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The Walking Dead (Official Thread)

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WolverineMike said:
I thought this episode was better than last weeks, anyway. I agree with the LotR comparison. All their doing is walking. Only 3 episodes left in the season. Which main character is going to die be the end? My vote is either Carole, Tyreese, or Bob.
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Bob isn't a main character but yeah... he's toast
 
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I didn't hate this episode.....but that's probably because I had it on as background noise while I played around on the computer. I'm sure I missed a lot, but most of it was probably something stupid I would have complained about anyways.
 
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ulukinatme said:
To some degree it's always been like that, yeah? I'm not sure how you can change that really. Definitely too much talking though, at least compared to some previous seasons. I doubt that will ever change, I think they pander too much to the females that watch for Daryl now, so they have to have all the drama and talking.
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Well for one, when did the zombie apocalypse become isolated zombies popping up here and there? I mean, surely that doesn't have anything to do with the budget cuts and the new producer/puppet doing whatever the network wants him to do. I can't stand the fact that in season 1 they'd hit SWARMS of zombies doing all of their LotR walking, and to a lesser extent in season 2. I don't feel that's the case anymore. Like the cometary home Daryl and Beth found. Completely isolated, pretty heavy front door, all windows in tact (it looked like), yet out of no where a group of 5 or 6 zombies get shit out of nowhere and attack them... Come on.. You couldn't have taken away from the 35 minutes of pointless rambling dialogue to show us where the hell those zombies traveled from?
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
I didn't hate this episode.....but that's probably because I had it on as background noise while I played around on the computer. I'm sure I missed a lot, but most of it was probably something stupid I would have complained about anyways.
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You honestly missed nothing of importance in this episode, or last. Except Beth has gotten drunk. That's the highlight of two weeks worth of a zombie show.
 
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ulukinatme said:
To some degree it's always been like that, yeah? I'm not sure how you can change that really. Definitely too much talking though, at least compared to some previous seasons. I doubt that will ever change, I think they pander too much to the females that watch for Daryl now, so they have to have all the drama and talking.
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I agree with this, and honestly this reminds me exactly of the ER arc and why the show got completely unwatchable halfway through their 15 season run. The compelling medical stories intertwined with spots of background main character development and interesting cameo characters (granted, a medical drama allows that with patients) morphed into who was fucking who and who knew about it by season 7. Once Mark Greene died, the entire show died with him and it became 90210 in a hospital full time, complete with horndog twenty-somethings and no meaningful story arcs anymore. This show is quickly headed that direction. They've done what they can with the walkers and they've killed off their only 2 interesting antagonists (Shane and the Governor). Unless Carl goes rogue son or Daryl says fuck the world and leads the biker gang Mad Max style (or they turn the human cannibals into a full on hunting death squad), then the entire core audience of the first 2 seasons will be gone by next year.
 
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So is it as evident to anyone else that, with 3 episodes left, it will take until the last 15 minutes of the final episode to really find out what the "Terminus" is? I imagine that's there BIG lead-in to next season, but if a Terminus falls in a zombie apocalypse, and no on watches...does anyone care?
 
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Bucklion said:
So is it as evident to anyone else that, with 3 episodes left, it will take until the last 15 minutes of the final episode to really find out what the "Terminus" is? I imagine that's there BIG lead-in to next season, but if a Terminus falls in a zombie apocalypse, and no on watches...does anyone care?
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Oh no doubt. I think they've taken the 2 or 3 days since the fight at the prison and gotten an entire season (half season...whatever the fuck we call this between breaks bullshit) out of just those couple days. Unreal.
 
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ulukinatme said:
One interesting note...the teaser on Talking Dead left me wondering a bit...all they showed was a tea kettle going off, then a wide shot of what appeared to be Carl or some kid running or taunting a zombie. All the while, the song "Maybe" by the Ink Spots is playing. It's certainly a little creepy, but it makes me wonder if they stole the idea straight out of Fallout. I think it's more than coincidence. Either they stole the idea, or they're paying homage.

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This was the teaser I was referring to:
 
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They're going to fuck this up. We know they are. The question is how badly. All the characters are now on the tracks heading for The Terminus...except Daryl, and he is technically on the tracks with his new "friends". So what is the Terminus?

Spoiler/Comic stuff below (not a real spoiler, I don't know anything, but speculation)

I would love it to be a trap set by The Hunters. It could be the Saviors. It could be abandoned. But according to Robert Kirkman, they are going to end the season with something "more hopeful". Which usually fucks stuff up. This paragraph from a 2nd half spoiler I found intriguing though:

"There’s also this to remember: A while back, actress Anissa Matlock was listed on IMDb for Episode 16 (the season finale) in a part labeled “Featured Terminan.” Maybe she’s at the Terminus sanctuary? She’s now just credited as part of “A” with no name or role description. At the time, there was talk that she might be playing one of The Hunters, a cannibal group featured in the comics. But if the series is meant to end on a more hopeful note, with some kind of real sanctuary, does it make sense to have The Hunters on the finale? "

And this from Andrew Lincoln:

"Not sure what that means, but Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes) also teased some big stuff coming up. As he told Yahoo TV, “There are two episodes that I absolutely adore in the back eight, one of which I think is going to be the most controversial episode that we've probably ever been involved in, and that's saying something. [Laughs.]"

I'd be psyched if it was The Hunters. But that would be too interesting and would go away from the hook-up soap opera scene they've been building. And it wouldn't gel with the doofus scientist trying to get to DC. So I don't know. But you know it won't be cool. That's for certain.
 
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Bucklion said:
So is it as evident to anyone else that, with 3 episodes left, it will take until the last 15 minutes of the final episode to really find out what the "Terminus" is? I imagine that's there BIG lead-in to next season, but if a Terminus falls in a zombie apocalypse, and no on watches...does anyone care?
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Yeah until then, were going to continue walking thru Isengard to get to Helm's Deep, where Gandalf, Frodo, and the gang will be waiting.
 
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