I'm hooked too. Loved it.

And I just started reading the comic a few days ago. It's the only comic I've ever read where I haven't been able to 'put it down'. I downloaded all the issues and am just reading them one after another late into the night. Each issue ends in such a way that I simply must find out what happens next. So rarely do comic stories, or any stories really, so frequently and geniunely surprise me.

The only thing I find difficult about the TV series is the lead actor Andrew Lincoln, thanks to my familiarity with him from an old Brit TV series called Teachers that I used to watch way back when. I'm finding it hard to take him seriously. He did well in the pilot, don't get me wrong, I just have to overcome that hurdle before truly accepting him as an American cop.

I found this hard with Hugh Laurie as Dr House too.

It's one of those comics where I picked up the first issue, said "Hey, this is pretty good", then forgot about it until I later noticed it it had 20+ issues under its belt I've watched some of the pilot so far and will record the others, but we'll see if it holds my attention. Just because something's great doesn't mean I'm in the mood for that type of story at the moment.

Michael Rooker is in this, right?  How big is his role?  I shot a movie that he was in earlier in the year, and he was talking about going down to Louisiana to work on it.  How's he doin' in it?

- Branco

I have to say I was underwhelmed. With all the buzz around this I think maybe the bar was set too high. I found it overly melodramatic, slowly paced without being gripping, characters spouted exposition ad nauseum, the lead character is a bit dim witted, and the zombies seem to get bored of their prey rather easily.

That said, the gore effects are amazing, but seem to feature far too prominently as if to compensate for the lack of much else. I understand the comic is known to be quite gruesome, so gore is a selling point to appeal to those fans. Slow moving soap opera plus gore effects just doesn't add up to the entertainment level we expected. I prefer Zombieland over this and that's saying something.

Can't say I'm hooked. It's not likely we'll be watching episode 2.

Last edited by insideoutcast (2010-11-06 02:35:26)

I enjoyed the second episode a lot less than the pilot, but I'm not canceling my season pass or anything just yet. I'm in wait-and-see mode with this one. If we don't get some actual character stuff next week, I'll be a bit let down.

I gotta say, the third episode was six to seven hundred thousand times better than the second.

Though they did something weird that I didn't care for. In the scene where the two characters were in the tent together, they had two setups. There was a fixed camera shooting from one angle (on sticks, presumably), and a handheld camera covering another angle. They cut between them, and I found it distracting.

But story-wise? Yeah. Much, much better than last week.

Ok, am I the only asshole who completely missed the fact that she was the sheriff's wife?  I'm fine with it, it works, but I'm going to have to go back and watch the pilot again to see where I missed the setup.

Last edited by Matt Vayda (2010-11-21 13:44:03)

I didn't see that coming either. She's actually a he?

That's a man baby!

Last edited by redxavier (2010-11-20 17:26:54)

And yet...I don't think that would stop me.

If it ever happened to come up...

Why are you all looking at me funny?

Well...I quite enjoyed that. (Re: latest episode, not the...other thing...)

Hard to believe there's only one episode left in the season.  Loved the use of John Murphy's Sunshine score in the last episode.