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Sorry to blow your brains right out of your head so early in the day, but did you know that Andrew Lincoln (Grimes) is British? ALLO WUT INNIT?! That’s nuts. Of course, in England they call Grimes “Lorries,” and his wife, Lori Grimes is called Lori Lorries. (Sorry!) How is it that so many of our best actors are loyal subjects of the Queen? Idris. Grimes. HUGH GRANT. Anyway, it is going to be hard for me to look at Grimes the same way because of my innate American fury at the English over the way they didn’t treat my forefathers during the Revolutionary War because of how my forefathers were safely in their native countries no duh. “YE RELAXE!” is on my family’s Coat of Arms. Oh brother! We are already way off track. Can we please get to it?! So, Grimes is sitting on a hill at dawn with his walkie talkie trying to raise Morgan. (And not to get too off track, but can we at least acknowledge the fact that it is hilarious that in 2010 that a piece of sophisticated technology is still called a “walkie talkie”?) He tells Morgan that he found others. “My family, if you can believe it,” he says, and then there is this long silence just waiting for someone to fill it with “ACTUALLY NO, NOT REALLY, I DON’T BELIEVE IT THAT MUCH NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT!” He tells Morgan to avoid Atlanta (“even World of Coca Cola is a bust,” he adds) and tells him to be careful out there, which is a total PRO-TIP, I’m sure. When they inevitably reunite later, I really hope Morgan thanks Grimes for the tip of being careful and staying on the look-out for zombies. Then, when he finally stops talking, Grimes releases the talk button and you hear the static hiss and realize that he really was going on and on and not letting Morgan get a word in edgewise, which seems like a pretty inconsiderate way to conduct a walkie talkie (LOL still at that term) conversation in the midst of an apocalyptic disaster. TAKE A BREATH, GRIMES.
Back in camp, that one blonde lady has been kneeling over her sister’s dead body all night. Everyone’s like “uh,” but she is just like, “kneel.”
Her storyline this week makes me so angry that I would just like to power through it real quick and move on. So, she’s super sad about the whole sister getting bitten by a zombie thing. Fair enough. But also YOU ARE IN THE MIDST OF A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. That is literally the shit they are talking about when they say “shit happens.” Clearly, survival is difficult, so maybe you should focus on it, and cut the self-indulgent, misplaced-nostalgic bullshit. At one point, Grimes walks over and SHE PULLS A GUN ON GRIMES. Oh girl. If you’re going to point a gun at the king, you best not miss. Grimes backs away because he is a gentleman, and a gentleman doesn’t BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT IN A FAST-DRAW SHOWDOWN THAT LEAVES YOU NOT ONLY DEAD BUT ALSO EMBARRASSED. Another time, the old man comes to pay his respects and the two of them giggle down memory lane. Ugh, both of you. He explains that the two blonde sisters were the first people he had cared about since he lost his wife to cancer. Really? Why? I guess maybe it would make more sense if you really lived in the camp, but all I’ve seen them do is steal costume jewelry for each other, argue about fishing knots, and get bitten by zombies, so I don’t really see the appeal. ANYHOW, eventually the dead sister becomes an undead sister and everyone in camp is like, “not cool,” but Andrea is, like, stroking her face and looking deep into her milky zombie eyes and apologizing for not going to her fucking birthday party? OH GOOD GRIEF ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I’m sorry, but even if this were just NORMAL TIMES that would be stupid, or at the very least, something to say quietly to yourself as you stare out over a placid lake at dawn, or some shit, but it is NOT NORMAL TIMES, and enough with the melodrama. Also: I don’t have any sisters whose birthday parties I’ve missed, so maybe I just can’t understand, but I’m not sure I understand how it is even remotely more pleasant or provides any more closure to wait until your dead sibling has become a flesh-hungry “geek” clawing with ice cold fingers at your head trying to get into your brains and then shoot her in the head at point blank range with a handgun instead of just, you know, letting someone else deal with it or shooting her while she is peaceful. “I owe it to her to give myself PTSD by committing an insanely horrific act of violence on her reanimated corpse at the last second with my life very much on the line.” Gross. Go to bed. You’ve been up all night, but that’s not even the only reason I’m saying that to you.
