Walking Dead

[Xanthippe]

I thought it was a rather weak show. It's becoming a weak pull for me to continue to tune in.

[Setanta]

Well Rick finally made the point that they are the walking dead. Looks like it's heading towards the comics a bit more too. But why am I feeling that the budget has been cut again?

I was bored

[MahrinSkel]

Or they burned the budget on the episode before. Seriously, more effects budget in that one episode than in the entirety of the Farm Season.

--Dave

[palmer_eldritch]

I'm still loving the show, although having God turn up to save them ruins the tension a little.

[Tannhauser]

Well Rick finally made the point that they are the walking dead. Looks like it's heading towards the comics a bit more too. But why am I feeling that the budget has been cut again?

I was bored

I missed last week's, the hiatus really drops my desire to tune back in. But yesterday's episode was really good.  A quiet episode of folks approaching their physical, and in some cases, spiritual limits. 

The Walking Dead line was a nice touch.

[apocrypha]

I'm still loving the show, although having God turn up to save them ruins the tension a little.

Agreed, that was jarring, and didn't really make sense.

That aside, I'm really liking this season. The pacing is working really well for me, the slow episodes don't actually feel slow, just carefully done.

[TheWalrus]

It wasn't Gawd, it was a tornado. And it only passed them by because the pull of the nearby trailer park was too strong.

Also, I still hate the new camera guy. Wanted to huck a brick at my set during that retarded storm scene.

[HaemishM]

A good episode, IMO, a much needed pause for breath before whatever shitstorm we know is waiting for them.

[Ironwood]

I liked it well enough.  Didn't like the constant presence of God because, let's face it, the tornado was utter bullshit.

Also, I'm not sure in what universe you think a group like that is going to touch your water in the middle of the road with an anonymous note.  Though seems to me that Eugene would be a perfect tester, so I'm not sure why the idea was so soundly dismissed.

[jgsugden]

Recall that they have traveled far from where they were.  There is no reason to assume that the world they're now in, closer to DC, is the same as near Atlanta.  It is 600+ miles away.  Part of the reason they're headed there is because they think it might be a better place where more of civilization survived... that was Eugene's theory. 

I did not like the execution of the 'tornado'.  It seemed like a windy storm to me.  I can't see the undead getting knocked around by the storm I was seeing - and saw no reason why they'd be drawn to the barn, anyways.  It was out of place.

[Surlyboi]

I thought it was really good just for the fact that it was the calm before the shitstorm (or, "Hakchalla", for those that played HoL).

And the guy at the end? Way too clean and well-informed to be trustworthy.

[HaemishM]

"That man's had a hot shower!"

"Get a rope!"

[Raguel]

"That man's had a hot shower!"

"Get a rope!"

When was the last time you saw someone in this show take a shower that wasn't either stupid or evil? IMO they shouldn't waste a rope on this guy when they have swords, knives, and machetes.

[jgsugden]

...
When was the last time you saw someone in this show take a shower that wasn't either stupid or evil? IMO they shouldn't waste a rope on this guy when they have swords, knives, and machetes.

I'm sorry, but the closest they came to an evil shower was that tornado and... what?  Oh, never mind.

[Setanta]

Yeah. I saw that and thought the same thing. Put the bat down and walk away Glenn.

Tonight's episode and build up - I think they are going to do it.

[Evildrider]

Yeah. I saw that and thought the same thing. Put the bat down and walk away Glenn.

Tonight's episode and build up - I think they are going to do it.

If you mean Negan, we are about 30ish comics away story wise.  There is still a lot to go through before Negan shows.

[jgsugden]

... if they follow the story at the same pace.  I could see the event that people are hinting at occurring at pretty much any time.  I think the earliest I'd be expecting to see a variation on it would be the end of the season.  However, I do not know if they'll do it exactly the same.  If you want to really make a villain...  

[Ironwood]

Yeah, 'cause that'll ever happen.

Don't be retarded.

[jgsugden]

Yeah, 'cause that'll ever happen.

Don't be retarded.

Using that word as an insult is beneath you.  Grow up.  It isn't 1980 anymore.

