The Walking Dead

Now we know why Dan's blades play such an integral role.

Don't let them bite or scratch you, and if you want to kill them, aim for the head. Preferably with a shovel, because a gunshot calls them like a dinner bell.

I took this from an article in USA TODAY "AMC'S Gory 'Walking Dead" is one killer of a zombie show.

And it can be found here:


http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2010-10-29-dead29_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

So hyped for Sunday!!!

Hey Jared!

I have every issue. My wife actually is into comics and I have not been since i was a kid (weird Huh?). but she bought me the first one about and it is literally the only thing that I read (if you call that reading).

I am ready for this one. On the webpage in one of the photo galleries I think I make out a Team Gemini handle on the belt of a character.

It was/is a comic? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> Never had a clue.

Yes! And not just the best zombie material out there, but the best COMIC ever! I highly suggesting picking up the Volume (compilation of the comics) at barnes and nobles/borders.

I've been lookin forward to the show for quite a while!!! I can't wait until Sunday!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Sunday night football will take a back seat for a while! Bring it on!!!

Thanks for the heads up SkunkHunter. I don't have cable but hopefully I will be able to catch it online.

yup its my favorite! got to meet one of the writers and artist at comic con. i almost have all the graphic novels. i am very excited for this tv show!

Need to keep this towards the top. I will be watching it armed with my Scizzy, Waky, DFLE, B11, M9LE, DF, CCF poll hawk, and CS Trench Hawk. Oh yeah, the 45 acp and 12 ga loaded up too................never know if the Zombies can telaport through the boob-tube.

Wow, I never dreamed this thread would get so many posts!

You're a strange one, Mr. Skunk!

Quoting Dr. Seuss Todd? And Hey, everyone needs to be known for something!

Hey, If you have not already done so, to to amctv.com and take the Zombie survival test. See if you're Zombie food or a Survivor! (hint, think SAFETY first and foremost)! yeah I died the first time but made Natural born Leader the second time, and your answers ARE TIMED!

I have been all over this show and the website!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> I have a Zombie addiction!!

The first graphic novel is available as an App from the iTunes store for FREE!

Not to sure about the Zombie one, but next time I go to the Big City (ok they only got about 35K) but they DO have a B&N I am all over MHI Vendetta.

I wish I had known about the original soon enough, I deal with one of the patches! I mean WHO doesn't want a Green smiley face with horns!

LOL SH, I got youthful sidekick, whatever that means. I guess I survive!

Keep trying! I just got lucky.

Definitely been psyched about this show for weeks now <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Just hit the book store and the liquor store

Cool game. First ty I am a natural born leader. My brother has always said I am right about 99 percent of the stuff I talk about and the one percent that I am not I will convince you otherwise LOL.

I'm a Hillbilly Survivalist...which is exactly right!

I'm a Hillbilly Survivalist too.. is that good or bad? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Good in my book!

My brother is a hillbilly survivalist too.

I got "Natural Leader"... which surprised me.

I hope this show is replayed online. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />

its today guys just a reminder to everyone.

I guess I'll have to watch that tonight. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Jerry posted over on BF a $100 credit for spotting the Bussekin tonight.

Oh oh, THAT will get a lot of action, AND get a lot of folks watching as well.

I'll just have to skip the credit, [color:"orange"] I'm watchin tha show!!! [/color], and I'm not gunna miss something just to post for a $100 shop credit! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Must be nice to have an extra income. All I got comin in is my Sheriff's office paycheck. Oh and My Air Force retirement! And I just want to say I really appreciate everybody paying their taxes! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Oh and hehe, don't worry, I got to pay them as well! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

My wife and I just took the test. I made Hillbilly Survivalist, and my wife is a Natural Leader. We got the show scheduled on the DVR, looks like the premiere is 90 minutes. I cant wait!

Yo Spidey, better watch I heard they especially like PORK!

Oh I could definately use the credit... I'm a civil service worker myself, with the state, at my day job, but I know with my internet service out here in the boonies, that my chances of winning are very low and not worth missing the show for. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

There ARE some fast folks out there who will be trying for the credit! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Yeah, I always pick the hillbilly in Left 4 Dead 2 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />



Thats what I thought as well <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I don't remember -- what time does it come on? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

9pm for us Tom!

