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Anyone else excited for this? It looks awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg46DWI_fCE
Amnesiac
09-09-2010, 15:47
Anyone else excited for this? It looks awesome
Yes!
Looks very promising.
Wasn't the actor that plays the main character in Teachers?
Also Sol from Snatch. Wonder why they've got English actors for an American series.
Looks like the FX channel has picked it up in the UK and will be broadcasting at the same time as it premieres in the US (since according to this report (http://www.mad.co.uk/Logon/ArticleLogon.aspx?uiArticleID=71b301cb-0538-4280-876c-f805c126a501&uiNavigationItemID=&uiPageID=8453a00f-9d1a-404a-beda-339905b6b8b4&PipelinedPage=/Main/News/Articlex/71b301cb05384280876cf805c126a501/FX-signs-global-broadcast-rights-to-The-Walking-Dead.html&PipelinedQueryString=uiArticleID%3d71b301cb-0538-4280-876c-f805c126a501%26uiNavigationItemID%3dd8f9fd23-813a-47b2-9696-31d9ca23a265%26) it will be shown in Oct and it starts on Oct 31st (Halloween) in the States.
The Sero
09-09-2010, 21:04
Did anyone else think 28 Days Later with proper zombies at first, with the hospital?
Looks like they're doing it right. Slow zombies don't make a horror anymore, but they make a damn good apocalypse movie still. But you focus on the hardships of living without society (and the people which would make it) at least as much as you do on the zombies themselves.
I spend too much of my life thinking about zombies...
Two monkeys from a Tzu.
09-09-2010, 21:54
I read the comic and when I say read I mean I bought the last three trades but haven't read them yet, I'm waiting for a sunny day and good mood to tackle them. :) This thing is bleak, absolutly no one has plot immunity and everyone fucks everyone else over constantly.
The trailer gets the look right but I'll have to wait a few episodes to see if they pull their punches, and in this case it may even be a good idea.
Anyone else think this?
http://tech2.in.com/media/images/uploads/2006/08/dead%20rising2.jpg
mikeyparkster
23-09-2010, 18:45
looks good....
on paper...good directors and producers too.....
the start looks like 28 days later exactly...but thats good.. it seems to be correcting the parts where other films went wrong and trying to create a masterpiece of a zombie film.
Just read the first 7 trades (volumes) after I discovered my best friend had bought them all before she realised there were over 30 so far - it got too expensive to keep up. I've gotta say it's very well written and utterly relentless - no one is safe and you really get the feeling that every time someone relaxes for a second, something bad happens but it feels 'natural', not forced. It would actually work very well indeed as a long running tv show - other than the initial scenes of decimated cities there are no expensive scenes to film and despite all of the action, the plot and writing is focussed on the characters.
TL;DR I've now read a lot fo the comics and it will make an awesome long running tv show.
Watched the trailer and was quite surprised to discover it's a series. Looks good, thanks for the heads up. 8)
the start looks like 28 days later exactly...but thats good..
I think a lot of people are going to be saying that when this airs but I'm certain that The Walking Dead pre-dates 28 days later and besides, they both took the idea from the Day of the Triffids anyway :).
I'm slowly reading through it, I'm up to around issue 42-43 at the moment and I'm really enjoying it, there's no drop in quality so far and as the TV series is only 6 episodes long there is plenty of good material to draw on for future series.
looks good, will watch out for that..
http://vimeo.com/15266890
Fan made titles sequence.
Yep, I said FAN-MADE!!
The Sero
28-09-2010, 21:46
Fan made titles sequence.
Yep, I said FAN-MADE!!
Oh very nice :D
:D loving it hope they keep the zombie as the slow, rotting opportunistic feeders they are in the original instead of the fast ones :P
Reading Chapter 1 of this.
Really amazing story, I'm all shaking at the moment!
Read up to 48, boy if the tv series keep true to the books we are in for a corker
Especially because it seems Anyone can die!
If I look at the trailer, several things look different. But I don't mind, better not to know what will happen :D
first episode is out there :D watching now
If you like this sort of stuff then you should try "True Blood" as it is very good!!
