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11-04-2010 , 01:46 AM

#201

Cotton Hill

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The military would not be able to put down a zombie outbreak if it happened world wide at once.

If it happened in one city or town, ya they'd easily handle it.

If it happened in every major town and city across the world at once, things would spiral out of control way too quickly.

Also you assume people would act rationaly and logically. I figure half the people who die would be idiots killed by loved one zombies they were trying to save or take care of.

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11-04-2010 , 03:13 AM

#202

sledghammer

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You called that from hospital scene? Why/how, did I miss something? I didn't think of it until they cut to the partner with that woman, and even then I wasn't sure that it wasn't just the gf he had been talking about earlier.

I called it from the first previews two months ago, and I assumed everyone else did as well. It was obvious from the way he was riding the horse.

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11-04-2010 , 04:00 AM

#203

Phildo

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i called it before the idea of the show even existed

Spoiler:

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11-04-2010 , 06:35 PM

#204

sharpyetblunt

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if you didnt get it from the title youre an idiot

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11-04-2010 , 07:58 PM

#205

Gonzirra

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Watched it on On Demand last night. Show was pretty tight all things considered, hopefully the rest of it is well-written (I don't know anything about the comic series). Hopefully it doesn't pull a Jericho and destroy a great show concept with awful writing.

The few nitty things aren't deal breakers at all, I mean you're going to have to suspend disbelief quite a bit anyway, given that the show is about zombies.

Oh and Alaska (or similar arctic/subarctic region) is the obvious choice for a zombie apocalypse survivor stronghold, if you can make it to winter. Thought everyone knew

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11-04-2010 , 09:17 PM

#206

sledghammer

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Originally Posted by Le Gonso

Watched it on On Demand last night. Show was pretty tight all things considered, hopefully the rest of it is well-written (I don't know anything about the comic series). Hopefully it doesn't pull a Jericho and destroy a great show concept with awful writing.

The few nitty things aren't deal breakers at all, I mean you're going to have to suspend disbelief quite a bit anyway, given that the show is about zombies.

Oh and Alaska (or similar arctic/subarctic region) is the obvious choice for a zombie apocalypse survivor stronghold, if you can make it to winter. Thought everyone knew

You and me seem to be the only people on 2p2 that think this about Jericho

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11-04-2010 , 09:27 PM

#207

[Phill]

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If by awful writing you mean goofy ridiculous ending i agree too. Otherwise, it was alright.

Btw the correct answer for surviving a zed apocalypse is always a sail boat. Zombies cant swim. No need for fuel to travel. Basically no limits on where you can travel, food swimming all around you and you move around the coast raiding areas when you need supplies.

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11-04-2010 , 09:38 PM

#208

LondonBroil

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Just watched the premiere last night. Loved it. Not think they answered it but does anyone know how long the cop was in a coma for? A month? A year?

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11-04-2010 , 10:02 PM

#209

Charles Bukowski

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Originally Posted by sledghammer

You and me seem to be the only people on 2p2 that think this about Jericho

i know its off topic but this thread sucks and is filled with nits so whatever.

why do you think jericho had awful writing?

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11-04-2010 , 10:57 PM

#210

sledghammer

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It's been awhile since I've seen it so I can't name anything specific, sorry

If you get a chance though, Jeremiah is very similar, except WAY over the top cheesy. Luke Perry broods along as the reluctant hero, with his black sidekick, through a world in which 15 years prior, everyone over the age of puberty died of a mysterious virus. An interesting concept, and the story was good enough to make me watch the whole thing.

Watching the intros for both seasons will give you an idea of how hilarious this is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDvU0...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRG2M...eature=related

I'm just realizing now it was created by J. Micheal Straczinsky.

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11-04-2010 , 11:31 PM

#211

TheCroShow

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Originally Posted by [Phill]

your expertise on Zombies holds no ground because of your Day of the Dead slip-up.

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11-04-2010 , 11:57 PM

#212

[Phill]

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I dont know what its called, i only know the sound it makes when it takes a mans life.

Jeremiah has been on my to watch list for a while. Just never had it bumped to the top because most have never heard of it so ive never gotten a reliable recommendation.

