the fact that everybody dislikes her is the number one reason they'll keep her around...

Quote from: RAT900 on April 03, 2012, 05:13:23 PM
This is not a series that can hold up under close scrutiny...hell it can get shot full of holes with even a cursory glance

Herschel and his endless-ammo pump shotgun.....

them leaving 11ty billion abandoned cars on the highway without thinking to suck some gas out of them for their own vehicles

Rick's emotionally confused sack of shit wife needs a good solid bite taken out of her....I predict she is on the soon-to-be-hit-list

as I said before they could never make her convincingly look pregnant, so she will either mis-carry or bite the dust

Wait.  You named four unconvincing things about TWD but you missed...

ALL THE ZOMBIES?!

Quote from: sugarcrook on April 03, 2012, 10:07:39 PM
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ALL THE ZOMBIES?!

Totally believable!!!!

Quote from: sugarcrook on April 03, 2012, 10:07:39 PM
Wait.  You named four unconvincing things about TWD but you missed...

ALL THE ZOMBIES?!

They do in fact exist

Clearly you were never way uptown in Manhattan during the height of the Crack epidemic in the 1990's

CCNY was one of my accounts when I was doing University and College verticals at Big Blue....

hop off the subway at 137th Street push past the walking dead milling around in circles

and trudge up the hill....

snap, crackle and pop of the (empty) crack vials under my Florsheim Imperials

rat, that sounds like a few areas i looked at apts in brooklyn around 2000. 

No, they are alive and well in Dallas County. I dealt with them (as did my wife/felony probation officer) at the Frank Crowley criminal courthouse. Many were in full zombie mode (on bond and in jail) but thankfully we were never bit or scratched. Crack is as close to zombie-ism as you can get... OK, no it's #2 to heroin. That is some aweful shit. I've seen all I want to see of what that can do to people. Or what used to be people...

Actually the crack "flame-outs" were more like the Walking Dead than the smack-heads I've dealt with

they reach a point where they go vacant....soulless eyes....shuffle...

usually a foot dragging behind them from an gangrenous infection (probably from stepping on broken crack vial shards)

pretty harmless...if they don't bite or scratch you (instant hep C)

no menace like a heroin junkie looking for fix money

Doctors make Zombies every day. It's called Thorazine....

and Stelazine....talk about a make the beast with two backsing chemical lobotomy

stole some from my mother as a kid...

thought they might be her newest diet pills

turns out they prescribed them to her at the happy house

after a particularly psychotic crash after a speed run on Dexedrine

no buzz with them!!!

3 days of zombie....

went and bought a PDR after that

You know some great pharmaceutical company is going to come up with a "live longer" pill.   With some serious side effects and I'm not talking hair loss or 12 hour erections. 


People will still take the pill knowing they will die, come back to life and eat their own family.     

Quote from: sugarcrook on April 03, 2012, 10:07:39 PM
Wait.  You named four unconvincing things about TWD but you missed...

ALL THE ZOMBIES?!

was having this discussion with a friend last night.

I can accept the zombies because it's the premise. It's fantasy, you can set whatever rules you want as long as you follow them.
the problem is they have also set it up with normal everyday rules (aside from the whole becoming a zombie thing)

Quote from: KnightofNi on April 05, 2012, 08:48:58 AM
was having this discussion with a friend last night.

I can accept the zombies because it's the premise. It's fantasy, you can set whatever rules you want as long as you follow them.
the problem is they have also set it up with normal everyday rules (aside from the whole becoming a zombie thing)

This is exactly how I feel about it.  The zombie part is fantasy but to me the way the act and react is way more unbelievable than the zombies themselves.

Quote from: KnightofNi on April 05, 2012, 08:48:58 AM
was having this discussion with a friend last night.

I can accept the zombies because it's the premise. It's fantasy, you can set whatever rules you want as long as you follow them.
the problem is they have also set it up with normal everyday rules (aside from the whole becoming a zombie thing)

excellent explanation.

unless they've already established certain things in the fictional world (i.e. "people rise from the dead and eat the living") then unestablished things (i.e. "never ending ammo supply") are anomalous and look weird.

if it was already established that everyone's guns replicated ammo from thin air, then we could go with it.  sort of like the replicators in Star Trek.  it is established early on that is a feature of that fictional universe.

for instance, in Walking Dead, it's been obliquely established that zombies like to cut grass, which explains why all the yards are tended, months after a zombie apocalypse.

The zombie virus also stunts the grass growth.

Like it's not obvious. 

Quote from: ducatiz on April 05, 2012, 11:39:32 AM
excellent explanation.

unless they've already established certain things in the fictional world (i.e. "people rise from the dead and eat the living") then unestablished things (i.e. "never ending ammo supply") are anomalous and look weird.

if it was already established that everyone's guns replicated ammo from thin air, then we could go with it.  sort of like the replicators in Star Trek.  it is established early on that is a feature of that fictional universe.

for instance, in Walking Dead, it's been obliquely established that zombies like to cut grass, which explains why all the yards are tended, months after a zombie apocalypse.

so a zombie pushing a lawnmower would not be out of place!