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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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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.
Yea right, like Rick will die.
Also, I found it awesome that Glenn signed off the walkie to Rick as "good luck, dumbass," echoing the words he said in S1E2, "Guts".
Also, Michonne said to Heath, "Have you ever been covered in so much blood you don't know if it's yours, or your friends'?" Sounds an awful lot like Glenn and Nicholas.. so many callbacks and symbolism.
Still stupid.
Still stupid.
Morgan is one of my favorite characters and we still do not know about Glen or Rick
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If you read up, this episode was always going to be a bottle ep for Morgan. I enjoyed it, but it didn't have to be 90 minutes.
Note: Steven Yeun's name does not appear in the opening credits for this episode alongside the iconic pocketwatch.
I liked this episode. I thought it was paced well, had a good story, was interesting...only had one moment of "why would they do that?" [I felt they would have protected the goat a little better]. I actually thought everything about it was really good.
I liked this episode. I thought it was paced well, had a good story, was interesting...only had one moment of "why would they do that?" [I felt they would have protected the goat a little better]. I actually thought everything about it was really good.
Let's be honest, this is one of the more easily explainable things of all of the things that happen on this show.
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granted, the story needed to be told, as it's pretty obvious Morgan is going to be a much more prominent character in the series. but they could have easily fit the necessary bits into a standard one hour/42min episode. as soon as Eastman started talking to Morgan after the latter woke up in the cage, anyone with half a brain could have guessed the beats for the rest of the episode, but we had to sit through almost an hour of TV time to see it play out.
the conversation with the wolf at the end of the episode was far more interesting. we basically got an hour and twenty minute ad for unequivocal pacifism and the value of human life, but the showrunners were honest enough to present the paradox that is the inherent flaw in that ideology: what if the only way to preserve one life it to take another? and we're not talking some nebulous "they might come back at some point" thing; we know Morgan is fine tossing those dice. this was a direct threat/statement.
the part i hope they explore in the future is how well Morgan sticks to Eastman's code, and if he does, how much friction that causes with Rick, Carol, and the rest. Glenn (who is still alive, com on) seems to be right up there in terms of morality after the whole Nicholas saga, and i fully believe that after hearing those words from the wolf, his only reason for not immediately finishing him would have been not wanting to clean the house up afterward (it's a spec, guys!). let's not forget: even though we're two episodes removed from JSS, in TWD time, Morgan is talking to this guy immediately after a bunch of people were slaughtered in Alexandria. pretty sure Carol and Deanna aren't going to see the wolf's life as sacred with their people's blood still drying on the sidewalks.
i look forward to the eventual monologue-heavy confrontation between Rick and Morgan that highlights how far the former has strayed from his worldview since he refused to kill the latter in booby trap town.