The Walking Dead

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jamesd1628 said:
He might in fact be mini Shane. Wasn't there some hinting in earlier episodes that Carl might be Shane's? I know that's the case with the baby, but I thought there was some indication that Shane and Lori's relationship went back for quite a while. I could be wrong about that, it's been a while.
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I don't think that was the case. Lori only got with Shane because she thought Rick was dead. Once he came back she ended it with Shane right then and there.
 
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Season 3 was great, imo. But now it's time to move on to the conclusion of the best show since the Sopranos: Breaking Bad!


Sooooo pumped!
 
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Pissed the Gov didn't get a bullet between his eyes from his own men after mowing down 90% of his fighting force and pitching a fit like a child. How can they still follow him after he did that?!
 
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MG1968 said:
It never shows where Tyreese went when he left the room with the women and children. I thought he was going to go find TG's secret torture chamber and kill zombie Milton before he chomps Andrea.

I was also expecting Rick and the others to return to the prison only to find that TG and his remaining two men went back to the prison, slaughtered Herschel and the others and had taken Judith. Season ends with a scene of TG holding her and calling her "Penny".
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Someone get MG on the writing team stat!
 
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bah, the only people who care about ratings are of the industry. I want to watch something good, don't care if it's popular.

This show's move toward the mainstream audience has soured its greatness, IMO.
 
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Mainstream? LOL!!!

They are not following the comic book to the T and that has some people upset. That is what makes the show good and suspenseful. Nobody knows who is next to go. We know some basics, such as key characters, but what happens to them , where, and when is unpredictable.

More people like the suspense and drama more now than the zombies.
 
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Tux said:
Mainstream? LOL!!!

They are not following the comic book to the T and that has some people upset. That is what makes the show good and suspenseful. Nobody knows who is next to go. We know some basics, such as key characters, but what happens to them , where, and when is unpredictable.

More people like the suspense and drama more now than the zombies.
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Doesn't your last sentence support the mainstream argument?
 
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Tux said:
More people could mean 3 out of 5 people. So no, you are erroneous.
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COULD mean 3 out of 5, means I'm wrong? Ummm ok. Changing something to fit the majority is mainstreaming something. 3 out of 5 is in fact the majority, so how is that erroneous?
 
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Tux said:
The majority of TV viewers do not watch TWD.
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Well in that case no show is mainstream. Lol You brought up 3 out of 5, changing your approach to a show to get more viewers is mainstreaming your product. Just like a music artist that changes lyrical content or their style to sell more records.
 
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BadJerry20 said:
Doesn't your last sentence support the mainstream argument?
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The comic is more about suspense and drama too.

I do t really think they have changed anything to garner more viewers or make it "main stream" per say. The lone exception would be the safety if some key characters as the season went on.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
The comic is more about suspense and drama too.

I do t really think they have changed anything to garner more viewers or make it "main stream" per say. The lone exception would be the safety if some key characters as the season went on.
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I haven't read the comics, but from what I've heard the zombies are more of a force and it's a lot darker. Isn't it?

I mean I can honestly see both sides of the argument. I think they have made it more drama, and less zombie based to keep the new viewers. I'm a huge zombie fan and even I would grow tired of 24-7 zombie attacks. You give the audience what they want. And as the show has grown, I think more and more people that are not zombie fans have tuned in, they are there for the struggle of an apocalyptic world. But they are turning off the people that do tune in for the zombies.


It just seems that the show could a better job balancing the show to cater to both sets of fans. Just my 2 pennies
 
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What you had was Glenn Mazzera pushed out the door midway through the second half of the season. Scott Gimple was taking over as he show runner.

Mazzera did a great job in seasons 2 and 3. He took the show in a slightly different direction that the show runner in the first season.

Scott Gimple is going to bring a more cerebral writing style to the show. You can expect much better dialogue with him running the day to day operations of the show. He slowed things down at the end of this season to set the stage for what he wants to do in season 4. That allowed him to have a new canvas on which to put new characters, redefine some characters, and develop some new story lines.
 
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BadJerry20 said:
I haven't read the comics, but from what I've heard the zombies are more of a force and it's a lot darker. Isn't it?

I mean I can honestly see both sides of the argument. I think they have made it more drama, and less zombie based to keep the new viewers. I'm a huge zombie fan and even I would grow tired of 24-7 zombie attacks. You give the audience what they want. And as the show has grown, I think more and more people that are not zombie fans have tuned in, they are there for the struggle of an apocalyptic world. But they are turning off the people that do tune in for the zombies.


It just seems that the show could a better job balancing the show to cater to both sets of fans. Just my 2 pennies
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I've read up through the Governor's storyline and I wouldn't say the zombies are any more of a force than they are in the show. In fact they may be a little more of a force in the show. The comics never had a herd come through like at the end of season 2. They also seemed slower and less threatening in the comics.

It is darker in terms of the human interaction. For instance, the Governor is a sick sick man in the comics. The stuff they hinted at in the show with Maggie happens in the comic but to Michonne. It's pretty brutal. Her retaliation is just as brutal too. It didn't stop with his eye.

Like someone said a few pages back. After the first year the zombies sort of become the lava you avoid falling into and the real conflict is within the group and with other survivors.
 
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