Just watched the 1st ep and it wasnt half bad, just a shame the main character is a dumb ass!!
the main character gets better as the story progresses in the comics, from what i can remember of how the comic starts the tv show was pretty similar, there were bits i didnt remember happening in the comic but not sure if thats just my memory or if they changed it for the tv show
the main character gets better as the story progresses in the comics, from what i can remember of how the comic starts the tv show was pretty similar, there were bits i didnt remember happening in the comic but not sure if thats just my memory or if they changed it for the tv show
They changed some stuff. The story with the black guys wife didn't appear in the comic if I'm correct.
Also, he didn't shoot the zombie in front of the fence in the comic, but did in the series.
And yea, the main character gets better I think. He starts off kinda lame, but gets better later
i think its more realistic if he starts off lame, unlike some zombie stories where characters just accept there is a zombie apocalypse going on and then the plot continues, the walking dead shows he struggles to come to terms with it and when he does find his first horde hes a complete noob and nearly gets himself killed :P
i didnt remember the black guy at all from the comic but i dont really remember the start of it all that well because i read about 10 comics at one go from te start that my friend gave me
(spoilers for end of first episode)
i think in the comic it wasn't revealed until much further in that lori was having an affair with the main character's cop friend, at least i don't remember finding it out until the main character finds out about it)
In the comic, all the other characters talk about how close Lori and the guy are, hinting at something more :)
The boy and his son are in the comic - they're the first people Rick meets after leaving the hospital when he still has no idea what's going on. He's seen a couple of zombies by that point (little girl and half a woman) but other than that he is utterly clueless.
It's one of the things that appealed to me that Rick isn't some kind of superhero, he's just a backwater cop who's rarely even fired a gun at the beginning and he learns all the time as it progresses, getting tougher as he has to make hard decisions.
What I like most of all though is that it's not a neat, Hollywood type of zombie series, parcelled up with a beginning, a middle and an end. It has that realistic feeling where it just keeps on going with them trying to survive day after day, month after month, year after year so it's not avoiding being killed by zombies that matters, but the more pressing things like finding food and shelter.
In a very similar vein is the Charlie Higson (out of off of the Fast Show) books, The Enemy (http://www.the-enemy.co.uk/site/teHome.php5) and The Dead - both highly recommended (they're supposed to be 'young adult fiction' but don't let that stop you)
rick! thats his name! lol i couldnt remember, and i agree with the points grom made :)
and i also like how later on in the comic...
when they settle at the prison and then find another settlement not far off, things arent all raindrops and roses between them, they practically go to war with each other rather than most hollywood type zombie films where all survivors look out for each other, theres that more realistic feeling of everyones out for themselves and their own communities, similar to different towns in the fallout games, i just find it more realistic this waycompared to "oh we are all survivors we will all group up and things will be great!" type angle (though i think at first rick was hoping they could join up, i think that is his good nature showing through and maybe some naivety)
episode 2 is out... does anyone know what day this airs in america? i think monday or tuesdays?
Dunno it's Friday over here though
Also the changes dine in the first episode where needed the first few books are quite sloppy compared to the rest so I can see why they did the changes
im getting the same feeling a got with the comic... at the end of each episode i want more...
I think the American ones air on Saturday, I usually download them on Sunday. Seen episode 2 last Tuesday and it was awesome!
Lot's of changes from the comic, which is great! I had no idea what was going on and it all was very tense :D
yeah i think maybe saterday too, not sure, the one i downloaded was apparently uploaded 6 days ago, but episode 3 isnt up yet, perhaps sundays then, a bit lame because the other 2 shows im watching at the moment are aired on sunday and monday too D: too much at one end of the week!
yeah i didn't recognize much of what happened, but was happy enough seeing some of the characters i remembered, if i remember rightly in the comic there is only glen in the city who is sent in alone because hes sneaky/fast enough to get in and out unnoticed for supplies, i couldnt help but think of l4d2 when they are in the streets with the axe and crowbar though :P
Aren't that bad dude and that black dude new too? Can't remember them from the comic
Lost_in_Hyrule
14-11-2010, 21:25
It airs on AMC at 10 pm EST *on Sundays* in America. I haven't read the comics(though I'm sure I'll get around to it), but I thought the premiere was wonderfully done. The second was still very good. I'm definitely stoked to watch episode 3 tonight!
