I gave up on this show early in this season. I think the last episode I watches was the one where they [sp]pull the bloated zombie out of the well[/sp]
I was wondering if thing have picked up. Should I pick up where I left off and start watching again?
Agree for yes. See if you can bear it. If you can't just watch the latest episode.
[QUOTE=Colliseemoe;33901836]I gave up on this show early in this season. I think the last episode I watches was the one where they [sp]pull the bloated zombie out of the well[/sp]
I was wondering if thing have picked up. Should I pick up where I left off and start watching again?[/QUOTE]
all the episodes of this season are shit, except for the last one
watch it
Do you think that the TV show will take the idea of [sp]Everyone is infected, bite just kills[/sp]?(Pretty Major comic spoiler)
[QUOTE=superstepa;33909236]Do you think that the TV show will take the idea of [sp]Everyone is infected, bite just kills[/sp]?(Pretty Major comic spoiler)[/QUOTE]
That may very well be what [sp]Dr. Jenner whispered into Rick's ear at the end of Season 1[/sp]
[QUOTE=Mr._N;33909667]That may very well be what [sp]Dr. Jenner whispered into Rick's ear at the end of Season 1[/sp][/QUOTE]
Forgot about that
That's probably it, because it would make a lot of sense
[QUOTE=superstepa;33909236]Do you think that the TV show will take the idea of [sp]Everyone is infected, bite just kills[/sp]?(Pretty Major comic spoiler)[/QUOTE]
[sp]That and the parts where they try to save people who are bitten by lopping off the limb.[/sp]
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;33920203][sp]That and the parts where they try to save people who are bitten by lopping off the limb.[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]Singaya[/sp]?
Got the first season(special edition with a lot of special features) for Christmas from my Dad. I already watched all of season one and half of season 2 and I still want to rewatch season one.
Also, how many seasons are there going to be?
The producer says he wants to keep going for as long as they can.
Which is sad because it will most likely end with being canceled midway through a plot point rather than actually ending it.
[QUOTE=darcy010;33963535]The producer says he wants to keep going for as long as they can.
Which is sad because it will most likely end with being canceled midway through a plot point rather than actually ending it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I was hoping that whatever Jenner said in Ricks ear was something to do with how they can beat the infection. I want it to differ from the comics in the way that there can be an ending. I don't want it to go forever like the comics are.
There's a marathon of the entire show thus far starting tomorrow at 11AM.
[QUOTE=Over-Run;33963781]Yeah I was hoping that whatever Jenner said in Ricks ear was something to do with how they can beat the infection. I want it to differ from the comics in the way that there can be an ending. I don't want it to go forever like the comics are.[/QUOTE]
I think that since that guy made a point of whispering it to Rick, it's personal to Rick. It makes no sense to me why you'd(if you were that guy) tell only Rick if it was something that affected everyone.
If he was saying they can beat the infection for example, why tell only Rick? What is Rick going to do about it that the others can't do or help with?
Yeah that's a good point. I hope it's not something shit like everybody is infected and that's how they end the season with that big "reveal". I would be nice to see them at least work towards stopping it or something, I don't want the show to go on forever
Any hope for the prison arc happening in the show is pretty much gone now. If it does, it'll probably take place in that fort they keep talking about, and Herschel sure as hell isn't going to be there. or we could just fuck around on the farm for another 20 episodes :downs:
[QUOTE=JustGman;33973513]Any hope for the prison arc happening in the show is pretty much gone now. If it does, it'll probably take place in that fort they keep talking about, and Herschel sure as hell isn't going to be there. or we could just fuck around on the farm for another 20 episodes :downs:[/QUOTE]
next half of the season will consist entirely of Herschel yelling at Rick and company
[QUOTE=Over-Run;33971629]Yeah that's a good point. I hope it's not something shit like everybody is infected and that's how they end the season with that big "reveal". I would be nice to see them at least work towards stopping it or something, I don't want the show to go on forever[/QUOTE]
Following the comic it is probably the fact that [sp]Everyone is infected and bite just kills (sorry)[/sp]
Would seem pretty logical too
So I got some walking dead books for christmas (volumes of the comics) and holy fuck the show doesn't even compare.
Just finished the arc with the [sp]Prison and basically most of the group being slaughtered by the Governer and Rick/Carl escaping, Lori being shot etc...[/sp]
I've never turned pages so fast when all the shit was happening!
Sadly, it might even happen in the Television series as I heard their aim is to somewhat follow along the lines of the comic but correct me if I'm wrong. They could always alter it but the parts that follow along in the comic make it more of a reality check and dramatic.
[QUOTE=The-Spy;34008835]Sadly, it might even happen in the Television series as I heard their aim is to somewhat follow along the lines of the comic but correct me if I'm wrong. They could always alter it but the parts that follow along in the comic make it more of a reality check and dramatic.[/QUOTE]
I heard they were more reluctant to kill people off because that would effectively fire the actor/actress playing the character.
And they said they regretted [sp]cutting off ricks hand[/sp]
[QUOTE=IMoo;34014855]And they said they regretted [sp]cutting off ricks hand[/sp][/QUOTE]
That actually was quite pointless
I forgot about it two issues after, and they don't actually focus on it
If I recall correctly, Kirkman didn't think it was pointless, just that (comic spoiler) [sp]He realized in hindsight that getting rid of Rick's hand limited things that he could do with Rick, earlier than he had ultimately planned to. If anything, I think Kirkman would probably have wanted it to happen later on in the series. [/sp]
How Darabont would have done the first episode of season 2:
[url]http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52526[/url]
That is really saddening, that plot sounded perfect. Instead we got a season of conversations.
[QUOTE=Carne;34098436]How Darabont would have done the first episode of season 2:
[url]http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52526[/url][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Dear Eric,
Sure, I’ll confirm that storyline. Why not? Big caveat here though:
CraveOnline is much mistaken in saying this was for a “web series.” This was never meant as a web gimmick, this was intended for use in the actual TV series. I wanted to kick off the 2nd season with the flashback episode Sam describes, which would have followed a squad of Army Rangers getting trapped in the city and trying to survive as Atlanta falls. 


