TV & Film The Walking Dead

yakherder said:
I saw it coming, but for different reasons. When they get a new token black guy, the old one always gets zombied.
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Yeah that has always been in the back of my mind. It's really annoying and regressive that the people who make TV shows think like this, like they have a minimum quota of minority characters to fill and as long as they stay at that level they're good.
 
I have really enjoyed the last 2 episodes. It is high time reality set in - the despair and hopelessness are long overdue. It was also a great episode for those of us who love animals - not because we saw animals killed (the dogs) but because the audience as a whole was faced with the uncomfortable position of having to eat 'pets.'

Sasha: "Don't think - just eat."

That pretty much sums up most of humanity.
 
I liked this episode! I read that some critics thought it was "plodding" but I enjoyed seeing the whole group together and in a more realistic survivor way, as in looking for water and being traumatised.

I'm looking forward to next week's episode and finding who that suspicious person was at the end.:woo:
 
So going off my post regarding their black male survivor quota, towards the end I figured they were now trying to fill their gay quota by randomly labeling Aaron as gay but not following up on it any further, kind of like they did with Tara. But... they continued to develop that part of the story within the last few minutes, and I've concluded that he actually seems like one of the more interesting characters they've introduced recently. I'm hoping they develop him further, maybe even add him semi-permanently to the party after Alexandria goes the zombie buffet route (not a spoiler, we all know it's bound to happen).

I actually enjoyed these last two episodes, being kind of a survival nutcase myself. Daryl kind of let me down with his inability to find a water in a place where there clearly was water, but overall I kind of like this stuff, at least temporarily.
 
yakherder said:
So going off my post regarding their black male survivor quota, towards the end I figured they were now trying to fill their gay quota by randomly labeling Aaron as gay but not following up on it any further, kind of like they did with Tara. But... they continued to develop that part of the story within the last few minutes, and I've concluded that he actually seems like one of the more interesting characters they've introduced recently. I'm hoping they develop him further, maybe even add him semi-permanently to the party after Alexandria goes the zombie buffet route (not a spoiler, we all know it's bound to happen).

I actually enjoyed these last two episodes, being kind of a survival nutcase myself. Daryl kind of let me down with his inability to find a water in a place where there clearly was water, but overall I kind of like this stuff, at least temporarily.
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Well, Aaron and Eric are from the comic, and they were gay in the comic, so if they're trying to fill a quota they're going about it the way the comic did. Anyways even quota-filling is better than no representation, I will take what I can get.

And I trusted Aaron from the beginning, I thought he was too awkward to be trying to sell something false and definitely not too good to be true.

THINGS ARE GOING TO GET REALLY REALLY BAD AND I AM NOT PREPARED. A zombie buffet would be mercy.
 
FortyTwo said:
Well, Aaron and Eric are from the comic, and they were gay in the comic, so if they're trying to fill a quota they're going about it the way the comic did. Anyways even quota-filling is better than no representation, I will take what I can get.

And I trusted Aaron from the beginning, I thought he was too awkward to be trying to sell something false and definitely not too good to be true.

THINGS ARE GOING TO GET REALLY REALLY BAD AND I AM NOT PREPARED. A zombie buffet would be mercy.
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In the comic, to be honest he just didn't come off as interesting as he has in the show. They've talked about his past in Africa (i.e. already had guns pointed at him many tines), for example, whereas in the comic I don't think it said a single thing about his past. Just a small thing, perhaps, but we start off already knowing a lot about the kind of person he is. Maybe I'm over analyzing, I tend to do that :p
 
yakherder said:
In the comic, to be honest he just didn't come off as interesting as he has in the show. They've talked about his past in Africa (i.e. already had guns pointed at him many tines), for example, whereas in the comic I don't think it said a single thing about his past. Just a small thing, perhaps, but we start off already knowing a lot about the kind of person he is. Maybe I'm over analyzing, I tend to do that :p
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I think that, oddly enough, this seems to be a general rule. I get way more attached to characters in the show than I do in the comics.

Maybe it's just the element of having real people there, but the characters just seem more there.
 
I just started watching this series. I think I'm four episodes in. #NoSpoilersPlease
 
I just watched Sundays episode last night. That woman kept telling Rick how impressed she was with how close his group is. She seemed almost surprised at how well they get along. That to me seems odd. If it is so amazing to her, that must mean she hasn't found that in her own group. Something is wrong with her group. Either that or she is trying to flatter them so they will trust her. She still hasn't explained exactly what she needs them for.

Also,
I read a theory elsewhere that someone put that zombie underneath the garbage pile as a trap.
 
I'm not sure I really liked the last three episodes. I'm feeling bored. I think I have a problem when old characters leave and new ones come in. I didn't think I cared about Tyrese that much but now I miss him. And Herschel. And Beth. I don't particularly care for some of the newcomers like Tara, Eugene, and the other two...see, I don't even know their names. I'm a people person. I watch shows because of the characters, not necessarily because of the storyline. This poses a big problem for me when the characters start changing, lol.

I think I'll try and re-watch the last three eps back to back and really try to pay attention. Maybe I was too distracted first time around.
 
I have liked all the episodes and I like that the TV show is following the comic pretty closely with some interesting twists. Things will pick up soon!
 
I found this last one interesting... The whole reintegration thing.

The way they portrayed Alexandria is pretty much how I view most first world countries.
 
KLS52 said:
I'm not sure I really liked the last three episodes. I'm feeling bored. I think I have a problem when old characters leave and new ones come in. I didn't think I cared about Tyrese that much but now I miss him. And Herschel. And Beth. I don't particularly care for some of the newcomers like Tara, Eugene, and the other two...see, I don't even know their names. I'm a people person. I watch shows because of the characters, not necessarily because of the storyline. This poses a big problem for me when the characters start changing, lol.

I think I'll try and re-watch the last three eps back to back and really try to pay attention. Maybe I was too distracted first time around.
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Yes, I think it was much more interesting at the start of the series. I hope it will pick up and they are just trying to fill in some of the details.

yakherder said:
The way they portrayed Alexandria is pretty much how I view most first world countries.
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In what way?
 
Moll Flanders said:
In what way?
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Walled up community full of relatively privileged people in which the general population is kept isolated enough from the other side of the wall that they have very little concept of what the real world is like, or what it takes to continue restocking their dwindling supply of resources that can only be obtained from the zombie invested wastelands.
 
Alexandra Breckenridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I did my usual thing of wondering what the actor was from and the new blonde woman (who may be Rick's love interest?) was the red haired young maid from American Horror Story. She is the niece of the actor Michael Weatherly from NCIS.

yakherder said:
Walled up community full of relatively privileged people in which the general population is kept isolated enough from the other side of the wall that they have very little concept of what the real world is like, or what it takes to continue restocking their dwindling supply of resources that can only be obtained from the zombie invested wastelands.
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You clearly haven't lived in South East/East London.:D
 
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Moll Flanders said:
You clearly haven't lived in South East/East London.:D
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Not everyone is necessarily living in mansions, but even the poorest in most first world countries are dependent on an infrastructure they take for granted. Simple things like functioning sewage systems are luxuries most people in the world don't have access to.

I'm probably a bit biased. When I came back home on leave after a little stint in Sudan when I 19, I felt a bit like Rick coming into Alexandria lol.
 
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