LightPhoenix
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Yeah, interesting timing on that. I'll have to admit, I'm not as into the current comic arc as I have been previous. I don't want to bring too many comic spoilers into the thread though.
The Walking Dead
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Yeah, interesting timing on that. I'll have to admit, I'm not as into the current comic arc as I have been previous. I don't want to bring too many comic spoilers into the thread though.
LightPhoenix
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I feel weird posting after myself. It seems so profane. Blah.
Spoilers for the newest episode (#4) behind a spoiler block.
All in all I've been apathetic to the new characters. However, I think Daryl is pretty awesome, and I'm really hoping he survives. That business with the hand? Brilliant.
Also, I'm not keen on how many survivors there are. New ones seem to be popping up every episode. What does it really mean to be a survivor if so many people have survived?
[sblock]On the other hand, I was disappointed that more of the survivors didn't die in the zombie attack. It would have been nice to see some more of the bit players that we're come to accept and/or like to be killed off. I mean, Dream Guy survives? Really? Thin out the herd, that's what they're there for.
I had forgotten Amy dies this early into the story. Amy's death is really what moves the story arc forward, and it means more with less people in the story.
I think this is one point where the show should have taken advantage of the divergence from the comic - kill more of the bit players we've come to know and like. Amy still dies, but the fact that so many people die accomplishes the same thing, if not even more so. Make it absolutely crushing, because that's what moves the story forward.[/sblock]
Spoilers for the newest episode (#4) behind a spoiler block.
All in all I've been apathetic to the new characters. However, I think Daryl is pretty awesome, and I'm really hoping he survives. That business with the hand? Brilliant.
Also, I'm not keen on how many survivors there are. New ones seem to be popping up every episode. What does it really mean to be a survivor if so many people have survived?
[sblock]On the other hand, I was disappointed that more of the survivors didn't die in the zombie attack. It would have been nice to see some more of the bit players that we're come to accept and/or like to be killed off. I mean, Dream Guy survives? Really? Thin out the herd, that's what they're there for.
I had forgotten Amy dies this early into the story. Amy's death is really what moves the story arc forward, and it means more with less people in the story.
I think this is one point where the show should have taken advantage of the divergence from the comic - kill more of the bit players we've come to know and like. Amy still dies, but the fact that so many people die accomplishes the same thing, if not even more so. Make it absolutely crushing, because that's what moves the story forward.[/sblock]
Remus Lupin
Adventurer
Well, I think the key now is that they realized that their campsite is definitively NOT SAFE. Based on the previews for next week, they're planning to move on. There was a lot of awesome in this episode, and the survivors in Atlanta seem to cut against the grain of the "everybody turns horrible in the zombiepocalypse" theme that's so much a part of the literature.
renau1g
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The Atlanta survivors was great and terrible... it was a heavy divergence from the themes of the books, with the exception of Herschel and potentially the newest neighbourhood they're in near Washington everyone else has turned to near-animals. ALthough it is pretty early on in the series, but damn start killing all the extras. The only one I like is Daryl. First, he uses a crossbow. Smart. Second he is ruthless, with using the hand of his brother to freak out the kid, smart as well. And he can track, useful to the group for hunting food. All in, he's probably the most useful of the survivors, although that leads me to believe he's going to bite the bullet. I was really hoping that the previous scene would cut out the # of extra survivors to a couple or so.
Oh BTW - what do you all suppose happened to Mearl? [/sblock]
The Atlanta survivors was great and terrible... it was a heavy divergence from the themes of the books, with the exception of Herschel and potentially the newest neighbourhood they're in near Washington everyone else has turned to near-animals. ALthough it is pretty early on in the series, but damn start killing all the extras. The only one I like is Daryl. First, he uses a crossbow. Smart. Second he is ruthless, with using the hand of his brother to freak out the kid, smart as well. And he can track, useful to the group for hunting food. All in, he's probably the most useful of the survivors, although that leads me to believe he's going to bite the bullet. I was really hoping that the previous scene would cut out the # of extra survivors to a couple or so.
Oh BTW - what do you all suppose happened to Mearl? [/sblock]
Merle?
This is my theory
He Stole the car. Zombies from the city/outlying areas followed the car as he drove towards camp. He stopped not far from Camp, knowing about the string can defense systems he cut them, got back in the van and drove off to parts unklnown. He got a sort of revenge because he knew he couldnt take out the survivors by himself.
This is my theory
He Stole the car. Zombies from the city/outlying areas followed the car as he drove towards camp. He stopped not far from Camp, knowing about the string can defense systems he cut them, got back in the van and drove off to parts unklnown. He got a sort of revenge because he knew he couldnt take out the survivors by himself.
OTOH, it also sort of verifies what I was talking about earlier: if vatos with guns can survive in fortified positions in a city, so too can militias and other armed groups in fortified positions in the hinterlands.
Hmmm, I wonder if the polygamist groups in Utah's mountains teach the sister-wives to shoot?
And considering the 20th century of the American Southwest, I wonder if there are ANY zombies where we did nuclear weapon testing?
Klaus
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To be fair, they rigged strings with cans all around the perimeter. The walkers seemed to have bypassed those...
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with the help of Merle, probably.
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Well, if Merle did disable the cans, then he was also setting his brother up to be Zombie Chow.
Then again, he's not that good at thinking things through. Folks, if you're ever stuck in a situation where you can only get out of handcuffs by using a hacksaw on yourself, don't cut off your entire hand. Just take out the thumb section and slip the rest through. And that should only occur after trying to break some bones.
Then again, he's not that good at thinking things through. Folks, if you're ever stuck in a situation where you can only get out of handcuffs by using a hacksaw on yourself, don't cut off your entire hand. Just take out the thumb section and slip the rest through. And that should only occur after trying to break some bones.
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