WALKING DEAD Season 4, Sunday 10-13-13

Was it me or was that Bub from day of the dead in the train tunnel, the one with the collar and plaid shirt... an homage to the movies that started it all perhaps?
 
Tallahassee said:
Yes, the writers are running low on ideas. Sort of like if Gilligan's Island had run to Season 12.

You beat me to it, 'Terminus' was the original name for Atlanta, the first major city built solely because of a railroad line.

I agree they're getting sloppy (wigs, rifle sights folded down) but that's not new. One of my dissatisfactions in TWD is that it's done by Hollywood types with no real experience of (and maybe a distaste for) camping, hunting, and roughing it generally.
And it shows in most episodes. One reason the show stayed in the prison so long is the crew must have liked the familiarity of shooting 'indoors' in closed sets of one room at a time. It's not dependent on the weather, you can air condition it, lights & cables don't get dusty/muddy, etc.

Cannibals would be a big problem in any major TEOTWAWKI breakdown. But humans are big meat, like hogs, and even without virus infection issues, big meat spoils fast in a hot climate. A 160 lb human carcass would mostly go to waste unless you have a BIG crowd, 50 people or more, and a lot of that is organ meat. Unless we're very sick or very frail, we are tricky to hunt and dangerous when cornered. Cannibalism is a short term solution to protein shortage but not much of a long term success plan. Just sayin'.

Best cannibal scenario in any movie so far: the older couple in the remote farmhouse in BOOK OF ELI. Offering refuge and hospitality, then eating their guests.
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I wonder what the supply of salt would be like in the aftermath. That might at least be a direction they would go in the story. Apparently salted/dried meat was used for, maybe, a couple hundred years during exploration of the seas. Or at least that is what the local living-history tourist trap says.
 
Everyone notice the swamp rat hawk in the latest episode? The one they chop the bunny in half with against the tree.
 
What was the thread count on the rattlehawk? I'm pretty sure I saw like 3 different threads about it.
 
Its been shown zombies can't cross deep water, so get to islands, clear the zombies, use them as fish bait, eat the fish.
 
Watching a pretty lame zombie movie this afternoon, but they came up with the best zombie escape vehicle ever....big steel hamster ball. Epic. Well that and they tried to escape from a parking garage in the only vehicle they could find keys for a smart car. Tried to crash threw the roll up door, the camera view was from the outside and the door just wiggled laughed my butt off.
 
6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent from Sci-Fi Movies
#6. Every Post-Apocalyptic Film -- Bicycles (Seriously)
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http://www.cracked.com/article_19325_6-technologies-conspicuously-absent-from-sci-fi-movies.html
 
gadunz said:
6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent from Sci-Fi Movies
#6. Every Post-Apocalyptic Film -- Bicycles (Seriously)
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http://www.cracked.com/article_19325_6-technologies-conspicuously-absent-from-sci-fi-movies.html
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HA! Love the PIC... the Road has to be the most depressing movie EVER! I don't mind realistic dramas...I actually prefer them over the BS heroic, good guy always wins, nonsense. But man, the Road was a little bit too much... sitting alone watching it a 1am I seriously think it was pyschologically damaging, I've never fully recovered. We should use the movie as a modern torture method to get information out of prisoners...after 3 days of sleep deprivation, make them watch it over and over...nobody could take more than 3 showings before spillin the beans!
 
Strictly hypothetically, if Beth's remains are found eaten at Terminus, what would this bode for the others?
 
gadunz said:
Strictly hypothetically, if Beth's remains are found eaten at Terminus, what would this bode for the others?
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Well, I think Daryl would go on a rampage and there would be a bloodbath, probably with the assistance of at least Michionne and Carl. I have a feeling Daryl would, by that time, have a good chance of taking some of Joe's crew along with him, particularly Joe himself. And to be honest, I'd bet that Joe has the capacity to wreak more havoc than any two of his men. He doesn't necessarily look that strong. But then again, neither does a Coral Snake.

But that's all probably just wishful thinking on my part. In keeping with the story line, Rick would puss out and minimize the bloodletting.
 
rockspyder said:
Well, I think Daryl would go on a rampage and there would be a bloodbath, probably with the assistance of at least Michionne and Carl. I have a feeling Daryl would, by that time, have a good chance of taking some of Joe's crew along with him, particularly Joe himself. And to be honest, I'd bet that Joe has the capacity to wreak more havoc than any two of his men. He doesn't necessarily look that strong. But then again, neither does a Coral Snake.

But that's all probably just wishful thinking on my part. In keeping with the story line, Rick would puss out and minimize the bloodletting.
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Can't agree with that last part. Rick has seen what happens when you offer a diplomatic resolution to someone who just wants to take what you have. I have a feeling Rick is going to end up with plenty of blood on his hands during the Season finale coming up. Also, I doubt Daryl is all that eager to kill Joe and the others. Only Len gave him a bad time. (And he's dead.) Sorry to say, but Joe is an intellectually superior Merle. Daryl likes him on a certain level. That's clear.
 
For everyone wondering what the series would look like if it was a sped-up fast-pace action movie.... Check out "Dead Season" (2011).

One of the two main characters calls them walkers.

The movie deals directly with the idea of bugging out to an island to survive. And sadly with the B.S. theme that everyone is infected. :rolleyes:

Yeah, it's action-packed with plenty of melee attacks. Ultimately it's a forgettable zombie flick set in the same world that Rick, Carl, Glenn, and the others come from. Though since it's an independent film, obviously it doesn't take place in Georgia. Nor will you encounter any of the characters from The Walking Dead. The characters in Dead Season are paper-thin with no depth. You don't care about any of them. Ironically, a good reason why that is so is due to the fact that this film is so fast-paced. It's over in practically a blink of an eye with a pathetically predictable ending.

If The Walking Dead was like the Dead Season, it would have been cancelled at the end of Season 2; at the absolute latest. Likely, earlier than that.
 
Monocrom said:
Can't agree with that last part. Rick has seen what happens when you offer a diplomatic resolution to someone who just wants to take what you have. I have a feeling Rick is going to end up with plenty of blood on his hands during the Season finale coming up. Also, I doubt Daryl is all that eager to kill Joe and the others. Only Len gave him a bad time. (And he's dead.) Sorry to say, but Joe is an intellectually superior Merle. Daryl likes him on a certain level. That's clear.
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Hope you're right about Rick, but I remain unconvinced. I need to review a coupe of episodes that might make me agree with you. But right now, I'm unconvinced. I think that is the only part on which we disagree.

I think you misunderstood what I meant about Joe and his crew. I don't think Daryl harbors any ill will toward any of the remaining crew, and when I said take them along, I meant gained their trust or respect enough they'd help him. I don't think he is going to take any of them out unless he is forced to make a decision between them and specific individuals in Rick's group. As far as Joe himself, I think we agree completely.
 
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