...and I would not put anything off the table with WD. 

[Ironwood]

Yeah, you don't know me at all.

You were being fucking retarded.

You're telling the chap to grow up after you suggested villainy in a TV Show would be best shown with bludgeoning infanticide.

Seriously, shut the fuck up.


(Also, quite grown up in the 80's.  Thanks.)

[KallDrexx]

I just hope it isn't a repeat of Terminus or the governer's place (forgot what they named it).

[Threash]

I seriously doubt they make the loving gay couple evil, heads might explode.  My guess is the place is completely empty, no people on the pictures, no guards at the gate.

[Nevermore]

So the sounds of the kids playing were just Rick's imagination?

[Threash]

Or a recording most likely, kids playing right by the gate with zero people around doesn't seem like a great idea.

[Evildrider]

Or a recording most likely, kids playing right by the gate with zero people around doesn't seem like a great idea.

Having sounds that draws walkers isn't a good idea.  Hell I can hear kids yelling and playing a block away in my neighborhood, doesn't mean they are right up against the gate.  Rick mentions earlier in the episode about Woodbury and Terminus being silent when they came upon them.  The fact that their are children playing is supposed to be a cue that these people believe they are safe enough to let that happen.

[Tannhauser]

I seriously doubt they make the loving gay couple evil, heads might explode.  My guess is the place is completely empty, no people on the pictures, no guards at the gate.

I agree, there's no one inside.  Not sure about the children sounds.  Glad they moved from the boonies.  I hope they start to learn a bit of what went down.

[Ironwood]

I've been introduced to some of the comments about the fact there are two gay blokes on the show.

The best rebuttal to these asshats for me was 'Watching Cannibalism, that's ok, but guys kissing is where I draw the line.'

Fucking hell.

[Threash]

And as usual nobody gave a shit that there is already a lesbian on the show.

[Ironwood]

Of course not.  Lesbians are the GOOD type of gay.

 

[Raguel]

Is there some sort of explanation in the comics why there's a lack of natural food sources (e.g. fruits and berries, game, fish)? Growing up in Florida we had a orange tree in our front yard, and we knew of places to go where we could find wild berries. We even lived by the lake so we could go fishing whenever we wanted (man I miss that place).

My uncle's yard (again, FL), to hear him tell it, is invested with wild chickens. I certainly remember some chickens around a relative's house when I was a kid.

In earlier seasons of WD people would fish, Daryl would hunt, etc. That all seems to be gone now. One episode Glen and the lesbian girl (I forget her name) were surprised to see a fish.

[Ironwood]

I think it's because the plot demands it.

[jgsugden]

Not really, but you could attribute it to a lack of maintenance for the fruit trees, berry bushes, crops, etc...  We're now quite a ways out from the last point in which there were people maintaining these types of things.  Maybe the bugs are getting them without the pesticides to keep the bug population down?  Maybe these people just suck at finding food for the most part...

[Merusk]

Yeah, but that 'logic' breaks down if you understand nature at all.  Folks who live in Hollywood don't, I get that. However, you don't need horticulturalists to maintain peach trees, orange trees or any other native American fruit they should have run across. Those were taking care of themselves for hundreds of THOUSANDS of years before man said, "Hey, it might be a good idea to hang around these trees what makes food."  Which was a few thousand before we said, "oh hey.. we might be able to make these work better for us" and developed agriculture.\

Pesticides also don't (deliberately) affect Bees, because bees are the only reason we have most fruits. Even the most anti-bug farmer won't kill bees if he wants to keep harvesting crops.

Don't question the "science" of TWD. It all breaks down once you realize within a day of the first zombie appearing that carrion-feeders would have ripped it apart for the meat. The only way any of it makes sense is if all wildlife and most importantly ALL invertebrates were wiped-out in the zompocalypse. 

[Threash]

At least WWZ made zombie meat poisonous to all living things, WD had a Bob BBQ that went nowhere.

[jgsugden]

To be fair, everyone that ate Bob (who was well cooked) died pretty quickly after doing so.

I wonder if Bob should be offended by that...