The Walking Dead

[JD]

Yeah, and it looks like someone might be using them as a weapon. So it looks like two of the ideas mentioned upthread might be coming true.
That's a pretty great trailer. Looks like the season should at least get off to a good start.

 

[Pavonis]

Well, that makes sense. The walkers would have had months, maybe over a year, to gather into larger and larger herds. When one of them stumbles over a settlement, even without targeting humans, they'll overwhelm fences and other obstacles. It doesn't help that someone seems to be attracting walkers to the prison!

 

[Trekker4747]

Well, that makes sense. The walkers would have had months, maybe over a year, to gather into larger and larger herds. When one of them stumbles over a settlement, even without targeting humans, they'll overwhelm fences and other obstacles. It doesn't help that someone seems to be attracting walkers to the prison!

The Walkers seem to operate in a "herd mentality" one walks around until it encounters another one then there's two walking around until they encounter another.... There may be a sense of an "alpha dog" on some level here too. But it does seem that someone in the prison group (one of the Woodberry survivors) is leading the Walkers to (into) the prison. (I doubt it's The Governor, however.) I also wonder if that story will move away from the prison this year and onto whatever the next setting is that's used in the comics.

 

[sojourner]

^I think it's simpler than that. One zombie makes a noise which attracts another zombie. 2 zombies making noise attracts a third and so on.

 

[Pavonis]

What's the human-to-walker ratio in TWD? 1000:1? 5000:1? Whatever it is, even a small herd could overwhelm the prison defenses.

 

[RJDiogenes]

That's a good trailer. I do think that the Governor is probably behind the buildup of zombies, though. They said he was still out there.

 

[trekkiebaggio]

It's a good trailer. Lots more zombie fodder now!

 

[jbny67]

I was thinking that whoever is doing the things in the trailer is the person that was watching Carol from the woods when she was practicing a c section on a walker. I don't remember them ever revealing who that was.

 

[Kegg]

^
I think they eventually confirmed that was Andrew, one of the prisoners (the one Rick leaves apparently to his death, but later conspires to get walkers into the prison, leading to the death of T-Dog and Lori.)

It is familiar territory for this series, though.

 

[PKerr]

"We just lost 12 of our own, 2 in cold blood"
I noticed Beth was only in one those scenes, I wonder if the "in cold blood" part is the same as what happens in the comics.

There is also a scene with Carol and a bandana, I wonder if the new threat it the zombies mutating somehow, anyone notice the are several scenes where they seem to be bleeding from their eyes?

 

[Kegg]

^
Since Kirkman seems dead set on his zombies evolving in any way (and the new showrunner is apparently the first who's also a big fan of the comics), this seems unlikely.

I imagine the new threat is key to zombie behaviour and numbers. Like, say, something like the giant zombie herd that ended season two is headed for the prison.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

So....

Daryl vs. Tyrese (and Tyrese hits Rick). I'm guessing something happens to....

...early on.

 

[Thestral]

"We just lost 12 of our own, 2 in cold blood"
I noticed Beth was only in one those scenes, I wonder if the "in cold blood" part is the same as what happens in the comics.

Oh fuck, I hope not. I actually wondered between that line and

Spoiler: comics spoilers

the shot of a blood trail heading into a doorway followed by a horrified look on Tyrese's face if they might be doing the serial killer story from the prison. I somehow didn't think about Beth being one of the victims though - although she could also be like Andrea in that storyline from the comics, just barely escaping. I thought they'd skipped over that storyline as being too gruesome, but....

 

[Karuna]

That trailer looks great. I love it when you think you've seen everything and something like that comes along and surprises you.

Saw this article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-Smarter-zombies-coming-The-Walking-Dead.html


Gotta say, Michonne is a million times hotter in the show than the girl that plays her.

 

[DevilEyes]

Is there a video of the trailer somewhere that can be seen outside of the USA?

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

"We just lost 12 of our own, 2 in cold blood"
I noticed Beth was only in one those scenes, I wonder if the "in cold blood" part is the same as what happens in the comics.

Oh fuck, I hope not.

Could be editing to lead audiences into making assumptions--expecting a shock, only to have something else occur.

 

[Karuna]

Is there a video of the trailer somewhere that can be seen outside of the USA?

this is the link that i followed from earlier in the thread, there's some text at the top of the video that says that it's for non -us people. Works fine from the uk anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxg27QsaIEY

 

[DarthTom]

Walking Dead to get baby zombie. This will be crazy:

NBC

Forget walkers. AMC's zombie drama "The Walking Dead" is bringing a crawler to the hit show when it returns this fall.
Star Danai Gurira, who plays survivor Michonne, told TVGuide.com that "there's a little hint of that (baby) in the premiere."
Robert Kirkman, the show's executive producer and author of the graphic novels the drama is based on, also confirmed the news to TV Guide. "It'll be something different from the baby who was seen in 'Dawn of the Dead' remark, which was horrific and done so well," he said. "There's still room for us to do something different and cool."
Sound crazy? Perhaps. But showrunner Scott Gimple did tease at Comic-Con earlier this month that season four is "going to get insane very quickly." And the man would know: He wrote the first episode.

 

[Borgminister]

Get insane? Probably means insaner!

Hide the breasts, break out the Kevlar bottle nipples!

 

[DarthTom]

Get insane? Probably means insaner!

Hide the breasts, break out the Kevlar bottle nipples!

Yea the show is insane already. How they do this will be interesting.

Speaking of zombies - math professors are now using the zombie plague as a way to stimulate students to solve math equations:

NBC

This equation could spell your doom: (bN)(S/N)Z = bSZ. That is, if you ever found yourself in the midst of a zombie pandemic.
That's because the calculation describes the rate of zombie transmission, from one walking dead individual to many, according to its creators, Robert J. Smith?, a mathematics professor at the University of Ottawa who spells his name with a "?" at the end, and his students. Smith's work has inspired other researchers to create zombie mathematical models, which will be published with Smith's work in the upcoming book, "Mathematical Modeling of Zombies" (University of Ottawa Press, 2014).
Though of course done tongue-in-cheek, Smith's study demonstrates why zombies are the viruses of the monster world. Their likeness to viruses makes the creatures ideal subjects for theoretical epidemiological analyses, which can be used to capture the public's imagination as well as explore scientific principles, Smith said. [Zombie Facts: Real and Imagined (Infographic)]

As for a zombie apocalypse, Smith's model shows that a zombie infection would spread quickly (with N representing total population, S the number of susceptible people, Z the zombies, and b the likelihood of transmission). It also shows that zombies would overtake the world— there's no chance for a "stable equilibrium" in which humans could coexist with the undead or eradicate the disease.
Only coordinated attacks against the zombies would save humanity, the model shows.