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The Walking Dead - Season 2 - Sundays on AMC

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What happened after Shane popped the trunk? Time Warner / AMC thought it was the perfect moment to switch to a commercial for some show about missing people / fear.net. When it switched back the horde was moving toward something (diversion at the car?) while Shane slipped inside.

Sigh.
 
-Mikey- said:
Even though he isn't in the comics I'm pretty sure I know where they are going with his character. This isn't revealed until much later in the series but seeing as how Carl was shot so soon I see them revealing this too. T-Dawg will die from his infection and then come back as a zombie. WE ARE THE WALKING DEAD! /roll credits
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It looks like they'll get into that subject (of people coming back, despite not getting bitten/scratched) next week, judging from the preview.
 
metsallica said:
What happened after Shane popped the trunk? Time Warner / AMC thought it was the perfect moment to switch to a commercial for some show about missing people / fear.net. When it switched back the horde was moving toward something (diversion at the car?) while Shane slipped inside.

Sigh.
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they found flares
 
metsallica said:
What happened after Shane popped the trunk? Time Warner / AMC thought it was the perfect moment to switch to a commercial for some show about missing people / fear.net. When it switched back the horde was moving toward something (diversion at the car?) while Shane slipped inside.

Sigh.
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Sigh?

I see a lot of complaints like this that are so easily explained. They found flares, they threw about 6 of them. They clearly showed them light them and throwing them. How the hell are you sighing at that?

Ohhh, so are you saying you literally missed that point of the show? The fuck? I have Time Warner/AMC and that didn't happen.
 
demosthenes said:
Sigh?

I see a lot of complaints like this that are so easily explained. They found flares, they threw about 6 of them. They clearly showed them light them and throwing them. How the hell are you sighing at that?
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Lol dude, you should reread that post.
 
demosthenes said:
Sigh?

I see a lot of complaints like this that are so easily explained. They found flares, they threw about 6 of them. They clearly showed them light them and throwing them. How the hell are you sighing at that?
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The show, literally, in the middle of the scene, switched to an advertisement for another show. Two, in fact. I was sighing at the mistake and the fact that I missed what actually caused the diversion. Surely I'm not the only one who experienced this? TW NYC people?
 
metsallica said:
The show, literally, in the middle of the scene, switched to an advertisement for another show. Two, in fact. I was sighing at the mistake and the fact that I missed what actually caused the diversion. Surely I'm not the only one who experienced this? TW NYC people?
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Yea, sorry about that. I re-read and edited my post. TWC-Buffalo and nope :x that's really stupid of them to do that :\

ToyMachine228 said:
Is the preview for next episode online anywhere? I missed it.
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They said a longer one was on AMC.
 
Well, that was a lot better than last week's episode. Which is funny considering how little action there was. Not a single scene I thought was weak.

I feel kind of bad saying this, since this is supposed to be a drama and it's ridiculous to complain about drama in a drama, but I'm wanting more survival/action stuff. Next week will make up for the lack of it this week, I'm sure. So there's that.

Anyway, I like the new actors/characters. Still really sick of waiting for earlier characters to show up again. If we go an entire season without hearing from either Morgan and Dwayne or Merle, I am going to be pretty irritated.

Also: lmao @ T-Dawg's scene with Dale. That was brilliant.
 
I'm done with this series. I had hoped by the second season they corrected the issues in the comic, namely, the characters being little more than a collection of stereotypes and the truly dreadful dialogue.

I can handle slow and plodding, but not third grade level dialogue.
 
mac said:
I'm done with this series. I had hoped by the second season they corrected the issues in the comic, namely, the characters being little more than a collection of stereotypes and the truly dreadful dialogue.

I can handle slow and plodding, but not third grade level dialogue.
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I go back and forth. Often the show surprises me by being self-aware, by quickly dealing with plot holes or problems I perceive, but at other times I roll my eyes through cheesy or predictable dialogue. It's not bad enough for me to give up on it yet.

Also, from this episode: did anyone else notice
the ambulance that was apparently pretty close to Shane and Jimmy in one shot? Why didn't they root around in there for supplies before making the more dangerous trek to the supply shed?
 
