It's a good show, but one of my major gripes is that Rick didn't seem all that curious about what caused the zombie outbreak. He just went with it. And to a lesser degree, no one is speculating on what happened.
"The Walking Dead" best new series of the season?
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Other opinions may differ, but I'd encourage you guys and gals to read the graphic novels. As a longtime reader of "The Walking Dead", the TV show departs enough from the comics to represent something new (the CDC visit alone is The Path Not Taken from the comics...interesting times ahead), but I am glad to have read the comics in order to have a good fix on the characters. There have been enough "Whoa, THAT took me by surprise" moments to have made the watching of this TV mini-series worthwhile and original. Darabont has taken liberties with the source material...but thus far I can't say he's done it wrong. Show is amazingly better than I thought it would be; I thought the TV execs would water it down to unrecognizable.
Rick and the others ARE using their brains (and HE'S been on the go since he woke up in the hospital!). No one is speculating very much on what happened and how this all came about because they're too busy just trying to get through their days and find food, fuel, firearms and supplies, all without being eaten alive. When you're thinking about what you'd need to survive the zombie apocalypse and worried about the people at the camp, vulnerable while you're off with the majority of the guns, your priorities would naturally shift from introspection about why this happened to vigilance over your immediate situation.
Now, that's not to say that as they drift off to sleep they're not thinking about how they got into this situation, but I would imagine their thoughts are more about missing (or eaten...) family members and friends and what the next day will bring or what needs to be accomplished rather than how this all came about and/or how to stop it aside from shooting six billion Zs in the head, which, quite frankly, ain't gonna happen.
Someone safe in their bunker, with ample food/water/sleep and other basic needs handily dealt with, might find the time and mental energy to speculate over possible causes and solutions to the Z situation but when every moment's a challenge to keep yourself and a vulnerable group alive and uneaten, there's not much time for genuflecting over the why of it.
So the lack of exposition over the cause is actually quite refreshing and fairly realistic...and sets the scene for what they're sure to find in the CDC.
Stay tuned!
I have not read the comic books, it should be interesting to see this final cliffhanger episode before next year's season 2.
No one is in survival mode non-stop. There's more than enough down time wonder a bit about what happened or make the occasional brief exchange with one another, even if the whole discussion is less than 30 seconds.
I just started a plot-hole discussion in the sf/f thread to ask such pertinent questions as why the gang was living in tents so close to a heavily populated area, why they haven't raided sporting goods stores for all the crossbows they can find, and how Rick manages to keep finding his hat. 
I just started a plot-hole discussion in the sf/f thread to ask such pertinent questions as why the gang was living in tents so close to a heavily populated area, why they haven't raided sporting goods stores for all the crossbows they can find, and how Rick manages to keep finding his hat.
I enjoyed the link to the "12 Plot Holes"!
They certainly had some down-time while relaxing over wine in the CDC bunker!
A good thing about the characters discussing WTF happened out there to possibly cause the zombiepocalypse would be that the director is in no way bound to accept the characters' version of the origin and development of the plague...in fact, they could be operating under a completely false assortment of assumptions that the writers can use to get the characters into interesting situations.
Me & My wfie like the event as well, but i would rate it lower than The Walking Dead.
The Event on some levels is TRYING to be the next Lost/24/etc.
The Walking Dead is ..well, just is. So that we will be discussing in a few years "What's going to be the next Walking Dead?"
One thing i wonder, however, is how they will handle the kids. It's certainly goign to have deviate form the comics in that regard.
At this point,i am staying away from anything outside of #1-6, even thought it's different. I still want to have some surprise (for now).
The best new show of the season was The Big C. By leaps and bounds.
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