The Walking Dead

[Yeti]

My wife and I were discussing how they're going about "killing" the walkers.  From what I gather about the show, they can't really be killed right?  I mean, they get baseball batted to the head and lay dormant for weeks, then start crawling and walking again.  I did hear Merle's brother say something about "the brain" and "don't you know nothing?" when he shot one of the walkers in the eye with his crossbow.  Does that (getting shot, crossbowed, baseball batted, tomahawked to the head) kill them for good?

I NEED ANSWERS

Have you never heard of a zombie before?

Of course, but I never watched much of anything about them up until now.  I didn't now rules for zombies in one movie/TV show were universal to all zombies in all movie/TV shows.

Bigger picture please

[J. Walter Weatherman]

My wife and I were discussing how they're going about "killing" the walkers.  From what I gather about the show, they can't really be killed right?  I mean, they get baseball batted to the head and lay dormant for weeks, then start crawling and walking again.  I did hear Merle's brother say something about "the brain" and "don't you know nothing?" when he shot one of the walkers in the eye with his crossbow.  Does that (getting shot, crossbowed, baseball batted, tomahawked to the head) kill them for good?

I NEED ANSWERS

Have you never heard of a zombie before?

Of course, but I never watched much of anything about them up until now.  I didn't now rules for zombies in one movie/TV show were universal to all zombies in all movie/TV shows.

Bigger picture please

[Yeti]

My wife and I were discussing how they're going about "killing" the walkers.  From what I gather about the show, they can't really be killed right?  I mean, they get baseball batted to the head and lay dormant for weeks, then start crawling and walking again.  I did hear Merle's brother say something about "the brain" and "don't you know nothing?" when he shot one of the walkers in the eye with his crossbow.  Does that (getting shot, crossbowed, baseball batted, tomahawked to the head) kill them for good?

I NEED ANSWERS

Have you never heard of a zombie before?

Of course, but I never watched much of anything about them up until now.  I didn't now rules for zombies in one movie/TV show were universal to all zombies in all movie/TV shows.

Bigger picture please

Thanks

(channels inner Eli)

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/the-walking-dead-lets-go-of-writers-considers-no-writing-staff-for-season-2/

EXCLUSIVE: I hear The Walking Dead writer/ executive producer/ director Frank Darabont has let go of the writers on the hot freshman AMC series, which has already renewed for a second season. That includes Darabont's No. 2, writing executive producer Charles “Chic” Eglee. Writer turnover on series between seasons is commonplace but wholesale overhauls are unusual. What's more, I hear Darabont is looking to forgo having a writing staff for the second season of Walking Dead altogether and assign scripts to freelancers.

Darabont, who hails from the feature world with The Young Indiana Jones as the only series credit before Walking Dead, ended up writing 2 of the first season's 6 episodes of Walking Dead - the pilot and the second episode - and co-writing/rewriting the other 4. Two of those 4 were written by non-staff writers, one by executive producer Robert Kirkman, on whose comics the series is based, and one by Glen Mazzara. The freelance model is employed by the Starz/BBC series Tourchwood, which in turn borrowed it from the U.K. where the show originated. Having BBC as producer has allowed Torchwood to proceed with no writing staff but I hear such a plan on an U.S.-based network series such as Walking Dead may face issues with the Writers Guild. And, while the first season of Walking Dead was only 6 episodes, its second-season order is for 13, which may prove harder to manage in pre-production, production and post-production with no writing staff. Sources tell me that no final decision has been made yet with all options open, including using some combination of a writing staff/freelances. There is time - AMC is mulling launching Walking Dead's second season the way it did the first one - in October during Fearfest.

