AMC zombie series from Frank 'Majestic' Darabont - The Walking Dead

I am, too. Kinda. Every episode loses me a little bit more. Some kind of emotional hook would be helpful. Giving a guy ten minutes of screen time in one episode and offing him in the next doesn't really count. Hope season 2 is better.

Basically this show is fun when there's zombies to deal with but not that fun when there aren't zombies to deal with.

More zombies, IMO.

still, I'm hooked.

xpost ^^^ they are really bad at 'human drama'

as i said before the graphic nature of the killings makes the shitty characters more sympathetic imo

yeah, but it sucks that they only become sympathetic when they die

maybe this is true of everyone though

^

Apparently Darabont fired the entire writing staff:

http://tv.ign.com/articles/113/1137550p1.html

*applauds*

I've seen Darabont's movies - hard to believe the writing staff was the real problem here.

yeah, according to that article, Darabont's going to be doing the heavy lifting in the writing dept all by his lonesome, so I'm not holding out hope for a real change in tone or a shift towards subtlety.

can't be worse.

Man, that was easily my least favorite episode yet. So much talk, so many looooooooong goodbyes, so few zombies. The show needs to find a way to ratchet up the tension so that we feel a zombie attack is always imminent. 'Cause, jeez, what a drag all this somber talking is. And then the CDC stuff? That was just goofy, and a literal dead-end. Of course there's no cure! And the only thing that can make this show look cheaper and more single-set is the stick them all in an underground bunker, watching wandering zombies on TV. Though that would be kind of meta ...

the preview for "the killing" looked good.

the introduction of the CDC guy reminded me of Desmond's introduction in season 2 of LOST

― gr8080 of missing ILX (gr8080), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 14:28 (2 days ago)

yeah... not really as cool tho... that opening sequence from s2e1 of lost is one of my fav tv moments ever... show was all downhill from there...

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipr-wS5iBv0 (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 15:16 (2 days ago)

I don't know. Seems to me that if you were still watching Lost by the end of series 1, you've already eaten more shit than The Walking Dead has served up so far. AT least we haven't had any episode-long "it was all a dream" crap and the like

How did that youtube end up in there? Sorry!

season 1 and 2 of LOST are fucking awesome wtf r u talking about

I have to admit I know nothing of S2, having bailed after S1's episode where someone was killed off, and then someone else woke up and the whole episode had been a dream

Also, just want to thank mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III) for recommending 'The Signal', because I watched it last night and really, really enjoyed it.

ok guys i havent read most of this thread but i just watched ep 3 and it was basically torture to get through, can anyone present a compelling argument for continuing on with this shit

although glimpsing this:

Man, that was easily my least favorite episode yet. So much talk, so many looooooooong goodbyes, so few zombies. The show needs to find a way to ratchet up the tension so that we feel a zombie attack is always imminent. 'Cause, jeez, what a drag all this somber talking is. And then the CDC stuff? That was just goofy, and a literal dead-end. Of course there's no cure! And the only thing that can make this show look cheaper and more single-set is the stick them all in an underground bunker, watching wandering zombies on TV. Though that would be kind of meta ...

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, December 1, 2010 9:12 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

does not make me hopeful

i actually wouldn't mind if this show was all dialogue if it was GOOD and TENSE and compelling and made u feel like u were living in zombie world

I only just enjoy this show, but I think it's worth watching for the narrative possibilities in season 2. But on the basis of the rest of the 1st season's six episodes, if you found episode 3 torture to get through then I wouldn't bother. I will say episode 4 and 5 are better though.

"narrative possibilities in season 2" = * sound of toilet flushing *

I wouldn't blame you.

Still, a long-running zombie series does have a lot of potential. I've never read the books and don't intend to, so I can't say how much it worked there, but I like the idea of it. Even though the thought of Frank Darabont writing every episode of the second season doesn't get me particularly excited (I'm not really a fan of his), I think it's heartening that he sacked the writing staff. He must realize that there is definite room for improvement, especially since the strong ratings that have continued since the premiere seem to indicate that nobody really had to do change much to stay successful.

I liked about half of this but boy was that a crappy finale.

Hated that episode so much.

o man they couldnt even pull it together for the finale eh

why is THIS show of all things doing so well

nerds on the internet love zombies

hoping the improvement from this 6 part first season is going to be similar to the improvement parks & rec got when it jumped to 20+ eps

SPOILER

so did the doctor tell andrew lincoln that his kid is carrying?

http://i53.tinypic.com/2mgoxnl.jpg

jk I didn't enjoy this.

i thought the finale was sick as hellllll

SPOILER

i even choked up a lil when blacklady and mr. truman show held hands at the end ;_;

btw i also choked up at the ending of Deep Impact so

i asked my friend what he thought of the finale and he said "computer countdown to an exploding building. that's what i thought of it."

which i cant really argue with. everything in this ep was super obvious and telegraphed, but i will say that a lot of it still worked for me. like when they finally used chekhov's grenade.

i think one thing that's weird about the show/needs to be become better is the fact that it's an ensemble show but everyone aside from rick and shane are total blanks... there's all these big moments that have no impact because we dont know the characters at all. when the old guy and the blonde broad stayed behind that actually did stir something in me a lil, since we knew those characters better, but then they zipped out in time anyway. it was a nice moment, but it took what like 6 episodes to get a character that wasn't a stereotype.

what's up. my name? yeah. im T-Dog.

checked out after episode 3, mostly because of schedule conflicts or forgetting to watch it, maybe i'll catch up during reruns or on dvd.

I think they should remake this series as a movie, and then adapt the movie into a graphic novel. Then repeat over and over until it's nothing but zombies.

is there any way they're going towards rick being some anomalous case? i wondered if the doc told him he was carrying or something. i mean tell me if this is nuts but wouldn't that explain shane checking his pulse and not getting a beat etc?

probably a wild theory in truth, anyone got any idea what the doc might have said?

"this show sucks ass"

you are getting kinda morbs-like abt this, slocki

haha i was thinking that earlier... gettin uncharacteristic morbs-trotting-into-an-apatow-thread vibes from the s1ockmeister here

xp Except that he's right and this show is an overwhelming disappointment.

i did actually watch half of it

i believe that entitles me to be a wiseass

you guys really should've read the comic first, then you'd have been pleasantly surprised by the show

i read the first couple trade paperbacks, i thought htey were better than the show

god that scene where they're talking abotu missing their vibrators was so so bad, was this talked about upthread

i would love it if you'd watch the fourth episode and came back to us with your thoughts

i can make that happen