AMC's The Walking Dead Season 1 Discussion & Spoilers

[Reverend]

^As I recall a lot of the zombie dumping came about after the panic hit India and there were literally MILLIONS of people crowding the coastal docks trying to get the hell out of the "white zone." Imagine how many people you can cram onto just one of those huge bulk freighters if you packed them it tight. In those kind of cramped conditions all it would take is for one person to be able to hide a bite and suddenly the masses of ocean ghouls isn't so surprising.

 

[Silvercrest]

Male announcer: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Male announcer: The red zone has ALWAYS been for loading and unloading of zombies only.

Female announcer: Don't tell me which zone is for stopping and which zone is for loading!!

Male announcer: Listen, Betty. Don't start with your white zone shit again.

 

[SicOne]

^ Female announcer:I know what you're really saying. You want me to get an abortion!

Male announcer:It's the only sensible alternative...

 

[JD]

^What is that from?

 

[Silvercrest]

The movie "Airplane!". It was the "white zone" reference that started me off.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Has anyone ever done a Zombies-on-an-Airplane movie?

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Sorta... The recent "Resident Evil" CGI movie had an infected guy zombifying pretty much the whole plane before it crashed into the airport terminal, whereupon the fun (and the movie) properly got going.

Mark

 

[Silvercrest]

Yes! There was the low-budget "Flight of the Living Dead" a couple years ago. And of course, the "B-17" sequence from "Heavy Metal."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Has anyone ever done a Zombies-on-an-Airplane movie?

There was a Clive Barker zombie tale, I think it was called Night of the Living Dead: London, where that happened. A woman is bitten by a zombie and manages to board a plane, where she turns and infects all the passengers and crew. The plane lands - don't ask me how - and the zombies spill out and wreak havoc throughout London.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

"Flight of the Living Dead"

That's worth watching for the name alone!

 

[Aragorn]

Here's the Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane trailer (I guess they needed a longer title):

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuY1LB8124c[/yt]

What other titles can we come up with for a "zombies on a plane" movie?

Dead Air
Dead Eye Flight
Deadhead

 

[JD]

The movie "Airplane!". It was the "white zone" reference that started me off.

Crap, I can't believe I didn't recognize the reference. I guess I need to watch it again. I've already seen it 3 or 4 times and I love it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"What is it, Sheriff Grimes? What's going on?"

"I'm not sure...I haven't seen anything like this since the Black-Eyed Peas concert. What did we have for dinner at the CDC?"

"Well Dr. Jenner said we could have steak or fish."

"Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna."

 

[RJDiogenes]

Here's the Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane trailer (I guess they needed a longer title):



What other titles can we come up with for a "zombies on a plane" movie?

Dead Air
Dead Eye Flight
Deadhead

Motherfuckin Zombies On A Plane.

 

[PsychoPere]

The first (minor) details about the special features on the season one release are out. It's the usual suspects: "making of" feature; webisodes; audio commentaries; behind-the-scenes footage. As mentioned previously, it'll hit retail shelves on March 8th.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Are the webisodes the motion comic, I wonder, or extra live-action scenes?

 

[Rowan Sjet]

What other titles can we come up with for a "zombies on a plane" movie?

Dead Air
Dead Eye Flight
Deadhead

While not "on a plane" specifically, Dead Air is already taken by other Zombie Media:

 

[the G-man]

I know that this show really gets to me because every Sunday night, after watching it, I have nightmares about the zombie apocalypse.

Anybody else?

Yep.

 

[the G-man]

Maybe the success of TWD will inspire more shows written for grownups? But that requires that TV producers realize that what's making this show successful is that it doesn't insult the audience's intelligence, instead of everyone suddenly liking zombies.

There might be some producers who think like that, but I'd be shocked if many network execs have that much insight.

Knowing network, the lesson won't be "people like intelligent drama." It will be "people like exploding brains."

[How long did it take the caravan to reach the CDC? One day? Granted that it took a while to repair Dale's hose, I can forgive the timing even though it's in the same city. But as far as I can tell, they left the morning after the attack... and that was the morning after the fish fry. And they told Jenner they hadn't had any food for two or three days? What?

Not to mention that Rick, et al, ran back to the camp from the city in less than a day after Merle stole the van.

Producer Gale Anne Hurd says that the writing staff was not fired. In addition, she expects the series to return in October 2011 and that Darabont & Kirkman will start mapping out the second season early next year.

I wonder what they're going to do about Carl. With such a long hiatus they'll have the same problem as Walt in Lost.

Yep. And that's another reason why the writers were smart to establish early on that the TV series won't slavishly follow the comic book. Comic books have the luxury of child "actors" who don't age over several years. Live action movies and television don't. Carl alone is a reason why the TV show was going to have to deviate from the comic book plotlines.

Bombs don't work.

Why not? Do bombs somehow not damage the brains of the things they're dropped on anymore?

Yeah, if a baseball bat to the skull causes enough brain damage to take out a zombie (which we've seen), I would think the percussive force of an explosion would too.

It's unlikely that they could walk across the ocean floor. It's muddy and there are all kinds of ravines and they'd be buffeted by the currents and so forth; and they wouldn't be able to see, so they'd need some magical sense of direction. Maybe they drift like seaweed until they hit land.

That actually makes the most sense. The bodies don't walk across the ocean, they drift.

Here's a story about TWD plot holes. What bugs you about this show? How would you handle a zombie outbreak better than these guys have?

In some ways, Rick is like Jack on LOST. He's the "hero," the group tends to look up to him, but damn if he doesn't fuck things up more often than not.