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THE WALKING DEAD: Season 1 on AMC (avoid comic book spoilers)

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I don't want to see people's brains being eaten or their insides being torn out. I don't mind action movie level violence, but I do not like horror movie level gore. I know nothing about the comic. The only reason I'm interested is because of the cast and crew behind the show.
 
Mashing said:
I hope it's not too gory. I'd rather this be more about the characters rather than tons of gore from the zombies.
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You want a show about Zombies not to be gory? I don't think a show like this is for you then. I want both and I hope it delivers both.
 
Mashing said:
I don't want to see people's brains being eaten or their insides being torn out. I don't mind action movie level violence, but I do not like horror movie level gore. I know nothing about the comic. The only reason I'm interested is because of the cast and crew behind the show.
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Ah, well...this isn't for you.

There is no gore just for gore, but things get really grim and depressing, as well as graphic quite often.

But no, the gore doesn't overwhelm the characters (don't really know what that means, though).
 
Mashing said:
I don't want to see people's brains being eaten or their insides being torn out. I don't mind action movie level violence, but I do not like horror movie level gore. I know nothing about the comic. The only reason I'm interested is because of the cast and crew behind the show.
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You should probably watch another show if the gore will be an issue for you. This is going to have moments of gratuitous gore. And then it could go through almost a whole episode or maybe even a whole one with none. At least, that's how the comics have been in spots.
 
andycapps said:
You should probably watch another show if the gore will be an issue for you. This is going to have moments of gratuitous gore. And then it could go through almost a whole episode or maybe even a whole one with none. At least, that's how the comics have been in spots.
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Yeah, the comics have no problem with going issues (alot of issues, actually) without any zombies at all (sorta), so it should be the same for the show.
 
Stridone said:
The leaked version is a shitty 365MB mkv. I'd rather wait for the real deal and enjoy it even more.
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True, but even the mkv doesn't stop the pilot from being amazing.

So, my impression of the pilot is FANTASTIC. Seriously, I really love the comic and there was some sort of fear that maybe AMC would add to much new stuff. Boy, my fears were unfounded. Simply put, the pilot is fantastic and I'm hoping episode 2 will be just as great. The new stuff that is added isn't weird or anything else, it gives more depth to the story.

SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

First of all, the opening sent a chill down my spine.
The way how Rick shoots the zombie girl really sets the tone. The whole talk with Shane in the flashback brings a bit more of understanding between the friendship of Rick & Shane. I like the inclusion of Rick and Lori having problems and that Rick hates it when discussed in front of Carl. Scene of Rick being shot and waking up in the hospital is awesome. Especialy when he finds the door with the words "Dead inside do not open" is perfect. When he's out of the hospital is a pretty impressive part, when he's surrounded by all those bodies.

For the second part, with him finding zombie bike girl and returning to his house was pretty awesome. In the comic Rick's all "oh shit they're gone gotta go too" but in the pilot he just breaks down. He cries, smacks himself in the head... what happened to this world? Cue Morgan and Duane. Great stuff, especialy the new part with his wife walking outside around the house. I was creeped out when Rick looks Morgan's wife in the eyes and he gets some eerie vacant stare in return, plus she's trying to turn the doorknob. Very spooky.

I also love the part after they got their weapons and seperate their ways. (with Morgan traveling after Rick a few days? Good stuff.) When Morgan goes through his things, picture of his wife and tries to shoot her. Fantastic. Also Rick shooting/observing Bike girl was great.

I laughed at the horse bit though :lol Riding him in an awkward fashion.

As for the last part, when you see Lori, Carl, Shane and Dale for the first time is good as well. Demunn is the exact way I imagined Dale in real-life. As for the scene of Rick running into a pack of zombies and crawling in the tank... wow. The part where he tries to get the gun of the dead soldier is a "watch it, he's not really dead" moment, but I loved when it happened. But the best part is the guy over the radio: "hey dumbass... yeah you in the tank... all cosy in there?" is a serious wtf moment, thanks to Rick's surprised look. Episode 2 can't come soon enough.

I'm very happy with the actors btw. Lincoln potrays a good Rick Grimes and the guy playing Morgan is good as well. Fantastic start. Keep it up.

Also, the gore is pretty cool. Can't remember a tv show ever being so "in your face" without going overboard. Thumbs up for the make up guys/special effects team.
 
gdt5016 said:
Reviews

- Review of the first two episodes form io9 *some spoilers*
- Screenjunkies review *some spoilers*
- Dreadcentral *some spoilers*
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- One more review from Bloody Disgusting *some spoilers*
So is the show good? Hell yes it is. It's great, in fact, and if subsequent episodes are even half as good then it could easily go down as one of the best horror-based shows in my lifetime. Darabont did an amazing job adapting the first issue while expanding things and setting up the plotlines that will become integral to the show. And he did so without sacrificing the book's most surprising but appealing factor – it's not a wall to wall zombie gore fest.
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SO FUCKING EXCITED.

I wish we didn't have to wait another week. Obviously, they want it near Halloween, but I wish they would have started Mad Men a week later so that we didn't have this dead week. Not a big deal, but I'm just so psyched for this to start.

