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You wouldn't understand. You weren't at the Lakes meet, man.

I said mankind, Z.

Living on the IoM probably helps!

What, for practice?

Shut it west country boy.

We'd be fucked if they don't close the ports at the very first sign of anything being wrong (they were pretty on the ball with foot and mouth disease a few years ago though) as there is literally nowhere to go that the zombies wouldn't find you eventually, although I'd be more worried about survivors in the long term.

I think I'd prefer a zombie apocalypse to any other tbh, at least there'd be something outside keeping all the other people in....

Isn't that what the film was about, though?

It depends what sort of zombies you have - if you have the Land of the Dead ones, then anyone who dies turns into a zombie, whether they've been bitten or not*, so you'd be fucked regardless.



Eh? Sorry, I'm being dense. Is it about the fact society hadn't had enough time to absorb the effect of teh Rage virus and settle into whatever long term pattern was going to emerge?


*Which is also another reason why that film's fucking stupid.

See also, appositely:

, according to Doc.

Spoilers!

Quite. I have only read books one and two, so not clear why or how the zombies turned up yet. But being bitten DOES turn you into one, so how that would square with

Fucking spoilers again!

"being bitten by a zombie turns you into a zombie" isn't a spoiler is it? That's like "the sky's blue"!

So just to recap: up the thread I mention an quirk of how The Walking Dead works, which I spoiler tag. Kalmar mentions it in open text, then amends that after I nudge him. You agree with my nudging that this constitutes a spoiler.

Then you restate the spoiler in the last part of your post three up from this one, then you claim that's not a spoiler at all?

I'm bitter that Kalmar has spoiled the books for me.

She played Dr Kerry Weaver in ER and I think the first gay female character I ever noticed on TV. Especially when she started getting gay with Elizabeth Mitchell aka Juliet from Lost.

Anyway, sorry, Zombies? Hopefully I'll get to watch this when I get home later. Looking forward to it!

Has anyone e.g. Craster recorded this on their Media Centre and is able to make a copy available for download?

I've got it if you want it.

I will love you forever (I already do, so this isn't much of an offer, to be fair)

Nope, Sky+. Sorry.

So, this week's episode. That's a bit tense then!

Did anyone else think the combat shovel Rick briefly grabs was a World War Z reference?

I've just seen the first one. I thought it was fairly good.
Is the lead guy English (like he was in Love Actually) or American (like he is in this)?

However: DEAR HOLLYWOOD - JUST BECAUSE YOUR CAR GETS A PUNCTURE DOESN'T MEAN IT LEAPS OFF THE ROAD KTNX.

I've got a file I can stick on the server, if no-one else has done it already.

I just watched the first episode.

I enjoyed it, and thought it was paced quite nicely. Only thing I wasn't fond of was the survivors outside Atlanta and how that went. Was a bit 'meh' for that part.

But overall good.

Grim... - he's English.

QUESTION!

Who was the black guy he meets in the first episode? I recognise him.

He was in Jericho.

Episode 2 was good. It still isn't amazing. I hope they can make me love it in the next four episodes.

I recognised him, too.

Also - was this chap Jim Carrey?

There's a zombie in the background of Episode 2 who really looks like Mr Dave.

Also: season two commissioned.

Heh, that does look quite like him. He isn't credited on IMDB for it though, and that site has a list of uncredited zombies.

Good interview with Kirkman, the comic writer, on some of the differences between the comic and the first episode of the TV show. He confirms it's not Carrey, Grim... Also, that horse was used in Romero's last zombie film!

Episode 2 done. I really like the feeling of having a weekly serialised zombie fix.

just saw on twitter that is has gotten picked up for a 13 episode second season.

Edit: Details

Aargh! Season one is only six episodes long! No wonder we're not seeing Michonne until season two.

@lewiep: you snooze, you lose.

How did you of all people not know this?

I think I knew, but repressed it because I don't want it to be true.

A solid 2nd episode , and I really hope the fact that there are only 6 for the first set doesn't hold it back - because by the time the next series comes out a lot of people may have forgotten the characters and their choices - although you could pretty much just sum this weeks up by

I'm uploading a copy for you know - it'll be done by the time you get up.

http://www.fullonrobotchubby.co.uk/random/braaaains.avi

Every time I quickly scroll down the active topics bit, I read this as 'The Wanking Thread'. Then I realise it's not Zardoz being a cad, it's me not being able to work my brain. It dashes my hopes every single time, without fail. I think we need a wanking thread. Not a wanker thread, I think Davspaz has that one under control with bits n bobs.

(I love you really, Dav. It's just your big head makes you such an easy target).

Grim... I dun that yesterday, think he got it. 'fur?

I did, yes, thanks kalmar! And thanks Grim... too! However, if you've got ep2 around...?

Y'all rubbish at telling people.

This was one of my primary reasons for criticising the pacing of the first episode, knowing that there were only five to follow.

That was Lennie James. He's been in a metric shit-ton of stuff, but I primarily remember him as one of the robbers who're menaced by Brick Top in Snatch.

Ah, now I have given his name to IMDB, I see that I recognise him from an episode of 'Lie To Me'. I knew he was a Brit!

Very amusing that most of the first episode was about him and Andrew Lincoln... both pretending to be American.

I wouldn't have guessed either of them were Brits.

What?!

He's EGG FROM THIS LIFE, malaboob. How could you not know he's a brit?

God, kids today etc.

I haven't seen that, obviously

I find it a lot more difficult to spot Brits acting as Americans than the other way around.

That was rather my point, yes. That's like posting "Shakespeare? Who he?" or "Firefly? Never seen it."



"We" do seem to be slightly better at the accents.

Or can tell a forgery of our mother tongue better than another's.

Yowl av tuhr soiy thad agoyn madt oy kant anderstahnd ah wohrd
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