The walking dead - season 8

There's a video showing that this preview is a shot-by-shot homage to season one. Worth a watch.

Looking forward to Sunday night.
 
I stopped watching when Neegin came along. Last episode I remember was with Neegin having all the main characters kneeling and playing eeny meeny miniey moe with one of their heads. Was that Season 7? Worth picking back up?
 
I stopped watching when Neegin came along. Last episode I remember was with Neegin having all the main characters kneeling and playing eeny meeny miniey moe with one of their heads. Was that Season 7? Worth picking back up?

I think that was the end of season 6, the season of poor strategic thinking. Season 7 seemed to lack much action, but it’s suddenly pretty easy to find new groups of weirdos.
 
I won $40 on a Walking Dead NC Lottery $2 scratch off ticket today!
 
Gambling used to be illegal in NC.

But it's OK if the state gets the winnings.

They get the losings, and it’s a voluntary tax, my favorite kind.
 
It for the childrens!
I think it's really for the advertising revenue, I'd almost bet my left nut somebody in charge of it has a brother, wife, cousin, friend or some other relation in the advertising business and or is getting some kind of kickbacks from all the damn ads.
Think about it TV, Radio, Billboards, the ads are everywhere, I'd like to see just how much of the chillens monies are being spent on ads and administration, and I'll bet if they do tell the numbers it won't be quite accurate.

TWD is much closer to the truth.
 
dang, they have went all MadMax. And Morgan has sharpened his stick!
 
Quote from Rick "I'm gonna kill you!" he left out the "If I could shoot straight" part.

I was really hoping to see the end of whats his name with the bat and move on to something new but alas looks like we'll be seeing more of The Fonz 2.0

I'm guessing all the flashbacks / forwards are possible outcomes of whether the adventure in this episode turns out good or bad for Rick and his bunch of homewreckers.
 
Well, the CQB this episode has a lot of flaws….but it is TV. I will give them credit for ramping up the carnage. And who doesn't wanna see a Tiger eat someone?

And +1 for some technical advisor doing house entry/room clearing training.
 
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Quote from Rick "I'm gonna kill you!" he left out the "If I could shoot straight" part.
That was awful. And he's supposed to be a former LEO.

When he had Neegan and his lieutenants on that balcony, all he had to do was concentrate fire toward the doorway - they all had to run that way - it was either the doorway or down the stairs where Rick's group was waiting. He could have seriously wounded all of them (seems he was shooting a tactical rimfire rifle, so immediate death is unlikely), which is mostly a death sentence without modern medicine, antibiotics, etc.

And if any of Rick's group had 2 brain cells, they could have joined him in shooting toward the doorway and it would have been a bloodbath. War ended right then and there. Oh, but this is only the first episode of an entire season - better miss everyone you are shooting at!
 
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Omfg....why am I still watching this crap?

From the thin pieces of sheet metal deflecting rifle rounds to the “I’m ok” after taking a 7.62 round to the shoulder to them arguing over whether or not to shoot the dumbass in the closer to Jesus taking captives and then Rick losing his will after finding a baby in the Room this season is going to be more of the same crap as the last few seasons.

It’s all a bunch of drivel so the actors can pontificate after the show about the “real world” conundrums.

Jesus tap dancing Christ. If you assault a building you put a bullet (or three) in every body.

And I’m sure we’ll be treated to some tender gay moments and flash backs of man love on the next episode since one of them got gut shot (which I would think he’d be used to since he’s clearly the bottom in the relationship).
 
This has been rather disappointing so far.
 
I do like the show.
But these zombies have been dead for going on eight years now, some of them.
Anyone know the half life of a zombie? (t1/2)
 
I enjoyed the first season, and found the 2nd one to be passable. By the time it got to the long zombie march out of the quarry, I gave up on the show. May revisit the show if its going to get good.

Half life of a zombie brings up an interesting question. Assuming that normal decomposition works on zombies just like it works on roadkill, within 1-2 years, the whole world should be zombie free. Most would rot away in the first few months.
 
I enjoyed the first season, and found the 2nd one to be passable. By the time it got to the long zombie march out of the quarry, I gave up on the show. May revisit the show if its going to get good.


Half life of a zombie brings up an interesting question. Assuming that normal decomposition works on zombies just like it works on roadkill, within 1-2 years, the whole world should be zombie free. Most would rot away in the first few months.

Hell, at this point, I'd be worried about the pterodactyl buzzards after 8 years.... Lots of good eating and protein.

