Fear the walking dead.
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BigsimonY said:
Any one else watch progs like this and think "i would react infinitely better than these individuals"
But isn't that why the writers have said the TWD universe hasn't got any experience of zombies? Therefore the characters don't have any prior with this, whereas IF that happened in real life we would all know what to do 
I watched the first episode, but the last 3 mins the recording failed (thanks HDD recorder) I did I miss anything after the truck hitting that drug dealer?
moanthebairns said:
I watched 28 days later last night, and f
k me, if the zombies shifted like this maybe the series wouldn't drag. That said, all would probably have died long ago.
I don't think I'm alone in thinking a zombie apocalypse would be relatively cool, no responsibility, do what you want etc but fk it with these ones.
28 days later has infected, not zombies!k me, if the zombies shifted like this maybe the series wouldn't drag. That said, all would probably have died long ago. I don't think I'm alone in thinking a zombie apocalypse would be relatively cool, no responsibility, do what you want etc but f
k it with these ones. One is pre-morte, one is post!
JamieBeeston said:
moanthebairns said:
I watched 28 days later last night, and fk me, if the zombies shifted like this maybe the series wouldn't drag. That said, all would probably have died long ago.
I don't think I'm alone in thinking a zombie apocalypse would be relatively cool, no responsibility, do what you want etc but fk it with these ones.
28 days later has infected, not zombies!k me, if the zombies shifted like this maybe the series wouldn't drag. That said, all would probably have died long ago. I don't think I'm alone in thinking a zombie apocalypse would be relatively cool, no responsibility, do what you want etc but f
k it with these ones. One is pre-morte, one is post!
BigsimonY said:
JamieBeeston said:
moanthebairns said:
I watched 28 days later last night, and fk me, if the zombies shifted like this maybe the series wouldn't drag. That said, all would probably have died long ago.
I don't think I'm alone in thinking a zombie apocalypse would be relatively cool, no responsibility, do what you want etc but fk it with these ones.
28 days later has infected, not zombies!k me, if the zombies shifted like this maybe the series wouldn't drag. That said, all would probably have died long ago. I don't think I'm alone in thinking a zombie apocalypse would be relatively cool, no responsibility, do what you want etc but f
k it with these ones. One is pre-morte, one is post!
MiniMan64 said:
BigsimonY said:
JamieBeeston said:
moanthebairns said:
I watched 28 days later last night, and fk me, if the zombies shifted like this maybe the series wouldn't drag. That said, all would probably have died long ago.
I don't think I'm alone in thinking a zombie apocalypse would be relatively cool, no responsibility, do what you want etc but fk it with these ones.
28 days later has infected, not zombies!k me, if the zombies shifted like this maybe the series wouldn't drag. That said, all would probably have died long ago. I don't think I'm alone in thinking a zombie apocalypse would be relatively cool, no responsibility, do what you want etc but f
k it with these ones. One is pre-morte, one is post!
From the very first episode I wanted to slap all the main characters in this show. I know it's meant to be a dysfunctional family unit but ffs they are annoyingly stupid beyond belief. In a real situation they wouldn't last 5 minutes and yet I find myself still wanting to watch this rubbish and looking forward to episode 4. I hope this show doesn't go off on senseless tangents like Lost and Heroes did. It would be nice to have a sensible ending for a change.
I agree with much of what has been said. How do these characters end up at arms length to a zombie only to be grappling with them on the floor and survive! It's amazing anyone ever gets bitten if they are that easy to fight off.
Note to writers: If I saw a sick person (zombs don't exist) stumbling slowly towards me, eyes wide, saliva dripping, teeth bared,under no circumstances would I approach saying "Hi, are you okay, do you need help?' I'd be over the other side of the road.
Note to writers: If I saw a sick person (zombs don't exist) stumbling slowly towards me, eyes wide, saliva dripping, teeth bared,under no circumstances would I approach saying "Hi, are you okay, do you need help?' I'd be over the other side of the road.
chris watton said:
jhfozzy said:
clonmult said:
jhfozzy said:
Episode two was much, much better, it is still not up to the speed of The walking dead yet in my opinion, but it has promise.
I stopped watching the walking dead because it was painfully slow .... (honestly, it was quite mind numbingly tedious!)Love it on the whole, though, and I did enjoy the slow-burner Fear the Walking Dead first episode.
