On the flipside, I read the Walking Dead comics and found them pretty mediocre. Or, more accurately, I found up until the prison arc (and through to the end of it) to be good, and for the rest of the comic to drag on and be worthless.

The show, however, I vastly prefer to the comic. While the acting might not be that great, it's still better than the writing and god fucking awful art in the comic. (Seriously, it starts off shitty, and only gets worse. Why people pay for that garbage confuses the shit out of me. A comic without good art is just a shitty, really overpriced book.)

 

I live in India.

I will give you a thousand bucks if you can find me TWD in any library all across country.

 

Touche, that didn't occur to me. Get them online then if you can.

 

I did, read about 5 too but sitting in front of a PC and reading a comic kinda renders the point moot and is annoying as hell.

If I fit the page into the screen letters go too small. If I increase size I have to keep moving the scroll bar left and right to navigate and sometimes I miss important stuff.

I will try it again, maybe I can find in some other format which is readable on my screen.

 

So, Walking Dead came back tonight. Overall, a mixed bag.

Scene towards the end at a bar was fantastic, tense, and starts to address a theme that the show hadn't delved into until this point.

However, Laurie...retarded. Horrible, horrible writing. I don't know what they were thinking. Easily one of the lowest points of the season.

 

Agreed, a very cheap way to create unnecessary tension, as if there wasn't enough of that already. The Bar Scene was great, though for a second there I thought the skinny guy was gona be the Governor/

 

Agreed about Lori. Unnecessary tension that made me hate the character for being so stupid.

However, yes. Bar scene. That's the Rick we all know and love from the comics.

"I hear Nebraska's nice..."

Awesome.

 

Are they worth reading? I got into the show because it looked cool, I wasn't even aware there was a comic-book series until last year, and I just haven't gotten around to looking them up.

Is it just me, or does Shane manage to become a bigger douche as the series goes on? Honestly, it just seems like he's out to be the Sasuke.

And, as far as Lori goes, I've always held onto the idea that she's a dumb bitch. I've never liked her while watching the show, and the way she's waffling between Rick and Shane is sort of dumb to me, as well as her throwing up those pills.

Now, Darryl, on the other hand, was pretty good in this episode, in my opinion. It seems like he's the only person willing to actually speak his mind, or stand up to Lori.

Also, what's-her-face, that blond chick who wants Shane's dick, needs to stop trying to impress him. To continue with the Naruto parallels, it's like Part 1 Sakura. Except worse.

 

I still kind of like Shane as a character, probably not as a person though. Sure, I raged with everyone else when he shot Otis down to escape, but in the end someone had to have been sacrificed, or all three would have died, and I'm not sure if I could fault the logic that Otis was the reason they were there in the first place.

Shane putting Rick in his cross hairs earlier on was really the only action that I was repulsed on, unless I'm forgetting something.

Personally, Dale has been getting on my nerves since the beginning of the season. How he's still alive, I'll never know.

In fact the only characters I actually like at the moment are probably Darryl, Shane, and the kid. Though Rick did redeem himself a little at the end of this episode. Glenn isn't so bad.

 

Darryl, Shane, and Carl are the only people in that show that understands the way the world is.
Shane needs to loosen up on the crazy a bit.

Lori gets upset because Carl said he would have shot little zombie girl. She said he was becoming cold. I think that the kid finally woke up. It sees what needs to be done.

Shane is right with Rick acting like its pre-zombie land. It’s all about survival. Dave also seems to lack the survival gene. All about acting like it’s the same happy law and order civilization. There are new rules and Shane knows some of them.
Also the bar bit, Rick got kind of hypocritical with not letting the strangers stay on the farm. Farmer dude said the same thing to him, but now it’s all reversed.
Lori is just a drama queen all around. Drama with Shane. Drama with being pregnant. Drama with Carl. Drama with farm. Now she runs her car off the road. Do any of these people realize they are working with limited resources?
Also the baby has to be Shane’s. Rick was back for only what a week before she found out she was pregnant? Does no one find that timing off?

