Since the gun ban has been reversed...

[Jaguar]

...the original magic has faded and needs replaced by something fresh.  that is how i feel about zombies. 

That's kind of ironic considering that you're talking about zombies.

Welcome to the world of Hipsterdom! 

[slappy]

...the original magic has faded and needs replaced by something fresh.  that is how i feel about zombies. 

That's kind of ironic considering that you're talking about zombies.

Welcome to the world of Hipsterdom! 

My zombie-themed food truck serves the freshest cupcakes.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Sometimes I wish you'd have some random celebrity survivor show up. It would be like "Oh my god, is that the singer from My Chemical Romance? Dude, how did you survive?"

i remember reading in one of the letters columns on the book that there are "celebrity" zombies strewn through the book, i haven't noticed one though

[Relaxer]

Well that would be fun too. Imagine seeing Zombie Steve Carrell being followed by a bunch of fat geeky zombies holding scripts.

[sweetcell]

[Vas Deferens]

well back to the Walking Dead, it's my current obsession. I didn't know this turned into a zombie thread until nkotb told me (after I mentioned the show to him). Show is indeed brilliant!  Maybe they will end up in Rockville in sweetcell's backyard by the end of the series?

[nkotb]

Did you see Zombieland?  Pretty blah movie (funnier than I expected...but that wasn't saying much), but that celebrity thing comes into play big time.

Well that would be fun too. Imagine seeing Zombie Steve Carrell being followed by a bunch of fat geeky zombies holding scripts.

[Relaxer]

Yeah, that was a pretty good manifestation of my thoughts on that. "I never was very good at practical jokes"

[HoyaSaxa03]

wowza on last night's episode, the last 5 minutes was pretty great 

Vas Deferens -- i don't want to spoil it for other people, but assuming they follow the books even remotely, you can pretty easily find out where the group will head by looking online for a plot summary ... your guess of rockville isn't very far off ...

http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_Wiki

[Vas Deferens]

Hoya...I wasn't guessing...I didn't read the books but read the plot summary... 

Yep, last night was off the hook...do people turn into zombies once they die? I kept yelling to the TV, "GET AWAY FROM HER SOON!!!"  LOVE THE GORE!

[nkotb]

Yeah, that was a pretty intense few minutes.  My wife has learned to dread the post-commercial warning of violent content.  The look on her face is always priceless. 

Joe's question will be interesting: I wonder how they'll present people turning.  I mean, the book goes for the classic "everyone that dies comes back," but it's not so integral to the plot that they couldn't change it up.  I think the viral nature of some more recent zombie movies makes it more plausible to a wider audience, but who knows?

Hoya...I wasn't guessing...I didn't read the books but read the plot summary... 

Yep, last night was off the hook...do people turn into zombies once they die? I kept yelling to the TV, "GET AWAY FROM HER SOON!!!"  LOVE THE GORE!

[Relaxer]

Hoya...I wasn't guessing...I didn't read the books but read the plot summary... 

Yep, last night was off the hook...do people turn into zombies once they die? I kept yelling to the TV, "GET AWAY FROM HER SOON!!!" 

Same here, except I was yelling "PERHAPS YOU SHOULD MAKE YOUR ESCAPE IN THE NEAR FUTURE!"

LOVE THE GORE!

And the Gore loves you too baby.

[Relaxer]

I must say that I was a little let down by this most recent episode, probably the first one that didn't really blow me away. Maybe it's the inevitable let-down once the initial wave of excitement has passed, though I would've gotten morning sickness from the old-lady-calms-down-gang-bangers-who-are-really-kind-caring-lovers-of-worthless-old-people.

[BookerT]

i'm all caught up with this show now. i'm not a zombie person, all i really know about zombies i learned in this thread (which i guess is a fucking lot, actually) but i am really enjoying it. because it takes place in atlanta i'm always like, 'hey, there's zombie bradford cox!' but seriously, a lot of those zombies look like bradford cox. also the show reminds me a lot of 'lost,' but maybe that's just because that's the only other show i've watched in the last few years.

i guess if i was to ask one 'newb' question it would be - are they going to explain why everyone became zombies? like, i saw that one fresh prince movie where he fought the zombies and they had the flashback/tv anchor person explanation. i guess it doesn't really matter, just curious. also about the whole 'who becomes a zombie?' question. maybe it's only people who die from the fever become zombies? and people who get chomped to death just die? i dunno. anyway, good show!

[nkotb]

I guess they'll cover some of it (I'm a bit behind on the comic, so I'm not sure what they've done in the last 16 issues or so: Translation: DON"T TELL ME!!!).  There's kind of two schools of zombie theory on it:

1) Anyone that dies comes back regardless of how they died.

2) It's viral, so only those bitten by zombies come back as zombies.

They definitely make that call in the comics, although it remains to be seen if they go the same route on the show.  That's what I meant about the "viral cause" being a little more swallowable by the general public; it makes things a little more plausible, rather than some spiritual/otherwordly "holy shit, everyone is returning to eat your face off" answer.

i guess if i was to ask one 'newb' question it would be - are they going to explain why everyone became zombies? like, i saw that one fresh prince movie where he fought the zombies and they had the flashback/tv anchor person explanation. i guess it doesn't really matter, just curious. also about the whole 'who becomes a zombie?' question. maybe it's only people who die from the fever become zombies? and people who get chomped to death just die? i dunno. anyway, good show!