The "Walking Dead" Thread

[Gory Glenn]

Last night's episode was phenomenal. The humans become more & more menacing as time progresses. You barely notice the zombies. They have become more of a nuisance (like buzzing mosquitoes) than an actual threat. Anyone who wishes to over-intellectualize the show and miss out on the fun...your loss. People have done that to the Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, X-Files etc.. I'm just glad that there's an enjoyable, successful horror show on the air.

It was great and those Wolf people were nuts! Carol has proven herself just as capable as Rick Grimes. Also, Morgan's inability to kill is a weakness in the world of the walking dead. He's gonna regret letting those few loose especially since they nabbed a gun! Great episode!

[Mord]

It was great and those Wolf people were nuts! Carol has proven herself just as capable as Rick Grimes. Also, Morgan's inability to kill is a weakness in the world of the walking dead. He's gonna regret letting those few loose especially since they nabbed a gun! Great episode!

Yeah, those Wolf guys (& gals) are wicked party animals. This season has already made up for the lackluster season 5 (and we're only two episodes in!). Can't wait for Sunday. I feel like a kid at one of those cliffhanger serials they used to show between movies in the 40's.

[Mike Scott]

I love that "Whoa, what the hell just happened!?" moment, when the first (that we see) Wolf hacks up the cigarette women! I was stunned! "Who was that?" "Can't be a zombie!"  Best moment of the season and I predict that will be true by the end of the season. GREAT episode!

[ChristineBCW]

I love that "Whoa, what the hell just happened!?" moment...

I was cussin' and spittin' in Marsy's general direction thinking he was RIGHT - that Carol was now seeing things - she was TOTALLY WACKO!! 

Whew!! 

NO, MARSY!!  She saw what she saw... and another moment of dangerous lucidity, where she calculates the need to dress up as a Wolfie so she can get close enough for a handgun's surely-dead shots.  Bam bam bam...

Honestly... I don't know why I listen to Marsy at all.  He forced us to watch MARS ATTACK the other night, and despite all the laughs and hilarity, I was still spittin' and cussin', downing a second layer of some blasted espress-choco cake.  I think I hate him.  Really.  He's got me laughin' at his namesake, eating that wicked cake with late night coffee... he's gotta pay for this.

[ChristineBCW]

Mord, the writers still haven't earned any faith in me to not ruin the season with dull, forgettable hour-long diatribes with little more than gore mechanics.  "Step 1... Step 2... Step 3... rinse and repeat..."

They can deliver an entire season of good writing and THEN I'll give them proper kudos.  But I fear, right now, that I'd be spitting into the same "ensembles are just too tough to write for" wind. 

(I've been waiting for more than a year to see how the comics' Wolf People would translate on-screen.  I've grown too bored with that medium's continual One More Uber Bad Guy scenario, stacked up like cordwood.)

[Mord]

 That's ok, Christine, I guess we're looking for different things from our entertainment. I'm thoroughly satisfied with just about anything that offers up loads of gratuitous gore (& nudity, as well). You wouldn't believe the crap I sit through (while eating mountains of nutrient-free junk food). It's a wonder I'm not an obese serial killer...yet.

[ChristineBCW]

I have strong degradations aimed at the graphics-novel comics version of TWD.  I got tired of having characters whittled away, one body part at a time, as if the writer is lamenting, "I can't think of anything to do except Be Creative or Be Dull & Whittle Away.  So I whittle away." 

Grrr... I'd rather watch Grant Williams learn to handle a needle instead.  For the umpteenth time.

In that context, the TV show has received comparatively positive marks - only a few 'whittle' jobs have occurred. 

(I strongly suspect the graphic-novel's artist is too unskilled at drawing, and at whatever output speed is required, so he's developed a Logo style by taking off arms, legs, eyes, etc.  so the readers can more easily identify characters.  That's fairly astute of him, too, because I agree - he's a horrible artist and can't be relied upon to develop a multitude of distinquishably drawn characters.  That IS a toughy - maybe every comic book artist this side of ARCHIE has had issues drawing a multitude of characters, over time, to be distinguishably different.)

[Jethro]

Gory Glen is right. Morgan is going to regret his not killing the W that took the gun.  He will kill Morgan with it, or someone else in front of him.
Somehow I felt more sorry for the tortoise than I did the residents of Alexandria.  The potential for an invasion, walker or non-walker is imminent and they walk around unarmed.
Not to get too political but the unarmed or more like it, disarmed residents show how indefensible they are to a bunch of knife wielding maniacs.
Great episode, loved Carol.  Karl had to be reminded to stay tough or die.  Glad he lost the hat.

[Mike Scott]

Ah, son of a . . . !!!  Why him??


!!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!!


I won't mention the name, just yet, but DAMN! And I don't care what they said on Talking Dead, the man is D E A D ! They may bring him back as a zombie, or in a flashback, but that's it.

Other than the sad ending, it was another outstanding episode!

[jimm]

Major loss of credibility if they somehow save him from that impossibly lethal scenario...no way

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[zombiehorror]

Dead?  The only "possible" way out is if they have him crawl under the dumpster and wait it out.  The zombies may be so distracted munching on "what's his face" that he may just stand a chance; He is stealthy enough to pull it off but if those were his innards being lunched then of course that won't matter.

[ChristineBCW]

I vote for letting him crawl under and practice his long-lost GUTS skills (Episode 3?) and be clever and quiet.  Pull a few walkers around him and let them be his masking agent. 

However... the argument that JIMM advances - that such a trick would be lame, a loss of credibility - also seems valid.  Of course, I'll never understand why the snipers weren't shooting the Guv's other eye out the moment he put the sword to Herschel's neck, either...

"Makes sense" and "Credibility" might not be the best foundation for Walking Dead debates, therefore.

So far, we've had 3 episodes that basically cover the same time-frame, too.  Three different groups on their own tangents, all during the Town Raid by the Wolves.

Will it take another 3 episodes - or more - for the writers to put all the pieces back together?  Yawn... I'll get more bored than usual at such a suh-loooow pace.

"Hey - we need another stall tactic - let's have the RV's motor not start!!"  Yeah... riiight... another zenith in their creative thought process (gag cough). 

[Anton Phibes]

Maybe there is a sewer opening under the dumpster. Happened in many others shows and comics. Those were obviously Nicholas's guts all over Glenn and not his own. Its a fake out...just as when all we found was Carol's head scarf after T Dogg bit it. Everyone thought she was dead too. Except for me.

I still watch the show. But they have used so many characters up in "shocking death fodder" that i don't care what they do to them anymore. Which is bad. Because if you don't care for the characters.....because you know they are just gonna kill them....its hard to be invested.

[ChristineBCW]

Anton, a BIG LIKE on that comment.  Once characters or shows reduce themselves into my pathetic zone, they become the worst segment of entertainment: boring.  Unmemorable.  Like LOST lost me about 2 shows into Season 2 because I kept waiting for some big white Kong to show up.   "Move along, folks... nuthin' to see here."

Nuthin' at all.  I have no idea what happened on LOST.  I don't care.  Same with HEROES.  When GILLIGAN'S ISLAND is their milestone for accomplishments, I have to question, "Why waste an hour when Gilligan could do the same in 19 minutes?"

[Gory Glenn]

Gory Glen is right. Morgan is going to regret his not killing the W that took the gun.  He will kill Morgan with it, or someone else in front of him.

Did I call it or did I call it.  They killed ______! !#$%&*!    Not liking this.