Topic: Darabont takes The Walking Dead to TV (Read 21862 times)

Vuk · « **Reply #150 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 09:02 »

I didn't watch episode 6, but I honestly don't even feel the motivation to. It's a decent show, but it wasn't anything amazing either. I'm gonna try my best to finish it with an open mind, but I really can't see it impressing me, with how cheesy episiode 5 got at the end, as well as everything that led up to it.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #151 on:** 26 Jan 2011, 08:12 »

Watched four and a half episodes, guess I'll finish the 5th. I've never been so bored by zombies though to be perfectly honest.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #152 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 07:18 »

Just watched the pilot epsiode without doing any geeky research on it. Brilliant.

Did keep wondering if it was really Andrew Lincoln as Rick until I came here. Once again, once again an English actor makes a very convincing American. Looking forward to Episode 2 now (I'm one of those wierdo's that relishes a gap between episodes so don't bother downloading stuff like this). Was expecting it to be a bit too 28 days later but fortunately it's managed to keep that to a minumum and hopefully they'll be able to avoid any Christopher Eccleston.

Inlander · « **Reply #153 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 07:21 »

Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 14 Apr 2011, 07:18

Just watched the pilot epsiode without doing any geeky research on it. Brilliant.

Yeah sorry to be the bringer of bad news but don't get used to it.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #154 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 07:32 »

Should I at least watch the next couple of episodes?

Inlander · « **Reply #155 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 07:37 »

Ehhhh . . .

mberan42 · « **Reply #156 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 01:46 »

sean · « **Reply #157 on:** 21 Apr 2011, 01:56 »

oh my god so i've started reading the walking dead and i just read 48 and oh my god i feel sick i want to puke oh god what the fuck

Thomas Edison · « **Reply #158 on:** 22 Apr 2011, 07:10 »

I've read up to 80, and I think I know which moment you're on about.

sean · « **Reply #159 on:** 22 Apr 2011, 10:13 »

im about to read 79, i have up through 83 right now (i think thats the most recent?)

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #160 on:** 22 Apr 2011, 10:49 »

I have yet to read 79 - 83 I think, should definitely find them. But yeah 48 is terrible. It's the first piece of writing that I had to get up and walk around before I could continue reading. I just couldn't handle it.

sean · « **Reply #161 on:** 22 Apr 2011, 01:49 »

OH MY GOD 83 AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh 83 is bad guys like 83 is fuckin bad.

i actually have 79-83 on a jump drive, if i didn't delete it, i could upload it and send it to you if you want? pm me if yr into it.

Blyss · « **Reply #162 on:** 10 Jun 2011, 06:08 »

I had no idea... that's the only excuse I have.

Just watched Episode 1 last night, and the other 5 will be devoured today.

Now, I really have to find these comics. I was aware of their existence, but only peripherally.

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #163 on:** 11 Jun 2011, 09:03 »

Quote from: Vuk on 18 Jan 2011, 09:02

I didn't watch episode 6, but I honestly don't even feel the motivation to. It's a decent show, but it wasn't anything amazing either. I'm gonna try my best to finish it with an open mind, but I really can't see it impressing me, with how cheesy episiode 5 got at the end, as well as everything that led up to it.

Pretty much how I felt. The series started off as great but kind of fizzled out by episode 4. Didn't even watch the last two episodes.

IrrationalPie · « **Reply #164 on:** 12 Jun 2011, 02:24 »

I agree with that assessment. I did truck on watch the last two episodes, though.

The last episode was kind of cheesy, in my opinion.

They left quite a bit of the story open, and I really hope they tie up some of the loose ends in Season 2.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #165 on:** 27 Jul 2011, 11:30 »

Wait, what?

Blyss · « **Reply #166 on:** 31 Jul 2011, 05:06 »

Yeah, I saw that too. I'm still looking forward to this.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #167 on:** 11 Aug 2011, 12:45 »

In further news

Torlek · « **Reply #168 on:** 20 Oct 2011, 11:45 »

So, the season premiere aired Sunday and there's no talk by Thursday night? Forum, I am disappoint.

While I didn't find it as mind-blowingly brilliant as the series premiere, season 2 started off with an very nuanced and well written study of characters that are starting to break. You see the fault lines between the characters starting to widen and see them coping with the fact that the military won't be there to save them in 48 hours and this zombie apocalypse is going to be long term. The walker makeup is still off the charts amazing and the pacing is sill brilliant though I felt this episode was almost a little too drawn out and studied.

