My argument is that I think it's very risky if not downright misguided of the producers/writers/directors to assume everyone else will keep watching when the opening episode requires so much legacy knowledge for it make sense.

Does it though?

Again, I've not seen it yet, but from the sounds of it, the plot very closely follows the comic book. In which case, maybe you're meant to think that maybe Rick was abandoned in the hospital so his wife could run off with his partner?

Zio -

Watched it, and twas awesome.

I also noticed...

Did anyone else think they've changed this from the comics (spoiler to volume 4 of the comic, I think; be careful with this one)

It seems a slightly lazy way to skip all that "World is falling to shit" story and jump straight to "World has fallen to shit".

Well, it is. But also it allows them to shorthand through the "ZOMG I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING" stuff which (let's be honest) we've seen hundreds of times and into the more novel "we need to find a way to survive in this hostile new world" territory.

Sky+d it, not home'til Monday night. Can't wait to watch it. Also got two episodes of The Event to catch up on, anyone else been watching that?

the more novel "we need to find a way to survive in this hostile new world" territory.

Novel?

Within the zombie subgenre, yes.

Hmmm. Well, Land and Dawn would cover that, I'd say. Land moreso, admittedly, but the original Dawn was very much about getting on with things with zombies wandering around. Hell, come to that, so was Day.

EDIT - also, Resident Evil: Apocolypse.

Zombieland
28 days later

I'd say it is rarer to see the zombie apocalypse actually starting up these days!

I spotted (heard) this as well and had a double take of - did that really happen ?

I was going to say "28 weeks".

I'm going to refer back to Day of the Triffids again ( contentious idea : Triffids ARE zombies ). That went on for years and years after everything went to pot. Society was almost back on it's feet again, albeit only on the Isle of Wight.

ISean of the Dead also has that section at the end of life after it's all calmed down again (everything basically back to normal)

OBJECTION! I'll give you Zombieland, but 28 Days Later is so soon after the Rage outbreak as to effectively be during it.

I object to that objection. It's a month on, and almost everyone is dead or nuts.
He wakes up, and he's on his own.

One month? Hardly enough for mankind (or at least Britain) to have settled into a new paradigm of society.

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

I want to know what to do in the face of zombie apocalypse because it's only a matter of time....

Living on the IoM probably helps!

What, for practice?

One month? Hardly enough for mankind (or at least Britain) to have settled into a new paradigm of society.

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.

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

Spoilers!

Fucking spoilers again!

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?

Yeah, I've watched the first two and it seems OK so far.
It does stand a high chance of going the way of Flash Forward, i.e. completely stagnating once the basic plot device is established,

(edit, oops, thought this was general purpose TV!)

I've got it if you want it.