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Post by Matthew on Sept 15, 2010 11:44:59 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg46DWI_fCENew TV series from the US due to screen over there on October 31st and no doubt available from the usual sources very soon afterwards. Based on a series of graphic novels it looks like some stunningly good Zombie fun and high jinx allied with what seems, at least from the trailer, some of the best visual post-apocalyptic mayhem yet.
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Post by halforc on Sept 17, 2010 2:18:12 GMT
Seen this advertised, its on FXUK I think based on the graphic novels (probably v.loosely) and looks great.
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Post by edwin on Sept 17, 2010 17:01:00 GMT
Sorry, sorry but Zombies ain't got nothing to do with post fall etc. They are fiction and just one more item for fictional novels or films.
Obvious perhaps but they are irrelevant.
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Post by Matthew on Sept 17, 2010 20:47:40 GMT
Sorry, sorry but Zombies ain't got nothing to do with post fall etc. They are fiction and just one more item for fictional novels or films. Obvious perhaps but they are irrelevant. Well they are a very popular part of the whole fictional post-apoc experience and bring a lot of people into the wider genre. I used to be a bit snooty about Zombie films and so on, seeing them as more horror than real post-apoc but I have mellowed over the years and whilst there can be a lot of tripe out there has been a real energy and some excellent output recently. 'World War Z' is in my opinion a post-apoc classic and 'Sean of the Dead' never fails to bring a smile. |
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Post by halforc on Sept 18, 2010 0:57:14 GMT
I used to be a bit snooty about Zombie films and so on, seeing them as more horror than real post-apoc but I have mellowed over the years and whilst there can be a lot of tripe out there has been a real energy and some excellent output recently. 'World War Z' is in my opinion a post-apoc classic and 'Sean of the Dead' never fails to bring a smile. You got red on you. |
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Post by halforc on Sept 25, 2010 0:47:15 GMT
saw a new ad on FXUK tonight and it looks like the date for first showing is 5-11-10.
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Post by shifty on Sept 28, 2010 7:11:06 GMT
Sorry, sorry but Zombies ain't got nothing to do with post fall etc. They are fiction and just one more item for fictional novels or films. Obvious perhaps but they are irrelevant. Actually when you look at the zombie genre from the 28 days later/Rec POV and similar fiction then it isnt anymore far fetched than any other EOTWAWKI scenaro. Just imagine rabies with a faster incubation rate and you've got yourself a glorified "zombie virus" With humans reliance on medication and our obsession with batting down the common cold with antibiotics, its a wide spread theory that we will start seeing severe mutations of current virus's. |
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Post by shifty on Oct 4, 2010 20:01:36 GMT
Actually when you look at the zombie genre from the 28 days later/Rec POV and similar fiction then it isnt anymore far fetched than any other EOTWAWKI scenaro. After watching Rec2. I take the Rec part back. But still isn't as far fetched as people think. |
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Post by Matthew on Oct 29, 2010 15:51:17 GMT
Only a couple of more days. Have high hopes for this seeing me through a miserable November.
I would guess it will be available from all the usual sources come November 1st.
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Post by Matthew on Nov 10, 2010 20:52:46 GMT
Reading some great reviews and apparently on the strength of them from the first two episodes a second series has already been given the go ahead.
Not watched them myself as saving them all up for a Christmas treat and plan to get myself a clear night when it will be some cold beer, some hot curry and a fresh bottle of Irish Gold to help me while away a night of Zombie mayhem.
Simple things and all that.
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Post by halforc on Nov 13, 2010 1:29:53 GMT
watched first 2 episodes now, looking forward to the next, so far it has kept close to the Graphic novels although we don't know his wife and kid are ok until later in the comics, apparently it has had the highest viewing figures of any show on american cable so I guess Zombie apoc is popular.
btw, in my opinion 28 days/ weeks don't count as zombie apoc, they are virus/plague victims 'ragers' aren't zombies
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Post by Matthew on Feb 9, 2011 21:32:24 GMT
Just finished watching. Simply brilliant. Some of the best PA fiction I have ever watched. Some great twists and it really takes the genre seriously. Excellent human interest stories, flawed characters and their reactions to all sorts of situations ring very true.
A must watch.
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Post by Matthew on Apr 14, 2011 15:11:14 GMT
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Post by Matthew on Dec 30, 2011 10:03:34 GMT
Just started watching season 2. 3 episodes in and its as good as the first one. Well worth 'aquiring' if you dont want to wait for it to be shown on conventional TV over here.
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Post by northernraider1 on Dec 30, 2011 11:27:26 GMT
Guys you need to grasp that some writers use the Zombie characters in place of sheeple simply to get the book, movie, series taken up by producers, did you know the earliest reference to Zombies in the sense we are talking about was by an RAF officer when looking for suitable titles to name the expected huge masses of starving rampaging dispossessed survivors fleeing from British cities after a nuclear attack. Zombies was just a good title to apply to the mega refugee hordes expected to flee our big cities and it got taken up and used by War Planners, Civil Defence and MOD planners. So very often if you look at the way some authors portray their Zombies you can actually see they are refering in part to any large unguided moving body of instinct driven desperate refugees.
As for the Walking Dead I hate the comic book series it leaves me suicidal, but the TV series is not following the original storyline and is more optimistic, thank god. IE Daryl the redneck alround hero and good guy does not feature in the comic at all.
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