The Walking Dead (Spoiler Alert)

Well...kind of a tough ending to the first episode. Glad to have one of my favorite shows back on though.

Originally Posted by Wireman

Well...kind of a tough ending to the first episode. Glad to have one of my favorite shows back on though.

I never saw it coming. Pretty good first episode.

Story moved really slow to me in this one, I was expecting more substance for the first episode. Ending was a shocker no doubt, but otherwise the episode was kind of dull.

I have a hard time figuring out the capabilities of the zombies. You can hide under a car and they walk right by with no clue. Leave a door open though, and they're on your RV and trying to bust through a door. Also, who knew zombies attended church services?

I thought it was an excellent episode with some very suspenseful moments. Curious to see the direction the story heads.

Originally Posted by TAC

Watching now and DVR'd it! I loved the fact
almost a half an hour before the first commercial.

Yeah but after that it seemed like there were 5 minute commercial stretches every 3 minutes of the show!

Originally Posted by hoops5

Yeah but after that it seemed like there were 5 minute commercial stretches every 3 minutes of the show!

I agree! They made up for the lack of commercials early with way too many at the end. I may have to just wait for the dvr replay if they keep that up.

I can't read any of the comments, I just got the first season on DVD and don't want to read any thing anything about it. My sons rave about it and saw the first one last nite I missed it due to the playoffs, I also watch Desperate Housewives and its on the same time so I just might wait for the DVD. I love Zombie movies.

Originally Posted by Wireman

I have a hard time figuring out the capabilities of the zombies. You can hide under a car and they walk right by with no clue. Leave a door open though, and they're on your RV and trying to bust through a door. Also, who knew zombies attended church services?

They are scavengers so they wonder through different things, like the RV. The zombie was getting ready to leave the RV until she dropped the gun, that set off the zombie.

If last night is any indication of what's to come, it's going to be a great season.

[QUOTE=Wireman;4177985]I have a hard time figuring out the capabilities of the zombies. You can hide under a car and they walk right by with no clue. Leave a door open though, and they're on your RV and trying to bust through a door. Also, who knew zombies attended church services?[/QUOTE]

That was freakin weird.

Originally Posted by SvFan4life

They are scavengers so they wonder through different things, like the RV. The zombie was getting ready to leave the RV until she dropped the gun, that set off the zombie.

Why were they peacefully sitting down in the church? That scened just seemed very odd to me. I wonder if it's going to be a clue of things to come?

Originally Posted by Wireman

Why were they peacefully sitting down in the church? That scened just seemed very odd to me. I wonder if it's going to be a clue of things to come?

They're brain dead, crave flesh, and still have souls. Yea that would be awfully interesting stuff. Actually in retorspect that would be nuts, sense he was in the church asking for a sign from god; not thinking about the fact that he'd just walked in on 3 walkers sitting in church as though they were there for a service.

Originally Posted by sportsfan41

They're brain dead, crave flesh, and still have souls. Yea that would be awfully interesting stuff. Actually in retorspect that would be nuts, sense he was in the church asking for a sign from god; not thinking about the fact that he'd just walked in on 3 walkers sitting in church as though they were there for a service.

It was literally like they were in a service, just hanging out. That seems so odd considering what we've seen throughout the rest of the show.

^ At this point it seems like they're just trying to do as many interesting things with the walkers as they can rather than conform to any of the standard zombie archetypes or even concern themselves with uniformity within the show's unique reality.

George Romero's work suggests that zombies contain some shade of memory or recollection of things familiar to that person when they were alive. It would explain how they had perhaps gotten to the church, though not why they're sedentary. Also, the doors were shut when the group showed up at the church and I can't imagine that the living dead shut the door behind them as they entered, so they were likely in the church at the time they turned. Even if they were already in the church when they turned, the show's portrayal of them so far has always shown the walkers to be on a constant quest for food and in seemingly constant motion. Even that bizarre cut-in-half guy from the first episode of last season pulled himself along the ground despite having no legs. Maybe we'll find out that the dead in this universe are a lot more diverse in their behaviors than we've ever seen before.

I think this was a clue to the future. I'm anxious to see if it comes back up again.

Originally Posted by Wireman

Why were they peacefully sitting down in the church? That scened just seemed very odd to me. I wonder if it's going to be a clue of things to come?

The fact that they were sitting there very reserved reveals they were Baptist zombies, because Penecostal zombies would have been slain in the Spirit.

Kidding, of course...

S2-E2 bloodletting in 20 minutes. I'm pumped. I'm wondering if they start splitting up or have a big group hug and continue to hang out. Will Sophie be found?

Originally Posted by TAC

S2-E2 bloodletting in 20 minutes. I'm pumped. I'm wondering if they start splitting up or have a big group hug and continue to hang out. Will Sophie be found?

I think they'll split up or at least Rick and Shane will split up. I think they'll find the girl. I also expect them to find some other survivors this week - someone fired that gun last week.

They almost have to find some new folks, just so they can have somebody else to get eaten by Walkers.