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“The Walking Dead” on AMC. 90 minute series premiere

If you are not watching this you should just go ahead and kill yourself.

I said KILL YOURSELF!

They’re making cakes based on urban legends. I’m a little confused as to what that might look like.

Ooh, I wonder if anyone'll do "The Mexican Pet"! What a fun cake that would be.*

Seriously, WTF? "Urban legends"? No matter; tonight I only have eyes for The Walking Dead.

(*Google it, foo's.)

How would they go about making a "giant alligator living in the sewer" cake. And NO making a fondant covered alligator cake ain't gonna cut it.

rusty, marry me?

Walking Dead was damn fine.

Seriously.

I was duly impressed.

Great production values, excellent character development, and some really awesome set pieces so far. I know what I'm gonna be doing next Sunday night.

I think the Walking Dead TV series will be fine, in comparison to the comic series, if they condense some of the story, as I think they've already done with the premiere. The comic tends to explore the human side of the crisis across issues, especially some of the traveling parts, and rightly so. The TV series can maintain that dialogue but progress through the storyline more quickly. It should be fine. I'm more concerned how some sections, like the when they meet the two settlements early on, will be handled because of the violence, both physical and sexual.

Just over 1/2 way through, made me cry twice. I'm a baby. A giant, zombie-loving baby. Here's hoping they keep up the good work. Cheers.

ALERT: Just got back from the West Hollywood cavortion (I love to make up words), and there was a guy there dressed as the human centipede. As in, he was the front woman, and then behind him was the infamous kneecapped diagram strapped to his backside. I sat on the curb of Santa Monica Blvd. and shivered, knocking my head against the base of a light-post trying to get the image out of my head.

I know this has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I just felt a duty to share the misery this fine Halloween night.

As you were...

The first 15-20 minutes had me seriously concerned -- badly written dialogue delivered in shaky accents, the aforementioned frame delay effect, and the distraction of wondering how the main character didn't die of starvation in the hospital bed. He had to have been unattended for, what, two weeks? A month?

I had a hard time getting past that. But once the situation was established, the show really hit its stride.

The Walking Dead is my new favorite show, they’ve drawn me in for the long con. For a moment there I thought I was watching “The Wire,” due to that brother handing out head shots like free candy. Oh god do I love head shots.

sansho1:

He was on two drips if I remember at the beginning. He pulled one out before he left the bed. Let's assume one was a saline drip (that would have helped him stay hydrated until it ran out) and the other could have been antibiotics so it's possible the infection was kept at bay and given that he was a healthy human before being shot, the body's immune system could have done the rest. It all depends how long he was comatose for, but the body does have ways of compensating for deficiencies, especially while comatose.

Between The Walking Dead on AMC and Dead Set on IFC this has been a good week for zombies.

I'm with the rest of the viewers who had a hard time suspending disbelief at the beginning hospital sequence.

First, he didn't have a catheter to pull out, nor were his bedclothes/underwear soiled (he'd a been in a gown anyway). So he would have been lying in his own waste for several days at the very least - even if we assume that for some reason, hospital staff were continuing to provide him fresh bags of fluids.

Second, humans can really only last about 4 days without water (rule of 4 - four minutes without air, 4 days without water, 40 days without food). And before someone brings up Gandhi, remember his fasts included drinking fruit juice and water.

And Third - get some shoes on man! Did you not watch Die Hard???

Separately, I had a hard time dealing with his casual attitude entering Atlanta. Given what he had recently seen, he would have been far more careful and probably more easily spooked by the first few zombies. He hadn't had time to become inured to the presence of the undead (and I just didn't like what happened to the horse, so that's probably why this bugged me)

The Walking Dead was incredibly well executed, with some awesome visual moments of syncing perfectly with the graphic novel. If I recall, the gunshot wound isn't meant to be too fresh; a fair amount of time passed while he was out before the world goes nuts, and second Pookie's speculation on the drips. I'm definitely along for the ride...