The Walking Dead

Some friend you have. A true friend wouldn't drag you into watching this shitshow.

Maester Chuk_sl said:

Watching them tend a garden advances the storyline better than any episode this season.how hard is it to show them buying seeds and making a little speech about how thats their future garden? Then when they show the scene of carol and the moustache inmate talking before he gets sniped they coulda been heading out to water the plants. These guys walk around outside so many times for no reason, it would only help the show if they gave them stuff to do while they took their dialogue dumps.

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Lets not confuse BETTER with GOOD.
Sure, it would advance the story. But I would sooner try to chew out my own asshole then watch Carol plant seeds. Worrying about where water comes is fucking irrelevant. Fuck plants. That shit is for people who complain about EVERYTHING.

All I ask is that when you build to a war, the fucking war happens.

Fadaar_sl said:

What's really fucked up is the actress that plays her is actually 27, same age as me. I thought she was like 16 this whole time...

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Well I can feel better about my desire to nail her.

Brahma_sl said:

My buddy hipped me to this show a few weeks back. Caught up to the season 3 finale.

This show rocks! Cept that last episode. What a let down. Matter fact, I didn't think the 2nd half of season 3 was that great, past a couple long timers dying.

They really need to jump a few years ahead, and have the kid being a badass. Or have him leave his pop, becauuse he just doesn't think daddy is getting the job done.

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How the hell did you not watch all of season 2 rapid fire and not wonder when the fuck anything will happen. And then nothing ever happens.

Gunnar_sl said:

Lets not confuse BETTER with GOOD.
Sure, it would advance the story. But I would sooner try to chew out my own asshole then watch Carol plant seeds. Worrying about where water comes is fucking irrelevant. Fuck plants. That shit is for people who complain about EVERYTHING.

All I ask is that when you build to a war, the fucking war happens.

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dont get me wrong, i dont have a farmer fetish and i rather see an episode of pimp my backyard than awesome zombie wars. im just saying that this season was so dull that the most mediocre of events, such as raisjng your own food to survive an apocolypse is so fucking much better than dumbasses sitting around in the dark hating on some dude who created a real community for people to live semi normal lives.

So I downloaded The Colony at the recommendation of more than one person here. First things first: fuck you guys. This is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Why the hell can't there be a show that shows you what clever things you can do in the wake of a global catastrophe? That's an INTERESTING idea, and the *real* stuff they've done so far in episodes 1 and 2 are kind of cool. Why the fuck does it have to be this dramatized fake conflict? Marauders, are you fuckin serious? The narrator says "the marauders are instructed not to hurt the colonists, but the colonists don't know that." IT'S A TELEVISION SHOW. New colonists show up and the handyman gets mad: "fine just let EVERYONE in then!" the new colonists trying to negotiate their way in, putting down their knives, etc. They're god damn cast members. The handyman talking to the camera at the end saying "this isn't some orphanage" or whatever the fuck he said about letting new people in. THE PRODUCERS PUT THEM IN THE SHOW.

The handyman is getting angry at the engineers for making something work and ignoring him. It's completely fabricated. Why the fuck does drama have to be the center of every fucking show ever made. This is Discovery channel. The concept of the show is INTERESTING.

I hate tv.

IIRC (it has been a few years) I think the marauders really only played a major role in the first few episodes and the last few. But yeah it was pretty stupid when they were there.

The contrived conflicts were stupid, but that wasnt the reason people enjoyed it. Its the cool mcgyver shit they came up with to tackle problems

Despite the fact that it was dramatized, rumor has it that the latest season of The Colony was cancelled due to someone being killed on the set.

Guy was killed by a hostile when he was hit in the head and fell down some stairs.

the amount of land they would need to open up and clear to establish for farming/grazing would require enough zombie kills to make everyone happy during those shows.

wasn't there another series with just one guy running around after the apocalypse making/fixing crap?

I can't remember if this is all because of my post originally, but the only reason I brought it up was because when they first got to the prison, they had an actual scene where they discussed planting stuff (think it was right before the kumbaya sing-along crap).

No worries elurin, its just one of many things that was never delivered during the season.

Ya, anything they grow is just going to be a supplement to diet with the limited grow space. Even if they converted the entire prison yard into a farm, it's still not enough space. Scavenging and hunting/gathering is still going to be the prime source of food.

I'm of the opinion what the walking dead tv show is set in an alternate universe as the comic and it just plain sucks. They've changed/abandoned too much from the comics... it's like they were all "this is a good idea, let's remove it and make our version without a doubt far worse." Genius!

Seriously, there's a reason books/comics get popular, don't change them for no reason.

all these numbers can vary greatly depending on land, location etc.
with no livestock/hunting/industrial farming they would need farmland the size of of football field per person. unless growing something like rice. you would need to have a lot of heirloom seeds or crops yields would be lower.

Livestock would be easier as all the yards would make good grazing.
cows, each would need something like 15+ acres (grazing and stores for winter).
grazing pigs, 5-10 per acre.
egg laying chicken needs about 2 pounds of feed per week. pretty sure these can not only forage/graze and have to have supplemental food. wild chickens can get by foraging/grazing but don't produce that many eggs.

So what you're saying is that these people should've starved a long time ago.

Well the point of the show isn't Man vs Wild Zombie Edition it is a drama after all. It is just a poorly written, poorly executed drama.