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

Renewed for a Third Season. shocking, I know.

egg left the house and deliberately wiped his son's blood onto his forehead so his pal could wipe it off - I'm out

CONRAD OUT

I'm watching this to the bitter end despite everything.

i'm done with living

So I take it that means this ep sucked, too? I don't really want to bother with this show anymore, other than the fact that it's so much fun to make fun of.

Or there at least zombies in this episode, or is it another wander around the woods special?

tbh, all the emotional characterization stuff reminds me of Lost

the fx of the thru-deer-to-kid shot was pretty hilarious.

missed opportunity to have the buck turn around and its face is a zombie!

otfm

The comic book has lost its way too. The 'we're safe let's build a society! just kidding not really!' thing is getting boring.

Mutually self-assured creative destruction: creator takes on TV show while still doing the comic, both fall apart. Or fail upwards, as the case may be. Though surely there are people out there who actually like the writing and characters and are put-off by all the zombies.

still enjoying this despite myself, still better than the comic, can't really defend the show on its own terms though, its just junk (w/great makeup effects)

every character on this show is intolerably emo. I don't see why the writers need to resort to that sort of thing to create conflict when there's a built in plot mechanism for conflict and motivation that's the entire premise of the show.

― ryan, Monday, October 24, 2011 10:25 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

you couldnt wring a full season of tv out of fighting zombies. too expensive, and the last 30 years of terrible zombie movies have already put paid to how boring that is. they have the right idea concentrating on the characters, its just that these characters are overwrought dipshits

I skimmed around at a couple of other forums, and the degree of fan disdain for this show is so high. Apparently this last ep actually had the mom interrogate a purported doctor at length to make sure he was OK to operate on Carl? When, of course, there is literally no fucking other alternative, anywhere?

Predominant fan conspiracy theory is that they must skimp on sets, actors, writing in order to afford zombie F/X.

Also, apparently in one character's bag of drugs (?), there was "Breaking Bad" blue meth! Crossover!

you couldnt wring a full season of tv out of fighting zombies. too expensive, and the last 30 years of terrible zombie movies have already put paid to how boring that is. they have the right idea concentrating on the characters, its just that these characters are overwrought dipshits

you're definitely right. i think there's a middle ground though--in that you can concentrate on what these particular situations would reveal about the characters. who's a coward, who's a sadist, etc. The show is in some ways about people "clinging to their humanity" when it would be more interesting to see what would change about them, what humanity they would lose, in order to survive, the things they would do that we'd balk at in our zombie-less existence.

When, of course, there is literally no fucking other alternative, anywhere?

This is the thing that killed me! Watching it, I was thinking 'Lady, what other choice do you have?' Morans.

Having not seen this POS second ep, do they explain how dude hunting deer managed to shoot the boy right next to the deer, and also miss the two grown ass men a few feet away? Is he some sort of one-eyed deaf magic sniper?

Also, I hear they drag out the "will he live?" drama for at least another ep, when we all know they're not going to kill the kid. True?

killing off the kid would be a great idea! im hoping they basically find another group of survivors and we can just start following them around.

Someone somewhere else pointed out the narrative boneheadedness of introducing viewers to another group of survivors a million times more interesting than the ones we've been following.

do they explain how dude hunting deer managed to shoot the boy right next to the deer,

He shot through the deer into the kid. Dr. Veterinarian notes that the deer slowed the bullet enough to make the wound non-fatal.

So he was so focused on the deer he didn't see the boy? Right next to the fucking deer?

deer was inbetween the two- the shot probably came from far away

i'm not ruling out a second gunman

Yeah, it was:

Dudes ------- Boy -------- Deer ----------------------------- Shooter

lol i was going to post

c...D.............DH

the guy didn't think it was weird the deer had six legs and two of them were the legs of a child

Maybe he thought the zombie deer was eating the kid? Or the smiling, enraptured kid was a zombie, trying to eat the deer?

It's zombie times, man, anything's possible.

maybe he didn't see the kid

peeps getting incredulous about the kid deer shooting thing obv dont live in states where hunting accidents happen sometimes

This was no HUNTING ACCIDENT!

http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/1167/223491-richardbig2.jpg

shot a deer in atlanta just to see what was behind

i think the laziest writing trope this show seems to keep using is the delay of information to raise tension that isnt there, ie the "you cant go to the high school. you cant. thats your boy in there." for 5 minutes instead of saying "i will go" or the 5 minute vetting (hah) of the doctor when WE ALL KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. its really starting to drive me crazy, because they do it all the fucking time.

like i am really trying to like this show, but yknow theres still better special effects in mid-level horror movies, and they at least have a shot at being well written or compelling.

also these might be the worst written female characters on a show ever, its like the writing staff just brainstorms ways to make them vulnerable irrational and overcome by emotion every week

Well, they are women.

In real life, most of these men would be blubbering wrecks, too. I mean, flesh-eating back from the dead zombies!

this show really needs a Rose from lost character, which is a deeply unsettling thing that i thought i would never say.

They could squeeze 2 or 1.5 episodes into 1 episode. That would cut off all the unnecessary dialogue

I watched a couple amc zombie films recently. The second one followed around characters that were very briefly in the the first one (Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead). Neither of the them were that good but Diary was much better. They were both written by George Romero (The Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead)

Um, weren't they, you know, directed by him, too?

this show: The Walking Talking Dead

The Monologuing Dead

Having not seen this POS second ep, do they explain how dude hunting deer managed to shoot the boy right next to the deer, and also miss the two grown ass men a few feet away? Is he some sort of one-eyed deaf magic sniper?

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:07 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

it happens all the time, they shoulda been wearing orange!

poor eyesight has not stopped many people from getting and using firearms. also that kid is so pale he's practically translucent!

i love this show its great

Fine, how about this, then: what are the odds of hunting in the zombie-infested woods in the largely people-free post-apoclaypse, finding a deer, and then shooting at the exact moment a nearby forest-child was communing with the animal?

2-1

i stand by this:

i kind of wish that each season was six episodes, and at the end of each season all the characters would have been killed off, and then the next season was a whole new set of characters in some other location dealing with the zombies in their own way. but they still all end up dying eventually.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:27 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark

That would be awesome. Because then they can deal strictly with survival, or mostly, won't have to juggle too many lame narratives, and could change casts and locations at will. And have crossover eps!

it would be more interesting to see what would change about them, what humanity they would lose, in order to survive, the things they would do that we'd balk at in our zombie-less existence.

― ryan, Thursday, October 27, 2011 9:30 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

See the end of the last episode. (Season 2 Episode 3)

I've totally cut and run on this show after the dire premiere, but the request still stands: please let me know if this series gets better, because I want to like it!

Almost did the same after that speech to open the the first episode of the season. They weren't supposed to use the blooper take where he pretends to be a giant wedge of cheese.

yes i liked the end of the last ep. BUT it was pretty terrible before that.

i'm with josh btw

That zombie hanging from the tree was pretty cool. Norman Reedus continues to be the only decent character on this show.