They didn't know they were getting a second season, they need to write and produce 13 episodes before they can start showing them.

I know a little about cars, but am by no means an expert:

re: radiator hose: cant u just run the system unpressurized for a while? As long as you have water to keep adding to it couldn't you go 20 miles, let engine cool, refill, repeat?

Yea, awful.

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This is what aggravates me the most...all of these ****ing shows/movies have the characters risk literally everything at times to do things such as bury the dead to "preserve their humanity" or whatever. If there are real-life examples of extreme survival situations where people do in fact hold on to that stuff, I'd sit up and listen, but it feels really wrong. I'm interested in people doing crazy things to survive, not in them telling ghost stories around a campfire and burying their dead.

LOL at leaving the guy to suffer slowly and eventually wake back up and kill people. Seemed to be taking him an awfully long time to transform too.

People abandon that kind of stuff nearly instantly. I mean, in real world situations of desperation people turn to cannibalism quicker than these people adjust to zombie apocalypse meaning that your sister doesn't get a birthday present.

This is tremendously obscure but there's a great bit in the Danny Boyle movie Sunshine(I'm reminded of it because the most recent episode of The Walking Dead used the score from that movie for the driving back to Atlanta montage).
The broad strokes of the plot are that some astronauts and scientists are on a mission that will save the world, but due to technical difficulties there isn't enough air, so they sit down to decide whether to kill one of their shipmates.

It's essentially the same scene as the TWD scene, but it's handled roughly a trillion times better. One character says something implying that killing the guy is wrong, and Chris Evans' character responds: "**** you. What are you trying to remind us of? Our lost humanity?"

Evans' character was presented as a GOOD GUY in that movie, in TWD he'd be the big meaniehead that Rick has to pull a gun on. I just want to see some pragmatic adult decisionmaking.

Sunshine was dope. although not quite as obscure as you'd have us believe.

I don't know what shows you are watching, but they generally don't have nearly a year between seasons.

i hope the finale is a good one at least.

any chance the finale is a double episode?

Cable series usually run one season per year. Less episodes usually leads to higher quality. Complaining about this is ridiculous.

I meant just that random scene and line. But really, like the entire movie is full of adults making hard choices without crying about it. The scene where they decide to go to the other ship and the one dude says, "We are not a democracy" and they leave the decision to an expert.

The scene with the captain fixing the shield. The scene where they decide who to leave behind on the other ship.


Literally nobody in this show acts with any sort of maturity.

i stopped watching the show but i still enjoying reading the criticisms

Sunshine was, for the first hour, one of the best movies I've ever seen. Then in the third act it turned into Event Horizon and was unbelievably horrible. Never seen a film take such a quality nose-dive before. Really fascinating actually.

lol wtf

Maybe he's referring to America's Next Top Model? 15 seasons in under 7 years.

yeah, I realized shortly after I posted that you were referring to that particular scene, but I was too lazy to edit.

and while I agree that they portrayed tough decisions in Sunshine really well, one could argue that because the crew has a singular Earth-saving mission to fulfill and have been training for various contingencies, they're more likely to act rationally/maturely as opposed to lol women civilians during an open-ended zombie survival scenario.

Don't misunderstand, I think the Walking Dead survivors are plenty ******ed and wish they would have put a bullet in Jim's head, piled bodies onto the bonfire, etc. It's just that within the worlds of each scenario, it's justifiable that the Walking Dead survivors are more prone to being ******ed than the crew of Icarus.

why Darabont chooses to make them so ******ed instead of having them act logically/rationally/maturely is what I'm unsure of. I'd guess he thinks that arguments about burying vs. burning are more dramatic and make for better television than calculated, callous decision making and efficient tactics.

see, I enjoyed the entire movie and didn't really mind the Event Horizonesque ending because, well, I really liked Event Horizon. I know you would have preferred



but perhaps that's a matter of differing taste.

i get a kick out of how they show scenes from the camp with the Atlanta high rises like 3-4 miles in the distance and then they show the trip from the camp to the CDC as if they are winding down country roads.

incidentally, for those that asked earlier i think where they were supposed to be is the quarry over near Marietta Blvd.

Everyone is rooting for the redneck and his brother to "win" at this point right?

I certainly am.

This show has been pretty awful. After the pilot i was pleasantly suprised that something like this would be on tv (who doesnt love zombies?). But after the second episode it has went dramatically downhill, with the last one being unwatchable. I just cant wait til Sunday so i can finish the season and get it over with. Maybe something interesting will happen? Doubtful. At this point I wouldnt be suprised if rednecks brother came back as a zombie with one arm and the black dude has to blow his head off.

actually that might be kinda cool.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Yeah, that was weird. It's not like he was super ripped, it's that his chest looked wider than his shoulders. That **** isn't right.

they will air last weeks episode befoer the new one right?

so 9pm EST? for last weeks

Crazy awesome news about firing the entire writing staff between seasons.

"This is a huge hit and you were ****ing it up!" seems to be the message they are giving out from this.

I'm not sure the firing of the writing staff actually happened.

"Walking Dead executive producer Gale Ann Hurd has dismissed reports that Frank Darabont fired the show's entire writing staff as "completely inaccurate." Show writer Charles Eglee may have moved on to another project, but there wasn't a mass firing."

via io9.com

Sunshine was great. The standard Danny Boyle last act collapse doesn't take it nearly fall enough to not be good.

This scene with the Star Trek computer and explaining the zombie virus is television AIDS, by the way. Frank Darabont is a hack. The "blond chick lost somebody" **** makes total sense because that's how regular people deal with a friend who lost a relative. But post-apocalypse "losing somebody" isn't really a noteworthy event.