New Zombie TV Show ( The Walking Dead )

I was posting this in another forum and I figured I would post it here as well......

talking about the glock safety thing......

FYI....the tank used in the last episode.....WAY OFF!!!! I know its a movie but you think that they would get somewhat close!

It was supposed to be an American M1A1....it was sort of close on the outside but not anywhere close on the inside.....oh and the main guy would have been screwed if it the tank was accurate. There is no hatch on the bottom....that last American tank that had a hatch like that was the M60 series.....but it looks TOTALLY different that a M1A.


M1A1
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M60
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lsheldon said:
Not true. 28 days later was released in 2002 (the UK release was Nov 2002), The Walking Dead comic was released in 2003 (first printing is Oct 2003 for #1). He can claim his chicken came before the egg all he wants. The story lines tell the real truth. You think no one had internet or could buy an offshore DVD (UK DVD was released on 19 May 2003) six months before his comic release? Six months seems like just the right amount of time to get a comic story line together and printed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_days_later
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Ah, hardly worth arguing over but heres a bit more insight:

I've seen a lot of people bring up a question of The Walking Dead ripping off 28 Days Later on threads. Even my wife said the same thing. I gave an answer in the Walking Dead thread but I'll talk about it here.

Yes, both 28 Days Later and The Walking Dead begin with a character waking up in a hospital some time after a zombie outbreak. Being that Walking Dead is just coming into the public's eye, 7 years after 28 Days Later, people are confused and believing that Walking Dead is ripping off 28 Days Later. Well first off, The Walking Dead "only" resembles 28 Days for this one reason. After this, the Walking Dead is more of a Romero kind of storyline.

Here's what it boils down to. The Walking Dead comic book hit stands in October of 2003. 28 Days Later, while released in Britian in April of 2002, didn't hit U.S. shores until June of 2003. It is possible that Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore saw the film before American audiences but I really believe this was a strange coincidence. Haven worked in the comic industry, I can tell you that comics are produced months in advance. The time it takes the writer to develop the world, characters and so forth, then the artists doing preliminary drawings, then pitching the idea to the publishers, then the process of writing and rewriting and then the artists pencilling, then inking the comics, then handing it over to a colorist and then a letterer, an editor going over it and asking for changes, marketing going to work and the final book being put together, then it going out to be ordered by comic shops and other markets and then it finally hitting newstands is usually a very long process. Most comics are written and drawn in advance so there is no problem with the creators meeting the monthly deadlines. Sometimes a comic book can have more than 5 issues completed before they are ever released to the public. Being that the comic was released on October also makes me think that that was on purpose to capitalize on the Halloween season. It is almost impossible that The Walking Dead ripped off a movie that was released so closely. Sometimes these things just happen.
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The reality is that the opening 10 minutes are similar, waking in the hospital, but other than that there's almost no similarity and they follow completely different storylines. Well, as different as zombie movie storylines can really be.;)
 
Maybe both writers saw that Twilight Zone episode where the guy falls asleep in the vault and wakes up after an event and everyone is gone..
 
Jroden5446 said:
Just for the record, 28 days later is NOT a zombie movie! Bleepin "infected nonsense"
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i agree but the truth i sthat thats the closest thing that could happen in real life...because actual undead are just impossible.. :D;)


i did notice the tank was off too, lol i was so confused
 
Pvt.snoballz said:
i agree but the truth i sthat thats the closest thing that could happen in real life...because actual undead are just impossible..
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WTF? Have you looked at [can't post because it would cross into politics] lately? Don't tell me zombies and vampires don't exist don't exist!

:p
 
lol @ the Asian dude driving off in the sports car. If he left "the pack", I'm sure he'll end up dead.

Great episode tonight!!

How about the part where they chopped up the dead zombie and put the blood and intestines on themselves?
I need me a Swedish axe :D
 
I liked the episode quite a bit. Can't wait for next week. I keep thinking it will let me down sometime, but it just hasn't. It is a TV show, so I am not looking for accuracy on tanks or anything. I want an entertaining TV show. And that is has been.
 
I watched the premiere last week and really enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for zombie flicks but it really looks like its gonna be a good show
 
Haveing read every one of the comics as well as owning them all and loving the series i fear for this show ahaha i dont want them to ruin it. If it lasts long enough there are going to be some pretty awesome and practical ideas shown (not that the dead rising is in anyway practical lol). as for the people saying this is a 28 days laterish story id have to disagree the story is very original and that will become very obvious.
 
What a great show so far...I can't wait for the next episode! (Yeah, the inside of an M1A looks nothing like the way they set it up, worst off was they gave it a bottom hatch.)
 
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