ThisWreckage
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The writers are either brilliant or morons. They've successfully made the stupidity of the human beings a bigger threat to their survival than the zombies. Either that's some deeply meta shit or they're incompetent.
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The Walking Dead - Season 2 - Sundays on AMC
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The show obviously fucked up trying to portray them as science zombies with the CDC stuff rather than supernatural zombies.
If you want to complain about their leg vs arm strength, why not complain about how zombies who get locked in a room with no water for a couple months don't dry out? Why doesn't all their blood leak out from wounds? Or if the blood is coagulated, how do they transport energy to their muscles? Or why they alternate from shuffling around to being able to climb chain-link fences?
They should have went with Weekend at Bernie's 2 and just made them animated by voodoo. Then the answer to all the inconsistency could be, "hey, who knows how voodoo works?"
:lol
Cornballer
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One more preview that's been airing on AMC:
- On air trailer: "Two episodes left"
Please spoiler tag any preview discussion. Thanks.
- On air trailer: "Two episodes left"
Please spoiler tag any preview discussion. Thanks.
WHO CARES!?@!?!?
Irrational shit happens in movies/tv all the time. How did Bruce Willis do anything he did in Die Hard. Whhoooo caaareeessssss.
Gorechylde
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The thing that's always scared me about zombies is that they never tire. They aren't supernaturally strong or anything. Their danger lies in numbers. 1 zombie can't knock in a door, get 10 zombies all walking into the same door and it gives slowly but surely simply due to the weight of 10 bodies pushing against it non-stop. 1 zombie doesn't rip you apart, a pack tearing in all directions does that. Later in the comics, Rick and the rest of the group are walking through thinly spread herds, hacking at will, and none of them get touched most of the time. They can't do that with TWD AMC zombies. TWD AMC zombies run, climb fences, rip people apart single handedly, leave fresh kills to sneak around, stop moaning when they are off camera, etc. Those are all things that DON'T happen in the show's source material. Screw decades of zombie fiction. This is The Walking Dead. Not Night of the Living Dead or any of Romero's other offerings. This show doesn't need writers. The story boards were made the second issue 1 hit shelves. Dale didn't have to be disemboweled to be killed off, a SCRATCH does the job... Jesus, there were so many OBVIOUS WAYS to handle that that would have made more sense and been more entertaining to watch.
Edit: the whole time I'm watching Dale's death scene, I'm wondering. "When is he going to push the walker off and did he get Scratched/bitten..." Instead I get, did that thing seriously just rip his guts out? That was stupid...
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
Zombies are impossible, so a lot of complaints can be put up to suspension of disbelief. However, there's got to be some sort of consistency, particularly with how they sound. Fucking pack of stealth zombies surprised Shane and Andrea in that town for god's sakes, how the fuck do these things not make any noise at the most inopportune moments?
Dale was walking a straight line out to the fied when he saw the cow in front of him. Then he turns around the zombie is just THERE. At this point they might as well say the zombies have teleportation powers.
Dale was walking a straight line out to the fied when he saw the cow in front of him. Then he turns around the zombie is just THERE. At this point they might as well say the zombies have teleportation powers.
They never said anything about their origins. Edwin Jenner (the CDC doctor) said it could be fungal, viral, parasitic or even the wrath of god (that last part said by Jaqui) but never said anything about what causes them to reanimate after death.
It just ate a big lunch and needed a zombie nap. Heard Dale and thought of dessert.
Oh wow, T-Dog actually appears AND talk in the Sneak Peek for next episode.
sixteen-bit
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FantasticMrFoxdie
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To keep the spirit of DaleFace alive, we should shop DaleFace on characters at moments where Dale would have Faced.
sixteen-bit
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I'm all for this forced meme.
If only my Photoshop skills were that good .....
Because I'm already vested into it.
sixteen-bit
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because Zombies
Old Gimlet Eyes
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Because I like zombies. And I also have hopes that those zombies will destroy each member of this horrible cast. Dale was just the beginning. Team Zombie all the way.
The Lamonster
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Totally agree with your friend. I watch because I like the zombie effects. Some of the best in the biz. I also like the cast; particularly the guy that plays Shane.