I know it's done to make things more 'perilous' but people really do do some incredibly stupid things which wouldn't happen in real-life.
Oh, and in the midst of all the looting and carnage I found it quite convenient that matey-boy and his ex-wife came back to find their truck in mint nick and then were able to drive out of the city without any issue at all. It's things like that which make it silly. The trick with a good zombie show is to make everything almost-believable (apart from the ravenous undead wandering around of course).
Funk said:
Season 2 was slow because AMC doubled the number of episodes but kept the budget the same (effectively halving the budget per episode) hence the long, boring scenes at that damned farmhouse. The zombie count was well-down in the second season too. Many stuck with it and it came back pretty well (I very nearly gave up on it midway through S2) and was better from S3 onward.
I know it's done to make things more 'perilous' but people really do do some incredibly stupid things which wouldn't happen in real-life.
Oh, and in the midst of all the looting and carnage I found it quite convenient that matey-boy and his ex-wife came back to find their truck in mint nick and then were able to drive out of the city without any issue at all. It's things like that which make it silly. The trick with a good zombie show is to make everything almost-believable (apart from the ravenous undead wandering around of course).
This is a problem I have with most American shows - they stretch them out to 12-14 episodes a season so there's a lot of down time and dull expositionI know it's done to make things more 'perilous' but people really do do some incredibly stupid things which wouldn't happen in real-life.
Oh, and in the midst of all the looting and carnage I found it quite convenient that matey-boy and his ex-wife came back to find their truck in mint nick and then were able to drive out of the city without any issue at all. It's things like that which make it silly. The trick with a good zombie show is to make everything almost-believable (apart from the ravenous undead wandering around of course).
Just watched the pilot (2 ep) and ep 2, loved it! far better than TWD IMO.
As most of the shows I like are finished or on a season break (wtf is that all about?)I thought I'd give it a go
Previously I tried to like Sons of Anarchy on the 2nd attempt but what a POS that is! so gave up.
As most of the shows I like are finished or on a season break (wtf is that all about?)I thought I'd give it a go
Previously I tried to like Sons of Anarchy on the 2nd attempt but what a POS that is! so gave up.ADEuk said:
Just watched episode 4.
It's crap.
I can't post a spoiler because nothing happened.
The story/script and characters are weak.It's crap.
I can't post a spoiler because nothing happened.
I like the introduction of the military it's better than the family retard just heading off into the desert
Just re-watched the first series of TWD it pisses all over FTWD IMO with the latter I expecting having a much larger budget than the first series of TWD.
It seems to me as if we've skipped an episode. So we have the beginnings of an outbreak, signs of a cover up and a riot (standard occurrence in LA). So far so good. But now the city is empty, they're in a fenced off safe zone, rumours of an infection yet everyone seems to be going along with it? Where are the hoards of walkers, scenes of chaos or pitched battles? Why are the main characters nonplussed about having encountered them? Wouldn't people have uploaded phone footage to explain what was happening? I can see the government wanting to hide it but wouldn't a few of the soldiers have doubts or want to get back to their families? Did no one hear all that gunfire? None of this makes sense
I'm now officially bored with this.
How have they managed to take what should've been such an awesome concept and make it into fking Dullsville? There are only two more episodes to go and pretty much NOTHING has happened other than 'an outbreak' and 'some soldiers quarantined people'. I don't care if all the people in it get bitten and die. In fact, that would make it 1,000 times more interesting.
Here's a list of things that make no sense (although earlier comments about not being able to 'spoil' anything as nothing happened are pretty spot on...):
1) Junkieboy has BEEN AT HOME, yet still wears those (now clean) stupid Old Man Clothes he stole when he left the hospital. What happened to the clothes his mum must've still had at home which belonged to him? Did she throw them all out when he decided to move into a sthole and shoot up heroin? Surely someone must have some suitable clothes knocking around.
2) Mum heads outside The Fence, not knowing if the thing that's clearly infecting people will infect her. They don't know how it's transmitted yet. She just put her whole family and the people in the quarantine at risk because she's an idiot.
3) Why are some people 'safe' and others are being murdered by some Mugabe-style Death Squad? It doesn't make sense.
4) Daughter decides best thing to do with infections knocking around is to give herself open wounds.
5) All of a sudden people have become very taken with sitting on their roofs.
