I watched this when it came out and remember liking it, particularly Frank Darabont's crisp dialog. On a second viewing, 13 years later, woah. There are some problems.
So, Rick Grimes gets shot in the side. It's bad, but not crazy bad. He's in the hospital and he passes out, apparently, because when he wakes up the world has been entirely transformed. And not just in the span of a few hours. The changes had to take days, maybe weeks.
At least a week.
The world is wrecked. Rick slept through tanks and helicopters and absolute mayhem. The slaughter of hundreds of zombies. Bedlam in the hospital. Rick was unconscious so long that people gave names to the zombies - "walkers" - and know how they operate, how to deal with them.
A week. Easily. Yet all that time in a hospital bed and Rick didn't poop himself or pee himself or wake up FOR ANYTHING. He's got a full beard though.
While Rick slept, a man and his son lost the wife / mother. She turned to a zombie while they were in someone else's house squatting. They had left their home, gone to another home, the wife died, turned into a zombie and they turned her loose outside. While Rick was cutting Zs in the hospital.
Rick was out of it for so long, apparently, his wife assumed he was dead and slept with another guy. Hooked to an IV, just snoring away while the military bombed buildings and people screamed and zombies died en masse, Ricks wife was like okay, it's time to move on, how about I let Ricks best friend have a poke.
Other than that, well, it wasn't so bad, just not as exciting I'd remembered. I've seen the opening of The Last of Us now, so I'm spoiled.
This episode honestly felt slow, with Rick making some really dumb moves, like turning his back on a car full of murderous criminals, or shooting a guy in the head in close quarters, blowing his ear drum. Certain scenes were even laugh out loud funny - Rick running around in his hospital gown with that fake beard on, trying to react appropriately to hell on earth.
Granted, it all must've worked on me the first time, because I watched for several seasons.
I won't be doing that again.
So, Rick Grimes gets shot in the side. It's bad, but not crazy bad. He's in the hospital and he passes out, apparently, because when he wakes up the world has been entirely transformed. And not just in the span of a few hours. The changes had to take days, maybe weeks.
At least a week.
The world is wrecked. Rick slept through tanks and helicopters and absolute mayhem. The slaughter of hundreds of zombies. Bedlam in the hospital. Rick was unconscious so long that people gave names to the zombies - "walkers" - and know how they operate, how to deal with them.
A week. Easily. Yet all that time in a hospital bed and Rick didn't poop himself or pee himself or wake up FOR ANYTHING. He's got a full beard though.
While Rick slept, a man and his son lost the wife / mother. She turned to a zombie while they were in someone else's house squatting. They had left their home, gone to another home, the wife died, turned into a zombie and they turned her loose outside. While Rick was cutting Zs in the hospital.
Rick was out of it for so long, apparently, his wife assumed he was dead and slept with another guy. Hooked to an IV, just snoring away while the military bombed buildings and people screamed and zombies died en masse, Ricks wife was like okay, it's time to move on, how about I let Ricks best friend have a poke.
Other than that, well, it wasn't so bad, just not as exciting I'd remembered. I've seen the opening of The Last of Us now, so I'm spoiled.
This episode honestly felt slow, with Rick making some really dumb moves, like turning his back on a car full of murderous criminals, or shooting a guy in the head in close quarters, blowing his ear drum. Certain scenes were even laugh out loud funny - Rick running around in his hospital gown with that fake beard on, trying to react appropriately to hell on earth.
Granted, it all must've worked on me the first time, because I watched for several seasons.
I won't be doing that again.