ahh so i should watch for a download tomorrow :D
yeah the only people i remembered from the comic in episode 2 were glen the scout guy and andrea, although some of the others might jog my memory if it starts going closer to the comic again (i have difficulty remembering the names but remember what happens quite well) the racist guy from the roof reminded me of francis from l4d in the way he looks :P but i dont remember him from the comic, of course its hard to tell since as far as i remember in the comic rick only would have met glenn by now and they go together to meet the others at the camper vans, so my memory is getting a bit thrown off since it must have been 2-3 years since i read the comics, or it might just be that im only remembering characters who were still around in the last issues i read (about #50 or so i think)
i think l4d has corrupted me a bit though.. i just kept thinking if they had a pipe bomb they could make a run for it... they already used a car alarm to attract the horde :D maybe they will work out to attach smoke alarms to grenades xD
Ive watched the 3rd ep and its starting to get on my nerves alittle, there are walking dead around that will eat them alive. They are camped in a frigging forrest and cant see more than 10-20yards in any direction, and a guy sat with his shotgun guarding with his back to the forrest chatting away?!?! WTF!!!.
They already know the walking dead are attracted to sound and you have a guy driving to camp with a car alarm blaring out :mellow: Yet noone has gone oh we can wipe them all out with one engine, a wire cord wrapped around the fan belt wheel at the front to make a huge trimmer to knock a few heads off.. Same goes with Resident Evil!!
why is it that the only ones that survive are the thickies!!!
Amnesiac
16-11-2010, 19:03
why is it that the only ones that survive are the thickies!!!
They could proabably run faster than most of the "smart" people :P
Just finished watching episode 2.
Odd, episode one kept very close to the comic but ep2 doesn't, from what I remember anyway. I'm sure there was just Glenn in the city not that huge bunch of people and I don't remember the guy on the roof at all.
Maybe my memory is faulty.
Still loved it though. Quality television.
Also does anyone else think...
http://i.imgur.com/4PibT.jpg
lol i hadnt picked up on that, but now youve showed it there is a remarkable resemblance
in response to sci fi: (spoilered so people who havent seen ep 3 yet dont read :P)
the reason they are in the forest is because they just needed to get out of the city, up until the events of ep 3 there was plenty of zombie food in the city that they were safe, with the lookout on top of the camper van they had a pretty good view of the valley plus they can hear when zombies are shambling through the forest pretty easily (although the tv version of the zombies seem to be faster then the comic which literally were "walking" dead not half-running dead). their guard has gone down a little bit because they havent seen a single zombie in the forest for however many weeks they've been there, until episode 3 who possibly followed the car alarm although dale says that it would be hard for them to pinpoint the sound as it was echoing off the hills. also i think because glen was driving that car so fast it would be hard for any zombies to keep up before the sound started echoing off the hills and would probably be nowhere near by time the car alarm gets switched off, the one they found may have already been close or might have been trying to feed off animals close by as theres no one left alive in the city, i would imagine the countryside surrounding the city would be mainly zombie-free since the city was supposed to be the evacuation center but it went horribly wrong.
as for the second part i think your missing the point, they arent out to kill as many zombies as they can, its more of a survival drama, also if they used a loud engine to power some sort of zombie lawnmower (zombie mower?) wouldnt that just attract more zombies? and they would need petrol to power it, which they need morre to power their vehicles so they can get further away from the city. i think its also stated in ep 3 that one of the camper vans has broken down, they want to strip the van that rick and the others escaped the city from so they can move on.
