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Mikezilla:
I only caught the first episode, and I have the second on my DVR, I plan on watching it tonight. I loved it so far, and yes, I did find the door knob thing kind of odd. But hey. Its a zombie show, on TV. They are probably altering the "rules" a little, just because of the boring factor. You dont want people changing the channel cause its the same stuff over and over.

The crawling chick thing wasnt that smart. Who knows, maybe they will dumb them down. I think the effects are great.  :applaud:

TOK:

--- Quote from: Mikezilla on November 09, 2010, 01:37:19 pm ---I only caught the first episode, and I have the second on my DVR, I plan on watching it tonight. I loved it so far, and yes, I did find the door knob thing kind of odd. But hey. Its a zombie show, on TV. They are probably altering the "rules" a little, just because of the boring factor. You dont want people changing the channel cause its the same stuff over and over.

The crawling chick thing wasnt that smart. Who knows, maybe they will dumb them down. I think the effects are great.  :applaud:

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I never read the graphic novel, but what I took from this is that although they are zombies they still cling to very stripped down versions of their daily routine. I thought the best example of this was the first episode where there were a couple of them sitting in the broken down bus -like they rode it to work every day and it was a muscle memory thing for them to just get on it and sit there.

I found the first episode covering a lot of familiar themes and wasn't totally buying into it, but the second episode spread things out a bit and I'm enjoying it.

Funnel:
I'm also enjoying the series, been watching zombie movies since I was little. Agree with Ginsu on the smart zombies since NOTLD.

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: Funnel on November 09, 2010, 04:01:26 pm ---I'm also enjoying the series, been watching zombie movies since I was little. Agree with Ginsu on the smart zombies since NOTLD.

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Well, Frank Darabont himself said the show will use NotLD rules, which a lot of people seem to forget what all they did in that movie. The "ghouls" ate bugs, tried to climb, used rocks as tools, trotted at a decent pace at times, etc.

I would've preferred the zombies from the comic which have far less going on upstairs, but the way they are doing them doesn't necessarily bother me.

isucamper:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on November 09, 2010, 11:29:05 am ---Besides, the first episode made the zombies REALLY smart in zombie terms.  Right from the very first scene... a zombie girl is walking along holding a stuffed animal (that part is accetable, she could have been holding it when she died).  She drops it, but instead of just going on, like a normal zombie would she frikkin, stops, looks at it and picks it back up!  In a later scene, a zombie returns to here own home and tried to open the door by turning the knob!  The only reason she can't get in is the door being locked.

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Gotta disagree with you here.  These are basically Night/Dawn/Day of the Dead zombies, and they have echos of their past lives still bouncing around in their heads.  For the same reasons they flock to the mall and idly push shopping carts around in Dawn of the Dead, they do the things you've mentioned. 

I do agree about the invented characters being real boring stereotypes.  Kinda disappointing.  The guy playing Rick is doing a bang up job though. 

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