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The Human Crouton posted:It's weird that you brought that up because I was thinking about the same thing on the way to work this morning. I assumed all people who needed glasses for anything other than reading have died by now. Or the opposite, those who only need them for driving. But I suppose not being able to see distances brings up the problem of not being able to tell if the person approaching is alive or dead.
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therealjon_ posted:Well the water was about chest deep so maybe there were a bunch of them running around right below water-line. MAYBE the one that bit Bob was one of those sneaky kid zombies. That was the food bank. The school was where Gareth's group was hanging out
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Oct 28, 2014 18:36
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Baron Von Ghoulosh posted:It was hard to tell from the glimpse, but it appeared as if they were going to traveling just west of both Charlotte and Richmond. Maybe, but then that is a made up TV highway. Fine with me, but they totally just traced the fasted google maps route.
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Oct 28, 2014 18:40
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Remember when for weeks on end they would discuss killing off an obviously shady character who'd previously tried to murder them with his gang of rapists? Looks like they took some smart pills this season. I'm down with Rick as Caucasian Machete.
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Oct 28, 2014 18:57
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Vishass posted:Cobb Energy Center is a theater/music venue, but yeah, there are no big train hubs around commerce GA I believe. ATL was originally called terminus and the shooting location for that rail yard is like a 30 minute walk from Beth's location on the west side. Yeah, got it mixed up with cumberland mall, which is close by. Still, the point is that there is no point in trying to pin point things like they did in that thread as if the show actually cared about being faithful to actual locations in Atlanta.
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Oct 28, 2014 19:19
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The Human Crouton posted:It's weird that you brought that up because I was thinking about the same thing on the way to work this morning. I assumed all people who needed glasses for anything other than reading have died by now. That's a lot of people, though. Wearing glasses isn't THAT much of a hindrance that it would have caused them all to get offed early on. It isn't like Velma on Scooby-Doo where they're falling off every time you run or bump into something. Plus, my wife and I both wear glasses, and we'd totally still be alive in that world. 
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Oct 28, 2014 19:21
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I don't keep up with this thread (or the old one) all that much, but it seems a lot of people are taking Eugene at face value and buying whatever he's selling. Has it been discussed and discounted that Eugene might just be talking out his rear end with that crap about saving humanity so he can have some people protect him? Because that's what all the secrecy and sorta-wrong answers seemed to indicate to me. Like, there is no cure or countermeasure and he'll just think up some other destination when thing don't work out so Captain America and GI Jane will safely escort him somewhere else where things will totally work out this time, honest.
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e: Most people ITT seem to think he's full of poo poo, yeah. What happened to the cannibals who ate tainted meat in the comics? I actually read them, but I've forgotten. Also, am I the only one who thinks that the trailer for this season is loving dumb? They actually have the head-hipster say: "join us and go to Washington" or at least make it appear as if it's him who says it. What's the point of fooling you're audience into thinking that the show will take the dumbest possible route?
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Oct 28, 2014 19:37
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Sorry if its been brought up already, but I found a cool thing, in the church: Romans: 6 4 Ezekiel: 37 7 Matthew: 27 52 Revelation: 9 6 Luke: 24 5
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itsjustdrew posted:Sorry if its been brought up already, but I found a cool thing, in the church: What are Bible verses doing in a church?! Edit: I'm just being a dick. They all relate to the living dead in some way. It's been discussed.
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Oct 28, 2014 19:54
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Myron posted:e: Most people ITT seem to think he's full of poo poo, yeah. Because everybody who still watches this show is also dumb or is hate-watching it.
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Oct 28, 2014 19:54
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Myron posted:What happened to the cannibals who ate tainted meat in the comics? I actually read them, but I've forgotten. Pretty much the same in the show, the spit it out / throw up then get slaughtered by Rick and co so it's never established if the meat would have zombied them.
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Since a bunch of people refuse to look a couple pages back I'll just put these here again since it's better than people going "sorry if repost" or "I noticed something three days after the fact I bet no one else noticed this thing".moist turtleneck posted:
moist turtleneck posted:Foreshadowing or a ploy? moist turtleneck posted:It was pretty blurry during the pan:
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The Human Crouton posted:Because everybody who still watches this show is also dumb or is hate-watching it. Actually I was hate-watching it up until this season and so far I have been actually normal-watching it, which is a nice change of pace.
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PantsBandit posted:Actually I was hate-watching it up until this season and so far I have been actually normal-watching it, which is a nice change of pace. Yeah, been trying to hate, but they're keeping the plot moving, and they haven't done anything completely retarded yet.
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Oct 28, 2014 21:10
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The Human Crouton posted:Because everybody who still watches this show is also dumb or is hate-watching it.
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Oct 28, 2014 21:10
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I legit love the show and think it's great. 
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euphronius posted:I legit love the show and think it's great. The pacing and lack of bullshit have been incredible this season. It seems like next episode will the a Beth recap so I'd imagine a big change of pace.
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Still don't like that everyone wanders off alone in the dark woods all the time, but this season has been way better in terms of pace and visuals. I particularly love the shot of zombies grasping at the glass behind Gareth as he makes one of his crazy evil speeches.
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The Human Crouton posted:Because everybody who still watches this show is also dumb or is hate-watching it.  Yeah, I knew someone would say that, but I guess the showrunners don't actually want to make the show as dumb as possible?? So why make a misleading, stupid trailer like that? It almost made me lose interest completely. Fortunately the first episode was pretty good. And the other episodes too.
