AMC's 'The Walking Dead' - Frank Darabont zombie TV show.

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Rojin said:
Just had to revisit this and have another look. It is the same tank you are correct, it's not a gater in the last scense, it's the dead body! Oops!

Certainly does look like a Chieftain doesn't it?
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The gater is still there, just harder to see and obscured by the body.


Castor said:
Looks like a cross between an Chieftain and Centurion...

In the comic it was definitely an M1
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Might have more to do with the fact the Chieftain takes design elements from the Centurion.


Tombstone said:
Chieftain it may be then, but I can 100% guarantee you that the national guard use M60A3s , I can even give you a list of which US states national guard divisions were still using M60A3s as of the start of this year.
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Ah right, didn't know that! Still I think it it much more likely to be a M1 stand-in what with the comic having an M1 and the Chieftain being of a similar design.


Amp34 said:
I question why the bottom escape hatch was open too... Also I'm guessing there is still fuel in there so fire it up and get moving, can't think of any better transport than a tank to get out of a city... It's not like you'll damage it if you hit something... Oh also, anyone else want him to use machine gun on the roof? :p
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I expect the crew panicked and opened it up to escape, then left it open and got swamped. Him using the machine gun would be excellent, although there would need to be a distraction, the noise it generates would mean he was swamped before he could kill enough of them. Maybe if he got the tank moving first?

Sarah Connor Chronicles is excellent, especially the 2nd series. Another good similar series which also happens to feature Lennie James would be Jericho. Both shows cancelled before their time imho.
 
Davies_M said:
Well imagine trying to hook an audience by starting off with a crappy little cop drama start, it just won't work. So to establish it they use the flash forward thing involving all of Americas best; Guns, zombies and gas! Very well done and I can't wait for the next one!
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Surely no one would have been confused over what it was about it's called the walking dead and has been well advertised. I just didn't feel the opening scene was required.
 
johnny6 said:
Spoile

Can someone explain what the opening scene was about (when he shot the little girl)
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I think it set up the show well tbh.

Clearly showed its about zombies, and they're all dangerous, even the little kids. Set the tone perfectly imo, a good teaser of things to come.
 
My plan of holding off and watching all the episodes in one go lasted a whole day, I caved tonight and watched the first episode. Brilliant Start, thought Andrew Lincon played the role suprisingly well. Can't wait for the next one now.
 
Never anything wrong with improving your general knowledge, who knows one day you might be in a competition to win £1 million and the winning question will show you a picture and say what tank is this? You'd be damned grateful for the tank talk then :D
 
Speed said:
I expect the crew panicked and opened it up to escape, then left it open and got swamped. Him using the machine gun would be excellent, although there would need to be a distraction, the noise it generates would mean he was swamped before he could kill enough of them. Maybe if he got the tank moving first?

Sarah Connor Chronicles is excellent, especially the 2nd series. Another good similar series which also happens to feature Lennie James would be Jericho. Both shows cancelled before their time imho.
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I just don't see why they needed to bail, must have had fuel as it was parked in a spot that looked purpousful so... Guess there could have been a few reasons though. Hopefully it should still have fuel in and he could do a bit of harvesting with it (zombie track squishing!).

What I also wonder is what all the zombies were doing in that one street? Something to do with the Helicopter?

Oh and Day of the Dead is available to watch on iPlayer at the moment for all you zombie lovers, just watched it and it's not too bad. Not as good as Dawn of the Dead (should still be on iPlayer as well) but still watchable.
 
Yes there is too much tank talk though(only reading the last page for me(7) no ones made mention of the fact its AMERICA, hence, you know theres some crazies out there that got old tanks and got them working again. They are also the patriotic types who will go vigilante and go around trying to kill all the zombies, perfectly plausible way for an older tank to get used.

Though I suspect like most people watching, to me, it was a tank, nothing more or less.

It was good, was I missing something though, was their any real indication of how long he was in what I assume was a coma? AT first I was thinking beard meant a few weeks and almost every "zombie apocolypse" happens very quickly. But the wife/friend thing made me feel like it was a LOT longer. Did I miss an explanation of the time line at all?

