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Post by pairesta on Sept 15, 2015 8:19:02 GMT -5
I guess the fact that we're three eps in, and there's no thread here about it, says everything.
But yeah, so far, not doing it for me. It's like they made a series around the gang protecting the retirement home from S1 TWD. There's certainly some effective bits (the neighbor's attack, the hospital, the drug dealer in the first episode), but there's so many head-slapping choices being made. The monopoly scene nearly broke me.
"OK, we have a great opportunity to go back and watch civilization as we know it coming to an end. So let's put in a scene of three characters playing monopoly. And two of those three characters are surly teenagers saying unbelievably asshole things to the third character."
I will never, ever understand the mentality of taking a solid concept, and then deciding to add pouty, whiny teenagers to it as an improvement.
Killer opening credits though. They've scared me every time.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Sept 15, 2015 9:08:27 GMT -5
I guess the fact that we're three eps in, and there's no thread here about it, says everything. I'd have a thread if the show wasn't exclusive to the new channel AMC Global, which so far as I am aware I can't even get in Ireland. Ah well. It'll eventually hit Netflix or something and presumably doesn't directly impact season six of the Walking Dead in any significant way. |
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Post by ganews on Sept 15, 2015 10:51:00 GMT -5
Never watched the first series. Put the premier on, where it quickly faded into the background and then out of my attention almost entirely.
I guess zombies don't exist in the fiction of the fictional universes where they are found, because no one ever understands what's going on in the beginning. Come on guys, you can pick up ten different zombie survival guides in your local chain bookstore.
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Post by Paleu on Sept 16, 2015 14:56:54 GMT -5
I guess zombies don't exist in the fiction of the fictional universes where they are found, because no one ever understands what's going on in the beginning. Come on guys, you can pick up ten different zombie survival guides in your local chain bookstore. I believe this is actually canon in The Walking Dead, which is part of why the zombies are called "walkers" and not, you know, zombies. |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Sept 17, 2015 6:36:05 GMT -5
believe this is actually canon in The Walking Dead, which is part of why the zombies are called "walkers" and not, you know, zombies. Robert Kirkman's said as much, and it's the only reason that everyone has their name for the zombies but nobody ever calls them zombies would make sense. |
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Post by pairesta on Sept 24, 2015 6:49:37 GMT -5
It can't possibly be the writer's intent that when one of their primary characters shows up on screen, my lip involuntarily curls up in disgust. Yet I'm that way with Junkie Son. I've had it with him. And I'm pretty close to that way with Travis and Chris. Although I think it is interesting that they're laying the groundwork for Travis to be an eventual antagonist, and probably his ex-wife with him, since they're both cozying up with the military.
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Post by pairesta on Oct 6, 2015 5:46:20 GMT -5
I actually yelled "Oh Fuck You" at my TV during the finale. They also took one of the two most interesting characters and had him do two colossally stupid things nearly back to back. And the other thing he did literally led to dozens of people dying.
This was supposed to be a do-over, a chance to right what went wrong with TWD in its early seasons, and instead we wound up with something worse. Ugh. I think I'm done.
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Post by thecausticgospel on Oct 16, 2015 21:29:02 GMT -5
The real crime here is not depicting the actual zombie apocalypse, which was always at least implied by the buildup to the show's premiere. That week or so leap in time was a real slap in the face. Maybe in season 2 they'll backtrack. It'd be interesting if they, for example, were to tell Victor's story from the beginning, show the zombie apocalypse, and then perhaps have the two timelines meet up mid-season. But I expect that's too much to ask from these fuckers.
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Post by pairesta on Oct 19, 2015 10:50:55 GMT -5
The real crime here is not depicting the actual zombie apocalypse, which was always at least implied by the buildup to the show's premiere. That week or so leap in time was a real slap in the face. Maybe in season 2 they'll backtrack. It'd be interesting if they, for example, were to tell Victor's story from the beginning, show the zombie apocalypse, and then perhaps have the two timelines meet up mid-season. But I expect that's too much to ask from these fuckers. With this lot I wouldn't even want them to rewind. More monopoly while the world falls apart. It was suggested in the TVClub reviews, but just have the main characters be, like a doctor at a hospital or even some grunt the army, to really see it happen. Picking a bunch of fucking teachers to tell their story was a huge misstep. I'm done with it. |
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