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

BTW, apparently there were some reshoots of the last three eps after Mazzara was taken off the show, so I bet that explains this unsatisfying fizzle of a finale.

some deets: http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/04/01/the-walking-dead-dallas-roberts-milton-andrea/

don't know if that specific bit with Andrea and Milton would've been better without their conversation, tbh. wanna know what else was changed though

weak weak finale. not only do we not get the obvious pay off, but there wasn't even a good hook to keep watching.

But .... The Governor! What of the Governor!!?!?!

(zombies too, I suppose, but mostly the Governor. He's the only reason people have been watching, right?)

One of the all-time great TV characters.

They should have just called the show "The Governor," and made it about the various problems the Governor faced. No clean drinking water! Lice outbreak! Zombies! People would tune in to watch how these problems got solved, and wonder ... how did The Governor become the Governor?

The finale would be set in heaven, btw.

Opening should be like The Rifleman except he's shooting random civilians.

I was thinking more along the line of "The Oregon Trail." With zombies.

tbf, david morrissey has been brilliant

Sorry if this has been covered upthread, but how did they manage the CGI for Herschel's legs?

Or lack thereof I mean.

Cgi probably

LOL at asking how they got rid of his legs in a show about zombies tearing people to pieces when they're not exploding.

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-10/entertainment/ca-14048_1_gary-sinise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqAbjHKO5jM

huh, i'm watching "In Cold Blood" and i'll be damned if good ol Hershel doesn't play one of the killers

scott wilson's awesome

Oh this is back.

it's always nice to see new faces... even if they will inevitably die

"Oh, hello there. It's been a hot summer down here in Redshirt Corners..."

Apparently if you were on the show 'the wire' your mortality rate improves. D'angelo Barksdale just walked on set. He joins the boxing coach...sigh.

WTF at the women with the Cork accent!

woman, rather than women

The crazy lady? I was wondering what that accent was.

Really odd choice to give a minor character an accent v specific to a county in southern Ireland, presume they just liked her work.

Liked her acting more than her attempt at US accent.

She was supposed to have just stopped in America flying somewhere else on her honeymoon

I wondered if they added that in to explain the accent.

That was tonally weird and kinda unpleasant. And PETA is probably pissed.

one thing I wonder - maybe Patrick didn't kill Karen at the beginning because he could sense she was already infected (ala Alien 3)

if this is the case it could lead somewhere a little more interesting

Meanwhile

http://www.avclub.com/articles/fox-news-says-the-walking-dead-is-brainwashing-ame,104517/

Yeah, that stuff with the pigs was just brutal to watch. That whole episode was one of the darkest things I've ever seen on television.

The first episode, when the dying Irish woman asked Rick what the three questions were, I really, really, really, wanted him to start with, "WHAT . . . is your name?"

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this season is even worse than usual. the pigs thing was weird and sort of needless, not least since the show actually appeared to write some pigs into the storyline as a key plot device. real no kidding pigs.

on the other hand, as regards the cruelty, halfway through rick's pig murder it occurred to me that was probably what was going to happen to them anyway, in the end.

That was tonally weird and kinda unpleasant.

It's as though everyone involved forgot that, as well as gruesome/bleak, this is actually also supposed to be entertaining

i quit the show after the incredibly lame season finale last year where the governor hobbled into the woods shaking his fist and going "i'll get you rotten kids next time!"

I appreciated the grimness of this episode a lot. It's still hard to care about many of the characters, though, which is a big problem. They can only hold backstory so close to the vest before you start looking at everyone like zombie food.

I do appreciate how suddenly diverse the cast has become.

^^

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day: this Sunday's ep was pretty solid. The characters even take some time to talk about stuff that happened in previous seasons.

yeah, good episode. good coverage by Y2J on the Talking Bad episode afterward too, actually

And then, not unlike the turn from corpse to zombie, the show gets a lethal case of the stupids. If you're monitoring a host of patients on the cusp of death, and the dead come back to life, and you know many if not most of these people will likely die and come back to eat you with little or no warning, you do your rounds armed, morons.

Also, if hundreds of zombies are massing up against the visibly weakened fence for a few episodes, you don't put that shit off.

I did appreciate how for a minute there the survival of a number of major characters seemed uncertain.

i actually really liked the episode - pretty effective and exciting overall. the stupidity is sort of explained away by Hershal's stubbornness- Caleb even told him to take the loaded shotgun! if nobody acted stupid there wouldn't be a show, tbh

otoh the Governor reveal was way too easy. guess nobody noticed him stalking around these past months

He's very quiet.

But really, they've showed the fence buckling for a few episodes now, which means several TV-show days. Fix the damn fence! Also, why was whatshername the only person on fence duty? They sent off every able bodied person on their quests and left behind only the sick or infirm? There's stupid, then there's stupid as contrivance, which is less forgivable.

welll don't forget that they just had like 40 people die on them. the sickness became the pressing issue, on top of them losing a lot of their food, water and medical supplies suddenly. my assumption is that they are fixing the fences each morning, and then each night the Governor or whoever is feeding more rats to the zombies to draw more and more of them in at different points

welll don't forget that they just had like 40 people die on them.

Yeah, like, apparently the entire contingent of barely named characters taken in from Woodbury.

I had concluded that lil' psycho girl was the rat-feeder but hm yeah maybe it was the guvnor all along.

LOL'd derisively at that final shot this week.

Weren't the dead rats on the prison side of the fence?

yeah, so i'm thinking there will be some lame-o explanation of how the governor got in.
or worse - he has a mole in the prison. Bob!

I enjoyed being frustrated at the fact that Tyrese ran right to his sister upon return without BRINGING ALL THAT MEDICINE THEY JUST GRABBED?! "lol Daryl bring this later, k?"

Also that Maggie had to smash a window to get in, but luckily Tyrese went straight to the same broken entrance to getting easily and quickly