Zombie Christmas Carol is where I draw a line in the sand

Quiefenburger: The Walking Dead comics are pretty damn entertaining.

Too bad the TV show sucks donkey balls. This has to be the lamest dumbest bunch of farking red necks ever portrayed on TeeVee.

Great, now more people will start whining that the TV show isn't like the comics.

Slaves2Darkness: Quiefenburger: The Walking Dead comics are pretty damn entertaining.

Too bad the TV show sucks donkey balls. This has to be the lamest dumbest bunch of farking red necks ever portrayed on TeeVee.

I like the TV series, for the most part. But I haven't read the comics, so I can't compare them.

I've never been a big fan of Zombies so I don't understand this fascination with them. They're not funny* and they're not scary.

*Exception: Shaun of the Dead

Slaves2Darkness: Quiefenburger: The Walking Dead comics are pretty damn entertaining.

Too bad the TV show sucks donkey balls. This has to be the lamest dumbest bunch of farking red necks ever portrayed on TeeVee.

CarnySaur: Great, now more people will start whining that the TV show isn't like the comics.

it really isnt that "the comic is better than the show". that much should be a given.

it is that as good as the comic is, the show could be so much better.

and they keep farking it up.

take Dexter, for example. As good as the original novels are (barring maybe one), the show really is better. Hell, Dexter Season 4 is better than ANYTHING in the novels.

with walking dead we take 6 episodes to search for a missing girl, waste tons of time accomplishing nothing just to reveal she was dead all along. I'm sorry, but that right there sucked balls. changing the barn scene sucked balls. the CDC sucked balls. Lori being a wishy washy idiot sucks balls. daryl riding around on a farking chopper after the zombie apocalypse is just farking stupid. hell, them all traveling in different cars is farking stupid. having shane fark andrea was just farking stupid. good lord, as much as i keep trying to love the show, i just keep getting disappoint.

Happy Hours: brigid_fitch: /Get to the prison, dammit! Bring in Michonne! She's GOT to be the only reason they're keeping do-nothing T-Dog around!

I swear I'm sick of the comic fans talking about this character. She must be the most amazing thing in the world.

I guess it's a good thing I never read the comics because you all are pathetic and obviously can't enjoy the show for what it is. Maybe after it's all over I'll sit down and read them, but I doubt it.

she is. she staples a guy's balls to a board.

/he shouldn't have raped her

Slaves2Darkness: Too bad the TV show sucks donkey balls. This has to be the lamest dumbest bunch of farking red necks ever portrayed on TeeVee.

I have to agree. I gave up about three or four episodes into season two. These people are too dumb to live, and I just can't watch a show populated with these morons. When confronted with a smart option and a dumb option they'll find a third even dumber option every farking time. Considering how amazing the first couple episodes of season one were, this is extremely disappointing.

Slaves2Darkness: Quiefenburger: The Walking Dead comics are pretty damn entertaining.

Too bad the TV show sucks donkey balls. This has to be the lamest dumbest bunch of farking red necks ever portrayed on TeeVee.

The 2nd season really fell flat (or the first half has at least).

Whoever thought a zombie apocalypse is best portrayed by people choking through horrible accents while crying about their personal problems on a farm with virtually no zombies deserves to be shot (in the head, double tap).

They have all the ingredients for a great show but I think the lead characters need to get killed off. Daryl can go off on his own and spend the rest of the season killing stuff and generally doing what rednecks do in the absence of a strict police state. Shane would probably do about that but with more crazy. The rest would die off one by one as they make progressively poor decisions.

I picked up the first four graphic novels and just couldn't get into them. The characters were just too moronic.
Then I watched the TV series and realized that the comic characters were friggin' geniuses by comparison.

Bleh to both. I enjoyed Dead World much more.

frepnog: CarnySaur: Great, now more people will start whining that the TV show isn't like the comics.

it really isnt that "the comic is better than the show". that much should be a given.

it is that as good as the comic is, the show could be so much better.

and they keep farking it up.

take Dexter, for example. As good as the original novels are (barring maybe one), the show really is better. Hell, Dexter Season 4 is better than ANYTHING in the novels.



Whoa, there, big fella. I'm going to have to ask you to reconsider your definition of "good." Those novels, except for perhaps the first 200 pages of the very first one, hit varying levels of suck, with it maxing out with Dexter in the Dark (where we're told an ancient god is responsible for serial killers). The best thing that happened to the show Dexter was that they got as far away as possible from the plot of the book and started over again with just the conceit and the characters.

brigid_fitch: frepnog: we take 6 episodes to search for a missing girl, waste tons of time accomplishing nothing just to reveal she was dead all along.

That pissed me off so much. Not that she was dead--I more than half expected that. No, what bugged the hell out of me is that they've been telling Herschel & everyone on the farm that they're looking for an 8-yo blonde girl and NOBODY BOTHERS TO TELL THEM THEY FISHED ONE OUT OF THE SWAMP A FEW DAYS AGO. I give up on that show. As much as I liked the comics, as much as I liked most of the 1st season, as much as I like a good zombie drama in general, this show sucks.

That did not bother me so much as the farm people were trying to keep a secret. What pissed me off about that is that nobody went "Hey they have a barn full of walkers over there you think Sophia might be in the dam barn.", alternatively they could have gone a whole lot darker with Herschels group deliberately feeding Sophia to the barn walkers in order to keep them "alive".

Thus far season two has been SEVEN HOURS of:

People standing around on the side of the road
People wandering through the woods
People hanging up laundry

Seven hours was enough time to tell the entirety of Angels in America. You could have watched Lawrence of Arabia TWICE in that amount of time.

It was bad enough the first season was nothing but rehashing old zombie movie plots.

But this is embarrassing. It's obvious the budget was cut for the second season down to about what an average teenager has when shooting super-8 movies in their back yard.

brigid_fitch:

It's no longer The Walking Dead, it's The Boring Living. "Hey everyone, there are zombies in the barn! Now let's spend the next 44 minutes talking about how dramatic our day-to-day lives are." The first 4 episodes of Season 1 were good (the CDC story arc was just stupid)

The CDC was a necessary evil of exposition. Without the CDC we don't don't know the full scale of the necropocalypse. It might only be Atlanta and Six Toe County GA or wherever Rick and Shane were from. The whole "last whisper" gimmick is prolly a setup for later too.

brigid_fitch: frepnog: we take 6 episodes to search for a missing girl, waste tons of time accomplishing nothing just to reveal she was dead all along.


No, what bugged the hell out of me is that they've been telling Herschel & everyone on the farm that they're looking for an 8-yo blonde girl and NOBODY BOTHERS TO TELL THEM THEY FISHED ONE OUT OF THE SWAMP A FEW DAYS AGO.

That was talked about on the "Talking Dead" follow up show. The round ups were done exclusively by poor dearly departed delicious Otis. Between grabbing up the girl, shooting the boy, going scavenging for supplies to save the boy and getting zom nom nommed nobody got around to telling HIM that they were looking for the girl.


After giving it some thought Daryll riding around with loud pipes is not that dumb. Since the zombies will be able to hear you from a mile away it is unlikely that you will stumble across a herd like Rick did on horseback. Stay the fark out of closed in places and you will have no trouble avoiding large groups of them.

Not to mention


Paperback Nonfiction

#3 THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, by Max Brooks


and


PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION

#18 WORLD WAR Z, by Max Brooks

Yikes. My boyfriend and I seem to be the only people who enjoy both the comics and the show.

You fanboys are pathetic.