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Author:  KovacsC [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 17:24 ]
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We don't know the rate of decay, I don't think that has been said.

Do they need to eat, as they are dead? I am guessing the body does not work anymore in blood pumping and breathing sort of way
Author:  Cras [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 17:25 ]
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ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
Also, they infected didn't die off a month after 28 days later. 28 weeks later they'd only secured Canary Wharf, and even then there were loads of the fuckers running around Westferry Road.


That, of course, requires very little suspension of disbelief at all, if you've ever visited the Wharf at the weekend.
Author:  Hearthly [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 17:35 ]
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KovacsC wrote:
We don't know the rate of decay, I don't think that has been said.

Do they need to eat, as they are dead? I am guessing the body does not work anymore in blood pumping and breathing sort of way


But they still need some source of energy to move around, undead/dead/whatever. Plus to survive extremes of heat or cold requires some sort of ability to combat those situations, otherwise they'd literally just freeze in the winter, or turn into dust in the summer.

I notice that the series has completely avoided winters, because that's when zombies would start to look a bit stupid.
Author:  KovacsC [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 17:51 ]
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Why do they need energy, they are dead....

You can't apply biology and physics to Zombies. Because the dead don't move in real life do they?
Author:  Hearthly [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 17:54 ]
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KovacsC wrote:
Why do they need energy, they are dead....

You can't apply biology and physics to Zombies. Because the dead don't move in real life do they?


They're reanimated, not dead.

If they're properly dead then they're just meat, in which case they'd freeze in winter and dessicate in summer, and simply rot the rest of the time.

Oh yes and they'd get absolutely eaten to shit by everything from flies and maggots upwards.

What do you think a dead human body would look like after 540 days out in the open?
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 17:57 ]
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Yo momma!
Author:  KovacsC [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 18:01 ]
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Hearthly wrote:
KovacsC wrote:
Why do they need energy, they are dead....

You can't apply biology and physics to Zombies. Because the dead don't move in real life do they?


They're reanimated, not dead.


So reanimated means dead that gets up?

You really are worrying about this :)
Author:  Hearthly [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 23:38 ]
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KovacsC wrote:
So reanimated means dead that gets up?

You really are worrying about this :)


It just bugs me, I appreciate it doesn't seem to have that effect on anyone else, but for a zombie series that's pushing out towards two years down the line after the outbreak, I'd want to see the question of what keeps the bastard things going be addressed.

I mean, they have to do that eventually, don't they? Or is it going to turn into the zombie version of Eastenders, and they're all just zombie-ing around twenty years later?

ZOMBIE 1 - 'What you been up to the last twenty years Fred?'

ZOMBIE 2 - 'Ahh you know Bob, just proving to all these dumb humans that perpetual motion was solvable all along, they were just missing a zombie apocalypse.'
Author:  KovacsC [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:10 ]
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I take it as, we don't know why the dead rise. Thus we don't know what keeps them moving etc.
Author:  Bamba [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:19 ]
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Hearthly wrote:
I mean, they have to do that eventually, don't they?


No, they really don't. Any more than they ever have to explain how they're coming back from the dead in the first place. It's part of the setup you just need to accept.

Or give yourself an aneurysm over it for no reason; y'know, whatever works for you.
Author:  Malc [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:27 ]
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I think the best thing to do is to assume whatever "woke them up" is also "keeping them going"

Malc
Author:  Hearthly [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:05 ]
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Bamba wrote:
No, they really don't. Any more than they ever have to explain how they're coming back from the dead in the first place. It's part of the setup you just need to accept.

Or give yourself an aneurysm over it for no reason; y'know, whatever works for you.


I do accept it insofar as it looks like I have to, and it's not completely ruining the programme and/or giving me an aneurysm, it just diminishes the whole thing somewhat IMO.

For an hour's investment per week (less, with the season breaks and halfway breaks), I'll probably stick with it through ten seasons. But the more time goes on the more daft these zombies wandering around are going to be at a fundamental level IMO.

Also they'd better not kill off Maggie or Tara (formerly known as 'the lesbian one', I've learned her name now, and I suspect she might not actually be a lesbian but is just acting like she is), because they are pretty.

