Tonight's Walking Dead

RussMo said:
Hey Alex, right on Bro!!! My wife and I thought that was cool that Rick finally grew a pair and took charge of something. GET-r-DONE good scene indeed:thumbup:
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Rick has changed a bit starting with the finale of the last season. I think most viewers don't like Rick because he isn't like Daryl or Shane. I'm enjoying watching him change as he learns to survive the zombacolypse when he has to take care of all these people, though.
 
uyotg said:
What caused Rick to shoot them? I looked down to cut my toenails just seconds before I heard the gunshots. I thought Dave had put his gun on the counter and was holding a bottle of wine or something to show he didn't mean any harm and I missed the whole thing :(
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Dave reached for the gun on the counter, not fast enough, though. The whole thing happened extremely fast.
 
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I missed this part, but I saw where he took out Sarah( I think...the little zombie girl). Kinda sad. All of em where so gung ho to shoot all the walkers and then she came out.:eek:

He made an executive decision when he turned her off though.
 
I actually did a google search Saturday to find out when the show was coming back on, then my battery died before I could get an answer. Then when I turned on my TV to see if it was on last night I had the Complete Signal Loss error message from the DISH being covered in a inch of snow. It just was not meant to be I guess. :thumbdn:
 
Lexi said:
I actually did a google search Saturday to find out when the show was coming back on, then my battery died before I could get an answer. Then when I turned on my TV to see if it was on last night I had the Complete Signal Loss error message from the DISH being covered in a inch of snow. It just was not meant to be I guess. :thumbdn:
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I know they have it on on demand with Comcast, I would imagine satellite would be the same, if not watch it online, they should have episodes on the web site
 
This episode was awesome compared to the snooze-fest that was the first half of the season.

Quick Busse-related question...how did the Busse come to be on the show?? Product placement or does Hollywood know what's up in regard to badass and quality?

Thanks

-Emt1581
 
emt1581 said:
This episode was awesome compared to the snooze-fest that was the first half of the season.

Quick Busse-related question...how did the Busse come to be on the show?? Product placement or does Hollywood know what's up in regard to badass and quality?

Thanks

-Emt1581
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I don't think it's product placement. They prominently flash Gerber everywhere, but don't even mention INFI Daryl's knife's specs. It's just a "steel composite," and I can barely make out the logo.
 
The portly gentleman circled behind Rick while the obviously dominant, street-smart guy tried to distract him with some thrown liquor.
 
Ah, good to have the show back on the air. I pegged those lurky dudes in the bar as scumbags straight off, know the type and avoid whenever possible. Nice to see a little cowboy quickdraw in the ol saloon :)

So when are we going to see a bigass Busse roll of knives on the show?
 
It was good to see Rick man up and do something decisive. Those guys were scummy.
 
The best thing about the show is the intelligent writing. The character of Shane is very impressive. They could have just written him off as another macho, hot-headed militant, and treated him, at best, as a necessary evil.

Instead, they place him in pivotal roles in actions that appear unethical to some of the other characters, but instead come off as morally ambiguous to more open-minded viewers: For example, his sabotage of Otis and subsequent sacrifice of him, so that he could ensure getting back to the boy and save his life. Also, his empowering of the blond woman (the one who lost her sister) which enabled her to cope and survive quite handily.

They even had him comforting the mother who just saw her zombified daughter killed. That was touching, no?

When Shane confronted Dale in the woods after he was trying to hide all the firearms, the old man tells him-- "you are made for this world." Well, yes, he is. And isn't your group better for it? There was almost a hint of envy coming from the busybody old man as he delivered the line. And I like Dale's character, too.

The first season was all about action and gore-- typical zombie fare. But now we are left with the only place this can go, which is the ponderous and tragic realization that things are just awful, and doom surrounds them all. The show has become very heavy, as it should.

Edited to add: the only thing puzzling is the character of the black guy. His continued irrelevance sticks out like a sore thumb.
 
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I pegged those lurky dudes in the bar as scumbags straight off, know the type and avoid whenever possible.
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Not necessarily. They were just trying to survive like everyone else. It's just that Rick was a better survivor. ;)
 
komondor said:
Not necessarily. They were just trying to survive like everyone else. It's just that Rick was a better survivor. ;)
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Gotta disagree, here. The questions they asked all pointed at marauder/pirate type behavior. The chubbo's statement about shooting them all in the head and taking the farm cements them in the marauder role.
They never had any intention of teaming up for survival. The way they separated to divide and surround their intended victims is street thug/mugger tactics if there ever were any. They just picked the wrong victims, that time.
 
Holmesmade said:
Gotta disagree, here. The questions they asked all pointed at marauder/pirate type behavior. The chubbo's statement about shooting them all in the head and taking the farm cements them in the marauder role.
They never had any intention of teaming up for survival. The way they separated to divide and surround their intended victims is street thug/mugger tactics if there ever were any. They just picked the wrong victims, that time.
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I don't think komondor meant they were trying to team up and survive together.
In post-apocolypse fiction, these types of people always show up. They're surviving, just in a way that isn't very humane or civil.

And, komondor, I had a good time reading what you wrote. :thumbup: to you, man. I think a lot of the lines are pretty bad, but the good writing comes from what the characters don't say for the most part, and I see that a lot of it is ignored in lieu of the git-r-done types like Daryl and Shane. Cool guys, but what would The Walking Dead have been without all the people drama? All zombie fiction eventually ends up being about the people and not the zombies, but this is the first one that does it well.
 
I agree totally about the real drama occurring in the silent moments. Some of the great zombie film directors do this. George Romero has always been a master of goofy zombie antics that are meant to distract the weak minded away from the real story. It's a tremendous medium for social commentary. Making use of the "negative space" is one of the most important steps in creating true art.
 
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