 

I think Rick realized something was up. He was a cop after all. Also the type of people who would shoot you for not letting them stay on your farm aren't the kind of people you want. Also he knew it wasn't his decision, that simple shit was hard enough there already.

As for Shane, I wouldn't have a problem with him if his utilitarian outlook didn't seem like it was there to justify his murder and his jealousy of Rick. He may be right but his motives seem weird to me. And with all his fucking talk, it didn't escape me that when push came to fucking shove he couldn't do his job at the end of the half-season break. And that Rick for all his "weakness" was the one who could actually step up and do it. All his talk seems to be a rationalization for his inner fucked-up-ness.

I fucking despise Dale. But he is doing what he should have done a long time ago.

Also if what happened to Lori was meant to create some tension then it failed horribly. I used to defend her even though she really served no purpose beyond pointless drama (that and sending people out into town for her shit instead of going herself - Darryl hit that nail on the head) but I've wanted her to die ever since she threw up those pills.And when she said that Darryl was being selfish... I near put my hand through my screen. Hopefully she gets eaten sometime this season but I doubt they want to have something so big happen so soon after the last surprise.

And the child is Shane's it's been stated. And she wants to keep it away from it's father, which should prove interesting.

 

This. So fucking much this. While he's usually right to some extent with what he has to say, it's pretty telling how he's fallen short in almost every way: As a leader (failing to set up a watch system before the zombies attacked their camp in season 1), as a fighter (so far we've seen Daryl and Rick kick ten times as much zombie ass each), and as a human being in general (everything else he's done).

Anyway, is anyone else wondering if Morgan and his son are with the "friends" that the skinny guy mentioned? Or have they pretty much been forgotten?

 

I wondering if they are going to use

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this crash as a way to kill off the baby. I can't imagine AMC being cool with a baby getting blown away by a shotgun like in the comics. If they are going to write the baby out of the story this would be the time to do it.

Still, it's a pretty shitty idea. I bet Frank Darabont wouldn't have done it >_<

They really need to get the hell off the farm soon. I'm all for character development, but it's about time to do it at another location.

All in all the episode was decent enough. The ending made up for the misfire with the Lori stuff.

 

The ending must have really stamped down the fact that Rick is not to be fucked with in Hershel's view.

He's protecting his wife and kids - don't fuck with him.

 

This show started out great. I hadn't read the comic, but the premise of a zombie apocalypse in which the focus is the characters and not the action seemed awesome. And then they fucked it up.

I was expecting the drama to be more justified and related to character personalities crashing, not some woman crashing the car. Guess it's putting me off because the promised drama became the same old drama of all other series; she loves him and him, but he is unavailable so she goes with the other he, and then the first he returns and one is pregnant, then the other dies and the character has a drastic change of personality, blah blah blah. Done and dusted. I expected something new.

Guess we'll always have season 1.

 

As everyone has said, the car flip was retarded but everything else was sweet.

I think you're missing some of the between-the-lines byplay going on there. Maybe it's just because the comics go deeper into it so it's already in my head, but I think the show was also fairly clear on how strained everything is. It's less of a love triangle situation and more of a "Oh God everything's fucked" situation. Which is sort of the whole point of the Walking Dead - the people who are left trying to live their lives, which involves a lot more than killing zombies.

The car flip was definitely a cop out, though.

Speaking of the comics: the good thing about this show is that it's different enough from the comics to be fresh while still keeping the ridiculous awesomeness. For those of you who haven't read them, I'd highly recommend it.

 

That's one way to interpret it but I thought when I watched it that Herschel for the first time realized how bad it is out there and can get for his family and he recognized Rick for a leader personality which sort of mixes with your view. At least I got the impression that there was some understanding at the end.

P.S. One of the strongest scenes in the whole series.

 

Nah, the strongest scene in the whole series has to be the ending of Season 1. The fact that everyone in the group just realized how fucked they are was just awesome.

 

Pretty much this, that scene with Jenner and the countdown;

"It sets the air on fire, no pain." Damn, that was some good television.

 

Scenes is plural.