My only real issue(maybe from missing a key 30 seconds, I dunno) is his lack of questioning, lack of real surprise, lack of the "freak out" that almost always happens at some stage. IE people get up wander around, get something done, find someone to help, somewhere safe, then have the "wtf is happening" moment. Like I said, maybe he asked what the date was or how long it had been. I'd have asked that almost instantly and also asked wtf happened, how did it start, etc.

I guess like almost every series these days, we'll see some more flashback moments, and slowly tell him a little each episode, (maybe from a new set of characters each week?) what happened.

Still, enjoyed it a lot, Egg is always very good, was good in this. Story seems strong and hopefully will continue that way, didn't quite like just how quickly he was swarmed at the end.
 
Actually that's what I kept meaning to ask but kept forgetting. I took the dead flowers to mean 2-3 weeks, maybe a little longer, but remember he needs food and water when he's under.

His wife/friend getting together and various other bits do make it seem much longer though. This sort of thing is usually told in the "WTF" moment which as you said wasn't really there. They sort of alluded to one but every time it was alluded to they went about talking about something else. Having said that, in real life if that sort of thing happened I've seen enough zombie films to realise what's going on so wouldn't need to ask too much... :p
 
The pilot was pretty good. The only thing I didn't like was the fact that the horse got eaten :(. Would rather he got eaten, he's the knobhead who rode it into that situation.
 
drunkenmaster said:
It was good, was I missing something though, was their any real indication of how long he was in what I assume was a coma? AT first I was thinking beard meant a few weeks and almost every "zombie apocolypse" happens very quickly. But the wife/friend thing made me feel like it was a LOT longer. Did I miss an explanation of the time line at all?.
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No I didnt see an explanation of how long he had been out either, like you judging from his beard length I assumed it was 1 month max, but when the guy he met said something like "the gas has been out for a few months now", that made me think it was longer, as did the state of the buildings etc. Maybe he just grows beards very slowly :)
 
Amp34 said:
I just don't see why they needed to bail, must have had fuel as it was parked in a spot that looked purpousful so... Guess there could have been a few reasons though. Hopefully it should still have fuel in and he could do a bit of harvesting with it (zombie track squishing!).

What I also wonder is what all the zombies were doing in that one street? Something to do with the Helicopter?
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Yeah it is a bit strange. Maybe the commanders hatch was open and they got swamped before they knew what was happening.

I think if it was to do with the helicopter they would have tried to chase the noise it makes. Maybe in higher population areas where the infection spreads the quickest they gather together in large groups for some reason. They obviously have a better chance at feeding in large numbers.


Demoniser said:
I think it set up the show well tbh.

Clearly showed its about zombies, and they're all dangerous, even the little kids. Set the tone perfectly imo, a good teaser of things to come.
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Yeah I agree, the horrors of what must be done to survive. Maybe in future episodes we might see what led up to that moment, but even if we don't it was a good stepping stone to what comes after.


Castiel said:
Who cares about the god-damned tank....


ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE on the telly.....woohoo.
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I like tanks, so sue me! :p

drunkenmaster said:
Yes there is too much tank talk though(only reading the last page for me(7) no ones made mention of the fact its AMERICA, hence, you know theres some crazies out there that got old tanks and got them working again. They are also the patriotic types who will go vigilante and go around trying to kill all the zombies, perfectly plausible way for an older tank to get used.
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Maybe but they were clearly troops manning the tank, both inside and out.


Tombstone said:
No I didnt see an explanation of how long he had been out either, like you judging from his beard length I assumed it was 1 month max, but when the guy he met said something like "the gas has been out for a few months now", that made me think it was longer, as did the state of the buildings etc. Maybe he just grows beards very slowly :)
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As for the timeline, not sure food and liquid are really a problem. People live in comas for years and if this was a proper coma then maybe they used some sort of protein enriched liquid feed by a drip. As for the beard, a nurse or friend could have shaved him at some point.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
My only real issue(maybe from missing a key 30 seconds, I dunno) is his lack of questioning, lack of real surprise, lack of the "freak out" that almost always happens at some stage. IE people get up wander around, get something done, find someone to help, somewhere safe, then have the "wtf is happening" moment. Like I said, maybe he asked what the date was or how long it had been. I'd have asked that almost instantly and also asked wtf happened, how did it start, etc.
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iirc it's a a while from the "he's in hospital things are starting to get bad but everything still functioning, to every things gone utterly **** up and theres no one left there at all"


