OK, I write this as a total stranger to the comic, but a great appreciator of the Zombie genre that has been lacking a caricature-less franchise on TV ever since the genre was created.
Apart from the obvious similarities to "28 days later", which I gather is almost unknown to the US, I fast-forward to episode 2 season 1.
The Sheriff is inside an M1A1 Abrams tank surrounded by zombies with no apparent means of escape (some eager beavers would immediately point out: "tank", ".50 cal" and "key in the ignition" which would lead to a wondrous zombipolcalypse of its own.
Of course things are done old school: a voice on the radio provides guidance and escape for our hero who is now stuck in another dead end, a department store, with out-of-town survivors who happened to come searching for supplies.
(sidenote: Meanwhile, while our hero faces certain doom, his wife is getting boned by his best friend, somewhere on the outskirts of his old town.)
Now, apart from the so-and-so acting and whole zombies running/using tools/acting intelligently crap, the story completely loses it when this "man on a mission" who is desperately looking for his wife and child (and so far that seems to be it), forgets the friggin' obvious: ask the survivors some basic questions like "did you happen to see my wife Lori and my son?", or "where are the other survivors" - there were moments where this could have happened (when he is guarding the door with a blonde character whose primary concern is filching a mermaid necklace), for gods sake... he is talking about family with her but somehow fails to mention/ask about his own.
So... FastFw a bit and the hero survives the ordeal as do the other characters and you find out they are all part of the same group of survivors where his wife and son currently reside.
Wow. At this rate, episode 3 should see the end of the show.
sorry guys. This guy is on a mission, but he can't seem to be able to act like he's on that particular mission?
Between the stupid shallow characters, the running/dextrous zombies and the sidekick riding a mustang woohooing out of the city (noise attracts zombies dude, your alarm is still on... you'll lead them to the rest of the survivors and it'll be a picnic...)
*sigh*
could've been so good.
PS: haven't seen episode 3 yet...
Apart from the obvious similarities to "28 days later", which I gather is almost unknown to the US, I fast-forward to episode 2 season 1.
The Sheriff is inside an M1A1 Abrams tank surrounded by zombies with no apparent means of escape (some eager beavers would immediately point out: "tank", ".50 cal" and "key in the ignition" which would lead to a wondrous zombipolcalypse of its own.
Of course things are done old school: a voice on the radio provides guidance and escape for our hero who is now stuck in another dead end, a department store, with out-of-town survivors who happened to come searching for supplies.
(sidenote: Meanwhile, while our hero faces certain doom, his wife is getting boned by his best friend, somewhere on the outskirts of his old town.)
Now, apart from the so-and-so acting and whole zombies running/using tools/acting intelligently crap, the story completely loses it when this "man on a mission" who is desperately looking for his wife and child (and so far that seems to be it), forgets the friggin' obvious: ask the survivors some basic questions like "did you happen to see my wife Lori and my son?", or "where are the other survivors" - there were moments where this could have happened (when he is guarding the door with a blonde character whose primary concern is filching a mermaid necklace), for gods sake... he is talking about family with her but somehow fails to mention/ask about his own.
So... FastFw a bit and the hero survives the ordeal as do the other characters and you find out they are all part of the same group of survivors where his wife and son currently reside.
Wow. At this rate, episode 3 should see the end of the show.
sorry guys. This guy is on a mission, but he can't seem to be able to act like he's on that particular mission?
Between the stupid shallow characters, the running/dextrous zombies and the sidekick riding a mustang woohooing out of the city (noise attracts zombies dude, your alarm is still on... you'll lead them to the rest of the survivors and it'll be a picnic...)
*sigh*
could've been so good.
PS: haven't seen episode 3 yet...