The Walking Dead Thread (Spoilers Ahead)

[Jaimoe]

It seems the dumbness of the women characters has rubbed off on Rick and Glen. They need to bring back Michael Rooker and get his reformed hillbilly brother some more screen time. The show is improving, but I still think the zombies should eat most of the cast. Another thing: When was Hershel's coma daughter introduced? I never paid her any attention beforehand so I'm irritated by the contrived plot surrounding her character.   

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

It seems the dumbness of the women characters has rubbed off on Rick and Glen. They need to bring back Michael Rooker and get his reformed hillbilly brother some more screen time. The show is improving, but I still think the zombies should eat most of the cast. Another thing: When was Hershel's coma daughter introduced? I never paid her any attention beforehand so I'm irritated by the contrived plot surrounding her character.

to be honest, there aren't THAT many characters in the comic who get eaten by zombies as a means of death.  lots of them get bit but not so many get devoured.  the show makes it seem like that will be different, ie dude in sundays episode who got his face eaten off.  stuff like that really isn't in the comic.  zombies are just sort of always around.  when their numbers get big is when they're dangerous.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

Ok it's getting much better. And Laurie just pulled a Livia Soprano. Shane is toast.

...

Yeah, it's good. At least they didn't go the predictable accident/miscarriage route.

Yet...

This is why I think the baby will survive.  I'm not telling anybody when, why, how, or where this happens so it's not really a spoiler, just a picture.  sophia's dead so nothing is set in stone and I really doubt this will happen now, if you are reading the comic and haven't gotten deep in yet look away:

[el_chode]

http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/2012/02/david-morrissey-cast-as-the-governor.php

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/2012/02/david-morrissey-cast-as-the-governor.php

sweet.  glad it's not somebody super famous.  word is tara from true blood is the rumored michonne.  seriously hope she isn't but could totally see it happening. 

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Exclusive Interview with David Morrissey on Macbeth

[Jaimoe]

David Morrissey is a great actor. Nice addition to the cast.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

David Morrissey is a great actor. Nice addition to the cast.

he'll be the third british person in the cast.

Rick, Maggie, and now the Governor.  good actors fosho.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

tonights episode was: off. the. chain.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

#94: http://www.sendspace.com/file/bjamy5

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

nobody dug last week?  can't wait for tomorrow/tonights ep.

[Jaimoe]

nobody dug last week?  can't wait for tomorrow/tonights ep.

I thought it was ok. Pretty good first half.

I look more forward to the guilty pleasure blood and guts grindhouse cheese that is Spartacus than Walking Dead. I wish that the latter was a more rounded show and I don't know if it'll ever be that.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

nobody dug last week?  can't wait for tomorrow/tonights ep.

I thought it was ok. Pretty good first half.

I look more forward to the guilty pleasure blood and guts grindhouse cheese that is Spartacus than Walking Dead. I wish that the latter was a more rounded show and I don't know if it'll ever be that.

fuuuuck spartacus dude.  if I wanted to see some slave titty I'd look up some korean porno. 

[Jaimoe]

nobody dug last week?  can't wait for tomorrow/tonights ep.

I thought it was ok. Pretty good first half.

I look more forward to the guilty pleasure blood and guts grindhouse cheese that is Spartacus than Walking Dead. I wish that the latter was a more rounded show and I don't know if it'll ever be that.

fuuuuck spartacus dude.  if I wanted to see some slave titty I'd look up some korean porno.

It's more entertaining than WD, especially the first two seasons with John Hannah. I could care less about the skin. I really don't carry any loyalty and/or bias towards TV shows. I used to like the Family Guy, but the show sucks for the most part nowadays and I had to bail. The Simpsons hasn't been funny in over a decade, but I tune in every now and again just to see if the show has improved.  Just curious, but if you weren't a fan of the WD comic book series would you still love the show? I can see why people like and follow the program (I do kinda like it as a weekly page-turner), but it's pretty average with a good concept and style. 

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

nobody dug last week?  can't wait for tomorrow/tonights ep.

I thought it was ok. Pretty good first half.

I look more forward to the guilty pleasure blood and guts grindhouse cheese that is Spartacus than Walking Dead. I wish that the latter was a more rounded show and I don't know if it'll ever be that.

fuuuuck spartacus dude.  if I wanted to see some slave titty I'd look up some korean porno.