I'm still amazed at how AMC transformed itself from a wannabe Turner Classic Movies to the best channel on television. Bravo.
 
BertramCooper said:
SO FUCKING EXCITED.

I wish we didn't have to wait another week. Obviously, they want it near Halloween, but I wish they would have started Mad Men a week later so that we didn't have this dead week. Not a big deal, but I'm just so psyched for this to start.

I'm still amazed at how AMC transformed itself from a wannabe Turner Classic Movies to the best channel on television. Bravo.
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Except for Rubicon. Fuck that shitty show.

CAN'T WAIT FOR WALKING DEAD HOMG
 
still can't believe they shot this is Atlanta and I didn't know about it.

Whoever did the costume/makeup and all that stuff for this series did a really really amazing job.
 
I LOVED The Mist. The ending is awesome, but oh so depressing. Though it would have been great to see
the military trying to take out that massive Godzilla sized creature that walked by their car near the end of the movie
:D
 
BertramCooper said:
SO FUCKING EXCITED.

I wish we didn't have to wait another week. Obviously, they want it near Halloween, but I wish they would have started Mad Men a week later so that we didn't have this dead week. Not a big deal, but I'm just so psyched for this to start.

I'm still amazed at how AMC transformed itself from a wannabe Turner Classic Movies to the best channel on television. Bravo.
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Whoa there. AMC was what TCM is today. Maybe not quite as good (TCM is the best station on tv with ease), but AMC was the prototype and used to be the king. It has been a shadow of its former self for a long time now, but it somehow didn't implode and suddenly started producing the best original programming on tv. Interesting life AMC has had.

Anyways I'm super excited for this new series. It looks really promising.

And The Mist was extremely well done! Wth was Shurs talking about?! Crazy talk.
 
A few more of my zombie pics:

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BeeDog said:
The stupid
end scene
begs to differ. :p
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Spoiler Tag that shit please. I don't care if alot of people think that is not a spoiler, but I am now expecting it.
 
Brian Fellows said:
It really was great. Sadly I won't get to see it in HD.
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I'm not sure who to blame, but this bugs me to no end about Directv at least. None of the shows look particularly good because AMC seems even worse than other SD channels.

I dislike most zombie movies but this looks great and reading the reviews has me stoked.
negitoro7 said:
Not familiar with AMC, will this show have nudity like True Blood? And I don't mean zombie nudity.
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Techinically if it's rated M they can show anything they want (Non-porn), but most basic cable channels censor themselves to attract a bigger audience and because of the time the shows air (Primetime) which has more offended people watching at any given time. I never got this though because once you show an ax to the head or cussing out the wazoo, anything should probably go at this point.
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I am on the Mist bandwagon, it was pretty good.
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I am a Darabount fan (He'd be one of my favorites if he had more films under his belt) and he does better with bigger budgets.

The Mist was OK, but King's ending was better and sufficiently depressing. It felt like a twist ending just to shock. However, King said he liked the ending so....
 
Whitta plays a zombie? :lol

I'm on a mission to start watching all this good US TV (due to the fact that the only good show on UK TV is The Apprentice and Whitechapel atm) and I've already found Community :lol This looks like a definite watch for me.

5th November needs to be sooner. :/
 
animlboogy said:
What was stupid about it? The point has to be driven home that
Atlanta is NOT SAFE. So they show exactly how unsafe it is. I thought the shotgun suicides were more upfront about gore than anything else in the pilot, though.

As for the very end scene:
That's Glenn over the radio, right? It's been awhile since I read the first arc.
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COMIC BOOK SPOILERS

That whole tank scene/climax doesn't happen in the early issues. But yeah, that has to be Glen. Even sounds like what I imagined he would sound like :lol .
 
I hope all of you that watched the pilot early are still going to take the time to catch the show live on Halloween or perhaps a replay a little later. If you guys like it a lot, make sure you tell your friends and stream it if you can't watch on AMC. Let's get some good ratings in for the premiere so AMC quickly orders up S2. :D
 
I certainly had to cave. People complaining about the quality it matches that of a SD/DVD broadcast, on HD sets not so much. Will be watching again anyhow in HD to find Gary's puss.

I love the tension and the choice not to rush and blase through the scenes. It certainly works towards the "Oh Shit, Zombies!" moments and I can only imagine even more so when they get farther into more events from the books.

Oh, btw...the guy who plays Rick is fucking brilliant. Not a large enough sample to go by currently but Laurie seems rather weak of an actress, granted she hasn't had much to go off of yet. Just noting.
 
Cornballer said:
I hope all of you that watched the pilot early are still going to take the time to catch the show live on Halloween or perhaps a replay a little later. If you guys like it a lot, make sure you tell your friends and stream it if you can't watch on AMC. Let's get some good ratings in for the premiere so AMC quickly orders up S2. :D
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I might even buy it on iTunes just to try to help it out. The pilot is like a mini movie in itself. Buying the show online is a great way to support the show when you're not a nielsen rated household.
 
animlboogy said:
What was stupid about it? The point has to be driven home that
Atlanta is NOT SAFE. So they show exactly how unsafe it is. I thought the shotgun suicides were more upfront about gore than anything else in the pilot, though.

