Walking Dead Season Two

[zombiehorror]

Maybe I'm in the minority but does this show kinda maybe seem a bit like LOST with Zombies?

Never watched Lost but since The Walking Dead is pretty much like Night of the Living Dead (as well as just about every other zombie flick) which was a take off of I Am Legend then wouldn't Lost just be Night of the Living Dead with humans?!?

[slayergriffith]

The Second Season premire was awesome. I've have watched the show since the first episode aired, and watched every episode ever since. And i think this is going to be better than the first. Hopefully with the popularity of the show, there will be more horror shows. It shows that people want more horror on tv.

[mightyquinn]

Great season premier!  Favorite part was when they were stuck on the highway and the zombies came from nowhere.  Stuck hiding under the cars while hundreds of zombies scooted past.  Frightening!!

[Monsternutt]

Wife and I both watch it. Love It!! Funny, seen that FOX is trying to get ZombieLand Tv Show. Everyone wants to get in on this. 

[twilitezoner]

You have to wonder how much longer this show will be on the air since it appears that AMC is already trying to sabotage it internally.

[Pauspy]

You have to wonder how much longer this show will be on the air since it appears that AMC is already trying to sabotage it internally.

Specifically...?

[twilitezoner]

Slashing the per episode budget and firing Frank Darabount after he resisted AMC's cost cutting measures. 

[creaturerevenge]

Considering the ratings for the season 2 premier were the highest for a basic cable drama in the history of television... I think AMC is probably pretty happy with the show about now, I can see it sticking around for a while. I can't see this show being compared to Lost though. What bothered me about Lost is how it got X-Files syndrome, where it started off awesome but after the first season or 2 (okay, so accelerated X-File syndrome, X-Files was awesome up til like season 7) it got so confusing and every time they answered some questions they brought up new ones, it just got frustrating to watch and I didn't care one bit for any person on that damn Island. Walking Dead is a much more straight forward story, it about a group of people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse. I also like the human drama elements to it, thy are usually pertinent to the main story, while keeping it interesting and realistic, even Zombieland had it human drama elements, I think thats important in a zombie film, or any horror film for that matter. It's why I normally don't like most modern horror stuff, it's purely hack and slash with no really story or human interest. All the classics had that element, I think that's why this show is so successful.

[twilitezoner]

I just don't want AMC to get cheap with the effects that's all. That's usually a bad sign regardless of ratings.

These types of shows always run in cycles. I just hope that when True Blood (getting long in the tooth) goes off the air AMC will not view that as the public is getting tired of the horror genre.

[Sean]

I enjoyed the first episode.  First 30 minutes were great.  Ending was a complete surprise.  All the zombie scenes were fantastic. 

Where the show kinda drops it for me is the drama.  To me (and this is probably just me) those scenes come across kinda soap opera-ish.  Just kinda hard to buy everyone's so self absorbed with their own petty problems when they're TRYING NOT TO GET EATEN. 

You're not alone.  Television is a copycat business.  People think that folks who like zombies will like 'Real Housewives of Whatever' as long as there are zombies in it.  WRONG!  I hate the dopy, trivial drama that is the backbone of every fake 'reality' TV show out there-----that's why I don't watch them.  I couldn't care LESS about the personal details of unlikeable peoples' lives.  Real Housewives... Jersey Shore... blah, blah, blah... 

And honestly, if you've ever been through a life-altering situation------------you KNOW that you did NOT give a FRIG about the little, nonsense, BS things that rule the day's thoughts when your mind has nothing better to do---------------and these people are under constant attack from zombies!!  They have to secure food and shelter, etc.  Re-hashing petty things that happened BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE isn't happening.

The 'lives' the characters HAD before everyone started dying, then coming back and eating the flesh of the living-------are OVER.  Everything goes into the survival effort.

NOW.... there may be drama-----because people react to crisis differently.  Some become sharper/ more focused while others panic and melt.  Some people----as a direct result of the crisis do not behave like themselves.  They may do despicable things that they normally wouldn't do because they're panicking/ they're desperate.... I was watching the Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds.  He and the kids had awful relationships-------but once it was apparent that they were in a new world where they have to survive against monsterous alien tripods, the kids weren't whining about daddy not taking them to the ballgame 4 years ago and daddy wasn't spending every minute with them talking the mother/ ex-wife down to the kids.  They were too busy with trying not to get MELTED!!!  Likewise, 1 man pulled a gun on Cruise who probably never pulled a gun on anyone.  Cruise killed Tim Robbins because Robbins was going to get Cruise's daughter killed.  Another man shot the guy who stole Cruise's car (that Cruise stole 1st), so HE could take it.  THAT kind of drama, YES.  Harping on past infidelities would NOT be brought up UNTIL the world was restored to it's former order.  Or non-survival related stuff like that.  I didn't see the 2nd season opener.  I remember some unlikely drama from the 1st season... might have been marital issues... but that stuff ISN'T an issue when zombies are trying to eat you.

The rules and concerns are different.

[twilitezoner]

If this show lasts for say 4-5 seasons or longer it will be very interesting to see how closely they follow the comics arc because as you can imagine they all don't have happy endings.

[Pauspy]

If this show lasts for say 4-5 seasons or longer it will be very interesting to see how closely they follow the comics arc because as you can imagine they all don't have happy endings.

That will be very difficult, and require some excellent writing to continue that long. Apart from the personal storylines about how this group of people reacts to a world of zombies, is the bigger picture about what is happening to the world at large. If this is a world-wide phenomena, the writers will eventually have to choose an "ending"...humans kill all the zombies and re-start civilization? ...zombies kill all the humans and "life" on earth ends?...zombies and humans stake out territories and have endless border skirmishes?. If the zombie attacks are only happening in the southern U.S., do other countries take advantage of this? Lots of potential geo-political stuff to consider when zombies are on the loose!

[creaturerevenge]

That will be very difficult, and require some excellent writing to continue that long. Apart from the personal storylines about how this group of people reacts to a world of zombies, is the bigger picture about what is happening to the world at large. If this is a world-wide phenomena, the writers will eventually have to choose an "ending"...humans kill all the zombies and re-start civilization? ...zombies kill all the humans and "life" on earth ends?...zombies and humans stake out territories and have endless border skirmishes?. If the zombie attacks are only happening in the southern U.S., do other countries take advantage of this? Lots of potential geo-political stuff to consider when zombies are on the loose!

Considering that the comic series its based on is already 89 issues long and counting, there is a second series now called Walking Dead weekly which comes out once a week and has been going on for quite a while now, and now a series called Walking Dead Rise of The Governor and a new video game in the works, I don't think lack of writing or story will be the issue.

[twilitezoner]

Considering that the comic series its based on is already 89 issues long and counting, there is a second series now called Walking Dead weekly which comes out once a week and has been going on for quite a while now, and now a series called Walking Dead Rise of The Governor and a new video game in the works, I don't think lack of writing or story will be the issue.

Didn't know about the other projects. Is there a walking dead cookbook in the works? 

[creaturerevenge]

One could only hope! The first wave of action figures just hit store shelves too. This first batch is done by McFarlane and are based on the comic book, they have a cartoonier design to them but are still pretty nice. I picked up a black and white Rick Grime and the Roamer Zombie with head exploding action the other night! The next wave should be out in the next few weeks and it is based on the show. Those figures look gorgeous! I hope they live up to the photos I've seen of them so far.