swarm of walkers was well worth having, tension wise, but the 'explanation' offered at the beginning of the episode for their getting to the farm was pretty far-fetched. A handful of walkers spy a helicopter going past and so they all start migrating towards the farm.
I'm unsure how Maggie and Glenn managed to make it out alive. I'm glad they did, don't get me wrong, but they stopped in the middle of a huge crowd of walkers for a good long time, yet the walkers weren't able to get through the windscreen or even surround the car. Given that one walker got through Lori's windscreen a few episodes back in a relatively short time, you'd have though that twenty plus walkers would have been able to do it. Likewise, it was a bit unbelievable that none of them were behind the car.
At the beginning of the episode, there seemed to be the potential for any of the characters to be killed off. In the end, they went with the safe 'kill off the excess characters', the two characters that have had little or no relevance to anything. It seemed like killing off characters for the sake of having some deaths to ratchet up the tension. The way they were killed seemed like they wanted it to happen. I forget both their names now, but the guy who drove the RV to help Rick and Carl off the roof seemed a preposterous death. He could've let them onto the roof, made sure they were going down onto the car/jumping off and driven off. Instead, he abandoned the wheel and went for a slow motion stroll through the RV, before being killed in an almost Shaun of the Dead's David style of death (pulled through the doors while doing absolutely nothing to prevent it). It seemed that he hadn't even bothered to lock or in any way secure the door. The woman was picked off a bit at random from the group of three, and realistically Hershel's youngest daughter wouldn't have made it out of there either.
The final negative point was the ease of the group's reunion. I wanted the central characters (i.e. the group from Series One, as it is now, and Maggie/Hershel, kind of Hershel's other daughter) to make it and be reunited, but it all felt a bit easy. Daryl and Carol's ride past the walkers was a bit like a ghost train, where they lunged out of the sides of the road yet were totally unable to move forward or in any way react or pose a real threat, despite the incredibly slow pace of the bike. Likewise, one minute it was 'will we ever find them?' and tension/drama, and in the next, literally every one of the cars, with everyone except Andrea, appeared. Good not to let it drag on, but they could've at least made the reunion a little more tense/harder.
The character with the hood - who's apparently a woman - had two armless zombies on chains. They seemed a bit gimpy, and the whole scene seemed a bit odd in general. Very convenient too (though most near-death rescues are in The Walking Dead tbf).
Genuinely wasn't expecting Rick knowing that everyone is infected to be the case, but it did tie the story together nicely. Lori's reaction seemed to be more to do with the way that Rick was sounding like Shane in his callous 'he was always dragging on me' monologue. Not sure why he didn't make more of a thing of the gun pointed at his head at that stage.
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Re: The Walking DeadShe's an odd character in the comic too, a very strong character however. Interested to see what they do with her in the series.(Original post by zjs)
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Re: The Walking DeadI'm surprised by...
Spoiler:ShowLaurie's reaction towards the end. She's been so faithful to everything he's done that this just seems odd. If he didn't kill Shane, Rick would be dead, surely she can see that unless she's been lying about how she felt about Shane?
