The Walking Dead - Season 2 - Sundays on AMC

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That was a really boring episode out of the last 5 minutes. They showed way too much online before the premiere of the tense parts.
 
tycoonheart said:
So true. Everyone is hollow.
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I can agree sorta. I do like Darryl just because he seems like he knows his shit. I didn't mind the episode though. I haven't seen much previews so most of it was new. Looks like it could be a good season. I'm just glad its back.
 
watching this in an hour on pvr so I don't have to sit through the ads....was it any good? was it at least entertaining?

characters sucked ass last season, I don't even remember their names. I agree with brianjones.
 
As with any horror oriented stories, you need dumb people doing dumb shit or there wouldn't be enough filler.

This episode is basically two people derailing the whole trip.
 
Vulcano's assistant said:
the redneck is pretty cool.
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He's a boss. I watched S1 before reading any of the books, but I am glad he was added to the story. If I had read the comics first I might have been upset about additions to the group not in the original story, but here's some redneck, riding around on a 'SS-insigniad' bike, sniping geeks in the head with arrows? Darryl is a badass.
 
Thought it was decent, but better than the late episodes last season. Fucking commercial breaks destroyed any flow it was trying to develop. That and too little happening plot wise.
 
mjc said:
That was a really boring episode out of the last 5 minutes. They showed way too much online before the premiere of the tense parts.
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That is why I love doing dark on things I want to watch/play, there are way to many spoilers out there.
 
Well, that was boring.

It's like they're trying way too hard to make us care. I cared enough before, stop beating me over the head with it.

"Can't find a radiator hose here...just a bunch of FUCKING WORKING CARS"
 
Well, that was decent. Not amazing, and nothing compared to the first season's opener, but it was okay.

I couldn't tell the budget had jumped at all from season 1, but the special effects didn't look that bad. Decent direction, not great. Really painful opening monologue. (If they could hear you, wouldn't they be responding to you? Stop wasting your battery.) Thankfully, Dale is still the most awesome character on the show. If he dies and something also happens to Daryl, I will probably stop watching.

Sorta predictable episode overall (minus the ending... I knew something was going to happen, but not that), but I will say this in the show's defense: I can't tell you how many times I pointed out an inconsistency or plot hole or obvious missed opportunity to my friend as we watched, only to have the script address it immediately. That happened a lot during the first season, too. The writers are smarter than most.
 
Not bad, but was a letdown after that trailer. Should do better in the non 90 minute format, I think.

Never watching it live again, though. Commercials were bleh. Thank zombie jesus for dvrs.
 
Better than the worst of Season 1 but nowhere near as good as the Pilot. The final twist would be awesome if they don't go back on it which they surely will.

And yeah the commercials were horrible. What's the point of a nice 25 minute block upfront without commercials if there will be breaks every couple minutes towards the end?
 
That was a horrible premiere. Just incredibly boring. The show really needs a human enemy because the whole wandering around thing is not providing for much entertainment. The entire plot for this hour and a half episode was that they got caught on a highway, surrounded by zombies for a bit, lost a girl and then spent the rest of the episode looking for her? That's it? The zombies and gore were of course the stars of the show. I seriously don't care for any of the characters with the exception of Dale and Glenn... And I only like Dale because of his stupid faces. Rick is so annoying with the whole southern hospitality crap. Hate the way he acts and talks. Even if they manage to get good actors and characters on the show they'll still need to do something about the writing because at times it's retarded. Also, I really would like to see them do more scenes at night and during the rain. They could do more with the atmosphere on this show.
 
Night_Trekker said:
Oh come on.
"Your wife is pregnant."
That's got to be what it was.



Hell yes he is. Best character in the show.
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Nah, I thought so too but that doesn't fit in the context of him being about to tell Morgan at the beginning of the episode. That means it's probably:

comic spoilers

That they're all already infected
 
akskiller said:
It was ok. Will continue to watch.
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Yeah, I'm going to stick with it.
I watched most of last season, bough a bunch of different books on Amazon afterwards (compendium, Books 5 and 6, and then whatever volume follows Books 6), and then bought the blu ray and watched the episode I missed from Season 1. I liked Season 1 and liked the graphic novel. This episode? I didn't like Sophia being lost and I didn't like Andrea being dumb, but it was okay.
I am fine with the lack of action the episode because I get that it is not a 'Zombie Show.' I know the general direction they are heading with Carl getting shot, so there is potentially a lot coming up (but after the whole CDC debacle, who knows?).

My only problem besides Andrea was the frequency of commercials. Last year either the first half hour or the first hour was commercial free I thought. We only made it 24 minutes in before commercials hit this time. I was hoping for the same thing as last year when I saw that this episode would be 90 minutes also.

I really hope
Maggie
ends up being a good character when they introduce here though.
 
It's just amazing how not self aware this show is. It's like nobody in the writers room ever plots out the season or episodes really, and just banks on moving things from moment to moment. There is no subtext or humor - compare it to Breaking Bad, a similar, incredibly intense show, that drops humor in on a regular basis. This show has none of that at all. It's very narrow minded in tone and thusly, not engaging.


Kuroyume said:
That was a horrible premiere. Just incredibly boring. The show really needs a human enemy because the whole wandering around thing is not providing for much entertainment. The entire plot for this hour and a half episode was that they got caught on a highway, surrounded by zombies for a bit, lost a girl and then spent the rest of the episode looking for her? That's it? The zombies and gore were of course the stars of the show. I seriously don't care for any of the characters with the exception of Dale and Glenn... And I only like Dale because of his stupid faces. Rick is so annoying with the whole southern hospitality crap. Hate the way he acts and talks. Even if they manage to get good actors and characters on the show they'll still need to do something about the writing because at times it's retarded. Also, I really would like to see them do more scenes at night and during the rain. They could do more with the atmosphere on this show.
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This nails it too. This whole show is just so unambitious, it drives me crazy. Hundred ways you could do a zombie series and they pick this slog worthy straight forward shit where you have something like a dozen inert characters who constantly stumble through dangerous situations but are rarely ever in danger. The show is not out right terrible & betraying it's own audience like The Killing yet, but I dunno how anybody could find any of this "great", even if you're a writer for the show. It all feels so hastily executed, not even as if the writers are trying to be "cool" in particular moments, just moving things along from scene to scene hoping to keep things "tense". Bottomline, the show has got no meat to it. I'll keep watching if I have the time just for the laughs, because this debut seems to pretty firmly establish no one making this show actually finds anything funny in it.
 
I figured out why mine didn't record, and what the fuck. I used to get AMC HD, all of a sudden I don't. Thanks a lot Verizon FIOS you prick fucks. This is the reason I left Comcast, they stopped dropping channels on me out of nowhere. Gonna call them tomorrow and bitch them out. Unacceptable.
 
I tell you what though, in addition to Hell on Wheels, the commercial that happened during the first break (also happening as I type) for The Immortals has got me interested too.
I said I would watch it after seeing the first trailer even though I thought it looked terrible, because I love Greek mythology so much. But this commercial made it look like it might be good.
 
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