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[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by scotty2hotty

Off topic ... but I've always wondered why they didn't head for the coast.

Find a nice yacht, load it up with lots of extra fuel, canned food, fishing gear. Head for a small island and live out your lives.

Easy peasy.

I love the show but at least once an episode, several times during the episodes where they are travelling "GO NORTH!!!" Go where the zombies will freeze in a subzero environment.

I'll be held up in my house while their flesh hardens at -20C

[Daradon]

Well to be fair, the zombies are less believable with each passing day. There's no way they'd still be animated after a year. Where are they getting their sustenance/energy from? And if they are rotting and falling apart how can they still move? Lastly how do their jaws still have strength to bite, if their heads explode like overripe melons from a hit?

Considering all those inconsistencies they'd probably handle ocean water and sub zero just fine.

[Superflyer]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Well to be fair, the zombies are less believable with each passing day. There's no way they'd still be animated after a year. Where are they getting their sustenance/energy from? And if they are rotting and falling apart how can they still move? Lastly how do their jaws still have strength to bite, if their heads explode like overripe melons from a hit?

Considering all those inconsistencies they'd probably handle ocean water and sub zero just fine.

I look at this as everyone has the virus that causes the walkers so you have constant supply of people dying and making new walkers. Whether it be from zombie attack or just heart attacks or what have you.

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I can see Rick or Michonne drawing the Woodbury crew over to Morgan's area and letting him pick them off sniper-style and with grenades and some of those booby traps.

Originally Posted by fotze

Was I the only one waiting for a zombie to poke an arm under that cargo door, maybe zombie grab her tittie a little?

Heh, booby traps...

[3 Justin 3]

I'm not the biggest Walking Dead fan as I find a lot of problems with the show, but last nights episode was weak as hell.

The actors aren't good enough for the face-to-face scene to work, some of you mentioned tension, but to me there was none at all. Andrew Lincoln has gotten better as an actor, but he is still amateur hour a lot of the time.

I don't mind slow television, but the actors aren't good enough in TWD to pull off really slow episodes. The scenes in the prison and at the end were good however.

Breaking Bad is a much much slower show, but the actors and writing are simply better and can pull it off.

[Daradon]

^^^ I'm a huge Breaking Bad fan, and like it even more than this show, but there's no way it's slower. Just think of how much time the zombie fighting crew spent looking for a lost girl last season. Half of a season!

Without spoiling anything for people here who don't watch BB, think of how much Walt and Jesse have gone through in basically one to one and a half years (and I guess 4 seasons, since we have 3 full ones and 2 half ones so far.) They've generally got a big reveal every 2-4 episodes in that show.

As for the acting here, I guess I'm just not as critical. Yeah it's a little weak sometimes, but I think it's usually pretty solid. Better than most network TV anyway.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by Superflyer

I look at this as everyone has the virus that causes the walkers so you have constant supply of people dying and making new walkers. Whether it be from zombie attack or just heart attacks or what have you.

Yeah, but, if nearly everyone dropped in the first few weeks (which was hinted by how Rick saw the world when he first woke up) there couldn't really be a constant supply still coming after a year. I mean there was even only one guy left at the CDC.

Plus, there have been many times they have come across what seems to be or should be a fully isolated group of zombies. No new ones could have been added.

Not here to bust on the premise, cause I'm enjoying the show, and suspending my belief as much as I can, I was just commenting on the other 'what if' zombie related survival questions. Sure they make sense, and there's probably even more of them than that, but ultimately it's a fools errand to say, 'well the characters should just do this,' because the whole thing is way past making sense right now.

Not that I was ripping on those posters either, just adding my observation. Ocean vessels and northern climes do make for a reprieve, logically. But ultimately it's up to the writers, cause the zombies have stopped existing logically and are running on TV magic. It all depends on what the writers want to do. Perhaps there are groups that have done this already and that's coming up in future season. Maybe there's a research station in Nunavut that's close to a cure!

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I believe it is because you have to pay for HBO, amc is part of basic packages down south.\, mind you having grown up watching borderline porn on the BBC after 11pm (uncomfortable if you are watching with your folks) I have never understood why the yanks are so ##### about TV.

You know what I found weird? When I was in Seoul, Piranhas 3D was playing on some basic movie channels. But in Korea, apparently frontal nudity was totally fine, but they blurred out all the gory blood scenes.

