The Walking Dead ***With Comic Spoilers***

[Buck]

Sunday Nights at 9pm/8pm (Central) on AMC.

Note from Gonzo:

Spoiler Tag all comic book references please. Anything from episodes that have already aired is fine.

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Absolutely. Once the world ended, I'd fight tooth and nail for a can of Dinki-Di.

YES! I made the same reference when I saw that can!

[Fishpicker]

S3E1 was pretty cool but Michonne's sword is over the top.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Fishpicker

S3E1 was pretty cool but Michonne's sword is over the top.

Remember that the base material is a comic book.

I'll be curious to see how much back story they provide for Michonne as it goes on.

[Aries Walker]

For two seasons, I have been shouting at these dolts to get a few medieval-level pieces of equipment that would have drastically improved their chances of surviving hand-to-hand zombie combat. In one episode, they've now picked up two of them.

A sword, probably pilfered from some reenactor or collector's house: Check.
A shield, either made from farm bits or scavenged from a police station: Check.
A spear, which could be as simple as a Bowie knife duct-taped to a flagpole: Still waiting.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

For two seasons, I have been shouting at these dolts to get a few medieval-level pieces of equipment that would have drastically improved their chances of surviving hand-to-hand zombie combat. In one episode, they've now picked up two of them.

A sword, probably pilfered from some reenactor or collector's house: Check.
A shield, either made from farm bits or scavenged from a police station: Check.
A spear, which could be as simple as a Bowie knife duct-taped to a flagpole: Still waiting.

I'll be curious to see what they make "the Lobo" from World War Z look like when the movie comes out. If you aren't familiar: the zombie killing weapon of choice for them was derived from the standard issue entrenchment tool that they modified by sharpening it. They then start producing them en masse and calling them affectionately "the Lobo" (short for lobotomizer).

Here's a guy's interpretation:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3...owkao1_500.jpg

[Aries Walker]

Works for me.

Gerber actually makes an Apocalypse Kit, a collection of a half dozen or so sharpened implements which they cross-promoted on the show (Dale, I think, finds one in Season 1, in a car deserted on the highway). I've also seen a Zombie-Apocalypse-Ready knife, in which the pommel unscrews so the knife can be mounted on a threaded broom handle and, voila, it's a polearm. I don't remember if Gerber or someone else makes that, though.

Zombies are not master tacticians. Even moderately trained humans, with a little preparation, should be able to take out at least 10 to 1.

I'm putting way too much thought into this.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

I'm putting way too much thought into this.

It's fun, so **** it.


I have already designed a zombie round-up system in which very few bullets are needed.


The prison on WD is perfect for taking them out one-by-one with no risk.


They need to save their bullets for the still-living.

[Aries Walker]

The biggest obstacle, I think, would be the natural human reluctance to commit such a gory death on something that still looks mostly human. The protagonists of the show seem to have gotten way past that by now.

Well, and maybe the development of upper body strength, and finding untainted sources of protein to fuel all of the workouts you'll have to do. Swinging a baseball bat with force nonstop for hours is tiring as hell.

[beach tribe]

I don't why they just didn't get them close to the fence and stick their heads instead of wasting all of those bullets

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

A spear, which could be as simple as a Bowie knife duct-taped to a flagpole: Still waiting.

Well, T-Dogg has that iron fireplace poker. Does that count?

[Huffmeister]

Originally Posted by lcarus

The same thing happened to me, and I had just re-added it and made it the #1 priority. Frickin Directv. A couple of my shows aren't recording, and my brother's wife watches General Hospital and Vampire Diaries and they haven't been recording either. Something is messed up. I deleted everything and re-added them all. Still nothing is recording.

That's crazy, mine was doing the same thing (I also have DirecTV). It was set to record, showed the R next to it in the guide. Then I tried to start watching it at around 9:45, and it wasn't recording. I was ticked, but just set it to record the 11pm showing, and I'd watch it Monday night. Nope, that one didn't record either. So I set it again for the next recording, which was at 9pm last night. That one recorded, and I finally watched it this morning. I hope it doesn't pull this crap again tomorrow night.

[RaiderH8r]

They need a flamethrower and a Molotov cocktail or two.

[jiveturkey]

I too am having weird issues with DTV not recording. I've started pulling shows off of on-demand.

[Bump]

that bitch is gonna do a LOT of complaining in tomorrow's episode.

[lcarus]

Yeah my Directv (or I guess I should say my brother's Directv) still isn't recording shit. I'd call customer support but I don't wanna be on the phone on hold for 2 hours like the other times I've had to deal with them.

My brother re-upped on a 2 year contract with them on the basis that we'd get the Sunday Ticket free and a new box. Well we weren't getting the Ticket on Sunday. I'm not even gonna get into what he had to go through with them just to get Sunday Ticket activated. It was unbelievable.