The Walking Dead

Thoughts:

• I guess they figured, hey we got all these cars set up on the highway, let's shoot an extra scene; still, I'd rather they add to the source material through these flashbacks than the characters that do nothing and the sub-plots that go nowhere.
• Kind of weird that they'd have Carol bring up Rick's leadership position when that hasn't really been established.
• Is it just me or did they totally skip over the introduction of those two other kids and are now acting like they've been there the whole time?
• Looks like they felt compelled to address the electricity with the scene by the generator.
• How are you going to start reminiscing then get pissed about bringing up the past?
• I sure as hell wouldn't be using the same arrows/bolts to hunt my food as the ones I use to kill zombies.
• Would tying a piece of cloth around your waste on top of the arrow really help?
• Ugh, I can see that the writers are recognizing folks are taking a liking to Daryl, but using the hallucination as an excuse to center the episode around him just feels weak; leave the dredging up of stereotypes up to the audience and just let the characters be.
• Was that really the best way to get up that hill? Really?
• They certainly seem to be bringing out Hershel's dickishness earlier than they did in the comic; although, just why the hell is Rick's group so eager to piss off Hershel with their inconsideration?
• Again, didn't you just use that knife to stab a zombie, and now you're cutting open your lunch with it?
• Glenn's advances toward Maggie seem to be running counter to his earlier and persisting sheepishness.
• Sweet! They're finally going to give Andrea a gun and show everyone what she can do! Oh ****, really? She's not going to shoot him because she's got a scope, right? Nope of course there's glare somehow . . . So . . . stupid . . . So . . . forced.
• And why the hell did everyone run out to kill one zombie?
• Also, why did Glenn mention the trophy necklace and not Daryl's bloodloss?
• The note-passing thing seems as forcibly dramatic as the outdoor pregnancy test scene.
• Does anyone know how to play the guitar? . . . Otis did . . . WOMP-WOMP
• A hint of Daryl totally replacing Tyreese with Carol cozying up to him?
• Glenn's little head is going to pop from all these secrets.

Its hard to try to keep the TV show aspects away from the comic. Especially when I think the comic has done a much better job up to this point.

The Positive- The adventures of super Daryl and his magic crossbow are always a high point every episode. There's something about a muscular Larry the Cable Guy type acting competent in a ZA that makes for great watching.

The 5 minute scene at the beginning (the helicopters napalming Atlanta) was worth the price of admission alone. I would pay GOOD money to watch the weeks of the actual apocalypse, and the fruitless efforts to stop it.

Shane going coo coo for cocoa puffs is getting good. I cant wait for the inevitable confrontation between Shane and Rick.



The Not so Positive - Andrea. I absolutely adore her in the comic. She's smart, strong, independent, and a valued member of team Grimes. The TV version is not so much.

Rick- Stop. Whining.

T-Dog- Where the HELL is Tyrese? I dunno what the writers were thinking when they decided not to include Tyrese in this show . T-Dog isn't remotely the character Tyrese was in the comic.

The pacing has GOT top pick up. Its soap opera slow. I needs moar zombie killing.


That being said, I enjoy the show very much and watch it first run. I can only hope it gets better.

***COMIC SPOILER ALERT***

So the below is a quick snapshot of our friend Hershel from the comic's perspective during time spent at the farm. It shows the difference between the TV and comic as far as the people that are present in his group. Also, different areas point out how much of a religious guy he really is, Id say to the point of being fanatical, naive and idiotic all wrapped up in one. I wasnt trying to put a negative spin on his faith or religion, but people like this IRL have always bothered me. Anything good done by mankind is influenced by God while anything bad is not. If you actually believe in the basic principles of most religions...everything is actually under God's direct influence, good and bad alike (the reason for the ZA and the cure as well in this case).


"Things took a turn for the worse however one day. After Rick had discovered that he had been keeping the zombies inside of the barn, he had lambasted Hershel about the danger of doing such a thing. Hershel discovered that Rick had been killing them all, and argued using his belief about the disease and the possibility of a cure out of there somewhere that they didn't know about. All of this commotion distracted them from seeing an approaching zombie as it got closer to the property, and seconds following, lead to the barn being opened and a major attack occuring. Half of his children were bit and Hershel forced himself to use a gun to kill each of them before they reached the re-animation process. The situation grew even more hostile when he caught his daughter Maggie having sex with one of the survivors he met, Glenn. Being overly protective, he threw a fit, infuriated that she was defying both his own rules and the will of God. What she was doing was immoral, especially considering this person she engaged in sex with was a complete stranger. His attitude was rotten from this point on.

This led Hershel into a downward spiral, the worst he had been since his wife's passing. His personality turned grim and his mindset was narrowly focused on getting the survivors out of the area so as not to lose any more of his children, or even his own life. A fight ensued between everyone, as he refused to let them stay with him and his family after Carl was fully healed. This led to him calling them freeloaders, and then Lori, in a furious state, insulting him about kicking them out when they had no other place to go. All of this ultimately led the man to put a gun to Rick's head in order to show the rest of the group how serious he was and how much damage he could do.

They did end up leaving, with him keeping his children by his side. The event that had transpired earlier turned Hershel into even more of an emotional wreck, as he convinced himself that, because he was about to kill an innocent man, he must therefore be evil; not to mention a bad role model for the youngsters. He believed himself to be a corrupt indvidiual, and he was going to kill an innocent man."


And yeah I agree...I wish T Dogs chracter was replaced by the comic version of Tyreese and his folks. T Dogg is like the third wheel of a bike, I dont really see a reason for him to still be around in the show and if anyone took a vote about who should die next, Im sure he would win hands down.

With all of that, I read this online, "A popular speculation is that T-Dog may be an alternate personification as Tyreese from the comic series." In the comic, Tyreese and Carol end up together.

Cmon! Tyreese was the shite, T-Dog...not so much.

Ok I gotta know the suspense is killing me, do they find Sophia and is she alive or zombified then have to put her down? I am asking for those who read the comic, I know we don't know in the tv show yet, but in the comic I sure would like to know if they find her or not.

I wonder if Sophia is going to have anything to do with a certain person from the comics...

Who knows? At the rate they're going that storyline won't come up till season 17.

Yeah I don't really mind if Sophia's dead and/or zombified. I wouldn't even really mind if her fate was particularly gruesome or depraved. And I don't even mind if the rest of the group doesn't directly find out what happened to her. I just think at a bare minimum the -audience- eventually needs to be told what happened to her.

I would find it rather odd if they just left us hanging with an unresolved big mystery that's pretty much been the main thread of this entire season of shows. We already have Merle as the "question mark" character whose fate is currently a mystery - we really don't need that to happen to yet another character.