I like “The Walking Dead” for the same reason I like any post-apocalyptic fiction. It’s a chance to play ‘what if’ and to perhaps think a little ‘outside the box’. Sometimes it makes one think about things that might not otherwise have been considered. Think of it as preparedness war gaming.
Season three, it seems, appears to address recurring issues people just would not get over – specifically firepower. After two seasons of nothing more aggressive than pump shotguns we see an underfolder AK and an M4 in the hands of our heroes, as well as some homemade suppressors for the pistols. Also, small-unit tactics have greatly improved with everyone knowing their job, doing it quickly, and keeping their head together when its time to go to Plan B.
While I appreciate that any zombie-themed show is going to have some gore, I really hate gore for it’s own sake. This show seems to do that once in a while but the story is usually tight enough I can forgive it.
All in all, it’s shaping up to be an interesting season if this first episode is anything to go by.
Trivia: Daryl’s bad-ass knife is a Busse Team Gemini. Spendy knife for a trailer-park redneck….$375.
Never too spendy when you’ve just dispensed with zombie shop owner and zombie shop clerk… and the store is all yours…
True, there is that.
It is an interesting show however it lost me in the first season when the sheriff handcuffed the bad guy on the roof and left him, then of course the bad guy escaped. I’ve been around enough cops, my dad was one, to know without a doubt that any of them would have just put a bullet in the head of the bad guy. I’m all for humanity and second chances but when the rule of law is gone is not the time to be forgiving or take chances, that happens after when you are rebuilding. And I think the show really shows what happens when your survival group becomes to large and with people that are not like minded. In a real world Zombie/EMP attack America the group leader would keep a small core group of like minded people and leave the complainers and bleeding hearts by the side of the road because it is just to much work to care for and feed dead weight. I liked the Zombies but the story line is just not real world for me. And you are dead on about a lack of firepower, that is due directly to Hollywood choosing not to glorify guns and promote combat style weapons in the hands of civilians. If not god forbid they might end up with colt or DPMS as a sponsor!
Well, they did manage to get Gerber to sponsor them. I guess showing your product cleaving a human skull is okay.
Post Zombie acquisition is a possibility. Then again trailer trash rednecks sometimes spend their money in weird ways. I have seen a brand new Corvette parked in front of a trailer often enough that it’s driver surely lived there. Ditto more Harley Davidson’s than I could count.
Been reading your site for a while, good stuff.
Enjoy Walking Dead, but the prison they are using now was designed by Hollywood. modern and even older prison and jails are very direct and lacking in corners and designed to segregate and block off areas from others.
That maze like corridors, where the arrows were being spray painted on the walls was totally wrong, anyone that would design a prison like that would be laughed out of the industry.
Former Prison Guard at PA DOC Graterford, currently a State Parole Agent and a Certified Protection Professional , CPP from ASIS.
Did anyone else notice that the semi auto handguns in the prison yard scene werent cycling? The slides stayed put but the guns kept firing. That was a little
SyFy channel for me. Dont get me wrong however…love the show
Hey, working with blanks is tricky. Same way the chick in the tower had to manually operate her AK.
I call ‘The Walking Dead’ the worst show on TV that I will watch consistently. (The other is Pittsburgh Pirates baseball so you know I’m a glutton for punishment). As the older gentlemen (the one who owned the farm) said in season two: “How the he77 have you people managed to stay alive?”
I don’t expect a military style operation. But I do expect common sense. (which apparently is not very common PA). In season one they get ambushed by Zombies because no lookout. Same in season two. They don’t run patrols. They don’t set up barriers. They go DOWN instead of climbing. I could go on and on. They leave wily-nily (Lori (more on her in a moment) to “check on people” ALONE.
Then there’s the characters. Specifically Lori. (Sherrif’s wife). Besides being a cheat (seriously, what was your mourning period – 45 minutes?), she’s a manipulative be0tch and a horrible mother. You are in a world surrounded by child rapists. Only worse. They want to EAT your son. And you can’t keep an eye on him? (How many plots were “Where’s Carl”?) I knew where my Boxer was every second of every day when I was in Afghanistan 12,000 miles away. (Dogs being creatures of habit).
The comic book series was supposedly great. If another Zombie series is ever done RIGHT, TWD will pale in comparison. Yes I will continue to watch off and on, if for no other reason than to say ‘Ok, note to self – don’t ever do THAT’
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