Can't understand why they don't fortify the prison more. Got to be some heavy equipment they could find. Got to think medieval, pits that you can light when they fill up with walkers, reinforcing the fences, creating killing zones between the inner and outer fences. You don't sit around and farm all day when you have an army massing outside your walls. I'd also be working on some improvised flame throwers.

(10-21-2013 06:30 PM)banker Wrote:  Can't understand why they don't fortify the prison more. Got to be some heavy equipment they could find. Got to think medieval, pits that you can light when they fill up with walkers, reinforcing the fences, creating killing zones between the inner and outer fences. You don't sit around and farm all day when you have an army massing outside your walls. I'd also be working on some improvised flame throwers.

I like the idea of the "stick fences" that they have already built... they need more of them.

The problem with flame throwers is that instead of having zombies outside of the fence, you would have zombies outside of the fence who can bite you and burn whatever structures you have built to the ground.

Pits. Really deep pits. These need to be built... then you can burn the ones in them to a crispy crunch. They could also be a potential source of power to the compound LOL.

(10-21-2013 06:30 PM)banker Wrote:  Can't understand why they don't fortify the prison more. Got to be some heavy equipment they could find. Got to think medieval, pits that you can light when they fill up with walkers, reinforcing the fences, creating killing zones between the inner and outer fences. You don't sit around and farm all day when you have an army massing outside your walls. I'd also be working on some improvised flame throwers.

Agree, if Morgan can fortify a whole street, no reason these guys shouldn't be able to.

Then again, if they had a bad ass fort where zombies couldn't get in, then we would have Seinfeld, a show about nothing!

Tricky part is having time to build all of these great defense mechanisms. Kinda hard to do when you've got literally hundreds of walkers outside the fence. Wouldn't be nearly as easy as some of you make it sound.

(10-22-2013 01:30 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  Tricky part is having time to build all of these great defense mechanisms. Kinda hard to do when you've got literally hundreds of walkers outside the fence. Wouldn't be nearly as easy as some of you make it sound.

They should move north to Hampton, Virginia. The Army just recently moved out and Fort Monroe has a moat all the way around.

(10-21-2013 02:13 PM)Ned Low Wrote:  I have no idea who is behind the body-burning and the walker-feeding. It almost has to be one of the main characters so that when discovered, the drama can be tuned up.

It'll be The Governor...

Regarding their next locale, they are supposed to go to a "Hilltop Community" soon, probably by the beginning of next season.

They head to a walled city in the books after getting out of the prison. Good story line in between. Gonna have to kill off a lot of characters between now and then to make it even have any semblence of the same story though.

(10-22-2013 01:53 PM)TheDancinMonarch Wrote:  

(10-22-2013 01:30 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  Tricky part is having time to build all of these great defense mechanisms. Kinda hard to do when you've got literally hundreds of walkers outside the fence. Wouldn't be nearly as easy as some of you make it sound.

They should move north to Hampton, Virginia. The Army just recently moved out and Fort Monroe has a moat all the way around.

That is awesome. "We" need to pool our money together, buy the place and start stocking it ASAP... one can never be too prepared for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.

Regarding the story line: I would not look for too much semblance to the comic's in the TV series. I think that we'll see the Governor killed along the introduction of Negan, but other than that I don't think that the story will match that of the comics too much going forward. The writers have even hinted that this version of the story takes place in an alternate universe.

(10-20-2013 10:03 PM)72Tiger Wrote:  

(10-20-2013 10:01 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-20-2013 09:53 PM)Ned Low Wrote:  Another good episode tonight. The folks that said the virus was transmitted via "normal" methods were correct.

Who fed the rat to the walker at the beginning of the show and who is burning the bodies?

I think it's the older daughter who feeds the walkers. The body burner has to be one of the counsel and a man. Could it be Daryl?

Maybe the doctor is the burner.

I could buy that the govenor found him and has black mailed him or simply got him to infiltrate the prison.

observations from last night's episode:
1) The woodburry people must be kicking themselves for moving into the prison to where they are just about all sick and ready to die!
2) Tyresse has got to be pissed that the other 3 just left him for dead... when he returns to the group and they continue on there trip, must be AWKWARD!
3) I would still like to see a baby zombie

I don't think Tyrese would have any reason to be pissed. He had basically given up on life at that point, but then decided that it was worth continuing on.

I haven't really liked this season. Starting to lose interest in the show honestly.

