TV/Movies Megathread

[Berkut]

And sure they move, but they appear to do so in a very predictable manner, at least locally. Hell, you could probably pretty easily lure them all into a pit mine or something.

What was disconcerting to me--and I don't know if it develops more later on, or is part of the graphic novel--was their ability to move en masse in a specific direction, like in Atlanta and more importantly on the highway when Sophia got lost;  it seemed almost migratory.

Yeah, I thought that was kind of cool. Anything to make them less random is good, IMO, since it makes them more dangerous.

[Razgovory]

I'm not a vehicle.  And I would leave a post-it note.  "FWI, space monster on board".

[Tonitrus]

And sure they move, but they appear to do so in a very predictable manner, at least locally. Hell, you could probably pretty easily lure them all into a pit mine or something.

What was disconcerting to me--and I don't know if it develops more later on, or is part of the graphic novel--was their ability to move en masse in a specific direction, like in Atlanta and more importantly on the highway when Sophia got lost;  it seemed almost migratory.

Yeah, I thought that was kind of cool. Anything to make them less random is good, IMO, since it makes them more dangerous.

Also that they seemingly "hibernate" when there is an acute lack of available food.  Probably necessary, since if they are essentially (as the CDC guy explained), reanimated brain-dead bodies using only the base central nervous system, they would presumably still require sustenance.

[Tonitrus]

A post on another forum got me thinking...relating to how those two cops/guards became infected with no visible bites, and how it showed they burned some zombies as well....maybe inhaling burnt zombie brings about zombieness?

[Viking]

A post on another forum got me thinking...relating to how those two cops/guards became infected with no visible bites, and how it showed they burned some zombies as well....maybe inhaling burnt zombie brings about zombieness?

Canon has it that it isn't the bite that makes you a zombie, the bite kills you. All dead turn zombie.

Rick speculates that one of the cops might have been scratched. You are right to comment this since it seems at odds with canon AND this dialogue is only relevant as specualtion into why they turned. Canon has Shane getting shot by Carl and then being buried, Rick later returns exhumes Shane who is now zombified and kills Zombie Shane. We still haven't seen a person dead by natural causes in the TV show.

[viper37]

Spartacus... it's just so fucking crazy

[Viking]

Spartacus... it's just so fucking crazy

I like they make legionary armor look like it's just a fashion statement.

[CountDeMoney]

Spartacus... it's just so fucking crazy

Oh fuck yeah.
That poor bastard getting tortured at the dinner party.  Man, even I'm not that hardcore to enjoy watching that shit.

[Neil]

Why can't you not blow up the ship?  It's not like the monster is going to fly off in it and start conquering the galaxy.  She could just leave and put the space opera equivalent of a post in note on the front door that reads "horrible space monster inside.  Careful!".  And why does the space ship have a self destruct system anyway?  I've ridden in very few vehicles that have a self destruct system.

Because when the ship goes flying through human space, some poor salvage crew is going to get slaughtered, and that's immoral.

A self-destruct system is wise for a deep-space ship for safety reasons, just in case the ship loses attitude control while traveling towards someplace populated.  And since it's trivially easy to do, why wouldn't you?

[Berkut]

So what was the deal with Shane seeing the walker in the field? Was that supposed to be real or some kind of hallucination?

[Zoupa]

I gave up on that show midway through season 1. Thoroughly boring. Should I have stuck with it til season 2 or what?

[Berkut]

I think it is excellent, but then, I thought it ranged from decent to very good in the first season, so different strokes and all that.

It isn't really an action show, which I think throws people off.

[Zoupa]

I kept waiting for a twist on the "small group of ppl trying to survive in a zombie world" story, since there's been a gazillion movies about just that.

The twist never happened, plus the humans weren't particularly engaging. I dunno, just all around "meh".

[Tonitrus]

So what was the deal with Shane seeing the walker in the field? Was that supposed to be real or some kind of hallucination?

I think it's a "looks like a walker, but is it really worth mentioning to the driver?", even though the rest of us probably say "hey look, a walker".

[Berkut]

I kept waiting for a twist on the "small group of ppl trying to survive in a zombie world" story, since there's been a gazillion movies about just that.

The twist never happened, plus the humans weren't particularly engaging. I dunno, just all around "meh".

Yeah, there really isn't a "twist". The twist is really that the story is mostly about the people, not about the zombies. The zombies are just there to provide a backdrop of tension.

Kind of like ER or Grays Anatomy, only with zombies instead of a hospital...