One of the things which always fascinated me about the TV series The Walking Dead was the zombie characters. If you ever looked closely some
of the zombie costumes and makeup would have you scratching your head wondering how they did that. Here's some interesting, but completely useless
trivia...
Did you know there were three (3) different kinds of zombies used in the filming of the hit TV show The Walking Dead?
Not talking about the different types of zombies here (i.e. biters, roamers, lurkers, etc. there's about 10 of those), but rather three (3) different
types of makeup schemes used for the zombies. The makeup schemes fell into the following 3 categories:
"Heros"
"Midgrounders"
"Deep Backgrounders"
"Heroes" were the ones you saw up close, and some of their makeup was fantastic. It took several hours to do and was extensive
"Midgrounders" had makeup, but it was mainly shadows and coloring (along with clothing of course)
"Deep Backgrounders" wore little makeup at all, usually just a mask and tattered clothing. You never saw closeups of these zombies.
Completely useless trivia, I know, but I thought this little factoid was interesting.
Yes, I'm a dork sometimes.
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Movies use things like mat paintings in the background with surprisingly little detail to achieve the correct atmosphere so it makes sense.
Miniatures also.
Up close is highly detailed.
Mid range is far less.
Distant is almost blurry.
Is there any explaniation as to why the zombies lasted longer than a year or so? Logically they would have finished off the easy people quickly and
the rest only had to wait for them to starve or rot away. Any zomby outbreak is self defeating within a year and a half or less.
I've always found it best to not over think the details.
Like in movies where aliens invade earth for its resources.. They travel light years for water which is readily available all over the universe.
The zombie thing never caught my attention either.
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Or Jurassic Park.
When the T-Rex first approaches, we hear every ground shaking, thunderous footstep and even see ripples in the glass of water.... A grand entrance,
indeed..
I made it most of the way through season 8 before I had to quit. When they veered radically away from the storyline of the comic I was out. Plus the
direction they were going was completely incoherent then. I have no idea WTH they were thinking!
Carl dies - Major deviation (unrecoverable)
Carol WON'T die!- She should have been dead 1,000 episodes ago, and she...just...won't...DIE!
That was the great thing about TWD, it was never really about zombies. Zombies were just a metaphor for society. It dealt with every social ailment
we face in modern society. It dealt with societal collapse, it dealt with minorities and racism, it dealt with crime, and murder and survival. It
dealt with every taboo there is. It dealt with issues which were so politically incorrect they would never be shown in a movie and certainly not on
television! Zombies were the perfect metaphor because nobody would get all butt-hurt when those issues came up; they were just zombies so no one
cared. That, and the situation was so dire that you either lived or died, and nobody was better than anyone else. The perceived elites proved to be
just as mortal as everyone else.
At least up until season 8. After that they tried to go all dramatic with it. Spoiled the whole series.
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I know that's a possibility.
I've watched it a few times now and, don't tell the others but im starting to think that those aren't real dinosaurs.
Here's some Zombie trivia I found interesting yet strangely amusing given our present situation...
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck nominated by Trump who as of this past August is now the Commander of North American Aerospace (NORAD), Northcom, and the
obscure COG. Gen VanHerck was leading these mock zombie apocalypse exercises in 2013 on several Air Force bases. An Op on how to stop hordes of people
from getting into Cheyenne Mountain. Gen. VanHerck is also connected to the Roswell incident in strange kinda way regarding the 509th Bomb wing.
In 2011 the CDC released a very unusual 36 page graphic novel entitled "Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic" produced by Defense contractor Northrop
Grumman (imagine that!) who also acquired Howard Hughes aerospace tech.
Or worse. Have the occasional zombie show flashes of humanity. As if they remember they used to be a living being and as they moved in for the kill
they remembered who they were for a moment and let their victim go.
Or walk up to a live one and beg to be put down. Killll mmee Please! Raaaa!!!
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
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Carol WON'T die!- She should have been dead 1,000 episodes ago, and she...just...won't...DIE!
The short-haired 'Strong Woman'-armor is one of the strongest plot armors around in today's 'promoting wokeness' environment. Add some kills of
dominant stronger men and that armor gets thicker and thicker (an extra layer of 'female badass'-armor, they love showing women killing or generally
kicking ass, the more violent and gory, the better, the 'excessively violent badass' character itself is already very popular amongst the audience, as
can be seen by the popularity of characters like Negan, Daryl, Rick, or Billy Butcher in The Boys, Amos in the Expanse). With her 'Ellen
DeGeneres'-look, she already fares well in the LGBTQ section of the market/audience, but if they'd make her an actual lesbian or bisexual, she'd be
totally invincible; like Althea from FTWD.
I like how the show The Boys shows how it works with the marketing of superheroes. What I don't like is when they do it themselves in their own
show after just condemning it in their writings by making fun of the behaviour or exposing some hypocritical aspect of it (such as the point about
sexual exploitation with the dress and how that affects young girls that are fans, and subsequently, they have Starlight running around in that dress
for the majority of the show, making sure to get the right camera angles to obey the mantra in entertainment: 'sex sells'. Whereas the same can be
said about bloody violence by the way, as the phrase goes in the news entertainment media: 'if it bleeds, it leads'). In that sense, Starship Troopers
does it much better, you don't get the switch from showing the marketing/propaganda tricks by means of exaggeration, to a more subtle use of the same
tricks where they don't exaggerate to make the point that their audience* is being played in the same manner. (*: the audience of
the show, not the audience in the show that they're already showing as being played by marketing/propaganda tricks and rules of acquisition,
Ferengi-style)
Personally, I don't like modern shows at all, I just fast forward through them, I prefer shows where they don't put so much emphasis on scoring cheap
points with excessive depiction of bloody violence and gore (sometimes it's just a fistfight, and they make it extra gory or violent for shock value
and catering to an audience already conditioned to want to see these sort of scenes), or revolve around the 'sex sells' mantra. Also modern shows seem
much more targeted at women or so-called progressives. I prefer the older shows, mostly Sci-Fi:
1. Stargate SG-1
2. Stargate Atlantis
3. Babylon 5
4. Star Trek DS9
5. Blackadder. His sarcasm is my absolute favorite form of humor, especially starting with season 2 and onwards, where Rowan Atkinson recognized that
was the most popular aspect of his Blackadder character; but I'm also a big fan of history, and I loved the ideological historical points being
made:
This scene always reminds me of those heavily affected by scientism and those philosophers posing as scientists marketing their philosophical
pseudoscience under the marketinglabel "science", and exaggerating the value of their research and publications because of the phenomena in the
sciences described by the phrase 'publish or perish'; and those falling for these tricks and actually think these people are making groundbreaking
discoveries or are talking about those (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, Bill Nye, Michio Kaku, Richard Dawkins, Jack Szostak
with his glorified soap bubbles that he calls "protocells", euhm, excuse me, 'it's green', they're glorified soap bubbles, not cells in any sense of
the word, proto- or otherwise):
Talking about history shows, I also like Hornblower.
And this scene often reminds me of the behaviour of those debating various subjects on ATS but are unwilling to acknowledge certain inconvenient facts
and use some form of agnosticism or agnostically motivated code feigning both humility and ignorance in the process to avoid having to acknowledge
these inconvenient facts/certainties/realities/truths, or that they are well-established or the evidence for them (including that this evidence is
conclusive when it is):
It happens a lot on the Origins & Creationism, Religion & Theology and Philosophy and Metaphysics forums.
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I had towatch the season where Neagan killed off the good characters because I thought he woukd be dead, nope MF lived. The show went to crap after
that season. I don't even watch it anymore.