And why no dirt bikes?  How easy would it be to get away on dirtbikes instead of cars?  Your up at the highway or the town.  You've got the bikes running.  Scavage what you need and put it in a truck you can abandon if needed. Walkers come, you don't fight or shoot you get on the bikes and leave, let them chase you and come back when it's clear.  So many of the choices they make on the show just make no damn sense.

And no spears or longer weapons?  I'd be putting a knife in a walker's skull as a last resort only.  I'd have a nice 5 ft spear with a longer blade that I'd be able to put through a forehead at a distance.  It's gets stuck you let it go and come back later or make another.  

Too much giving up on the show.  The people are not nearly as hard as you would need to be or become very quickly.

Quote from: metallimonster on March 07, 2012, 01:25:44 PM
And why no dirt bikes?  How easy would it be to get away on dirtbikes instead of cars?  Your up at the highway or the town.  You've got the bikes running.  Scavage what you need and put it in a truck you can abandon if needed. Walkers come, you don't fight or shoot you get on the bikes and leave, let them chase you and come back when it's clear.  So many of the choices they make on the show just make no damn sense.

Hyundai doesn't make dirtbikes.

QuoteAnd no spears or longer weapons?  I'd be putting a knife in a walker's skull as a last resort only.  I'd have a nice 5 ft spear with a longer blade that I'd be able to put through a forehead at a distance.  It's gets stuck you let it go and come back later or make another.

Spear is a good idea.. hmm..

Tizz, I totally agree with your point.  But my point is that if I'm in the group why the hell does Rick get to be the leader when he sudenly materializes?  I'm sticking with Shane.  

And you're right Shane should have just jumped on the blonde.  She's hotter anyways and the damn kid is nothing but a pain in his ass.  

I will say that Shane is still much much more a father figure than Rick to Carl.  Rick is all group leader with everyone else but a pussy when it comes to Carl.  Kid needs beat.

Quote from: ducatiz on March 07, 2012, 01:28:45 PM
Spear is a good idea.. hmm..

Man I daydream about a zombie apocalypse all the time. Spear is the number one weapon if you ask me.  

Also, when they were in Atlanta no one reached down and grabed a M4 or whatever from a guardsman?  They just have they're priorites skewed and that is what frustates me. If it was me, I'd be out with all of the able bodied guys with lookouts and a freaking plan getting supplies. I live in the country, there has to be a hundred stand alone houses within 5 miles of that farm.  Why not train eachother in house entry and clearance and take whatever supplies you need.  I don't get why they don't understand the world is yours you just have to be careful.

And another point and I'm done with my rant- the farm is a great great place to be. But why are they not spending the time and effort to reinforce the fencing?  Makes no sense.  There should be switchbacks and killing fields around the perimiter.  I'm guessing Dale would have appreciated it.

Quote from: metallimonster on March 07, 2012, 01:33:08 PM
Man I daydream about a zombie apocalypse all the time. Spear is the number one weapon if you ask me.  

Also, when they were in Atlanta no one reached down and grabed a M4 or whatever from a guardsman?  They just have they're priorites skewed and that is what frustates me. If it was me, I'd be out with all of the able bodied guys with lookouts and a freaking plan getting supplies. I live in the country, there has to be a hundred stand alone houses within 5 miles of that farm.  Why not train eachother in house entry and clearance and take whatever supplies you need.  I don't get why they don't understand the world is yours you just have to be careful.

And another point and I'm done with my rant- the farm is a great great place to be. But why are they not spending the time and effort to reinforce the fencing?  Makes no sense.  There should be switchbacks and killing fields around the perimiter.  I'm guessing Dale would have appreciated it.

Oh, god, you'd just ruin the story.  We need to see someone get eaten once in a while.

And yes, I'd have grabbed every rifle, pistol, round, knife, helmet, ALICE, and boot I could "JUST IN CASE"

...  they couldn't find a small tanker truck?  just fill that sucker up with fuel and park it somewhere.

Also you would think the walkers would start decaying for good at some point..  Mmmm maggots infested brain getting eaten?

All good points. 

I also was frustrated by the writers lack or realism, groups poor planning and, let's call it, simple stupidity.

But planning, intelligence, basic survival skills and reality don't fit or belong in a zombie series. 

Things that do belong in a zombies series:

1. Wandering solo in the woods.
2. Not grabbing supplies or fire arms.
C. Having sex with your friends wife days after the beakout.
D. Drenched in zombie blood and not contracting the disease.
E. Helpless attractive underdressed woman in near death zombie scene.

This is an interesting paper on combating a zombie outbreak.  According to the model, it would take about a week and a half to contain an outbreak with military strikes.

http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/Zombies.pdf

Hit hard, early and often.  Granted, the paper originated from a Canadian university.  If there's a group of people determined to lure the rest of humanity into a zombie apocalypse, it's the Canucks.  Canada is like a nation of Bond villans...

As far as TWD is concerned, Dale got off easy compared to the comic.  Wait until The Governor shows up - then everybody's screwed.  

A lot of you are saying they should write it this way and write it that way.  You know this show is based off the comic right?

Quote from: Heath on March 07, 2012, 05:09:22 PM
A lot of you are saying they should write it this way and write it that way.  You know this show is based off the comic right?

based very  very loosely.  it should be called Walking Dead: Alternate World.

Shane was killed in the 2nd or 3rd issue.

Rick as a leader makes Hamlet seem like a decisive guy

Shane "gets it"  it is all about survival....Otis was fat stupid and dangerous with a gun...

good call on Shane's part with him...leave the walkers with a feast that will keep them occupied for a week or 2

the weasel kid who shot at them??  dead

Carl leaving scent trails in the woods for the Walkers to follow?  dead

Unless the scrawny actress playing Rick's wife is preggers in real life

they are going to have a hard time making her anorexic ass look expectant

even with a belly strapped on her....she'll look like a gaunt tweaker with a swollen liver

Rat has it right.  That show's ratings would improve if they followed his advice.

I almost turned off the TV when the soon to be dead old man said he didn't want to be part of this world if it had become survival of the fittest. 

I wonder if he still felt the same way when the revolver was in his face?

Quote from: metallimonster on March 07, 2012, 01:25:44 PM
And why no dirt bikes?

Cagers, man.... oblivious to us even after the zombie apocalypse.

Rat, read the comic series.  IT will be much more to your liking.

Sheriff Rick is much more decisive and edged.

It's AMC, they need to get comic fans and women into the show.

I liked the comment about the walker appearing out of nowhere and Dale being clueless. Maybe he was too enamored by the aired out bovine to notice the goon. But what bothered me about the whole scene was WTF was he doing wandering around the field after dark to begin with? Nothing good is going to happen in a field at night in a zombie show. I'm thinking it just cleaned up the gene pool. I could just tell by all of his insistent whinning about civilization, etc. that he was close to being tits up. Who gets his rifle? And again, how'd the walker disembowel him so easily? Hidden boxcutter?