Walking Dead TV Series: First Two Episodes Reviewed IN A VIDEO!! YAY!

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Walking Dead Update: Zombies Rules!

TEE HEE

 I like rules. I like having a list of can and can't dos. So, happily (because it makes me feel better about my OCD) the producers, fans and writers of The Walking Dead TV series have provided the public with a set of Zombie Rules. Which of course I find thoroughly useful.
ahem ahem....

Zombie Rules:

1) Ability to run is based on the amount of time a zombie has been undead, and how much decay has set in. I find this thoroughly realistic...well as realistic as zombies can be...it's hard to imagine watching a near-skeleton chasing you at a sprint down the street.


Unless you're Jason and the Argonauts, this poses little threat to you



  2) Zombies decay but at a much slower rate than humans, and it’s still possible to differentiate between young and old zombies. I never really did understand this zombie rule but I won't fuss. You can't win them all.

3) Zombies are like lions: if they’ve eaten, you can walk by them without fear, but a pack of hungry zombies will attack you. This is also not something I quite understand. If they're fueled by evil or a virus how can they be "full"? Being full denotes digestion which zombies certainly don't do. Hmm...I quite possibly prefer consistently ravenous zombies.

4) The quickest speed of any zombie is a shambling run. see Night of the Living Dead. NO sprinters exist. I thoroughly believe in this rule for the simple fact that anything dead is constantly falling apart. A corpse that runs faster when it's ligaments and muscles are steadily falling apart simply defies logic, if not physics.  That on top of it'd be ridiculous for a 80 year-old zombie body running full tilt after a perfectly healthy and alive 20 year old.

5) Zombies are not dexterous. They cannot pick up or use any items more complex than a rock or a stick. Take that George Romero's Big Daddy who can use a gas pump and guns. That always annoyed me.



Zombies can't use guns! GAH!

 6) Zombies have poor eyesight but they do have a strong sense of smell. I have absolutely no idea how something that doesn't breath can smell. The eyesight makes sense, smell not so much.



EEK.

 7) Zombies cannot speak but can communicate by pack mentality. The herd tends to move together if they sight food. I can also understand this rule. Atoms stick together, molecules and compounds. Makes perfect sense that zombies would follow the normal rules of physics.




I am thoroughly excited about this show. The rules are suitable to my (and by proxy the rest of the zombie community since I've learned off a bunch of zombie snobs) standards as far as general logic and of course tradition. YAY!

I leave you now with a creepy cute picture
 

Everyone Together: AWWW!!!! Does he want love or brains?



The Walking Dead AMC TV Series

If you are like any of the men in my life, Zombies are not a hobby (notice the capital 'Z') they are a lifestyle. As a recent enthusiast (I know who Bub is. I am in) of Zombie culture, I have come to appreciate the social statements made by the films, comics, literature, music, games and art associated with the subject of the living dead.
The funniest thing is about myself and Zombies (or Zack as they're referred to in my house, thanks Max Brooks) is they scare the crap out of me. It is really quite sad especially considering how much Zombie knowledge I have retained via osmosis. But the real problem with the Living Dead as they're quiet literary a walking contradiction. They shouldn't be moving, but are. They shouldn't (as human beings...kinda) want to eat me until I die, but they do. So its a little unsettling.

But like the desire to run my tongue over an owie in my mouth, its a pleasure pain I can't help but maintain.

So when I heard that the Huckleberry Finn of Zombie comics was being made into a television series, my interest was piqued, to say the least.
Reasons why one should totally be pumped about the Walking Dead Series:
1. It's directed by Frank Darabont of Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile fame (he's also a close personal friend of Stephen King....the creepy scale is going up). He is also a complete zombie fanatic.

In a recent interview on comicbookmovie.com the director shares his love for the undead: "I've always wanted to do my take on the zombie mythos, since I was a kid and I saw Romero's Night of the Living Dead - the 1968 black and white version. For our zombie show I'm calling that the Book of Genesis, and whenever there's a question about zombie behavior I go back to Night of the Living Dead."

2. I know its on basic cable. The potential for lame is great because there an obviously not be an obscene level of gore that most Zombie films provide. BUT...........!


I MEAN COME ON!



I think there is a lot of potential here. I mean there are violent shows like Break Bad on this channel so maybe this show will be reasonable violent and make up for it with really creepy!

3. I always approve of comics and books that are adapted into television shows more than I approve of those turned into films because it allows for a lot more breathing room. Look at TrueBlood. That show has become legendary and is really awesome. Look at The Spirit. Turned into a movie by Frank Miller no less and it was the biggest, prettiest and most expensive turd I've seen in a long time.  I like that they're making this into a show because if it sucks....all they have to do is get a new director for the next episode and BAM! it may suck less.

4. The Walking Dead Blog has giving me great hope. They have. A. Zombie. School. How completely badass is that? They do Zombie exercises and obstacle courses. Do they have diplomas? Or gym class? Zombie Math? I am stoked. This is going to be epic.

All in all I am pumped. Pumped to the extreme.