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

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?

I felt like the complacency is something they learn over time or become conditioned into? Like, they *become* complacent in the situation with Mishonne, as her captives and eventually become docile... but these fightclub zombies had their teeth removed what, just the day before...and are still place in a situation where they're encouraged to bite. So they're not really being conditioned not to, so of course they're still going to try. I dunno if that's what's actually going on or what but that's how I interpreted it.

i think you're on the money there... also it makes a nice metaphor for what seems inevitable for this town

last shot of Michonne holding the basket in the pack of zombies clutching the fence was nice

Expected to see angry posts about the phone to heaven.

wait nothing else to add? anyone? i think this might have been my fave episode yet. first thing you have to remember though is: ALWAYS shoot merle if he comes up to you on the street. plus, come on, GO BACK was pretty good as a sight gag.

fave episode this seaon i should add.

They should have a "Walking Dead" Thanksgiving ep.

Looking forward to seeing Andrea in the head-quarium imo

it was a p good episode, def

OTM about Andrea, she is the worst.

kinda bummed they found carol tbh

ha! do you want anyone to live? i already said the good hick brother is the only one i really care about. and i don't even know why.

phone call from the grave, man. phone call from the grave. would actually be really cool if he did go completely insane. like full bughouse insane. and they have to cart him around babbling all the time. but sadly you know he'll just shake off his insanity.

darryl (good hick brother) is definitely still my favorite

I heard that Cutty from The Wire is joining the cast in a couple of weeks, which is exciting because I <3 <3 him

the phone call was good. it was very comic-booky. was that in the comic?

it certainly was.

Whoever does their sound design should get some props for making that call sound creepy. Numbers station creepy.

irl rick actorman said it was a real phone call, it was really Lori calling from a set she was on in canada?

andrea is so annoying. she'd be duped into falling in love with captain hook if he was on the show.