The Walking Dead

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Vols520 said:
It is a little funny they are in Atlanta and basically no black people survived I guess.
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Atlanta was over run by walkers. it was not a good place to be if you remember. The people in this show are from rural Georgia.
 
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Well it's not like everyone that lives automatically find Rick's group. There was the group they met in Atlanta, if i recall correctly they had a few black people. Maybe there is a black group somewhere, that only allows one white dude at a time. :)
 
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Was that the first time we actually got to see the gov fight? What's up with that? He's been sitting up in his room with his heads and his zombie daughter doing nothing, making everyone else do the grunt work and killing and he takes out Merle like nothing? Wasn't Merle one of the gov's prize fighters at one time?

The first time Rick's group attacked Woodbury they just do it, it just happens like in one episode. This build up to fighting Woodbury again has taken like 5 episodes. Luckily though it pales in comparison to the amount of time they spent searching for Sophie.

I admit though there has been a LOT of character development going on. Merle came around at the last second. Michonne is actually using her words like a grown up. Glen has toughened up a lot from that smartass kid he was in Atlanta making fun of Rick getting stuck in the tank. Carol doesn't let men push her around anymore.

I think what bothered me the most was that Rick even considered handing over Michonne as an option. I would have thought he would have been able to tell that that wouldn 't have made a difference either way, that the gov still would have come after them. I guess the fact that he came around in the end is all that matters.
 
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The build up to this last episode has been a too drawn out. IMO You can still have other interesting stuff happening, besides building up to the final confrontation. One thing that I've noticed is they tend to focus on one thing a whole episode. They have Woodbury episodes and Prison episodes. I love the show but they could pick it up a little. The first 8 episodes were excellent, the second 7 have left a lot to be desired. JMO
 
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The show is more about character development and how you lose your humanity than zombies. If you don't like that I think you might as well change the channel because this is the direction it's going. The comic moves pretty fast so try that but the story is a little different. I think the last three have been the best of the season.
 
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bigdaddy said:
The show is more about character development and how you lose your humanity than zombies. If you don't like that I think you might as well change the channel because this is the direction it's going. The comic moves pretty fast so try that but the story is a little different. I think the last three have been the best of the season.
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I agree. I think there has only been one "down" episode since break.
 
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bigdaddy said:
The show is more about character development and how you lose your humanity than zombies. If you don't like that I think you might as well change the channel because this is the direction it's going. The comic moves pretty fast so try that but the story is a little different. I think the last three have been the best of the season.
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Exactly. It is a drama show with some action mixed in, not the other way around.

The past few episodes were written by Scott Gimple, who will handling the show's writing next season. He also wrote "18 Miles Out" from season 2 and and a few others from seasons 1 and 2-all which have been rated in the top 10 episodes of the show's history.
 
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it's why the show's title means the people still alive and not the zombies

interesting. I'd not thought of it that way until now.

Someone on here mentioned the zombies as being "the lava you don't want to fall into" - which I thought was a good metaphor.

I dunno... drama is all good if executed correctly. However, I'd much rather see that mixed in with more tactical zombie beat downs.

It seems as if the most central characters to the plot (the zombies- they started it all, didn't they?) have been reduced to novelties. The main characters don't fear them anymore than an electric fence: as long as I keep distance, I'm ok. The Gov plays with them; makes them entertainment for the Woodbury masses.
 
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If the show followed the comics and went at such a fast pace, the show would flop. It is the drama between the living people(The real walking dead) that makes the show. Watching them struggle with their losses of humanity and what is left of it, is what so many viewers like the most.

The Zombies may have been the initial draw, but they are just a side card, as the show has picked up in popularity across age boundaries in TV land.
 
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Tux said:
If the show followed the comics and went at such a fast pace, the show would flop. It is the drama between the living people(The real walking dead) that makes the show. Watching them struggle with their losses of humanity and what is left of it, is what so many viewers like the most.

The Zombies may have been the initial draw, but they are just a side card, as the show has picked up in popularity across age boundaries in TV land.
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If only (most) of the acting was good enough to actually pull that off well.

I've said before that I like and watch the show every week but the popularity is not about the story telling and the acting, it's about the zombies and the action/killing. Mad Men and Breaking Bad are infinitely better at acting and story telling and they do about a 10th of the ratings.
 
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NochNoch said:
If only (most) of the acting was good enough to actually pull that off well.

I've said before that I like and watch the show every week but the popularity is not about the story telling and the acting, it's about the zombies and the action/killing. Mad Men and Breaking Bad are infinitely better at acting and story telling and they do about a 10th of the ratings.
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BB yes; MM no. MM hasn't been all that great in about 2 seasons.
 
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NochNoch said:
Mad Men may not be as good as it once was but it's still a much, much better acted program than Walking Dead could ever pray to be.
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Guess we'll agree to disagree. I find MM to be a good show yet extremely overrated, and I strongly disagree its acting is much better than TWD's. MM has been gotten quite stale, both in story and acting.
 
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