The idea was to do this with a very focused “you are there” documentary feel. Not going all shaky-cam, but still making it a bit rawer and grainier than the rest of the show. We’d start with a squad of maybe seven or eight soldiers being dropped into the city by chopper. They have map coordinates they need to get to; they’ve been told to report to a certain place to provide reinforcement. It’s not a special mission, it’s basically a housekeeping measure putting more boots on the ground to reinforce key intersections and installations throughout the city. And we follow this group from the moment the copter sets them down. All they have to do is travel maybe a dozen blocks, a simple journey, but what starts as a no-brainer scenario goes from “the city is being secured” to “holy shit, we’ve lost control, the world is ending.” Our squad gets blocked at every turn and are soon just trying to survive. I wanted to do a really tense, character-driven ensemble story as communications break down, supply lines are lost, escape routes are cut off, morale falls apart, leadership unravels, mutinies heat up, etc. (Yes, this approach owes a spiritual debt to a number of great films, including Walter Hill’s Southern Comfort.)
Along the way, I thought we could briefly dovetail this story with a few established characters from the show. Not to overdo that, mind you, because it could get silly and too coincidental if you load too much into that idea. But I thought it would be great to veer off on a quick narrative detour that brushes our soldiers briefly up against some people we know. Picture our squad arriving at a manned barricade where some civilians are being held back from leaving the city on shoot-to-kill orders to stop the spread of contagion, it’s a panicked high-intensity scene, and in this crowd of desperate people we find Andrea and Amy. The barricade gunners panic, the civilians start to get mowed down by machine gun fire, and in this melee the girls get pulled to safety by some old guy they don’t even know. It’s Dale. He’s nobody to them, just some guy who saw the opportunity to do the right thing and reacted in the moment. This would have been perhaps a minute or two of the episode, just a cool detour like the various outposts the soldiers encounter in Saving Private Ryan, but we would have witnessed the moment that Dale meets Andrea and Amy, seen where that relationship began. I also felt it would be a great way to get Emma Bell back into the series for a moment, because she was so wonderful and we were all so sorry that her character died and she had to leave the show. (Of course if this “brush with established characters” idea didn’t work in the script stage, I’d have tossed it out. You try a lot of ideas like that as you go, see how they play. But I thought this one stood a pretty good chance of being engineered to work well.) 