Now THERE is a LEGITIMATE plot twist for TWD. We can merge it into a Jurassic Park sort of thing...
 
Sadly, I have historically been a huge Walking Dead fan, but I admit that I haven't watched a single episode this season.

I get that when there are shows like this we have to suspend belief to a certain point, walking dead people and all, but there does come a point between apocalypse fiction and fantasy. At this stage in the game there would be no more cars as all of the fuel would have either gone bad or been used up. Horses or something similar would be the main/only means of easier transportation. Regular sickness and disease would start killing some people. Non-zombie inflicted wounds never get infected. There are still fat people around. Come on! They are limited to what, 1000-2000 calories per day at most, and they walk everywhere and work constantly but still look like me? I don't think so. Bullets bouncing off sheet metal?

Half-life of a zombie? They did start making them look aged a bit Ill give them that...but we all know what happens to meat when its left in the freezer for too long...it gets destroyed! One or two good winters and there would be no "old" zombies. Sure, you may have a smattering of new ones from the recent dead, but not the three year old rotting corpses.

I want to love the show again...back when it was a constant race from one safe spot to the next. A small group of desperate survivors trying to survive. Not "As the World Turns" with guns.
 
I’ve been out of the series for he past three seasons. Gave up because of the half-assed efforts of the show to produce anything close to realistic after the first few seasons. Then I found his article today: https://www.forbes.com/sites/insert...xplain-to-the-walking-dead-how-guns-work/amp/
When Gorbes calls out your hap-hazard gun play, you might have an issue.

I’ve said it for years now: this show/the studio is greedy and not spending the budget that the show warrants.
 
I haven't watched it passed the 2nd episode. I think I'm done.
 
Sadly, I have historically been a huge Walking Dead fan, but I admit that I haven't watched a single episode this season.

I get that when there are shows like this we have to suspend belief to a certain point, walking dead people and all, but there does come a point between apocalypse fiction and fantasy. At this stage in the game there would be no more cars as all of the fuel would have either gone bad or been used up. Horses or something similar would be the main/only means of easier transportation. Regular sickness and disease would start killing some people. Non-zombie inflicted wounds never get infected. There are still fat people around. Come on! They are limited to what, 1000-2000 calories per day at most, and they walk everywhere and work constantly but still look like me? I don't think so. Bullets bouncing off sheet metal?

Half-life of a zombie? They did start making them look aged a bit Ill give them that...but we all know what happens to meat when its left in the freezer for too long...it gets destroyed! One or two good winters and there would be no "old" zombies. Sure, you may have a smattering of new ones from the recent dead, but not the three year old rotting corpses.

I want to love the show again...back when it was a constant race from one safe spot to the next. A small group of desperate survivors trying to survive. Not "As the World Turns" with guns.
Lots of good points here.

I commented about the completely unrealistic weights of the cast in this post-apocalyptic world a few seasons ago:

drypowder said:
One thing I learned from TWD is that even in a zombie apocalypse, people don't lose weight. I can somewhat sorta rationalize it for the group inside the gated community, but even they would have to seriously ration food. Plus think about all the work that needs to be done to keep everything going. Look at how well maintained those properties inside the gate are. I don't think they have crews of Mexican laborers rolling up in the morning to do that.

As for Rick's group, the incredible energy expenditure combined with a diet of squirrels and some cans of beans whenever they score, means they'd all be pretty lean and gaunt. Rick fits that part, but he's just about the only one. Was Tyrese sneaking in protein shakes on the side? And sadly, Maggie would have lost her hips and ass.

Using Tyrese as an example, a guy that size probably needs ~2500 calories/day to maintain his weight; add in the walking/running/fighting/scavenging they are doing (no desk jobs in the zombie apocalypse), and you're easily up to 3000 calories/day. 4 cans of Chef Boyardee ravioli is 1000 calories. Seems like they are getting less than that most days.

And once they got to Alexandria, there was the absurdity of the obese pantry clerk - so absurd the writers even had to acknowledge it via Neegan's comments. Once she was killed, given Neegan's line about her, I thought they wouldn't cast anymore obese characters in this zombie wasteland. I was wrong.

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Contrast the plumpness of many of the characters even many years since the zombie apocalypse hit in the Walking Dead with the past ONE year in Venezuela where the average Venezuelan lost ~20lbs.

Conclusion: socialists are even more dangerous to one's survival than zombies.
 
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