In response to the general argument of "you people nitpick too much/suspend disbelief more/etc.":
people really only tend to nitpick or hate characters as much as they do with this show when the core of the show is tedious. small errors and logical slip-ups are more likely to go unnoticed when they're insulated by quality and action. Since TWD fails to provide that often enough, people notice things like Dale walking across a barren, empty, quiet field, seeing only an animal carcass, and walking up to it slowly only to have a walker be suddenly an arms length from his chest.
because we're not hyperbolic and uninformed like your friend. opinions and all, sure, but he's wrong. This show is very bad on the whole, and the writing is pretty messy, but there are glimpses of greatness, the concept is compelling, and there's potential for it to grow. I was hoping that growth would happen this season, instead absolutely nothing has happened. But we'll see what happens next season.
people really only tend to nitpick or hate characters as much as they do with this show when the core of the show is tedious. small errors and logical slip-ups are more likely to go unnoticed when they're insulated by quality and action. Since TWD fails to provide that often enough, people notice things like Dale walking across a barren, empty, quiet field, seeing only an animal carcass, and walking up to it slowly only to have a walker be suddenly an arms length from his chest.
because we're not hyperbolic and uninformed like your friend. opinions and all, sure, but he's wrong. This show is very bad on the whole, and the writing is pretty messy, but there are glimpses of greatness, the concept is compelling, and there's potential for it to grow. I was hoping that growth would happen this season, instead absolutely nothing has happened. But we'll see what happens next season.
Just to nit pick and bitch on GAF of course.
The Lamonster
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The walker could have been lying down in the grass and gotten up as Dale approached.
These types of walkers are mentioned in the comic - some wander around and others just hang out until food comes along.
These types of walkers are mentioned in the comic - some wander around and others just hang out until food comes along.
Neuromancer
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Not all the characters
Valkyr Junkie
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Your friend should start watching The Killing and join in on the fun.
yeah I did forget about those. Still, the field looks very flat and open, and I even recall a wide shot of the whole place...it's simply weird presentation, even if the logic does work out in the end. The kind of weird presentation that is only reamed when the rest of the show isn't working.
-Pyromaniac-
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first tell your friend he is retarded for sticking with a show so long that he clearly hates. I don't get people, I understand waiting 5 episodes or something, but we're 17 eps in, save us all some time and just stop.
And why do we watch it. Because it's entertaining. I watch mad men for mad men, I watch breaking bad for breaking bad, I watched the wire for the wire, and I watch walking dead for the walking dead. I'm not looking for more, just some entertainment.
-Pyromaniac-
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lmaoooooooo
Neuromancer
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Hahaha poor Theodore Douglas
Haha, SO GOOD.
Neuromancer
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They should have 'A Very Special Walking Dead' episode just about him one day, and his daily activities.
-Pyromaniac-
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lol like I said before, would be glorious if he was alive in the series finale, survived right from the start, and barely said anything along the way.
bengraven
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He should actually become mute. Like during the third season maybe someone will tie him down and cut his tongue off or something.
Then he turns the camera and smiles and shrugs, winks, then some cheesy 60s theme music plays him off.
Lionel Mandrake
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This is old, and may have been posted here already, but I just saw it for the first time.
Alternate Walking Dead intro.
Alternate Walking Dead intro.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Yeah, pretty much.
sixteen-bit
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Glen Mazzara (TWD showrunner) just retweeted this :lol
It's true.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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This is amazing. Nailed that classic style intro.
-Pyromaniac-
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hahahahaaaa
It's nice that they're aware that there's an issue. (Feel bad for the poor actor though, that would be embarrassing.)
LMFAO
Is this the same writer/composer that made the theme for The Greatest American Hero?
http://youtu.be/e9Q3orQhEcA
Phonomezer
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LOVE IT!
ToyMachine228
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Well, in the comics, the core concept of the story is that
they are all "the walking dead" and that its the humans that ARE the bigger danger. The zombies are a danger, but the way the world has gone has caused humans to become the bigger danger to themselves.
-Pyromaniac-
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at least he is still alive huehueueuehue
EdibleExplosives
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I don't understand anyone who continues to watch if they think the show is awful. It has it's flaws, the writing is really inconsistent but it's still enjoyable to watch.
The second half of season 2 has been much better than pretty much anything since the pilot so I'm looking forward to season 3.
That's what I hope Netflix/HULU/ETC realize, we don't want more dumbed down television but on the web/streamed... we also want more intelligent/mature programming that does not treat like a 2 year old.
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