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

I felt like that was a pretty ponderous way to introduce a standard small-town dictator storyline. That's kind of been my beef whenever I get bored with the series, it could be told with less Darabont-DOYOUSEEness. It's kind of like a series that missed out on cable TV's storytelling progress of the last ten years?

that was ponderous to you?

i feel like they crammed a whole lot of stuff into 44 minutes or whatever.

As someone who digested the first 70-something issues of the comic over the course of a few days, one of my biggest complaints is the amount of time the show has taken to get to major turning points! But then, the first season was truncated, and the second one too talkative. I haven't seen the new season yet, was just reacting to the first appearance of complaints.

Yeah, bearing in mind you're talking about six years of the comics there...

I just realized that the walls of the town that they mentioned 5 times might not only be to keep zombies out. They keep people in too!!!

Subtle. "We are all the walking dead," etc.

How many times did the Michonne actress' script say stares suspiciously in it. About as many as the governor's said averts eyes enigmatically and the same number as blondie's said drops one more level of defence against the governor's charms

Some awful "looks" exchanged throughout.

At this stage part of the show's theme of people benefiting from this new and crazy world seems to include Andrea waking up in a world full of her anarcho-fascist dream date.

Still enjoyed it though, great gore once again and the last scene was cool.

I'm just O_o that Andrea would latch onto psychopath govnah so quickly. I mean, I guess if Shane was her thing then he must be a fascist dream come true but yeuuuuuch

it did feel pretty lame and rushed. like couldn't he have told a story about his dead wife beside a fire in the next episode or something. that would have been enough to seal the deal and remove her initial suspicions

I'm still half wondering if he has his wife and child's heads in that aquarium

I didn't think to look at the time

I wasn't surprised Andrea took so quickly to the governor, he offered her exactly what she wants, a safe place, a community, friends, etc.

not to mention all the undead heads preserved in formaldehyde she desires

psychopathic tendencies...

andrea & michonne kinda bore me on their own, they need to get back with the main group imo

zombie heads and alfalfa for the rabbits

did the two chained zombies like rape michonne or something? just based on her reaction when andrea quizzed her.

i assumed they were related to her, because they were black

in the comic one is her boyfriend and the other a good friend

I'm wondering if they're setting it up for Andrea to be playing the long game - good prisoner to Michonne's bad prisoner. But it would be pretty lame if they went that way without Michonne apparently being clued in.

Andrea seems to self-involved to play a long game? idk. Be good if she was.

Well damn.

man, i am really happy they got the memo about things moving too slow on this show

so Lori choosing to give birth/die was like... one of the most gobsmackingly stupid things I've ever seen in my life? I guess cool that they're dropping all the dead weight though. I meant I just I don't even I mean what I mean

Anyways good luck feeding that baby I guess?

Yeah that scene was kinda dumb. That baby's going to be dead weight though.

Also RIP T-Dog, an extra even in death.

yup, golf clap for AMC's rationing of minority characters

if Lori hadn't done that, and the baby died... would it have gone zombie inside of her?

Great "WHAT'S IN THE BOX" impression by Rick at the end. That dude is kind of a terrible actor.

rick's actor is a total ham, but i like him anyway

Echoing lolzy treatment of T. I had been thinking that they really had to give him some kind of character this year, with a little arc, but no, they couldn't be bothered. Just killed him.

yeah i kinda love Rick's hamminess too

it was funny because only 5 minutes earlier i was thinking 't-dog's gonna be ok, they cant kill the only black guy'

I just started the third season, and wow, that first ep was great. Very much akin to the relentless, anything-goes vibe of the comic, and it didn't skimp on the gore, either.

Not reading thread because I'm only half through season 2, but -- what is the actual mode of new zombie production? Like, it seems like when zombies find a live human they eat the whole thing -- so what's the mechanism by which e.g. Sophia returns as a zombie? Like, when they caught her they just took a bite and then left her alone so she'd go zombie? Why?

Yeah some are so eviscerated that you wonder but I guess we just assume she got a bite and ran away, and then eventually turned when she was on her own.

Maybe some savvy zombies at work?

S3E2 pretty great, too.

eephus - there is an explanation by the end of the season

really? is there a whole mythology and whatnot going on? i thought it was just "oh shit zombies" and then let it play.

/never read the comic books

That explanation explains some stuff, but not why there would be partially eaten zombies milling about. Zombies generally members of the clean plate club, you'd think.

ah, it's just part of their bizarre dichotomy of having SUPER STRONG JAWS AND TEETH but their other body parts get taken off by a gust of wind

OK, S3E3 was kind of crap, but it did an OK job conflating two comic book story lines.

Thank goodness this show isn't airing under the Bush administration, or even its heaviest heavy handed bits would be even more heavy handed.

Also, we'd have Bush.

that was a discussion last night - if Lori hadn't had Maggie do the impromptu c-section and the fetus died, would it turn into a zombie (because we're all infected!!!!) inside of her, or would it have just been a stillbirth since it was never born and thus not a person and only people can be zombies?

would have loved a show that decided to settle the abortion debate that way, tbh

by the show's logic i gather we'd have gotten zombie lori + zombie baby, which would've been V-levels of amazing camp

I wish I had a clip of that zombie baby from The Soup this week, that was so good.

we're not going to be shocked with Lori turns up again alive and the boy didn't shoot her, are we?

not really, but i doubt it... i mean that kid is plenty shaping up to be a stone-cold killer

There was a zombie baby in Zach Snyder's "Dawn" remake!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28mtJa2ORps

Did Carol actually die or not? Can't work it out.

With Lori gone I won't any longer be bugged by her inability to tie her hair back even though it obviously would get in the way all the time.