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The Walking Dead (Official Thread)

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Was really disappointed in this week's episode...nothing happened. Yes, Michonne left, but at this point, she hasn't mattered much one way or another. All we got was Darryl going all paternal softie, the Governor showing a clip from Gladiator with real people/zombies and Rick answering a phone that wasn't really ringing.

Meh.
 
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Fungo Squiggly;2250578; said:
I don't believe that Carl shot Lori. For a series that loves to show brains being splattered on the wall and Zcaesarian sections, to NOT show her getting her head blown off has to mean something.

I expect Zlori to reappear here in a couple weeks, just long enough to eat her own baby and make Rick shoot her in the eyeball. It'll be fantastic.

T-Bone-Dawg-Bird.....meh. Whatever. Just means that it's time for a new temporary moral compass -- unless they have sad Rick resume that role and Herschel play badass for awhile.

I almost feel bad for how much I enjoyed seeing Rick laying on the ground sobbing. It's bordering on sadistic.
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If this past episode didn't confirm it for you, executive Robert Kirkman addressed this after that episode...

What came with the decision not to show Carl actually shoot Lori? Part of me hoped that could mean she's still alive.
Kirkman: You don't want to show too much of that stuff. I think we showed quite a bit in this episode. A lesser show would have a zombie Lori lurking in the prison and doing all kinds of nefarious things. That would be an absolutely hokey, ridiculous thing to do. That's certainly not something we're trying to set up. We were just trying to step back and do this in a little bit more tasteful way.
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Bucklion;2255133; said:
Was really disappointed in this week's episode...nothing happened. Yes, Michonne left, but at this point, she hasn't mattered much one way or another. All we got was Darryl going all paternal softie, the Governor showing a clip from Gladiator with real people/zombies and Rick answering a phone that wasn't really ringing.

Meh.
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I think the phone was the big thing in this episode. Yet all the rest wasn't much. It's tough to follow up the previous episode, and the audience did need a little break after that. Otherwise there would just be way too much stuff going on. The show does need some pacing, although this episode was a little too slow and for the most part pointless.

BTW...I hated this show's first season (all you need to do is look earlier in this thread), but I decided to give it another shot. It's enjoyable as long as I don't worry about some of the decisions they make, and just take the show for what it is.
 
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WolverineMike;2255146; said:
not to mention the Walker Rick killed ate her entire body, so I don't think we'll see her again......:lol:
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Yeah, that is why I said if the episode didn't confirm it. Yet that whole scene is weird, and just another thing where I was like "WTF?" First of all, how did he know where the body was? Second, zombies eat entire bodies, bones and all? Yet like I stated, I am trying to stop doing that and just go with it.
 
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scott91575;2255151; said:
Yeah, that is why I said if the episode didn't confirm it. Yet that whole scene is weird, and just another thing where I was like "WTF?" First of all, how did he know where the body was? Second, zombies eat entire bodies, bones and all? Yet like I stated, I am trying to stop doing that and just go with it.
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that zombie definitely got the "clean plate" award......
 
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Finally got caught up on the last two episodes last night on the DVR.

The scene where Rick finds out Lori is gone, and then he realizes that Karl was there when it happened actually hit me more than I would have expected.

I like where this series is heading, although I am getting The Stand type of vibes with the story line now (book, not horrible miniseries from the early 90s).
 
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Kirkman: You don't want to show too much of that stuff. I think we showed quite a bit in this episode. A lesser show would have a zombie Lori lurking in the prison and doing all kinds of nefarious things. That would be an absolutely hokey, ridiculous thing to do. That's certainly not something we're trying to set up. We were just trying to step back and do this in a little bit more tasteful way.
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The more I think about this quote, the more insulting I find it.

"Yeah, the kid is going to shoot his mother in the head before she becomes a flesh-eating zombie......but, after showing the zombie c-section last episode and the human c-section this episode, not to mention the brains-on-the-walls gunshots & head-splitting ax blows & arrows through the eye socket, oh and also T-Bone getting chewed apart about 10 minutes ago, we thought that this might be too much. We wanted to keep it tasteful, you know.

Oh, and not too hokey, either. I mean, sure, we've had the 'Shane killed fatty?!?!' moment, the 'Sophia's a zombie?!?!' moment, and the 'Merle isn't dead?!?!?" moment, but we other than that.......no, it would be completely out of character for us to try to mislead or surprise our viewers."

I'm more inclined to believe either they were over budget or the actress had a clause in her contract that said she wouldn't be shown getting murdered by her TV son. :lol:
 
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Fungo Squiggly;2255729; said:
The more I think about this quote, the more insulting I find it.

"Yeah, the kid is going to shoot his mother in the head before she becomes a flesh-eating zombie......but, after showing the zombie c-section last episode and the human c-section this episode, not to mention the brains-on-the-walls gunshots & head-splitting ax blows & arrows through the eye socket, oh and also T-Bone getting chewed apart about 10 minutes ago, we thought that this might be too much. We wanted to keep it tasteful, you know.

Oh, and not too hokey, either. I mean, sure, we've had the 'Shane killed fatty?!?!' moment, the 'Sophia's a zombie?!?!' moment, and the 'Merle isn't dead?!?!?" moment, but we other than that.......no, it would be completely out of character for us to try to mislead or surprise our viewers."

I'm more inclined to believe either they were over budget or the actress had a clause in her contract that said she wouldn't be shown getting murdered by her TV son. :lol:
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I think the big deal is showing a kid killing his mother. That is something that is still not looked well upon on tv (child killing in general). Sure, it's AMC and they don't have to live by the FCC rules. Yet it's still one of those things people don't want shown on tv. I think he was just covering for that fact.
 
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scott91575;2255740; said:
I think the big deal is showing a kid killing his mother. That is something that is still not looked well upon on tv (child killing in general). Sure, it's AMC and they don't have to live by the FCC rules. Yet it's still one of those things people don't want shown on tv. I think he was just covering for that fact.
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Maybe I'm just really desensitized to it all, but it just seems like a really, really arbitrary line to draw considering everything else they show.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed that Lori won't be coming back to eat her own children. :(
 
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scott91575;2255740; said:
I think the big deal is showing a kid killing his mother. That is something that is still not looked well upon on tv (child killing in general). Sure, it's AMC and they don't have to live by the FCC rules. Yet it's still one of those things people don't want shown on tv. I think he was just covering for that fact.
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Stewie has been trying to kill Lois forever! :lol:
 
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