The Walking Dead: The Television Series

Fox 6 · 11-06-2011, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

Not everyone has a gun.

This is tha 'Merican south. Errebuddy gots guns

Typhoid · 11-06-2011, 03:37 PM

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I think you got a little mixed up there. The sign on the tree read "Got bit, fever hit, decided to quit" So he realized he had been bitten and then wanted to kill himself.

Well, he still defiinitely wasn't a zombie when he hung himself.

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But my question is, if he knew what happens when you get bit why didnt he blow his head of? Like the redneck guy points out.

Meh, maybe he didn't know. Maybe he just knew he started feeling insane, sick, and had an affinity for human flesh, and thought "Fuck this shit."

Professor S · 11-06-2011, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Fox 6

This is tha 'Merican south. Errebuddy gots guns

Coming from a Canadian... do southerners all wear cowboy hats as well?

Fox 6 · 11-06-2011, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

Coming from a Canadian... do southerners all wear cowboy hats as well?

not all of em. only the though hombres, or the queers.........

Typhoid · 11-07-2011, 03:18 PM

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Coming from a Canadian... do southerners all wear cowboy hats as well?

Only in Alberta. I wish that was actually a joke.

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I feel like they are needlessly trying to stretch out the plot and it is lacking any of the page-turning genuine shocks from the books.

That's definitely a possibility. It's not like there haven't been shows that are guilty of dragging on scenes to fill time.

Last episode wasn't my favourite, but I still enjoyed it for what it was.

KillerGremlin · 11-07-2011, 03:34 PM

I've been following Reddit's /r/TheWalkingDead subreddit. Lots of fans complaining about the same stuff we are, and lots of comments like:

"If you complain so much, why do you keep watching the show!"

The obvious answer is that I've read the comics, and I'm heavily invested in The Walking Dead mythology. I'm a super fan. But there is another reason.

This was my epiphany last night:

Part of the reason why I am watching the show is because I want to be here when the Titanic sinks. There is a sadistic level of enjoyment I get from watching really bad writing. I also get some laughs too. Unintentional comedy FTW.

I'm with Prof S in that I have a lot of curiosity as to where they are going...morbid, morbid curiosity.

I think it is human nature to want to watch destruction. The 9 o'clock news, Nascar, destruction derbys, the X-games, war, weird porn like the pain Olympics, and bad writing. Eh?

Angrist · 11-07-2011, 03:38 PM

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Part of the reason why I am watching the show is because I want to be here when the Titanic sinks. There is a sadistic level of enjoyment I get from watching really bad writing. I also get some laughs too. Unintentional comedy FTW.

For a while I felt like that with Terran Nova. But then I realized I wasn't only wasting my time, I made my day worse by watching the show.

Vampyr · 11-07-2011, 03:51 PM

I still watch it because I think it's a good show and enjoyable. I have my complaints, but I still think it's one of the better things on TV right now.

Plus it's zombies.

KillerGremlin · 11-07-2011, 03:54 PM

It definitely has good things going for it.

Humor: dangling the Asian kid in the well.
Sexy: Sideboob, peeing on stick
Well-rounded cast: Asian delivery guy, black guy named T-Dawg, Nazi rednecks

and zombies!

I like the Hershel Green convo between Rick and Hershel this episode. And did anyone see the shot where they cut to the barn? I think some crazy stuff is going to go down, and they are already setting Hershel up to be a nutter.