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Anonymous wrote:Well, I liked it. And, I don't have a hard time fathoming that people find out different things at different points and in different areas of the country or under different circumstances.

I thought it was def slow at first but, man, they can't go from 0-60 right in the first episode.

I did think that Travis going to the drug house by himself unarmed was HIGHLY unlikely. But, that's a minor point.

See, I felt the opposite about it. I felt like they jumped right into the action too quickly (perhaps because they thought people would get too impatient with build-up since they know what's coming), and lost what could have been an interesting storyline as the epidemic initially unfolded (not to mention better opportunity for real character development). They could have had the son see Gloria (so we know it's here), but have everyone else around him dismissing it as a hallucination. When the man in the bed next to him coded and they ran him to the other floor, that would have seemed weird and increased tension. They could have had the incident on the freeway exit occur, but not have a viral video of the guy reanimating, make it a strange account in the media of what happened. Get into questions of whether the government is trying to hide what's happening while they get it under control, etc. People creating "conspiracy theories" that we know are actually true. Because we know what's happening, it would have increased the tension for us seeing these odd things and knowing, but people not really knowing or slowly coming to suspect. Instead, in the first episode we got at least four zombie sightings, lots of people disappearing and the government basically saying, "We have no fucking clue what's happening, evacuate the school, run for your lives!!" I don't know how we don't get from the first episode to them all roaming Walking-Dead style within the first season.

Anonymous wrote:Well, I liked it. And, I don't have a hard time fathoming that people find out different things at different points and in different areas of the country or under different circumstances.

I thought it was def slow at first but, man, they can't go from 0-60 right in the first episode.

I did think that Travis going to the drug house by himself unarmed was HIGHLY unlikely. But, that's a minor point.

Anonymous wrote:Well, I liked it. And, I don't have a hard time fathoming that people find out different things at different points and in different areas of the country or under different circumstances.

I thought it was def slow at first but, man, they can't go from 0-60 right in the first episode.

I did think that Travis going to the drug house by himself unarmed was HIGHLY unlikely. But, that's a minor point.

Anonymous wrote:First off just because we couldn't see head wounds doesn't mean someone wasn't stabbed in the head from a different angle. Rick's group had no idea just dying caused reanimation because they didn't know everyone was infected. Maybe only the people who go the flu shot were the ones who reanimated after dropping dead, but just breathing on other people spread it so that it would happen to everyone. Lots of plausible reasonings.

Anonymous wrote:Something is really bugging me about last night's episode. In The Walking Dead, it took until the end of season 2 before we saw that the virus had become airborne (when Shane reanimated). Up until then, it was only transmitted through zombie bites. This series is supposed to be set earlier than TWD, but from the very beginning it appears that the virus is airborne and everyone is infected upon death (e.g., Cal reanimating). Am I missing something, or are we supposed to just ignore this little continuity issue?

Anonymous wrote:I thought that they just found out that the virus was in all of them when they visited the CDC. Rick did not believe it until he saw Shane reanimate. It is only because we already know it from the original series that we notice it now in the new series.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought that they just found out that the virus was in all of them when they visited the CDC. Rick did not believe it until he saw Shane reanimate. It is only because we already know it from the original series that we notice it now in the new series.

Correct - everyone is already infected and will turn once dead regardless. Didn't you watch when Lori fied and the prison had the illness?

Anonymous wrote:I thought that they just found out that the virus was in all of them when they visited the CDC. Rick did not believe it until he saw Shane reanimate. It is only because we already know it from the original series that we notice it now in the new series.