The Walking Dead

I liked that entire scene a lot.

According to the actress who plays Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), originally they wanted a zombie Lori talking to Rick. The actress argued against it (talking zombies--whaa?) they finally settled on this. Without yadda-yadda-ing about the comic book too much, Rick did lose his shit for a time. He carried around in his backpack that rotary dial phone that we previously saw him talking to dead people on. He'd take extra shifts guarding the camp at night so he could secretly have convos with dead Lori.
The TV producers thought that would look too hokey on-screen so now we'll see how they play Rick's mental breakdown. Andrew Lincoln is doing a fine job of it I think. On the show, Lori's been dead but a week--so he's pretty messed up beyond all his other troubles.

 

EDIT/Update... And the good stuff keeps on coming. Promo & Sneak Peek #2 for next episode (no spoilers).


The Walking Dead 3x10 "Home" - Glenn suggests the group should go on the offense and take out The Governor before his men can attack the prison in this sneak peek from The Walking Dead 3x10.


The Walking Dead 3x10 Sneak Peek #2 "Home" (HD)
The Walking Dead 3x10 "Home" - The group is preparing their next step. Rick goes in search of his lost friend and meanwhile, Daryl and Merle are wondering if they themselves made the right decisions. The Governor of Woodbury tries to restore order in the town and is planning to punish the people responsible for the chaos.

 

I wish Andrea would just die already.

 

Really?????? I have been waiting for a biter to nail her whiny ass since the first episode.

 

People said the same thing about Lori--but I think both actresses are good--just not fond of the material they've been given. I agree with Baraka_Guru --I hope he's right, anyway--that we could have some interesting change-ups coming upon us soon.

 

Meeeee too. I like ...Carol? Is that her name? The one whose husband was abusive and was beaten to all hell by that psycho cop. And then her daughter Sofia was zombified (I'm going to assume that's how its spelled, since the daycare handprint was spelled that way in season 3). Carol to me is a boss. Resilient and definitely stronger than she gives herself credit.

I dunno, I watch the show while doing other stuff. I find it so damn boring. And I was actually way behind, never saw any of season 3, and watched 2-3 episodes before the new one on Sunday, and felt like I missed nothing. How sad.

 

Agreed! Gory death please!

Unfortunately, in both the show and the comics, it appears she takes a pretty central role. My primary concern is keeping Glenn alive. He's my favorite character.

 

Well yeah. Over 12 million in the US alone watched episode 3.09. That's huge for basic cable. I suppose though, some of them could have been hate watching.


The Walking Dead Episode 3.10 “Home’ (Credit: AMCtv)

The Walking Dixons. Har.

 

I really like Carol too. She has grown so much since season 1. I like the dynamic between her and Dale too. They're good for each other.

Also, I prefer just watching all the zombie kills than the personal BS between the characters.

 

I like how season 2 on tv ended. Season 3 should be interesting whenever I get to watch it without paying per episode on itunes.
I have the first few graphic novels from Amazon on my tablet and have already passed the part where they spend time in the prison; presumably this governor fellow will show up fairly soon after the point where I left things in the source material.
I like the parallel universe thing with the graphic novels and the tv show. Looks like the show combines the graphic novel about the prison and the walled city the governor controls.

 

Library of Most Controversial Files (very interesting site)

Biologists Create 'Zombie Cells' In The Lab Which Outperform Living Counterparts

"Zombie" mammalian cells that may function better after they die have been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM).

The simple technique coats a cell with a silica solution to form a near-perfect replica of its structure. The process may simplify a wide variety of commercial fabrication processes from the nano- to macroscale.

The work, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), uses the nanoscopic organelles and other tiny components of mammalian cells as fragile templates on which to deposit silica. The researchers then heat the cell to burn off its protein. The resultant hardened silica structures are faithful to the exterior and interior features of the formerly living cell, can survive greater pressures and temperatures than flesh ever could, and can perform some functions better than when they were alive, said lead researcher Bryan Kaehr, a Sandia materials scientist.

"It's very challenging for researchers to build structures at the nanometer scale," said Kaehr. "We can make particles and wires, but 3-D arbitrary structures haven't been achieved yet. With this technique, we don't need to build those structures -- nature does it for us. We only need to find cells that possess the machinery we want and copy it using our technique. And, using chemistry or surface patterning, we can program a group of cells to form whatever shape seems desirable."

UNM professor and Sandia Fellow Jeff Brinker added, "The process faithfully replicates features from the nanoscale to macroscale in a robust, three-dimensionally stable form that resists shrinkage even upon heating to over 500 degrees Centigrade [932 degrees Fahrenheit]. The refractoriness of these delicate structures is amazing."

The unusual but simple procedure may serve as a model for creating hardier classes of nanoscopic products.

Because a cell is populated by a vast range of proteins, lipids and scaffolding, its interior is ready-made to model catalysts, funnels, absorbents and other useful nanomachinery, said Kaehr, a former Sandia Truman Fellow.

Catalysts that evolve in cells are enzymes that have to retain a certain shape for their chemistry to work. Since structure is important to function, stabilizing a catalyst in the shape it evolved is important, Kaehr said. Heat-hardened silica would stabilize and protect the still-present protein as it did its work.

UNM post-doctoral student Jason Townson said the most immediate use for silicification may be as a simple way to preserve the structure of organic materials for imaging.

