The Walking Dead

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:56 pm

Does anyone else watch this show? I watched the mid-season finale last night and it really blew me away. The ending was powerful. Can't wait for it to resume in February.

bunnyben · Post by **bunnyben** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:58 pm

i started season 1 but just couldn't get into it, but it's nowhere near as bad as true blood- mind numbing beyond all possibility!

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:02 pm

bunnyben wrote:i started season 1 but just couldn't get into it, but it's nowhere near as bad as true blood- mind numbing beyond all possibility!

Walking Dead isn't tongue-in-cheek the way True Blood is. IMO, those two shows have very different vibes.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:08 pm

First season was only 6 episodes and was the perfect mix of tension and gory violence... was great to watch and didn't hold back on the gore, even though it was a relatively mainstream programme. Season 2 has been, for me, very, very slow. Apart from the first two episodes, which were brilliantly tense and exciting, its been nothing but "character building" and a distinct lack of zombie bloodshed. I haven't seen this weeks mid-season finale, but it better be an improvement or i'll not bother going back to it when it returns in February...

bunnyben · Post by **bunnyben** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:16 pm

TheWarmth wrote:
bunnyben wrote:i started season 1 but just couldn't get into it, but it's nowhere near as bad as true blood- mind numbing beyond all possibility!
Walking Dead isn't tongue-in-cheek the way True Blood is. IMO, those two shows have very different vibes.

yes i know, i just wanted to get true blood off my chest

Shinesalight · Post by **Shinesalight** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:43 pm

I'm loving the Walking Dead Series. Just watched that mid season finale last night actually...nice twist at the end. Have you read the comics Paul and Laz? I like the way they've slightly altered the characters and plot lines without going too much off track. Heard that Frank Darabont quit after season 2 was finished though due to creative differences.

My friend who is mad about the comics is also saying that its bit slow with not enough zombie gore/bloodshed but I always saw it as more of a zombie apocolyptic soap-opera so think the character building side of things has to be a part of it.

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:14 pm

I haven't read the comics.

The blood and gore was fine for the first season, but I don't think the creators/directors were right not to feature it as heavily in season two. The plot is more important to me and character development is key. The twist at the end of the midseason finale was superb.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:27 am

Watched this finally last night. Could sense at the start that things were going to kick off one way or another (though, i thought it was more likely to be between Rick and Shane) and i was not disappointed. Really tense and frantic last 15mins... culminating in the twist which i really didn't see coming until the second before when it suddenly dawned on me. Bit of a heartbreaker of an ending too.

I've never read the comics, but my friend has said its remained pretty true to them also, so got to give them credit for that.

As i said to him, i spent almost 7 years watching characters develop with Lost... i can't do it all over again!

Shinesalight · Post by **Shinesalight** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:02 am

Laz/Paul.... You have to read the comics. As good as the TV series has been, the comics are vastly superior. I'm lucky in that my best friend has been buying them since they first come out (I think its been 5 or 6 years so far), but our local library has had the graphic novel compilations too. I'm not a comic book geek but the Walking Dead series has been pretty different to everything else out there.

If the TV series is going to continue with the main basis of the story from the comics then there are going to be some awesome plot lines coming up

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:24 pm

FX are re-running season 2 upto mid-season break must mean 2nd half of series 2 cant be far away.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:40 pm

only a few weeks until its return... pencilled for mid-feb i believe...

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:27 pm

2nd half of 2nd season just started on FX

It certainly hit the ground running

I think Andrew Lincoln's character (Rick) is going to get a lot darker, brilliant stuff

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:03 pm

Oh he does... but it takes a few episodes tho. Tonight its back to my fav zombie bloodshed side of it and i believe Ripley from Wooden Shjips says one of their tracks is played at some point... hope its during the zombie massacre!!! Driving, heavy psych would suit it so well

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:04 pm

We're also following the episodes as they hit stateside, so i think we might be an episode or two in front of FX...

moop · Post by **moop** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:17 pm

BVCP206 wrote:I think Andrew Lincoln's character (Rick) is going to get a lot darker, brilliant stuff

bad egg

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:42 pm

Watched the new season's penultimate episode last night. Killer! Loved it. Anyone else catch it yet?

