Late to the party.... Walking Dead

ManglerYJ

ManglerYJ

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So I finally have "some" time to watch The Walking Dead. AMC has had marathons on several times and I always seem to have caught the same part of the same episode - when they send the guy and girl into town for birth control. For some strange reason, I've seen that scene of that episode 4 times and couldn't seem to catch anything else until this past weekend. From what I gather, I've been able to watch a pretty good stretch - perhaps all of - the most recent season (Season 5?) and a bit of last season (Season 4?).

Without sitting down to watch the whole thing from the beginning, I'm hoping to get a couple questions answered without sitting down and rotting what's left of my brain for 8 days straight to catch up.

There are a couple of things that don't sit well with me.

What doesn't make sense to me is the lack of vehicular travel. They spend a short bit of time this season in some beat up motorhome and large sedans, but when they do, it's at night when visibility is awful anyway. The walkers don't seem to know the difference day or night, so why not travel by day when you can see them more effectively? The tank also made sense to me at first, but seemed rather too easy to take out with a grenade.

What also doesn't seem to make sense is the lack of outside communication. For a while in the car, they are listening to the radio. You would think that they would be seeking out the source of that radio communication instead of just mindlessly roaming from place to place. Heading to the CDC first made sense to me.

How much time has passed since the initial infection? It seems by the amount of dust on everything and how overgrown things are, it's like years - but in reality it's just long enough for Rick to grow a halfways decent beard.

I'm sure there are other questions, and maybe I'm trying to take too seriously the Zombie Soap Opera.
 
It really would be worth watching from the beginning. The first season or two was better anyway. They did go to the cdc first in Atlanta, but that's kind of when most hope was lost of a good/quick outcome.
 
Start at the beginning and work your way through. Its worth the hassle in my opinion. Season 5 has probably been the least good so far, but at least I'm finally caught up.
 
You really do need to watch in from the beginning. I just caught the bug during season 4 and the wife and I sat down with Netflix to watch from beginning. Took us 2 weeks but man. I'd say seasons 1-3 were the best.
 
They had a little Hyundai SUV for almost one whole season I think. I always wonder how the cars keep running on the old stale gas or where they keep finding gas.
 
ManglerYJ said:
The walkers don't seem to know the difference day or night, so why not travel by day when you can see them more effectively? The tank also made sense to me at first, but seemed rather too easy to take out with a grenade.
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Rick isn't scared of walkers. It's people that are still alive that he's afraid of, and for good reason.


Tank is the worst vehicle ever. It takes and entire trained crew to drive and then only gets a few gallons per mile. (not that any body with any sense could figure out how to drive it, but it still gets terrible milage.)
 
OK... so the whole, "vehicles make noise and walkers are attracted to noise" thing makes sense as to why they primarily walk short distances. I think I'd be figuring out how to armor the vehicles you do drive, though. (Glass breaks, allowing walkers to "overtake", etc.)

Again, there doesn't seem to be a good timeline for how long after the initial infection we are now. Long enough to "be out there too long", but not long enough that gas has soured. Or maybe it has, that's why the vehicles keep breaking down.


Looks like I'll be watching at least season one on Netflix in the near future. Maybe even binge watch season one and two back to back.
 
You know they are fighting zombies, which are not real. Actually, they are, make-em-ups. So, I wouldn't worry too much about how they are getting gas. They have had tons of vehicle troubles, and have plenty of times, ran out of gas.
 
BigBody79 said:
You know they are fighting zombies, which are not real. Actually, they are, make-em-ups. So, I wouldn't worry too much about how they are getting gas. They have had tons of vehicle troubles, and have plenty of times, ran out of gas.
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I know. the logical portion of my brain just picks that shit apart.

and driving an Abrams tank probably isn't as difficult as you think. There is something to be said about rolling at 60 mph in 72 tons of steel. The older ones, yeah those were probably way more difficult.
 
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Since the show is 5 seasons in, that means the gas was from around 2009-2010, so no ethanol. That's why all the cars still run fine on old gas :D
 
Well. Laurie was just pregnant in the very beginning. So there's 9 months. And the baby is not walking yet so she can't be 15 months yet. So, that's less than two years there.

Seasons =/= years. Ie "24"
 
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BigBody79 said:
My wife will be watching the SAME movie and still ask questions about what's going on. :rolleyes:
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Ugh, same here. Then she fusses at me for talking during the movie. Somehow I can comment on the movie and still catch everything, but she listens intently and still doesn't get it :confused:
 
WHEW.... finally caught up on the show completely and watched the season finale. Carol is my new hero (although I love Abraham's poetic license with swear words).

Now I may just have to watch the California version over the summer to tide me over until season 6.

P.S. How bad can Carol's casseroles possibly be?
 
Anybody watch The Talking Dead discussion show that follows it?
They had an interesting discussion last night as to whether Carol is really the new leader, and if being the recipient of long-standing spousal abuse from an asshole is the best training for zombie apocalypse survival.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Anybody watch The Talking Dead discussion show that follows it?
They had an interesting discussion last night as to whether Carol is really the new leader, and if being the recipient of long-standing spousal abuse from an asshole is the best training for zombie apocalypse survival.
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I loved Carol, "These people are children and children love stories".

She wants her dish back cleaned...
 
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