BUT, there's another Zombie movie on before it!

I'm watching zombieland right now, maybe dawn of the dead next

what channel?

Walking dead is AMC,

Heads up, 26 minutes to go for the show.

I could use the 100 shop credit, but I doubt I will get it in time LOL.

25 minutes now, got the .45 Colt and Scizzy out.

22 minutes, and the Scizzy just got a stropping!

so, how was it?

Actually a little better than I expected. However, I have always wondered why the zombies don't just feast on each other, you know --- aged flesh?!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Not too bad...I see grate potential!

I agree. I mean they tore the horse up, so the taste of flesh is not limited to humans only.

I enjoyed to show, watched it twice! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Can't wait to see next weeks episode! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Same here, looking forward to next weeks episode, although I already know what's going to happen, haha.

I wonder what kind of busse-kin knife will be on the show? Wonder if a busse-kin sword will make an appearance.

Looks like either a Team Gemini or possibly a Sarsquatch. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Found a Zombie Survival Wiki

http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/

haven't looked it over yet, but any resource is better than no resource at all

Their diet goes against everything I thought I knew about what zombies eat. It was my understanding that they ate BRAINS. Now I feel like I know absolutely nothing about our enemy.

Like they said in Zombieland, when someone contracts the virus, it makes them angry, hateful, adrenaline fueled, and gives them a really bad case of the munchies. Zombies aren't neccessarily the walking dead, they're just people that are infected with a virus that screws them up hard. They still need to ingest calories to prevent starvation. Now, the walking dead type zombie, I'm not so sure about, but I'm pretty sure brains is thier favorite food, though not for sustaining life, so to speak.

Everyone should read World War Z! It is a great zombie book. So is The Zombie Survival Guide.

Not bad for a first episode

yet another reason to drop some cash on a nice supressor. those suckers would be going after the heavy shooters first! would be better to brain them with a slingshot than a .45 in that case. the rest of them would go on about there walking dead walking.

Lots of Scrapizashi practice walking around there! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

This reminds me of the scene in "Shaun of the Dead" when they pretend to be zombies to make it through the crowd of real zombies. Maybe they only like the smell of living flesh.

Since people sweat profusely when they see zombies perhaps it's best to stay clean and use a deodorant. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> (good idea anyway! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />)

I will slather up in some blood from an unifected animal to mask my scent <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

They have an answer for this in World War Z, I can't remember the answer but I will look it up

Now that's what I call valuable research! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

In the Zombie Survival Guide it is inferred that a zombie can sense the presence of the solanum virus (zombie virus)in another zombie so they won't eat each other.
Zombies do prefer to eat human flesh,however according to the guide they will eat the meat of any animal.

Night, this geek is going to bed now

Thanks for the valuable information Yote!

Wait one last thing, I may have told this story before.
5 years ago when I turned 40 my daughters (then 15 & 16) bought me a Zombie Survival Kit.
It was a paper bag with ZOMBIE SURVIVAL KIT written on the side in black. Inside was a box of rock salt, a large U shaped darning needle and twine (for traditional voodoo zombies you can prevent them from rising by filling their mouth with salt and sewing it shut)ALSO included in the kit was a machete for loping off heads.

I still have the kit, one of my all time favorite gifts

Yote, and one you will cherish forever! You sir, are one lucky man!

Ok, it's official. Here are the numbers from USA TODAY, 11-3-2010 electronic edition.
THE WALKING DEAD IS A HIT!
Zombie hit. The opener of AMC's The Walking Dead averaged 5.3 million viewers Sunday, an original-series network record that more than doubles the typical audience of Mad Men.

All I can say is YEAH BABY!

Did anyone find out what Bussekin blade was on the show and what scene it was in?

The first episode did NOT have a Bussekin blade in it, but a later episode has a Team Gemini according to Jerry.
Good morning Randy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

SO I kill the zombie and put on a NBC suit. After putting the NBC suit, I can put the dead-dead zombie blood on me and have my scent masked? How long does the virus last outside of the body?

I did see a Buck 110 but that was the only blade. I think that early release and viewing of the movie will make an average guy like myself out of the loop to get a shop credit.

