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The Walking Dead Series 2

#361
electracoyote said:
They were. It was Sophia's death.

They had you right where they wanted you.

True dat.

Again, they have you right where they want you. :)
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So they want me to think the majority of the characters are dumbasses so that when they by chance do something not stupid I'll think they're amazing?

Honestly Shane is the best of the bunch. And having seen what Rick did in the bar I'm kinda liking him now too.


If this series turns into a massive hunt, or hostage rescue of Lori that takes more than an episode or two I'm done.

The crash to me basically says:

"ok we need to use the farm set more since it's more cost efficient and we don't have to spend money on making hordes of zombies or ruining some city streets there...what can we come up with to keep them stuck at the farm longer?"
 
#362
Darth Handsome said:
Nothing's wrong with your post. You suggested some clever audience manipulation (I think that's what you meant, anyway) & I'm suggesting the writing's still not worthy of high praise. It seems to be improving, however.
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Yeah, that's one opinion, and I get that.

In the realm of made-for-TV, I find the writing to be above average. I don't think I was lavishing it with award-worthy praise. And the audience manipulation, whether you enjoyed it or not, worked the way it was designed. The Sophia ending was a surprise for many of us, and it was worth the investment to watch several episodes on the farm where it may have seemed like "nothing was happening" when in my opinion a lot of important character development was going on.

Really, the thing I don't get on this thread is people who don't enjoy it, are bored with it, want more gore, who think the writing is sub-par, etc. yet they continue to watch it and then come here and slag it. I don't get that.

Oh, and for you Titus :) I'll simmer down now. :)
 
#363
Actium said:
If this series turns into a massive hunt, or hostage rescue of Lori that takes more than an episode or two I'm done.
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To be honest, I had some of the same thoughts. It does seem contrived. There, I criticized the show, so I'm not a mindless fanboi after all.

However, I hope it leads to some kind of reward for the patient viewer at the end of the line with Lori.

Sorry you guys aren't enjoying it. I hope you'll remember you're free to tune in something else if it's really that bad.
 
#365
Well I love the show. It's got zombies in it. Sometimes not nearly enough zombies, but zombies nevertheless. Zombie films are on a par with time-travel films as my favourite genre. I hope that before I die someone makes a time-travelling zombie film worthy of my dreams.

It bothers me not one iota that folks will have differing opinions, but for my money, it's like one big, long zombie film and for that fact alone I will continue to watch.

Of course, the characters are important, but only to induce different levels of joy/sadness for when they meet their inevitable demise.

I must say though, I thought the Sophia 'reveal' was a bit lame. It would have made a nice episode-ender, but as the money-shot for the mid season break? Meh...
 
#366
We're not here to "slag" it. We're here to discuss it. Share our thoughts & opinions. You know, participate in a forum.

Some of us feel the characters are still weak despite buckets of screen time devoted to their "development". That doesn't mean we don't enjoy watching the show.
 
#367
Tituscrow said:
Well I love the show. It's got zombies in it. Sometimes not nearly enough zombies, but zombies nevertheless. Zombie films are on a par with time-travel films as my favourite genre. I hope that before I die someone makes a time-travelling zombie film worthy of my dreams.
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Well you're getting Abe vs Zombies soon in movie form. Sorda time traveling if it takes place in the past.
 
#373
eyeballkid said:
I thinks burnin all those zombies will prove to be a bad idea.
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Why? Because of the smell?

It's kind of a learning curve how this particular series treats the "rules of zombie-ness." I remember in S01, one of the early episodes when they were trapped in Atlanta, they covered themselves with stinking dead zombie meat to throw off the walkers and make them think they (the humans) were walkers too.
 
#377
I hadn't thought about the fire. Part of me wonders if burning zombie would send them the other way. Given their limited brain function, I would think FIRE BAD!

On another note, I noticed that in the truck an arm fell off. Makes me wonder how long a walker can "live" before simply falling apart. I'd like to think simply waiting them out a few years would solve the problem.
 
#380
spade2you said:
On another note, I noticed that in the truck an arm fell off. Makes me wonder how long a walker can "live" before simply falling apart. I'd like to think simply waiting them out a few years would solve the problem.
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This idea has been explored before in some films and such. Theoretically, if you could stay alive and find somewhere safe, I think in a lot of "zombie worlds", you could wait them out till they're all but decomposed and rotten.

Zombies are really just slowly decomposing to begin with, but who knows how long it would actually take, and odds are, they'd still be "mobile" to some extent, even if it meant crawling on the ground.
 

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