The Lamonster
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yeah Lori sucks. I hate her.
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The Walking Dead - Season 2 - Sundays on AMC
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Is the final scene on youtube yet? I need to rewatch that shit immediately just for dat rick.
bengraven
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You know, I hate Lori as much as the next person, but I will say the "carl shot him" moment was incredibly well acted.
Yeah it's actually been a while since someone has ragged on me about my nerdy interests. My dad used to be the first person to nag, since he wanted me to learn to work on cars, not read comics. We had zero in common. Now days we talk about LOST and "feelings" that are brought up on Facebook. My "manly" hunter/country music type uncles watch Walking Dead and my grandmother even watches Game of Thrones and plays Age of Empires Online with me. haha
(in fairness, I think I get my geek gene from grandma...when I was going to college I lived with her and she would sit and watch Hercules, Xena, Blade and Highlander all day long on TNT or USA).
Yeah it's actually been a while since someone has ragged on me about my nerdy interests. My dad used to be the first person to nag, since he wanted me to learn to work on cars, not read comics. We had zero in common. Now days we talk about LOST and "feelings" that are brought up on Facebook. My "manly" hunter/country music type uncles watch Walking Dead and my grandmother even watches Game of Thrones and plays Age of Empires Online with me. haha
(in fairness, I think I get my geek gene from grandma...when I was going to college I lived with her and she would sit and watch Hercules, Xena, Blade and Highlander all day long on TNT or USA).
FantasticMrFoxdie
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lmao. glad i'm not the only one that noticed. I was laughing for that good few minutes while I could hear it in the background. Then again, it was a loud-ass buckshot.
Those numbers would be insane if that wasn't the precedent TWD had set.
I've been getting confused with the last few pages: are we being more hardline with keeping comic discussion out or are we letting it by as long as it's tagged?
From preachy CEO of Hershel Farms, Inc to just preachy old guy. How the mighty have fallen.
Cornballer
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If people want to talk extensively about S3 plot lines with respect to the comics (like that post), they should use one of the other threads.
ThatObviousUser
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Outfuckingstanding.
I have no doubts that the Season 3 opener will break double-digit millions.
And AMC can choke on a fat one if they seriously continue limiting this show's budget after this.
I thought we had a prison overpopulation problem!
Wherever this prison is (if it in facts looks like the shot at the end of the show), it's a great looking location.
Wonder how people will react when they stay at the Prison for 80% of Season 3.
It's the same premise, but on a larger "stage"
sixteen-bit
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9 millions is excellent numbers for AMC. Holy shit.
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This. Im glad Rick isnt a soft bitch anymore, Shane rubbed off on him. Shane :bow:
That however doesn't mean there is money to run other prisons. Overpopulation doesn't require a lot more guards, another prison does.
bengraven
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They said they want to ramp up the pace, so we don't know if they're going to stay at the prison all season. We assume because they stayed at the farm all season.
in the comics they stay at the farm, what, 2 issues? 3 tops?
Also, I loved how the last season's finale and this season's kind of went together with the Jenner reveal. I wonder if the next season will end with a helicopter being sighted...or something similar.
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So exactly how great are these numbers? Whats the second most popular show on TV? Are these numbers as dominant as say, Call of Duty numbers in the gaming world?
The Lamonster
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FYI - season 2 of Game of Thrones got a 15% budget increase.
That's how it works in the normal world. Who knows wtf AMC is doing.
MisterHero
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Lol Walt from Comic Book Men handles AMC's budget
Walking Dead crew: "I have this show called Walking Dead, it's pretty good and gets lots of viewers."
Walt: "I'll give you $50."
BattleMonkey
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GoT really needed that budget increase, to me it really was hurting in the first season visually due to it's lack of budget and to do the next books justice they need to put a bit more into that show.
Walking Dead though really doesn't need a high budget, even if they follow the comic books, nothing in them really warrants massive budgets. The first season stuff was some of the more expensive parts and they kinda tried to go beyond what was needed with the horrible CDC stuff. Show also has the advantage in that characters are so easy to get rid of instead of having to increase the actor pay each season like most shows.