Speaking of dispatching corpses, does EVERYONE in that camp need to sit down with Dr. Melfi or WHAT?
Darryl and "that other guy" are cleaning up the dead bodies in the camp and are about to throw one of them on the pyre when Glenn flips his fitted. WAHHHH NOOOOOO THAT’S FOR ZOMBIIIEEEESSS WAHHHHHH. Obviously, this pisses Darryl off because everything pisses Darryl off, but especially because he’s not about to take orders from a “chinaman.” Haha. DING DONG. He also says that the whole camp had it coming for leaving his brother to die on the roof, which is not really how karma works, I don’t think, but OK. So, instead of burning the bodies, they bury the bodies. Everyone pretty much agrees on this except for Darryl, who wants to burn all of the bodies. I’m kind of ambivalent on this one. On the one hand, you can probably just burn all of the bodies, you guys. Like, I get how burying the bodies is an act of grace and respect, or whatever, but you guys are balls deep in the Zombie Apocalypse at this point, and I’m pretty sure you’ve all seen way worse outcomes for your loved ones than just being thoughtfully put out of their misery (with a pick-axe) and tossed onto a fire. On the other hand, Darryl’s concern seems to be that somehow the dead bodies, despite having been bashed in the face with a pick-axe, are somehow going to rise up out of the dirt to roam the Earth once more, which is a scary prospect except for the fact that they are about to leave the camp anyway, so who cares if they do rise up and wander around the abandoned camp? And so: ambivalent. Although, actually, no, I changed my mind: I’m with Darryl. Throw them on the fire. For one thing, there ain’t no nostalgia to this shit right here. There’s just the street, and the game, and what happen here today. And second of all, when Andrea insists on dragging her sister’s corpse into the grave BY HERSELF as if somehow THAT MEANS ANYTHING I just really want to yank that dead body right out of her hands and set it ablaze myself. “Oh, whoops, I am so sorry I set your sister’s body on fire and accidentally shoved you into the fire.”
Oh, but so, that one dude who probably used to be a barista at the coffee shop slash vinyl-only record store got bitten by a zombie last night. Whoops! He tried to hide it for awhile, but he did a bad job, I guess. Also, he got bit, like, right on the tummy? Haha. What were you doing last night, dude? That is a weird place to get a bite! Some people want to shoot him in the head, but others, namely Grimes, because Classic Grimes, wants to get him some help. Uh, Grimes? What help, Grimes? Grimes thinks that if they can just get to the CDC, they’ll find help. UGH. Really, Grimes? Is that really what you think? Because no offense, and I guess none of us knows exactly how we will react in a crisis until we are in one, but THAT IS FUCKING RETARDED. Go to the CDC. Perhaps when they get there Grimes can GET HIS HEAD CHECKED. Check your head, Grimes.
Shane doesn’t want to go to the CDC. He wants to shoot Grimes in the back and fuck his wife (also from the back). Obviously, I completely agree with Shane that the CDC is a ridiculous idea, but I also am really starting to hate Shane. Like, when they are in the forest and Grimes says that if his family was Shane’s family Shane would understand his decision, and Shane gets furious? Relax, Shane. He actually asks Grimes what that is supposed to mean, as if what it is supposed to mean is not completely obvious. AT THE VERY LEAST, PLAY IT COOL, BRO? He’s like “What is that supposed to mean? Did I not fuck your wife twice a week on date night as if she was my wife?” Gross. Even the old man is like “Uh, Shane?”
Also the part where Shane tells Lori that he’s getting used to breaking all kinds of habits even if he doesn’t want to. Gross. It’s kind of weird to fuck someone else’s wife and then describe it as a habit. Kind of a weird thing to do. And then complain about having to break that habit. “I hate having to break the habit of fucking you just because your stupid husband and my best friend and partner is alive. Really wish I could still habitually fuck you.” Grimes is like “what habits?” Lori and Shane are like “Oh we were just talking about rabbits. Haha. Yeah. I hate having to break all these rabbits. Uh oh, look over there, a zombie!” (Run away.)