So *shot>short time looked after in hospital >things start getting bad with some new desiease but hospital still functioning *last a few weeks-months* >everything gone really bad nones left to change his drip > day or two passes and he wakes up*


So the wife and freind had a fair amount of time to get closer as iirc they never thought he would wake up.

I guess like almost every series these days, we'll see some more flashback moments, and slowly tell him a little each episode, (maybe from a new set of characters each week?) what happened.
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One thing that tells me this is going to stay pretty true to the novels is the differing "fame levels" of the other actors in the groups shown.
 
Speed said:
As for the beard, a nurse or friend could have shaved him at some point.
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Possibly, but as the guy said the gas had been out for a couple of months, I'd have to assume that the whole zombie thing had been going on for several months, I dont care how much of a friend I am to someone, I certainly am not going through hordes of zombies to keep shaving his beard for him :D and with all the zombie things and dead bodies and what not I would hope that any medical staff would have more important things to do than ensuring some coma guys beard doesnt get too long, but thats all by the by really and purely just nitpicking at small details that I couldnt realistically expect them to bother with.
 
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Tombstone said:
Possibly, but as the guy said the gas had been out for a couple of months, I'd have to assume that the whole zombie thing had been going on for several months, I dont care how much of a friend I am to someone, I certainly am not going through hordes of zombies to keep shaving his beard for him :D
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his wife would though...

They only left when things got really bad.
 
The timeline in the books is pretty ambiguous but i always assumed his wife left him at least a few weeks before. It didnt take him that long to get to Atlanta so i doubt his wife and friend took months to get there.
 
Tombstone said:
Possibly, but as the guy said the gas had been out for a couple of months, I'd have to assume that the whole zombie thing had been going on for several months, I dont care how much of a friend I am to someone, I certainly am not going through hordes of zombies to keep shaving his beard for him :D and with all the zombie things and dead bodies and what not I would hope that any medical staff would have more important things to do than ensuring some coma guys beard doesnt get too long, but thats all by the by really and purely just nitpicking at small details that I couldnt realistically expect them to bother with.
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lol! Yeah that is very true. He'd have to be a great friend to do that, especially with his after hours activities with said friends wife. ;)
 
I did mean to say that at first the beard thing made me think not long, but then of course, nurses keep your beard in check so it could have been 5 years he was unconcious.

Its very hard to tell and I was more than anything just wondering if I missed something obvious, did the other guy definately say gas has been out for a couple months? I'm not sure if I remember that or only think I remember it now :p

Even then, you'd think gas would take a while to run out but more likely you'd think the USA would be quarentined so most supplies would dry up in a couple days max as everyone rushes to get a full tank like they do before a strike.

Keep in mind I know nothing about the novels, I dunno, is it harsh to ask people to do their best to not mention the novels/where its going, for those who don't know about it?

I got the impression just from the show and them going their separate ways that it might be a different group of people he ends up helping each episode but thats entirely a guess.

I also agree, I've seen enough Zombie films to think about the general situation but you'd still want to know the timeline, how it started, how the damn t-virus got out and wheres the hot bird who will help save the world.


Realistically, the flowers could have been replaced several times over after the ones he remembered, the beard could be trimmed, the wife banging the friend......... grr. I was just thinking the wife and friend being together I would think would be that classic friend helping with kids, talking to each other at hospital and months later being so close they kiss, see it in a million films/tv shows. However, they could have been banging before couldn't they, they could have been having an affair.

AS for the guy in the tank being dressed as a soldier, if a weekend warrior/gun nut gets and old tank and fixes it up, a bit of camo gear is going to be the easy part :p

I was more joking, they used whatever tank the studio has used before and has in some weird storage lockup somewhere.
 
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