TV/Movies Megathread

[Grey Fox]

I watch The Flintstone at 4:30 with my kid. She doesn't seem that interested in my nostalgia of a simpler time.

[viper37]

Yeah, but my point is the zombies have been too inconsistent throughout the series. Like I said, what kept the zombies in the cells alive so long? Do they need to eat? If not, why were they fed in the barn? {arguably the rationale might be the farmer trying to keep his wife "alive"]

As someone said, maybe they don't need to eat, maybe the humands just thought they needed to eat.
Also, it might be that feeding them keeps them from forcing their way out to find food.

Maybe the great zombie migrations are because they need to feed somewhere else after all food supply is depleted in an area.

[garbon]

Yeah, but my point is the zombies have been too inconsistent throughout the series. Like I said, what kept the zombies in the cells alive so long? Do they need to eat? If not, why were they fed in the barn? {arguably the rationale might be the farmer trying to keep his wife "alive"]

As someone said, maybe they don't need to eat, maybe the humands just thought they needed to eat.
Also, it might be that feeding them keeps them from forcing their way out to find food.

Maybe the great zombie migrations are because they need to feed somewhere else after all food supply is depleted in an area.

You replied to his post but didn't really speak to what he asked.

After all, if they don't need to feed then most of your post is irrelevant - but if they do need to feed then there is still no explanation for why the zombies in the cells are so still so alive.

[viper37]

Some of you may remember my rant against the Brit kids show Fireman Sam.

But Timmy and I have reached a compromise position.  Right before bedtime Teletoon Retro shows the original Spider Man tv show - which I haven't seen for years.

It still constantly re-uses the same stock footage of Spidey swinging across New York time and again (that even bugged me as a kid), but now I'm digging the weirdly psychedelic scenery and background, the funky background music, and of course the good old-fashioned web-slinging.

And Timmy likes watching it too.

I am apparently subscribed to Disney Channel (don't know how, it seems a permanent preview), and they have all these cool shows I used to watch: Iron Man, Spider Man, Gargoyles, X-Men, Fantastic Four etc.  I recorded them all.  After watching 5 minutes of X-Men, I thought Wolverine looked dumb in a yellow spandex suit.  I also realized I don't have the patience to sit through 30 minutes of tv wich includes 15 minutes of commercial with "half-stories" that continues through a part of another episode.  So, I deleted everything else and didn't bother recording it anymore.  So much for nostalgia

[Barrister]

Some of you may remember my rant against the Brit kids show Fireman Sam.

But Timmy and I have reached a compromise position.  Right before bedtime Teletoon Retro shows the original Spider Man tv show - which I haven't seen for years.

It still constantly re-uses the same stock footage of Spidey swinging across New York time and again (that even bugged me as a kid), but now I'm digging the weirdly psychedelic scenery and background, the funky background music, and of course the good old-fashioned web-slinging.

And Timmy likes watching it too.

I am apparently subscribed to Disney Channel (don't know how, it seems a permanent preview), and they have all these cool shows I used to watch: Iron Man, Spider Man, Gargoyles, X-Men, Fantastic Four etc.  I recorded them all.  After watching 5 minutes of X-Men, I thought Wolverine looked dumb in a yellow spandex suit.  I also realized I don't have the patience to sit through 30 minutes of tv wich includes 15 minutes of commercial with "half-stories" that continues through a part of another episode.  So, I deleted everything else and didn't bother recording it anymore.  So much for nostalgia

I have very little time for 80s cartoons to be honest.  Nostalgia isn't enough - GI Joe, Transformers and He Man are and were terrible.

Spider Man though, is a whole generation earlier.  It's from the late 60s, and it shows.  It's just so different I can enjoy it on that level, while Timmy enjoys it for having lots of exciting action.

[Berkut]

Yeah, but my point is the zombies have been too inconsistent throughout the series. Like I said, what kept the zombies in the cells alive so long? Do they need to eat? If not, why were they fed in the barn? {arguably the rationale might be the farmer trying to keep his wife "alive"]

As someone said, maybe they don't need to eat, maybe the humands just thought they needed to eat.
Also, it might be that feeding them keeps them from forcing their way out to find food.