Eventually, Grimes wins the debate because he’s Grimes. Most people decide to go with him, although that one family of people no one cares about decides they’re going to go their own way. Grimes gives them the gift of a gun. Carl gives us the gift of one of his hilarious sadfaces.
Enhance.
Enhance.
Ha.
Meanwhile, the former leader of his very own Tall Bike Gang in Greenpoint is getting worse. His bones are “like glass.” This lady knows what he’s talking about.
When the RV breaks down, he asks to be left behind. Everyone argues about it. Jesus Christ, what is with these people? Is there a big forensics meet coming up at the local community college? "Definitely be ready to argue both sides, we don't know how the coin toss is going to come out." Enough, debate team. They do eventually leave him sitting under a tree. Does he want a gun to blow his own brains out? He does not want a gun to blow his own brains out. Suit yourself.
The gang finally gets to the CDC. There is a dude in there who is slowly going crazy. Think Will Smith in I Am Legend. NOW IMAGINE HE WAS WHITE. “Gabe, wouldn’t it be easier to imagine Charlton Heston in The Omega Man?” Hush. We don’t know much about the CDC scientist except that he loves wine and he hates laboratory fires.
When the gang shows up he does NOT want to let them in. Wait, why not? Jerk. Everyone tries to convince Grimes that they need to get out of there, and they probably do need to get out of there. Zombies all up in the CDC parking lot. But where are they going to go? They have no food and they are almost out of gas, as Grimes himself screams to the security camera. “YOU’RE KILLING US! YOU’RE KILLING US!” Come on, Grimes. You’re the one who wanted to go to the CDC. You’re killing you.
Finally, the crazy CDC scientist does open the door, though. Annnnnd the CDC is the hatch apparently.
Next week: SEASON FINALE!
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“What Would Grimes Do? Do the Opposite.” The survivors needs to get WWGDDTO snap bracelets. That guy’s every instinct is wrong.
Well it’s not like their Brokencyde snap bracelets are helping much. Or anybody’s, for that matter.
I don’t even remember what Grimes’ sheriff buddy/Grimes’ wife’s partner in “accidental” adultery’s name is. So I just call him Gabe every time I say something about him. BECAUSE HE LOOKS LIKE GABE.
I do that too!!
I think it’s called a walkie-talkie because you can walkie while you talkie.
In France, you can talkie while you walkie.
Oops. Insert Air album cover here:
http://www.amazon.com/Talkie-Walkie-Air/dp/B00013RC9I
Goddamnit. Downvote away.
also holy Brian Regan reference, batman. WHOOPS.
Question, did the guy get contaminated when the acid (or whatever.) ripped through his protective gear/lining? Also, where is that actor from? I can’t place it.
Love this show, but love these recaps more.
At first, I thought:
But then, nope.
And then, Whoops. But Dennis Quaid is the moral of the story, although also apparently not.
Truman Show.
Touche. You are totally right.
By the way, Glenn (Glen?) was all up in Norman Reedus’ face about burning bodies of people who got eaten and are probably INFECTED but god forbid he puts up a fight when Boondock Saints man wants to put a fucking hand in his backpack.
I think a severed hand wrapped in a handkerchief and placed in a backpack is a completely different scenario than picking up dead bodies— some of them being people you knew a day ago— and throwing them on a fire. I think Glenn’s point was respecting dead comrades, and not burning them and also holding on to a maybe-dead-brother’s hand for safekeeping (maybe the CDC has lasers?) both fall into that Respect category.
But still, Glenn, who cares really? Burn the bodies. Bury the bodies. Use them for target practice. Sharpen their bones into weapons. Who cares? It’s the zombie apocalypse.
he is the “fake” brother of Jim Carrey in TRUMAN…
I remember him from Little Children and the Truman Show.
He was assistant coach Craig Patrick in Miracle. He actually kinda looks like Craig Patrick, but with hair.
As if there wasn’t enough maudlin heart-tuggery in this show already, they have to use the music from Sunshine? Seriously?
signed in to upvote, because that made me SO MAD! first kick-ass, now this!
