the pilot was amazing. definitely gonna be watching this every week.

and the leak is a decent quality.

Man, the Alamo Drafthouse 45 mins south from me is showing this every week as its broadcast on one of their big screens--for free. Wish the Alamo was a little closer.

Fantastic premiere.

no doubt! even better than I'd expected.

the rifle in the window/"i'm sorry this happened to you" scenes were just heartbreaking.

Loved it.

I got up with the baby at around 2:30 and looked out the window for potential Zombies roaming the streets.

I'd say it was well done

yeah, that was great

I thought it was great. At the end of it, everyone in the room looked around and was like "that was intense".

It wasn't until I pointed out that that's maybe the first 2 issues out of 78 and counting that they realized how much crazier shit will be getting. It they ever get around to airing the Governor story arc, it'll be A) in like season 3 and B) the most fucked up thing ever aired on TV.

Not sure I could take watching what happened at the end of that on a live action TV show.

I'm sure it would have to be a little less graphic.

Caught the first episode by accident last night and got hooked. The scene where we first see the girl zombie (missing legs) next to the bike is gonna stick with me.

Boardwalk Empire followed by The Walking Dead is about the best possible way I could spend my time watching TV. Both are living up to my lofty expectations.

Finally watched the pilot. That was tremendously entertaining. I kept trying to cognitively put myself in the lead character's frame of mind while he was walking out of that hospital and then seeing that half-zombie girl by the bike. I don't think I would have handled it quite so cool.

that's the thing with how this story is written. i keep putting myself in the shoes of each one of these characters. brilliant storytelling imo.

absolutely. i watched it, enjoyed it, was totally cool. then i walked down the hall and past a window to the street and didn't see anybody and was a bit freaked out for a second.

finally got to see it last night...

lived up to my expectations.

I just gave in and watched it on the AMC site. Really, really great.

All of those Atlanta scenes were a trip.

Yeah, my only quibble was this street smart cop-guy not noticing that all those wrecked cars were LEAVING the city...and that there was no apparent military presence or "safe zone" when he got there.

Don't tell me the actual plot or whatever, but do they ever reveal what caused the Zombie uprising or whatever you wanna call it?

<--- (Is usually obsessed with back stories)

Watched the pilot/premiere last night. I'm sure I'll follow along now. I'd like to know what caused the zombies to become zombies and cause of the mass death.

I'm not fully caught up (the series is still going, btw) so I should probably leave this for someone else, but so far they've only sort of teased at an explanation. I'm on Volume 11, and Volume 13 comes out later this month. Each volume collects about six issues of the actual comic, and so I'd guess I'm about 15-16 issues behind where the series currently is. A single episode of the show will probably cover somewhere between 1-3 issues of the book if they follow it pretty closely. So far it seems like they might be.

The characters are basically just struggling to survive while kind of trying to find the cause/solution along the way, and so we may or may not ever get a real explanation. I'm sure whatever it is will be disappointing if that's what you're primarily interested in. That's not what the series is about, and I'll bet if you keep watching it, you probably won't really care after a while.

No, there's nothing I remember explaining an origin story, and I feel like I might remember Kirkman saying he had no interest in telling it. Although I could be mixing that up with another book of his. Of course, even if that is the case, Darabont might decide to create one at some point, but it ain't gonna be soon.

It's funny, because there are so many conflicting zombie types (fast vs. slow, infection via bites vs. fluid, can animals become zombies, etc...) that it takes awhile to establish a footing in what's going on in the story, and how much danger they're in. I think a lot of the stupid decisions you see early on show see the characters feeling it out for the viewer (or reader).

Good point that I had not considered. It doesn't really matter in terms of it being good or not good, it's just one of those things I'm always curious about.

Sorta like Mad Men. So, Draper grew up in the Depression, left home as some kind of hobo, and then went to Korea --

Let's say he's 8 in those flashbacks where the dad dies, and it's late in the Depression, say, 1937. That means he was born in what 1929 and he's now 36? That still puts him as joining the Army relatively late, even if you figure Dick becomes Don early in the war, say 1950, if he's still a butt private, he probably joined at 21. But he's obviously probably closer to 40, or in fact is 40. So add 4 years to his age, and what were the circumstances that led him to the Army at something like 24 or 25....

(See, I put way too much thought into this shit).

Poverty? Also a possibility that he was drafted. Also a possibility that he was drafted before the war started.

Right, but the fact that we was still a buck private made me figure he was inducted fairly soon before his incident, OR that he was so sorry at that point he might have been demoted/court marshalled.

And I figured that if he was a sorry hobo he probably wasn't drafted. I dunno, I think it's a bit of a plot hole, or potential plot problem, personally.

take that shit to the mad men thread.

Good pilot. My wife absolutely hated it and asked me what I could possibly find entertaining about it. I just mumbled something like "i like zombies" and she shook her head.

Good times.