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

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brianjones said:
comic nerds need to gtfo and stop ruining this for everyone
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Or maybe people shouldn't read a motherfucking spoiler if they don't want to...you know...have plot points spoiled.

You either read spoilers or you don't. If you do read them, you do so at your own risk; people shouldn't have to put ULTRA SUPER SEKRAT when they've already gone through the trouble to spoiler tag the fucking thing.
 
WickedAngel said:
Or maybe people shouldn't read a motherfucking spoiler if they don't want to...you know...have plot points spoiled.

You either read spoilers or you don't. If you do read them, you do so at your own risk; people shouldn't have to put ULTRA SUPER SEKRAT when they've already gone through the trouble to spoiler tag the fucking thing.
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Except this is a thread for the TV show, where people are spoiler tagging things that happen in the pilot, or the first few episodes.

Other people are (without warning) spoiler tagging massively huge plot points from very late in the comic.
 
WickedAngel said:
Or maybe people shouldn't read a motherfucking spoiler if they don't want to...you know...have plot points spoiled.

You either read spoilers or you don't. If you do read them, you do so at your own risk; people shouldn't have to put ULTRA SUPER SEKRAT when they've already gone through the trouble to spoiler tag the fucking thing.
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or you could just talk about the show itself here..

nothings more annoying than I CANT WAIT FOR
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unfortunately i see game of thorns thread being the same
 
WickedAngel said:
A spoiler is a spoiler. Read it or don't, but don't whine when a spoiler tag contains a damned spoiler.
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Why are you being such a dick about this? I quote:

Or maybe people shouldn't read a motherfucking spoiler if they don't want to...you know...have plot points spoiled.
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Goddamn, dude. It isn't exactly uncommon message board etiquette to label what you're spoiling inside the spoiler tag. Most game and book topics request people put the chapter outside of the spoiler tags, or label the spoiler as end-game. And no one rages about that the way you are about this. Just having a bad day or something?

As has already been explained (calmly and clearly), there are comic spoilers, and TV show spoilers. In the TV show topic, it is completely reasonable to expect comic spoilers to be labeled...
 
- Sepinwall Interview: 'The Walking Dead' producer Gale Anne Hurd
When it comes to credibility among sci-fi and horror movie fans, it's hard to do better than Gale Anne Hurd. She co-wrote the first "Terminator" film (and executive produced all of them), and has been a producer on "Aliens," "The Abyss," "Alien Nation," "Tremors," both recent Hulk films (odds are you liked one or the other) and a lot more.

Hurd's TV resume is skimpier - one season of the syndicated drama "Adventure Inc." with Michael Biehn - but she should make a much bigger splash with her new project, the zombie epic "The Walking Dead," which debuts on AMC on Halloween night at 10 p.m.

Based on the long-running comic book series by Robert Kirkman, "The Walking Dead" tells the story of
Kentucky cop Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), who's shot in the line of duty, goes into a coma and wakes up to discover that zombies have overrun the world, with only small pockets of frightened and angry human survivors left.
Hurd helped writer/director Frank Darabont find a home for the project after he'd spent five years unsuccessfully trying to sell it. And the two of them - working with a large creative team that includes acclaimed horror makeup master Greg Nicotero and Robert Kirkman himself - have had to figure out how to make the zombie apocalypse work for TV, which parts of Kirkman's opus to fit into the six episodes that will comprise the first season (and when to deviate from the text), and a lot more.

I spoke with Darabont about the project back at Comic-Con, and last week I got on the phone with Hurd to get her take on "The Walking Dead":
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Nice Sepinwall interview.

Again, it seems episode 2 takes some real turns from the comic, while the Pilot was largely pretty faithful (but...fuller and meatier, I would say). I'm excited to see how they mix things up, in that department.
 
dave is ok said:
Michelle MacLaren directed episode 2. Anyone who watches Breaking Bad knows that this is good news.
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Yeah, she can handle the supposed
tense, complicated action
of episode two just fine.
 
- Onion A|V Club interview with Darabont
As far as the deliberate pace of a show, can I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do, where you don’t have to cut to the next thing right away? As long as our running times are what we promised to deliver, you can let a moment live; you can have characters breathe onscreen. You don’t have to constantly go to the next line of dialogue. You can hold a shot, thank God, and I’m finding that such a pleasure, because I do love moments that breathe.