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:11 pm

Watched it last night. Absolutely fabulous episode. From the zombie slaughter at the start to the tense final scenes. Setting up next weeks finale to be something very special! Lots of new questions after last nights episode but so much more to come! Best piece of TV on right now....

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:54 am

<<<<POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT>>>

Well the finale was a cracker!!! From the frantic start and all its madness to Rick's complete (and understandable) meltdown at the end... absolutely brilliant end to the series... and plenty more to come if what we saw in the last episode is anything to go by! The clouds of ANARCHY are gathering...

p.s. Rick's wife is a fucking bitch!!!! She's been doing my head in for weeks and her reaction in that episode said it all. He should have abandoned her like Hershel said...

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:16 pm

Finale shown here this Friday night, cannot wait. Second half of season 2 has been amazing

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:20 am

Laz69 wrote: p.s. Rick's wife is a fucking bitch!!!! She's been doing my head in for weeks and her reaction in that episode said it all. He should have abandoned her like Hershel said...

Yes. This has been irritating me, recently, too. Seems like the main reason Shane went off the deep end was the "deep talk" that she instigated with him. The fucked up thing about that is that not long before, she told Rick that Shane was dangerous. Seems like she was playing both sides and intentionally drove them into conflict.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:23 am

Yeah... she enjoyed the fact that she had two love interests... she played them both too. Unforgivable. Her lack on concern for Rick when he explained that Shane had deliberately lured him out to the middle of nowhere to kill him, knowing full well his state of mind makes me think she was playing them off against each other. Her wee chat with Shane just before he lured Rick out was obviously deliberate to push Shane over the edge...

Can't wait to see her get pulled apart, limb from limb by blood thirsty Zombies...

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:15 pm

Last episode was brilliant and just left you wanting more, certain programmes make an hour seem like 5 minutes and this is one of them. Roll on season 3 in the Autumn.

Shinesalight · Post by **Shinesalight** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:31 pm

Wathched the last 3 episodes of season 2 last night... brilliant. Managed to avoid this thread for a while to avoid any spoilers, even though I've been reading the comics for years. And yeah, my 2 mates and I who have been following this, agree that Rick's wife is a total pain in the arse! We also found Dale to be a moany old git so were quite happy to see his stomach get ripped open. Great finale to a brilliant dramatisation of a wonderful comic book series. Already excited for season 3 and know its just going to get even more brutal.

Shinesalight · Post by **Shinesalight** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:03 pm

Does anyone else into The Walking Dead TV series also read the monthly comics? If so, then this other zombie apocolyptic nightmare based comic may be of interest:-

http://www.crossedcomic.com/

It's for over 18's only and is very, very gory and brutal. There is an actual online story on the website too, just click on the "web comic" link on the header options.

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:12 am

Season 3 starts in UK on Friday on FX channel, cannot wait

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:35 am

Downloaded already and its set for watching tonight!!!!! YEAH!

Been badly needing some zombie action!

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:19 pm

OMG

Hit the ground running is an understatement, absolutely briiliant

This just gets better and better

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:55 pm

It is indeed... and it only appears to be getting better!

p.s. THAT guy so totally deserved what happened to him!

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:54 pm

Was it really necessary to lock those two inmates in another wing of the prison?

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:07 pm

After all the crap our "heroes" have had to deal with, and the behaviour of the other prisoners, would you have taken the risk of keeping them with you? I don't think i would have took that chance...

Plus its another rung on the ladder to savagery that our reluctant hero seems to be decending into...

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:18 pm

So, last night's episode was fucking off-the-hook intense!!! Anyone else see it? Some really difficult stuff going on. It was not easy to watch.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:31 pm

Queued up for tonights viewing. Just caught up with last weeks episode last night and i could sense it being a precursor to something bad happening (relatively tame affair... new character introduction, etc)

I'm trying to give up smoking just now and i'm already as tense as fuck at the best of times... whats that? More tension? Yeah fire that on... might as well fuck myself up going the other way!

moop · Post by **moop** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:03 am

TheWarmth wrote:So, last night's episode was fucking off-the-hook intense!!! Anyone else see it? Some really difficult stuff going on. It was not easy to watch.

it was awesome! one of the best eps.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:02 am

Superb episode... can't say too much without giving the game away, but it really was excellent. Hoping for a very dark and nasty turn of events now...

