Be Excellent To Each Other

Argh I just clicked on that spoiler because for the first time in ages I am up to date and thought I could join in with the chat. Forgot that some of you would be watching it as it broadcasts in America. I stopped reading after the second line but that, and the comments about that post make me feel like I know what's going to happen. I'm an idiot.

At least it isn't as bad as when Dexter got spoiled for me. The series which ended with the huge shock, about a year before I watched it becuase I was waiting for DVD. I had commented on a friends facebook status which was about something completely irrelevant, like the weather that day or something. Then, out of nowhere, someone else commented on saying the Dexter spoiler, in the style of "oh yeah the weather today, it's almost as bad as how I felt when I discovered Jesus dies at the end of the bible." I was like.....WTF?! Why would you do that?! No one was talking about that and now you've spoiled it for me! I told my girlfriend it had been spoiled for me but obviously didn't spoil it for her. When we watched the episode in question, she was sitting staring open mouthed at the tv in shock and I was sitting back, arms crossed, in a bit of a grump.

Anyway, load of rubbish that it's a load of rubbish. Quite the opposite: awesome in fact. As ever.

Can't wait until Feburary now.

Yeah, thought the last episode was excellent. Some of the so-called rubbish bits were great, and utter nonsense to say it was rubbish.

Really enjoyed it all, and looking forward to the second half of the season.

Thanks.

All right then. How about: it was entertaining enough, but it was rather a let-down. And the first point in the rubbish box is still a very valid one.

A little <handwave> explanation, but I'm happy to think it is good as it's been an excellent show

Also: smoke grenades. About the wider point rather than the first issue. Fank you please.

I agree to a point.

It's the best show on TV.

I will miss it.

Roll on next Feb.

This show is just good enough to make me keep watching but is annoying enough that I resent it. Or as it's otherwise known, the Dexter Zone.

I've just watched S03E04 again, and, well...

Wasn't it Carol rather than Maggie that was practising on the zombies?

[pedantic]Wasn't it the bullet casing on the floor rather than the bullet?[/pedantic]

WE SHALL SEE.

This has started up again in the US, zombie fans.

Starts on Friday on Fox in the UK

Malc

And Fox HD.

Just a reminder folks.

It's back on tonight!

lulz technophobes

Lulz shut up, right.

Everyone dies except for T-Dogg.

Fucking Sheldon Cooper spoilered series 3 for me. DAMN YOU TBBT!

WHOOPWHOOPWHOOP!

I still hate everyone in it. Mainly Rick. Wife wants me to keep making sure she can see it though, so I probably still will.

Excellent episode, but those people who get angry when characters skip through a hail of bullets probably won't have the same reaction.

This is also a game.

Best episode in a while

Yup, I thoroughly enjoyed that.

Solid meaty nourishment.

Yeah, really good episode, that.

Change of pace was good.

I think I'm an episode out.

You're not talking about "I ain't a Judas", are you?

We're talking about going for a cot.

I think.

Lovely. It's gearing up to quite a finale!

It's a great show but I find the lack of regard for self preservation against the biters infuriating and unrealistic. Despite the core characters having plenty of experience of others being bitten, being attacked and fighting off zombs in desparate situations they waltz about without any protective clothing when out on missions or travelling. A couple of eps ago Michonne was sat waiting in a car with the window wound down and her bare arm out the window tapping in the roof, bored, or something. The zombs have a tenancy to shuffle up on you pretty quietly. One little nibble and it's game over.

Regardless of the weather, I'd wear a leather jacket or fashion some kind of flexible armour from duct tape and plastic and wear it most of the time and certainly on the parts where zooms normally aim their teeth: neck, shoulder, forearms, hands, legs. It's just not worth taking the risk. Severed heads can still gnash at your ankles in the long grass. Walkers could fall out of windows onto you. Don't assume walkers slumped against the walls or on the floor are neutralised; take a second out of your day to slip a knife into their eye sockets or stove in their heads just to make sure.

Also, I'd carry a lot more weapons. Why carry one small knife which can be dragged out of your hand while fighting, leaving you defenceless, when five will fit into your belt or your boot? Carry a butcher's knife or machete on you at all times. Create a utility belt with knives and useful tools in it that can help get you out of a sticky situation when cornered. Put spares everywhere. Reinforce the widows and doors of the vehicles. Build platforms and walk ways. Take to the trees. Build a castle. With a little bit of creative thinking, you could cobble together some very efficient killing machines that can hold zombs at bay while you snip their heads off. Dig ditches. Set traps. They're not smart, and as we've seen the zombies will just walk into fences and wires and get stuck.

Stick with me.

You'd also not wander about firing guns all the time - the bullets would be worth more in that world than platinum - and petrol only slightly less.

They have been more frugal with bullets of late.

Other than the people who are obviously mental.

There must be enough ammunition in the US to kill the population a thousand times over, so I don't think there would be a shortage of bullets. While there would have been a lot of shooting at the start of the outbreak, the casualty rate would have been so high and rapid that I imagine little ammunition would have been spent. Every town has a gun shop. They sell guns and arms in Walmart. Police stations, army bases, residents' homes and beside the remains of the fallen dead; guns and bullets must be readily available everywhere. Accessing them safely is the difficult bit.

Are we watching the same program?

I agree there would be lots of bullets, but I don't think there would be as many as you'd think - and to make use of all of them you'd have to have a weapon for each calibre. Transporting them would also troublesome.

Stabby stabby weapons would not only last longer (obv), but they would be quiet (although it would appear that loud noises no longer seem to attract the nasty zombies).

Re: frugal

New Game: The Walking Dead Survival Instinct.

This guy makes it sound more fun than it probably is, though.

The last few episodes have been great (the penultimate especially so) but I've found myself wanting it to go even slower. It could have easily dragged a few scenes to build up the tension or quite easily had a couple more episodes. I suppose the other two seasons were so glacial you feel spoiled when its ploughing through scenes.

The finale was just a wee bit disappointing but only in one (eye patch wearing) regard. Everything else was good (actually, thinking about it, the 'captive' with a zomb bit is getting a little tired now). Anyway, thank god I've got Game of Thrones or I'd have to find something else to rave about.

Fuck all worth watching on telly again now.

Re: the final episode.



When is next series, please?

Morrisey is brilliant, and don't call me David.

Maaaaaaaan, this is good. Ep 6, I think? "Hounded Out", after the telephone calls start.

So good this series.

I'm just over halfway through the series, on the episode where

Man, Hershel is annoying.

Very, very awesome to have Tyreece in the series.

Ep 12 -

Really really good show - it's gone from strength to strength over the 3 serieseseses.