I’ve never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that’s able to take its time. It’s one of the reasons I really love the shows AMC does. So it’s not like they’re imposing a studio or network brand on us, it’s more that their brand is allowing us to do something I’d love to be doing anyway, which is not having to rattle through a story at breakneck speed, simply because we assume the audience has no attention span left. I just don’t believe that.
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- Variety
Creepy from the first frame -- and inching along at a languid, ambling pace that's oddly effective -- "The Walking Dead" draws the audience in almost instantly with its cinematic 90-minute pilot, then incorporates tasty soap-like elements meant to animate the ensuing episodes. Although we've seen no shortage of zombies and post-apocalyptic stories, producer-writer-director Frank Darabont has deftly tackled the seemingly perilous task of adapting a comicbook about zombies into a viable episodic series. Arising in the wake of the brainy "Rubicon" and "Mad Men's" stellar fourth season, "Dead" demonstrates AMC's creative team has plenty of life in it.
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- USA Today
Taken as a fright fest, pure and simple, Dead succeeds admirably well, capturing the terror and confusion of waking up in a world where you've gone from person to endangered-species zombie food overnight. You're supposed to be uneasy and, often, grossed out (it's incredibly graphic and gory by TV standards). And chances are you will be.
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- LA Times
"The Walking Dead," like any good horror tale, still believes in the importance of monsters, perfectly balancing the struggle of basic human decency with those palsied four-in-the-morning moments when we are convinced that everyone around us is trying to eat us alive.
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brandonh83 said:
I haven't read the books, but like with any television show, what matters is the bigger picture. I think it would be okay if some episodes were action, some character, some a bit of both.
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I really recommend you to read the books, because they are stunningly mature themed comics. Based on those comics I expect just what you asked for in the TV adaptation, because life is not just about killing zombies.
 
Had no idea of the Kentucky connection until reading the paper today. The writer is from Cynthiana, a small town about 20 miles from Lexington where I live. The show though is apparently not set anywhere near the Bluegrass.

They were interviewing and he was basically saying he's leaving and going Hollywood.
 
Looking forward to this.

Will be interesting to see how they handle some of the more 'depressing' events in the book.
 
I downloaded the first episode, but never got around to watching it. Now I think I'll just wait for Sunday night. It's going to be epic (hopefully)!
 
LM4sure said:
I downloaded the first episode, but never got around to watching it. Now I think I'll just wait for Sunday night. It's going to be epic (hopefully)!
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The encoding on it is garbage, wait it out. Its double letterboxed and all pixelated...
 
- AMC's The Walking Dead Survival Test
Sure, you're drawn to the bleak realities of apocalyptic tales set in the not-too-distant future, but how would you fare if you actually came face-to-face with the end of the world today? Would you have the inner strength to deal with food rationing and greedy fellow survivors? Could you keep your nearest and dearest safe or worse yet, carry on if you lost them? The time has come to face your greatest fears with The Walking Dead Survival Test. In just seven questions, you'll discover if you've got the type of personality that deems you a leader, a loner or a casualty of the bad times ahead.
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gdt5016 said:
Yeah. Lost had Ducky patrolling the threads, but this probably won't. At least not till one of the mods becomes a fan or something (Amirox!).
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I like the comics well enough and I'm going to give the show a try, I just hadn't been in the thread yet because the premiere leaked and I'm not really interested in leaked impressions personally. I should be around the thread for the show. If I'm not around, feel free to PM me if people in this thread are acting up.
 
Stumpokapow said:
I like the comics well enough and I'm going to give the show a try, I just hadn't been in the thread yet because the premiere leaked and I'm not really interested in leaked impressions personally. I should be around the thread for the show. If I'm not around, feel free to PM me if people in this thread are acting up.
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Cool, thanks.
 
A few more reviews:

- Washington Post
Darabont and his cast excel at conjuring up a taut social study, but let the horror scenes fall oddly flat. Being a big fraidy cat myself, I can only puzzle over why "The Walking Dead" fails to cause my usual reflexive responses, such as putting my hands over my eyes and still watching what happens through parted fingers. I hope it gets scarier.

Despite that, the show is undeniably intriguing and creepily contemporary, tapping into the national paranoia: Can I trust you? Are you one of them? How do we go on, now that we're surrounded? The things all Americans ask, every day, amid the din of moaning.
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- NY Daily News
Unlike "Mad Men," however, or even "Rubicon," "The Walking Dead" offers no relief. No humor, no side moments that release a little of the pressure. Given the subject and the situation - apocalypse that could end life as we know it - that makes sense. It also makes the show relentless, a feeling not lessened by periodic bursts of extreme violence and menacing dialogue. Fans of the comic book and first-rate psycho-horror may form a large enough audience to make this a hit. Those not in those groups may want to start by taking a deep breath.
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- SJ Mercury News
Season 1 of "The Walking Dead" consists of six episodes, and it will be interesting to see if it can sustain the suspense and/or attract more than just horror hounds to a cable channel known more for nongenre dramas like "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad." For now, it's off to a thrilling start. Here's hoping it adds to your fright-night pleasure -- and long live "The Walking Dead."
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- MTV article: Five Things To Watch Out For When 'The Walking Dead' Premieres
 
- Sepinwall's review
I was encouraged that the character-driven third episode was stronger than the zombie action-heavy second, and perhaps the producers will be proven right - that the longer this saga goes on past these initial six episodes, the more it will set itself apart from the zombie canon.

But it’s also possible that there’s a reason there’s never been a zombie TV series before that goes beyond the technical difficulties of pulling it off. Maybe the zombie apocalypse is a horror that’s better off in brief glimpses than as a story with no end in sight.
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'Caught the pilot the other day. I am so damn excited to watch again on Sunday in HD. Here's to a great 1st season of MANY.
I hope.

The actor who played Morgan is great.
 
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