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

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.

Andrea's head will make a nice addition to the aquarium

i have definitely reached the point where i don't really care if anyone dies. except darryl for some reason. i would be sad if he died.

xxxp I love that they're doing this - makes it a lot more fun to watch for the readers, as everything is kind of familiar, but you still don't know exactly what's going to happen. This kind of thing gets done a lot in anime/manga adaptations moving in both directions.

Also, this show is still not nearly as grim as the book was, thankfully. I guess we'll see how this season ends though!

Wait, I could have sworn Merle had a gun attachment for his stump. No?

Thought the near total absence of Lori's remains, and then the huge stomach of the zombie, was really effective and creepy.

merle has a knife stump.

gukbe otm.

Greg Nicotero pointed out on the Talking Dead aftershow that the Lori-eating zombie even had a lock of Lori's hair hanging out of it's mouth, which I didn't notice (and am kind of glad I didn't see) O_o

Pretty sure the ep that showed Merle up on his post, picking off zombies on the periphery of Woodbury, had someone fetch him his gun, which he attached to his stump before he started taking out walkers.

What was most creepy was that, during the scene where the Governor was combing his undead daughter's hair, what sounded very like a piano version of Serge Gainsbourg's "Lemon Incest" was playing in the background

Pretty sure the ep that showed Merle up on his post, picking off zombies on the periphery of Woodbury, had someone fetch him his gun, which he attached to his stump before he started taking out walkers.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, November 12, 2012 1:05 PM (4 hours ago)

If that is true then I'm sure it just holds the gun there? I doubt they'd be unrealistic about it.

is it me or is Merle not as awful this time around? I remember his character being the worst thing about the entire show first season, now he's just kinda there

thought it was a bit silly that the governor abandoned his tentative woodbury tour in favour of taking andrea on a date to watch merle beating seven shades of shit out of another beefcake in a cage made of zombies

"i am fairly sure she is into me enough that this won't matter."

that character is always gonna be maddening. the dude you have to worry about on top of all the man-eating monsters trying to kill you. you just want them to die so badly. tim robbins kinda set the modern bar high with his crazy dude in war of the worlds.

sooooooo those guys from philadelphia who bit the dust last season they didn't live in this town did they? i'm guessing not. i don't have a good mapquest sense of how far everything is from everything else. how far is the prison from the town?

i thought it was really funny how he was hooting and cheering and turned to her while she was making the http://i.imgur.com/JWXzm.jpg face and is like 'what, you dont like this??'

haha yeah that was great

xp so otm on that tim robbins bit from WotW

yeah it kinda had that 'Travis Bickle taking the girl to the porn theater on the first date' feel to it

If they had just established maybe one episode prior that the zombies become complacent when they can no longer bite, than why were the arena zombies still in attack mode with their teeth removed?