Walking Dead Ep1: Days Gone By

I got the feeling he DID know Rick was still alive.

Although, his personal feelings aside, there is a certain logic to telling her he was dead. You can't go around fighting for your life with a coma patient strapped to your back.

What a fantastic show this is. It's too bad season 1 is only 6 episodes but I can understand why as this was relatively new and untried television concept. Thankfully the 2nd season is going to be 13 episodes.

How is Rowdy Burns ever going to beat Cole Trickle now with only one hand?

So far I like it but they sure do make some poor decisions. That bad writing creating those decisions needs to stop now. When it comes down to survival and you have a redneck racist who is obviously going to do something to put the group in harms way again. Kill him. Then kill his brother who is equally stupid. This is an opportunity to make the world a better place and that kind of stupidity shouldn't be allowed to thrive. While you're at it kill the wife beater too. Either play nice with the group or go off and do your own thing, set the group back by putting it in any kind of danger and you're doneski.

The black guy's acting sucks.
The asian guy's acting sucks.

Going back into town for the guns, ok fine, I can handle that, maybe don't rip apart the fast car before you know if you're going to use it again. If you took the car don't worry about losing it though, there are tons of extra cars of all makes and models just sitting there waiting to be taken now.

Seriously, camping? Good idea geniuses. How many unoccupied structures with locking doors are available? Millions? Nope, lets put up a tent, that will stop a zombie attack. These people deserve to die.

But I still like the show.

Nope.

Gotta remember they evacuated to Atlanta and were told according to everyone that he hospital would be evacuated. That's why they left Rick. Of course we see that the evacuation never happened because Atlanta was a wasteland.

If Rick got there before them he's probably been Zombie lunch. If the hospital wasn't evacuated then Rick probably gotten eaten for lunch.

It's perfectly reasonable to assume that given the situation that Rick who was essentially in a very light coma was dead.

Actually, no. That's exactly what you don't do.

When your survival is the group's survival then you don't go offing members of your team. You find a way to work together. A group that executes people they don't like won't be a group very long.

Again, actually it was a good idea.

They're isolated on top of a mountain away from ex-human populations. They have continuous fresh water and a stable food supply.

Despite what you see on tv, locking yourself in a mall isn't going to save you. Good luck trying to eat the Gap Kids clothes.

Yeah but he was a cop in that town. I guessing when the end of the world kicked in he was on duty. Looks like he would have got word the hospital evac failed.

Give it time. Killing people will become a theme very soon.

Besides they are still clinging to the old ways. It hasn't truly dawned on them yet that the old ways are useless.

I agree with you. I wouldn't have even cuffed the racist. As soon as it was apparent he was a racist and he started fighting the black guy and pulling a gun I would have shot him. Then I would have put a gun to the brothers head and laid down the law. Gotta give him at least one chance to reform. Wife beater would have gotten the same treatment.

It's no longer about skin color. It's about living versus the dead. Zombies are equal opportunity killers.

In the comic book they actually used the wearing zombie blood and guts to get into a gun store. According to the comic the plague hit so fast that there wasn't widespread looting.

I think they should have tried to grab a Humvee while they were in Atlanta. If I'm not mistaken you don't need keys and the Humvee can run on a variety of fuels if push comes to shove. Humvees would be good vehicles. Shit even Strikers (is that right?) could be useful.

Actually they are in a pretty safe place. Well until Glenn drove the car with the alarm blaring the whole way. It's pretty dangerous in closer to the city.

They will be moving on. Last weeks zombie eating the deer was enough for them to get ready to go. It's also a matter of food. Easier to hunt from where they are.

Yes and no.

Once the racist started shooting Zombies from the roof top attracting even more Zombies to the building, then attacking the others and pulled out a gun and then demanded a "vote" at gun point it was obvious that he was damaged goods.

You don't need him on your team. Take him out right on the spot.

The brother and the wife beater can be given a chance. Reform, leave or die.

Given that it seems he was the only cop that made it (other then Rick) I'm thinking that law and order broke down. In such a situation would you be on duty? I wouldn't. I'd tell everyone up the chain to fuck off in such a situation and then go get my family.

Given mass defections of cops and even soldiers who decide to run for their lives I wouldn't count on him knowing for sure the hospital was or wasn't evacuated.

I would have tried to drive the tank. I probably would have tried a Humvee next, you're right, it's just a switch and no keys. The camping is still dumb. They can easily find a structure with 4 solid walls and a locking door out in the woods.

I think the wife beater was handled properly. He got his warning. If he does it again he's causing more harm than doing good. The brother is a lose cannon. Sorry, but I can't go to sleep at night with my wife and kid in camp knowing there is a chance you're coming for me and may hurt them in the process. Hell, I wouldn't even go to sleep at night knowing you might only be coming for me even without a wife and kid. It's me or an idiot redneck, easy choice. Brother has to go too.

