Walking Dead

[Ironwood]

Kill her.

It'll seem merciful when the zombies come.

[Der Helm]

Kill her.

That will show her how angry you are. 

[waffel]

Sounds like you need to:
Become a cop
Get in a shoot-out with a bad guy
Get shot and put in hospital/coma
Survive a zombie infestation
Have your best friend tell your wife (who survived) that you died
(here's the hard part) wait a bit so your wife can hook up with your best friend
Finally return to your wife, thus making your relationship stronger than it ever was before
Buy another DVR

[CmdrSlack]

And then you can continue to shit up a thread about a show for which you've already expressed your deep disdain.

[Sky]

Sounds like you need to:
Become a cop
Get in a shoot-out with a bad guy
Get shot and put in hospital/coma
Survive a zombie infestation
Have your best friend tell your wife (who survived) that you died
(here's the hard part) wait a bit so your wife can hook up with your best friend
Finally return to your wife, thus making your relationship stronger than it ever was before
Buy another DVR

But....my fiancee IS my best friend!   

[lac]

Is this one of those threads where the spoiler tag means people who have read the books are spoilering whatever they remember or is it because I got a tad drunk watching the last few episodes that I get a bit confused reading this?
It's a fair question, I usually watch this show after I go out for drinks with the lads and quite frankly I sometimes get a bit confused watching the recap at the start of the show (mostly because I fired up the wrong episode, but still).

[waffel]

The spoiler tags are almost all about the previous episode that air'd recently. This is because some people in the thread are a week behind due to various factors.

[lac]

Yea, it was the child stuff on the previous page that put me off.

[Ironwood]

There's also some comics stuff spoiled there.  But the more we see, the more it diverges, so don't worry about it yet.

[Ironwood]

Ok, so now it's all over, I'm impressed.  It was much better than it should have been.

However, do you know what it really needed ?

More zombies.

[angry.bob]

More zombies.

I would agree, but since zombie stories aren't actually about zombies and are about other humans being much more of a threat I feel okay with the zombie screen time approaching zero. In fact, it may be even more frightening and tense if zombies started turning into humans and thus increasing the overall threat level.

[Threash]

Ok, so now it's all over, I'm impressed.  It was much better than it should have been.

However, do you know what it really needed ?

More zombies.

Well, yeah... but you can say that about practically anything.

[Sky]

Yay, AMC replayed the last ep and I was able to snag it for the DVR. Really liking Time Warner's new DVR web interface...they actually seem to have gotten something right after mangling the UI for the set-top box.

[KallDrexx]

So, uh, is this coming back this month?

According to this picture that was posted in the funny pictures thread, the billboard clearly says April 2011 and I got all excited, but AMC's website is a pile of shit and I can't find anything about it coming back this month...

[apocrypha]

That poster was in the UK and it's advertising season 1.

2nd season is slated for October 2011 airing last I heard.

[KallDrexx]

aww 

[Wasted]

So, uh, is this coming back this month?

According to this picture that was posted in the funny pictures thread, the billboard clearly says April 2011 and I got all excited, but AMC's website is a pile of shit and I can't find anything about it coming back this month...

Wow, they put the Walking Dead poster next to a funeral home.

[TheWalrus]

You're quick.

[Cheddar]

Walking Dead season 1 = 10 bucks at Best Buy right now.  Not Blueray, but still a good deal.

[Velorath]

Season 2 trailer from ComicCon.  Starts on October 16th.  13 episodes.

[MuffinMan]

Season 2 trailer from ComicCon.  Starts on October 16th.  13 episodes.

[Threash]

Jesus christ, "hide under the cars"? really? fucking morons.

[Xanthippe]

Bad news - Frank Darabont got canned.  Hope the show doesn't suffer.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/walking-dead-what-happened-fired-221449

[Velorath]

Bad news - Frank Darabont got canned.  Hope the show doesn't suffer.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/walking-dead-what-happened-fired-221449

Yeah, this news came out a few weeks ago.  From the articles I've read, I don't see any way for the quality of the show not to suffer to some extent.

[MahrinSkel]

Is AMC just run by clownshoes losers that couldn't make it on a real network, and are trying to prove why now that they're getting a little taste of success?  They had three successful shows, one of which was getting ridiculously good numbers in the most coveted demographic, and they are taking a shit all over them?

Walking Dead especially has huge potential if it can log enough episodes for syndication, and with AMC owning it outright you would think a competent executive would just sit back, share the wealth a little, and order his money hats.

--Dave

[Ironwood]

 you would think a competent executive would just sit back, share the wealth a little

Where the fuck have you been the last 15 years ?  Under a rock ?

[MahrinSkel]

 you would think a competent executive would just sit back, share the wealth a little

Where the fuck have you been the last 15 years ?  Under a rock ?

Yeah, it's just that it makes no goddamned sense at all.  Yes, you're bleeding money, but the whole point of *having* original content on AMC was to bleed money in order to build up the kind of viewer numbers that would let you get more revenue from both the cable companies and the advertisers.  And here, you've almost done it, you've got shows with lots of buzz and more than decent viewership, and the response to this success is...nickel and dime the golden geese to death.  And The Walking Dead is tailor-made as a vehicle for advertising every survival-horror video game and movie that comes out, why are you fucking with that?

Even for executives, this is an amazing degree of WTF?  Stop paying to show movies that aren't at least 30 years old and double down on these successful shows, you morons.

--Dave

[tazelbain]

No one?  The zombie herd and the "sign from god" was awesome.  The dumb people dumbing it up not so much.

[stu]

"We need tension, dammit!"

"How about we have someone do something stupid?"

"How about if four people do something stupid?"

"I like the way you think."

[Velorath]

No one?  The zombie herd and the "sign from god" was awesome.  The dumb people dumbing it up not so much.

Too much time spent looking for the girl.  I was excited that this was going to be a longer episode than usual, but after the herd I think the pace was a little slow.  I'm sure the ending is probably a good shock to people who haven't read the comic.  Daryl continues to be my favorite character.

[tazelbain]

Ya, I really want to like Rick but he thinks with his gut way too much to really survive.  Daryl is awesome.  You know he doesn't like the what the group is doing, but he plays smart and sucks it up because IT'S THE FUCKING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE and sitting around making pouty faces at each other is going to get you killed.

[Bunk]

It's probably way too much to hope that the character is dead (have not read the comic). Maybe at least the character will be bedridden for a couple episodes. Can't do too much stupid shit from a bed.

I liked the episode, but watching it on PVR made it pretty obvious that it was 90 minutes just so they could fit in 35 minutes of commercials.

[Nevermore]

Which is different from a show being 60 minutes so they can fit in 22 minutes of commercials how?

[Bunk]

I guess it isn't. Just means I'll likely switch to watching it on Torrents like most other shows. HBO spoiled me.

[KallDrexx]

This was the first time I have noticed the unequal spread of commercials too.  The first commercial break was a good 15 or so minutes in.  By the end of the show they were only having like 5 minutes of straight show before a commercial break.  Was kind of annoying.