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The Walking Dead (Official Thread)

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Bucklion said:
Also, in defense of our visiting friends, while that is a spoiler, I don't think it's a huge shock to suggest that Mulletman doesn't have the magic cure for 2 billion walkers :lol:
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Yeah I would be shocked if anyone really believes he has a cure...he has done nothing to reinforce such a belief. However, it will provide for an interesting twist to see how far they go towards DC or if they never leave Georgia. So far the entire show has clung to surviving outside of Atlanta and other than the brief moments at the CDC, there was no effort to search for a fix. Not only does this story arch gravitate towards that, the repopulation angle would also provide a similar perspective. I am just curious to see the other parts of the country and how the people have responded to the crisis. I have also wondered if the rest of the world is infected...you would think so and I doubt they even go there, but I am curious nonetheless.

I would have been much more bummed that the cannibals got eliminated this early if I was not looking forward to the other developments...I know it is twisted, but I wanted to see more of the hunters. To that angle, I wonder if they also ate part of Carroll and that is what the shocker is going to be when she comes out of the woods? Garreth said they had a couple others out there looking for them, so it is possible.
 
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There are several smallish islands just off the coast of Georgia. St. Simons, Little St. Simons, Jekyll. There are also car and RV dealerships all over America. Georgia included. Each one, even after the apocalypse, would have to have at least a few brand new vehicles. Some may even have fuel still.

Besides the show constantly breaking it's own rules since season two, it's really hard to imagine no one has wanted to get to a coastal island, barricade the bridge, and clear the island. They could actually have a pretty normal existence.
 
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The writer (Kirkman)has gone back and forth on totally following the comic, so there is no clear path on exactly what will happen. But he is on record as saying he basically wants to follow the comic book path.
 
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Taosman said:
The writer (Kirkman)has gone back and forth on totally following the comic, so there is no clear path on exactly what will happen. But he is on record as saying he basically wants to follow the comic book path.
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There are still a lot of arcs to follow from the comic, which is a good thing.

I just wonder how long the show can sustain itself. At some point, like all shows, it has to come to an end. Whether that's after most the main characters die off and people don't get behind the new ones, or if he has an end in sight like Sutter does with SOA.
 
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WolverineMike said:
There are still a lot of arcs to follow from the comic, which is a good thing.

I just wonder how long the show can sustain itself. At some point, like all shows, it has to come to an end. Whether that's after most the main characters die off and people don't get behind the new ones, or if he has an end in sight like Sutter does with SOA.
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To me... This is brilliance of HBO... you get 5 maybe 6 seasons (7 seasons are rare) of pure joy and awesomeness, then it ends. Its one reason I think everyone loves Breaking Bad, 5 seasons of just pure TV joy.

This is the problem with all other TV, it outlives its expiration by at least 3 or 4 seasons. It will happen to the Walking Dead because its a cash cow and they will milk it.

Sutter did it right with SOA, as long as you have an end in sight you can go for a number of seasons without filler.
 
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WolverineMike said:
There are still a lot of arcs to follow from the comic, which is a good thing.

I just wonder how long the show can sustain itself. At some point, like all shows, it has to come to an end. Whether that's after most the main characters die off and people don't get behind the new ones, or if he has an end in sight like Sutter does with SOA.
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It was interesting I read that the show was first intended to just have the 6 episodes and they were all going to die in that CDC explosion...only after they renewed did they decide to let some of them escape. So I imagine it won't be pretty when it does end.
 
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BUCKYLE said:
There are several smallish islands just off the coast of Georgia. St. Simons, Little St. Simons, Jekyll. There are also car and RV dealerships all over America. Georgia included. Each one, even after the apocalypse, would have to have at least a few brand new vehicles. Some may even have fuel still.

Besides the show constantly breaking it's own rules since season two, it's really hard to imagine no one has wanted to get to a coastal island, barricade the bridge, and clear the island. They could actually have a pretty normal existence.
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I think that's a little too Dawn/Day of the Deadish...Gimmick infringement.
 
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I'm just saying that while i suspended reality at the beginning, several years of shitty tv left my mind to roam. Walking in circles around a single state has nearly pushed me to the brink. Throughout human history, confronted with all manner of disasters, we've not only survived. We've thrived. I understand Rick and Coral aren't the sharpest, but someone should have a long term plan by now.
 
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BUCKYLE said:
I'm just saying that while i suspended reality at the beginning, several years of [Mark May]ty tv left my mind to roam. Walking in circles around a single state has nearly pushed me to the brink. Throughout human history, confronted with all manner of disasters, we've not only survived. We've thrived. I understand Rick and Coral aren't the sharpest, but someone should have a long term plan by now.
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Well, the Washington DC thing is a hint at that...maybe they'll go that direction when they get there. It is the next logical step, I will agree...I will say though that the show bogged down when they tried to set up shop in the prison. There's only so far the show can go if they stay in one place for too long.
 
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Right, but the prison was just silly. You had grown folks acting like they were on vacation insstead of reinforcing the fence that somehow kept crazed full bodied maniacs in but couldn't keep lumbering, limping slow moving dead shit out.
This season has been awesome so far, but for me, it might be too late.
 
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