CaptainFoamerang

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  1. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

    Oh, and I forgot to mention this before, but I was disappointed when Rick didn't grab the hatchet out of the bag of tricks.
  2. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    Well it's simply the term I use to refer to all those who aren't rabid fans of something, whether it's anime, scifi, or even zombie horror. Especially true if the fans are hopelessly outnumbered by those who aren't, similar ratio to the living Vs the zombie hoard.

    I first heard it used as a way to describe guests not part of the anime convention that took over the hotel. As in "don't annoy the mundanes, we would like to use this hotel next year".

    Edit: Yes, the term "mundane" probably came from Babylon 5 which was very popular and was still on the air at the time.
    I picked it up from Fables. I also like using "normals" from 30 Rock. >.>
  3. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

    I guess what confused me was how and when they addressed his death when Carl and Rick came out of the woods without him.
  4. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    Yep, you're mixing it around. It was when they got to the prison that they went back for Herschel and his crew. It was then that they put Herschel's farming knowledge to use and started digging up the grounds of the prison to put in gardens.
    I know that part happened, but I'm trying to work out the timeline between (**** it, I'll just say it) Shane getting shot and them finding the gated community, because Carl getting shot was what brought them to Hershel's like on the show and I don't remember Shane being at the community.
  5. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    The gated community was before Herschel's. They mention it in passing to Otis and Patricia and they comment on knowing about that place.
    Hmm I'm not sure. I could've sworn that once they got to the gated community there was talk of going back to get the folks at the farm, but maybe I'm confusing it with the prison?

    Anyway, I would've preferred Donna over that lady who "opted out" with Jenner, but it seems like they've given some of her loudmouth qualities to Daryl.
  6. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    Forgot about Jim. I was thinking Donna (the twins' mom), Amy, and the unnameable. That makes four before Herschel's place and they weren't exactly a big group.

    Ya, talking about her. They wasted half the damn second season dealing with how she was to get John to love her or some stupid **** and then she kills herself. I think she was a big part of what killed that show.
    Was the community before or after Hershel's farm?

    And I remember now. I'm deeply concerned that the writers of this show will try to draw everything out too much.
  7. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    There were three that I can remember offhand before they got to Herschel's.

    But you are right about the space thing. It's not like Sarah Connor Chronicles where they waste half a season on an utterly useless meatsack only to kill her off.
    Think it was Jim, Amy, and you know who (have we established rules on comic spoilers yet?). All of them had more emotional weight to their deaths than wifebeater, some black chick who apparently doesn't even warrant a name on the Wiki page of characters, and the douchey scientist.

    And are you talking about John's girlfriend?
  8. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    There were only a few deaths in the comics that had any weight to 'em to begin with. And that was only by the time it got to volume 5 or 6 of the TPBs. Most of the people were simply redshirts, which is what you are going to need for a zombie show.

    (IMO)
    There weren't many deaths before they got to Hershel's farm in the comics, really, but at least it didn't waste valuable space on characters you had pegged for death from the start.
  9. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by ChrisMoses View Post
    But you read the book, you know more are to come. Even if they decide to keep certain ones alive for longer, it's probably still imminent. By the nature of the show and all of the characters that come in and out of the cast (of the book), there is a necessity for a lot to die and/or "leave," otherwise they'd be on the run with a 30-member party.
    My complaint isn't so much the killing off of characters or the lack thereof, but rather they aren't doing anything interesting with them to give emotional weight to their deaths or extra time alive.
  10. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by ChrisMoses View Post
    A lot of characters have died already, or at least been grievously injured. I think that's more than most shows already.
    Sure, if you count the red shirts.
  11. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by CrazyJerseyan View Post
    Obviously the best show ever...just spent 3 thread pages talking about deer, camo, bullets and entry wounds

    edit: and hunting seasons
    I think it's more that we've managed to retain the forumites that enjoy arguing.
  12. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by MentalMaden View Post
    Pretty much how I feel about it as well. Finding her dead would be dramatic, but not near as dramatic as not finding her and then having the group decide how long is "long enough" to search for her and move on.
    I fully expected her to be at Hershel's farm.
  13. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    Well there's going to be two things that will hamper this show no matter how well intentioned they are and both of those things are based on the fact that it's on a basic cable network. One is that they can't do anything R-rated so that limits the overall level of violence, gore and/or extreme situations - the "balls" that you mentioned. The other is that they don't have a huge budget to make the show so they are likely going to have to make shortcuts to the story because of that.

    Again I don't think this is the best show ever made. But accepting the limitations it's having to deal with being on AMC I'm willing to cut it some slack. It's already far more interesting than most TV on the air now and as Mental_Giant said it's almost an "original" concept for a TV show, or at least as original as any TV usually gets now-a-days.