to be honest episode 1 and 2 were quite zombie filled with not much plot other than things going tits up, im not surprised ep 3 slowed down abit to develope the characters more, ep 4 is likely going to have more action from where 3 left off)
also grom i think you're right about ep 2, we had a brief discussion on it a few posts ago, no one seems to remember the guy who gets handcuffed to the roof, and i'm almost certain that rick only meets glen in the city as glen is supposed to be quiet and fast enough to go in and out without being noticed for supplies. also the camp they have seems to be alot bigger than i remember from the comic, from my memory it had nicks police friend, nicks wife and son, andrea and her sister and dale and glen, and that was about it (although i do seem to remember some farmer guy from later on with a son and a daughter but i'm not sure if they were in from the start or if they were met later on) i'm not too bothered about it divergingaway from the comic plot too much, means i dont know exactly what is going to happen at least, just hope they don't mess it up because the comic was already awesome
especially the black guy who gets locked in a basketball court full of zombies at the prison with nothing but a hammer and survives... and the crazy woman with the sword who is first met walking with 2 chained zombies with their arms cut off
double checked the comic and there was bugger all people at the camp, also rick did only meet glen in the city and they got out straight away afterwards. the camp they had set up is only 1 car and 1 camper van much smaller than in the tv show but i suppose they need to flesh it out a bit more since each comic is only 24 pages long, they'll have to add some stuff to make the episodes and probably to make the series last longer
take care to spoiler spoilers peeps ;) there are those of us who haven't read the comics and it would be a shame to read the plot before viewing.
Seen episode on. Great stuff.
sorry mate, i keep forgetting spoilers on some things D: i shal be more vigilant in future
Ive watched the 3rd ep and its starting to get on my nerves alittle, there are walking dead around that will eat them alive. They are camped in a frigging forrest and cant see more than 10-20yards in any direction, and a guy sat with his shotgun guarding with his back to the forrest chatting away?!?! WTF!!!.
I think this is part explained by the 'there's never been one this far up in the mountains before' line. I get the impression they've been camped there for a while (2 weeks to a month). After the initial panic it's natural that after a while they'd let their guard down.
mikeyparkster
20-11-2010, 23:34
3rd episode was slow..... I'm concerned that it's turning into Lost all of a sudden :(
btw did anyone notice how close they were to the city (you could see it in the background)...they are supposed to be quite far out....
missed that when i watched it, but i think they are staying just close enough thtat they can get in for supplies, in the comic it was walking distance to the city (rick and glenn walk from the city in the comic) i haven't watched lost since the first episode but i gather that pretty much nothing ever happens? :P i think they slowed down in ep3 to introduce and develop the long term characters a bit, i think they will get into it a bit more in the next episode and probably move on from their current camp buy i'm o nly guessing there
seeing the skyline doesn't mean they aren't far from the city..
and I'm pretty sure it won't become LOST anytime soon.
What happened in the book as well the focus , well changed its not really about killing zombies anymore it's about surviving
What happened in the book as well the focus , well changed its not really about killing zombies anymore it's about surviving
And stayin away from zombies, but you would of thought that with the intelligent gov ppl that have more than 2 braincells to rub together and arn't a zombie would of wiped them out very easily without all this struggling... I would of found a combine harvester with a sterio blaring out heavy metal through a megaphone and had a field day :D
Lost_in_Hyrule
21-11-2010, 17:39
And stayin away from zombies, but you would of thought that with the intelligent gov ppl that have more than 2 braincells to rub together and arn't a zombie would of wiped them out very easily without all this struggling... I would of found a combine harvester with a sterio blaring out heavy metal through a megaphone and had a field day :D
Well, yeah, that, until your combine ran out of gas in the middle of the city...
Well, yeah, that, until your combine ran out of gas in the middle of the city...
No i would of placed the sterio down one end of a road to get them all in one area, turned it off with its remote control and switched on a sterio on my Combine Harvester which was at the other end of the road to turned them all in my direction, then run them all down in one go!!!!
even the comic wasnt about killing zombies :P there was zombie killing but it was usually self defense or clearing out an area to make a safe place to live
if the military failed to clear the city with tanks and the amount of weapons they would have had, i rate your chances in a combine harvestor as slim to none :P
The book World War Z had some good sequences showing the deficiencies of a modern army against zombies.
Things like:
Soldiers are trained to shoot centre mass which is a difficult habit to change at short notice under pressure. A headshot at a distance of more than a few feet is a lot harder to make than some films might suggest!
Machine guns waste large quantities of ammo against zombies.