I wouldn't just be offing people for the hell of it, redneck racist on the roof was clearly a liability. Now he's a one handed liability who is obviously going to return at some point to cause some harm. Not to nitpick too much here but I'm pretty sure that saw he had would have cut the cuffs. I'm not seeing the logic behind choosing to cut through bone instead of medal.

I think they should go back to Rick's town and use the Sheriff's station. Seems pretty good for such a thing.

Then they can start cleaning out the town and yet still be close enough to the wild that they can hunt if need be.

I think because he was suffering from loss of water being trapped on the roof and Zombies pounding on the door he was too scared to try it and just went for his hand.

Plus he's stupid.

And

[?=about Rick don't read if you don't want to know.]I think this is how they will get around Rick having his hand cut off. I don't think they are going to go that route.[/?]

In a situation where being scratched/bitten by one of the walking dead means certain death I think I would be piling on the motorcycle leathers.

Tex raises some good points, I'm not gonna rehash them, my only nitpick regarding the handcuff scene this. That steel ductwork support they cuffed him to look terribly corroded. A strapping 6'2" redneck should've been able to get it moving and eventually break it. It would be even easier with a hacksaw, no matter what the condition of the blade.

The camping doesn't bother me as much as the camping in scrub brush and woods. Get in the open, have some lines of sight. Any farmhouse in open country would be far superior to where they are now.

Guys.....

Merle the big redneck racist is a moron. Probably not smart enough to think of anything other then cutting his hand off.

I agree with your points 100% but let me add this: if the characters were stone cold, did everything right and didn't make any mistakes, it would be a pretty boring fucking show.

Not to mention he was delusional with thirst and exposure.

Do people not get that they're on top of a mountain? It takes REAL effort to get to them.

Moving down into flat country is a mistake.

Gotta agree somewhat. It would be difficult to get Zombies up there.

I don't really agree with the farm because of the Herds. If you follow the comic books a herd is where the Zombies just start following each other. ext thing you know you've got 10,000 Zombies en masse walking in one direction.

So much so that they needed the renown off road capabilities of the Dodge Challenger to get back.

So?

I live in the South and I've drove up mountains in a Ford Escort that most people wouldn't want to hike up.

You can drive up Black Mountain on the I40 highway with just about anything, but I don't see zombies wanting to hike up it.

All it takes is one, like the one that almost got the kids.

Sorry, this Okie wants wide open spaces to see em comin. Dig in, bug out, whatever, just see em comin.

Assuming that the Walking Dead world is geographically the same as ours, they aren't really out in the wilderness or up a mountain or anything:



That's the quarry used for filming, which is a real quarry just a couple of miles outside Atlanta.

Yeah I thought of that.
The theory still holds up.

Although quarry water is pretty nasty I thought. Not sure if they're drinking it but still.

And the bottom of a quarry is the damn last place I would want to be. No way out and zombies can fall over the edge and still come after you while you're stuck down there.

The quarry situation is, last time I was at a quarry it was pretty level getting to it then an ungodly deep hole.

The quarry above seems to have a mountain-ish kind of build up to it - on 1 side! That could be a slight problem.

I believe in their world however the quarry is mountain like on all sides.

Yeah, when he was messing around splashing the water I was expecting a zombie to come wandering up from the depths behind him.

The obvious survival plan is to go to an island and clear it of all Zombies. Then repopulate the Earth starting with that island.

He wrote the first comic before 28 Days Later ever existed, it was just never put out until after.

Which island is that exactly?
..and did you not see Dawn of the Dead?
.... "the boat's out of gas, zombies, oh god, oh god."

Lucky for you I'm in your survival party and I've given this some thought.

Ocracoke Island is within driving distance from Atlanta. It has a human population so there will be zombies. However the zombie numbers should be small. Perhaps about 4 to 6 hundred, maybe alot less if the island was evacuated.

A large enough force could clear and recapture the island. The added plus? You're not stuck out in the middle of the Atlantic. Supplies (gas, food, etc) are all right across the sound. AND there are large ferries so you can bring large machines to the island as well!

The downside? One good Hurricane and you're toast. Not to mention that the wind coming off the ocean is damn cold in winter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocracoke_island

There is also the fact to take into consideration that if your destination is an obvious one, other survivors will be heading there or will already be there.

That's great if you trust in goodness of other people...

Wherever there are humans there will be Zombies because of how Zombies come into existence in this version.

[?=To protect those who don't know yet]You become a Zombie by dying. You don't have to be bit or scratched by a Zombie to become one. You could have a heart attack, die, and a few minutes later wake up a Zombie. You could die of old age in your bed, wake up a Zombie and proceed to eat your spouse.

A Zombie bite or a deep scratch can infect you with a sickness and that sickness will kill you. Then you become a Zombie. If by some strange twist of events you survived the sickness you would not become a Zombie.

In fact everyone would have to sleep in different rooms in my house with locked doors. I don't need to be waken up by the wife chewing on my leg. [/?]