1 I hope they don't mess this up like with season two.

2 *tap tap*
This thing on?

3 season 2 was good. you're crazy. I've read the graphic novel and this season should be mighty intense....

4 I didn't see any of season 2..

was it worth it to catch up on DVD? 

5 At first I disliked season 2 because it was like a soap opera with zombies. Then I grew to like it more as the character development began to pay off with interesting story arcs and increased dramatic effect.

6 And, of course, the dumbasses at Dish TV dropped AMC...

7 I kinda liked the first season.. Except for the one with the gang bangers playing nurse maids to the old folks.  that was the low point of season one that didn't move the series in any direction.

That was unrealistic (yeah, I'm saying that about a TV show with zombies) to me.

the rest of the season was good. 

8

I love the show. Its hopeful message and utopian vibe is very soothing. :-)

9 In the meantime, the premier of the final(ish) season of Breaking Bad is tomorrow. First three seasons are on Netflix. If you haven't seen it yet you owe it to yourself to take a look. Best TV show I've ever seen, hands down.

10 better than BSG !!!!?!?! MADNESS!

11 What is this AMC you speak of?

12

What sucks about The Walking Dead is that it is so slow and boring that you might as well take up knitting rather than watch it in order to get your rocks off. But, other than that, it sucks harder.

Maybe Knight Rider will rise from a phoenix and have a really cool car and action packed adventures such as running over Walking Dead zombie ass at 100 mph routinely.

One can hope.

13 I just finished the first season, and I'm curious; did anybody look at the acres of flesh eating corpses and say "fuck this" and move to Alaska? I ask, because lol.

14 Do they all get killed by zombies? No? Then I see no reason to watch. Although the one guy was good in The Way of the Gun.

15 Good point, Jim Treacher. Character dramas only really shine with supernatural elements. It's A Wonderful Life taught us this.

16 I'm rewatching it now. It's very good. I'm also a big fan of the Talking Dead.

17 Maybe Knight Rider will rise from a phoenix and havea really cool car

I'd like to see an updated Get Smart.  All the story lines for the first season are written...just use the way Obama has handled our intel and foreign affairs.

I just thought of a cool browser add-on.  A "cone of silence" that would use some sort of DPS algorithms to detect Obama's voice and mute it whenever its in some video/audio clip.

18 Character dramas only really shine with characters. That's why I got tired of The Walking Dead.

19 Meh, I'll still watch it because... nothing else good to watch.

20

Will this be bad like every single episode after episode motherfucking 1?

Only time will tell.

21 What will really suck is if this is good, but you can't watch it because the series has the cancer of like 16 bad episodes.

22 I'm going to miss, sob, Shane.

23

"I just finished the first season, and I'm curious; did anybody look at the acres of flesh eating corpses and say "fuck this" and move to Alaska?"

Every time we try to move anywhere, we inevitably come to these miles-long traffic jams of abandoned cars on the freeway.

Which makes navigation kinda difficult.

And miles-long traffic jams of abandoned cars also invariably means miles-long roving herds of walkers...

I think the more interesting question - to physics majors at least - would be: How long can the walkers survive without an obvious source of energy?

When the walkers run out of squirrels and moles and rats to eat, what then?

Can they transform themselves into vegetarians?

Will they freeze to death in the winter?

 

Will they thaw the next spring?

 

Stay tuned...

24 These shows have really tested my patience and found it lacking. I'll download the season when it's done and watch over a couple nights when I have no work happening.

During the prison storyline in the comics they almost started to show some intelligence. The made long pokey spears that could be used to kill zombies through the fence without any ammunition problems. The only real issue was whether the zombies would pile up so high that they be able to climb up and over the fence but that could be solved easily enough by seeing if zombies burned hot enough to destroy the fence. If not you just have a zombie roast once in a while to reduce the size of the stack.

