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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 also snapped some screen shots last night because I just couldn't understand how...if they were going west...that they would walk NORTH to get to Alexandria...because they were saying that they lived Southeast. [Rick was on the north side of the road since the Walkers were going East to West, and facing the street his left to right, so he was facing south, to his back was North, and also the sound.]
Sure enough...when you look on the map, and actually try to follow their plan that they point out with the one map scene...what they describe and the directions they use are actually the complete opposite of what is actually being acted out... Down to the point that the Redding/Marshall intersection is not even really a 90* turn.
I also snapped some screen shots last night because I just couldn't understand how...if they were going west...that they would walk NORTH to get to Alexandria...because they were saying that they lived Southeast. [Rick was on the north side of the road since the Walkers were going East to West, and facing the street his left to right, so he was facing south, to his back was North, and also the sound.]
Sure enough...when you look on the map, and actually try to follow their plan that they point out with the one map scene...what they describe and the directions they use are actually the complete opposite of what is actually being acted out... Down to the point that the Redding/Marshall intersection is not even really a 90* turn.
i liked the episode for what it accomplished: covering the time between the season finale and what's happening now, stopping at the important bits to describe the state of the community before getting to the primary conflict of the season. i'm kind of a fan of talkies, so i would have been fine with them actually showing those in standard form over a couple episodes without resorting to flashbacks, but it makes sense to get it all covered in a single longer-than-normal opener.
speaking of flashbacks: the black and white gimmick was hokey; it's so overdone and easy. it also makes directors/cinematographers turn into college sophomores halfway through their first photography class, trying to make up the lack of color by framing everything is a very obvious, usually "artsy" way. the most striking example i can think of was a scene where they were building the wall, and one of the characters was shot through the gap of some equipment, maybe a ladder. you'd never do that normally, but when you're in B&W, it's easy to do stuff like that to make up for the relative flatness of the image.
so Morgan is Rick's conscience for this season? cool. we haven't had a proper angel on his shoulder since Hershel was killed; Tyreese did all he could, but when Rick runs over a defenseless cop before shooting him in the head, you've kind of dropped the ball.
whatever the opposite of fan service is, that's what we've been getting with Daryl for a while. ever since the wolves got the drop on him with the food trap, he's mostly been relegated to the background, and while he was given a poignant line in this one, his primary contribution was driving very slowly on a motorcycle.
i have to say, i side with Carter on the reaction to the discovery of the quarry. Rick seems to think this is like all the other times when they've tried to contain walkers, but it differs in on very specific way: they're below grade. the Governor kept his pits running for months with this concept, and i have to think they could have found a way to block the two entrances/exits of the quarry in a way that would make them at last temporarily impassible to beings who have shown they are incapable of scaling an 8-foot barrier. crap, an afternoon's digging up from the trucks probably could have done it, and the upside is it preserves the thing that has given Alexandria it's safety until this point. if you could figure out a way to systematically break their legs from the rim without wasting ammo, you've got yourself an epic and effective walker trap with almost no risk. but an afternoon of digging isn't as interesting as parading thousands of walkers via choreographed containment, so here we are.
oh, poor Carter. as Rick pointed out, Carter was simply incapable of of conceiving what would be necessary to truly rid Alexandria of Rick, much less doing it. snug behind those walls, a bloody coup was simply out of his area of expertise, whereas it's basically a quarterly affair with Rick's group. in the words of a far better show, "if you come at the king, you best not miss," and Carter didn't even have what was needed to go after Rick, much less have a chance to miss.
Deanna is basically the queen to Rick's prime minister, but i'm wondiering what will happen when the shock and fear of the last couple weeks wear off and she adamantly opposes a decision he makes. could make for an interesting arc.
i liked the episode for what it accomplished: covering the time between the season finale and what's happening now, stopping at the important bits to describe the state of the community before getting to the primary conflict of the season. i'm kind of a fan of talkies, so i would have been fine with them actually showing those in standard form over a couple episodes without resorting to flashbacks, but it makes sense to get it all covered in a single longer-than-normal opener.
speaking of flashbacks: the black and white gimmick was hokey; it's so overdone and easy. it also makes directors/cinematographers turn into college sophomores halfway through their first photography class, trying to make up the lack of color by framing everything is a very obvious, usually "artsy" way. the most striking example i can think of was a scene where they were building the wall, and one of the characters was shot through the gap of some equipment, maybe a ladder. you'd never do that normally, but when you're in B&W, it's easy to do stuff like that to make up for the relative flatness of the image.
so Morgan is Rick's conscience for this season? cool. we haven't had a proper angel on his shoulder since Hershel was killed; Tyreese did all he could, but when Rick runs over a defenseless cop before shooting him in the head, you've kind of dropped the ball.
whatever the opposite of fan service is, that's what we've been getting with Daryl for a while. ever since the wolves got the drop on him with the food trap, he's mostly been relegated to the background, and while he was given a poignant line in this one, his primary contribution was driving very slowly on a motorcycle.
i have to say, i side with Carter on the reaction to the discovery of the quarry. Rick seems to think this is like all the other times when they've tried to contain walkers, but it differs in on very specific way: they're below grade. the Governor kept his pits running for months with this concept, and i have to think they could have found a way to block the two entrances/exits of the quarry in a way that would make them at last temporarily impassible to beings who have shown they are incapable of scaling an 8-foot barrier. crap, an afternoon's digging up from the trucks probably could have done it, and the upside is it preserves the thing that has given Alexandria it's safety until this point. if you could figure out a way to systematically break their legs from the rim without wasting ammo, you've got yourself an epic and effective walker trap with almost no risk. but an afternoon of digging isn't as interesting as parading thousands of walkers via choreographed containment, so here we are.
oh, poor Carter. as Rick pointed out, Carter was simply incapable of of conceiving what would be necessary to truly rid Alexandria of Rick, much less doing it. snug behind those walls, a bloody coup was simply out of his area of expertise, whereas it's basically a quarterly affair with Rick's group. in the words of a far better show, "if you come at the king, you best not miss," and Carter didn't even have what was needed to go after Rick, much less have a chance to miss.
Deanna is basically the queen to Rick's prime minister, but i'm wondiering what will happen when the shock and fear of the last couple weeks wear off and she adamantly opposes a decision he makes. could make for an interesting arc.
Agree about the black and white. It was annoying more than anything else.
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That's been driving me crazy throughout the entire series, they try to avoid or just ignore the problem rather than trying to eliminate the problem. The only time I can remember someone on the show directly addressing the problem was the first episode when Merle was shooting from the rooftop. One reason Merle was always my favorite character.
Walking Dead. How could Carl fall for that "come closer while I beg for my life" scene. Come on. Scenes like that and all the sneaky, teleporting ninja zombies throughout the series wouldn't receive eye rolls if the scenes were shot a little more realistically.
I'm going to start calling Carol "The Punisher." I bet next week she's wearing a shirt with a big white skull on it.
Though it's too bad she paused to kill the guy with her knife instead of just shooting him when she had her gun out. She could have saved that woman. I know she was trying to be stealthy, but....
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