It was already coming first place in cable viewership before. Now this is just completely crushing everyone else. A 4.7 adults 18-49 rating is really high. It beats everything on broadcast too.
sixteen-bit
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Did you catch the imagery they intended with Shane dipping his french fry into Rick's ketchup?
ThatObviousUser
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Gtfo with that crap.
Yeah, I remembered that from then, and again now. But still, hard to read Shane face as Rick's unloading on him about Lori. Not sure I read anything from it.
I also realized: Coma did Rick good, in the aiming department. Couldn't hit the first "bandit" at all, and got shot in the vest first :lol
Omg I'm watching it too and the way Rick is describing Lori to Shane she sounds like a freaking crazy woman. So she was a nutter way before this zombie thing happened.
New Thread should be on his back and all the zombies should have Bish's face.
RatskyWatsky
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MisterHero
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That's where all the ratings are coming from. Concentrated pennie solution
bengraven
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In fairness, having listened to Walt on his podcasts, his style of ripping people off pisses me off more than Rick on P**n Stars. I know he's doing it because he's extremely cheap and he gets a small high by feeling he's ripped someone off. Rick is trying to make money. Walt has a fetish.
The Highlands History podcast with him and Kevin talking about going to swap meets helps emphasize this. Walt sees a hockey VHS he really wants that's $5. He offers the lady something like a quarter. The lady gets pissed. He straight up gets into a loud verbal argument with the lady over this VHS. He refuses to pay more than a few cents and she starts charging him even more. 10 dollars, then nothing. No price is high enough. I think he almost explodes.
His bizarre views on life rival Karl from Idiot Abroad as well and Kevin is his Ricky, obsessed with this friend and his bizarre views on life.
If they up the budget, they need to make sure a lot of people on the crew get paid.
According to that Sam Witwer interview posted the other day, a lot of people behind the scenes took pay cuts to work on the show because they wanted to work with Frank Darabont. Now Darabont is gone and those people are now locked into a show that's setting record ratings, and they're still getting sub-par pay.
And with a stroke of a pen, can become Dinner.
Still: This show needs More Lennie James
Escape Goat
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Rick may as well be the title character. He is the man that animates this group of idiots.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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Wow. Really great ratings
Hope this does give more budget for the show.
Hope this does give more budget for the show.
Pilot Dale has a different color hat, but Pilot Lori STILL wants to get in a car and leave on her own (to put up signs on highway 85, warning people away from Atlanta.)
Which, btw, highway 85 (or State Road 85) is south of Atlanta, going between Columbus and Atlanta. So maybe Rick/Shane/Lori/Carl are from that way, instead of north of Atlanta.
Also, for authenticity, the herd that took down the farm, should have had a Gary Whitta Zombie Cameo.
Which, btw, highway 85 (or State Road 85) is south of Atlanta, going between Columbus and Atlanta. So maybe Rick/Shane/Lori/Carl are from that way, instead of north of Atlanta.
Also, for authenticity, the herd that took down the farm, should have had a Gary Whitta Zombie Cameo.
mysocksarepink
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so everyone who liked the first season and got tired of NOTHING HAPPENING in half of the second season tuned in for the finale of the season D: makes sense
Funky Papa
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The Walking Dead's biggest trolls follow the show with religious fervor. This doesn't surprise me one bit.
evilromero
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Lori was tolerable through the last half of season 2 but this final episode definitely pushed her back to my hate list. How can any person in their right mind not see that Shane held a gun to Rick's head? Why would there be any question of Rick's decision in the case? I swear Carl and Lori have been the biggest obstacles in this series so far. In fact, if it weren't for Carl I really think they would have avoided significant calamity.
mysocksarepink
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this is very true. regardless of how much shit I've spoken about the show on FB, I've watched every ep on sunday nights ;p
Funky Papa
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Lori is also a bit of shithead in the books. So it's canon.
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