Even if you assume your group is the only survivors left on the whole planet, the number of zombies that can converge on your location has to be fairly limited. Unless there is some regenerative capability the zombies are going to get slower and less dangerous as time goes on. It should be possible to eliminate the local population and move the fence line farther out until you have a good amount of arable land to have crops ready for when the supply of long shelf life food stuffs runs out.

You can look at 'Day of the Triffids' as the pre-cursor to the zombie apocalypse storyline. Once they achieved a certain level of stability the human civilization made a comeback and pushed back the enemy. And the Triffids could reproduce on their own, making them an enemy with far better endurance than zombies.

25

I saw the first season and saw no reason to go back for more.  The only episode I want to watch is the one where that dumbass wife gets entirely eaten by zombies and then, after they crap her out, the crap gets set on fire.

Breaking Bad, now.  Bryan Cranston deserves all those Emmys.  His transformation from sick, weak taker of shit to ice-cold, bad-ass maker of shit is terrifying and exciting.

26

Is it me, or do the Zombies seem uncouth?

27 Its like you look up uncouth in the dictionary, and there's a picture of a zombie. They don't even try to show refinement, good manners and grace.

28 Haven't ever seen it. No cable. Just flipped on outer limits. Robert Rival in the 60's. Some other guy that looks familiar but can't place a name.

29 This damn phone. I spell out Duval and just figured it took it. But nooooooo, it gives me Rival. Hope ya'll got a chuckle. Later.

30 "The Walking Dead" is like that beautiful, beautiful girl you finally go out with who's boring as hell and lousy in bed. But makes a great BLT.

31 I hope the writers on this last season of "Breaking Bad" remember the history of the previous seasons. The story arc in the first in the first two seasons with the previous business partner of Walter, who cheated him and went on to make millions, needs to be closed and is a natural place for the season and character to go. That storyline explains a lot abut Walter and why he has become who he has become.

32 You can get some awesome zombie apocalypse stories in the book Cities of the Dead: Stories from the Zombie Apocalypse to tide ya'll over until the new season starts. Go here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cities-of-the-dead-william-young/1111380717?ean=2940033255863

33 The SCOAMF is the Walking Dead. All hail Dead Man walking!

34 7. You didn't get it about the gang. They weren't 'gang-bangers.' They were former everydays who played the role of gang-bangers to scare off the 'real' dirtbags on the outside. I thought it was well-done.

I agree that Season 2 started a bit slow, but it did pay off in the end, and I think Season 3's going to rock.

35 Plot synopsis, every episode of Season 2:

Two people argue, two other people argue, two other people argue, two other people argue, two other people argue, "Where's Carl?!?", the first two people argue again, the other two people argue again, zombie, everybody argues.

36
Yes, I know, drama needs conflict. But The Walking Dead is conflict in search of drama.

37 I wish they'd all get eaten so we could start with a fresh group who aren't irritatingly stupid.

38 The bad guys in Justified are way more cringe worthy than the Walking Dead Zombies.

39 The folks in TWD routinely ignore military vehicles. You know, vehicles equipped with useless things like food, water, medical kits, weapons, radios, batteries, maps, night vision goggles, armor, etc.

40 This is a show with a.  zombies, b. Norman Reedus and c.  Norman Reedus sleeveless crossbowing zombies.  AMC managed to take this show and make is so fucking boring and stupid that I refuse to watch it.  I'm trying to think of how else to put this, ok, how about this, this is like putting Kate Upton in a bikini licking a popsicle while jumping on a trampoline and surrounding her with so much epic epic stupidity that you go "eh".


First episode of second season when they were all whining about how they had no water and boo hoo and they were stuck in a traffic jam and hey!  Look!  A BOTTLED WATER TRUCK! and they ignored me made me give up.  Do not even get me started on the whole oh those women don't need to be able to defend themselves pat pat pat thing. 

41 This is my first time commenting here. I love AofS and his commenters. Such smartasses!! Love it. I needed to be cheered up after the hubby wrecked my car last night.

