I recently read the entirety of the books, and i thoroughly enjoyed them. I'm not one of those people who clamors for the tv show to be the same as the books. In fact I enjoy the addition of Daryl Dixon, and wish he was in the books. They may come to show what I was talking about, though I imagine it will happen slightly differently. If they do show that particular scene, it will shed a lot more light on the situation and take some of the questions about things that happened (Like Andrea getting Walker blood sprayed all over her) and help people understand them.
I didn't say that part was unrealistic. But the way that Carl gushed over them sounded like Gerber got to write his dialogue. Mom, they're so SHARP! Product placement is fine, and most of the time it's not so noticeable. I didn't even realize the Dodge Challenger in season 1 was product placement until I saw it pop up on Breaking Bad.
Derp, Didn't notice you were joking. I think the show is fine, Honestly. A panel for panel adaption would not work i dont think, particularly because of some of the stuff the Governor does, lol
I got you. I agree, but this is what tv has come to. I'd like them to get away from commercials completely and just product place the show instead.
I caved and purchased a bunch of the comics for my iPad, probably the first comic books I've read since I was 13. They're awesome. The show definitely feels completely different.
I don't really mind product placement too much in movies or TV shows, I just look at it as an unavoidable byproduct of successful entertainment. Such is the nature of advertisement -- whatever catches the attention of the consumer masses, slap an ad on that proverbial mosaic! Not to say this show is high art, rather it's popular enough for the corporate ad execs to come a calling and thrash whatever artistic integrity it may have had. Personally, I just like zombie flicks. Maybe that's why Frank Darbont jumped ship? He didn't want his artistic vision to be sullied by some corporate shilling? But then again . . . DRINK STROH'S!
There's nothing inherently wrong with product placement. Sometimes it's done really well. Zod hurtling toward a Coca-Cola sign. ET eating Reese's Pieces. Calvin Klein in Back to the Future. I just can't stomach shit that gets created exclusively for product placement. I Robot. The second Matrix. Anything Mike Myers has ever done. That shit turns my stomach and makes me less likely to buy Converse or Cadillac or... Nuprin. If you're gonna sell me something, sell me on it; don't just shove it in my face and expect me to bite.
Shane and that fat farmer made the bonehead move of the year, attempting to get those med supplies. As if those walkers weren't going to notice them trying to leave, now they're fucked. Piss poor planning.
Hey! Otis isn't a fat farmer. He's a fat fuck. I still don't care about any of these characters. The only one that is remotely interesting is Shane.
Otis runs like Kerry Collins. Shane should feed him to the walkers, and make a break for it. That's smart game planning. /Tom Moore
Yeah, there's no way that fat dude would have been able to outrun a horde of zombies like that. Despite stuff like that I still find the show enjoyable.
Too much focus on the children and not enough on the killing of zombies and surviving. And at this point they can lose a few characters to zombie deaths, because they've barely been developed from last season to this one. Its been okay, but they gotta step their game up.
