Dude, it's an Asylum production. Nothing about it looks realistic.
Z-Nation Can't be for Real?
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Dude, it's an Asylum production. Nothing about it looks realistic.
Apropos of nothing: Those guys need to set up a work-release program or a facility in a minimum-security prison. They can hire convicts for certain jobs.
That way, they can claim "the inmates are running the Asylum."
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
That way, they can claim "the inmates are running the Asylum."
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
I'm watching the first episode OnDemand.
I'm 5 minutes in.
This thing is fucking terrible.
I'm 5 minutes in.
This thing is fucking terrible.
Z Nation sounds like a Frenchman speaking in broken English.
In England are they going to call it Zed Nation?
In England are they going to call it Zed Nation?
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These people and equipment are all too clean and put-together looking to bee several years deep into a zombie apocalypse.
Christ this thing is terrible and so very, very Asylum.
Christ this thing is terrible and so very, very Asylum.
The first episode of Z Nation got 1.58 million viewers.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...girl-meets-world-bering-sea-gold-more/302817/
The Walking Dead averaged 13 million viewers an episode last year.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...girl-meets-world-bering-sea-gold-more/302817/
The Walking Dead averaged 13 million viewers an episode last year.
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To be fair, they mentioned in the first episode that they could tell they were "freshly turned" because of their speed.
I saw the first ten minutes. It didn't get worse or better.
This is not a good thing...
It's sort of like eating a bowl of Ramen.
Second episode on DVR, I'll watch it sooner or later. It may not be a show I stick with. The story/drama is certainly not going to keep me around, right now it's just a matter of seeing if it can be bad enough to watch on make-fun of it level. And I'm not even sure an TV series can sustain that very long.
It's one thing to watch and laugh at a bad movie, or even a series of them, but a weekly TV series? Could be hard unless there's a fragment or fragments of something there to keep me interested and entertained. (See: Smallville.)
While I did enjoy the second episode overall, I still won't hesitate to drop this if something more interesting comes along. I looks like they might be setting up their Governor type villain with the one girl. I wonder if DJ Qualls is ever going to get to do a scene with another human being?
The one thing this does have over The Walking Dead, IMO is that it does have some humor and bit of fun to it, instead of the constant depressingness of TWD.
The one thing this does have over The Walking Dead, IMO is that it does have some humor and bit of fun to it, instead of the constant depressingness of TWD.
Humanity is broken, scattered and near annihilation. Our characters are in a constant struggle for their lives. That sounds to me a lot like a situation that wouldn't lend itself to a whole lot of levity. Which is parts of the first-episode of ZN didn't work for me. Everyone seemed too clean, too put-together and too, well, sane. We get a fun little scene with the chick trying out the bat-thing and it just didn't "mesh" with me. This chick didn't seem like someone who is struggling every day just to stay alive and to keep food in her stomach.
She looked like she woke up that morning, had a good breakfast and shower and decided to go shopping for weapons.
It just doesn't "jive" with the setting we're supposedly in.
TWD does have *some* humor in it. It's far more subtle and maybe more "thinking-type" humor but there is humor. It just doesn't compromise it's tone and setting in an apocalyptic setting in order to make a joke.
I dunno, does DJ Qualls count as a human-being himself?
Goofs, gaffs and glitches galore but I don't give a shit, some things are meant to simply be fun and this is, imo.
Examples? I didn't notice any. Of course, I wasn't watching that closely.
:blink: You're harshing my morning buzz, man. 
You know, all the things about it people are complaining about here. If you reread the thread you should get the gist of what people are saying about it. I tried not to focus on them too closely, choosing instead to just enjoy the ride.
However to respond, (grumble-grumble) re-browsing the thread, it seems that an [unfair, imo] comparison to TWD, (<the real issue!) is causing dislike, but my personal 'bad' experiences with the 2 episodes so far had to do with items like, as you yourself pointed out above, paraphrased, the zoms switch back and forth between fast and slow moving as the script requires.
A whole list of similar problems could be drawn up, (Guy hints at them) but my original point wasn't to point them out, it was to say I don't give them a damn so long as the overall effect is one of fun, which I have had so far.
"That explains the pull to the left."
You know, all the things about it people are complaining about here. If you reread the thread you should get the gist of what people are saying about it. I tried not to focus on them too closely, choosing instead to just enjoy the ride.
However to respond, (grumble-grumble) re-browsing the thread, it seems that an [unfair, imo] comparison to TWD, (<the real issue!) is causing dislike, but my personal 'bad' experiences with the 2 episodes so far had to do with items like, as you yourself pointed out above, paraphrased, the zoms switch back and forth between fast and slow moving as the script requires.
A whole list of similar problems could be drawn up, (Guy hints at them) but my original point wasn't to point them out, it was to say I don't give them a damn so long as the overall effect is one of fun, which I have had so far.
"That explains the pull to the left."
:blink: You're harshing my morning buzz, man.
You know, all the things about it people are complaining about here. If you reread the thread you should get the gist of what people are saying about it. I tried not to focus on them too closely, choosing instead to just enjoy the ride.
However to respond, (grumble-grumble) re-browsing the thread, it seems that an [unfair, imo] comparison to TWD, (<the real issue!) is causing dislike, but my personal 'bad' experiences with the 2 episodes so far had to do with items like, as you yourself pointed out above, paraphrased, the zoms switch back and forth between fast and slow moving as the script requires.
A whole list of similar problems could be drawn up, (Guy hints at them) but my original point wasn't to point them out, it was to say I don't give them a damn so long as the overall effect is one of fun, which I have had so far.
"That explains the pull to the left."
Well, the show obviously is trying to ride on TWD's coattails since TWD is pretty much a ratings juggernaut so it follows people would compare the two.
I've seen this episode before.
In season two of King of the Nerds they fabricated a massive Ker plunk game that looked quite like the refinery derrick in Z Nation from yesterday, where severed limbs and heads were held in suspension by a lattice of rods that were removed sequentially by the contestants. Depending on how many body parts fell through the newly created holes in the lattice after a rod was removed, the contestants would receive penalty points, and the first player to get 150 points would lose the game and be evicted from Nerdvana.
While this was happening, the contestants from season one, who had lost a year earlier, were in full Zombie make up slouching and skuttering around under the ker plunk game trying to pick up/catch and eat the fallen (foam rubber) limbs and heads.
I think all we need is to do is spend some time in a metaphorical hyperbaric chamber so that no one gets the bends while skipping between the Walking Dead and Z Nation.
In season two of King of the Nerds they fabricated a massive Ker plunk game that looked quite like the refinery derrick in Z Nation from yesterday, where severed limbs and heads were held in suspension by a lattice of rods that were removed sequentially by the contestants. Depending on how many body parts fell through the newly created holes in the lattice after a rod was removed, the contestants would receive penalty points, and the first player to get 150 points would lose the game and be evicted from Nerdvana.
While this was happening, the contestants from season one, who had lost a year earlier, were in full Zombie make up slouching and skuttering around under the ker plunk game trying to pick up/catch and eat the fallen (foam rubber) limbs and heads.
I think all we need is to do is spend some time in a metaphorical hyperbaric chamber so that no one gets the bends while skipping between the Walking Dead and Z Nation.
I fell asleep during the first episode. I don't mind watching bad movies, hell, I watch Batman & Robin every now and then (and I enjoy the shit out of ID4, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012), but I just can't stand the Syfy channel original movies that this seems to come from. Who wants to place bets that C. Thomas Howell makes an appearance on this "show" before the end of the season?
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