[Bort]

http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/the-walking-dead-lets-go-of-writers-considers-no-writing-staff-for-season-2/

EXCLUSIVE: I hear The Walking Dead writer/ executive producer/ director Frank Darabont has let go of the writers on the hot freshman AMC series, which has already renewed for a second season. That includes Darabont's No. 2, writing executive producer Charles “Chic” Eglee. Writer turnover on series between seasons is commonplace but wholesale overhauls are unusual. What's more, I hear Darabont is looking to forgo having a writing staff for the second season of Walking Dead altogether and assign scripts to freelancers.

Darabont, who hails from the feature world with The Young Indiana Jones as the only series credit before Walking Dead, ended up writing 2 of the first season's 6 episodes of Walking Dead - the pilot and the second episode - and co-writing/rewriting the other 4. Two of those 4 were written by non-staff writers, one by executive producer Robert Kirkman, on whose comics the series is based, and one by Glen Mazzara. The freelance model is employed by the Starz/BBC series Tourchwood, which in turn borrowed it from the U.K. where the show originated. Having BBC as producer has allowed Torchwood to proceed with no writing staff but I hear such a plan on an U.S.-based network series such as Walking Dead may face issues with the Writers Guild. And, while the first season of Walking Dead was only 6 episodes, its second-season order is for 13, which may prove harder to manage in pre-production, production and post-production with no writing staff. Sources tell me that no final decision has been made yet with all options open, including using some combination of a writing staff/freelances. There is time - AMC is mulling launching Walking Dead's second season the way it did the first one - in October during Fearfest.

Tourchwood? Damn limeys...

[Slaky]

http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/the-walking-dead-lets-go-of-writers-considers-no-writing-staff-for-season-2/

EXCLUSIVE: I hear The Walking Dead writer/ executive producer/ director Frank Darabont has let go of the writers on the hot freshman AMC series, which has already renewed for a second season. That includes Darabont's No. 2, writing executive producer Charles “Chic” Eglee. Writer turnover on series between seasons is commonplace but wholesale overhauls are unusual. What's more, I hear Darabont is looking to forgo having a writing staff for the second season of Walking Dead altogether and assign scripts to freelancers.

Darabont, who hails from the feature world with The Young Indiana Jones as the only series credit before Walking Dead, ended up writing 2 of the first season's 6 episodes of Walking Dead - the pilot and the second episode - and co-writing/rewriting the other 4. Two of those 4 were written by non-staff writers, one by executive producer Robert Kirkman, on whose comics the series is based, and one by Glen Mazzara. The freelance model is employed by the Starz/BBC series Tourchwood, which in turn borrowed it from the U.K. where the show originated. Having BBC as producer has allowed Torchwood to proceed with no writing staff but I hear such a plan on an U.S.-based network series such as Walking Dead may face issues with the Writers Guild. And, while the first season of Walking Dead was only 6 episodes, its second-season order is for 13, which may prove harder to manage in pre-production, production and post-production with no writing staff. Sources tell me that no final decision has been made yet with all options open, including using some combination of a writing staff/freelances. There is time - AMC is mulling launching Walking Dead's second season the way it did the first one - in October during Fearfest.

Tourchwood? Damn limeys...

Perhaps the Canadians have infiltrated that article.

[Kermit IV]

The best parts of the show in just over a minute.

[Wheezer]

I'm not sure what, if anything, to make of the fact that my brain stem was able to recognize a Ms. Pac Man cabinet all by itself.

[Gilgamesh]

It's back; it's still awesome.

[flannj]

It's back; it's still awesome.

Definitely stepped up the gore and creative zombie kills.

It is indeed awesome.

[Gilgamesh]

Kind of a meh episode last night.

Has the group given up on looking for the little girl?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Kind of a meh episode last night.

Kind of a meh your mom last night.

[Gilgamesh]

Kind of a meh episode last night.

Kind of a meh your mom last night.

Touche.

[Richard Chuggar]

Kind of a meh episode last night.

Has the group given up on looking for the little girl?

Thrill can't believe that Boondock Saints shot that zombie from behind just b/c it made a sudden movement

[Wheezer]

Renewed for a third season.