OK, I never read the comic. Apparently Carl kills Shane there as well? If anyone would care to describe that character arc and how it differed?

Personally, I liked Shane. However, I thought the writers would allow him some character growth after Rick saves his ass on the school bus (he was kinda facing certain death).

born_yesterday: I can't help but picture it and chortle!

Scene: Lori henpecking Rick

Cut scene: T-Dog firing a rocket launcher from on top of a cruising Trans Am,taking out a fuel depot, killing a hundred or so zombies in one massive fiery explosion. He does a front flip off the car, which barrels into a big group of zombies and explodes, and lands right next to the cockpit of a fully armed Apache attack helecopter, which he starts to warm up...

Scene: Hershel's family making dinner. There's tomatoes and cucumber!

HAHAHAHAHAHA

+Smart + Funny

Good gravy, this post wins EVERYTHING... because you know this is EXACTLY how T-Dog spends his time while everyone else is soap-opera-ing.

My prediction is that everyone holds up in the farmhouse while the zombies mass outside. Herschel wants to take his family down into the basement as it is the only safe place. Tdog will argue that the basement is a deathtrap, There will be a fight over the only television, it falls and gets broken, and with a final, "All you yo-yos can stay up here and die, " Herschel boards up the basement only he doesn't realize his youngest daughter finally got that suicide trick perfected and she becomes a zombie eating her father. Meanwhile, having slipped upstairs for a quick shower, Maggie...

Anyways, they all get out when Daryl makes a break for it gathering horses riding to the front of the house shouting, "Regulators!!!!!" and they ride off in the sunset.

born_yesterday: OK, I never read the comic. Apparently Carl kills Shane there as well? If anyone would care to describe that character arc and how it differed?

I can't speak for the character arcs, but I know that Carl kills non-zombie Shane there.

YouWinAgainGravity: I think the only thing I didn't like about last week was how fast Shane reanimated. Other people killed have usually taken half a day or so.

Jenner said it can take anywhere from a few minutes to 8 hours. Basically it takes however long is convenient for the plot.


Persepolis: I've read the comic books, and I'm down with the explanation with everyone being carriers of the virus, that kicks into affect once they die.

However, do you remember the highway scene during the first episode of this seasons? There were a whole rack of corpses in the cars and all over the road that were just dead. No head trauma, no seeming causes of death. Just dead.

It bugged me when I saw it then, it bugs me more now that they've kept that walking dead virus from the comic books.

Can anyone explain that? It's whats keeping me from fulling enjoying the show anymore.

That puzzled me as well. Methinks it's just a plot hole.

fusillade762: As someone said in an earlier thread: they really should have dug a trench around the farmhouse. It's not like they didn't have plenty of time.

How far into the zombie apocalypse are we? I thought it was only weeks or maybe a month or two at most.

Merle will rescue them from the zombie horde, and then the credits will role.


/till next season

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: born_yesterday: OK, I never read the comic. Apparently Carl kills Shane there as well? If anyone would care to describe that character arc and how it differed?

I can't speak for the character arcs, but I know that Carl kills non-zombie Shane there.

The English Major: b

In short, Carl shot Shane because Shane was going to kill Rick. Also, Shane was a lot less annoying in the books for the simple reason he wasn't around as long. Dale was, though. Dale was.

Thanks to you both.

kronicfeld: Trafficguy2000: I just hope they follow the next season's path to the same conclusion as the books......

The thing that happens at the end of that arc (end of the first Compendium) probably will never happen on TV. Even cable.

You are probably right but the reaction would be awesome from the general audience (especially consudering how much everyone loves you know who)

The first season was a rehash of existing zombie movie plots and visuals.

The second was an endless view of people doing laundry and chopping wood on the side of the road.

At this point the last episode is set up to go one of two ways.

Either it will be inspired by the first season's lack of originality and become a recreation of Night of the Living Dead. (the evidence is already there)

Or, it will go Mad Max style and open the story to broader chaos.

But I doubt they have that much creativity.

Get ready to be unhappy with the results.