Maybe the great zombie migrations are because they need to feed somewhere else after all food supply is depleted in an area.

You replied to his post but didn't really speak to what he asked.

After all, if they don't need to feed then most of your post is irrelevant - but if they do need to feed then there is still no explanation for why the zombies in the cells are so still so alive.

Maybe they want to eat, but don't strictly need to do so.

[Razgovory]

I watch The Flintstone at 4:30 with my kid. She doesn't seem that interested in my nostalgia of a simpler time.

I didn't really like that show when I was a kid.

[Malthus]

I watch The Flintstone at 4:30 with my kid. She doesn't seem that interested in my nostalgia of a simpler time.

Yabba-dabba-don't. 

[Tonitrus]

Yeah, but my point is the zombies have been too inconsistent throughout the series. Like I said, what kept the zombies in the cells alive so long? Do they need to eat? If not, why were they fed in the barn? {arguably the rationale might be the farmer trying to keep his wife "alive"]

As someone said, maybe they don't need to eat, maybe the humands just thought they needed to eat.
Also, it might be that feeding them keeps them from forcing their way out to find food.

Maybe the great zombie migrations are because they need to feed somewhere else after all food supply is depleted in an area.

You replied to his post but didn't really speak to what he asked.

After all, if they don't need to feed then most of your post is irrelevant - but if they do need to feed then there is still no explanation for why the zombies in the cells are so still so alive.

Maybe they want to eat, but don't strictly need to do so.

As I understood the CDC guys explaining the zombie virus...it basically "kills" the host/brain, then "reboots" only the very basic survival instincts.  That, of course, still leaves much unexplained, but does cover why they'll eat whatever the come across, man or beast.  It just doesn't cover how they still survive without food.  Maybe zombies will eventually resort to grazing? 

Either way, what has already been said is right.  It doesn't really matter, the zombies may as well be violent weather destroying the Earth, or electricity not working.

[garbon]

It then distracts if you don't get some sort of consistency.

[Ideologue]

A world without electricity?  What the fuck?  What's next, a world without gravity?  That'd be a short show.  Likely to be more fun, though.

Seriously, Wikipedia indicates nothing electrical works or can be built fifteen years later?  Is that correct?  Is Revolution one of those Children of Men-type bullshit parades where something terrible and impossible happens for no reason, and People Have to Survive?  I mean, in Mad Max oil didn't "stop working."

[Ed Anger]

A world without whore pills.

[HVC]

A world without electricity?  What the fuck?  What's next, a world without gravity?  That'd be a short show.  Likely to be more fun, though.

Seriously, Wikipedia indicates nothing electrical works or can be built fifteen years later?  Is that correct?  Is Revolution one of those Children of Men-type bullshit parades where something terrible and impossible happens for no reason, and People Have to Survive?  I mean, in Mad Max oil didn't "stop working."

theres a reason for it. Military experiment gone wrong. Lost interest in the show after episode two though.

[Viking]

A world without electricity?  What the fuck?  What's next, a world without gravity?  That'd be a short show.  Likely to be more fun, though.

Seriously, Wikipedia indicates nothing electrical works or can be built fifteen years later?  Is that correct?  Is Revolution one of those Children of Men-type bullshit parades where something terrible and impossible happens for no reason, and People Have to Survive?  I mean, in Mad Max oil didn't "stop working."

The premise is stupid, but then again so is the premise of a zombie apocalypse. It's just that Michonne is just soooo much cooler than post-apocalyptic barbie from Revolution.

Electro magnetism is one of the fundamental forces in the universe. It's not just that electrical appliances stop working, it's that nerve impulses no longer get sent out from the brain, salt ceases to be salt, so does water, not to mention that all atoms fall apart to become random protons, neutrons and electrons. The physics of this is just so mindbogglingly stupid that I don't think there is an explanation that can possibly satisfy and the whiny brats are just too whiny.

[Neil]

The strong force would hold the nuclei together, which is a good thing.  Otherwise, beta decay would run us out of neutrons most riki tik.