The Walking Dead

#201
#201
DinkinFlicka said:
As a reader of the comics, none of these criticisms irk me. Not trying to be rude, but the comics required a certain degree of patience. While the show's plot is WAY different, the template seems to stay the same. Stick with it folks. Major plot elements come together at the most random moments with this story.
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It's not just the pace of the show, it's that its slow and not interesting. Mad Men and are Breaking Bad are both slow as hell but they keep you interested in the characters. TWD hasn't quite figured out how to do that.

I'm sticking with it because I'm hoping they got most of the filler episodes out of the way and the last episode was better.
 
#202
#202
Ok, here are a few problems I have with the show.

1. The plot is moving at a sloth-like place. Yeah, everyone says that the characters are developing, but there's a problem, the characters aren't that interesting.
2. Why are they wasting ammo on target practice? In a zombie apocalypse you would need to save up all the ammo you could get your hands on. These people are out in a field just shooting away (wouldn't you think all that shooting would attract zombies?). The same goes for gas and food. They're throwing like 10 chickens a week to the zombies in the barn. How many chickens are left?
3. Andrea sucks. I'm so sick of her and she gets way too many monologues. And she can't shoot a moving target for **** and suddenly she goes into a trance and starts capping zombies left and right. What?
4. Dale sucks. He's always in everybody's business and whining about stuff from a morally superior viewpoint. Just shut up and do your part or Shane is going to wear your skull like a hat.
5. Find the girl or don't, I don't want to hear about this anymore.
6. We're going at about an average of 1 zombie attach per episode. This needs to increase. They are pretty close to Atlanta right? That's like 2 million potential zombies in their vicinity yet they don't seem to be concerned at all that like 100,000 zombies could just walk out of the woods at any moment.
7. To this point, Shane is the most interesting character on the show and he's a complete ***hole. That shows how dull the rest of the characters are. Rick and Lori and their interactions make me want to turn the show off they're so bla. And Rick finally finds out that Shane was smashing his wife and he's cool with that? What? And that kid that plays Carl is awful. He needs to go back to being in a coma.
8. The group needs to raid a barnes and noble to pick up Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide to figure out how to really act during a zombie apocalypse.
 
#203
#203
Lori keeps injecting her worry wart commentary durin important conversations, like when Carl wanted to learn how to shoot. I keep hoping that Rick is going to look at her, slightly cock his head to the side, and say, "Men are talking."
 
#204
#204
VolinMichigan said:
Ok, here are a few problems I have with the show.

1. The plot is moving at a sloth-like place. Yeah, everyone says that the characters are developing, but there's a problem, the characters aren't that interesting.
2. Why are they wasting ammo on target practice? In a zombie apocalypse you would need to save up all the ammo you could get your hands on. These people are out in a field just shooting away (wouldn't you think all that shooting would attract zombies?). The same goes for gas and food. They're throwing like 10 chickens a week to the zombies in the barn. How many chickens are left?
3. Andrea sucks. I'm so sick of her and she gets way too many monologues. And she can't shoot a moving target for **** and suddenly she goes into a trance and starts capping zombies left and right. What?
4. Dale sucks. He's always in everybody's business and whining about stuff from a morally superior viewpoint. Just shut up and do your part or Shane is going to wear your skull like a hat.
5. Find the girl or don't, I don't want to hear about this anymore.
6. We're going at about an average of 1 zombie attach per episode. This needs to increase. They are pretty close to Atlanta right? That's like 2 million potential zombies in their vicinity yet they don't seem to be concerned at all that like 100,000 zombies could just walk out of the woods at any moment.
7. To this point, Shane is the most interesting character on the show and he's a complete ***hole. That shows how dull the rest of the characters are. Rick and Lori and their interactions make me want to turn the show off they're so bla. And Rick finally finds out that Shane was smashing his wife and he's cool with that? What? And that kid that plays Carl is awful. He needs to go back to being in a coma.
8. The group needs to raid a barnes and noble to pick up Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide to figure out how to really act during a zombie apocalypse.
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Um....when did you get into my head and steal all my thoughts? I agree with everything you said. Especially #1, you can't develop uninteresting characters.
 
#206
#206
The only thing that kills me is some of the actors are so bad. The dude who plays Rick and the actress who plays Lori should donate their checks.
 
#207
#207
I was just wondering, do fictional characters in a zombie movie/show have any comprehension of what a zombie is? Do they have zombie movies in their world? I only ask because every time I watch a zombie movie, the people in the movie are so clueless as to how this is happening and how to kill a zombie. I think from about age 12 and on I knew that to kill a zombie you have to destroy the brain. I think our culture is so over saturated with zombie fiction that if an zombie apocalypse ever did happen, there would be a sizable portion of the population that would actually know what to do.
 
#208
#208
dreVol said:
Lori keeps injecting her worry wart commentary durin important conversations, like when Carl wanted to learn how to shoot. I keep hoping that Rick is going to look at her, slightly cock his head to the side, and say, "Men are talking."
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lol
 
#209
#209
VolinMichigan said:
I was just wondering, do fictional characters in a zombie movie/show have any comprehension of what a zombie is? Do they have zombie movies in their world? I only ask because every time I watch a zombie movie, the people in the movie are so clueless as to how this is happening and how to kill a zombie. I think from about age 12 and on I knew that to kill a zombie you have to destroy the brain. I think our culture is so over saturated with zombie fiction that if an zombie apocalypse ever did happen, there would be a sizable portion of the population that would actually know what to do.
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No its pretty much a given in zombie movies they never developed that genre of movies in their universe.
 
#213
#213
How did none of us call that. Guess it was hard to predict though because I thought it was just family and friends in the barn. Great episode
 
#214
#214
1. I didn't see it coming because I had read the comics.

2. How f'n pissed are they gonna be at Herschel for not telling them that Sophia was in there?
 
#215
#215
Shocker. Still predictable and hokey as ever but that was a pretty intense episode. I suppose Herschel has some explaining to do.

Oh and what purpose does a midseason finale serve? Some kind of marketing department interference?
 
#218
#218
It was a big step for Rick to shoot her. It showed that he is still the leader of the group and still has the balls to do what needs to be done.

It'll be interesting to see Talking Dead tonight with Robert Kirkman on it.
 
#222
#222
Shane just thinks he has it. Rick has it.

And Norman Reedus is just as hot as he was in Boondock Saints.
 
#223
#223
Bad ass episode. Still shocked about the ending. When she walked out of the barn, I was shocked as if I were there. Daryl is still my favorite character, however in This episode, I think Rick got his balls back.
 
#225
#225
Rick had to take the final shot in order to maintain his position as leader of the group and to accept responsibility for Sophia's death and conversion into a walker.

The preview for the February episode shows three graves being dug. Without any spoilers from comic book fans, any guesses who the three dead people are?
 
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