Very true
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, I wouldn't have any regrets as far as my kids are concerned

The virus can last up to 48 hours in a zombie after it has been de-animated

OK you crazy zombie lovers. I endured about 5 minutes of the nonsense. The Walking Dead will no doubt be much more popular than the Rubicon series was. But Rubicon scares me a lot more, because there is some truth in it. It was a great series, and I hope AMC brings it back. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Zombie Fest! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Vic - I never watched the Rubicon series. What was it about?

I've watched several of the Rubicon episodes, it's pretty good, but I love the Walking Dead series, and I'm really looking forward to show number 2 tonight! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Makes me think... a good movie recommendation, "The Crazies", I didn't have high expectations for this movie, but found it to be pretty good, it fits into the Zombie movie category pretty well. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Not familiar with that one either! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

Rubicon I THINK had something to do with the CIA. The Crazies, not heard of that one either.

I watched e new version of the crazies the other day, I really enjoyed it

The name was a real turn off to me initially, so I waited for it to come out on the movie channels. Just proves that you can't judge a movie by it's name... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

The fictional American Policy Institute was an intelligence think tank assisting CIA, FBI and other agencies in the war on terror. But "accidents" and suicides among some top API analysts leads one analyst there to suspect that API itself is covering up its own involvement in terror attacks. Rubicon is the story of his investigation into API itself. The analyst begins to wonder who he really works for. It seems that wealthy investors use API intel to make money from terrorist events, and that API itself is involved in making sure these attacks get some help and that cover stories are fed to the intel agencies. Good stuff. The last episode is a huge intelligence failure that API misses because its top people actually serve a mysterious group of investors and feed false leads to API. And the bogus bad guys get the blame. Good acting, interesting characters and a lot of twists in the plot. I loved the series. It required following a lot of details as the series built to the climax. Totally different from most spy movies and much more like actual intelligence operations.

FYI....the tank used in the last episode.....WAY OFF!!!! I know its a movie but you think that they would get somewhat close!

Last episode of what? No tanks in Rubicon.

Last episode of The Walking Dead. He's stuck in a tank, surrounded by zombies.

Well, it did look like a tank to me. ??? Was it a Russian tank or something?

It was supposed to be an American M1A1....it was sort of close on the outside but not anywhere close on the inside.....oh and the main guy would have been screwed if it the tank was accurate. There is no hatch on the bottom....that last American tank that had a hatch like that was the M60 series.....but it looks TOTALLY different that a M1A.


M1A1


M60

I wouldn't know one tank from another.

and am I the only one who had to come up with scenarios where a guy in a tank could become a zombie? I came up with a couple... ready for the next episode!

That's TV for ya'! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I know.....it drives my GF crazy when military stuff is in the movies and I pick it apart....i know it is just a show but yet I can't control myself sometimes!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I know the feeling. I stopped watching 24 the first season because the gunplay was so bad.

I'm thinking that I should volunteer my kids to this show. The first episode looked a lot like it does around my house in the morning before the kids leave for school.

I am sure if a zombie walked into the local high school before 11:00 in the morning that no one would notice or be able to tell the difference LOL <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Dan

J4, They look the same to me. Both got tracks and a big gun! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Oh wait, I see the difference now, one of them has 206 on it! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Hey Dan, were WE that way as teenagers?

Ever see the Zombie shoppers on a Saturday at Walmart? I swear, many of them look like they are in a trance, just putting stuff in their carts. But I just never got into the zombie genre. But just in case, I have a shotgun and a Waki. Those of us who got into AMC's Rubicon loved it, but it lacks the pure action of the Walking Dead.

Don't mess with the zombies!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Tankers hate Nazi WWII flicks, too. Hard to round up a herd of King Tiger tanks nowadays. Just paint up some old M48s or M60s with German markings. Most folks can't tell a self-propelled gun or an armored personnel carrier from a tank.

Frighteningly so
but I do not remember...oh no a sign of zombie-ism

Dan

I'm sure they figure it's just fiction anyway, so what the hey!