Also, dat cliffhanger. Damn, I hate the writers and love them at the same time.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #169 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 11:27 »

i'm just gonna echo what i already said to some of you once, and say that i found the season 2 premiere to be the best episode yet, aside from maybe the season 1 premiere

it's not longer a completely different story that just happens to have zombies, it's actually following the books again. which is only a good thing. fingers crossed they stick with it and don't pull another Season 1 and fuck up everything after the first episode

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #170 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 01:37 »

Posted this on my facebook page: The Walking Dead continues to be enormously boring, poorly acted, and overly melodramatic. Not sure how you ruin zombies so thoroughly but it's a real shame that they figured it out and are apparently still pursuing that end so doggedly.

EDIT: definite props to the makeup and effects teams, though. Great work there.

Dazed · « **Reply #171 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 08:13 »

Well see I simply was not satisfied with 1 church monologue, I was thrilled they added another

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #172 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 09:16 »

In a nutshell, that

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #173 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 09:17 »

I know I ain't done paid you much attention in the past God but I sure do need ya now

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #174 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 09:17 »

IMMANotListening · « **Reply #175 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 12:41 »

So I'm picking up a conflict of opinions: either it's mediocre or all kinds of awesome.

I was thinking of watching this show but I haven't really read the comics. Will that affect my enjoyment at all?

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #176 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 08:07 »

Episode 2 was pretty alright. Very uneven to be sure but far better than the overwrought snooze fest that was episode 1 at least. I may not make it through the season but if the episodes continue to improve (at least to a point) I might give it a chance. One of my concerns is that many of the characters and much of the dialog continues to feel trite and cliched, as do a lot of the scenarios and "twists." I find it tough to enjoy a show when I don't like a majority of the characters and even those I do like I feel I've seen a hundred times before. TWD isn't offering anything new or engaging at this point and unless it does it's just going to get more and more stale. The point is I'm not really sure that this series has legs. When I hear Robert Kirkman say he wants the show to run for 20 seasons I can't help but laugh, not only because it's patently ridiculous for him to say that but because it's pretty clear this show couldn't sustain itself for even close to half that. Not given the current order of things.

Torlek · « **Reply #177 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 11:15 »

I think they're slowly setting things up to go crazy nuts on us about halfway through the season. This episode struck a much better balance between the human drama and the zombie drama. Too much zombie drama is cliche, too much human drama becomes very boring very easily even though it is a great psychological portrait. If they can just find that happy balance point of zombie killing and human strife again.

That said, I wish Andrea would quit her bitching and either get on with surviving or blow her brains out already. Also, I am not liking the direction Rick is taking so far this season. All this moping and blaming himself is making me dislike him as a main character. Shane needs to do something stupid so we can finally have the throw down that's been brewing since episode 1.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #178 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 09:46 »

what shane really needs is to be dead about 4 episodes ago

you know what i'm talking about, people who read the comics

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #179 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 10:48 »

dude, spoiler alert please

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #180 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 11:14 »

dude it's like one of the first things that happens once rick finds the group. issue like 2 or 3. maybe 4. i figured everyone here read it already. it's a pretty minor point, honestly, because shane is not a very important character, which the show seems to be completely unaware of.

but really: sorry. i didn't really think about it.

just be glad i didn't spoil anything that's actually important, like when.......naw just kidding

but seriously SPOILERS about some slightly later stuff:

what about when rick loses his hand?! how bout that shit? do you think the show will do it or not? based on everything so far, i want to say NOT, but S2 is off to a better start so maybe they will......who knows.

also, as good as their special effects team is, i'm not sure they could pull it off. it's an almost impossible thing to do correctly, but i guess they could pull a Forrest Gump and CGI it.

pwhodges · « **Reply #181 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 11:38 »

You do know there's a spoiler tag to hide things properly, don't you?

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #182 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 11:43 »

i thought it was broken

it certainly was for a long time anyway. maybe it's fixed now, i dunno. don't post all that much here anymore, so i'm not up to date on all the goings-on with the forum software and stuff

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #183 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 11:57 »

oh no worries, I don't like Shane anyway so if he kicked the bucket I wouldn't mind. Or be too surprised. It kind of feels inevitable. Strange how shows/movies chose to deviate from their source material. Or maybe not strange, just interesting to see what gets left out or significantly altered.

pwhodges · « **Reply #184 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 12:24 »

Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 25 Oct 2011, 11:43

i thought it [the spoiler tag] was broken

It was, once, but it was only a permissions thing. Est corrected it in some forums for most people, but wasn't sufficiently systematic; I have ensured that everyone everywhere has the correct permissions for it to work (at the same time I changed it from hover to a button to unhide).

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #185 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 01:24 »

oh awesome. nice work on that, paul. now i know!

Boiled Dove · « **Reply #186 on:** 29 Mar 2013, 12:42 »

Wow, this show has really gotten bashed on here. I still enjoy it though so I thought I would share this:

Undeniable Proof That "The Walking Dead" And "Toy Story" Have The Exact Same Plot

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