I agree there. And now they're doing it to Maggie and Glenn, which leads me to believe they're both goners--one this season, one early next. If they have the cojones to do it.
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I agree there. And now they're doing it to Maggie and Glenn, which leads me to believe they're both goners--one this season, one early next. If they have the cojones to do it.
I like him, but they've effectively done zero with either him or Maggie this season. And they'd better do something with Tara or just kill her already. She's a pleasant enough girl, but a blank as far as character. It would be interesting if they took the Carol/Lori/Rick storyline from the comics and did it with Glenn/Maggie/Tara, IMHO.
More Morgan please. I do not care if he is a bad guy or good guy. He is just an interesting character.
Probably the best actor the show has had, too.
Michonne wouldn't have. Carl is all like "We still have to save people, that's still who we have to be." Michonne would have been like "Sucks to be you, dude."
The walkers are so jacked up, how can you tell?
She'll just have toLol^^
Its messed up that Maggie the last surviving member of her family
get pregnant and carry on the family line.[ /spoiler]
The group will be recovering from the Green girl's loss when they return. The problem with being in Zombie world, is that you do not have the luxury of grieving for long.
She was never one of the core characters, though the show did a decent job building her up this season. Her solo episode was pretty good and her acting chops were good enough to make her compelling. One can argue that her choice to stab Dawn was not well thought out and was a case of bad writing.
If she was going to stab Dawn-She should have gone for the throat. Who stabs someone in the arm during a ZA?
I think that people tend to forget the second season where she was ready and trying to kill herself..she seemed to be kinda submissive after that..but she did a good job in her portrayal of the character, and it was pretty clear that she needed to grieve, it was tough watching her cry on the after show.. I just wonder who's next..
Everyone except rick is not exempt from being killed. They are not afraid to kill major characters.
I hadn't actually noticed it myself. I read a couple reviews that mentioned it. I didn't know Atlanta's population was 51 percent Black either until I read the reviews. I don't expect all that much realism in zombie appocolyptic films lol.
That does fit... fits better than what I was thinking... I was thinking Daryl had an androgyny factor going for him
Decent, yeah, but they could have done more in the back half and capped the arc off there, without necessarily leaving it for the finale.
As I said at the time, I quite liked the ep itself. I just feel like they wasted it in the mid-season finale.
Another way to 'shock' the audience? Well, we were all expecting someone to go out, right? So here's the surprise: no one dies. The finale scene could have been a cliffhanger instead - maybe have ol' Limping Gabriel lead the walkers back to the church at that point, then place the kiddiewinks in peril with Michonne and Gabriel looking on, afraid. Roll titles. Suck on that for a couple of months, people.
That might have allowed for more to come out about the folks at the hospital (fleshing out characters, making us see them more sympathetically, and so on) in the penultimate ep, with the mid-season finale itself seeing Rick and co on what was their part of the story in the penultimate ep.
Fast forward to February, and Carl and Judith could have been saved (or not) by Gabriel Doing What Needs To Be Done. A bit of redemption, a way in with Rick upon their return (to be betrayed at a point down the road? Mebbe), and then we're back to see what's what in the Big Smoke.
Just MO of course, but the story wouldn't suffer for characters being fleshed out a little more and dynamics established. Otherwise it's just 2D Baddies in an endless stream, and we all know it wouldn't be like that at the end of the world (as we know it). There still has to be a motivation. The Claimers were a-holes because that's how they were before the ZA; fine. But the Termites? There wasn't enough about them and now I think there won't be any more. It'll be the same with the hospital mob, then we'll roll on to the next crew, and the next. Nothing wrong with that, as long as it's remembered that they are still people, with motives and (possibly) agendas, and while Our Group has internal dynamics, so will every other group out there. These can be shown. Tension can be better and more easily generated. We, the audience, can even be made to feel for these folks and question our sympathy with Rick and co when the brown stuff hits the fan (as it will). What could be more tragic for both groups than there being shared ideals, which we are privy to but that never get aired, that are lost in a conflict because someone does or says something stupid?
Basically, what they're doing is good, but it could be even better. (IMO, and we all have our own ideas, so...)
There've been some black walkers. Maybe not 51%, but then we're not just looking at the population of Atlanta. What's the mix for the city plus, say, 80 miles radius?
In any case, it seems the walkers are all a funny grey-green colour, so everyone's the same after the zombie apocalypse.
Spoken like a writer
And you're exactly right: it could be better.I'm wondering if this is another example of corporate storytelling, i.e., AMC has gotten involved even more with rushing them into big 'scenes'. You have to admit, whenever they try to take an ep to flesh out characters a great number of people (I call them 'idiots') moan about the ep being slow or boring. Season two was great for establishing relationships and who these people are, but a lot of what I've seen is bitching about it.
I think people have become used to (and now expect) huge shock-like episodes. Part of what we love about The Dead is the hard-hitting nature of the show. When I first saw it, I couldn't believe that they actually let this stuff on TV, man, it was raw and in your face.Spoken like a writer
I'm wondering if this is another example of corporate storytelling, i.e., AMC has gotten involved even more with rushing them into big 'scenes'. You have to admit, whenever they try to take an ep to flesh out characters a great number of people (I call them 'idiots') moan about the ep being slow or boring. Season two was great for establishing relationships and who these people are, but a lot of what I've seen is bitching about it.
Personally, I like the character building episodes and would much rather them spend some decent time (and effort) on the long-term storyline, than on whether the next two episodes will pull the crowds.