Oh, thank you! I knew the music was from some movie starring Future Husband Cillian Murphy, but couldn’t remember which.
hollow bones, like a bird
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Most of our forefathers were aristocratic slaveowners born into wealth and privilege.
Just sayin’. . . nothings sacred.
Let’s drink some tea and just have fun.
Forget the CDC, looks like somebody needs the WAHHHHHH-mbulance
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Careful guys, downvoting a union man is precisely why my grandpa had to drive truck with a pistol under his dash for 10 years.
“Tears of a Carl,” by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
Bones like glass? This guy knows what he’s talking about.
He’s in a comic books store, where this show started. The circle is complete.
Not to go too off subject, but all the zombie eating humans got me wondering, did everyone enjoy they’re Thanksgiving?
A couple of friends and I made the best turkey that three people who have never made a turkey before have ever made (no brag-o)! There were a lot of You-tube videos and E-how tutorials involved.
You typed ‘they’re’ when you meant ‘their.’ My Thanksgiving was lovely.
They made Shane too crazy. At first I thought that he was boning Mrs. Grimes before Grimes got shot, but no. Then I thought that maybe Shane thought Grimes was dead because everyone seems to have assumed that everyone not in the CDC/Army Base is dead, but no. Instead, we have a crazy sociopath who lies to have woods sex and is going to try and kill our “hero.”
But Shane is the real hero because no matter how many wives he fornicates with, HIS IDEAS MAKE MORE SENSE.
The resemblance is uncanny
“When you wrestle with the devil you’re gonna get wet with fire” is all I am seeing in that picture of Gabe.
I love Gabe’s chain wallet.
Chain wallet, trucker hat … my head is spinning. I just want to tell that picture that IT GETS BETTER!
Haha yeah this is Gabe going as Aston Kutcher for Halloween. Or maybe just to the corner store for cigarettes.
there goes grampa tryin’ to be “hip” again.
where did gawker get that cool black and white photo of charlie from sunny in philadelphia?
It’s Mr. Cool Hat
Not to get all Steve Winwood here, but I thought we agreed Gabe looks like Shane, not the barista-soon-to-be-zombie guy? But as I was once told in Detroit’s 36th district court by a woman who didn’t like me very much: all white people look the same.
Gabe looks like Shane looks like this union worker-y dude who comes into my job every day. Local 37 orders a soy latte, no foam, which is totally what Wahmyboneshurtandmyipadneedstobecharged would order. The circle closes.
Episodes like this make me glad that my sister and I have a “shoot the other in the head if infected with the zombie plague” standing agreement. No, I am not kidding, that is an actual agreement we have with each other.
My family holidays rock.
My boyfriend and I have that same agreement. It’s only natural. Etc etc
I recommend getting those in writing. The form Medical Power of Attorney that I used specifically addresses Zombie Infection.
Spawn of two attorneys here. Done and done. Not a joke. Will post if asked for.
Not sure whether this is a little too extreme. Oh well.
god that lady was the WORST. i was very glad to see in the previews for the finale that she’s probably zombied.
I have an agreement with my friends and family to NOT shoot me when I become a zombie. Paul F. Tompkins and Rich Sommer know what I’m talking about: http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/sketch_of_the_dead/
I was watching with my brother too! “I’m not going to weep over your body if you become a zombie kay?”
Yes, my boyfriend and I have that too. It’s up there with “don’t cheat on me within about five seconds if there’s a zombie apocalypse” and “let’s not team up with people who think it’s not okay to shoot an infected future zombie in the head”.
Wait — Hugh Grant is English? WTF?!?!?!?!
Glenn Beck did a great job in his first dramatic role, well not really his first, but you know, great job Glenn! Next episode let’s see some of those famous tears!
If I were not in the CDC something else I’d like to be.
If I were not in the CDC a sommelier me.
courtesy of someone else who took this picture.
Am i the only one who’s seeing the NeptuneSociety ad for cremation at the bottom of this page?watupwidat
Oh and Gabe just threw a mention to Forensics. Thumbs up!
Ugh. Neptune Society. Dude. My grandparents were totally into that stuff. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, in my personal opinion and experience with them.
