I thought the same thing! hahah awesome.
I thought the same thing! hahah awesome.
This show is one of the very few that can make me somewhat tense while watching it. So awesome
Glenn's zombie freakout had me rolling.
Awesome episode so far.
YOU ALERTED THE HORDE
Man. Can't wait for next week.
Dixon's brother is a boondock saint, Rick is fucked.
The entire time w/ Dixon, all I saw was the shit pretzel part of Mall Rats.
So how different is the tv show from the comic so far?
Not hugely. Like other have said, they've added in a few new characters and Glenn was alone when he helped Rick through the city. I think in the comic they just jumped rooftops and you didn't have that whole truck/car/dept store scene. They did slather themselves with zombie juice, but that was to go back for the gun bag iirc.
My thoughts
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Also, agree bigtime with the comment on the show making you tense.
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at least a couple zombies have used crude tools, like one was beating a rock against the window of the store
i think it was more the lack of fine motor control, one looked like it attempted to climb it. I'm not saying they're super smart, but they appear to possess a low level of intelligence still, versus being entirely instinctual.
While I liked the group of people in the department store, the specific addition of the inbred racist wasn't something I really felt was necessary. The comic book did a fine job of creating tension between the various survivors without the racial element; just because the story takes place in Georgia doesn't mean there has to be racial strife. This is still my new favorite TV show, I was just bummed they felt the need to go there.
I really did like the aborted sewer tunnel escape. It seemed like the ticket that was going to work fine and save everyone as they spent a lot of time building up to it, then it just failed. It provided a sense of realism that brought some believability and further accentuated the sense of entrapment.
Some seem to be slightly smarter than others. We see zombies climbing ladders, climbing tanks, operating door handles, using a rock/debris to smash tempered glass and climbing ladders but not all of them seem capable of these things. You could perhaps attribute this to how long the zombie has been dead, or in other words, how long their brain has been rotting out. I think we are seeing a much smarter zombie than what was depicted in the comic. I remember in one of the letters to the author someone asked if the zombies were able to walk up/down stairs because we are never shown them doing anything but wandering around or chasing a fairly level surface. This is definitely a departure from that and makes these zombies that much more threatening. There's also little shown of the "sitting" type and even less spoken of them. I guess it makes for more thrilling TV to just make them all "walkers/roamers".They essentially made them seem to have some form of deductive reasoning. But they're completely retarded when it comes to climbing/opening things.
You might say that they all just smell each other as well, not that they're necessarily trying to differentiate who's who. You kinda need something like this in all zombie media since you never see them attack each other, only the living. It wasn't just the smell, either. Even before the rain some of the zombies in the street were eying the two up, so it's definitely some combination of smell, behavior and/or something unexplained that lets the zombie know who is their buddy and who is food. I don't think the comic goes into any greater detail about the zombies than what we see in this episode, aside from two other pieces of info that won't be reveled until much much later on in the story.
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Does anyone else have a problem with Andrea's age? Nothing against the actress, she's beautiful and plays the part well enough so far, but she was depicted as being quite a bit younger in the comic. And because of that the whole
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Anyway, this episode reinforces my serious dislike for Lori. Judging by how wilted the flowers were in the hospital, it hasn't been 2 months since the outbreak. Instead of morning the loss of her husband, and whatever other family and friends and general near-complete destruction of the world, and protecting her only child she's out on her own in a field before taking dick from her recently dead husband's best friend doggy style but only after tossing away her wedding ring. Fuck Shane for taking advantage too.
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