TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

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"]

But even the zombie who took a chunk of ankle meat in the last episode. Taht was pretty fast reflexes for a zombie.

[CountDeMoney]

Not all those infected may possess the same zombie mortality rates.  Some may die immediately when infected.  Epidemiology is never 100%.  Hence, some living dead corpses, some not.

[Eddie Teach]

Saw. Interesting movie. Probably gonna skip the gazillion sequels though.

[Josquius]

People going on about zombies being impossible, they should be decomposing, etc.... -
That stuff is so cliche.
Zombies are the fantasy element of the show. They don't have to make sense. Hard fantasy allows one element like that. Its everything else that has to make sense.

[Neil]

In The Loop might be my favorite movie of the last ten years, by the way. "Difficult difficult lemon difficult."

Yeah, my wife and I have been saying that for years.  We saw it when we were in Europe, and it was great.

[Josephus]

People going on about zombies being impossible, they should be decomposing, etc.... -
That stuff is so cliche.
Zombies are the fantasy element of the show. They don't have to make sense. Hard fantasy allows one element like that. Its everything else that has to make sense.

No. We dig that they're te fantasy element and we dig that we need to put aside some believability. But within it's own world it needs some consistency. You can't have them doing one thing in one season and another in another season without reasonable explanation

[garbon]

People going on about zombies being impossible, they should be decomposing, etc.... -
That stuff is so cliche.
Zombies are the fantasy element of the show. They don't have to make sense. Hard fantasy allows one element like that. Its everything else that has to make sense.

No. We dig that they're te fantasy element and we dig that we need to put aside some believability. But within it's own world it needs some consistency. You can't have them doing one thing in one season and another in another season without reasonable explanation

Exactly. Unless opted out of for stylistic reasons, the typical narrative should have consistency within its own world. Walking Dead seems to lack that.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm still trying to figure out how they seem to migrate in flocks in a single direction at times.  There's got to be a reason for that somewhere.

And no, I never read the comics.  Anybody that spoils it for me gets their nut sack banned.

[Neil]

I find it hard to believe nobody's doing better than 11 million viewers. ER used to pull 30, American Idol mid-20s, heck even Lost had around 15. 

ER was pulling in those numbers back when there were a few dozen channels, most of which were awful.  Now there are hundreds of channels, one for every desire, and each one has a boring reality show to suit your taste.

[CountDeMoney]

I find it hard to believe nobody's doing better than 11 million viewers. ER used to pull 30, American Idol mid-20s, heck even Lost had around 15. 

ER was pulling in those numbers back when there were a few dozen channels, most of which were awful.  Now there are hundreds of channels, one for every desire, and each one has a boring reality show to suit your taste.

Exactly, those numbers for ER were before the Digital Transition Act dropped a lot of people off the Nielsen numbers with their rabbit antennas.

[Josquius]

How do they get audience figures these days anyway?
I know they used to do it by taking a representative sample of the population and giving them a log box which recorded what was on and iirc they had to press buttons for who in the family was watching it. Doubt they do that these days

[Viking]

Not all those infected may possess the same zombie mortality rates.  Some may die immediately when infected.  Epidemiology is never 100%.  Hence, some living dead corpses, some not.

My attitude has been "they are zombies, I don't fucking care"

[Berkut]

I've watched the first two episodes of Last Resort and Homeland in the last couple of days.

Watching Homeland is going to make it impossible to tolerate the excrement that is Last Resort. The stark contract in quality is just too much to really handle.

[CountDeMoney]

I've watched the first two episodes of Last Resort and Homeland in the last couple of days.

Watching Homeland is going to make it impossible to tolerate the excrement that is Last Resort. The stark contract in quality is just too much to really handle.

Yeah, comparing Homeland and Last Resort is like comparing a high-end soft porn Skinemax project with a budget to a shaky handy cam video of street walkers in the back of a Toyota.  Really good apples and really shitty oranges.

[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.