Also, does anyone (under the age of 90) really use the word “Chinaman” in real life?
It’s not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
We let you sleep in because it’s your birthday, but it’s 11 and we made pancakes, so up and at em.
not been to Videogum for a minute (clearly I was in the hospital) and I put this show on for like four weeks and finally last night I was so fucking bored and pissed that I had to see if you guys were watching. My question is this: when did writers, directors, and actors (yeah right, actors haha) start to believe that subverting a genre meant simply having all the characters talk incessantly in the midst of the framing device that is the actual genre? Like, we’re going to make this show that revolves around baseball, but instead of showing the baseball games we are going to have all the baseball players talk about the economy or what they had for dinner or WHY THEY SHOULD SAVE THE GUY FROM ALIENS WHO IS NOT ONLY A DICK BUT WHO HAS A DICK BROTHER AND IS A RACIST? And the argument is so asinine. “We left him tied up like an animal!” “We have to go back and shoot/save him so he doesn’t become a zombie (which everyone in Zombie films just assumes is bad because you wind up being ugly and eating, gasp! deer meat) And sure, people will say that there is plenty of fighting/zombie killing in this show, but actually, not good enough. I watched this movie called Winter’s Bone yesterday that had almost zero action yet was profoundly more touching/terrifying then this lazy waste of money. AMC is top-notch channel that has great programs like Breaking Bad, but me fears that they are going to start missing the point and believe that it is simply good enough to mass manufacture artsy look-alikes PRODUCED (whatever that is) by the guy who PRODUCED (financed, maybe?) the Shawshank Redemption, which is an awesome movie, but why do I really care about that here in the future? Maybe it’s because I watch Boardwalk Empire before this show or because I recently watched the entire Eastbound and Down season 2 (a show infinitely harder to get a perfect as it is) but I am officially Breaking (haha) up with this nonsense garbage-fest.
Good Talk
Alex
I seriously only could bring MYSELF to read the ALL CAPS words in your post. I FAIL at reading.
WHY THEY SHOULD SAVE THE GUY FROM ALIENS WHO IS NOT ONLY A DICK BUT WHO HAS A DICK BROTHER AND IS A RACIST PRODUCED PRODUCED
You guys are the reason I stand in the corner and why I am sad.
Awww. For what it’s worth, I understand the sentiment but I’ve not given up on the show yet myself.
See this is the point where upvotes probably more likely mean, “Continue not joining in on the discussion while downvotes would in my estimation mark my comment as generally rambling and unfunny. Please find it in your heart to bring my self-pity back to zero votes and leave me instead with the sense that I’m being ignored.
Also, I will give this show a final chance next week when it abruptly season-finales and transcends the idea of mini-series because it says so.
Preach on my friend. You are not alone!
For the record, I believe Frank Darabont did direct The Shawshank Redemption. Also The Mist. The Green Mile. The Majestic. He likes the article The.
…Now that I’ve looked at his IMDB page, he is also credited as the writer for the 6 episodes of The Walking Dead. As well as a number of episodes of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. So that’s why you should care.
You mad!
People take me so literally here. I included his Young Indiana Jones infatuation to tip people off to my actual feeling of ambivalence!
You (seemed) mad!
i only downvoted you because you got your facts wrong. frank darabont DIRECTED the pilot and PRODUCES the rest. he most definitely DIRECTED the shawshank redemption.
Shawshank Redemption or Goodfellas for best use of voice-over ever?
Hey, “alexander666″, Chancellor Palpatine aka Darth Sidious called, he wants you to execute order 66
Winwood, I have this hilarious scenerio in my head where you are this really hot girl and you let the cat out of the bag and take someone from this site out on a date and they are forced to tell you how funny you are.
And then there is this other senerio where you are black, but that one isn’t as funny.
Point is Winwood, stop goddamn downvoting my shit.
The greatest part of this post is that you suggest that being a zombie might not be that bad. Good point! No one ever asks the zombies.
It’s like the (better) alternate ending to I Am Legend where Will Smith’s character is all like ‘oh my bad, so I’m the asshole killing all the nice people here, whoa sorry zombies’.
Avatar buddiessss!!!
