Just going to leave this here…
(new Bad Lip Reading Walking Dead clip with amusing Carl song)
Murph
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Rapping Carl is altogether funnier than it deserves to be.
corsair
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Walking Dead showed up on one of the Los Angeles non-affiliated stations (we had four, then Fox, CW and UPN sucked up all but one, and then back to three, which all seems irrelevant in a cable world, but there it is - they seem to exist for the local sports teams these days. Anyway, since it was the first two episodes I sat down and watched them. The one thing that struck me was that at least a couple of zombies were a lot less impaired. One climbed a fence, another used a rock against glass. Doesn’t seem like they are that smart anymore. Of course, that would have been merely a few days rather than what is becoming years after the initial transformation wave, but I think it’s more like they decided that was too smart for a zombie. Carl looked like a kid, and for that matter so did Glen. Anyway, looking forward to the new season…
Menzo
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They’ve definitely “evolved” the capabilities of zombies over time, mostly just to fit the storyline. When it made sense to have people turn into zombies when they got hit with blood or goo, that’s what happened. When it made sense for them to disguise themselves by smearing said goo all over their bodies, that’s what happened. Sometimes they can climb or break through windows/doors, other times they can’t.
If it bothers you too much you’d be better off not watching.
corsair
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Good thing I didn’t say it bothered me then. If it bothers you that I point these things out for the sake of my own amusement, you are probably better off not reading my posts.
(Humor! I’m teasing! Joke, joke, joke…)
;-)
Well well, that was pretty awesome. I thought for sure they would linger on the horror that is Terminus for at least a couple of episodes, but in the end I really liked how they turned the tables by showing how Terminus became what it was when they found it.
Plus, Lennie James! AW YISS!!!
That WAS pretty awesome, although we still don’t know what happened to Beth.
As to Lennie James, it’s not like he’s working on Low Winter Sun, heh (that said, I watched every episode and I’m bummed that it was cancelled).
I suspect Beth’s fate is revealed next episode. She can’t have gone too far since our intrepid heroes have been hung up around Terminus since shortly after her disappearance.
I too watched and enjoyed Low Winter Sun (as depressing as it was to watch).
Well that was kind of an abrupt resolution. Okay. So, uh, now where? Get Beth and find another farmhouse or prison? Might I recommend a shopping mall?
Also, is it bad to confess I mildly hoped Glen’s turn at the slaughtering trough wasn’t going to keep getting interrupted?
-Tom
Quick question without reading anything else recently: this show still basically as good as it was? I’m on the year-behind-Netflix viewing schedule, so before I jump into season four, I wanted to make sure it wasn’t a disaster.
Hardy-har-har. I’m thinking toward DC.
Also, is it bad to confess I mildly hoped Glen’s turn at the slaughtering trough wasn’t going to keep getting interrupted?
-Tom
… yes? I dunno - they really did make that part interminable. [<-revenge for the above]
It’s a bit of a roller-coaster of quality from episode to episode, if you ask me. Worth watching, however.
Yeah, it’s always had ups and downs for me too, which is why I don’t make an effort to watch it as it’s airing. But so far I’ve been glad I stayed with it.
Watching a year behind means staying out of the water cooler talk though, so I just had to check in and made sure the quality didn’t nose dive in season four.
See you guys in another year!
Well, as far as Mr. Hipster Officious Termite threatening Bob with a knife goes, he was threatening to gouge Bob’s eye out, which would have put the guy through major physical agony before his (apparently) inevitable death. Rick wanted to spare Bob that.
I admit though, that I did think the same thing during the Cutty (what’s the character’s name, and BTW does that guy look way too “prosperous” to be living in the zombie apocalypse to anyone else?) vs. Field Agent Termite standoff. If the dude had broken Judith’s neck whatshisface would have killed him for sure then and there.
That was a fun Easter Egg, killing the guy from the hapless couple that Rick/Carol ran into last season.
I really enjoyed the premiere - such a fine palette cleansing after Z-Nation. That said, I really hate how they basically survived through pure fluke. Rick (and the other leaders of the individual groups, like Abraham, etc.) led them to a fate that would have resulted in them getting bashed in the head and gutted like cows, if not for the following absurd series of coincidences/serendipity:
- they get lined up at the trough by redshirt-first order. Any other order and Rick, Darryl, Bob and/or Glenn are dead.
- Despite being completely separated for the entire season post-Governor attack, Carol managed to both: (a) track the rest of the group’s location down the instant required; and (b) attacks the camp, on her own, at the exact SECOND required to save Glenn. One second later, Glenn is bashed and gutted. 1 minute later, so are Rick, Bob and Darryl. It’s just cheesy for there to be that much serendipity.
- rather than finish the butchering of the 3 remaining victims, the butchers/Gareth instead decide to temporarily spare them (why?) and post 2 guards to watch them, when they clearly needed all available residents in the context of an apparent attack – instead of quickly slitting the throats of the victims (or just shooting them in the head) and having 3 men to investigate the attack within seconds, they keep 3 dangerous, hostile prisoners alive for no reason and lose the assistance of 2 capable men who they might need. Just makes no sense - too contrived.
I also just find it too ridiculous for a group of individuals to suddenly decide to become cannibals a year or two after the collapse of society. Eating people is not a pleasant choice that people would naturally gravitate to, or even accept of others, let alone in an otherwise organized and civil group. There would be hundreds of years of available food readily available in stores, even aside from doing what people did for millennia - hunt and grow food. The only reason the cannibal plot was included in the comics was because Kirkman thought it was cool in The Road (an apocalyptic context where cannibalism made sense, as people were unable to hunt/grow food and the entire population devoured food stocks over 10 years). Kudos to the showrunner for at least trying to come up with a more sensible rationalization for the cannibalism - collective victimization drove them insane, presumably, but it’s still just too absurd for a group of hipsters to decide to happily eat people.
Oh I was even worse, I was hoping that they slaughtered the whole cast, perhaps the kid manages to escape. Carol then become the focus of the show. I mean it is a ZA for heaven sakes bad stuff happens to (sort of) good people…
Naaa, F that. Well, if the Woodbury chick that Glenn saved last season after the battle at the prison died, I’d consider that an acceptable loss.
That scene at the trough was seriously harrowing BTW.
tgb123
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I suspect this is leading to Rick’s death at some point, with Carol taking over leadership of the group.
