The general consensus on The Walking Dead--the Darabont-helmed AMC show based on the great comics by Robert Kirkman--seems to boil down to two reactions
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Most people accuse Kirkman (and now the show here) for ripping off 28DL, but what few realize (so few that it's not even mentioned on Wikipedia) is that 28DL itself ripped off a New Zealand film called The Quiet Earth. In it, a man wakes up (in the same full-frontal nude shot that was replicated in 28DL with Cillian Murphy) to discover that everybody else on Earth has vanished.
... That's actually kind of WORSE, because that means The Walking Dead was stealing rather blatantly from a scene that was itself stolen, so instead of going to the same source as 28 Days Later, it copied the copy of that movie. What happens to a picture's quality when you Xerox a Xerox of it?
That being said, The Walking Dead is very competently and professionally made - well-acted, well-directed, tightly written - but even speaking as someone who tried the comic off and on over the years, I've SEEN all this shit BEFORE, so watching the mainstream media go apeshit over it NOW feels like when everyone suddenly decided, in the wake of Dr. Evil in the first
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Also? True story: During my wartime deployments, I specifically refused to tell my fellow sailors about any of my loved ones back home. I just wouldn't do it. Once the ship pulled back into Norfolk, THEN I'd tell stories, but while we were out to sea? NEVER. I refused to risk the possibility that genre conventions would crop up in my own real life.
HEY CHARLIE SHEEN I KNOW WE'RE BOTH TRYING NOT TO GET KILLED HERE IN VIETNAM BUT TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PICTURE OF MY GIRLFRIEND BACK HOME WHO WILL BE SO DISTRAUGHT IF I WIND UP CRIPPLED OR KILLED
Certain shit just qualifies as inviting fate to assrape you, no matter who you are.
I'm with you - I also actually liked it better than the comic. I hope they let it go past just six episodes. The mood was perfect. Then again, I'm also a big fan of 28DL. This is my kind of zombie shit. Andrew Lincoln did a great job, too.
Actually, I consider P&P&Z to be pure comedy. When it's 85% original Austen text, it's all just shits and giggles to me, not horror.
You do need to. I cannot begin to tell you how utterly in love I am with this whole show, and season 3 is by far the best. I actually thought of bloodbending early on, but thought there was NO WAY they would do it because....it was a kid's show. When they did, I was utterly thrilled. Hell, it's actually got me writing fanfic again.
....that probably should have just been a 'thank you,' right? Thank you.
To possibly make matters worse, Walking Dead is essentially a long-form take on a George Romero zombie movie, with McCarthy's The Road thrown in for good measure. The source material isn't really original either. But at least neither of them is an out-and-out remake, right?
Besides, hey, anything that might get more people reading comics is cool by me.
Either way, I understand the show is gonna diverge from the comic in significant (and intentional) ways, so I daresay there shall be a great deal of originality from Darabont's vision vs. the source material. I already saw a fair amount of that in the pilot.
Oh well. Zombies are zombies are zombies, I guess. This isn't fantasy, after all. Horror's always been for What We Fear, so essentially it's the same stuff over and over with different icing.
I think my favourite zombie is still Ghoulia Yelps, though. And I'm still brewing this idea about zombies being completely normal people just dead and brain-ivorous (or something; still working out details).
Of course, I have whole ideas about how Ghoulia represents differently-abled people in the sense that she can only 'speak zombie', and that she can't move very quickly and has low dexterity, and how frustrated she gets because she's really intelligent but has difficulty communicating. I mean seriously.
But anyway, here I go talking about my crazy toy fandom when there's novels about prohibition gangsters that happen to be unicorns and dragons to write! *skips off*
There was a point when I seriously thought Kirkman was going to kill off the entire cast and continue the series focusing on the father-son team of Morgan and Duane.
It's too late, I've already become attached. Because I might want this more than anything (well, the focus more so than the culling).
haven't read much of the comic, but i picked up the Image Firsts reprint of #1 on Sunday and didn't touch it until after the premiere liked the televersion better
I've been trying to come up with a response, but nothing I could say wouldn't be spoil-y. I don't know if you plan to read the comics, or just stick with the show, and I dunno what Darabont might do with them that differs from the comics. But either way: brace yourself.
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... That's actually kind of WORSE, because that means The Walking Dead was stealing rather blatantly from a scene that was itself stolen, so instead of going to the same source as 28 Days Later, it copied the copy of that movie. What happens to a picture's quality when you Xerox a Xerox of it?
That being said, The Walking Dead is very competently and professionally made - well-acted, well-directed, tightly written - but even speaking as someone who tried the comic off and on over the years, I've SEEN all this shit BEFORE, so watching the mainstream media go apeshit over it NOW feels like when everyone suddenly decided, in the wake of Dr. Evil in the first ( ... )
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Certain shit just qualifies as inviting fate to assrape you, no matter who you are.
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Actually, I consider P&P&Z to be pure comedy. When it's 85% original Austen text, it's all just shits and giggles to me, not horror.
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....that probably should have just been a 'thank you,' right? Thank you.
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Then again, this means they took like a week to subtitle it, which will only make my head hurt.
(It's going to air in four hours!)
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Damn it, I was going along thinking it was original (so to speak). What the fuck. Now I am less excited.
It still gave me nightmares, and was great, but damn it, can't we get ONE SINGLE THING that isn't based on a comic or a book or a true story, please??
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Besides, hey, anything that might get more people reading comics is cool by me.
Either way, I understand the show is gonna diverge from the comic in significant (and intentional) ways, so I daresay there shall be a great deal of originality from Darabont's vision vs. the source material. I already saw a fair amount of that in the pilot.
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I think my favourite zombie is still Ghoulia Yelps, though. And I'm still brewing this idea about zombies being completely normal people just dead and brain-ivorous (or something; still working out details).
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But anyway, here I go talking about my crazy toy fandom when there's novels about prohibition gangsters that happen to be unicorns and dragons to write! *skips off*
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It's too late, I've already become attached. Because I might want this more than anything (well, the focus more so than the culling).
haven't read much of the comic, but i picked up the Image Firsts reprint of #1 on Sunday and didn't touch it until after the premiere
liked the televersion better
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