OLD SCHOOL NICK HELL TO THE YES (ps Ahh! Real Monsters is terrifying)
This show kind of sucks? I mean, the characters aren’t very interesting, and they have to make backwards decisions to advance the plot (let’s go back to the city full of zombies to rescue a dude, let’s go to the CDC(??)) Also, why are there empty tanks everywhere? it seems like this show is really going to fall apart when people get over the novelty of seeing zombie gore on TV because everything about it is mediocre.
Also lol @ the person who posted to defend rich, landowning whites (the founding fathers).
I don’t know if they ever mentioned it, but CDC is the Center for Disease Research. And I only know this because I’ve played Pandemic.
C. Control.
Not R. Research.
C. Control.
Ha, I know what it is, it just seemed like a very strange plan. Like, the CDC, really? You want to go to there? But I guess everything worked out for the best yay Grimes
He’s probably a fan of Pandemic too.
if we’ve learned anything from outbreak (and i hope we have!) usamriid is the place to go.
I was thinking, and it actually kind of makes sense that Grimes would want to go to the CDC? It’s a terrible idea, but given that he was in a coma during the collapse of civilization and a presumably massive failure of government he would probably have more faith in (a) the idea that the government is half-way functioning and helping and (b) the existence of a cure for zombie. Again, still not a good plan, but you can at least see his line of reasoning.
What REALLY doesn’t make sense is that the government would be all, “Hey, you! You one dude! SOLVE THE ZOMBIE PLAGUE BY YOURSELF. Here’s a bunker and some brain!” But I get the feeling we’re going to find out where the other scientists went next week.
I’m just glad that It Gets Better, you guys, cause this episode was much better than the last two.
“Screw this. I am going to get DRUNK.” – Me, watching this show sometimes.
*Though I would go with straight from the bottle, rather than glass by glass like the scientist man in the CDC/Hatch.
Not only is Andrew Lincoln English, but his real name? Andrew Clutterbuck! LOLOLOLOL. Nice try, adopting the surname of one of our most beloved presidents, Clutterbuck. Very crafty.
This is me right now
I am in love with this gif. Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
That Rick Grimes is really quite Clutterbucked!
Clutterbuck is a fantastic surname!
It’s so great I’d prefer the name changing go the other way.
Now pardon me as I drive my Clutterbuck Town Car down to Clutterbuck, Nebraska.
Does anyone watch Misfits? I only ask because I download that at the same time on Sundays as Walking Dead, and its awesomeness is directly proportional to how disappointing Grimestown usually is.
Not since Glen Danzig left, and who was Grimes on The Simpson’s again?
Misfits are brilliant, if you’re referring to the UK superchavs TV show. Though latest developments have me worried that they might take some wrong turns that eventually “killed” Heroes somewhere towards the end of season 1.
I have high hopes. Something about the flash-forward Curtis’ homemade costume makes me think that even if they get all epic and world-saving, they will still be doing it like themselves. By that I mean begrudgingly and half-assed.
I love both shows, but Misfits is the best!
Is Misfits back on?! YES, my prayers have been answered (scurries off to google: ‘watch…misfits…online’) btw Nathan is the best chav ever ever EVER.
I was so happy last week when MermaidGate ended, but then it came back this week and I Charlie Browned. “AAAAAAARGH!” Walking Dead, your season finale better be good, or this serious zombie fan is never going near season 2.
more like S01E05 AMIRITE
oh wait it’s fixed now this makes no sense
Did anyone ever see Pontypool which has about as bad of a titled as Winter’s Bone (sorry) but was just an awesome Zombie film?
Yes, I did see that movie, and the title came as a surprise to me, as Pontypool is a small town 22.87 miles from where I live. And it was [Miley voice] a pretty cool movie[/miley].
I was sad when I realized science guy wasn’t being played by Clancy Brown. COME ON, DARABONT! Get out your Rolodex!
There can only be one Clancy Brown.
I’m surprised William Sadler wasn’t cast as Rooker’s racist character.
Actually, keep Rooker, but replace Reedus with Sadler and then I’d be surprised they didn’t do that.
