The Walking Dead on AMC

**Astrozombie** · 03-19-2012, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by dtrrman

I always wondered at the lack of vehicle ingenuity in shows like these. With a vehicle strewn freeway with hundreds of potential vehicles dozens miles long and the best these people come up with is a subaru, a beat up chevy surburban and a junk on its last legs RV and a motorcycle? I would be driving a semi-tractor, armored truck, something big, something I can just about run anything over with or use to move things out of the way with or drag 53 foot trailers with. They were on a farm in farm country, find some farm machinery, a big JD 4WD with a 30 or 40 foot wing tiller or a combine and lure the whole pack out into a field and mow them down like bowling pins,
they would make great fertilizer. They follow sound. They are filling gas cans from a parked tanker truck, take the
whole damn truck! The last thing I would be driving around in is a freakin' suburu.

Nothing like a Monday morning zombie survivalist

**Willie Mays Hayes** · 03-19-2012, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by dtrrman

I always wondered at the lack of vehicle ingenuity in shows like these. With a vehicle strewn freeway with hundreds of potential vehicles dozens miles long and the best these people come up with is a subaru, a beat up chevy surburban and a junk on its last legs RV and a motorcycle? I would be driving a semi-tractor, armored truck, something big, something I can just about run anything over with or use to move things out of the way with or drag 53 foot trailers with. They were on a farm in farm country, find some farm machinery, a big JD 4WD with a 30 or 40 foot wing tiller or a combine and lure the whole pack out into a field and mow them down like bowling pins, they would make great fertilizer. They follow sound. They are filling gas cans from a parked tanker truck, take the whole damn truck! The last thing I would be driving around in is a freakin' suburu.

If I recall, it's a Hyundai and it's a product placement. Dale had a line earlier in the season where he said to Shane, "why don't you pack up that nice car of yours and leave?" (paraphrasing)

**dtrrman** · 03-20-2012, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by Ilov80s

These are the dumbest people on TV, but it makes for a fun show. The last 2 episodes saved what was a disappointing second season.

Well from what I gather, they(producers and writers) heard about it from fans of the show regarding the whole "finding the little girl/love triangle/lori's pregnant/endless moralizing conversation theme that bogged down the whole show for 5 or six episodes and got the message. Agree, the last two or three episodes salvaged the season. The whole searching endlessly for the girl thing was becoming a joke.

**micmac1369** · 03-20-2012, 07:30 PM

Well...for me the end was ok. I had these complex theories of why the zombies were there. Was it sabotage? Was it the other group?

And it turns out to be because a &^&#ing helicopter flew by..what 2-3 months earlier? You mean to tell me nothing else distracted the mob before then? I was a bit pissed at that. And no rushing rivers, no cliffs, no walls, nothing?

I did like the prison thing at the end. It got me thinking. It has to be the best spot. High concrete walls, towers, medical, food, water, arms and armor, special swat gear, fuel, prison buses and security cars, communications, generators, library, maybe a copter, etc. Basically the perfect spot. You fortify that right- no zombie ever gets in unless some dumbass lets them in.

and Dtr- I hear ya. There is some advantage to a variety of vehicles with varying ranges though. Different passenger capacity, size, fuel requirements, etc.

But yeah. Get some vehicles that can be armed/armored. Maybe the prison will help that?

**psycaz** · 03-20-2012, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by micmac1369

Well...for me the end was ok. I had these complex theories of why the zombies were there. Was it sabotage? Was it the other group?

And it turns out to be because a &^&#ing helicopter flew by..what 2-3 months earlier? You mean to tell me nothing else distracted the mob before then? I was a bit pissed at that. And no rushing rivers, no cliffs, no walls, nothing?

I did like the prison thing at the end. It got me thinking. It has to be the best spot. High concrete walls, towers, medical, food, water, arms and armor, special swat gear, fuel, prison buses and security cars, communications, generators, library, maybe a copter, etc. Basically the perfect spot. You fortify that right- no zombie ever gets in unless some dumbass lets them in.

and Dtr- I hear ya. There is some advantage to a variety of vehicles with varying ranges though. Different passenger capacity, size, fuel requirements, etc.

But yeah. Get some vehicles that can be armed/armored. Maybe the prison will help that?

I think it was another/different helicopter flight than we saw earlier.

**Astrozombie** · 03-20-2012, 08:03 PM

No it was the same helicoptor Rick saw per the writer. It took a few weeks to reach the farm

**MattZ1318** · 03-20-2012, 08:08 PM

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**The Great Gazoo** · 03-22-2012, 08:15 AM

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it's like old time radio...good production value...it's called "we're alive"

they release 20min segments once a week...pretty good...