Walking Dead is basically a repackaged Lost. There's the redneck who wants to be the hero, the reluctant leader, annoying kid, philosophical old man, Others, and the fact that everybody knows how to track. Throw in some Dharma ranch dressing and it's the same show.

*wrap up in May (though if anyone could figure out how to warp things, it'd be the Great Doctor...)

It's a shame though. Walking Dead is one of the better comics I've read and they clearly have the financial backing. No reason why it couldn't be fantastic.

Because zombies are way cooler than Ted Danson?

"Because zombies are way cooler than Ted Danson?"

WOAH WOAH WOAH

This is a tough one.

There's an easy solution... let him get bit.

You've got to be kidding me!
Ted Danson in Bored to Death is one of the cooler characters around...

You can't just put zombies in a show and expect it to be awesome. You actually have to do something awesome with them.

Woody Harrelson has already been in a zombie movie. Might as well put Ted Danson in one, right?

umm, no. Thats kinda the beauty of zombies. No real thought or plot necessary. I challenge you to think of a single counter example.

Showtime's series Family Business (2003-2006). No real thought or plot necessary.

I like The Walking Dead. I'm surprised it got a second series though, given the way they keep cancelling shows considered to be really good over here in blighty, while keeping crap one's, like Lost. Or keeping shows going well past their sell-by date (CSI, Quantum Leap).

House was brilliant! Ending House now, while it's still going strong, is the best idea they ever had.***

Other shows cancelled well before their time:-

Firefly
Stargate Universe
John Doe
Dead Like Me
Studio 60
FlashForward
The Scarecrow and Mrs King.

***-Hugh Laurie as Dr Who is the best idea Obiwanobiwan ever had. If he kept the House characteristics he'd be the living embodiment of William Hartnell (the first Doctor - a grumpy old git).

...Actually, STA...

My "the Great Doctor" statement was a reference to Sherlock Holmes, who's referred to as "the Great Detective."

...So, the best idea I ever had--I didn't have it. ;)

(But that WOULD BE AMAZING...I got some DW on DVD to watch and study over the break...still have to watch the first 3 stories ever, I want to see how this all begins...but I like Tom Baker, and David Tennant excelled as Hamlet, so as far as I'm concerned, he gets an automatic A+ for just about any acting job from now on, but the shows of his I've seen are cool...Eccelston's sort of hit or miss, he kind of feels like a Daniel Craig-Bond sort of Doctor--for whatever that counts as, my knowing the show just these past few months--he's either just intense enough to make the show feel epic, or he goes over and almost feels like he's just an emo-Doctor, and that's never fun, Sherlock Holmes could be intense and brooding without being an emo-style person...I saw part of the other black adn white guy, Patrick Troughton--hopefully that's right--and he seemed fun, though not too logical...and Peter Davison is...well, the stories I've seen him in really help, as otherwise, he seems nice, but not exactl with the sort of edge I like in Holmes or House--

So yeah, that reminds me--if Hugh Laurie WAS to be Doctor Who...

Forget that silly bow tie and stupid fez...

LAURIE'S DOCTOR WOULD SIMPLY *HAVE* TO HAVE A CANE...!*) XD

The thing I like about The Walking Dead is the possibilities shown. Going from city to country to town and scrounging here and there. It would be really neat if there was a sandbox game where you could wander all sorts of environments dealing with zombies. Want to setup in a tower in a city, go for it. Want to setup a farmhouse fortress, great. Want to setup a pit trap and lure a hoard of zombies into it and light the oil at the bottom, would be a blast.

I haven't played much in the way of recent zombie games, but have watched my older boys play some and they looked like levels or tunnels. While I enjoyed Half-Life, I hated Half-Life 2 because it was just more tunnels and tunnels and tunnels and I hate that. I love a good sandbox go where you want and do what you want type game like The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Saints Row, GTA, and such.

"The thing I like about The Walking Dead is the possibilities shown"

That's one of the best things about the comic. They've been through so many different settings and it's interesting to see how they deal with each one.

> LAURIE'S DOCTOR WOULD SIMPLY *HAVE* TO HAVE A CANE!
Yes!

Survival Crisis Z is pretty good. The graphics aren't that great,but that's tobe expected from an indie game.

@lh, thanks, I'll have to try and check that out.

YOUR WATCHING IT!
Simple as that, ratings decide the length of shows, the fact that your watching it, regardless of how crap it is, makes it keep being watched.