02-27-2013, 09:11 AM | #1601 |
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I think this has been a good season overall, but I think they missed some really good opportunities with the prison. Two of the best "WTF" moments from the graphic novel are set in the prison and they have basically burned their opportunities with low-yield, short-term type of stuff (in my opinion). I think they rushed through the prison a little too quickly and never made it feel like "home."
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02-27-2013, 09:27 AM | #1602 | |
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I think this is probably the right answer. To this point, the only purposes Michonne has really served was to get Andrea out of her jam & to (re)introduce walkers as camo. Otherwise she's basically a drone with a cool sword. That might all have been better served by using Star Trek redshirt to do at least the former, with the idea of walkers as cover being "discovered" by a regular character (or even a random character) based on the use of walker guts as cover in Season 1. It's not the same universe & these are not the same characters, I get that ... but to this point all they've really done with them is to create an opportunity for real-world issues about the dopplegangers.
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I dunno -- I think the Walking Dead universe is pretty conducive with letting some characters stick in the background for awhile and then step up when the storyline/opportunity allows for it.
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02-27-2013, 07:37 PM | #1606 |
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Looks like the show will have a new show runner for season 4. After AMC and Darabount couldn't get along, the guy after him seems to have run up against the same wall with AMC and is out.
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02-27-2013, 08:30 PM | #1607 | |
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I didn't see that mentioned in the article I read.
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Talking about his personal life where?
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I just thought it was company policy to fire expendable employees when they start to show some back story...probably shouldn't post when I'm drinking.
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More & more accounts seem to indicate the tensions aren't between AMC & the showrunners but instead are between Kirkman and the showrunners.
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02-27-2013, 09:15 PM | #1612 | |
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That very well could be it and would not surprise me at all. "AMC" could just be the generic catch all for "Kirkman" and they don't want to air out too much dirty laundry.
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02-27-2013, 09:36 PM | #1614 |
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Ultimately it's Kirkman's characters and reputation at stake. I heard some theory that there was some decision making by Mazarra that just pushed the powers that be over the edge. I wonder if he made some decision and then got into fuck you creative control mode.
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I think so. I think the news about Mazarra came down a while ago. Everyone fretted when Darabount left and the show was fine. Hopefully, the same will be true regarding Mazarra's departure. If AMC is truly just dicking around it's most popular show ever, just to dick around with it, they are pretty silly.
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Except maybe to say that the writer of this week's episode is the guy named as the show-runner.
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Almost on cue perhaps, Michonne uses a different voice than we've heard in previous episodes & maybe begins the transformation into a meaningful character.
Or not. edit to add: A couple of nice touches (especially the final scene) but tbh I'm feeling a bit bludgeoned by the point that it's a hard changed world.
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I liked this one -- it flew by for me.
Good contrast between Rick/Carl and Morgan/Duane. Some good tension (I thought getting "trapped" in the car was kind of a good scene (compared to how the situation may have played out just after the outbreak) and I really liked the bookend scenes with the backpacked traveler. |
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Agreed - I really liked the stuff with Michonne and Carl and it finally showed something from both of them. A great, great episode...and holy crap, the rest of this season is gonna be nuts...
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Yep, was pleased with this episode in terms of a "not core plot" one. Thought there was meaningful plot development from each of the three characters. Getting a chance to narrow in on three players instead of serving a cast of ... well, I guess dozens ... certainly helps that cause.
Also enjoyed the level of detail that went into Morgan's quarters and the town. Definitely helped create a creepy atmosphere that was different than most of the other city scenes over the past three seasons. |
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Kudos to whomever called them spoiling Morgan's return in the opening credits. That was groan worthy.
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03-03-2013, 11:48 PM | #1627 |
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Huh, I expected a bit more gushing praise here I think! I think that may be my favorite episode of Walking Dead ever. That was an absolutely brilliant hour of television by any standard. The defense Morgan had put together to survive was simply awesome, the dialogue in the episode was gripping and moving, the scenes with Michonne and Carl were entertaining, tense, and meaningful. Michonne all of a sudden has a couple solid one liners for comic relief ("hey, the mat said welcome"). Morgan describing how his son died, and how he didn't have it in him to kill his wife as a walker, his despair about the state of the world... just an incredible scene.
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Didn't catch the "Erin we tried for Stone Mountain -J" sign and the one walker that had the "Erin" name bracelet. Neat detail.
