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Just finished watching the pilot. We, hubby and I think it awesome. I did not know it was based on a comic book.
Once he arrives there and [SPOILEROMG]finds his family[/ENDOFSPOILEROMG], he wants to move the camp away from the city right away. This creates friction between him and the leader.
I thought the horse would be throughout the season. My husband got a little mad that the horse died. He kept telling the character, "You promised the horse it wouldn't get hurt." Or something like that.
I plan on posting my review on my blog earlier (for anyone who wants me to expand on these points,) but the following in particular were what killed it for me:
1 - Comparisons/similarities to Dawn/28 Days
2 - The sexism
3 - The timeline. He couldn't have been laying in a hospital for a week, let alone a month and lived without any kind of care, let alone food and water.
4 - The stupidity/contradiction of the main characters
5 - The horse
*shrug*
Add to the fact that a thousand-plus animal would allow itself to get pulled down by corpses in advanced stage of decomposition... it was just ridiculous. A horse isn't that dumb.
Add to the fact that a thousand-plus animal would allow itself to get pulled down by corpses in advanced stage of decomposition... it was just ridiculous. A horse isn't that dumb.
To give some credit to the movie, the character wasn't letting the horse run away when it wanted to, at the first sight of the corpses when there was only one or two off that bus. There were a lot of corpses I think it was just a matter of getting overwhelmed by the number of them.
What is the link to your blog?
I didn't sense any sexism in the show.
Didn't the horse get scared and fall, throwing the rider when it was surrounded?
Was a time specified? He did have an IV in. And you can live a long time without food as long as you are hydrated. If the rate of an IV is set low, it can hydrate the person for a good bit. Even without electricity the pump would keep on going since they also have a battery that kicks in.
According to the comic(I looked it up), the guy was in a coma for three months. So we can assume that when he finally did wake up, whatever had taken place had happened within a reasonable amount of time for him to still live minus any nursing care.
Did they explain how long he was out without any care? The man said 'lines were down for a month.' :/
It's a little far-fetched someone could live on a slow IV drip for a month (considering electricity may be down, too), but I think that's something that audience can choose to suspend their disbelief on. Still unlikely, however.
The first five/seven minutes was spent between two characters talking about women can't have light bulbs and that men would never be so cruel as to say something negative in front of their children.