I wonder if they'll ever do a scene like in the film Battery (an ultra low budget zombie flick from 2012, recommended!) where one of the sex-starved survivors clamps eyes on a fresh female zombie that's still arguably quite attractive, and cracks one out.
Author:  Bamba [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:23 ]
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Hearthly wrote:
I wonder if they'll ever do a scene like in the film Battery (an ultra low budget zombie flick from 2012, recommended!) where one of the sex-starved survivors clamps eyes on a fresh female zombie that's still arguably quite attractive, and cracks one out.


Yes, it's definitely possible that a network TV show in the US will have a scene where one of the characters masturbates over a zombie. It would be entirely in-keeping with the tone of the show so far.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:55 ]
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"Acting like a lesbian"? The fuck?
Author:  Cras [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:35 ]
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All that licking of wimmin, and stuffs.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:51 ]
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Cras wrote:
All that licking of wimmin, and stuffs.


Alive, dead, or other?
Author:  Hearthly [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:58 ]
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Abraham caught her ogling Rosita's boobs in Season 4, so if Tara is not really a lesbian then I guess that's acting like one.

Although if she is a lesbian then it's not proper acting I suppose, which would make it easier for her to do. Or something.

Either way she's well fit.
Author:  Cras [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:33 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Cras wrote:
All that licking of wimmin, and stuffs.


Alive, dead, or other?


I ain't judging.
Author:  KovacsC [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:37 ]
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ewwwww
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Feb 19, 2015 18:16 ]
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One of the super-zombies in the Ex-heroes series got turned even though his lizard-skin stopped the zombies from biting him because he found zombie Halle Berry and she bit his cock off when he tried to get a blow job off her.

In other news, the most unrealistic thing in this show is how good at pistol-shooting everyone is.
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Feb 20, 2015 11:44 ]
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Second episode of this year was rather dull. Can't be arsed to put more of an effort into a review, because they couldn't be arsed to put more of an effort into writing the flipping thing.
Author:  Hearthly [ Fri Feb 20, 2015 12:57 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Second episode of this year was rather dull. Can't be arsed to put more of an effort into a review, because they couldn't be arsed to put more of an effort into writing the flipping thing.


Careful, that sort of talk doesn't go down well around here.
Author:  Cras [ Fri Feb 20, 2015 13:25 ]
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I'd say not liking a show about zombies because you don't believe in zombies is more of a problem than just saying you didn't like an episode.
Author:  Hearthly [ Fri Feb 20, 2015 13:51 ]
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Cras wrote:
I'd say not liking a show about zombies because you don't believe in zombies is more of a problem than just saying you didn't like an episode.


Yes I don't like it, and never said this about it earlier in this thread - 'Finished Season 2 last night, truly awesome stuff. It's not Breaking Bad good, but it's not a million miles off either.'

viewtopic.php?p=840038#p840038

I'm not a masochist, if I don't like something I won't watch it, and I certainly won't watch five seasons of something I don't like.

It's just ended up nowhere as good as it could have been, and where it looked like it was going, I guess is how I feel about it.
Author:  Grim... [ Sat Feb 21, 2015 10:33 ]
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Interesting article about how Daryl killed Tyreese: http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/02/the-walkin ... n-problem/
Author:  Curiosity [ Sat Feb 21, 2015 11:19 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Interesting article about how Daryl killed Tyreese: http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/02/the-walkin ... n-problem/


That is quite interesting, though I think that the storylines have worked quite well in of themselves. I've got the comics and really had trouble reading them as the dialogue is kinda ropey (at least for the first few that I read) and the character of Rick is an annoying fuckwit. I don't think that the changes are always necessarily bad though. I mean, Shane was only in the comics for a few pages, but he had a good character arc over a couple of seasons in the show.
Author:  Hearthly [ Tue Feb 24, 2015 22:15 ]
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S05E11 - Much better, strongest episode in a while IMO, albeit not completely without its problems.

Genuinely interested to see what happens in the next episode.