That's because they are admiring the Grunts! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

NOPE, probably like me, to much alcohol back then! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> many times <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

So true about walzombie's. I always ask my wife where do these people come from because you sure as heck do not see them during the day...very scary

Dan

So very true

Dan

I stopped going to walmart late at night. why? because I looked around and everybody in there looked like zombies. and then I thought "so how do I look?!?!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />"

But it IS nice to shop when almost nobody else is there! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> At least that's the way it is here in the boonies. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

LOL...good point

I will have to remember that

Dan

Some locations are worse than others due to the concentration of "Z"'s

Ever notice the Convenience Store Zombies? They hang out at those stores. They eat their meals there. I first noticed them when I worked the night shift. Scary.

Now that you mention it...I have seen them. I always wondered who ate there...other than travelers. Ever notice how you get a look of despite/anger when you enter a store you have not been in before or it might be my paranoia

Dan

Maybe it's THEIR paranoia, wondering if you are there to rob and kill them - being a stranger and all. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

sometimes I go to walmart late at night just to see what I will see!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Or a Narc!

You think one of those stores are bad, you should see some of the folks that walk (ok, many of them stagger) in the door where I work! Talk about scary!

I can believe that! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

A lot of these folks you don't even want to touch. They can make a Zombie look almost normal!

I never thought of the entertainment factor <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Dan

Come out here sometime Dan and you can ride with the Deputies. You MIGHT get to see more than you want!

Good point, I do have a face for radio...as they say LOL

Dan

ive had a moment or two that felt something like the grocery store scene from zombieland. you are walking through the grocery store and there's some guy center of the isle starring at something. You say "Excuse me..." Guy looks up slowly and then grunts... Moves 1/2" to one side and goes back to starring at whatever it was. "Excuse me man, I don't wan to bump you!" Grunt, moan and moves just enough to make it uncomfortable to pass.

feels very much like a zombie encounter.

Wal-Mart has EVERYTHING! (said in my best John Belushi voice)

When I was on active duty at Ft Knox me and my buddies would go just for the entertainment!! I mean Friday night...1200 am...it's like Forest said....walmart is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you are going to to get!

Cheep entertainment for broke NCO's!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

i only watch re-runs of the Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Hey you! why did you take the Chiefs car all apart?!!
I was lookin for a squeek...
Well..did ya find it ?..
NO.. what does a squeek looks like ?...

anyone else watching it now?!

yup...

thats just gross....

I guess they HAD to get the stink on themselves! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

pretty good episode tonight

Yup, wasn't all that bad! Like the car the kid was driving too!

Definitely!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

It starts for me in one hour, cant wait!

I think you will like it! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Already read the comics, so I kind of know what to expect, but still super exited about the tv series. I'll be watching with my waki by my side. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Or a SOD in your lap! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

what a great show.

they screwed up a couple times but its bearable i suppose...lik ethe glock with the safety lol

but otherwise pretty well done

Dog Father with piggy backed Mutt. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I had nothing better to watch, so I watched it last night. Yep, that's pretty much the way I remember Atlanta. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Haha, I would say you have some bad memories of that place Vic.

That's kinda like When I went through charlotte, 100 stoplights! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" />

I think Vic was referring to the crowd the day AFTER the Busse party outside JocknJills at Blade! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

The area around the Cobb Galeria is just fine. Zombieland is in the 'Hood.

I don't know, and Dad never did figure out how, but once back in the 60's we were vacation and were going through Louisiana and mysteriously wound up in New Orleans on back roads. We FINALLY saw daylight when we ran up on a Police station (maybe the main one, it was BIG). Anyway got directions out of there real quick. It was of course after dark, in the late late hours. Scary for all of us.

I'll bet it was! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I live in Los Angeles, our Zombies try and trick us by getting face lifts and various "transplants"...but I assure you they are dead...oh yes they are dead


<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

ZOMBIES! KNIVES! LACK OF SLEEP FROM TRUCKING! I SEE ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE! AIIIIIIUUUUUGGHHHHH!

I GOT KNIVES! ZOMBIE KILLING SPREE ABOUT TO START!

GIGGITY GIGGITY GIGGITYGOO!

ZOMBIE GOO!
snick!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />......................................... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I think Bushy has taken to many NoDoz!

I think you're right! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />........................................................ <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

LOL I spent a lot of time in LA and I know exactly what you are talking about

Dan

Sorry Vic -AMC cancels RUBICON

almost forgot that this show was on...

