TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

The thing with zombies is that unlike, say, vampires or werewolves, the zombie lore isn't quite so cut and dry.

Let's take the zombies in the prison cells. I assume they were prisoners who starved to death, and then the virus kicks in and zombifies them. But how have they stayed "alive" as zombies all this time? Do zombies eat? Back at the farm the zombies in the shed were being fed, so we assume they need some sustanance to reamain zombies. What happens if they don't eat? Do they die a zombie death? There were plenty of dead zombies in the prison. What did they die of?

[viper37]

IIRC, zombies who don't eat go into a sort of coma.

[Syt]

Back at the farm the zombies in the shed were being fed, so we assume they need some sustanance to reamain zombies.

Or the characters presume that they need to eat.

[Josephus]

IIRC, zombies who don't eat go into a sort of coma.

OK. So the zombies that were locked in the prison cells? They didn't look too comatose to me

[viper37]

OK. So the zombies that were locked in the prison cells? They didn't look too comatose to me

I haven't seen the episode yet.  But I do remember something from an earlier season.

[katmai]

They are other programs pullin in more than 11 million. The impressive number is in the covered 18-49 demo.

Ah, right, cause if they were looking at ratings among children Glee would kick everyone's ass. 

More on the discussion of ratings.

NEW YORK (AP) — In an earlier era, the 9.2 million viewers who watched NBC's "Revolution" in its regular time slot on television's premiere week wouldn't impress many television executives.
Now, that number is only part of the story. Add in people who saw the show on DVR playback within the following seven days — numbers released by the Nielsen company on Monday — and the drama about a suddenly electricity-free world was seen by 14.2 million people. That estimate also includes only a handful of the people who ordered the episode through an on-demand service or who saw it online.
People aren't watching television the way they used to, a transition that has accelerated markedly this fall, making it much harder to judge whether or not a show is successful.
"It's quite stunning," said Andy Durwitz, ABC's chief scheduling executive. "We're seeing all of the audience becoming much more sophisticated with the DVR and making their own schedules."
During the first two weeks of the season, digital video recorder usage is up 30 percent over last season, said David Poltrack, top research executive at CBS. That may settle down, he said. Clearly, the DVR has become an essential tool for people interested in sampling many of the new series that come with a fall season, he said.
Now, when the overnight ratings come in, Poltrack cautions, "you can't read anything from them."

[garbon]

Which that isn't really new in so far as they've been saying that for at least a couple years now.  Issue, of course, is that especially with the DVR set - you aren't looking at particularly productive viewers as if they have a choice to skip past the commercials, not useful from an ad-revenue standpoint.

[Josephus]

Agreed. I don't think it sits well if a network tells a potential advertiser..."Only four million watched the show when it aired but we're expecting triple that number to watch it on DVRs

[katmai]

I was posting it in response to Teach and his recollection on viewership past.

As read for Walking Dead Sunday premiere the total of all three showings was 14-15million not to mention DVR calculations

[Viking]

I think machete slaughter rampages are the "in" activity on tv this year. This leads one to speculate; are the Monroe Militia really Zombies?

[Scipio]

Reposted from BGG, because it's bugging me now too:

You know those vending machines back in the day that would dispense a paper cup out of a chute into a little transparent enclosure, and shoot hot or cold beverages into it?

There was a TV show with an intro sequence which ended with a closeup shot of one of these vending machined malfunctioning. Maybe with the liquid shooting out and then a cup dropping down later.

The reason I think it was an intro is because I think I saw it repeatedly as a kid.

What was the TV show?

I'm going crazy trying to remember.

Crap.  I can visualize the image.

[Razgovory]

The thing with zombies is that unlike, say, vampires or werewolves, the zombie lore isn't quite so cut and dry.

Let's take the zombies in the prison cells. I assume they were prisoners who starved to death, and then the virus kicks in and zombifies them. But how have they stayed "alive" as zombies all this time? Do zombies eat? Back at the farm the zombies in the shed were being fed, so we assume they need some sustanance to reamain zombies. What happens if they don't eat? Do they die a zombie death? There were plenty of dead zombies in the prison. What did they die of?

Cause zombies are silly concept?  Why does shooting them in the brain kill them?  Wouldn't the brain (and the rest of them) decompose over a few weeks?  What about scavenger?  If a fly bites a zombie, why doesn't it become a zombie fly?  If that happened there would be billions of zombie bugs flying around.  Why is when a person becomes a zombie he suddenly has the ability to tear a person apart using his bare hands or develop the a really vicious bite?  I mean, healthy living humans are really able to do those things.  Human beings have very weak bites, and the lack of a muzzle or snout makes awkward for a human being to attack things using his bite.  I don't see how having your muscles decomposing helps that much.

[Grey Fox]

Zombie mythos is rooted in fear. Maybe the zombies do all that, maybe they can't. You are not suppose to find out, yet, because you are still too scared to do anything about it then run away.

The show is trying to bring it back, but they broke the fear mythos back in season 1.

[Viking]

Zombie mythos is rooted in fear. Maybe the zombies do all that, maybe they can't. You are not suppose to find out, yet, because you are still too scared to do anything about it then run away.

The show is trying to bring it back, but they broke the fear mythos back in season 1.

Well, in the comic, zombies are never really the enemy, problems arise when people have conflicts and in the resolution of those conflicts the simple preparations needed against zombies fall apart.

The zombie apocalypse is a force of nature, it makes everything difficult and complicated and forces the "hero" to be perfect all the time.

[sbr]

While flipping around between the baseball and football games last night I came across The Spy Who Loved Me.  Both games were at a boring spot so we watched it for a while.  My 16 year old daughter was not impressed and I have to say a lot of it hasn't aged well.  The fights between bond and jaws were pretty bad.