Originally posted by the ninjak
My girlfriend and I have both read the books and thought the first three eps of the 1st season were good and the last half mindbogglingly bad writing.When we watched the 1st episode of 2nd season last night we were bored. None of the characters have the flair of their comic counterparts besides Dale, Glenn and Andrea.
Not happy with were this show is going, this show should've been impossible to get wrong.
LoL, you don't have a girlfriend.
Originally posted by the ninjak
My girlfriend and I have both read the books and thought the first three eps of the 1st season were good and the last half mindbogglingly bad writing.When we watched the 1st episode of 2nd season last night we were bored. None of the characters have the flair of their comic counterparts besides Dale, Glenn and Andrea.
Not happy with were this show is going, this show should've been impossible to get wrong.
I loved the episode the pacing was great
and there's also the fact that this episode was written by Kirkman, as in Robert Kirkman, the creator and writer of the comic this show is based on 🙂
Originally posted by Robtard
Most people would say Ricky Martin is a handsome/really good looking guy; he doesn't have a girlfriend either.
Ricky Martin is gay though.
Originally posted by S_D_J
I loved the episode the pacing was greatand there's also the fact that this episode was written by Kirkman, as in Robert Kirkman, the creator and writer of the comic this show is based on 🙂
Originally posted by the ninjak
Ricky Martin is gay though.The damage has been done. The actors suck. The writers were fired. Kirkman will do his best and hopefully the show will improve.
the writers weren't fired, they quit. The only one "fired" was Darabont, and we still have to see what impact that has on the show (the first batch of Season 2 episodes were produced by him)
And Kirkman was the one who wrote the episode you were so bored with, and the one who's also responsible for the characterization of any main player in the story (he and Darabont were essentially the show-runners up until Darabont's departure)
Kirkman's been heavily involved since season 1
Originally posted by Galan007either that, or the revelation that "we ARE the walking dead!" ie. jenner told him that everyone is infected with the zombie scourge, but it only activates upon death.
Any thoughts as to what Dr. Jenner whispered to Rick during the finale episode last season? Personally, I think it involvesSpoiler:.
Lori being pregnant
Originally posted by john allerdyce
either that, or the revelation that "we ARE the walking dead!" ie. jenner told him that everyone is infected with the zombie scourge, but it only activates upon death.
Doesn't make much sense, since we've seen a few times when humans were bitten; then the virus killed and animated them. That implies they were infected by the bite(s).
I think john is referring to these happenings from a comic book standpoint. In the comics, a zombie's bite doesn't actually spread the virus. You see, every human is technically infected, but that gene is dormant--it is only activated by 'general' death. That being said, bites from zombies don't actually spread the scourge, they just cause massive blood loss, and/or infections, that can ultimately lead to death, subsequently causing that person's 'zombie-gene' to activate.
Truth is, any human who dies (no matter what the cause) will transform into a zombie, unless significant brain damage is associated with their death.
Robert Kirkman:"...the rule is: WHATEVER it is that causes the zombies, is something everyone already has. If you stub your toe, get an infection and die ... you turn into a zombie. UNLESS your brain is damaged. If someone shoots you in the head and you die ...you're dead. A zombie bite kills you because of infection, or blood loss ... not because of the zombie "virus.""
So if the television series opts to follow that plot-point, then I think it's very plausible that Jenner told Rick something along the lines of: "everyone is infected. No matter how they die, they'll turn into zombies."
...Or the plot diverges from the comics completely, and we find out that only Rick is infected, but he's inextricably immune to the virus. Hence Shane being so adamant about hearing no heartbeat before leaving the hospital, yet somehow Rick mysteriously reanimates.
It doesn't seem to follow that standpoint from the comic then.
Morgan's(Lennie James) wife was bitten and he said she died from a massive fever "skin felt like it was on fire" and then turned. Implies the zombie-virus was transferred from the bite and is what killed her.
Same thing happened to the old man's friend and the blonde's sister, iirc. A bite seems to be a death-sentence.
^ People dying after being bitten doesn't rule out the comic's rendition of the virus at all.
As was mentioned by Kirkman: a zombie bite kills you because of infection (which is where the fever comes into play) or blood loss. You don't become a zombie because it was 'passed' to you by the bite per se, you become a zombie because you died. Death (by any means) is the trigger. For instance, if Carl ended up dying after being shot by Otis, he would have still 'resurrected' as a zombie.
Not saying that's the premise the TV show will follow, but it is certainly a possibility.
The whole theory that she may have whispered "We are the Walking Dead" could've been the more philosophical view on the term.
We are damned. Yet we walk on even though we have no hope.
I don't like the idea of global infection though. Like in the Romero films.
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I also enjoyed the second episode, a massive improvement on the prior one. Hershel's daughter Maggie is hot. Lucky Glenn.