Every time I see Tyresse I think of him as Cutty in "The Wire." No way Rick gives him a black eye

(10-28-2013 03:13 PM)Niner National Wrote:  I haven't really liked this season. Starting to lose interest in the show honestly.

Same. Next week needs to do something or anyone I know that watches it has a similar sense. Might be a good time to finally read the books if I lost complete interest.

Even the Carol "twist" didn't intrigue me.

(10-28-2013 07:34 PM)Cr8n Wrote:  

(10-28-2013 03:13 PM)Niner National Wrote:  I haven't really liked this season. Starting to lose interest in the show honestly.

Same. Next week needs to do something or anyone I know that watches it has a similar sense. Might be a good time to finally read the books if I lost complete interest.

Even the Carol "twist" didn't intrigue me.

Maybe I am an odd ball, but I've enjoyed the season so far. It's doing exactly what it needed to do: continue to develop the characters in a realistic (given that things are "apocalyptic") fashion.

Of course the survivors are going to not be as guarded when the walker threat is around; they've become used to it and they now feel more comfortable dealing with it. Of course they can't spend all day killing walkers; they also have to eat and drink. Once again, (at least in my view) the show needs to continue to use the walkers as a backdrop, along with the fall of most rules of law... they need to keep showing how people change and how they cope.

Herschel is going to die soon, IMHO. Maybe he'll die of sickness or maybe a walker will eat him alive. As for Carol, I dig the direction her character has taken...

I admit that I'm a big fan so maybe I'm looking at things through TWD glasses but so far, the season is going well. Better than last year's...

Daryl and the group may take several episodes to get back to camp. Also, The Governor is somewhere near or in the prison if I were to guess; I think that he is the one feeding the rats and possibly the one who has helped cause the sickness, possibly by tainting the water supply. You have to admit that "water" has been seen a lot in recent episodes.

I think I might just be bored with the prison. I'm a fanboy myself and I may be getting swayed in my view a bit from my wife who was over it a 1/4 way through last season.

Some of the stuff they are doing is just stupid I think and that may be where they are losing me. I do like Carol's character but I wasn't surprised it was her that killed the 2... or well we've been led to assume she killed them. I presume they were dead and she burned them before they could turn. Exactly as she should do. The rest are acting dumb about it. I guess I just want it to be a tad less soap opera and a bit more gritty like it was the first season. But I guess I can see how they have to develop the characters more before they make a huge plot shift and they leave the prison.

I too fear Hershel is the next to go, as he is one of my favorite characters.

I agree with another poster that I think it was one of those girls feeding the walkers. She was naming them so it makes sense that she fed them.

edit: I just remembered the scene where they showed the horde of walkers... I'll be patient.

I'm just getting tired of the episodes. The first few minutes are alright, followed by 30 minutes or boring content, followed by a cliffhanger ending that makes you watch again the next week.

Rinse and repeat. It was alright for a while, I'm just getting tired of it.

This weeks episode didn't really follow that flow all that much, but most of the episodes do. I'll probably give it the rest of this season, but if it doesn't progress much I'll probably stop watching after this year.

I see what y'all are saying and it makes sense.

To me, "survival" would be a pretty boring thing if not for human drama, human threats or zombies that wanted to eat you. The show is giving us that without going overboard (yes, I just said that about a show with zombies in it).

BTW, did anyone catch the show about the blackout on NGC last night? I forget it's title, but I would imagine that it had something to do with a EMP burst. That's a threat I've known about for a while and until recently, I had not paid it too much mind... but it is a very real and serious threat, especially with out power gird/infrastructure being in the shape that it's in.

If a scenario like that were to occur I would give society exactly three months before all hell broke loose. I don't even think that the military could contain the violence that would result.

Show is better when they are moving and fighting. I think the flu is just a way to thin the herd of people so they can get them down to a manageable number and get them mobile again.

(10-28-2013 09:23 PM)OVERHERD Wrote:  Show is better when they are moving and fighting.

In the movie World War Z, Brad Pitt's character says "Movement is Life". Keep moving if you want to survive.

Unfortunately, it seems the directors don't want that to happen.

Here we are in the fourth season and nothing has really happened. People are dying off, but that's it.

I've lost interest.

Thank God Paramount gave the green light for WWZ 2. Can't wait.

Way I look at it, they have to move soon. Been at the prison too long. That mass of walkers they encountered on the highway may be coming their way.