Obligatory Walking Dead TV show post

The Walking Dead is so good I want to rub it all over my penis.

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I haven’t seen it, but I have heard that it’s kind of sexist from a few sources. I don’t know, it doesn’t really interest me anyway.

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It’s not sexist; there is a character who is sexist.

Verdict: good show.

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It was awesome. I loved it and charged of sexism leave me a little surprised. Not every show has to center around female characters and the way the partner treated the woman at the end left me with a lesser opinion of him, not her.

The twist surrounding the woman at the end was a telegraphed a mile a way and was a little cliche, and the beginning seemed ripped straight out of 28 Days Later, but other than that the show was immensely entertaining.

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I thought the show conveyed more effectively than the comic the bigness of a world with very few people. I probably would have liked it a lot more had I not been constantly comparing it to the comic, though.

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ladypeyton: Kirkman has done interviews about this, and he had this written before 28 Days Later came out (although theirs was also obviously written before then) but Image held it back to launch during October (for obvious reasons). Of course, the fact that this is adapting something that’s 7 years old now also makes it seem more as if it were copying 28 Days Later.

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Just a god damn fucking good 90 minutes of television. Beautifully shot, pretty well acted, faithful without being slavish to the brilliant source material. Late into the fray, but clearly the leading candidate for best new show of the season.

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coren: I’m confused because 28 Days Later is 8 years old (today,actually…huh). I’m not certain when The Walking Dead came out but I was under the impression that it was a year after the movie.

That said, i09ers have informed me that both of them ripped the beginning off from Day of the Triffids.

I’m also not unhappy that they both start the same way. The one thing we definitely needed more of was 28 Days Later and I don’t mean the dreck that was the American sequel.

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At what point were any of them fast? It just seems that way when there’s a lot.

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@ladypeyton: “Ripped off” is just a loaded term. It implies some kind of lazy theft rather than perhaps homage or a respectful and actively creative re-use of the same idea.

Also, although Walking Dead WAS published about a year after the release of 28 Days Later, it’s not inconceivable that Kirkman really did have that beginning nailed down long before. Besides the fact that comics are written before being illustrated, there’s also the long publication process. You’re confusing publication date with the date the idea was conceived.

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