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11-05-2010 , 12:39 AM

#213

Charles Bukowski

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Originally Posted by sledghammer

already have and agree with the fact it was ridiculously cheesy but still interesting.

still think jericho was a good show though T.T

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11-05-2010 , 12:42 AM

#214

Burdzthewurd

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Ever been any proof in a major zombie movie that zombies couldn't travel through the water? All I remember is they were able to walk in and out of the water in "Land of the Dead" but that hardly counts.

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11-05-2010 , 01:49 AM

#215

[Phill]

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Bodies only float for a short time after death iinm in the early stages of decay and zombies dont really have the required motion and speed to make themselves swim. At best they would bob around like in the pool scene in Garden State before they sink.

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11-05-2010 , 02:43 AM

#216

Charles Bukowski

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Originally Posted by [Phill]

well once they sink cant they walk on the ocean floor?

thats a point in the book World War Z. zombies in the water roam around the bottom and can sometimes eventually walk up a beach or w/e.

in terms of swimming/getting on a boat no of course they cant.

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11-05-2010 , 03:48 AM

#217

FlyWf

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Originally Posted by Burdzthewurd

Naw, zombies are fine in water. In Zombi one fights a shark. In like every third movie made in Italy during the 1970s Nazi zombies infest a lake. It's seriously like a subgenre. Nazi zombies love water.

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11-05-2010 , 07:29 AM

#218

Phildo

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Originally Posted by sledghammer

how do you just call him "black sidekick" without mentioning that he is theo huxtable

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11-05-2010 , 10:00 AM

#219

Nez477

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So I really liked this, but how much of a pussy am I if I seriously woke up in the middle of the night thinking there was a crawling zombie in my bathroom?

Took me like 15 minutes to get over it

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11-05-2010 , 10:23 AM

#220

[Phill]

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Originally Posted by Charles Bukowski

Yeah, they would decomp faster i would bet, but no reason to think they would like drown or something. Just so long as they arent swimming along the surface where my boat is im happy.

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11-05-2010 , 10:33 AM

#221

Kneel B4 Zod

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the ending of Jericho was not ideal, but iirc they had to make it some kind of weird hybrid ending b/c they weren't sure if the show was coming back

that was a very solid show for most of 2 years, and had another 2 years left prolly, much of the conspiracy had yet to be revealed, etc

nuts

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11-05-2010 , 10:41 AM

#222

VayaConDios

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Originally Posted by zinn0

Maybe the warning that was written on the door. And the gruesome dead nurse/doctor he just encountered in the hallway.

At that point in the story he didn't know about zombies

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11-05-2010 , 11:34 AM

#223

Gonzirra

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Originally Posted by [Phill]

Btw the correct answer for surviving a zed apocalypse is always a sail boat. Zombies cant swim. No need for fuel to travel. Basically no limits on where you can travel, food swimming all around you and you move around the coast raiding areas when you need supplies.

Hard to sustain in terms of lack of shelter, and without the weather service you run a good chance of running into a bad storm. Besides, there is plenty of fishing in Alaska if that's your thing.

Very low population, and zombies would be a non-factor for more than half the year. Guns in most households, plenty of food and infrastructure, and the military is somewhere around 7% of the population IIRC. Even when they thaw out in the smaller villages it's unlikely they'd be able to handle the terrain to make it to a place like Fairbanks. There's just not a lot going in favor of zombies up there.

EDIT: Plus I'd like to see a bear kick a zombie's ass one time

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11-05-2010 , 11:35 AM

#224

Phildo

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Originally Posted by VayaConDios

At that point in the story he didn't know about zombies

so you wake up in an abandoned hospital, see mutilated corpses lying around and run into a locked and barred door with "do not open" scrawled in blood on it. then someone starts moaning and trying to get the door open. is your first reaction to try to open the door or get the hell away from it?

i'm pretty sure i know how i'd react

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11-05-2010 , 11:38 AM

#225

Gonzirra

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Originally Posted by Phildo

so you wake up in an abandoned hospital, see mutilated corpses lying around and run into a locked and barred door with "dead inside do not open" scrawled in blood on it. then someone starts moaning and trying to get the door open. is your first reaction to try to open the door or get the hell away from it?

i'm pretty sure i know how i'd react

fyp, all the more reason not to open the door