The pictures really don't do it justice. I went downtown (I live in Cleveland) yesterday when they were filming these shots, and the suit looks great in person. I was geeking out big time.
I can't take any reviewer seriously that gives this dreck a positive review, but shits all over another "low expectations" movie like Sucker Punch in the same day.
@Holku: I don't buy it. I don't think the timing makes all that much sense, because for one.. Merle is nowhere to be found, and neither is the truck. Rick and the gang all came up the road to the camp and clearly didn't see it, and we didn't see any other roads leading to the camp. They appeared to be in the woods.
We don't know that Merle is headed back to the camp. Or that he even took the van. We're told that by the characters, who don't know any more than we do.
Seeing as how Rick and everyone made it back to camp on foot, and still no sign of Merle, I question whether he really went back there. I guess, going by this theory, we could assume that Merle led the zombies there, then took off.. but again, the last time we saw him, he acknowledged that he was being punished, and didn't seem like he had revenge on his mind at all. Quite the opposite, infact. He seemed repentant.
I just think the survivors have been doing a great job of being loud and obnoxiously unsafe the whole time we've seen them. They're spread out, without any sort of perimeter, driving several cars around, fighting amongst themselves, yelling, laughing, etc. The most logical conclusion is that they've been slowly attracting zombies this whole time, and they finally arrived.
In the comics they call it a "hoarde".. when one zombie hears something, and starts walking in it's direction, and another joins it because it doesn't know better, then another, and another.. and sooner or later you have a big ass group of zombies all walking towards whatever disturbed them along the way.
@Holku: If he didn't lead them there on purpose, then it doesn't matter, because the entire camp has acted like idiots in regards to safety and any number of them could have led them there.
I'm confused as to why people would think Merle led the zombies to the camp.
Crazy as he was.. I dunno. If I just cut my hand off with a saw, and cauterized it on a hot stove, and was delirious and most likely in shock.. I think I would concentrate first on getting to safety, which should be a feat in and of itself, considering the trouble a group of HEALTHY people went through to do so.
Not to mention how difficult it would be to actually herd the zombies to the van, through the insanity on street level around that building.
Isn't the more logical explanation that the camp hasn't been worried about safety at all.. they've been driving around, and yelling and screaming, having a good ol' time.. Glenn is driving up with a car alarm.. etc.
Hell, there's no reason to think that Glenn didn't attract the zombies himself when he did that a couple episodes ago. Zombies aren't confined to the city. Who knows how many more of them were out there in the fields and in the forest, just slowly making their way to them.
@bowen13: He not only herded the dozens of zombies in the stairway, but made it through the zombied-out department store.. through the zombiefied city to the train tracks where the van was? That seems like an awful lot of work for someone who was probably in shock and just trying to survive..
@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I've been a fan of the Zachary Levi/Yorick fantasy casting for a long time, but the longer it takes for this property to go anywhere the less I like it.
Levi is 30 now. Who knows when this gets off the ground, if it ever does.. he could be in his mid-30's by then. Yorick always struck me as being between 20-25 in the book.