As for the very end scene:
That's Glenn over the radio, right? It's been awhile since I read the first arc.
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It's stupid in the sense that
the mangling of the horse is done in such a freaking bad way, with the music and all that. The camerawork too, that hovers jittery over the zombies when they pull the intestine sausages from the horse is crap compared to any other scene in the episode. My fear, based on the trailer, was that the show wouldn't handle the subject matter well. Thankfully, this wasn't the case, EXCEPT for the horse scene and the awful scene where the boy does that stupid dance in the shower.

Anyway, freaking good first episode, and certainly eager to see more.
 
Cornballer said:
I hope all of you that watched the pilot early are still going to take the time to catch the show live on Halloween or perhaps a replay a little later. If you guys like it a lot, make sure you tell your friends and stream it if you can't watch on AMC. Let's get some good ratings in for the premiere so AMC quickly orders up S2. :D
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I'm thinking AMC will order S2 as soon as the Monday morning after, when the ratings start coming in.

If, it does well enough, of course.
 
Tedesco! said:
It's already ordered.
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Not "officially" but apparently is very, very expected.

Edit: Interview posted on the 14th:

Yes, we know AMC's new zombie drama The Walking Dead—based on Robert Kirkman's uber-successful comic-book series of the same name—doesn't even DEBUT until Oct. 31. But that doesn't mean talk of a second season is premature.

Based on the buzz generated from trailers and sneak peeks at San Diego and New York Comic Con and early critics' reviews, all signs point to a winner. And in recent interviews with Blastr, even producers Frank Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd are cautiously optimistic about getting their ideas on for a sophomore season.

Hurd confirms that AMC has not said yes to another season ... yet. However, she says a second season would consist of 13 episodes, seven more than the first-season order. "We will need a pickup before January 1st, because we'd want to be shooting by late spring [2011]."

For his part, Darabont says he would be thrilled to get another season, but they're still preoccupied with getting the first six complete.

"[Rob] is back in Kentucky ducking floods and writing his comic book, and I'm in L.A. really wrapping up post. We just locked the cut of number five, and I'm very close to locking six. I'm at the tail end of the marathon, so having conversations about what the coming season might be, we ain't even gotten there. And once we're done, I've got to have some time off this year. If it gets picked up, those conversations will begin extremely in earnest in January."

Perhaps the most telling thing about Darabont's admission is that it leaves the extremely in-demand director/screenwriter free to return to The Walking Dead to help shepherd a second year.

He admits, "I want to stick with it as much and as long as I possibly can, because I didn't get into it lightly. I didn't get into it to set it in motion and then wave goodbye as other people sail down the canal. I don't want to be an absentee landlord. I want to keep my hands in the thing I am really loving doing."
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http://blastr.com/2010/10/walking-dead-creators-tell-us-their-season-two-yes-two-plans.php
 
gdt5016 said:
I'm thinking AMC will order S2 as soon as the Monday morning after, when the ratings start coming in.

If, it does well enough, of course.
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Ratings don't really matter that much to AMC. Check Mad Men's S1 ratings.
 
SephCast said:
Ratings don't really matter that much to AMC. Check Mad Men's S1 ratings.
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Check Rubicon's S1 ratings.

Ratings matter, but they don't matter as much.

Critical reception might matter even more.

Edit: Either way, I think this show will do very well for AMC. Might even do better than Mad Men S4 did.
 
Just watched the pilot, can't wait to see the HD version. All I'll say about it is that I think I have a new favorite tv show. Goodbye Doctor Who, hello The Walking Dead. That is really saying alot if this show has knocked off a show that I have had at the number one spot for tv shows for 14 years.
 
Cornballer said:
DirecTV doesn't have it. :(
This seems like a reasonable approach to it.
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That's the only disappointing thing for me, the lack of an HD version of AMC on DirecTV. I'll definitely be watching though. I've never read the comic so I'm coming in fresh to this. :D
 
gdt5016 said:
Check Rubicon's S1 ratings.

Ratings matter, but they don't matter as much.

Critical reception might matter even more.

Edit: Either way, I think this show will do very well for AMC. Might even do better than Mad Men S4 did.
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Hold on, not to hijack the thread but was Rubicon cancelled?
 
i saw the leaked pilot. Will watch it again on TV. don't have HD :\

But I can't say I like the show (Never read the comic). Gonna give it a few more episodes.
 
DMPrince said:
i saw the leaked pilot. Will watch it again on TV. don't have HD :\

But I can't say I like the show (Never read the comic). Gonna give it a few more episodes.
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What didn't you like about it? (I never read the comic either)
 
I just got UVerse yesterday after being a slave to comcast for 10 years. I love it, my ONLY complaint is that there is no AMC HD! At least I got to see Mad Men S4 in HD, but I'm pissed that I have to return to SD for the Walking Dead, my most anticipated show this season. Ive never read the comics..but I'm a big fan of all things Zombie. Can't wait to see this.
 
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