The Walking Dead is one of the worst shows in the history of television. I finally gave up on the show about three episodes into this season, and I haven't looked back. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

Why Would I Read the Article: The Walking Dead is one of the worst shows in the history of television. I finally gave up on the show about three episodes into this season, and I haven't looked back. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

Cool, now GTFO of this thread.

Why Would I Read the Article: The Walking Dead is one of the worst shows in the history of television. I finally gave up on the show about three episodes into this season, and I haven't looked back. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

If you haven't watched, then how do you know?

T.M.S.: The first season was a rehash of existing zombie movie plots and visuals.

Unless the zombies break out into a song and dance routine or start writing poetry, I'm not sure how anything with mindless flesh-eating undead is going to be vastly different and original from everything else about mindless flesh-eating undead.

One Bad Apple: fusillade762: As someone said in an earlier thread: they really should have dug a trench around the farmhouse. It's not like they didn't have plenty of time.


The farmhouse is a pillow fort. A trench or moat will just fill up with the first hundred or so zombies and form a bridge for the rest.

And considering the pace of the show that would take about ten years.

I predict the guy they left on the roof who chopped his own hand off is going to be the leader of a big gang they encounter.

Also - they encounter a walker who talks.

I'm rewatching last weeks episode and I'm wondering how far into the woods Shane and Rick walked. Carl caught up with pretty quickly in any case.

YouWinAgainGravity: T.M.S.: The first season was a rehash of existing zombie movie plots and visuals.

Unless the zombies break out into a song and dance routine or start writing poetry, I'm not sure how anything with mindless flesh-eating undead is going to be vastly different and original from everything else about mindless flesh-eating undead.

So then why bother to make this series?

Seems kind of pointless to spend so much effort and money on rehash existing stories.

T.M.S.: So then why bother to make this series?

Seems kind of pointless to spend so much effort and money on rehash existing stories.

Probably because, despite your opinion that every piece of entertainment made must be 100% original and different from anything else that exists, the source material for the series was popular and someone figured a tv show would be as well.

If you farkers don't like the show, then GTFO. OK?

T.M.S.: YouWinAgainGravity: T.M.S.: The first season was a rehash of existing zombie movie plots and visuals.

Unless the zombies break out into a song and dance routine or start writing poetry, I'm not sure how anything with mindless flesh-eating undead is going to be vastly different and original from everything else about mindless flesh-eating undead.

So then why bother to make this series?

Seems kind of pointless to spend so much effort and money on rehash existing stories.

IMO the series is more about the emotions and human trials in a zombie outbreak. The dead are just props.

How the fark did Rick not hear zombie Shane coming up behind him?

Hi - I just watched the last episode for the second time, and it sucked twice as hard the second time as it did the first. And now I'm going to watch the finale, because that's going to suck too.

In between, I just wanted to say Hi. And Suck.

Because I'm all cool an stuff.

9beers: How the fark did Rick not hear zombie Shane coming up behind him?

The script told him to ignore the zombie sounds coming up behind him.

9beers: How the fark did Rick not hear zombie Shane coming up behind him?

Because Carl makes him dumber and weaker somehow.

...

I think.

HERE WE GO

majestic: If you farkers don't like the show, then GTFO. OK?

Well, I like the show, so....



/hot

I will NOT go to Story Sync, damn you!

two screen experience? I would need three screens with Fark going!

"Dad? Thanks, man."


A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless it's gnawed on by a corpse, of course...

"Thriller auditions are this way, you guys."

Will Lori be useful? Will T-Dog pity the fools? Will Glen finally get some? Find out now on Walking Dead Z!

Somehow, they're NOT going to respect the "TRESPASS, IT'S YOUR ASS" sign.

Nice going, Arnie Pye!

Ah so that's how the zombie hoard found the farm, dumb luck.

YouWinAgainGravity: T.M.S.: So then why bother to make this series?

Seems kind of pointless to spend so much effort and money on rehash existing stories.

Probably because, despite your opinion that every piece of entertainment made must be 100% original and different from anything else that exists, the source material for the series was popular and someone figured a tv show would be as well.

And that is why the results are so mundane.

Woodstock!