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

It's David Morrissey! He's pretty famous in Britain! He's not just an off-brand Neeson!

oh wait he's the dude from Blackpool right? fking loved that show

He's pretty famous at a specific cultural range, don't think he's had problems walking down the street yet.

You mean the British TV viewing public is not entirely made up of people who watch serious drama?

he should totally play jack reacher in the reacher movie instead of tom cruise. my dad and i were thinking liam neeson would actually be perfect to play reacher but he's a little old for it. this guy would be next best thing. he seems big enough. reacher is 6 foot five in the books. tom cruise is 4 foot 5 in real life. so stupid. i really dig the books (thanks, dad).

yeah MIL was beside herself that Cruise was playing Reacher, she loves those books!

lee child also a brit. the dude who writes the best all-american thrillers right now. man, now i really wish the governor was playing him. i don't know what they were thinking. i mean i guess for people who don't read the books it doesn't matter. but reacher's size is such a major thing in the books. and tomcat is such a twerp.

my dad gave me the newest one for my birthday and i thought there would be no way i would ever read it. i'm on my third one right now and have like four more on deck. i never read tough guy thrillers.

anyway, i liked the last episode. it was sad. and frenetic. two down just like that! and yeah t-dog kinda got shafted. next episode looks pretty action-packed too and not 44 minutes of grieving.

Gullible Andrea stuff lame in S3E4, baby stuff I guess sad and inevitable but boilerplate, but a solid ep that shows the show isn't averse to radical decisions, which will benefit us all as viewers.

Finally got around to watching last weeks episode and it delivered!!

was definitely better thought the town stuff is painful. kill off horrible Andrea and I will be a believer.

xp I see what you did there Jacob

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

I was going to say "if we didn't see her die, she probably didn't", but then I remembered Sophia, so never mind.

Is David Morrissey running a breeding programme?

What day does this air in the US, just so as I remember not to read this thread between US airing and having watched it?

David Morrissey's international 'fame' thus far is just Basic Instinct 2, right?

It airs on Sunday nights.

Right, cheers. We don't get it until Friday. You probably discussed this already.

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.

I have issues with her always wearing earrings.

i already knew who morrison was, but the neeson thing hit me in this ep too. i think it was the way he talked in a certain scene, his intonation or smth

Has Neeson ever played a bad guy? "Excalibur?"

yeah he never really does play the bad guy. i think he would be too frightening for movie audiences as the bad guy. he would be the best bad guy ever.

Batman Begins

Neeson's the bad guy in Batman Begins. XP

Oh, crap. Well, other than in one of the biggest movies of the last ten years.

That was a shit bad guy, though.

*morrissey

Finally all caught up with this. Thought they handled the birth thing well, and can see the sense in them running the two storylines together. Little bit disbelieving of the way Woodbury citizens are seemingly just aimlessly walking hand-in-hand down the boulevard all day. Wish we'd seen more of the development between Michonne and Andrea; the "8 months later" jump seems odd - can just about deal with it with the main party, as they all know each other, but seems strange with M&A. Vaguely miffed at Merl returning as I don't like him much as a character, and I do like Daryl, and fear the former will have a negative affect on the latter.

"Little bit disbelieving of the way Woodbury citizens are seemingly just aimlessly walking hand-in-hand down the boulevard all day."

haha, for real. they look like they're at disneyland. what the hell are they all talking about with big smiles on their faces? "ah, remember when we had families before the world ended? those were good times..."

wouldn't they all be working 24 hours a day to feed and clothe and house that many people?

okay, its my turn to vote thumbs down on an episode. i think its only fair. zombie wrestling matches really pretty fucking lame. and also really believable, but also just lame. i can definitely see people in this country thinking of all kinds of things to do with zombies. hardly shocking. but i'm guessing there is more to come as far as secret experiments go and all that. but even that...who really cares what they do to zombies?

You're not read the comics then, I take it?

this episode was really unsatisfying for me. nothing really accomplished. nothing cool and new. i also have no time for rick going crazy. either snap out of it or kill yourself.

no. i don't read the comics.

i figure the show is going to be different from the comics and i kinda just want to follow one thing.

Yeah, it's a little different - end results and major plot points / themes all seem the same, but they're finding different ways of doing things.

Wish Darryl would stop killing animals I like - owls, possums...

Oh apparently Carol died off-screen?

that was kinda clumsily handled, regardless of whether she ends up being alive or not

so they just dug and filled in an empty grave?

wouldn't darryl have turned the prison upside down trying to find her? or at least her body? kinda feel like he would have.

They dug and filled three empty graves, didn't they? None of the three bodies (Lori, Carol and T-Dog) were recovered. How was the rest of the gang able to confirm Carol and T-Dog's deaths?

Fuck, I shouldn't have worded that to be less spoilery.

they saw t-dog go down. i think? wait, no, maybe only carol saw him go down. they saw him get bit anyway. i guess they just assumed carol got eaten.

i'm assuming carol is still alive. I've watched enough soap operas in my time to know that if you die off screen you aren't dead

They found Carol's scarf, and didn't they find T-Dogg's mangled body?

Also, clearly it has been set up that Daryl will have to kill his brother, thus reaffirming his good-guy status, and getting rid of Merle, who is a lame character.

Dear movies and tv-shows: having a chainsaw for a limb worked in "The Evil Dead." Having a gun for a limb, however, is totally stupid, especially in a show that aims at some sort of realism.

Who has a gun limb?

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Just read the AV Club recap, and man, I'm glad I skipped this ep. Doesn't sound like this season's arc will get much better, either. Sigh. Some good analysis in there as to the fundamental flaws with the show. That is, if you took away the zombie threat for even an episode, what could they possibly do to make these characters compelling? They'd talk about life before the zombies, and then they'd just sit around and stew. They need to give these lumps some drive, like Daryl seems to have. He's the only one propelled by more than just inertia.

Maybe they can introduce a quest for the mythical planet "Earth?'

admittedly i have low expectations for this show, but Rick and Michonne's angry kills were enough for me to put this one in the "win" column

I find it almost surreal how the series has been following the events of the comic, but depicting them in often totally different ways despite arriving at the same results.

Yeah wait nobody has a gun limb.