no. i don't read the comics.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 November 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
i figure the show is going to be different from the comics and i kinda just want to follow one thing.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 November 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 12 November 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
Wish Darryl would stop killing animals I like - owls, possums...
Oh apparently Carol died off-screen?
― Metal Archies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 12 November 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
that was kinda clumsily handled, regardless of whether she ends up being alive or not
― Nhex, Monday, 12 November 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
so they just dug and filled in an empty grave?
― scott seward, Monday, 12 November 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
wouldn't darryl have turned the prison upside down trying to find her? or at least her body? kinda feel like he would have.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 November 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Louche Affect (KMS), Monday, 12 November 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Fuck, I shouldn't have worded that to be less spoilery.
― Louche Affect (KMS), Monday, 12 November 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 November 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
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
― akm, Monday, 12 November 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
They found Carol's scarf, and didn't they find T-Dogg's mangled body?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Who has a gun limb?
― Nhex, Monday, 12 November 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI0NDQ5MTM2MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTIwMjk2MQ@@._V1._SX376_SY500_.jpg
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 November 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
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?'
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Monday, 12 November 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah wait nobody has a gun limb.
― Evan, Monday, 12 November 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
Andrea's head will make a nice addition to the aquarium
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 November 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 November 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Nhex, Monday, 12 November 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Also, this show is still not nearly as grim as the book was, thankfully. I guess we'll see how this season ends though!
― Nhex, Monday, 12 November 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, I could have sworn Merle had a gun attachment for his stump. No?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
Thought the near total absence of Lori's remains, and then the huge stomach of the zombie, was really effective and creepy.
― Gukbe, Monday, 12 November 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
merle has a knife stump.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 November 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 November 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
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, 12 November 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 12 November 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
― 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.
― Evan, Monday, 12 November 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
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
― don't trust the lil b in apartment 23 (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, 12 November 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 12 November 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
"i am fairly sure she is into me enough that this won't matter."
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 12 November 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― scott seward, Monday, 12 November 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
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??'
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah that was great
xp so otm on that tim robbins bit from WotW
― Nhex, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it kinda had that 'Travis Bickle taking the girl to the porn theater on the first date' feel to it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 06:52 (eleven years ago) link
i think you're on the money there... also it makes a nice metaphor for what seems inevitable for this town
― Nhex, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 07:35 (eleven years ago) link
last shot of Michonne holding the basket in the pack of zombies clutching the fence was nice
― Nhex, Monday, 19 November 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Expected to see angry posts about the phone to heaven.
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
fave episode this seaon i should add.
They should have a "Walking Dead" Thanksgiving ep.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Looking forward to seeing Andrea in the head-quarium imo
it was a p good episode, def
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
OTM about Andrea, she is the worst.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
kinda bummed they found carol tbh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link