1x01 - Days Gone Bye (Page 2 of 4)

Well i loved the first episode Very well made, but one thing that kind of annoyed me was when he got shot the second time in the begining. Seriously if you are a cop dont you wait to turn your back against the suspects until your sure you have got everyone of them?

Im not really sure how you can do a zombie apocalypse in a way that haven't already been done. But who gets tierd of zombies? Especially a tv show with zombies!

It does, but judging from the comics lack of gas doesn't seem to be a HUGE problem for the main characters. I mean, it hasn't been years since the apocalypse and there aren't that many survivors. An old camper with bad mpg is an important part of the comic series and it doesn't bother them that it needs to be refuelled often.

They were chasing a two-door vehicle so a third shooter wouldn't seem likely to me as well. Or that so many people would survive a crash in an old car with no modern safety features.

Jericho with Zombies ftw

I think you are going to have to publicly apologize for your lack of faith in a few episodes BB

taking a police car has imo also 2 effects. he is a cop. he of course takes a cop car. and amerikans trust their cops, so when there are survivors, they know who they are dealing with.

now when to think about it, same here.

So please tell me, and I'm asking without any sarcasm or anything, why bad/average writing is:

- Shooting your loved one to put him/her out of their misery.
- Killing a little girl.
- A scene of a couple that commited suicide with a sign out of blood (?) "God forgive us".
- Horrific body bags in the courtyard of the hospital.
- The night scene with the car alarm.
- The bicycle half-girl scene.
- The city scene with killing and eating a horse.

Also please remeber, that this comic is now quite old and when it was published, these "nothing new ideas" were new. Yes yes "then they should think of something new". But so what that it's "nothing new"? The world is done on a cinematic level, a lot of movies could say "sheit, I wish I was so perfectly done" because of the level of details and zombie designs. Last but not least, again, this show is not about killing zombies. It's about us, people, is such a gruesome situtation.

But I'll probably won't convice you anyways. All due respect, but I see your attitude towards this show.

After much hype, anticipation, and promotion, AMC's The Walking Dead premiered last night, semi-appropriately on Halloween. It's not uncommon for shows with so much marketing behind them to disappoint. And given that The Walking Dead is an adaptation of a comic book much beloved by an incredibly discerning fan base, and there's plenty of reason to expect reviews summed up thusly: "The book was better."

Which is why I'm proud to say that The Walking Dead exceeded every expectation, even for those who are well ahead of the show's story because they've read what happens on the printed page. Taking a comic and converting it for the big screen is no small task, and producer Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) does a fine job retaining the comic's strengths and reinforcing its weaknesses.

My biggest beef with the comics is the rapid pace at which things happen (my second-biggest beef would be the dialogue). But that's a problem with the medium; you can't waste valuable panels taking the time to bridge things together. Darabont has successfully filled those gaps, intensifying the emotion and tension necessary to pull off The Walking Dead as a horror series. Admit it, you were peeking through your fingers at some parts. What that means, though, is a slower series than one might expect given the breakneck speed of the comics.

But the deliberate pace of The Walking Dead is actually an asset, and its stretched-out scenes are carefully planned so that, like those who are running in fear from the undead, all our available senses are being taxed. The Walking Dead uses sound better than any show I've seen heard recently, particularly in its eerie lack of noise. As Rick (a very able Andrew Lincoln) headed down the stairs toward the hospital exit and tiptoed among the dead, the only sound cues we heard were the desperate flicking and fizzling of matches, the hum of cicadas, and Bear McCreary's haunting score. It works. And it works well. Surround Sound and high-definition are a must.

The pace also reiterates what this story is about: how the human psyche copes with the destruction of all things we hold dear. The Walking Dead isn't about zombies; it's about the people who are surviving among them and the lengths those people will go to in order to survive. It's an honest-to-goodness character study, and that will be much more evident when we get to Episode 2.

We knew The Walking Dead would deviate from the comic, and for purists that can spell disaster. The show's sidesteps aren't yet drastic (we've only seen one episode, after all)—but for the television audience, so far they've only served the story better. One particular scene that was added—in which Morgan (Lennie James) took to the second story of his hideout with a sniper rifle and couldn't quite pull the trigger on his zombie wife—may have been the most difficult (and therefore awesome) scene to watch. The chatter between Shane and Rick at the beginning was also another addition that was necessary for television conversion, but it didn't feel tacked on. The trick to successfully turning a comic into a show is a matter of picking your fights, and Darabont has chosen wisely.

And oh the gore! I love me some splattered guts and flying brain matter, and The Walking Dead looks like a Megadeth album cover come to life. How many series do you know that make their first kill a little girl holding a teddy bear? Sure, she was a zombie, but still. And the gore isn't for shock value; it's necessary to the story and the way in which it's handled and shown on-screen is with much care. A special shout-out to the makeup and effects people is in order.

The Walking Dead has been described as a George Romero movie that doesn't end, and given the fact that the 90-minute first installment of the series encapsulated only about an issue and a half (the comic is currently somewhere in the high 70s or early 80s in number of issues), this series could go on for quite some time. I'll be watching. Next week: my boy Glenn!

uhh. it's hollywood. there things explode and have sound in space, etc...

Btw these USA police cars are modified, they comes with heavy duty suspensions, protected engine compartment, extra batteries etc. - it's far from stock sedan

Or the road was blocked.

You can see that he easy can drive past these two cars And another thing - why he doesn't take fuel from other cars but like a princess wants to walk to the gas station when zombies lurks around?

Yes, I have seen very many cars - these filters are no problem to take fuel, you always can easy penetrate a gas tank, specially in modern cars where gas tanks are made from plastic Plus many USA cars doesn't have filters and blockage at all - they are simple as brick