It's more entertaining than WD, especially the first two seasons with John Hannah. I could care less about the skin. I really don't carry any loyalty and/or bias towards TV shows. I used to like the Family Guy, but the show sucks for the most part nowadays and I had to bail. The Simpsons hasn't been funny in over a decade, but I tune in every now and again just to see if the show has improved.  Just curious, but if you weren't a fan of the WD comic book series would you still love the show? I can see why people like and follow the program (I do kinda like it as a weekly page-turner), but it's pretty average with a good concept and style.

the first two seasons of spartacus were alright.  it just felt like the same old thing every episode.  either it had something to do with orgies or weird sex acts up in the palace room or it was them practicing in the sandpit or it was a bunch of naked dude cock in the slave bathhouse, etc.  the arena scenes were bad ass, the underground shit in season one was bad ass and possibly the coolest thing that series has down (tho I haven't started s3 yet). 

I agree with you about family guy.  they should not have brought it back.  isn't it the only show to ever be brought back for new seasons after it was canceled?  simpsons was the first racy show I was allowed to watch when I was little.  but haven't been able to watch it in years because it's completely soft compared to a show like south park.   but I get your point. 

to answer your question about if I'd like it if I hadn't read the comics, I think so.  but it would be a totally different love.  now the tension makes sense to me since I read the comics.   the drawn out moments are fine with me because I know that no matter what there are going to be things that happen in this show that have never been attempted on basic cable.  some of the most fucked up shit I've ever read in fiction is in the comic and it does give me faith that the future will be beyond what the pilot episode level of awesomeness was. 

but these are two different beasts all together.  they've merged locations, characters, story arcs, enhanced old characters, introduced completely new ones.  all of which completely change the story.  the comic is separate to the show at this point. 

things that I notice from the comic are small things like when rick stabs the walker thru the fence at mert county.  straight out of the prison issues of the comic.  or the barn.  hershel, glenn, dale, maggie, lori, carl, rick are on point from the comic.  carl is becoming the little weirdo he is in the comic.  there's just a ton of shit that they're setting up right now. 

this shit gets darker than the movie "The Road".   yeah dude, I'm way to pumped about this show to hate it or imagine hating it.   some of the acting is lame, ie andrea.  but some of it is on point.  Rick is british in real life and so is Maggie, they sound american as fuck.  you have to break this show down on a season by season basis.  not episode by episode.  this is a day by day account of what it would be like living in a zombie apocalypse.  some days are more mellow than others.  there really isn't a plot or end point.  TL;DR, sorry. 

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

andrew lincoln is suppose to be method as fuck on set.  like when he's on set he IS rick.  doesn't break character even when they're not shooting.  think it's pretty cool he's taking the character so seriously.

[Jaimoe]

The days of Brits not being able to nail American accents is over. Hugh Laurie had a tough time in the early House years, but he managed to sound pretty generic US by season II (I've followed Hugh's career since the mid '80s and he has a distinct English accent). The English dude that plays Jax on SOA, Charlie Hunnam, sounds pretty legit. Canuck actors (and news anchors etc...) have long been able to bury our various accents in films and TV, although seemingly not Christopher Plummer and his upper class old Montreal dialect that sounds kinda British.

My wife doesn't care for Rick (she finds him one-dimensional), but I like him. I still think the entire women cast are either underwritten or generally unlikeable. Like I said, I do like the show, but I keep hoping it'll get better.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

I thought rick's little speech to shane at the crossroads was pure classic comic book rick.  talking about

"I wanted to break your jaw, let you choke on your teeth, but I didn't. that wasn't weakness, it took everything.  that is my wife, that is my son, that is my unborn child.  I will stay alive to keep them alive. "

that is straight up the plot if there is one. 

[el_chode]

So, two questions for y'all:

Was Rick's inability to kill the hostage and the other one (not spoiling just in case) weakness or a show of humanity (Did it prove Dale right)?

Do you agree with Dale?

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

So, two questions for y'all:

Was Rick's inability to kill the hostage and the other one (not spoiling just in case) weakness or a show of humanity (Did it prove Dale right)?

Do you agree with Dale?

it was Carl that fucked everything up with that situation.  Carl brought Rick to his previous non-murderous self, imo.  not Dale.  Dale did however setup the democracy type organization they have now.  So it had to have had an effect on Rick as a leader for sure.  Kind of a pivotal episode for Carl, causing Dale's death and all. 

This officially take's it off the path of the comic.  Dale was the representation of Good or the sanity of the old way of life.  now that that's gone shit's gonna fly yo.