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 12:16 pm

Watched 3rd episode last night, wasn't sure about a whole episode without any of the established characters but it didn't matter a jot, setting things up very nicely for episodes to come

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 12:33 pm

Brace yourself for the next episode

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:44 pm

You weren't wrong ! WOW I'm running out of superlatives for this show. That episode left me breathless

arketah · Post by **arketah** » Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:18 am

I have watched so many episodes of this show but now in current days i am busy so away from this show. Anybody tell what happening now.

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 4:50 pm

I do think this season is quite good, but it seems to me that the Governor should be a scarier figure. That character isn't doing much for me. I also don't think the relationship between him and Andrea is very believable.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 5:02 pm

Not sure if yu have seen this week's episode yet, but the Governer really steps up this week...

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 5:33 pm

You mean the episode where Andrea and the scientist conduct research on the old man after he dies and comes back? I watched that one last night. Still not really thrilled with the Governor, but I bet he'll get a lot more intense as the season progresses. I guess the next episode is the mid-season finale.

jack white · Post by **jack white** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:19 pm

yea elvis guv'nor needs to take it up a notch or else get killed off asap.

andrea needs to die also. she always puts cock ahead of loyalty.

glenn needs to die also. just because really. tho the original group is near all dead by now so i don't think it'll happen. that was some p cool shit he pulled w/the walker when strapped to the chair tho.

the episode rick spent talking on the phone to ghosts was p lame. last weeks was slow bar the glenn stuff. hopefully they pull out all the stops for the mid-season break. this season was going p great but it's all gone a bit Jericho atm..

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:47 pm

Any thoughts on the mid-season finale? It definitely wasn't the best episode of the season so far, but I like the direction that the story is heading. I still find the relationship between the Governor and Andrea completely unbelievable, but it's obviously going to unravel quickly. The introduction of a new gang of characters was unexpected. I figured there'd be a bigger cliffhanger of an ending.

jack white · Post by **jack white** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:25 pm

i thought there was some good stuff, in particular: tyreese/cutty from the wire; rick's son being a killing machine; the entire michonne vs guv'nor fight.

yea there wasn't much of a cliffhanger. daryl's either dead or else andrea intervenes. i like daryl, but hopefully he dies!

the preview for the 2nd half of the season crapped something like spoilers, but i'll prob forget that all by the time feb rolls round. seems like ages atm tho.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:23 am

Watched the mid-season finale last night... great episode, but i suppose i was kinda hoping for a bigger cliffhanger too, although it still leaves it hanging (although the spoilers for the following episodes does seem to be a really stupid thing to do after a mid-season finale...).

Though the governer fight was brilliant especially when the one thing he pleaded for fell on deaf ears... superbly dealt with! (i hate his character... an evil scumbag! lol). Nice use of zombie bones by Glen as weapons too. I can see the remainder of this season being really rather fast paced! Roll on February!

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:30 pm

Just watched the mid-season finale, great stuff, Daryl won't die (Andrea hopefully will intervene) he's too important to the show, although that's never stopped them before

Roll on February.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:33 pm

Nice start back into the second half of the season... but things are indeed looking bleak...

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:51 pm

Starts here on Friday night on FOX

Shinesalight · Post by **Shinesalight** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:34 pm

I'm having Sky installed next week mainly for SkySports (as I can't envisage going to the pub as much to watch footy since the birth of my son) but also to get to see Walking Dead in glorious HD on Fox (I previously had to go round a friends to watch it after he downloaded the episodes off file-sharing websites). Do you know if I'll be able to see this first episode on some kind of catch up feature on Sky or if its repeated at all?

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:51 am

I'm sure Fox show a repeat of that week's episode at some point during the week its premiered, so it might be back on. Outwith that week, i think you might struggle as i don't think Fox have a catch-up feature. If in doubt, give me a nudge and i'll pass that first episode on.