Land mines and explosives don't tend to kill a lot of people with head trauma. Unless the zombie's right at ground zero an explosion won't necessarily put them down.
Morale would be a problem. Imagine a relatively green National Guardsman mow down some zombies with an automatic rifle... they fall down, then get back up and keep coming. That'll fray the nerves!
Tanks are great and all, but when they run out of ammo and petrol if they're not in a position to safely resupply then they're not going to be effective for long.
World War Z is a great read if you're enjoying the Walking Dead
a friend has suggested world war z to me before, but i still havent read it...
by the way, episode 4 is a good un, and thats all i'm saying :D
The Sero
22-11-2010, 21:24
The Zombie Survival guide by the same guy who did world war z (Max Brooks) is also awesome, and essential for anyone planning to survive the upcoming zombie apocalypse.
found interesting video on youtube, give zombies a chance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIwQpS8rnMY&feature=channel
Ive just watched the 4th ep and I have to say what a pile of shit. It just gets worse..
The Sero
29-11-2010, 00:17
I'm loving it so far! At the moment, only seen the first 3 episodes, and just read the first volume of the comic. Quite a lot of changes, but every single one of them works. Not to say the comic doesn't, both well done different ideas.
Fantastic show, really showing the hardships of the apocalypse, but with action and zombie killing as well. Character relations are done spot on, giving them plenty of dimensions, (with the exception of the arseholes, the wifebeater and to a lesser extent the roof guy, were a little bit like 2 dimensional plot devices.)
Likely more that I can say, just not right now :P
I don't believe its been in the TV version yet, but for those of you who have read the graphic novel, what about that ending to the first book...
Lost_in_Hyrule
30-11-2010, 15:52
Oh, I thought the 4th episode was fantastic. It was really interesting seeing how all the characters respond to such threatening situations. As with most of the episodes, I was on the edge of my seat by the time it ended!
Fifth episode was also a very good watch. I do have one small 'complaint' so far about the show. On the whole, it has a very coherent take on an entire zombie 'mythos', but it seems that it will occasionally sacrifice that for convenience sake. One I think I can point out without spoiling anything is the zombie speed. In some scenes, when a zombie is targetting someone, they lurch forward at basically an average person's walk speed. However, in other scenes where escaping is the focus, they can get up to a jog.
There are several other things like this I've noticed. However, it's just nitpicking in the face of an otherwise amazing show, especially when you keep in mind that the zombies aren't the point of it.
Ive just watched the 4th ep and I have to say what a pile of shit. It just gets worse..
What's wrong with it then? Not enough action or anything?
I'm loving the show, a whole different take on a zombie apocalypse compared to movies like Resident Evil :/
Fifth episode was also a very good watch. I do have one small 'complaint' so far about the show. On the whole, it has a very coherent take on an entire zombie 'mythos', but it seems that it will occasionally sacrifice that for convenience sake. One I think I can point out without spoiling anything is the zombie speed. In some scenes, when a zombie is targetting someone, they lurch forward at basically an average person's walk speed. However, in other scenes where escaping is the focus, they can get up to a jog.
yeah ive noticed that too, there could be an explenation of it based on how badly wounded the legs of the zombies were but thats a bit of a stretch since it seems to always be convenient to the plot
enjoyed ep 5 though and...
i'm glad they are moving on from the city, i felt they were dragging that out a bit too much wheras the comic it lasted only a few issues
just found out theres only 6 episodes for series one D: havent seen it yet but typical theyd make enough to get me into it and wanting more then cut off my supply like some sort of evil drug dealer!
on the plus side series 2 has 13 episodes :D, avent seen ep 6 yet.. i bet they leave it on some sort of cliffhanger just to annoy me more
if the military failed to clear the city with tanks and the amount of weapons they would have had, i rate your chances in a combine harvestor as slim to none :P
The military over there is crap, if you saw how they were on the 5th ep. They were spread out all over, there was no sort of blockade or wall to fall back on, just an empty space which is hardly a fortress now is it. If you knew that a million zombies were coming your way, wouldnt you at least built a perimiter wall of some kind?!?! Which just makes what i said about their military correct, complete crap!! How many soldiers stayed in the nice safe tanks?? NONE!!
