Nobody’s started a season premiere thread yet? Ninety minutes, Rick & the gang leave Atlanta. Followed imediately by an encore at 10:30pm, The Talking Dead post-episode discussion at midnight (is that just for the premiere, or is it going to be a regular thing), and finally a 2nd encore at 12:30am.
These people are idiots for the most part. While the show’s premise is interesting, I’m having a hard time liking most of the characters.
I love this genre, and I’ll probably stick with it to the bitter end, but they sure do go after the low hanging fruit on this show. This show never met a cliché they didn’t like.
Watching this new season premiere, I realized that I want to like this show more than I actually like it. This continues to be a badly written show for the most part, with little in the way of plot and some farily contrived character “development.”
The mob of undead on the highway was a great scene, and genuinely tense. But after that, the episode gradually ran out of steam and ideas, and substituting a lot of blah soap opera in place of a story. The cop talking to the icon of Jesus at the end begging him to “show him a sign!” was just trite.
And was it just me or were there like 10 minutes of commercials for every 2 minutes of actual show? It seemed like the producers made a standard hour-long episode that got expanded to 90 minutes just by twice as many ads. It seemed like every 30 seconds they were going to another commercial.
Yeah - it seems like they had a fairly standard opening act (maybe 15-20 minutes), and then they just started stuffing in ads (did you know that they were going to have discussion and that Patton Oswalt was going to be part of it?).
It would interesting if a DVR person could report the actual show time. My guess is that it will fit easily into an hour when they package it into the season two DVD.
Voted ‘meh’, although I was surprised they killed off at least one kid. Also wasn’t happy with the Jesus chat, and was really annoyed when the stag showed up as an obvious sign. They twisted that nicely, though.
Yes, that’s part of the charm. I love how they allowed both children to wander around cars that may or may not have zombies in them ready to reach out of the windows without warning. If they were my neices or nephews I’d have them sitting that the RV doing busywork or sorting stuff the adults brought back. Also if you’re sitting in an RV and you see a herd of zombies passing though at least close the fucking door! :rolleyes: Even if it’s not locked it doesn’t look like these zombies have the motor skills to open a door (other than by randomly pushing on it).
Anybody notice if any of the corpses sitting in the cars had head wounds? If not that would suggest only bite victims reanimate since otherwise they’d have reanimated trapped in their cars. The guy in the tent didn’t look like he had a headwound either. I though the church scene was very nicely done. Before they opened the doors I half-expected it to be filled with bodies left over from a mass suicide. If this was a zomedy the pews would have empty clothes and shoes all over them, then a jump cut to either a bunch of naked bodies or a pack of naked zombies unseen to the main characters. 
Yes, I know I have a sick sense of humour.
Speaking of churches; what was powering the timer on the loudspeaker? 
Is power still on in that area or would it make sense for it to be on a battery. Also do Bapists usually have crucifixes on the altar? :dubious: I figured they’d go a bare cross with an American flag on one side and a Christian flag on the other.
Oh, and it looks like AMC is premiering George Romero’s Survial of the Deadtomorrow night. It’s crap, don’t waste your time on it. It’s not even “a bad movie”; it’s just a bad movie. The only way I’d ever watch it a 2nd time would be if it had Rifftrack-like commentary. Romero has seriously lost his touch in his old age.
“This place is a cemetery. I don’t know how I feel about this.” (“This” being looting from all the cars that were stopped in the traffic jam.) Hey, stupid, how do you feel about your kid dying of starvation or thirst? You’re in a new world - you do what you have to to survive.
I think my favourite character is the survivalist biker. It’s just a little hard to believe that he is putting up with all the dead weight around him.
Yeah, I loved how Carol sounded like she was in a department store for a moment looking at that red blouse. 
The father of the bride must be so proud.
Anyway, I loved it. The JC chat at then bugged me some, but I remember from the book that that woman was a religious nut.
I don’t think AMC has the budget to make this an action show, so we get 45 minutes of them in the woods.
Don’t big guys have the same amount of blood as everyone else? How many gallons did that one guy lose after cutting himself on a piece of metal?
Was it just me, or did Carl’s shirt not have any holes in it after getting shot? My guess is he just got splattered by the deer’s blood.
D’oh, figures. 2 minutes later I see a commercial for next week’s episode where Rick says he is shot.
Started out real good, and then got stuck on a sand bar with the search for Sophie. I still liked it, overall, but it was really slow in sections. I like the tension they’re setting up between the various people. It seems pretty real, given the circumstances.
But why on earth did they let the 2 kids get under the car by themselves, and why did it take so fucking long before one of the adults moved to save her from the Walker? Even after the few seconds delay, it seems like she had way too much of a head start given the actual time that passed.
Did Daryl call the Asian guy “Short Stuff”, in reference to the Indiana Jones movie?
I’m pretty sure there was blood splattered on the inside of the tent, plus he had that gun in his hand, and didn’t the redneck say the guy had “opted out”?
Yes, he did.
BTW, what kind of parent allows his kid to walk up to a stag in the woods? Those guys are very territorial, and they will charge you.
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Not to mention they need the meat.
Apparently after the zombies rise arterial cuts will be fixable with a small bandage.
Let bitch kill herself if she wants to; more bottled water for everyone else.
I remember the woman’s husband was abusive but was this a reveal about his impure feelings for his daughter?
Morons. I stood along side a road in Custer State Park (South Dakota) and watched a van stop and two teen boys walk right past a “Buffalo are Dangerous! Do Not Approach!” sign, announcing to their dad that they were going to get up on this HUGE bull so he could get a picture. Dumbshit dad just started reaching for his camera when I pointed at the sign and said that might not be a good idea.
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Also do Bapists usually have crucifixes on the altar? :dubious:
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Obligatory TV Trope link: Christianity is Catholic. (Hollywood doesn’t quite grasp Protestantism; half the time when they show a minister he’ll have a black suit and a collar even if he’s Baptist or Methodist.)
So far this show is keeping my attention because they’re great on suspense. Yeah, they have blood and guts which is typical of horror shows and movies, but in my opinion suspense has been almost a dead art for a long time and this show seems to be good at it.
I wondered about that, too; he seemed to lose a couple of gallons just after he cut himself - it was arterial spray coming out of there, and lots of it. It’s a little hard to believe that all those Walkers going by wouldn’t have smelled the fresh, spraying blood, either. I thought he was dead, lying on the pavement, but nope, slap a bandaid on and good as new.
Short Round, and yes. Glenn didn’t seem to like it much. 
Last season, didn’t we go over how infectious the blood and bodily fluids of the Walkers are, and here in this episode we see Blonde Girl covered in Walker blood (including her mouth), and everyone just stabbing them willy-nilly, which would normally make blood spray out everywhere?
I only saw a few minutes of it and I had to wonder about that.