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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
weak weak finale. not only do we not get the obvious pay off, but there wasn't even a good hook to keep watching.
― bnw, Friday, 5 April 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
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?)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
One of the all-time great TV characters.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
Opening should be like The Rifleman except he's shooting random civilians.
― ben kvelertak (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 6 April 2013 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
I was thinking more along the line of "The Oregon Trail." With zombies.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 April 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
tbf, david morrissey has been brilliant
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Saturday, 6 April 2013 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry if this has been covered upthread, but how did they manage the CGI for Herschel's legs?
― calstars, Monday, 15 April 2013 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
Or lack thereof I mean.
― calstars, Monday, 15 April 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
Cgi probably
― Gukbe, Monday, 15 April 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
LOL at asking how they got rid of his legs in a show about zombies tearing people to pieces when they're not exploding.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-10/entertainment/ca-14048_1_gary-sinise
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqAbjHKO5jM
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
huh, i'm watching "In Cold Blood" and i'll be damned if good ol Hershel doesn't play one of the killers
― Punxsutawney PiL (brownie), Sunday, 28 April 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
scott wilson's awesome
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 29 April 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
Oh this is back.
― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 14 October 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
it's always nice to see new faces... even if they will inevitably die
― Nhex, Monday, 14 October 2013 06:08 (ten years ago) link
"Oh, hello there. It's been a hot summer down here in Redshirt Corners..."
― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 14 October 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― I can't keep up, I can't keep up, I can't keep up (calstars), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
WTF at the women with the Cork accent!
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
woman, rather than women
The crazy lady? I was wondering what that accent was.
― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
Really odd choice to give a minor character an accent v specific to a county in southern Ireland, presume they just liked her work.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
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
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
I wondered if they added that in to explain the accent.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Thursday, 17 October 2013 06:29 (ten years ago) link
That was tonally weird and kinda unpleasant. And PETA is probably pissed.
― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 21 October 2013 08:34 (ten years ago) link
one thing I wonder - maybe Patrick didn't kill Karen at the beginning because he could sense she was already infected (ala Alien 3)
― Nhex, Monday, 21 October 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
if this is the case it could lead somewhere a little more interesting
― Nhex, Monday, 21 October 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
Meanwhile
http://www.avclub.com/articles/fox-news-says-the-walking-dead-is-brainwashing-ame,104517/
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Monday, 21 October 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
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?"
http://9poeticfingers.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/blog_bridgekeeper.jpg
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
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
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
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 wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
^^
― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 November 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
yeah, good episode. good coverage by Y2J on the Talking Bad episode afterward too, actually
― Nhex, Monday, 4 November 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Pressgang Wolf (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Weren't the dead rats on the prison side of the fence?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
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!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
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?"
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
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
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link