I don't know, but for some reason I just don't feel like watching it tonight.

The Busse Team Gemini has already been spotted in tonights episode.

I was all pumped earlier in the day to watch it but when it came time to come on I just said meh, and passed. Don't know why, geuss just one of those moods.

Oh GREAT, the ONE night I choose to miss it and THAT happens! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" /> Well maybe they'll be a rerun I can catch.

Only three episodes left. I was bummed when I heard that.

I was disappointed too Seth.
6 episodes isn't enough!!
The good news is that they have the GO for a 13 episode season 2!!!!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtrac...lking-dead.html

Good to hear! (about the 2nd season that is).

I was disappointed to hear that there were only 3 episods left too... Good to hear that there will be a 2nd season, Thanks for the info!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I'll be glad when the dumb zombie crap is over. Rubicon was much better than this nonsense.

It's just a little senseless entertainment Vic. Besides, we all KNOW the government is corrupt and infiltrated with no-goodnicks! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I know. I am just a grumpy old man. I never cared about horror movies of any kind since about the 4th grade. For years I would not even read fiction. I mean, if you know it isn't real, why waste your time reading it? Later I learned that there is much truth in fiction and plenty of lies in non-fiction.

But AMC really ticked me off cancelling Rubicon, a really good series, and replacing it with Zombies. I had come to expect more from AMC. Now they are like the rest of the channels. Maybe if I get drunk on Sunday nights the Walking Dead will seem better. God forbid they keep a series that required an attention span of over thirty seconds by the viewer. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I kept wanting to like Rubicon, but between a slow pace and so many characters that I just didn't care about, I just couldn't. I didn't even dislike many of the characters enough to want to see bad things happen to them, but felt like I'd keep glancing at my watch if I was in the same room with them.

So they canceled Rubicon!??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

I hate there short run shows, that give you just enough time to get a little interested, and then you either have to wait a year for more or they canel them all together. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> One of the regular channels canceled a show right in the middle of a "to be continued" episode a few years back, I was really steamed, Thanksfully I finally got to see the rest on DVD eventually.

The pace was very slow at first, but it picked up in last three episodes. For those accustomed to James Bond type action spy flicks, it was subtle and boring. But the series is the first one I have seen that accurately portrayed the nitty gritty of intelligence work. The main villian, Truxton Spangler, head of API, was quite a character. It was a totally different kind of entertainment than Walking Dead, and obviously did not appeal to the masses much. It has been cancelled. But I loved it. Obviously my tastes in entertainment are as non mainstream as I am. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Doesn't EVERYONE have a horned helmet?!!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />.............................. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Only one or two here on my island have them. They are highly sought after here. And we don't really need zombie movies. We have Walmart! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

I have to admit that while I found Rubicon interesting and entertaining, I did get lost a few times watching it. I rarely ever just watch TV, I'm usually working, steping in and out of the shop, and so on, so if something is slow or real detailed, I miss stuff sometimes. With The Walking Dead, I can work and be entertained without having to give the tube 100% of my attention. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Now as for Walmart... Talking about Scary!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> I steer clear of that place as much as I can!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

well I was a little disappointed that the walking dead played so heavy into the whole stereotype thing. but hey that's tv for you. with such a short run they needed to create dynamics.

never watched much AMC and never caught Rubicon.



And I will say this about WombieMart... Just like all the zombies go in at certain times all the hotness will be in there all at one time. Just they have hotness lives to go live so they aren't hanging around clogging up the isles. I mustve gone in there right after a hotness payday or something. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> Felt like every isle was heading me to the wedding isle! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

[quote Maybe if I get drunk on Sunday nights the Walking Dead will seem better. [/quote]


haha vic youre awesome! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

So, another episode coming up tomorrow, looking forward to it.

While its a very entertaining show, I can't get over how dumb these people are (a fellow zombie preparedness'ist and myself have discussed this at length <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> ) :

1. You have a hacksaw, the zombies are kind of unable to get to you, do you really take off your hand or the bolt that you're cuffed to?

2. Tents. Really?

3. You know they are attracted to loud noises, yet you don't pull over to yank the car alarm once its beyond useful (you'd think you would do it just because of the noise.)