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AMC's marketing department set out to make a misdirecting trailer, and for better or worse , that's what they did. Really, you're the only person I've heard say that they almost didn't watch because of the trailer and you still watched anyway, and the shows getting super high ratings, so *shrug* Lycus fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 21:49
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FogHelmut posted:Yeah, been trying to hate, but they're keeping the plot moving, and they haven't done anything completely retarded yet. Jumping into the zombie pool without kiling the zombies first with some makeshift spears was pretty stupid. I mean, it's just one instance but you know, its pretty stupid.
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Oct 28, 2014 22:16
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They should all be carrying spears and shields anyway to deal with herds with the phalanx formation.
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Lycus posted:They should all be carrying spears and shields anyway to deal with herds with the phalanx formation. Ave Caesar. re: glasses, it's not like having glasses is that much of a hindrance and even if you lost yours, you wouldn't be like that Twilight Zone character. It'd be easy to find a pair with a prescription that's "close enough." I might be underestimating though, since my eyes are really only barely bad enough to make me uncomfortable driving without lenses.
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re: Glasses There are a poo poo ton of TV shows which have nobody or almost nobody wearing glasses. It's that simple. TV is not real life. 61% of all characters on TV don't have glasses. 
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Rest in peace Milton.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:edit: Also, tally up another instance of Eugene sounding like he's totally full of poo poo. He just spouts a bunch of vague lingo, but at a basic level nothing he says really makes sense. Like I still don't get what his plan is for a cure. You can't use a bioweapon against something that's not alive, since, you know, those organisms require a living host. He also never explained what that means for everyone that is still alive. Have they ever brought up that all humans are infected when he's around? It kind of feels like he doesn't realize that. The Z virus seems to be doing pretty well living in dead hosts, if you accept that as a real thing then there is no reason other viruses couldn't infect the undead. From what I remember his plan involved "phages" that would destroy the Z virus itself, causing the dead to die for real and the living to be clear of the infection. Once again, in the Walking Dead universe this idea wouldn't be completely far fetched, there have been some attempts to use "phages" as antibiotics because bacteriophages are viruses that attack bacteria, they are functionally deadly plagues to bacteria the same way that ebola is a plague to humans. The flaw here is that phages can't be used against other viruses because they require a host that can be subverted, taken over and destroyed in the process and viruses are pure information packages without the "assembly line". Aside from that, he never goes into specifics, all he seems to have is the concept. poo poo, I could come up with that while smoking a blunt, without all the hard work engineering and testing the phage to see if it was even possible this amounts to so much "whoa wouldn't it be totally cool if we could, like, use another virus to kill this virus?" Unless he was working on a team that created the Z virus in the first place there is no way his team could have achieved such a goal after poo poo hit the fan. In other words, he's full of poo poo because when he watched the show on phages he ignored the bacteriophage part and because even if he is who he claims to be there is no way he could actually have anything more than the concept worked out. Unless he has a tiny notebook with the phage genome written on it. 
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Eugene is a traveler from an alternate universe where The Walking Dead is just a TV show. He owns the box set.
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Anyone who has played The Last of Us knows how this Beth story will end.
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I played The Last of Us and what the hell is that  THAT'S NOT CANON! 
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precision posted:re: Glasses If 61% of the characters wore glasses, how would we know who the nerds are?
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Spoeank posted:Someone on Reddit sperged the gently caress out about the preview if anyone is curious. If she's at Grady then she's as good as dead already.  e: For clarification for non-locals: Grady Hospital is the only county hospital in the Downtown Atlanta area (it's also in a not-so-hot neighborhood), so it has a lot of monetary issues, an underpaid and overworked staff and a slew of other problems. The older portion of the hospital always seems to be in disrepair, too. Vanderdeath fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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FogHelmut posted:If 61% of the characters wore glasses, how would we know who the nerds are? Nerds don't survive in a zombie world, everyone knows that.
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At least on non-apocalyptic shows we can assume people are wearing contacts, way to break my immersion Gimble!
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FogHelmut posted:If 61% of the characters wore glasses, how would we know who the nerds are? By mullets, apparently. Scapegoat posted:Nerds don't survive in a zombie world, everyone knows that. They do fine if they can trick muscley men and hot girls into protecting them. Lycus fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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I have only ever interpreted Eugene as a religious figure and prophet. Even Eugene admits his science is not nothing more than hope.
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Antifreeze Head posted:I don't keep up with this thread (or the old one) all that much, but it seems a lot of people are taking Eugene at face value and buying whatever he's selling. Has it been discussed and discounted that Eugene might just be talking out his rear end with that crap about saving humanity so he can have some people protect him? He reminds me of the kind of person that has expertise to a limited extent; so someone that knows something about biology, and just "figures" on how to fix the problem, but lacking any actual real life experience in the practice of science he underestimates exactly how much work it would be to follow the idea to fruition and develop a cure. Pharmaskittle posted:re: glasses, it's not like having glasses is that much of a hindrance and even if you lost yours, you wouldn't be like that Twilight Zone character. It'd be easy to find a pair with a prescription that's "close enough." I might be underestimating though, since my eyes are really only barely bad enough to make me uncomfortable driving without lenses. The moment my glasses were broken, I would be in deadly danger. I'm quite near sighted. Unless I knew the way to a place that specifically stocked filled prescriptions, and it wasn't far, I would straight up be hosed- something would get me, zombie, other murderous human, or simply stumbling on something. Regarding the Bible quotes in the church, on the aftershow they explained that they all had to do with the quote painted near the church ceiling (which I now can't remember) but anyone else that's late to the game on the quotes can go back and check it out if interested.
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Scapegoat posted:The pacing and lack of bullshit have been incredible this season. It seems like next episode will the a Beth recap so I'd imagine a big change of pace.
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Well it took 5 seasons and I gave up pretty much every season, but this is now a pretty good show. Congrats TWD.
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