AMC zombie series from Frank 'Majestic' Darabont - The Walking Dead

I have to admit I know nothing of S2, having bailed after S1's episode where someone was killed off, and then someone else woke up and the whole episode had been a dream

Also, just want to thank mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III) for recommending 'The Signal', because I watched it last night and really, really enjoyed it.

ok guys i havent read most of this thread but i just watched ep 3 and it was basically torture to get through, can anyone present a compelling argument for continuing on with this shit

although glimpsing this:

Man, that was easily my least favorite episode yet. So much talk, so many looooooooong goodbyes, so few zombies. The show needs to find a way to ratchet up the tension so that we feel a zombie attack is always imminent. 'Cause, jeez, what a drag all this somber talking is. And then the CDC stuff? That was just goofy, and a literal dead-end. Of course there's no cure! And the only thing that can make this show look cheaper and more single-set is the stick them all in an underground bunker, watching wandering zombies on TV. Though that would be kind of meta ...

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, December 1, 2010 9:12 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

does not make me hopeful

i actually wouldn't mind if this show was all dialogue if it was GOOD and TENSE and compelling and made u feel like u were living in zombie world

I only just enjoy this show, but I think it's worth watching for the narrative possibilities in season 2. But on the basis of the rest of the 1st season's six episodes, if you found episode 3 torture to get through then I wouldn't bother. I will say episode 4 and 5 are better though.

"narrative possibilities in season 2" = * sound of toilet flushing *

I wouldn't blame you.

Still, a long-running zombie series does have a lot of potential. I've never read the books and don't intend to, so I can't say how much it worked there, but I like the idea of it. Even though the thought of Frank Darabont writing every episode of the second season doesn't get me particularly excited (I'm not really a fan of his), I think it's heartening that he sacked the writing staff. He must realize that there is definite room for improvement, especially since the strong ratings that have continued since the premiere seem to indicate that nobody really had to do change much to stay successful.

I liked about half of this but boy was that a crappy finale.

Hated that episode so much.

o man they couldnt even pull it together for the finale eh

why is THIS show of all things doing so well

nerds on the internet love zombies

hoping the improvement from this 6 part first season is going to be similar to the improvement parks & rec got when it jumped to 20+ eps

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so did the doctor tell andrew lincoln that his kid is carrying?

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jk I didn't enjoy this.

i thought the finale was sick as hellllll

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i even choked up a lil when blacklady and mr. truman show held hands at the end ;_;

btw i also choked up at the ending of Deep Impact so

i asked my friend what he thought of the finale and he said "computer countdown to an exploding building. that's what i thought of it."

which i cant really argue with. everything in this ep was super obvious and telegraphed, but i will say that a lot of it still worked for me. like when they finally used chekhov's grenade.

i think one thing that's weird about the show/needs to be become better is the fact that it's an ensemble show but everyone aside from rick and shane are total blanks... there's all these big moments that have no impact because we dont know the characters at all. when the old guy and the blonde broad stayed behind that actually did stir something in me a lil, since we knew those characters better, but then they zipped out in time anyway. it was a nice moment, but it took what like 6 episodes to get a character that wasn't a stereotype.

what's up. my name? yeah. im T-Dog.

checked out after episode 3, mostly because of schedule conflicts or forgetting to watch it, maybe i'll catch up during reruns or on dvd.

I think they should remake this series as a movie, and then adapt the movie into a graphic novel. Then repeat over and over until it's nothing but zombies.

is there any way they're going towards rick being some anomalous case? i wondered if the doc told him he was carrying or something. i mean tell me if this is nuts but wouldn't that explain shane checking his pulse and not getting a beat etc?

probably a wild theory in truth, anyone got any idea what the doc might have said?

"this show sucks ass"

you are getting kinda morbs-like abt this, slocki

haha i was thinking that earlier... gettin uncharacteristic morbs-trotting-into-an-apatow-thread vibes from the s1ockmeister here

xp Except that he's right and this show is an overwhelming disappointment.

i did actually watch half of it

i believe that entitles me to be a wiseass

you guys really should've read the comic first, then you'd have been pleasantly surprised by the show

i read the first couple trade paperbacks, i thought htey were better than the show

god that scene where they're talking abotu missing their vibrators was so so bad, was this talked about upthread

i would love it if you'd watch the fourth episode and came back to us with your thoughts

i can make that happen

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so did the doctor tell andrew lincoln that his kid is carrying?

Either that, or that everyone already has the disease whether they've been bit or not

Hmm, I can't remember if that was a plot point in the comics or not. Seem to think it was? Or maybe I'm thinking of something else, from World War Z. Regardless, in these sorts of stories everyone has to have the disease, bit or not, because otherwise how would the dead come back to life in the first place, without a first-bite, as it were?

http://goremasternews.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/love-at-first-bite.jpg

They kind of hit you over the head with the CDC doctor's name: Edwin Jenner. Just a few letters difference to throw you off though. But for this show, that's subtlety.

I... liked the finale. Much more than the previous couple of episodes. But maybe I'm just a sucker for Lost-style imminent death in a basement "suspense."

Haven't watched it yet, but I could have sworn Darabont promised there would be no cliffhanger. So he's a liar-pants?

there's no cliffhanger

Wow that was a bad cgi explosion. I enjoyed the finale though. This season has been perfectly adequate for my needs; I expected it to be a watchable and occasionally exciting programme about zombies, and it is.

yeah the awful CGI was really terrible-looking and depressing, considering how great the actual zombies looked on this show

Man, that last episode was a real stinker, right down to the talking computer and the, um, grenade deus ex machina. "Oh, by the way, I've been carrying a grenade in my pocket - do you think that might help?"

I've actually hated the CGI throughout this thing - the zombie make-up has been great, but pretty much all the kills have been all "Resident Evil (the game) level graphics. My only hope for this show is that these first few eps were apparently rushed, and with new writers and more time things can only get better.

yeah the firing writers thing is totally encouraging, if they get someone more talented to take this ball and run with it now that they've got a hit they might really have something

Here is a grenade. Perhaps you, the master of grenading, can use it to unlock that window.

my roomates theory is his wife is pregnant

some shonky physics in the last ep. shouldn't a thermobaric weapon toss everything in its immediate surroundings around a bit ~shrug~

zombies are kinda shonky science /par excellence/ tho so I'm not grousing

I don't think mad doctor told Rick they were all infected. Or maybe he did and at the start of the 2nd season they all turn into zombies and the show is about them looking for braiiiiins. Would make the show a whole lot better because I don't see how they could write bad dialogues for zombies. I guess he probably told Rick that his wife is pregnant though.
Don't think I'll watch s02 because this show has become really awful really fast.

maybe he told rick that all of rick's companions are lame shitheads and who gives a fuck /slocki

don't take the red herring bait; the "whisper whisper whisper" was the lamest par of that ep and dug deep into LOST bullshit
i'm in for one more season because new writers new writers new writers new writers
man, when they showed ads for breaking bad i remembered how much i missed that show.