4. Old RV or new cargo van that can safely hold a lot of people.. Which do you choose?

5. You drive your cargo van into town, you plan on taking it back to camp. Do you really leave it with the back wide open?

Despite the people's cringeworthy foolishness, its entertaining, I'll definitely catch tomorrow's episode <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Let me add some more:

6. You act like tools are scarce and you can't just find a Lowes to plunder.

7. Same goes for your [censored] radiator hose on your crappy old RV.

8. You fool around in water that could be infested with zombies who don't need to breathe.

yea, lets hacksaw our arm off, instead of the mild steel bolt on the HVAC piping.....\\

Yeah, if there is anything I hate, it's an unrealistic zombie show. Those fools at AMC should have come here for real zombie expertise and practical escape techniques. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

they said the saw was too dull to work on the bolt, in that guys mind they were about to break through that door so removal of the hand would have been fastest to make an escape.

i guess i understand the cargo van b.c as far as they knew, there was no one else alive and leaving the van open would make it easy to see if anything managed to get inside...would i do it? i dont know, it kinda of makes sense too if youre being chased and everyone needs to pile in quickly.

With all the chaos that went on in the city, im sure most stores were plundered already and risking a trip into the city might not be worth the trouble...checking out the huge line of broken down vehicles on the highway is a different story...

other points like the tents and car alarm are perfectly valid and i thought about that too...but those last couple kinda make sense

They said the saw was too dull to take care of the cuffs, not the bolt. As far as the van, you come back, everyone piles in, then discover about 15 zombies found their way inside <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Vic, sorry, I know its unrealistic to begin with, but given the situation was actually real, it wouldn't hurt to use some common sense? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I think its fun to pick apart these things, sorry all, no harm meant, the show is really entertaining though.

with the van door open you can clearly see inside...?

lol i love doing that

if the van door was closed then you pile in and the back is dark, then youre zombie food

LOL. I'm cool with it, monsterdog. I do the same thing with Rambo movies. Like shooting a LAW inside a helicopter. The backblast would have roasted the POWs.
But I still watch the silly things.

Rambo movies silly?!!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> If it's on the big screen or television then it MUST be true! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />............. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />............ <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I just started watching this show. It was very sweet seeing a Bussekin knife on the show <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />.

Well it looks like we have one more episode and at least two season from the sound of it. I am enjoying the series and think it is kinda funny at times.

Well I caught the episode where the camp got attacked and they got to the CDC. Still missed the one where the Bussekin was in it. Oh well I guess I'll live, unhappily. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Good God. Now I am watching zombie movies and even NFL football. I blame you zombie-loving dogs for this! This is sure proof of the deterioration of the brain in the elderly. I can't wait until the CDC blows up and ends this nightmare! At least I have the approved S&W .357 Magnum and a Waki nearby. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Hehe! Blowed up good. Blowed up real good.

Vic you are now safe from new episodes until Oct 31, 2011

Wow, I just finished to episode and thought it was great. I know what the doc said, or at least I think I do. Not going to be good when the two sheriffs have a sit-n-talk.

I enjoyed the series, even when they were making basic and fundamental mistakes.

CDC done got blowed up! Now we all gonna get sick and die and nobody gonna know whats causin it or how to stop it. Good bye cruel world...... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Time to start rebuilding! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I enjoyed that show. It has potential.

Just watched this little gem and was completely entertained for a brief 22 minutes (sorry the name is not appropriate here, but it's not too offensive). If you like adult anime or just some good ole war action, check this out.
CSO

So when is the next season slated to start. I hope they don't wait too long as the series is riding high right now.

OH MAN! CS1 is great. They were animations but it was very well done. I remember watching anime in Japan while I was there '87-91. They've got a LOT better. You hear of anymore of those clips, be sure and let us know!

Will do. The translation/subtitles for CS1 is better int the HD download. You can find the link in the comments on the link I posted above.

Something about mercenary bunnies fighting insurgent camels just feels right.

I've enjoyed the Walking Dead and I'm really looking forward to it's eventual return. It's far from a perfect show, but it has certainly been entertaining. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I think he told him that his wife is pregnant

Yote, I think you are right!