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Was I the only one, when Carl started to go off on his own again, that groaned, "Shit, 2nd Season Carl is back...grrr"
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I entirely agree. Morgan remains my favorite character to ever be on the show - Lennie James has been brilliant with that limited role. You can't help but feel for his character and I wish he was on there full-time. Two of the best episodes are the two he was in and that's not a coincidence. Combine Morgan's return with Michonne and Carl turning into Actual Fucking People and the episode bloomed into something awesome. Plus, Rick looks like he's come back to the world of the sane and that helps - having the main character go off the deep end didn't help the show. I noticed the Erin thing - nice touch. |
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I had a slight twinge of that, but not too much. The motivation was totally different. This wasn't "Carl as a bored kid just wandering around to see what the world is like and create some plot contrivance." This was Carl trying to take some responsibility for his sister and his attempt to deal with what happened to his mother, knowing full well that his father isn't in a place to do it. He certainly was feeling more competent than he actually is/was, but I found it to be a pretty good slice of the character and it showed some growth, as opposed to just being some random walk about. Definitely hoping Michonne starts to open up more. It was a really nice change. Morgan's traps were pretty eingenious. I am not sure if I have really seen their like before. The bookend with the backpacker was great.
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Just brilliant. Loved every second of it. I think this gives us fans of the novel hope for what is too, finally, come of Michone.
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Pretty good episode and it did fly by like it was only 20 minutes. I like how it ended with them backing up and picking up the backpack. Tough, cold, cruel world.
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yeah, that was great. the only way it could have been better is if they'd accidentally run over the Governor and Andrea on the way home
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This episode is what the show should be, traveling around to different cities and meeting different people. The show drags when they get stationary like at the farm and now in the prison. Wrap up the Governor storyline, have a war at the prison and get back on the road.
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Agreed, but gotta be honest here. It was the guy playing Morgan (Lennie James) that made this episode. Not sure those lines could have been pulled off with your standard actor and this episode would have been average without his intense delivery of that dialouge. Gotta be one of my favorite TV actors since seeing him in Jericho years ago. Other than that, yes, it is nice to actually see Michonne and Carl develop as a characters. Carl has actually been coming into his own way before this, but it was nice to see he and Rick still carry those pieces of humanity left despite what they went through.
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supposedly Lennie James has a show in the works for AMC that debuts in the fall. I'm there.
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What kind of show is this? Do you have a link? Inquiring minds want to know. Well maybe at least me.
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I ended up watching this episode again last night because Lady H_B turned in early on Sunday. Lennie James has killed it in both episodes he's been in. Absolutely killed it. He was really fantastic. Carl has definitely one of the Most Improved Characters on television from Season 2 to Season 3. Very glad to see Michonne finally come out of her shell and show her personality. I really hope that she continues down that path and doesn't regress back to glowering and mumbling a few words here and there. The character has some great promise.
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I agree. Now that I think about it more, I'm not really impressed with the governor character...just another typical post apocalyptic dictator, like General Bethlehem from The Postman.
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I wish shows in general would stop with the "bad-guy-that-people-think-is-really-a-good-guy" stuff. or at the very least, speed the discovery along a lot. even if you hadn't read the comic book, you KNEW he was going to be a bad guy in the end. so all these stupid, drawn-out scenes with Andrea and the Governor turn out to be sooooo fucking boring. and now we get to repeat it all over agan with the new folks. just let him complete the transformation to bad guy already.
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I think he's pretty much been a complete bad guy since the first episode we saw him. Zombie daughter in the closet, butchering the national guard unit, etc. I don't think the audience is supposed to believe that he's actually a good guy, but rather that he can be very charismatic and charming, which makes his role as The Governor all the more believable and makes him all the more menacing. I much prefer his protrayl on the TV show, which is more subtle and believable, but as equally brutal and evil, than what he was in the comic, which was a much more transparent, mustache-twirling villain. I think the actor has nailed the role. I found it damn creepy to see him slide back into the "good guy" governor role so easy with Tyrese and his crew, even after he had "gone off the rails." Andrea does suck.
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I agree, after a couple or three episodes, we as the viewers, know that he's a bad guy. We don't need any more exposition or build up even if the characters in the show don't know yet. Don't get me wrong though, the actor that is playing the Governor, is doing an outstanding job. Just let him be a bad ass 100% of the time now, as that would throw a whole new wrinkle for everyone at Woodbury and how they try to handle it. "Well, he did organize us and protect us, but...". But, that's me and my opinion and that's why I sit behind a keyboard and write stuff on a message board.
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Info here: hxxp://www.deadline.com/tag/low-winter-sun/ and here: hxxp://www.freep.com/article/20130211/ENT03/130211043/AMC-s-Low-Winter-Sun-nets-7-5M-in-Michigan-film-incentives |
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What are the odds that (spoiler based on the fact that im not sure whether it's speculation or a true spoiler)
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