What is actually going on in the series The Walking Dead??
Don’t get me wrong, I am enjoying it but, I’m confused by a couple of the characters in it.
Lori: The wife of the main character, Rick, seems to be on a very high and self righteous horse. After being unable to keep her legs shut (within minutes of being told that her husband was dead) she is now parading around as though she is whiter than shite, I mean white. Even going as far as telling Daryl that he is selfish because he said no when she asked him to go in to town (which is loaded with walking dead) and bring back her husband for no real reason other than because that is how she wanted it. He was right to tell her to shove the idea up her arse!
Dale: What is his problem? Granted, he and Shane don’t really get along, but he seems to be now trying to poison the rest of the group as he bounces from one to the next, spouting his ideas and opinions on the guy that has done more to keep them all alive than anyone else. Bear in mind, at this moment, we (the viewers) are the only people that know what really went on between Shane and Otis and also about how he contemplated shooting Rick at one point. So, from a point of view as one of the survivors, he’s a great guy and a better leader than Rick. That’s my opinion anyway.
Rick: Yes, he has a pregnant wife and young son to worry about. But he seems hell bent on doing whatever he can to appease everyone he has dealings with. Though, on the other hand, he continuously puts his neck out for complete strangers, or people who have no real use and getting himself in to more tricky situations in the process. He makes too many wrong decisions, including helping Hershel capture and guide a couple of dead heads to the barn. Personally, I think he’s a weak leader and too preoccupied with how others feel about what needs to be done. Why he is so determined to stay at the farm, I don’t know. Me? I would head to the middle of nowhere and set up shop far from wandering dead guys.
I just hope it doesn’t get all silly and dragged out like LOST did.
Haha, I think Shane is a psychopath, but I like it. You need a loose canonn in a group, he makes this season interesting.But I think the only reason Rick had to shoot Sophia was because he felt guilty. I don’t think he is now one to make the tough decisions.I have to say, Sophia coming out from the barn caught me by surprise. First I thought the last walker would be Hershel’s wife, but that was the one Shane shot the cheek off. Sophia wasn’t a fleshed out character, so I could not feel too bad for her, but for all the other characters, her mom, Daryl and Rick especially. Side notes:-Hershel tells Rick, that Otis was the one who brought the walkers to the barn. If Shane hadn’t killed Otis, he could’ve told them, he catched a girl walker who looked like the girl they were looking for. So one more thing Shane to blame for.-Andrea wasn’t that prominent this episode, but I was immeditely angry again when they were shooting the barn walkers and she joins the firefight with an exaggeratedly confident smirk on her face shooting like a pro, even without eyes flinching.
The ending was so heart brkieang, I didn’t see that coming. Poor Carl (and Carol of course), losing his only friend after getting shot, now he’ll definitely lose his inner child and innocence forever, maybe even go after Shane as a father figure.I think Hershel didn’t know about Sophia because Otis took all the walkers into the barn and they didn’t get the time to tell Otis about the missing child because Shane killed him.Turning Sophia into a zombie is like pulling the rug under the characters feet, everybody in the show will be different after her death, it will change them.Every character has a plot, some story and a conflict with somebody in the show except for T-Dog, he’s storyless and he doesn’t do anything. Give him a story line or kill him, just do something with him.
5 out of 5? VERY generous, this prmoramge is being ridiculous, even if it cant actually physically be ridiculous. Drag out the missing child storyline much longer and I am done, does AMC think everyone wants a The Killing’ style drag out that actually goes nowhere and alienates all the fanbase it has built up? Also, Shane is not a douche’ he is a great, three dimensional character, something Dale is not. These reviews of yours seem to be rather rose tinted, I’m also a fan, but you seem to be overlooking the many many flaws they seem to have let creep into the writing of this show.
I have to agree Victoria.
Personally, I believed that Shane was the only character that really knew what he was doing. Dale was too self-righteous and desperately trying to hang on to his high sense of morals (that on the whole, probably contributed to the situation in the broader picture).
Rick is too busy trying to be the good guy and pleasing all instead of adapting to the new situation that calls for rutheless leadership.
Most of all, his slut wife is walking about as though she has any right to held her head up higher than anyone else. Furthermore, after Rick admits that he was the one that killed Shane, she jumped on her high-horse and stormed the moral high ground like a cavalry charge, shunning Rick in disgust.
I would have shot her myself there and then for being a pretentious slut that couldn’t keep her legs closed.
Not seen anything of Season 3 yet, but I would like to see Daryl step up and take control. We all know that won’t happen, but he is probably the best of the bunch at the moment.
he wasn’t going to change aninyhtg, he wanted to keep Darabont’s show on track with how Frank wanted it, though he did admit to tweaking a scene or line here and there that really stuck out to him. He did say something along the lines of If it could go either way, I’d side with Frank’s decision because he was the reason the show got on the air in the first place. That split might also co-inside with the budget cut, perhaps?I think the machine-gun pace that you watched it probably worked wonders on your enjoyment, because the first one was god-awful for us when it was first aired >.< Every commercial break was six minutes long and towards the end, between the oppressive ads to long-winded "oh, dear lord, tell me the way!" sort of speeches it got pretty painful. Last season's opener was gut wrenching and I really felt, *really* felt for the characters on the screen, even the Biker Girl zombie.And that premier was my third favorite episode XD (I liked others *even more* than that one!)Sadly, I have seen nothing with the same spark this season so far I'm actively searching for it, but I haven't found it quite yet. I really hope they start cranking up the dial, because both sides of the "it's a drama" and "it's a zombie show" are going to get ticked off at this rate unless something changes. The drama is too thick, and the zombie parts too slim. They were able to balance it perfectly in some episodes last season. I have nothing to hope for as I never read the comics so I have no "oh, it starts out slow but give it a minute, the barn, for example was hinted at /evil grin" to fall back on.Just watching the show and *only* the show, it has been more "slow" then "methodical and planned," if ya dig? They are still playing both sides at this point. It is just different enough from the comics to keep those fans happy, but fans who have no idea of what already happened in the comics are constantly being told "oh just wait, it'll get good in a minute." I've spent over 270 minutes on the shows alone, watched several twice to make sure I got everything I could out of it, and another two hours on Talking Dead. I've put in a LOT of minutes, let's just turn the key and get the engine running already hahaI'z a patient guy, but based on how long they spent on arguably nothing in the first episode, I'd say those with a skeptical view could easily see an entire season also being filled with 'nothing' at the promise of season 3 being jam-packed with awesome. I enjoy banter, I like character interaction AND zombie stuffs. But time is finite, AMC. To quote Black Eyed Peas: "Let's get it *started* in here!" XDDidn't know you weren't feeling well, Will. Hope you're back to your normal self! I saw the Toronto stuff in the feed about when TWD started and wondered when you would find time to review these episodes as well haha Sounds like someone might have had a bit too much 'candy' at those Halloween parties -_^