http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axg5ckEQnP4

You know, why is it a convention of zombie stories that no one has ever heard of the damn things? I have to read those Max Brooks books, on a tangential note.

That's a bit harsh, don't you think? She was pulling her weight, lets face it, until she got to Woodbury. She was sick and starving and now she's living in a practical paradise, I sort of can't blame her for relaxing a bit.

I am repeatedly told that this is the solution to many anxiety problems .

Hey man, it's the end of the world. Get while the getting's good . Note to self, apparently violent gladiatorial games make women horny for you.

By the end of their time at the farm she was starting to get good at killing but for the bulk of the story all she has done is try to commit suicide, whine about it, then jump from guy to guy. Plus from what we've seen Michonne also carried her like so much dead weight after saving her life. Which Andrea repaid by ditching her as soon as she found a new sugar daddy.

I assume that at some point, Andrea will find out exactly how fucked up the Governor/Woodbury really is. At that time, her decisions/reactions will determine how I feel about her. Right now, we (the audience) have way more info than she does. It's hard to judge her too harshly. Except for her terrible taste in men.

Doesn't everyone know an Andrea in real life?

Unfortunately, in real life, Andrea's don't get killed by zombies. They just go on living, as horrible people.

While I can't defend the other stuff, sleeping with two guys 10 months apart hardly seems like jumping from guy to guy.

She latched on to Dale and he took care of her . When Shane showed some interest she dropped Dale like a sack potatoes. Sure her relationship with Dale wasn't sexual (shes a cocktease, thats even worse!!) but she certainly has a habit of latching on to strong alpha types.

if I thought I could die any day from a zombie attack, I'd be trying to fuck as many (not dead) women as possible.

In Shaun of the Dead, the main characters had heard of zombies. I think the more meta zombie movies, especially comedies, acknowledge foreknowledge of zombies.

That said, a lot of zombie stories are specifically zombie apocalypse stories. The zombie menace is presented as something that spreads fairly quickly and destroys civilization. Other monster stories (vampires, werewolves, etc.) only involve a small portion of people, and the disease isn't spread easily. Vampires either have to deliberately sire offspring, or may take moves to contain their own population. Werewolf stories almost always involve a singular person being attacked, and there's a 28 day period immediately after where they aren't transformed (and can't spread the infection). Werewolf infection is also seen as rare, a side effect of surviving an attack that typically isn't meant to be survivable. So for those stories, it's more understandable of isolated incidents happening in the past that the heroes could know about, if not believe.

Also, since vampires and werewolves are still partially human, in that they retain human intelligence and can pass as human some times, it's more plausible that they can hide in the world, only surfacing occasionally. A zombie is a mindless killer. It's not going to lie low for a while after the last zombie attack before starting up again. The only thing that could stop a previous zombie attack, without killing all the zombies, would be some sort of geographical isolation.

Finally, other monsters are much, much older. Stories exist from folklore even before being written down and expanded on in fiction. In contrast, the modern zombie is a fairly new creation, pretty much originating with Romero (although the original Night of the Living Dead doesn't use the term zombie). There's not the history there that makes the idea of the original folklore being true plausible. With zombies, it's pretty much known that they're a fictional creation.

Yeah, I think social mores would be decidedly fluid after the end of the world.

Guess I'm one of the few who likes Andrea... of course I have the hots for Laurie Holden

I don't have a problem with the way Andrea, Michonne, OR Lori are portrayed on the show and like their characters. And yes, I have read the comics

Andrea is getting on my nerves... Don't mind Michonne too much. Lori was annoying in season 2 but not bad this season, prior to her death.

Two BIG items in casting news: Spoiling for those who want to be surprised:



I went A & B for those who wanna to comment specifically, but we can do it in code as to not piss people off.

Comic/Book reference below!!!ish

Response to the above news:

How are they going to introduce A&B when there is only one existing to replace : ) Usually it is a one to one ratio.

I am hapy about both and the casting is excellent.

You aren't the only one. I've always liked her since The Shield.

I've dug her since she was Marita Covarrubias (great name!) on the X-Files. Before

Ditto. Since The Majestic.

I think Lauren Cohan is real good looking too. Even more so when shes all grunged up on this.

This season is just about perfect so far IMO. Daryl and Carol are my two favorite characters and really the only two whose fate I care about.

I dislike the actress playing Michonne so much, I find myself rooting for Merle and the Governor.

Lori's character was annoying, but the actress playing her was fine. Michonne is a cool character, but has a horrible actress playing her. I'm hoping they either find a way to re-cast or just surprise us and kill her off.

She's a good actress just has been given much to work with so far

I don't have a problem with Andrea. She's been on the run for a long time and likes the safety that Woodbury provides. She also likes the Governor because he is charming and for her, he's a project. How many times do you see women go after the complicated boy or the bad boy to try to change them? She thinks she can influence him. She's a bit naive, but she's been that way throughout the series. I think her character has been fairly consistent.

Michonne annoyed me a lot (with the constant forced scowling), but I think there's some hope for her. The ending scene at the prison fence with Rick was definitely a departure from how she was portrayed previously in the series.

I've heard there as a lot more story with Rick and the telephone in the comics, but I don't see how the TV series could drag that out through multiple episodes. I think they'd lose the audience after a while. What they covered was enough in my opinion. And no I haven't read the comics.

I'm very relieved to find out they didn't drag out what was essentially a glorified dream sequence over multiple episodes.

If they carried the Rick-talking-on-the-telephone thing for more than one episode, it would have become something people would make fun of, like "Has anybody seen Carl?"