My harvester would RULZ!!! :thumbup:
I will be watchin the last ep to see if it gets any better, if not then i will be deleting it..
I'm now up-to-date on the comic, and I've gotta say it's absolutely brilliant. I love everything about it, from the characters, the scenarios, the pacing etc.
Which I think has spoilt me, coz I'm finding the series a bit meh.
It's watchable, and the concept of zombie-apocalypse as a tv-series has potential. But I'm disappointed that the plot/characters doesn't follow the comic as much as I thought it would.
I know that it's likely future episodes will feature specific arcs from the comics, and that I should treat the series as a separate entity, but I can't shake the feeling that it's not as awesome as I hoped it would be.
Also, here's a random thing that confused me - I thought the gore was a bit much.
Now, I know you all must be thinking that I've gone crazy (it's a zombie series, ofc there's gonna be gore!), but.....
The scene where the abused wife is making sure her husband doesn't "come back" with a pickaxe......yeah, I get that she's letting her frustration at his abuse out on his corpse by swinging multiple times and demolishing his head. I just didn't see the need to show the head getting mushed. The same scene could have been communicated without the (in my mind) over the top gore just by showing her swinging again and again.
I'm sure people will disagree, but for some reason that scene made me uncomfortable - I'm sure you could argue that was the point of the scene.
TLDR - Read the comic, it's awesome.
imo the series feels like its moving alot slower than the pace of the comics, and has made significant changes to the comics plot, im still enjoying it but knowing how awesome the comic is i had hoped theyd stick closer to it, but i'm guessing they are adding in filler bits to make the series last longer. especially since the first series was so short, if they had followed the comics closely the series would have ended in the middle of a story arc, i think they just wanted to..
[minor spoilers][spoilor]finish up the city portion in one series so they extended it more than the comics to make it fill the first 6 episodes before moving on[/spoiler]
imo they are only just getting into the real meat of the storyline. while i have enjoyed it so far i hope it improves with series 2 the pacing just feels so slow compared to the comic which tends to fit things into one comic, the entire series one is basically issue 1-2 of the comic, although extended greatly.
mikeyparkster
10-12-2010, 14:40
Not enough zombies - my only complaint
El-oh-el
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20110414/tod-zombie-poster-pasted-on-funeral-parl-045b8e8.html
Also, as it's the media there has to be an obligatory swipe at Video Games.
http://deredactie.be/polopoly_fs/1.1003094!image/3136451415.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape470/3136451415.jpg
SleeperService
15-04-2011, 12:00
Brilliant
Goldenrod
16-04-2011, 18:43
Also, as it's the media there has to be an obligatory swipe at Video Games.
I have never suggested Video Games Are Bad. Although I did find watching you play Manhunt was a bit much.
MacNetron
18-04-2011, 12:34
free publicity as now your mum and dad also know the tv show
Overload
04-11-2011, 05:35
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0e/TheWalkingDeadPoster.jpg/250px-TheWalkingDeadPoster.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(TV_series)
So I know you're thinking, "The walking dead. Sounds like yet another boring piece of zombie fiction.". While it may not cover any new ground in a broader sense, the acting and screenplay (at least for the first season) is both entertainingly well tied together and performed. I watched the pilot of this late one night and then stayed up until 8am watching the entire series. It was that gripping and intense. I've watched the first 3 episodes of the 2nd season and it seems like they're setting up quite a few different plot lines to tie up in the next few episodes. However, as a result it feels needlessly complicated and slow moving. Perhaps as more of the episodes get released it will all tie up in a brilliant epiphany! Regardless, the 1st season is most definitely worth having a look at if you even have only a passing interest in post-apocalyptic fiction
yeah the first season was fantastic, not seen any 2nd season yet, gonna wait until it's all out then download I think
Yea, it's great!
The comics are awesome too, asked the ones I haven't got for Xmas. Also asked the new novel :D
yeah we had a thread when the first season came out, 2nd season is looking good too though ive only seen the first 2 episodes
http://playstuff.net/showthread.php/2862-The-Walking-Dead?highlight=walking+dead
Tis very good.