"Formerly, for internal preservation and subsequent imaging, a cell would be fixed in formaldehyde or some other preservative. But many of these methods are labor-intensive," Townson said. "This method is simple. The preserved cells will never get sloppy in decay. And when we cracked open the resulting structure, we were blown away by how well the cell was preserved, down to the minor groove of the cell's DNA."

Heating the cell to still higher temperatures (greater than 400 degrees C) evaporates the organic material of the cell -- its protein -- and leaves the silica in a kind of three-dimensional Madame Tussauds wax replica of a formerly living being. The difference is that instead of modeling the face, say, of a famous criminal, the hardened silica-based cells display internal mineralized structures with intricate features ranging from nano- to millimeter-length scales.

The construction process is relatively simple: Take some free-floating mammalian cells, put them in a petri dish and add silicic acid.

Through the action of methanol, a byproduct of the acid, the cell's lipid layers -- the protective casings that keep the cell intact -- are softened and made porous enough for the silica to flow in at about the temperature of the human body.

The silicic acid, for reasons still partially obscure, enters without clogging and in effect embalms every organelle in the cell from the micro- to the nanometer scale.

If the cell isn't heated, the silica forms a kind of permeable armor around the protein of the living cell. This may support it enough to act as a catalyst at temperatures and pressures undreamed of by nature.

"Once we've used silica to stabilize the cellular structure, it can still carry out reactions and, more importantly, that reaction is stable enough to work at high temperatures," Kaehr said. "The method is also a means to take a soft, potentially valuable biological material and convert it to a fossil that will stay on our shelves indefinitely."

Ordinarily, preserving something organic means freezing it, which is energy-intensive, he said. Instead, "We're doing rapid fossilization: quickly converting a protoplasmic cell into a hard structure that will stand the test of time."

Experiments showed the cell can be used as a reverse mold from which, at 900 degrees C, a porous carbonized structure results from heating cell protein in a vacuum. In other words, in the same way that burning wood in air leaves a residue of structureless soot, the zombie heating method results in a high-quality carbon structure. Subsequent dissolution of the underlying silica support decreased the cell's electrical resistance by approximately 20 times. Such materials would have substantial utility in fuel cells, decontamination and sensor technologies.

That such extraordinary results can be achieved by silicifying cells indicates many soft cellular architectures could be "feedstock for most materials processing procedures, including those requiring high temperatures and pressures," according to the technical paper.

Other porous material structures, relying on titanium instead of silica, have been formed using the organic template technique. Other metal oxides, said Kaehr, are a possibility. These would have more complex structural functions or could serve as catalysts.

The work follows the efforts of a number of scientific groups, including Kaehr's, that have built gel-like structures, copied them with silica and then burned off the gel to create, in effect, large sponges.

"Now we can change the biological shape and calcify (heat) it, so for the first time we get new irregular structures," Kaehr said.

Summing up, Kaehr offers what may be the first distinction in scientific literature between a mummy cell and a zombie cell: "King Tut was mummified," he said, "to approximately resemble his living self, but the process took place without mineralization [a process of fossilization]. Our zombie cells bridge chemistry and biology to create forms that not only near-perfectly resemble their past selves but can do future work."

The work was supported by DOE's Office of Science. Co-authors are Brinker, Brian Swartzentruber of Sandia and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, and, from UNM, Robin Kalinich, Darren Dunphy and student Yasmine Awad. —Sciencedaily.com

 

What did everyone think of Sunday's episode? Personally I am a little sick of the crazy Rick and Lori saga. I find her character to be very annoying and don't appreciate having to now see her as a ghost as well.

 

Lori is not a ghost--she's a hallucination.

I hear where you are coming from in re: Rick. My spouse said the same thing. You won't see much of Lori nor will Rick stay crazy all that long--IMO.
Personally, if I'd lived in a zombie apocalypse for over a year, leading a group that in the beginning were more a liability than asset, then had my estranged wife, with whom I was just starting to patch things up--die horribly, then get eaten, I might lose my shit for a while, too.

The fight scene at the end was epic. Love how resourceful Carol has become.



Liked how crazy this got--almost a arrow to Rick's eyeball (the CG effect is in this set).


And Daryl is back! Super-happy about that.


Talked About Scenes Episode 310 The Walking Dead: Home (VIDEO)

 

Somebody needs to bite Carl and Andrea, still.
And punch Glen again.
The truck was brilliance. I totally figured it out ten seconds before it started and I just sat there in shock waiting for it. Genius.
I still hate the Guv'nuh, too. But I think we're supposed to.

 

I just wish glenn and maggie would get over it and have more hot sex.

 

The Walking Dead 3x11 Sneak Peek #2 "I Ain't A Judas" (HD)
The Walking Dead 3x11 "I Ain't A Judas" - Merle describes The Governor in this second sneak peek clip from The Walking Dead 3x11 airing February 24th.

The Walking Dead 3x11 Sneak Peek "I Ain't A Judas"
The Walking Dead 3x11 "I Ain't A Judas" - Carl confronts his father about his leadership in this sneak peek clip from The Walking Dead 3x11.

The Walking Dead 3x11 Promo "I Ain't A Judas"
The Walking Dead 3x11 "I Ain't A Judas" - Rick and the group are forced to make a decision now that their safety is no longer guaranteed. Andrea feels uncomfortable now that Woodbury has become a police state.