The characters in the show are not compelling to me, and the dragging pace makes it way too easy for me to get distracted by something else.

I want to learn more about the epidemic and what happened to people, not to spend time waiting for characters to heal that should never have gotten hurt or lost in the first place.
 
Willy105 said:
The characters in the show are not compelling to me, and the dragging pace makes it way too easy for me to get distracted by something else.

I want to learn more about the epidemic and what happened to people, not to spend time waiting for characters to heal that should never have gotten hurt or lost in the first place.
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I think my problem with the drama isn't the drama itself, it's that there seems to be no future goals for the characters. Where are they going that this little breakdown on the highway sidetracked them from? As far as I know, they're just... driving around. So who cares if they get moving again, or a hurt character recovers, or a lost character returns? They don't have anywhere to be!
 
I think we hoped that these characters would resemble more of the char in Left for Dead. They aren't those characters, they are ordinary people. I can't stand the wife.
 
I enjoyed this episode a lot more than the season opener but man did it drag. I hope they don't start delving into how the disease was created, where it started, if it can be cured, etc. The show is about surviving. The comic does an amazing job with this, why can't the show. Why does the show have to drag like it is. The comic moves as such a great pace and there's so much to cover.

Also, like others have said. The sped up zombies is really annoying. The zombies not being able to smell this season but being able to last, is also annoying.

Also, why do the living humans trip and fall all the time, while the zombies who can barely walk have no trouble navigating uneven terrian? The chick in this episode had problems and Rick was tripping and falling left and right in the opener.

Nit picking, I know. But these are things they could easily not fuck up.
 
Night_Trekker said:
I think my problem with the drama isn't the drama itself, it's that there seems to be no future goals for the characters. Where are they going that this little breakdown on the highway sidetracked them from? As far as I know, they're just... driving around. So who cares if they get moving again, or a hurt character recovers, or a lost character returns? They don't have anywhere to be!
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They very clearly stated in the first episode that they were heading to Fort Benning.
 
ultron87 said:
They very clearly stated in the first episode that they were heading to Fort Benning.
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Sorta wish they had repeated it in this episode. It's not like they're adverse to doing that.

Maybe I just wasn't paying attention because I was so bored by the meh opener :/
 
Night_Trekker said:
I think my problem with the drama isn't the drama itself, it's that there seems to be no future goals for the characters. Where are they going that this little breakdown on the highway sidetracked them from? As far as I know, they're just... driving around. So who cares if they get moving again, or a hurt character recovers, or a lost character returns? They don't have anywhere to be!
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Yeah. Not every show needs to be moving to a future resolution (Mad Men does great despite having next to no set up for what happens even in a following episode), but usually it's great to entice your audience to look forward to something.

In Heroes, we were looking forward to see if the characters would stop a giant explosion that destroys NYC. In Lost, we were looking forward to see if the characters could get back home. In Breaking Bad, we were looking forward to see if the characters would be able to kill Gus. At the end of each episode of each of those shows, we got a cliffhanger promising more to come next.

What is going on here? Looking forward to see them survive? They are surviving right now. Saving the kids? They were fine until a minute ago.

Also, having zombies run seems way too a small detail for it to be bothersome, but it is. It's cheap, just as cheap as it was that the kid was shot, and the girl was lost.
 
Night_Trekker said:
I think my problem with the drama isn't the drama itself, it's that there seems to be no future goals for the characters. Where are they going that this little breakdown on the highway sidetracked them from? As far as I know, they're just... driving around. So who cares if they get moving again, or a hurt character recovers, or a lost character returns? They don't have anywhere to be!
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Very true. There is no plot. It's just a series of occurrences that don't really lead anywhere. Such a narrative style can be fantastic (Pulp Fiction) when you are given compelling characters and interesting dialogue. But when stuck with boring people who say boring things the lack of plot is a death sentence.
 
Is it me or is this show just terrible? Glenn (the only good character) gets NO screen time and we get stuck with stupid one-liner rednecks and that obnoxious old man talking bullshit all day. Some of the most annoying dialogue and character interactions I've seen in awhile. I'll give it one more episode but I think I'm gonna bail on this.
 
it's junk food, but it's like the value menu when you're completely trashed.

the characters all suck, the dialogue is emotionally bankrupt, see you next week? can't wait for the doc to find out how many stomachs little boys have.
 