So the story follows these soldiers through hell as the city falls apart and the squad implodes, with Sam’s soldier being the main character and the moral center of the group. He becomes the last survivor of the squad, and he finally gets to the map coordinates they’ve been trying to get to from the start: it’s the barricade at the Atlanta courthouse intersection from the pilot where Rick later finds the tank. The soldier is still alive when he gets there, but he’s been bitten. He’s accomplished his “simple” mission, but he’s gone through seven kinds of hell to do it (including being forced to frag his squad leader), and now he’s dying. And he crawls off into the tank just to get off the street and under cover. As his fever builds and the poor guy starts to hallucinate, he pulls his last grenade and considers ending his life. He sets the grenade down on that shelf for a moment to reflect on all the shit and misery that brought him to this sad end-point of his life, and to dredge up the courage to pull the pin...but before he can act, the fever burns him out and he dies. 


The kicker comes in the last moments of this episode:


After the soldier dies this squalid, lonely death...and after a quiet lapse of time...we do a shot-for-shot reprise from the first episode of the first season: Rick comes scrambling into the tank to escape the horde...blows that zombie soldier’s brains out...now Rick’s trapped...fade out...the end.


The notion was to take the “throwaway” tank zombie Rick encountered in the pilot, and tell that soldier’s story. Make him the star of his own movie, follow his journey, but don’t reveal who he is until the end. The idea being that every zombie has a story, every undead extra was once a human being with a life of his/her own...was, in a sense, the star of his own life’s movie. And we’ve followed this one particular guy and seen how his life ended; we witness his struggles, see his good intentions and his failures, and we experience his godawful death in this tank. That’s why I cast Sam as that tank zombie in the first place instead of just casting some extra. I had this story in mind while filming the pilot, and I knew I’d need a superb actor to play that soldier when the time came.



And then starting with Episode 202, we’d be back with Rick’s group and back in step with the flow of the established story from last season.
I always had in mind to throw in a “wild-card” episode every season, maybe as a season opener or closer. Just a separate story more in the feel of an anthology series, one that appears completely off the track of the regular series but actually does wind up tying in somehow by the fade-out. They did that sort of thing on LOST on occasion, and I really respected it. It always seemed like a bold choice that trusted the audience and rewarded their loyalty with a totally unexpected surprise episode every so often.
That’s it from me. I hope things are well on your end.
Best,
Frank[/QUOTE]
holy fucking shit WHY didn't they do this! it would on been as good (if not better) then the first ep of S1
[QUOTE=krakadict;34119999]holy fucking shit WHY didn't they do this! it would on been as good (if not better) then the first ep of S1[/QUOTE]
To be honest that would of been a good closer to season 1 after the CDC blew up
the video from that page
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyjdBac6p4&feature=player_embedded[/media]
I totally agree with Starkiller.
I don't understand how the makers of this show can make the amazing comics as consistently uninteresting as they have done with the series
Here's what I don't understand:
Okay, they cut the budget. But how frickin' expensive is it to have your characters menaced by a handful of zombies really? People do decent looking zombie makeup at home for Halloween.
On a show like Terra Nova, where the special effects need to be realistic looking dinosaurs, I can see how that would be so expensive to do that they have to severely limit the amount of dinosaurs. But zombies? Come on, that's gotta be the cheapest makeup and costume costs you could have.
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