The Walking Dead - Series Premiere 10/31 on AMC

Diggity Dawg · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:29 am

Drinky Wrote:

In the book, Rick's finding his wife and son led immediately into an intensified conflict between him and Shane which then set the story in a new direction.

In the Entertainment Weekly cover story on the show, they hint that this will come up in Season 2. I think the small episode number of this season kept them from diving into it.

I'm enjoying the show, even if it isn't the greatest.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:35 pm

Rick Derris Wrote:

Solid gore scene there with the pick axe where the woman who got beat up by her husband drives it into his head a FEW times. I actually said to FemDerris, "I can't believe they're showing this................and again".

When this happened, I thought about Dusk Till Dawn, because I read somewhere a while back that they decided to make the vampire blood green to keep the gore down and preserve an R rating.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

Diggity Dawg Wrote:

In the Entertainment Weekly cover story on the show, they hint that this will come up in Season 2. I think the small episode number of this season kept them from diving into it.

speaking of that cover story, i think this needs to get dropped into the thread:

Quote:

I like that we are diverging from the comic book here and there. For anyone that that terrifies, all I would say is, "We’re always going back onto the path." Frank [Darabont] has always maintained that the comic book is a path but we’re not stuck on it. If a story idea comes up, we’ll leave the path for an episode or two, but we’ll always come back to it. I’m sure there are going to be some people out there that are like, "The CDC? What the heck? This isn’t in my comic book. This is no good!" And all I would say to those people is, "Calm down."

actually, that should probably be applied to every discussion where one form of entertainment is based on another.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:22 pm

In the case of this show the problem isn't just that some things aren't in the comic. It's that they're lame. The old folk's home, the crazy racist guy, wife beatin' Ed, and the super-cliched and unrealistic "CDC" + lone surviving scientist. These things just don't seem to add much to the story laid out in the comic.

But as I said before, I don't really have that much of a problem with the idea of them going to the CDC and discovering the cause this early on. Kind of gets that out of the way. It just hasn't been very well executed or envisioned so far.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:28 pm

Drinky Wrote:

In the case of this show the problem isn't just that some things aren't in the comic. It's that they're lame. The old folk's home, the crazy racist guy, wife beatin' Ed, and the super-cliched and unrealistic "CDC" + lone surviving scientist. These things just don't seem to add much to the story laid out in the comic.

But as I said before, I don't really have that much of a problem with the idea of them going to the CDC and discovering the cause this early on. Kind of gets that out of the way. It just hasn't been very well executed or envisioned so far.

Exactly.

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

Didn't see this mentioned yet...

http://blastr.com/2010/12/frank-darabont-fires-enti.php

discostu · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:14 pm

Kit Wrote:

Didn't see this mentioned yet...

http://blastr.com/2010/12/frank-darabont-fires-enti.php

Well that handles that. NO MORE LAMENESS ASSHOLES, YOU'RE FIRED!!

shiv · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:16 pm

tommy mentioned that on the previous page.

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

ah well

Hegel · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:36 am

Kit Wrote:

Didn't see this mentioned yet...

http://blastr.com/2010/12/frank-darabont-fires-enti.php

Neuro'd

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:04 am

best parts of the finale were the grenade finally being used and daryl chopping that zombie's head clear across the lawn.

Hegel · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:10 am

So I heard that business about firing the writers was a bogus report?

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:14 am

shiv Wrote:

best parts of the finale were the grenade finally being used and daryl chopping that zombie's head clear across the lawn.

i completely forgot that this was even on tonight.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

shiv Wrote:

the grenade finally being used

the people i watched with had totally forgotten about that grenade. i was like, "finally." and they're all, "where did that come from?"

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:51 pm

Last night's episode was painful.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:20 pm

Elvis Fu Wrote:

Last night's episode was painful.

I haven't watched it yet. I started it but my wife hates it and objected. Even though I think the show is not very good, I still feel compelled to watch it in hopes that it develops into good television. I'll probably watch one day this week when my wife is not around.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 5:04 pm

Kingfish Wrote:

Elvis Fu Wrote:

Last night's episode was painful.

I haven't watched it yet. I started it but my wife hates it and objected. Even though I think the show is not very good, I still feel compelled to watch it in hopes that it develops into good television. I'll probably watch one day this week when my wife is not around.

I would have never watched it if The Broad didn't DVR it, since I'm not a comics nor zombie guy. I actually enjoyed the first episode. Each one just got progressively worse though, and now she has more or less lost interest.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:40 pm

Elvis Fu Wrote:

Kingfish Wrote:

Elvis Fu Wrote:

Last night's episode was painful.

I haven't watched it yet. I started it but my wife hates it and objected. Even though I think the show is not very good, I still feel compelled to watch it in hopes that it develops into good television. I'll probably watch one day this week when my wife is not around.

I would have never watched it if The Broad didn't DVR it, since I'm not a comics nor zombie guy. I actually enjoyed the first episode. Each one just got progressively worse though, and now she has more or less lost interest.

Exact same, but we stopped after Ep 3.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:58 pm

Gonna watch this tonight, I guess, but yeah.

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:36 pm

The cliched shower scene(s) were painful to watch. They really do need to step up the quality of this show. I'm going to keep watching (when/if season 2 happens) for the schadenfreude aspect.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:57 pm

discostu Wrote:

The cliched shower scene(s) were painful to watch. They really do need to step up the quality of this show. I'm going to keep watching (when/if season 2 happens) for the schadenfreude aspect.

You don't know what it's like out there
You think you know
But you don't

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Diggity Dawg Wrote:

In the Entertainment Weekly cover story on the show, they hint that this will come up in Season 2. I think the small episode number of this season kept them from diving into it.

there is no question in my mind that the scientist saw Shane's gropiness on the CCTV and whispered that to Rick before the explosion. I would assume this means it'll boil to a head in the first few eps of next season, but seeing how this has carried out so far, they might try to make a season of it.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

Cotton Wrote:

Diggity Dawg Wrote:

In the Entertainment Weekly cover story on the show, they hint that this will come up in Season 2. I think the small episode number of this season kept them from diving into it.

there is no question in my mind that the scientist saw Shane's gropiness on the CCTV and whispered that to Rick before the explosion. I would assume this means it'll boil to a head in the first few eps of next season, but seeing how this has carried out so far, they might try to make a season of it.

i don't think he needed to see the gropiness since he had more conclusive proof along the same lines.

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:14 pm

Z Wrote:

Cotton Wrote:

Diggity Dawg Wrote:

In the Entertainment Weekly cover story on the show, they hint that this will come up in Season 2. I think the small episode number of this season kept them from diving into it.

there is no question in my mind that the scientist saw Shane's gropiness on the CCTV and whispered that to Rick before the explosion. I would assume this means it'll boil to a head in the first few eps of next season, but seeing how this has carried out so far, they might try to make a season of it.

i don't think he needed to see the gropiness since he had more conclusive proof along the same lines.

Are you saying that wifey is preggers with a lil' Shane or Shanette? DO TELL!!!

shiv · **Posted:** Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:57 am

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