    At the very least it'll be interesting to see how it ends up differing from the comic book. It may not prove to be "better" than the original story but it might prove to be worthwhile as a completely new reformulation of the story.
    I don't really buy the basic cable reasoning, though. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Shield, Supernatural, Sons of Anarchy: basic cable, still had balls. I enjoy Kirkman's gutsy storytelling style, and that's what made the comic for me, and I'm seeing none of it here. It's also hard for me to believe it'll get better in that department when it can't bring itself to kill off characters that should already be dead. It has me wondering what else they'll drag out for the sake of filler.
  14. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

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    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    For what it's worth I've never really "raved" about this series. If you ever read my comments about the first series last year you'd know that pretty well.

    Despite that there are some moments that are good and interesting about this show. The basic premise is sound and it has a lot of room to work into something cool. Granted there are also some moments that are mind-numbingly silly as well, but like most things everything is relative. For instance I'd rate this show, for all it's faults, about a zillion times more enjoyable than Terra Nova.
    I wasn't really referring to you. I just get a sense from all the attention it gets from the internet and the media that folks are buying into the notion that this is the "it" show now. And I can't figure why that is, beyond some of the makeup effects. It's not particularly well-written, directed, or acted, and most of the characters aren't very interesting.

    I say this having read the comic series up to the last hardcover, so I suppose I'd say this show is missing the key ingredient that made the comic so enjoyable for me. Essentially, it has no balls.

    I'll continue watching in the hopes it improves. After all, I didn't think the comic started hitting on all cylinders until they settled in a location, but the way things are dragging along, I'm afraid they'll add so much that the series will burn out and get cancelled before they introduce key characters and events that made the comic so engaging.
  15. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walking Dead

    Am I the only one who's been unimpressed with this series? I feel like I'm going crazy with everyone raving about it.
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    Originally Posted by Nericus View Post
    4. Perhaps the worst live action anime ever: the first Guyver movie. Poor cast, poor direction, weak adaptation, weak budget.....and J.J. from Good Times as a rapping zoanoid.....egad......
    I would so be down for a Guyver reboot.
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    Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane View Post
    No.
    Looking at Comic Vine, there's like 3-4 books titled that. Which should I look at?


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    Look for the ones by JMS and Gary Frank under the MAX line. There's been others but they didn't quite capture what they did with the main title.
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    Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane View Post
    What alternative is there? Aside from never ever using your powers?

    The US government would not tolerate any individual that powerful that they could not directly control.

    You couldn't hide. If you could fly, they'd pick you up on radar and track you by satellite. They'd figure out pretty quick where your base of operations was from the patterns of anyone who sights you.

    If you turned yourself in, they would not hesitate to try and cut you to pieces to find out how you worked.

    Going public or getting the people's backing and support (if you even could), wouldn't help. The feds would attack you on a busy afternoon in Times Square in front of a crowd of millions and claim it was for national security. And they'd blame you for any casualties they cause.

    Even if you did nothing but catch falling planes, they'd just use the media to spin that it was you making them crash in the first place.

    Really, it has to come down to you or them. Like you said, either you seize control, or those in control will destroy you.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_Secret_Identity
    IMO, Superman: Secret Identity is probably the most "realistic" story about what would happen if someone half-decent got super powers 'in the real world', but even then I find it incredibly naive and overly optimistic.



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    Ever read Supreme Power?
  19. CaptainFoamerang

    The Walken Dead

    Just a heads-up: I posted this before, Sho, but a mod deleted it because of the blood and some swearing.
  20. I'm wary of the changes alluded to by the "curse" tag, but who am I kidding? It's not like I'm buying any of this New 52 crap anyway.
  21. Saw this yesterday. Overall I liked it for the robot fights but man was this movie cheesy. It was basically Hugh Jackman's Hancock. Oh, and I felt bad for the kid because Jake Loyd killed the market for kids who look like that.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    I was willing to let the name slide and assume it was a simple mistake rather than call him out on it. But since you brought it up, Chris Kent is a character that didn't show up until after Supes was an adult and has nothing to do with how Supes got his own hair cut as a child.
    Well, I'm not sure how his origin has been revised since the last time it was official, but last I checked, Superman gradually got his powers as he got older, so he (and his hair) weren't always so invulnerable.
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    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    So Batman knows Supermans secret identity when he (Supes) was three years old and built him a device that let him get his hair cut?

    Pretty sure Supes didn't build his fortress of solitude til he was an adult.


    Edit: Oh and if Bruce and Clark knew each other as kids, why did Clark let Bruce's parents get murdered? As Superboy he could have traveled back in time and saved their lives.
    Read the post again, sir. It said Chris Kent, not Clark. As in the Krytponian boy that crashed on Earth during the Last Son arc.
  24. Is that the Martian Manhunter on the bad guys' side? o.O
  25. So, with The Avengers trailer released this week, it seems that the non-geeky folk, or "normals" as one might call them, are getting in on discussions that we've been having for decades, particularly concerning timelines, continuity, comparisons of storytellling quality between different creators handling the same property, and potential slugfests.

    On one hand I look at this trend and get a little smile while "one of us, one of us . . ." chants in my head, and I feel glad that I can broach the topic of comics and have more people pick up on it and get interested.

    On the other hand, the normals are getting their grubby hands all over the subject of superheroes and fumbling around with facts and feats that we have memorized, and they have more buying power than us.

    So, should we be proud or mortified?