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The Walking Dead Season 5, Part 1 Sundays on AMC
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Maggie? Are you insane?! She needs to live to procreate. She is beautiful and badass and reads books!
I say Glenn (sorry man, tough choice) and Gabriel.
Hmmmm. Fair points. Maybe Gabriels character will turn around though.
BlackGhost
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Carrrrrrl, because of the hat.
iShouldGoPro
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Maggie and Paulo had a small story arc and thus are relevant
shinra-bansho
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Just watched the mid-season finale.
Meh.
Characters have all caught the stupid bug again.
Show has veered back into I'll watch it in the background territory.
Meh.
Characters have all caught the stupid bug again.
Show has veered back into I'll watch it in the background territory.
RustyNails
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Take away mopey Tyrese and bring back berserker Tyreese. Dude can clean out that zombie infested school with a hammer all by himself. Just need his viking helmet first.
AngmarsKing701
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Mopey Tyrese before he gets everyone killed
Gabriel because what. the. fuck.
And a bonus of Glenn because #FreeMaggie
What don't you understand? Dawn shot her by mistake. It was a reflex from getting stabbed by scissors. It's pretty weak as far as this show is concerned, but was pretty dramatic.
I followed the chain of events, just now why the the fuck Beth would do something so stupid, and seemingly impulsive.
That still doesn't justify the sheer stupidity of Beth shanking Dawn the way she did. How did she not notice the gun in her hand when she stood so close?
She hated her? Wanted her dead? How dare she claim Noah? That sort of thing.
I don't question her motives. It's the way that it went down that was nonsensical.
Cornballer
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- A Look at the Final Episodes of Season 5: The Walking Dead
Please spoiler tag discussion as appropriate.
Please spoiler tag discussion as appropriate.
Christopher
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I just think Beth finally saw herself as not useless anymore...someone who can hold value to the group. I'm assuming her confidence rose to an alltime high with all of her freinds backing her....she let her emotions take over, and in a quick dumb move acted...
I know I know I'm gonna get yelled at, but this show sucks...why actually build up background fodder character to kill them RIGHT after said built.
I know I know I'm gonna get yelled at, but this show sucks...why actually build up background fodder character to kill them RIGHT after said built.
HadesGigas
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Probably because killing background fodder means absolutely nothing. So they don't want to repeat those kinds of actions the previous show runners did with people they never bothered to build up (RIP T-Dog).
Especially since Beth was a nothing background character that was already there when the new showrunner came on. So like she probably isn't someone who anyone in charge past/present had any kind of long term story planned for, but they at least made her something beyond "that girl that sings sometimes" before killing her.
I definitely think the way they had it go down wasn't the best. Her "I get it now" didn't seem to do the trick in illustrating why she did what she did to many.
RatskyWatsky
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There is 0% chance of Beth coming back.
She'll be back (playing her dead corpse when they bury her in the opening scene of the next episode).
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Perhaps, although I would greatly prefer a time jump that puts the group in another place entirely.
MisterHero
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She's coming back to haunt Maggie for the rest of the season.
Rick has been delirious for the last 3 seasons. Dude doesn't sleep.
Then it's revealed she and Andrea didn't die at all.
Rick has been delirious for the last 3 seasons. Dude doesn't sleep.
Black Republican
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Whats with the Glenn hate?
It's got the same basic plot, and that's about it.
Not sure how legit.
http://nationalreport.net/amcs-walking-dead-agrees-bring-beth-greene-back-life/
The reason why I'm asking, is that I'm curious about watching the series, but I don't want to bother if it's nothing but a retread of it's source material.
Sectorseven
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They're only similar in their broad strokes e.g. the prison, Eugene with his cure and so on. Characters die in the comic who are alive on the show and vice versa, and in different fashions. IMO the comic is drearier than the show (if that's possible), but they both drag on as much.
markofhavoc
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Oh dear god, please don't RETCON it into a dream sequence. I hear they want to put her into more flashbacks, but knowing everyone, they would just complain about the flashbacks happening and dragging everything out and not enough action.
-Pyromaniac-
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His story is genuinely touching, Lennie James is really commanding in the role, and he is just extremely likeable. The fact that he has only fully appeared in 2 episodes and everyone goes wild for him says it all.
Also his and Rick's bond is a strong one so people root for them. I'm dying for the moment they meet up. The most bro-iest of bro hugs will occur.
Uhm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Report
Even a scant look at its front page headlines should have made you suspicious. People pls.
Even a scant look at its front page headlines should have made you suspicious. People pls.
Because in his brief performances he has been a more human, engaging (and largely better performed) character than almost anyone else on the show. I'd argue his story in the pilot was so successful and effecting that it's a large part of why the show became the juggernaut it is today. It legitimized the drama of this zombie story.
I dunno, maybe it's the actor, maybe it's because he wore a ski mask in the summer.
He was the best thing in Jericho.
Maybe it's because of Jericho.
AngmarsKing701
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RatskyWatsky
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AngmarsKing701
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I thought about that too. At least I hope they're stuck in the city.
the_firewithin
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hope we get surfing zombies
Jest Chillin
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LA seems like such a weird city to choose since it's so spread out. Downtown LA doesn't have a ton of high rise buildings (compared to other major cities) and the surrounding areas are basically just neighborhoods and shopping centers. Everything is going to end up looking the same no matter where they go.
Deadly Joker
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I was hoping for Alaska or Hawaii.
AngmarsKing701
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I was hoping for like Moscow or England or Egypt. Would love to see how some of those areas would respond to something like this. Obviously 28 Days Later tried to tackle that with the England setting.
LA is just ... how much different from Atlanta is it really?
HadesGigas
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But LA opens the door for celebrity zombie cameos!
But yeah there was pretty much no way they'd pick a location with a harsher climate (so no snowy or deserty place that'd be more complicated and expensive to film), or a place too culturally/geographically different to believably film in North America and pretend it's that place instead.
But yeah there was pretty much no way they'd pick a location with a harsher climate (so no snowy or deserty place that'd be more complicated and expensive to film), or a place too culturally/geographically different to believably film in North America and pretend it's that place instead.
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