42 I needed to be cheered up after the hubby wrecked my car last night. Posted by: Jmel at July 14, 2012 10:47 AM (WFXhc) You are in a very strong negotiating position right now.

43 Carl! Carl! Has anybody seen Carl? I've got to find my son!

44 I know! Haven't yet decided how he will pay though...

45 The last season of BB is them all getting arrested, turning on each other, and doing, if they are lucky, lwop sentences.

46

>>The bad guys in Justified are way more cringe worthy than the Walking Dead Zombies.

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...the part with the piggy bank where the guy stashes his cash in the dead pig was pretty funny though...

47

Hey, you can actually get Maker's Mark here in QC:  http://tinyurl.com/6ulefgr

...I'll give it a whirl...thanks for the suggestions

 

48 ...oops, wrong thread

49 And stop saying Shane had a dark side. He did what needed to be done. He did try to save Rick from the hospital. He did honestly think Rick was dead. He did want a family like Rick's - not unusual. Though he pointed a gun at Rick, he never pulled the trigger and with Lori dicking him around, the baby, and the Apocalypse, cut him a break. He did not try to rape Lori. He was drunk, depressed, and came on too strong. People use the rape word too easily these days. If he hadn't shot Otis, both he and Otis and Carl would have died. That's a fact. Randall needed to go. Barn squatters needed to go. What I don't understand is that when he came back with Andrea from their little joy ride, he didn't have a smile on his face.

50

49

Ignoring the other points for now, why the heck are so many people so eager to jump to Shane's defense for killing Otis?

First of all, how exactly was Otis at fault for what happened to Carl? He was shooting at a deer, not at a kid who stupidly walked within ten feet of a wild animal unarmed and thus couldn't be seen from the other side anyway. If anyone should have atoned for him getting shot, it was the two people who were dumb enough to take him into the woods with him in the first place **cough cough**Rick and Shane**cough cough** Not that Otis shouldn't have felt bad about the accident, but should he really have paid for it with his life?!

Plus, is this really what we're saying? That anything goes in a zombie apocalypse, that the ends always justify the means? (I'm especially curious why so many conservatives embrace this, just because Shane is the "shoot first and ask questions later" type.) And if Shane was "doing what needed to be done," why didn't he just toss the medicine to Otis and sacrifice himself? I mean, why not? Otis apparently was a pretty good hunter, seemed like a level-headed guy; arguably as worth keeping around as Shane was, if not more so. I don't care what the situation is, you don't just decide for someone that they're going to be the sacrifice and not you.

51 One, I never claimed Otis was at fault for Carl getting shot. Two, you're right. Carl and Shane should have discussed it first and drawn straws or something while they were overrun by a couple hundred zombies. You say one does not just decide unilaterally that some one is going to be sacrificed, but when you are within seconds of being eaten alive, more likely than not you will make that decision. Three, even with his sprained ankle, Shane had the better chance of escaping. Otis was in his 50s and obese. Four, the end may not *always* justify the means but often it does. Obviously, Shane looked on Carl as if he were his own son and did what he needed to do to save his life and his own life. Otis was not as level headed as Shane. He was part of the zombie zoo. Eventually, those zombies would get out and kill everyone on the farm. They are not Beanie Babies to be collected. Plus, they were using their own limited food sources to feed them. Would Otis have defied Herschel and shot them all? Nope. Would Otis have killed Randall? Nope. And for the record, even Rick told Shane he would have shot Otis, too.

52 No, they didn't ignore the water truck. Shane spotted it and opened it. They were then over run by the zombie horde. Afterwards, you see Shane moving the water to suvs. Andrea also scores some bottled water. At the traffic jam, they also scavenge for food, clothes, medicine, weapons, etc. On the road out of Atlanta, there appeared to be one small crashed military vehicle. You people are too critical and are seeing things not in the series.

53 I enjoy the show but it pisses me off too. And yes, it is a soap opera with zombies. Just like the occupywallstreeters.

54 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

55 And, that' a wrap.