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AMC's The Walking Dead [Spoilers!]
November 1, 2010 at
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For a show on a non premium cable channel, I thought it was very good. I never read the comic, so I don't know how it compares, but I'll be watching every Sunday. pisses me off that I don't get AMC in HD though.
For a show on a non premium cable channel, I thought it was very good. I never read the comic, so I don't know how it compares, but I'll be watching every Sunday. pisses me off that I don't get AMC in HD though.
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Gotta remember, weeks passed between Beth dying and Tyreese dying. I believe it took them 17 days to get the 500 miles to Noah's. I am glad they tried to explain why Maggie would be such a basket case weeks after her sister died (when she didn't appear to give a sh*t earlier...). But the "She is alive" excitement to the "she is actually 100% dead" is what is really getting to her.
I guess I did forget the time passing, but still, within two weeks is no huge amount of time either. I'd be a basketcase if I lost my brother. We can also see that Daryl is starting to feel the pain of loss making its way to his hardened surface, replacing it with physical pain.
I do not think it would ever be to "letting my guard down" and the Zombies getting me. During the squirrel issue I've had I have taken note of how heightened my senses get. Any time I am outside or in my garage I hear EVERYTHING, and every breeze becomes a "squirrel".
My wife made the connection that the small little barn reminded him of the shack with Beth. And at that shack he told her about how his dad used to burn him with cigarettes. So it was a double connection of Beth and pain and getting over things. I do not remember that part of the conversation but she instantly recalled the importance of the cigarette burn.
This week, I thought I wasn't paying attention enough since I too thought holding the doors closed was a dream sequence. But apparently it wasn't.
I thought, "Wow, this is some cool writing having Maggie dream about everyone holding back the zombies at the doors, and have it be a dream, and then they all wake up in the morning, after sleeping peacefully through the night, and see the zombies were stopped by an act of God, (thunderstorm), thus giving a spiritual moment to the show and giving a shot in the arm of not only Gabriel's faith but also the faith of Maggie (and everyone in the group, really) since they've been thinking God has forsaken them even more than usual lately.
I thought that was some really cool writing. But I guess none of that happened. And what we actually had was this entire group of experienced survivors actually being woken up in the middle of the night and having to fight for their lives for dumb reasons such as not bothering to bar the door very well before going to sleep.
I mean, they did have an act of God save them, but it could have been done more interestingly.
It doesn't matter where Mom sat; she died back at the farm. Dad died too, bumping up Beth and Glenn to 1 and 2. While they're married, yes, she's only known Glenn for some indeterminate number of months.. Beth was THE only tie she had left to her former life, to the past when everything was still "normal." To lose that is inconsolable for most people.. that's why she is struggling right now with whether this new life is even worth living, because there's nothing left of her past now.
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Watched the first 4 seasons on Netflix in the past 2 weeks.
Have yet to watch season 5. Is there anywhere I can start watching starting at S5E1? AMC doesn't have older episodes.
if you think they're talented/competent, the theory is the viewers want direct, dangerous suspense (as evidenced by many posts in this thread), and walker attacks are their bread and butter. as a result, circumstances have to unfold in a way that leads to those interactions. not a lot of drama in them lining the area with walker remains, boarding up the doors with leaned saplings, chaining everything together, and picking off curious walkers one by one with the machete or long sharpened sticks. the danger of the attack also gave a way to segue to the walker-mutilating mini-tornado that buoyed everyone's spirits after a few hard weeks.
if you don't give the writers the benefit of the doubt, you just think they're making the characters unrealistically dumb/careless on purpose because they can't think of any clever ways to bring about that suspense and are going back to the same well time and time again.
however, i do know if i lasted a couple years and watched people for whom i cared die because of random zombie packs descending upon them in the night, [imdb.com] you can bet i'd secure the entrances of any dwelling i was in before going to sleep.
combined with the death of two of the characters from the Glen Mazzara era who were actually interesting (Tyreese, Bob), the relatively lackluster ones we've gotten to replace them (Abraham, Espinosa, Gabriel [for whom i still have some hope]), and the increasingly ridiculous external events (the magical tornado), it almost makes me wonder if we might look back at that as a jumping the shark moment. i hope not.
Without any spoilers, it's a direct quote from the comics.
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