AMC's The Walking Dead

[Morganza]

I liked it, but it missed the whole zombie revelation, the chaos and utter pandemonium when the world realizes the dead are coming back to life and trying to deal with it. That's my favorite part of zombie movies, when everyone realizes just how bad things are and are going to get worse. The zombies look like Hollywood zombies, but are done very well. I am looking forward to the rest of the series.

[pigeonmilk]

Its past that point, it sometime after the breakdown of society so the intial zombie break out panic hysteria is replaced with survivla mode instead.

though I know what you mean, total chaos would be crazy exciting in this story. I would love to see downtown atlanta in the intial stages of the pandemic

I liked it, but it missed the whole zombie revelation, the chaos and utter pandemonium when the world realizes the dead are coming back to life and trying to deal with it. That's my favorite part of zombie movies, when everyone realizes just how bad things are and are going to get worse. The zombies look like Hollywood zombies, but are done very well. I am looking forward to the rest of the series.

[50%grey]

Patton Oswalt - The Zombie revelation face, LOL

[Geekboy]

I got weak and downloaded it before it aired, but I'm going to watch it on my DVR over and over again now that I have it in HD.

Man oh man was I stoked for this series when there were just a few images floating around the internet. Now that I've seen the premiere I wish there were about 35 episodes in the can that I could catch up on before having to begin the agonizing wait between episodes. Absolutely brilliant.

[Ugga Bugga]

Not crazy about the zombie genre, but this was outstanding storytelling. Instantly cared about the characters.

I loved the wife/mother zombie. It looked to me like she was trying to say I love you, but couldn't get it out. Great stuff. Can't wait for more.

[Spidey]

I loved it. It did stay faithful while adding its own scenes. I really liked the part under the tank; how quickly his survival instinct shifted based on opportunity. Needless to say the effects are spot on. DVRed for sure.

[ScottEwen]

My fiancee and I watched it last night, but we didn't realize it was a 90 minute episode. Turned it off at 11 thinking it was over... d'oh!

[VicM]

My fiancee and I watched it last night, but we didn't realize it was a 90 minute episode. Turned it off at 11 thinking it was over... d'oh!

The last 30 mins was the best!

[Mase]

Yeah man - last 30 mins were great. I work in Atlanta, and driving to work this morning was creeepy. The final bit where he went through that thing just before doing that other thing was a brilliant piece of camerawork. (Being intentionally vague for Scott's sake).

[Inkthinker]

Damn my rare attempts at social interaction! Also, damn my crappy memory for spacing out on the DVR programming. Oh, well... I'll see it Friday, if not sooner.

I'm surprised they're not streaming it off AMC.com or Hulu or something. There's got to be some sense of strategy behind that, but I don't know what that would be... don't they realize the main rule of getting people addicted is to let them have the first hit easy and free?

[ScottEwen]

Damn my rare attempts at social interaction! Also, damn my crappy memory for spacing out on the DVR programming. Oh, well... I'll see it Friday, if not sooner.

I'm surprised they're not streaming it off AMC.com or Hulu or something. There's got to be some sense of strategy behind that, but I don't know what that would be... don't they realize the main rule of getting people addicted is to let them have the first hit easy and free?

No AMC shows are on AMC.com or Hulu. It's frustrating because I can't watch Breaking Bad or Mad Men online.

I think they want you to buy the episodes from iTunes or Amazon rather than watch them for free.

[50%grey]

I think the honeymoon is over on this so I'm going to crit this for a sec on the storytelling side.

They did a really bad job of conveying the time Rick was away.

Point in fact, the relationship between his wife and his friend is to abrupt. They should have reworked that section

The audience doesn't have time to understand why they might be together,and it just comes off really cliche.

Anyway,I'm sure it will get better over time,but I heard that AMC only ordered 6 more episodes for this year.

[The P.R. Man]

so alfter begging, pleading and threatening my father in law to DVR it, it turns out that we get AMC free this month!

watched it with my wife, who's a fan of Zombe genre, but not comics, (though she likes most movies based on comics) really liked it even though I knew what was prpbably going to happen, just not how exactly it would. it seemed to drag on though, could have used more action alfter he woke up in the hospital.

really liked the scene with the dad and the sniper rifle, made me care more about the guy and his son than the comic did.

[ScottEwen]

Okay, we don't need two Walking Dead TV show threads. Merged!!

[dmario]

thanks Scott!