The Walking Dead
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it was actually a prius with a body kit 
Pretty kick ass show I'm looking forward to the next episode.
Pretty kick ass show I'm looking forward to the next episode.
Also, if you watch as they are coming out of the house after Main Character Rick's first night in zombieville, there is a Series LR parked next door.
stevenr said:
I was going to mention that but then I noticed that the guy and his son were riding in an Fj40 so I thought maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me.
Theres no way that they destroyed a real one. It was probably a regular one with stickers on it. Its probably like the Skylines in F&TF 4. That was nothing more than a VW buggy with a different body on it. I cant imagine the better choice of vehicle for a bunch of gun toting rednecks to be running from the cops in though. I did make a mental note that spike strips = instant roll and death.
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stevenr said:
I noticed that. I'm always spotting LRs in movies and tv shows.
I loved The Kingdom because there are tons of LRs and they have a chase scene at the end with that black Classic.
Anyway, I like The Walking Dead. My wife, brother and brother's girlfriend decided to make a weekly get together revolving around the show.
I thought last nights episode was pretty good. Pretty smart drenching themselves in Zombie guts to blend in and not get noticed.
I gotta admit, the show looks promising from the last night's episode. Now, this came up in "an office" discussion today. What if any are the so called accepted standards for zombie behavior? Typically IMO they are portrayed as someone who is obviously out to get the living, with some zombies being more aggressive than others. One thing that most movies do not depict is zombies' cognitive abilities, to include planning, ability to operate machinery, weapons, etc. So in last night's episode, while some zombies were simply staggering around outside, fairly docile, one IIRC amidst the crowd trying to storm the glass front doors of the dept. store had a boulder in his hands and was clearly banging it against the glass in an attempt to break it. Does that seem logical? If so, how smart are they after all? Or should we expect a deux machina type deal from time to time in those types of movies?
Ballah06 said:
I guess it depends, in the book "World War Z" by Max Brooks (soon to be made into a movie, with Brad Pitt), they are truly mindless, are slow, and have absolutely no remaining memory of who they were, but in George A Romero's "Land Of The Dead" they move really fast and started showing some ability to use tools (pneumatic hammer), one of them was shooting a M16 and sorta acting in charge of the others.
Well, there are a lot of different takes on zombies... most of the time they're pretty mindless and slow, sometimes varying a bit depending on how decomposed they are, but there have been versions where some of them are more intelligent than others, and sometimes even fast. I think we'll see the parameters of zombie behavior in this particular show expand a little bit as time goes on. I foresee them getting a bit smarter and learning to use tools and such as time goes on, to sorta "up the ante" for the main characters and keep things interesting.
Another thing to consider with zombies is how is it that some are still crawling around with half of their body missing, while others who get shot go down and stay down?
KngTgr said:
Was it Land of the Dead where the zombies actually crossed a body of water while chasing a group of the living? IIRC there was some shooting by zombies in that one as well.
knewsom said:
Hmmm. So what are the commonly accepted norms of zombie behavior?
1. They are generally slow and somewhat docile.
2. Some may develop certain skills i.e. weapon handling, picking random things up, etc.
3. Headshots kill them.
What else? Is there an expected life span for a zombie?
Ballah06 said:
4. They don't recognize or "connect" with relationships.
5. Using 28 Days Later as a model....they can starve...
6. Animals aren't affected.
Ballah06 said:
Life-span: until decomp consumes the body so much that it can no longer move - IE, no more flesh, or such hardened flesh that it cannot move.
Also, not all zombies are slow, but most of the time they are.
There are other variations, such as 28 days later, where the zombies are not actually DEAD, but infected with a nasty disease called 'rage'.
More commonalities are that you can be infected by being bitten or from blood to blood contact.
When it comes to the zombie apocalypse, the SCA are going to rule survivorship.
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There are some additional behaviours that must be added:
1. Zombie "speed" is based on the characters importantance.
2. Zombie infection and resulting transformation is also character dependant, i.e. A main character who is infected may take awhile or be almost instant, never trust them.
3. Zombie's are dead so their lifespan is limited to whatever muscles and bone have not rotted away, the gooey-er the better.
1. Zombie "speed" is based on the characters importantance.
2. Zombie infection and resulting transformation is also character dependant, i.e. A main character who is infected may take awhile or be almost instant, never trust them.
3. Zombie's are dead so their lifespan is limited to whatever muscles and bone have not rotted away, the gooey-er the better.
Different kind of creature, they were also sensitive to light, the "virus" also affected animalsViggen said: