AMC's The Walking Dead

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  1. Greenday4537

    Greenday4537 Well-Known Member

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    Boring as hell tonight. Felt like not much of consequence actually occurred.
     
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    Well...that was a waste. It was a lazy episode. Almost like those shows with 20mins of dry humping followed by 10mins of actual story .

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  3. Poeman

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    It was like they were building this sexual tension between Daryl and Carol...Was Daryl ready to go all MILF?
     
  4. TNJet

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    I'm hoping Sophia is in the children's ward. It's becoming a soap opera right?
     
  5. abyzmul

    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    Yeah, Sophia, who got her head blown off by Rick 3 seasons ago is going to wind up alive and well in the childrens ward.

    Tennessee must be getting rich from the manufacture of dipshit pills.
     
  6. phubbadaman

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    Nope, she just looked like Sophia. Why was she missing so long? She got picked up by the cross cars!!!!!

    ZOMG!
     
  7. deerow84

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    While note a great episode it was far better than last week's episode.
     
  8. JStokes

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    100%

    Btw, common theme, any episode without Rick generally sucks.

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  9. Poeman

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    This show desperately needs Shane back though...It also needs to introduce that new big villain. No further comments will be said from me on that
     
  10. JStokes

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    That's why I'm surprised they killed off Gareth so soon. He could have been a nice foil for 5-6 more episodes.

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  11. Poeman

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    Word, i guess they went with the hospital stuff for this arc, and then in Feb they will do another arc before next season...
     
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    This show has to be coming to an end soon, no? We just found out they don't have a cure at Washington. Are these guys just going To roam forever until they all die ?(rhetorical question.. If you know the answer from the comics please don't tell)

    Maybe Michael knows something which could Lead them in a new trail?
     
  13. Poeman

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    This show will go on until the demand for it ends.

    The comic continues forward, and the show will LIVE ON even if Rick dies or main characters are changed. It's more about the zombie apocalype then anything.

    Kirkman is involved too, so if people want zombies and we get bit ratings...This shit will ride till AMC wants it to. This thing can easily go 10+ years
     
  14. JStokes

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    Yup.

    "Lost" could have gone on forever but they fucked up the formula and got too smart for itself.

    I think if they try to get too out there, the demand dries up and it withers away. Killing off Rick would IMHO move that dial a lot. He's the most important character, critical to the shows longevity.

    Kind of like having the Old Testament without Jesus.

    Wait, whut?

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  15. deerow84

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    I like Rick but I agree: killing him off would be pretty huge for shaking things up. I think they need a "Red Wedding" moment to make things completely unpredictable and really shock the audience. Making the zombies something to fear again would be good as well, when Carol and Darryl had no ammo and had to ride the truck down the bridge was the first time in forever that the zombies seemed like a threat. When everyone has high powered guns and seemingly unlimited ammo somehow it makes it seem like no big deal. Typically they'll have like 30 zombies and just one by one stab them in the face or get head shots with each bullet despite the range and conditions (see: Beth, hospital). The real threat has been people for the longest time, and I'm cool with that, but if zombies aren't really that much of a threat why would people have to act so savage?
     
  16. JStokes

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    The Red Wedding involved reprehensible people slaughtering less reprehensible people.

    Rick is the standard bearer for goodness and violence and morality and debasement for the whole story line. You kill Rick and you kill Jerry on Seinfeld, Walter White on Breaking Bad, Hawkeye on MASH, Robby Ray Stewart in...well you get my drift. He's Jesus and Ghandi and The Reverand King altogether wearing John Wayne's cowboy boots.

    It's not happening.

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    Will Smith in The Fresh Prince..

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  18. abyzmul

    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    Rick finally becomes Badass Rick and you want him to be killed off?
     
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    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    The show has always been about surviving, it's not like it has always been leading up to the moment that they find some gamer geek social misfit claiming to have the cure for everything, and I found that part of it to be kind of a distraction from the better story arcs anyway. I sincerely doubt the show ends anytime soon, since there's years of source material to draw from still.

    Had the guy actually known the cure and carried it out, THAT would have signified the end of the show, not the opposite. There is no Walking Dead without the walkers.
     
  20. deerow84

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    Well I meant the shock factor of the Red Wedding, not necessarily the thematic implications of it. I don't mind them keeping Rick around, I like him, especially badass Rick, but from the perspective of the show becoming a bit boring that would certainly shake things up.
     

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