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 6:47 pm

I watched the first episode of the second half of the season a few nights ago. I didn't really like the way they handled the Darryl vs. Merle fight club scene. It just wasn't very exciting. For me, it was a bit of a disappointment coming off of the cliffhanger at the end of the first half of the season. I still don't like the Governer, who just is not menacing to me at all, and really should be. Not sure if it's the actor or the character or a combination of the two. The ending to this episode was pretty awesome, though. I was not expecting that. So, I'm sticking with the show, as I'm still intrigued by it and want to see what's going to happen.

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:54 pm

Just left off where it finished just so good, throws curve balls at you every step of the way

Shinesalight · Post by **Shinesalight** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:25 am

Sky being installed as I type so, fingers crossed, I'll be able to watch Friday's episode on some sort of catch up on Fox later.

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:28 pm

Anyone catch the second episode (of the second half of the new season)? I thought it was great. Tons of action. Lots of plot progress. I won't give anything away, of course.

jack white · Post by **jack white** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:48 pm

yep great ep

zombie head + car boot + daryl = super fun

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:53 pm

jack white wrote:zombie head + car boot + daryl = super fun

I almost cheered at this!

Love it... things are picking up a little pace now...

jack white · Post by **jack white** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:59 am

horrible ep this week the whole show was just devoted to andrea & [spoiler]she didn't even die ffs![/spoiler]

great to hear tom waits tho. kinda made me forgive the boring episode whn the girl started singing hold on. that & dylans tomorrow is a long time (& the parting glass too) are moments to make me love the show even more.

edit - are there no spoiler alerts tags on here??

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:01 pm

I wouldn't say it was horrible. The plot progressed. There wasn't much action, but I still enjoyed it.

jack white · Post by **jack white** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:55 pm

well the more i thought about the more i morphed into comic book guy, willing to proclaim it 'worst episode ever'.
i didn't think really any plot was advanced - we were left in the exact same scenario as the prev week. ok the only advancement was tyreese joining forces w/the guv'nor. other than that it was the same as last weeks - andrea inbetween the prison & town, daryl & merle wasn't advanced, rick's state of mind was touched upon in the great opening scene then either he was cured or it was forgotten about in favour of andrea's carry-on but there was no closure on what that meant. i think that's p small progression tbh. i'm still a little pissed off they wasted my time tbh!
i dunno what they're waiting on really. it's not like a lot of these characters are so likable they'll be missed when they're gone & it's not like this stand-off has anything to say or is of any real interest in the over-arching scheme of zombie-infest. it just feels like the proverbial treading water. it's just there's so much more they could be doing while not doing anything rather than focusing on andrea's divided loyalties - we could get to know michonne or tyreese more for one thing.

moop · Post by **moop** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:01 pm

jack white wrote:well the more i thought about the more i morphed into comic book guy, willing to proclaim it 'worst episode ever'.

the episode after that was even more boring. i fell asleep! hope the next one picks up the pace a little..

jack white · Post by **jack white** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:42 pm

last week really made me lose faith in it.

this week: faith restored!

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:10 pm

I actually thought last weeks was better than the previous two... this is really building to a rather superb climax!

BVCP206 · Post by **BVCP206** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:43 pm

Got a feeling the climax is going to be immense a little dip in the middle of the 2nd half of the third series but so back on track now. Anybody care to predict which of the main characters are going to die a horrible death, surely all of them bar Rick could go

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:48 am

Â£5 says either Glen or Maggie die... or maybe both!

jack white · Post by **jack white** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:17 pm

think herschel is defo gonna die & maybe his younger daughter or maggie.

there's not too many of the main group left so don't expect them to cull it too much. yer woman w/the short hair could go, she's nobody really except daryl.
i expect most deaths will come from woodbury & tyreese's crew.

i hope they all get bitten rather than humans fighting/killing each other. it's enough of that already. i want more zombie stuff!

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:06 am

What about Andrea? I expect her to bite the dust trying to kill the Governor ... or maybe they'll kill each other.