Maybe they’re going for relative youth over awesomeness? Too bad. If I was casting this thing, it’d be everyone from Shawkshank all up in this zombie biz.
First 30 minutes of last night’s show had me thinking I was watching the worst episode of TV in years. It looked like they had completely run out of budget. Hurray for the last 10 minutes. Sort of.
This series, since it’s a series, had the opportunity to offer a feasible(-ish) explanation of what could create a real (c’mon, you know what I mean) zombie plague, how zombies would actually be able to move and digest, since their human systems are shut down, etc. So far they’ve glossed right over it and taken the “sorry, no explanation, ever” approach – unless this is covered in upcoming seasons.
You’re really watching this show for a feasible explanation for a zombie plague? AND you expected it to be explained within the first season? Those are about the highest expectations ever.
If it’ll help you come to grips with whatever it is you’re trying to grip, they don’t explain what caused the zombies in the comics either, although the creator made an ongoing joke in the letter’s column about how it would be revealed that aliens did it (they didn’t).
I’ve always thought that the variations of “what’s in the hatch?” have been pretty funny, but that last picure and caption just about made me piss my pants.
Profile pic aside, my Lost-radar was sonor-ing all over the last few minutes of that episode – the science guy is kinda like Desmond, only not really at all, because he looks way too much like Kelvin…who’s the hatch guy *before* Desmond..and who also wore a hazmat! Uncanny, really – that and Grimes channeling Locke with banging on the door/hatch, losing all hope, and being pulled back from the brink of despair with the reveal of…Christian Shepard opening the church doors?
Ah, yes. Kelvin. Who was played by Clancy Brown. CASE RESTED, YOUR HONOUR!
I felt the same way. Except when I watched LOST I felt things. This show: ambivalence. Also, it definitely reminds me of LOST with all the: “Hey, let’s just walk somewhere and hope something happens” plotting.
I hate it when people interrupt MY getting drunk and maybe blowing my brains out the next day pity parties. totally relatable!
was anyone else confused/put off by the random inclusion of the music from “sunshine” during the leaving camp scene? i mean, don’t get me wrong, GREAT TUNE, but bear mccreary is capable of good shit on his own (BSG!) without cribbing shit from john murphy, AMIRITE?
I actually did not think this one was so bad! Saddo McSister was silly, but from the point CDC guy showed up I was like “Yeah!” I think I just love it when people are trapped in underground bunkers.
When they left Jim at the tree to become a zombie at first I was all, “Isn’t it kind of immoral to just let someone become a zombie? For other random wandering survivors to find?” And then I was all, “Man, wouldn’t it suck if some zombies show up and his last conscious moments were spent getting eaten?”
Also loved Grimes kind of losing his shit and being all “Oh fuck! We’re screwed! We wasted all our food and gas coming to my terrible plan party!” at the CDC; made him more human-y.
Most importantly, though, I am THRILLED that no one cares about Merle anymore! Except for when he obviously finds the mustang (rednecks are drawn to crappy American muscle cars) and the note and comes to the CDC a-hootin’ and a-hollerin’ with one hand and an all-white zombie army.
Stephen Tobolowsky (the great character actor) has a theory about underground labs in his podcast. I paraphrase…
“You can save a great deal of money on a science fiction film by shooting a number of scenes in a laboratory. This is because a laboratory is essentially just a big empty room. You put a bunch of bunsen burners and boilers in it, you have a chem lab. You throw a body in there, you have a biochem lab. You put a bunch of old computer monitors and a map in there, you have a Defense Department lab. You put up a map of the solar system, you have a UFO conspiracy lab.
“If the room is concrete, you have a bonus. You have an underground lab.”
It starts just before the 9 minute mark here:
http://www.slashfilm.com/the-tobolowsky-files-ep-8-a-wager-with-freddie/
you have to burn the bodies to destroy the virus! they don’t know how it spreads. glenn didn’t take intro to virology at pizza hut university, obviously.
also, come on grimes… suppose you do get jim to the cdc? what are the odds they are going to let an INFECTED guy in? come on.
Man, short hair lady’s husband’s face all looked like a plastic bag filled with mustard.