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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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my guess is it clicked for him that you should sacrifice everything for the group if it's necessary, and he killed himself so Glenn could live, thanking Glenn with his last words for bringing him to that realization. admittedly, it's not great odds, but this show's realism/continuity quotient is in the basement, so i fully believe we are going to find out that the walkers were munching on Nicholas's body on top of Glenn. the latter was screaming because, hey, you just saw a guy shoot himself in the head and are still surrounded by walkers. i expect we'll see Glenn covered in Nicholas goo escaping in the dead of night or when the horde gets drawn away by something else.
if this turns out to be true, it would have several logical flaws, but it would be very useful as a mid-season cliffhanger to pique what could be waning interest (granted, even the lower ratings for TWD earlier this season would be the best weeks ever for most shows, but relativity and all). and the writers of TWD have never let logistics get in the way of a decent-to-good narrative or a semi-meaningful ending to an arc.
thank you, Michonne, for delivering an abbreviated version of the speech Rick should have given to the assembled residents of Alexandria two days after entering the walls. the longer they suffered under the delusion they were truly prepared for this world, the more they would truly suffer, and that has been proven time after time this season. on the other hand: just take the man's note to his wife. yeah, that might chip away at his eroding hope of getting home, but it obviously means something to him to be able to give her that message somehow. and whatever happened to putting people out of their misery while they're being chomped? Heath unloaded what sounded like two mags worth of bullets into the approaching group, but couldn't spare one to stop David's screams?
it would be so beautiful and so consistent with the show's theme for one of Rick's bullets to have gone through one of the wolves and disabled the RV, thus indirectly making Morgan responsible for his death and his inability to pull the walkers away with the RV. but this is Rick's show, so he'll find a way out.
i thought this one was entertaining, but a bit repetitive, both within the episode and and series itself. we've been exploring the idea of questioned group loyalty and self-sacrifice since season one, and without Alexandria's walls and abundant naivete, there's little to separate them from the other groups Ricks' clan tried to win over previously. the initial distrust in Alexandria was unique because the setting allowed it to go beyond the standard "are you going to kill us all?" by hearkening back of the good old days when your biggest concern was your wife leaving you for another guy. now the defenses have been breached and another horde of walkers are trudging in a la season two, and i feel like i've seen this movie before.
in a way, i almost want Glenn to die, even though he's my favorite character. it would show us an actual commitment to chaos and change that we haven't seen in a while; what was the last major "original" cast member to die? off the top of my head, i think it's Andrea back in season four. i wouldn't call Beth a major character, and everyone else i can think of was an addition. true suspense comes from true risk, and i just don't believe the runners of TWD are willing to let popular characters go.
Neat little hole right by those conveniently left trash bags.
Neat little hole right by those conveniently left trash bags.
Neat little hole right by those conveniently left trash bags.
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We talk in terms of "are you afraid to get killed off?" And for me, if it serves the story, I'm game for anything. I hope people can watch the show in that same regard. Stop watching it to see if your favorite character is still alive. That's kind of been on my mind lately because you notice a lot of fans saying "we want you to live, or we want this person to die" and it's like, that's not what the show's about.
I did have a wtf moment when the dead fully encircled the dumpster since it was flush with the fence when they piled up on top.
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