6) The military have decided to waste enormous amounts of resources keeping people confined to a fenced area. The best course of action would be to move the 'safe' people to a properly-run and designated zone - let's say, oh, a military base? - where scales of economy come into play. That way you don't need to provide sporadic power, food and medicine packages and a 24/7 patrol for such a relatively small number of people.
I hate watching all these stupid, useless people. It would be FAR more interesting to be seeing both sides - what's going on behind the scenes with the military? What's driving their decisions/actions? What's happening at the upper echelons of power and who's ordering the Death Squads? What are the scientists and researchers doing with the infected walkers they capture? Are they working on finding out what's wrong and how to cure it? What are the CDC doing and what were their plans for a mass outbreak of some kind (because there IS a plan somewhere...)? Instead we get to see daughter having a cry over a letter, Junkieboy getting a fix through his toes and Other Son making a boring documentary. There's a whole possible world of story out there to be told about what's going on and instead we're sat LITERALLY WATCHING PAINT DRY.
Also not a SINGLE infected walker in that entire episode. Fear the Walking Dead? Hard to do when there aren't any around.
This show is a piece of st and a waste of time.
How have they managed to take what should've been such an awesome concept and make it into f
king Dullsville? There are only two more episodes to go and pretty much NOTHING has happened other than 'an outbreak' and 'some soldiers quarantined people'. I don't care if all the people in it get bitten and die. In fact, that would make it 1,000 times more interesting.Here's a list of things that make no sense (although earlier comments about not being able to 'spoil' anything as nothing happened are pretty spot on...):
1) Junkieboy has BEEN AT HOME, yet still wears those (now clean) stupid Old Man Clothes he stole when he left the hospital. What happened to the clothes his mum must've still had at home which belonged to him? Did she throw them all out when he decided to move into a s
thole and shoot up heroin? Surely someone must have some suitable clothes knocking around.2) Mum heads outside The Fence, not knowing if the thing that's clearly infecting people will infect her. They don't know how it's transmitted yet. She just put her whole family and the people in the quarantine at risk because she's an idiot.
3) Why are some people 'safe' and others are being murdered by some Mugabe-style Death Squad? It doesn't make sense.
4) Daughter decides best thing to do with infections knocking around is to give herself open wounds.
5) All of a sudden people have become very taken with sitting on their roofs.
6) The military have decided to waste enormous amounts of resources keeping people confined to a fenced area. The best course of action would be to move the 'safe' people to a properly-run and designated zone - let's say, oh, a military base? - where scales of economy come into play. That way you don't need to provide sporadic power, food and medicine packages and a 24/7 patrol for such a relatively small number of people.
I hate watching all these stupid, useless people. It would be FAR more interesting to be seeing both sides - what's going on behind the scenes with the military? What's driving their decisions/actions? What's happening at the upper echelons of power and who's ordering the Death Squads? What are the scientists and researchers doing with the infected walkers they capture? Are they working on finding out what's wrong and how to cure it? What are the CDC doing and what were their plans for a mass outbreak of some kind (because there IS a plan somewhere...)? Instead we get to see daughter having a cry over a letter, Junkieboy getting a fix through his toes and Other Son making a boring documentary. There's a whole possible world of story out there to be told about what's going on and instead we're sat LITERALLY WATCHING PAINT DRY.
Also not a SINGLE infected walker in that entire episode. Fear the Walking Dead? Hard to do when there aren't any around.
This show is a piece of s
t and a waste of time.Edited by Funk on Tuesday 22 September 08:10
Funk said:
I'm now officially bored with this.
How have they managed to take what should've been such an awesome concept and make it into fking Dullsville? There are only two more episodes to go and pretty much NOTHING has happened other than 'an outbreak' and 'some soldiers quarantined people'. I don't care if all the people in it get bitten and die. In fact, that would make it 1,000 times more interesting.
Here's a list of things that make no sense (although earlier comments about not being able to 'spoil' anything as nothing happened are pretty spot on...):
1) Junkieboy has BEEN AT HOME, yet still wears those (now clean) stupid Old Man Clothes he stole when he left the hospital. What happened to the clothes his mum must've still had at home which belonged to him? Did she throw them all out when he decided to move into a sthole and shoot up heroin? Surely someone must have some suitable clothes knocking around.
2) Mum heads outside The Fence, not knowing if the thing that's clearly infecting people will infect her. They don't know how it's transmitted yet. She just put her whole family and the people in the quarantine at risk because she's an idiot.