But really I when you think about it, that kinda makes more sense lol

/OT

[Erick Estrada]

Not to be too critical but the last couple of episodes felt like filler.

[HELPNEEDED]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Not to be too critical but the last couple of episodes felt like filler.

however slow and perhaps boring the last episode was most definatley not a filler. It was a huge build up to the last 3.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Not to be too critical but the last couple of episodes felt like filler.

If the episode last week was just filler then I hope the entire series is filler. That was the best episode of the seasons and maybe the series.

[JerzeeGirl]

Originally Posted by scotty2hotty

Off topic ... but I've always wondered why they didn't head for the coast.

Find a nice yacht, load it up with lots of extra fuel, canned food, fishing gear. Head for a small island and live out your lives.

Easy peasy.

Can't quite remember the episode but it was while Michonne was originally with Andrea in Woodbury and that was pretty much her plan - go find an island off the coast they could live on in relative safety.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by ken0042

I guess I have to wonder why it is better to risk the all out war and loss of life than it is to pack up and move out. Between season 2 & 3 they spent ~ 6 months on the road, and no loss of life within the group. It wasn't until they got to the prison that they lost T-Dog and Lori; and 1/8 of Hershel.

They are all great zombie killers now. And you would think there would be other defendable places around. Heck- where is the next closest prison?

I think the point they're trying to make is that no matter where you go, there will inevitably be conflict. In a dog-eat-dog world, everyone will want what you have. Come to think of it, I think Morgan even said something along those lines, didn't he? Even if they went to sea, I'm sure eventually they'd get involved in some kind of pirate-y situation.

Also, I'm sure living on the run is not really fun either. The fact that they all survived on the run was merely a plot device heh.

Hunkering down somewhere really should be everyone's ultimate goal in a disaster situation.

[Wormius]

An ocean setting would be pretty cool. I wouldn't say that it jumped the shark if that ever happened. Marine life response to the virus as well as the constant threat of bloated walkers washing up on shore would be an interesting situation. I don't think the coast would be any safer, unless of course you are on a boat that can weather hurricanes, storms, tsunamis, etc. I am sure there are ways that the writers could make it hazardous.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

If the episode last week was just filler then I hope the entire series is filler. That was the best episode of the seasons and maybe the series.

Really? It left out nearly the entire cast for a run into town where inexplicably they bring back a distant character from the first season only to once again leave him behind at the end of the episode. Maybe the episode itself was okay but it really served little purpose outside of Carl and Michonne having a bonding moment.

[Radio]

It's a show with zombies in it...last time I heard they were just....fantasy. So really whoever is writing a story with them in it can make up all the stuff they want and you just have to go with it.

Milton said they do starve...but very slowly. Some...lots seem to go into some sort of dormant/hibernation state and wait for prey to come by. Look at the cafe scene, when Michonne looks in the window they are all not moving, they look like they are dead. I've never been to Atlanta but they do get cold weather in the winter don't they? When the cold weather passes they should thaw out no? Freezing won't kill them. They can eat other things besides people...you don't see a lot of animals around.

All I am getting at is it's a show with some fantasy elements and you need to suspend logical thinking...

[Radio]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Really? It left out nearly the entire cast for a run into town where inexplicably they bring back a distant character from the first season only to once again leave him behind at the end of the episode. Maybe the episode itself was okay but it really served little purpose outside of Carl and Michonne having a bonding moment.

They went back to Rick's hometown, to the police station he worked at to get guns for the upcoming battle. When they found all the guns looted he went to places he knew had guns and that's when they ran into Morgan. Morgan never left. They didn't leave him behind...refused to go.

For me I was wondering what ever happened to Morgan, now I know.

It was a great episode.

[Mike Vernon]

I would think that Fuel (gasoline, diesel etc) would be the biggest issue for these people in the coming months/years. Yes there would be an abundance of refined fuel at first but it would degrade quickly into an unusable liquid.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Mike Vernon

I would think that Fuel (gasoline, diesel etc) would be the biggest issue for these people in the coming months/years. Yes there would be an abundance of refined fuel at first but it would degrade quickly into an unusable liquid.

Yes, Mad Max vs. The Walking Dead. I'd watch that.

[Bane]

I wish they had kept T-Dog around until Merle joined the prison folk. That would have made for a sweet reunion scene.