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So the deadline is 24.5 hours from now, right, not in half an hour? The end of December 11, not the beginning?

@Doctor Gonzo: And it looks much faker in context there, definitely CG or even hand-drawn.

@dirtybacon: I won't stone you for it, but I very much prefer H2G2. The first half of DGHDA was very, very slow to me. However I definitely prefer it to any of the H2G2 books after Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

@1Grand_Marquis: I don't mind the look, but isn't he a bit too... upbeat?

@Delphinus100: Yeah, but there's the IKAROS solar sail, the Venus Climate Orbiter, Hayabusa's asteroid samples...

@OgilvyTheAstronomer: Absolution Gap seems to be an exception to Reynolds' usual quality, not a herald of decline; he's written plenty of good stuff since then (Pushing Ice and House of Suns for instance), so there's no reason to believe this won't be excellent.

@Strakus: Plus this show is based on a comic noted for its gritty realism relative to the rest of the zombie genre. So yeah, the CDC thing is mood/genre-whiplash for me.

@Burke: Carl and Andrea not showing any signs of becoming badasses yet are the biggest disappointments for me so far. Well, that and no Tyreese. T-Dogg is no substitute.

@mkirkland: The RV's windshield was cracked, you can see that briefly. That might have happened before, though.

@ossuary: Oh yeah, Stone Mountain would be an excellent spot (I don't know if they try that in the comics, I'm only about halfway caught up)- the steep climb would really slow down roamers, and the mountain's relatively symmetrical with large treeless swathes, so you'd have great visibility.

@off-kilter: Yeah, a medieval Dune is a great description for this series, with the grounded political intrigue set against a larger backdrop of prophecy.

@Sunwind: Think of it more along the lines of Dune meets 2000s Battlestar Galactica meets Lord of the Rings.

@muttbutt: Absolutely, just read them slowly and hopefully you won't finish A Feast for Crows only to find out there's not another book yet...

@DocSeuss: Worm that hit computers controlling Iran's nuclear facilities, presumed to have been released by American or Israeli operatives.

@izikavazo: Plus The Wire fans, Sarah Connor Chronicles fans, Stargate Atlantis fans, LOTR fans, Dr. Who fans, Harry Potter fans... the incredible and diverse cast alone should bring in a lot of viewers.

@Lauren Shaw: It does get pretty grim though, in Storm of Swords and Feast for Crows.

@DisturbingClown: Oh my god, Aidan Gillen! I wish he'd grown out his hair for this though, I can't look at him and not see Tommy Carcetti. No matter, with his caliber of acting I'm sure he will disappear into the role very quickly.

@MrGOH: Yes, he's writing one episode per season; in the first season I believe it's episode 8, which going by the hints GRRM dropped about which parts of the books it will cover, should be a pretty important one.

I don't really see that the FX look like BSG. They look much more like the Star Wars prequels, or perhaps Abrams' Star Trek minus the lens flare; bright and colorful. The only thing that looks BSG is the camera direction.