3) Why are some people 'safe' and others are being murdred by some Mugabe-style Death Squad? It doesn't make sense.
4) Daughter decides best thing to do with infections knocking around is to give herself open wounds.
5) All of a sudden people have become very taken with sitting on their roofs.
6) The military have decided to waste enormous amounts of resources keeping people confined to a fenced area. The best course of action would be to move the 'safe' people to a properly-run and designated zone - let's say, oh, a military base? - where scales of economy come into play. That way you don't need to provide sporadic power, food and medicine packages and a 24/7 patrol for such a relatively small number of people.
I hate watching all these stupid, useless people. It would be FAR more interesting to be seeing both sides - what's going on behind the scenes with the military? What's driving their decisions/actions? What's happening at the upper echelons of power and who's ordering the Death Squads? What are the scientists and researchers doing with the infected walkers they capture? Are they working on finding out what's wrong and how to cure it? What are the CDC doing and what were their plans for a mass outbreak of some kind (because there IS a plan somewhere...)? Instead we get to see daughter having a cry over a letter, Junkieboy getting a fix through his toes and Other Son making a boring documentary. There's a whole possible world of story out there to be told about what's going on and instead we're sat LITERALLY WATCHING PAINT DRY.
Also not a SINGLE infected walker in that entire episode. Fear the Walking Dead? Hard to do when there aren't any around.
This show is a piece of st and a waste of time.
pretty much exactly what I was thinking.How have they managed to take what should've been such an awesome concept and make it into f
king Dullsville? There are only two more episodes to go and pretty much NOTHING has happened other than 'an outbreak' and 'some soldiers quarantined people'. I don't care if all the people in it get bitten and die. In fact, that would make it 1,000 times more interesting.Here's a list of things that make no sense (although earlier comments about not being able to 'spoil' anything as nothing happened are pretty spot on...):
1) Junkieboy has BEEN AT HOME, yet still wears those (now clean) stupid Old Man Clothes he stole when he left the hospital. What happened to the clothes his mum must've still had at home which belonged to him? Did she throw them all out when he decided to move into a s
thole and shoot up heroin? Surely someone must have some suitable clothes knocking around.2) Mum heads outside The Fence, not knowing if the thing that's clearly infecting people will infect her. They don't know how it's transmitted yet. She just put her whole family and the people in the quarantine at risk because she's an idiot.
3) Why are some people 'safe' and others are being murdred by some Mugabe-style Death Squad? It doesn't make sense.
4) Daughter decides best thing to do with infections knocking around is to give herself open wounds.
5) All of a sudden people have become very taken with sitting on their roofs.
6) The military have decided to waste enormous amounts of resources keeping people confined to a fenced area. The best course of action would be to move the 'safe' people to a properly-run and designated zone - let's say, oh, a military base? - where scales of economy come into play. That way you don't need to provide sporadic power, food and medicine packages and a 24/7 patrol for such a relatively small number of people.
I hate watching all these stupid, useless people. It would be FAR more interesting to be seeing both sides - what's going on behind the scenes with the military? What's driving their decisions/actions? What's happening at the upper echelons of power and who's ordering the Death Squads? What are the scientists and researchers doing with the infected walkers they capture? Are they working on finding out what's wrong and how to cure it? What are the CDC doing and what were their plans for a mass outbreak of some kind (because there IS a plan somewhere...)? Instead we get to see daughter having a cry over a letter, Junkieboy getting a fix through his toes and Other Son making a boring documentary. There's a whole possible world of story out there to be told about what's going on and instead we're sat LITERALLY WATCHING PAINT DRY.
Also not a SINGLE infected walker in that entire episode. Fear the Walking Dead? Hard to do when there aren't any around.
This show is a piece of s
t and a waste of time.Edited by Funk on Tuesday 22 September 02:31
except the open wound, surely to God you'd show the commanding officer the video of the signal then send Morse code to the light, everyone knows ...---...
Its becoming a farce now, why wouldn't you pick the guy up that you saw lying in the street.
I have the idea the military are using these ill people for experiments with the virus, or something along those lines. they've clearly got something sinister going on. Or maybe I'm just being paranoid as everyone seems to treat going to this "base" as evil. Also how the f
k did they construct a fence in such sort time. As for the wife cutting a section of it, really, there's loads of people supposedly wanting to get in your nice wee fence, lets open it up. Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff