The Walking Dead Thread (spoilers and zombies inside)

[Mendoza]

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[Stu Monty]

Looking at the trailer for the new series and was drawn back to looking for this again. It's as good as the show has been for getting the very essence of the idea of being the walking dead.

 

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Brilliant scene.

[bonesman]

Back Tonight

 

• The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 1 – 30 Days Without an Accident – October 13, 2013

http://www.couchtuner.eu/the-walking-dead/

[Iantn]

The comedy returns!

[RedKnight]

Sure it has huge plot holes, thinly sketched characters, massive gaps in logic and zombies that obey no consistent rules... but it's still better than the Newsroom.

[Iantn]

Sure it has huge plot holes, thinly sketched characters, massive gaps in logic and zombies that obey no consistent rules... but it's still better than the Newsroom.

 

You have just as much right as anyone to be wrong. And boy are you there. Unless I missed the episode where Will walked in as a Weatherman for a week and no one ever asked why since.

[RedKnight]

I'm not. The Walking Dead is pulpy, silly and doesn't pretend to be anything else. It's one of the highest rated cable shows, it gives people what they want, which is zombies getting their heads stoved in imaginative ways. The Newsroom is a smug, pretentious show with Sorkin's political leanings given free reign to the point of egotism. The way it uses 18 month old news stories, that it can give it's holier than thou approach to, is one of the worst ideas I've ever seen executed on TV. The character names,  the Will is a Republican thing, the way Mac is meant to be an independent, clever woman yet she is completely in thrall to Will; all of it, it's foul and wretched. Why did season three take so long to get tentatively approved? Is it because Sorkin is 'so busy'? Or is it because his ego has been bruised because the universal adulation he thought the Newsroom would get hasn't been forthcoming?

 

But here's the craziest thing, I thoroughly disliked the Newsroom so stopped watching it. I couldn't see the point in getting needlessly irritated by it. You appear to be still watching the Walking Dead, even though you hold it in very low regard. Why?!

[Iantn]

I'm not. The Walking Dead is pulpy, silly and doesn't pretend to be anything else. It's one of the highest rated cable shows, it gives people what they want, which is zombies getting their heads stoved in imaginative ways. The Newsroom is a smug, pretentious show with Sorkin's political leanings given free reign to the point of egotism. The way it uses 18 month old news stories, that it can give it's holier than thou approach to, is one of the worst ideas I've ever seen executed on TV. The character names,  the Will is a Republican thing, the way Mac is meant to be an independent, clever woman yet she is completely in thrall to Will; all of it, it's foul and wretched. Why did season three take so long to get tentatively approved? Is it because Sorkin is 'so busy'? Or is it because his ego has been bruised because the universal adulation he thought the Newsroom would get hasn't been forthcoming?

 

But here's the craziest thing, I thoroughly disliked the Newsroom so stopped watching it. I couldn't see the point in getting needlessly irritated by it. You appear to be still watching the Walking Dead, even though you hold it in very low regard. Why?!

 

 

The comedy returns!

 

That's the main reason I watch it. I find it often hilariously bad. Yeah, it can be entertaining but that's it. I don't get irritated by it, in fact I probably got more irritated by Dexter than I have during Walking Dead. A show doesn't have to be good for it to be enjoyable and Christ, this show ain't even approaching good.

 

I have said repeatedly that I get why people don't rate Newsroom. It is preachy as fuck. But I fail to see how something you think is preachy is worse of a drama than something that you openly admit to being so inconsistently written.

[RedKnight]

Preachy is the first of the Newsroom's many sins. I watch the Walking Dead because it's a fun show to watch. The Newsroom isn't enjoyable.

 

You watch it because it's comically bad? Then you have too much time on your hands.

[redheart]

Episode 1 of Season 4 was absolutely superb.

 

The scenes of zombies falling through the roof in the shop were ace. As indeed was the story of Rick and the strange woman

[Saintslfc13]

Never watched newsroom, looked shit to me just from the previews. Besides that I figured that since I get sick enough with the "real news" watching a show about the "news" would just be some masochistic endevour to partake in for the sole purpose of making me want to punch the next journalism (or more specificially broadcast journalism) major that I meet right in throat.

 

The walking dead however I was hooked from the first episode but started losing interest around midway in season 3 and only caught a few episodes after that point. I think the show was in danger of taking itself a bit too seriously at times over the last two seasons with the peak of that, for me anyway, being right around when I stopped watching. Of course everyone I know that did watch it has said that the finale and the couple episodes prior were excellent. Still, I settled for a few summary articles. Watched the season 4 premiere though and quite enjoyed it, it was supsenseful again (something I thought had been seriously lacking even as far back as the second half of season 2) and the zombie-bashing was prominent. The psycho woman was, in my opinion, a positive way the show can take itself seriously without seeming overly contrived or "ticky-tack" if you will. I wouldn't have done what Rick did though.

[Kevin D]

I think it's been a really good start. Naturally, it's been renewed for another year, given it's huge ratings. The virus is a masterstroke, though, I'd like to see it paired with an outside, non-zombie, threat.

 

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I thought it was strange that they'd have Carol - I think that's her name, anyway - commit an act that really fleshes out her character and give the audience a reason to be interested, only to follow it up by having Rick banish her. It didn't make a lot of sense, to me. The kids are also annoying to me. If any of them could act, this show could become amazing, because nowhere would it be so visceral what humanity has descended to than with kids. That was one of the most remarkable, saddening and gripping about things season 4 of The wire, which I think is one of about 3 places, I've seen child actors used to make a show/movie better.

 

[Stu Monty]

Only seen the first episode so far but that is a very good example of the whole project. The excellence of the slow, intimate, degradation of the soul type scenes and the plain stupidity of bish-bash-bosh shooty bits.

[Baldi]

George Romero called it A Soap Opera with Zombies this week....if Im being honest it hard to disagree with him.

[Kevin D]

That episode was such a tease. Really good stuff, though, just not what I came to see.

[Scott_M]

This is a post-Breaking Bad show I can't give a fuck about now.

[manwiththestick]

This is a post-Breaking Bad show I can't give a fuck about now.

I agree with this, we have been spoilt by BB, I too have lost interest a good number of shows recently. Walking Dead is getting there now.

[neko]

I still watch it, but I record it and fast forward when any character just stops and stares.

 

I can now watch an episode in about 15 minutes.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Well I like it.

[Mendoza]

Best episode of the series so far in  my opinion. David Morrissey pretty much acts the rest of the cast under the table.                                                    

[J-V]

Now that was a quality episode.

[Kevin D]

 

 

 

I have no idea what the point of spending two hours fleshing The Governor out into a real live character with actual dimensions, only to kill him in the third hour. It is a crazy way to write a show. However, it can't be overstated just how great tanks are.

 

All in all a good half-season, probably their best so far. I doubt the baby is dead, but I really, really hope she is.

 

 

 

[redheart]

This was close to how the governor died in the comic (and Ricks wife and child).

 

These 8 episodes have been superb and much better than series 2 and 3.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

This was close to how the governor died in the comic (and Ricks wife and child).

 

These 8 episodes have been superb and much better than series 2 and 3.

Spoiler that shit up, man!

 

I think that was a good episode. As good as any the show has produced.

[Iantn]

Usual levels of entertainment but it couldn't be further removed from good scripted drama if it tried. Characters act in such contrived ways rather than any sorta direction.