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

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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

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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

haha. i didn't think about that, but yeah - i assume he didn't climb through the interview room

One thing that bugs me about the fence is that they've already found a way to reinforce their security around the front gate by putting up a bunch of sharpened logs as barriers. Why on earth wouldn't they try to do the same around the entire perimeter?

Overall, though, I'm enjoying this season more than the others. Still disappointed that Tyreese remains a bit of a non-entity compared to the character in the comics.

Why on earth wouldn't they try to do the same around the entire perimeter?

Or they could have pulled a "Dawn of the Dead" and circled the fence with abandoned trucks and buses.

it's amazing how this show has a fantastic creature effects department, truly top notch, and yet I somehow they never figured out how to make a realistic looking beard. i couldn't stop laughing at Hobo Governor

good ep though, surprised he's getting his own mini-arc beyond a single episode

Yeah, once I soldiered through the first five minutes it was OK. I always hoped they would expand the universe a little beyond the (boring) core group. But that beard was terrible.

Lots of people in this show like to keep zombies lying around as growling pets, apparently. What happened to the Michonne method of taking off their jaw and arms and tying them up to keep away other zombies? Also, how come these zombies are always growling loudly, but you can only hear them when they're within a few feet? And how could anyone have survived months in this world, smart enough to take care of someone with cancer, yet somehow not figure out the only way to kill zombies? Sometimes this show seems like with each episode they must have brought in a new batch of green writers, gave them a two minute synopsis of everything that's happened, said go and then turned over an hourglass.

they kept advertising the Telltale video game throughout the hour, it kept reminding me how much more I liked Lee and Clementine more than pretty much anyone on the show

but that said, i think they learned their lessons from the drag of season 2, things are moving at a better pace and i'm definitely hooked

Better paced, and yet ... things still really aren't moving, are they?

i liked this infection storyline - it ended the six month period of harmony that the prison had post-Woodbury, it just felt a little weird to kill so many people that effectively became redshirts. the "rick going nuts" and governor storylines seem to finally be wrapping up

i do wonder if they're going to drag out the prison setting all the way to end of the season - hopefully not

...all right!

boy were there a lot of crowd-pleasing kills in this one. i have been entertained.

Yeah, that was pleasantly carnage-filled. Just wish we didn't have to wade through those two horrible Governor episodes first.

Favourite part was Daryl taking cover from a hail of bullets behind... a filing cabinet? Guess they build them prison filing cabinets to last, huh?

I almost felt like they were deliberately doing that - he also uses a rotten zombie carcass as a shield at one point.

deliberately playing up the ridiculousness there, i mdan.

how could you not be cracking up when he went full-on Rambo with the grenades

The guy straight-up took out a tank single-handedly. Gimme that over Beardo Governor playing Littlest Hobo for two hours.

i don't see a conflict between the two!