Dram said:Yeah that episode with the old patients was pretty bad, which is weird since the author of the comic wrote it.
sturmdogg said:Anyone know why the show isn't following the comics i.e. characters in the show aren't in the comics, certain events didn't happen? Seems to me the comics is a great source material and shouldn't have been changed this much.
I read somewhere that they are doing this intentionally to keep everyone on their toes. They don't want the people that have read the comics to know everything that's going to happen.sturmdogg said:Anyone know why the show isn't following the comics i.e. characters in the show aren't in the comics, certain events didn't happen? Seems to me the comics is a great source material and shouldn't have been changed this much.
sturmdogg said:Anyone know why the show isn't following the comics i.e. characters in the show aren't in the comics, certain events didn't happen? Seems to me the comics is a great source material and shouldn't have been changed this much.
walbertsmith said:I think the concept of the episode was more or less fine, but what I think made it feel awful was the caricature of the gangsters. Their "gangster-isms" were a bit too heavyhanded, but I think Kirkman wanted to explore the dichotomy of society's cellar dwellers being unlikely heroes for the oppressed (which is good).
aku:jiki said:HE TALKED ABOUT THE DEER!
HE TALKED ABOUT THE DEER!
Two days later, that's really the only scene that sticks with me. :lol
jaekwon15 said:Agreed.
Breaking Bad and Walking Dead (while I do enjoy them) have been what I call AMC'ed. That means long mellow dramatic conversations book ended by something actually happening.
_dementia said:I'm surprised the scumbag shane meme isn't more prevalent
Do you have a version of this without text?kevo_huevo said:let's brainstorm. i'll go first:
AngmarsKing701 said:I think Shane was expressing his Darwinism.
BroJDSN said:Shane has been the best character of the show and continues to be, he is so conflicted and tragic, I hope they keep the tension going for a while before turning him to the dark side.
IpsoFacto said:Indeed, Shane, that was horrible... now those zombies willget diabities from eating an obese man.
JDSN said:Shane has been the best character of the show and continues to be, he is so conflicted and tragic, I hope they keep the tension going for a while before turning him to the dark side.
Dai101 said:And that's awful. I don't even know what is that but sounds atrocious
are his pupils going to turn yellow now?Neuromancer said:Bro
He already turned
The Lamonster said:So you guys haven't read the comic and seen where the Shane plot arc goes?
dis gon be gud
IpsoFacto said:Sorry, I mispelled it.
2real4tv said:I don't see how people are enjoying season 2 its so boring. It feels like I am watching a soap opera/ER episode. The ending was good however.
Haha I do the same, except I play on my iPad until there's an action scene or something interesting.Marleyman said:I have it DVR'ed and fast forward through the parts with Rick, his son and wife. It is excruciating to watch.
AMC had its own ideas about how to make the show more cheaply. The show shoots for eight days per episode, and the network suggested that half should be indoors. Four days inside and four days out? Thats not Walking Dead, says this insider. This is not a show that takes place around the dinner table. That was just one of what this person describes as silly notes from AMC. Couldnt the audience hear the zombies sometimes and not see them, to save on makeup? The source says Darabont fought a constant battle to keep the show big in scope and style.
Despite the shows success, AMC stuck to its original position on the second-season budget. When those involved with the show protested that the network was taking chances with its biggest hit, AMCs head of original programming, Joel Stillerman, is said to have declared, Ratings have no bearing on this conversation.
I knew itparrotbeak said:Ya, it's more frustrating because it's AMC being cheap rather than investing in what should be a huge show.
http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2011/...ont-didnt-quit-the-walking-dead-amc-fired-him
lol, while mad men bleeds them dry and it's a much less succesful show in terms of ratingsparrotbeak said:Ya, it's more frustrating because it's AMC being cheap rather than investing in what should be a huge show.
http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2011/...ont-didnt-quit-the-walking-dead-amc-fired-him
Holy crap, as that scene was unfolding all I could think about was "man, Shane is a scumbag. I should put the scumbag hat on him and post it in the gaf topic." apparently I was too late.kevo_huevo said:let's brainstorm. i'll go first:
My understanding of the situation is that profits became a much bigger priority when AMC was spun off as a publicly traded company in July. There's a good writeup on the whole situation here. Looking at it from a business perspective, AMC cut costs on TWD this year and the ratings are way up in S2, so unfortunately, I don't know how much incentive they have to spend more money on the show now.Chinner said:so why does AMC get cheap with shows that get really popular? surely they could pump some of the extra revenue into the show increase the quality of it which will increase the ratings....
Even if that were true, Mad Men doesn't run AMC, AMC does. If they have to be cheap with them for the sake of other shows, then they oughta be._dementia said:lol, while mad men bleeds them dry and it's a much less succesful show in terms of ratings
Cornballer said:My understanding of the situation is that profits became a much bigger priority when AMC was spun off as a publicly traded company in July. There's a good writeup on the whole situation here. Looking at it from a business perspective, AMC cut costs on TWD this year and the ratings are way up in S2, so unfortunately, I don't know how much incentive they have to spend more money on the show now.
Puddles said:There's a fine line that they can easily cross here. People watch the show because zombies are popular, and up to this point it's been a (fairly) well-made zombie apocalypse show on a large scale and with pretty good production values.
If they get too cheap and start skimping on the large set-pieces and action sequences, the ratings might not hold up.
Isn't it true? I thought Weiner was asking something like $10 million per season and other AMC shows had to take budget cuts and increase product placement to balance it out.SpeedingUptoStop said:Even if that were true