Sliver said:
Is it me or is this show just terrible? Glenn (the only good character) gets NO screen time and we get stuck with stupid one-liner rednecks and that obnoxious old man talking bullshit all day. Some of the most annoying dialogue and character interactions I've seen in awhile. I'll give it one more episode but I think I'm gonna bail on this.
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Don't bail, your descriptions are fucking gold. " that obnoxious old man talking bullshit all day" ahahaha
 
I'm slowly falling out of love with this show. I enjoyed season 1 with the exception of a few moments, namely the eyes-rolling gangstas with the hearts of gold. It just seem like nothings happening, or it's just developing way too slowly.

Part of me wishes that this was a show on HBO, produced by David Simon :) At least there would be a good amount of subtext rather than this superficial approach to the material.
 
I really like the comic and wondered how they would make this into a TV show. The pilot was great but went down hill fast and I've been bored from the beginning of this season. I want the tough as nails / will do what has to be done Rick from the comics but at this rate it would be season 3 or 4.

Very conflicted right now. : /
 
malfcn said:
How did they Vet look and count 6 fragments?
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Six holes? Fuck if I know anything about bullets, but I figured it fragmented going through the deer and went into Carl in pieces.

I liked tonight's episode, Daryl is definitely the best character on the show, he's fun and so is Glenn. I like what they're doing with Shane's character as well.

As for the people complaining about the sudden runningness of the zombies, didn't they say originally that in this world, the less time you were a zombie the more mobility you had? Like, fresh zombies are still able to run-ish?
 
I didn't get the part where Shane is convincing Rick to stay and give blood to his dying son. The whole time I was waiting for Shane to say he would go get Lori, but he never did!
 
A pretty good ep, some great suspense and I like how it raised the stakes little by little.

At this point, the problem isn't the individual episodes but sort of the show itself. Most of the characters are just not being characterized anymore, and the ones that are are either uninteresting (Lori) or annoying (Andrea.) Put the spotlight on Glenn or Daryl once in a while, sheesh. Side note: Norman Reedus is fast becoming one of my favorite actors. The new characters haven't been established much at all yet but I imagine that'll come later.

But the episode itself was good, and I'm looking forward to the next one.
 
For me, if they can do an episode with minimal zombies and still make it watchable, then it's a good show.

Not sure about all the critiques on character. I think it does it just right, following a group of people you don't really know as they deal with something extraordinary is what this show is about, and you learn bits and pieces as the story rolls on.

A typical drama would have domestic scenes and exposition to give characterization, a show like TWD just won't be in that format. I'm fine with it.

My biggest problem was the stupidity of some of the characters in the season premier. It's also Dues Ex Machine territory where you could see the author manipulating things to drag the story.
 
Well that was pretty boring for an episode. Missed the first 10 minutes or so, but they got to the house and it's "OH CARL! CARL!" :/

The end was okay, but yeah... boring filler for the child that should die. *sigh*
 
I really want to love this show. I think what is really dragging this show down is the pacing. I'm all for slower paced stuff when the characters themselves are interesting. Most of the characters shown so far aren't all that interesting to listen too for more than a couple of seconds, so its really bad when they spend 5 minutes on them.

I'll still watch for the rest of the season, but if they haven't gotten their act together by the midpoint then there is no hope.
 
Daryl continues to be the best character on the show.

Shane is still working hard on that whole redemption thing. I have to admire him.

Loved what's-her-name
swooping in on the horse.
Something to tide me over until (comic-book character spoiler)
Michonne arrives
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Willy105 said:
Also, having zombies run seems way too a small detail for it to be bothersome, but it is. It's cheap, just as cheap as it was that the kid was shot, and the girl was lost.
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Actually that's a good point, wasn't that supposed to be a key point about the Walking Dead (comic and TV)? That the zombies weren't going to be fast? They were pretty damn fast in this episode. (Not that I mind really, since I find fast(er) zombies about ninety-zillion times more scary then slow zombies.)

EDIT: also I hope Sophia comes back as a zombie and her mom goes nuts and tries to kill Rick. :)
 
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