I have all the comics and think it's one of the best comic series ever.
I enjoyed the first half of the first season but it stalled a bit and ended weakly (the CDC thing was completely unnecessary and too formulaic for me.) The 3rd episode of the 2nd season ends really well though, bringing up the tough choices people make and what it can do to them which is what I think the strength of the shows concept is. Also, how these choices can be dehumanising to even the best intentioned people.
I'm slightly annoyed that there's no Tyreese yet and they have a generic african american instead in T-Dog (!?). Also the actress playing Andrea is too old for the character as represented in the comic book. The actress playing her sister was about the right age so I wish they'd swapped them round. I kind of understand why they did it, to try not to make the Dale-Andrea relationship too creepy (a guy in his 60's dating a woman in her late 20's early 30's is more palatable for some audiences than a guy in his 60's dating a woman in her early 20's) but I still don't like it.
Of the 'new' characters I like Darryl and have a feeling Merle will be back (possibly with something to do with the Governor if they go that way).
Also, time to play casting director... who would be a good fit for Michonne? She's apparently been confirmed as appearing in Season 3.
Surely they can't not do the Governor??!
I think the one thing I really liked about the comics is the feeling of it never-ending - too many zombie/outbreak movies want to have an ending, normally a Hollywood 'happily ever after' type but Walking Dead just keeps on going remorselessly - it never deals too much on 'once we find a cure/kill all the zombies then everything will go back to the old ways', it just says 'shit happened - how do we deal with it' but without being bleak about it. I like that.
As for Michonne...
http://i.imgur.com/BZJp3.jpg
they've already made the action figure but it's based on the comic character, not the tv show but whoever they pick had better be the bad-assest chick out there - anyone even remotely girly or lame won't cut the ice for that character!
Rutina Wesley? :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZv-cWiqfMM
I've been watching too much True Blood I guess :D
Tara is such an annoying character that she'd have to be 'really' good to overcome it.
I don't know if anyone's keeping up with this (I'm a bit late to watching the latest episode).
But I just watched S2E7(the latest), and until now I hadn't really seen much of the power Frank Darabont can put into his direction/scripting.
I just had to say that it's probably the most moving and well constructed piece of film I've ever seen done in the zombie genre, I won't say anything about plot here, but it really is genuinely well worth watching. Even if you only watch that episode, it's worth it. Though there is a lot more emotional investment to be gained from watching the back-marking episodes, in fact, I very much recommend watching everything actually (and after that you can watch or re-watch all of Frank Darabont's other stuff which is also brilliant ;) ).
I haven't read the comics though, so I didn't have any spoilers, I'd imagine the impact may be lessened for those who have unfortunately.
Next episode is Feb 12th, and I can't wait :D
Edit:
Perhaps as more of the episodes get released it will all tie up in a brilliant epiphany!
This happened basically :P
still waiting for it to come back on FX.. the bastards put it on hold for christmas then started the second series again from episode 1 grrr
Darabont got ousted by the way. Some sort of disagreement with AMC over budget. It happened something like 3 days after his appearance on the panel at Comic Con.
He was only 'hands on' involved with the first episode of season 2.
still waiting for it to come back on FX.. the bastards put it on hold for christmas then started the second series again from episode 1 grrr
Thank the joys of US scheduling where episodes seem to be aired or not aired according to some mystic wheel of fortune. The positive of airing only a day or two after the US is that we are now also impacted by their bizarre broadcast policies.
Darabont got ousted by the way. Some sort of disagreement with AMC over budget. It happened something like 3 days after his appearance on the panel at Comic Con.
He was only 'hands on' involved with the first episode of season 2.
Oh I did not know that :(
Is he still a writer?
That episode in particular did feel like he had something to do with it anyway
By all accounts he's completely out now and it may have been slightly acrimonious.
There's a load of speculation about the reasons why he left.
eg http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Real-Reason-Frank-Darabont-Was-Fired-From-Walking-Dead-34197.html
Equinoxo
22-05-2012, 02:08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IIgR6ZqUF6w
First look at Michonne. Looks the part, so fingers crossed.
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