Not much Tara in it though, so a point off for that.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
So guesses on what's inside the camp?.....
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Feb 24, 2015 22:26 ]
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I was going to watch that tonight but got sucked into Sherlock series 2.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 11:35 ]
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I really liked it. The group is in open revolt against Rick and there's a new false dawn. Super. I hope this is as good as The Governor and Rowdy Burns.
Author:  Hearthly [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:42 ]
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'Open revolt' is pushing it a bit, 'civilised disagreement' would be more like it.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:48 ]
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Hearthly wrote:
'Open revolt' is pushing it a bit, 'civilised disagreement' would be more like it.


The threat implied by Michone when he punched Backpacker Saviour was clear to the rest of the group his behaviour was not to be tolerated and he should wind it in. Later, they went against his first choice and forced a compromise from him.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:52 ]
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The Ricktatorship is falling!
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 20:56 ]
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The finale is going to be 90 minutes, apparently.
Author:  MrChris [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 21:15 ]
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Fucking spoilers!!!
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 21:21 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Fucking spoilers!!!


4 realZ!
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 21:24 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Fucking spoilers!!!

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
The woman can come too.
Author:  MrChris [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 23:54 ]
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Yeah, I taught your mum that.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:16 ]
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Please. She's like a fire hose.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:29 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Please. She's like a fire hose.


Needs to be hauled around on a truck and only safely operated by 2 men?
Author:  MrChris [ Sat Feb 28, 2015 22:43 ]
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Heh.

That episode was good, me likesed it. Much better than the previous one. Aaron was very well played.
Author:  asfish [ Tue Mar 03, 2015 8:27 ]
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Latest episode was really good.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Was interesting to see that even though this new group they are with appear to be friendly and have the trappings of civilization like water and electricity, that Rick has no problem in killing them all and taking everything for them he feels they will be a weakness to his "family"
Author:  Curiosity [ Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:47 ]
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Some interesting stuff in it.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Rick looks about 20 years younger without the beard!

I thought the ending was cool, and loved the way it was shot with Carol, Rick and Daryl, who have all adapted to the new place in completely different ways.

I was also wondering if when Rick was saying about how people seek out where someone is weak and push at it, if that means this is what the senator is doing to him. She's giving him the responsibility and his 'old life' back, which is potentially a weakness for him as it is what he truly wants.

Loved Carol's deception. She's a great character, and the actress has shown excellent range.
Author:  Curiosity [ Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:50 ]
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Also...

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
I wonder if those three people they exiled are not dead at all (or if it was just three). And is this related to the girl jumping the fence? Does she have Rick's gun? Does an exile? Or someone else?

And yer man who was following them, who was in the first episode, is he still somehow following them despite them travelling a long-ass way?
Author:  RuySan [ Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:25 ]
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This was most certainly the best episode since the Governor. It made the show exciting again.
Author:  Hearthly [ Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:52 ]
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MUSTN'T CLICK ON THE SPOILERS!

I'll be watching this tonight, as per my comment last week, I'm super-keen to see what happens in the next episode.

And there'll be a new Better Call Saul to watch as well, which is ace.
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Mar 03, 2015 21:35 ]
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They've got the props on the wrong side of the bloody wall. That's what you get when you have an architect doing an engineer's job.
Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Tue Mar 03, 2015 21:52 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
They've got the props on the wrong side of the bloody wall. That's what you get when you have an architect doing an engineer's job.


I said the very same thing last night.
Author:  Hearthly [ Tue Mar 03, 2015 22:00 ]
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RuySan wrote:
This was most certainly the best episode since the Governor. It made the show exciting again.


Yeah this is exactly how I felt about it, the new location gives the whole thing a focal point and a sense of purpose, which IMO it's mostly been missing for a while now. Previously they had the farm, the prison, the governor, getting to Sanctuary and so on - whereas Season 5 has kind of meandered a bit.

A solid episode and once again, really keen to see what happens next week.

Also that hairdresser lass is well nice.
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Mar 03, 2015 22:03 ]
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They still need to solve the Daryl problem, from a writer's point of view.
Author:  Curiosity [ Tue Mar 03, 2015 23:49 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
They still need to solve the Daryl problem, from a writer's point of view.


Not really. Fuck the comics.
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