tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585323794423400780.post1471419847970082040..comments2024-02-10T10:52:58.614-05:00Comments on THE DIG: Forget it, Jake, it's THE WALKING DEADcinemarchaeologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13507603255666191405noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585323794423400780.post-8502273463967843302012-03-09T00:13:21.986-05:002012-03-09T00:13:21.986-05:00So I decided to see the whole complete season 2, a...So I decided to see the whole complete season 2, and boy did it suck. I was completely let down. The first season was amazing... I understand they try to get into character development, but they just went to far with it. I mean Rick is just a play bitch if you ask me. Shane screws your wife, then he goes and tell her you are not a man for this world and keeps going after her. Your wife told you he's dangerous, and you take him out on the deserted road to have a talk with him ? Are you freaking serious ? Then you also have the nerves to save him when he tried to kill you with a huge wrench. Shane is crazy, I'm dying for them to just get rid of him. Even after Rick saves him, he goes and tells Andrea you got to do something to take care of him and the others ? I don't think he really cares for Rick as a friend, and Rick just doesn't want to snap out of it. Shane's character is the reason for all this stupid drama in this show. I really don't think I'll watch the next season if Rick doesn't put an end to Shane's bullshit.Hazeceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03847558009072913086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585323794423400780.post-51671312414921672152012-03-07T18:13:29.008-05:002012-03-07T18:13:29.008-05:00These episode reviews are spot on. Funny how when ...These episode reviews are spot on. Funny how when you bring up these issues with the true believers you are told to unlike the page or better yet you are not worthy of watching the show. This season has been absolutely awful with six episodes of horrible subplots and scenes thrown in just to say it's a zombie show. The walker in the well being the most obvious. How did he get there? What is it doing to the water? Questions never answered and the whole incident quickly forgotten by the cast and writers. The seventh episode had a great ending with Shane saying enough of this nonsense and taking care of the barn problem. Not only that he made Hershel an instant believer.How this apocalypse passed this farm by is beyond me. They live right off the freeway. The walker herd seen in episode one of this season has not been repeated. The barn only seems to get the occasional straggler who always seems to get stuck in the wet cement of the creek. How lucky for the farm. They also seem to be within a pony ride's distance of the only town to never be looted in this apocalypse. No upheavel. No abandoned cars. A drugstore with supplies and a bar with liquor. Those, along with gun stores, are usually the first to go in mass chaos. Ask Korean shopkeepers in South Central LA after the Rodney King riots. The only character I even care about is poor T Dog, who by staying in the shadows,has set a record for longest survival run by a black actor in a sci fi/horror show. Congratulations T Dog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585323794423400780.post-61779759388355189982012-03-07T16:21:27.238-05:002012-03-07T16:21:27.238-05:00My DVR usually cuts out during the previews for th...My DVR usually cuts out during the previews for the coming week. So I don't even watch them. But that's hysterical that they include footage that isn't in the following week's show.<br /><br />I fully expect Randall to join the cast now that there is an opening (with more to follow). So I expect his "escape" to be more running in place. If the plot is advanced in any meaningful way, I will be surprised.<br /><br />I would love to be wrong though. As you know from my write-ups, I can force myself to enjoy the show in spite of the flaws. Even so, I can't ignore that the flaws exist.<br /><br />Are you still reading the comic? I actually feel like the comic has stagnated recently and suffers many of the same problems as the TV show. Still, far superior. But they have been stuck in one location with relatively low stakes for quite some time in the comic book.lebeauhttp://lebeauleblog.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585323794423400780.post-31169444250776111052012-03-07T15:56:51.313-05:002012-03-07T15:56:51.313-05:00I was a big fan of the comic for years before the ...I was a big fan of the comic for years before the series came along. My original review of the series, back in January, contrasted it with the comic a lot. The book really is "infinitely superior."<br /><br />I end up writing about TWD because I have a friend who loves it, but doesn't have AMC--he comes by to watch it. My parents have also gotten into it, and have me record it for them, too. I'm sort of stuck with it, for now, and my original thought was that, if I have to be stuck with it, I'm damn well going to write about it. It never really changes that much, though.<br /><br />I always get a kick out of the previews for the next week, and with the TWD promotional material in general. From watching the promos, one would think it was this fast, exciting series full of action and danger--hilariously false advertising. At least twice earlier this season, they threw in scenes of action for the upcoming episode that were not, in fact, in the upcoming episode (IOW, the one actually coming up was so dull, they couldn't cut an exciting preview spot for it). Next week, it looks like Randall escapes. I guess we'll see where that goes.cinemarchaeologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13507603255666191405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585323794423400780.post-58048733959401870542012-03-07T09:06:00.032-05:002012-03-07T09:06:00.032-05:00I opted not to write about this episode in spite o...I opted not to write about this episode in spite of the "big, important death." (tm) Partially, I'm busier than usual this week. But mostly, it's for the reasons you describe. It feels like I write the same article every week. And while it can be fun picking apart the flawed logic (if it can even be called that), I just don't have it in me to do it every week.<br /><br />Regarding Andreas very sudden and unexplained change of heart, I think it was purely a nod to the comics. I don't recall if you have said whether or not you have read the comics (which are still flawed but infinitely superior to the TV show), but in the comics Andrea and Dale have a very different relationship. The TV show never got around to exploring that relationship beyond Dale being somewhat over-protective. Without that relationship, Dale seemed meddlesome and sometimes creepy. It was a tremendous disservice to the character. I suspect Andrea backed Dale at the last minute even though it was completely out of character for her TV version to do so because her comic book counterpart would have.<br /><br />There's two more episodes left and some spoilers have leaked regarding what is to come. I get the sense next episode will be more running in place as everyone deals with Dale's death. any forward momentum will probably be saved for the last 20 minutes of the finale as was the case with the mid-season.<br /><br />Glad you got around to doing a write-up because I just didn't have the stomach for it.lebeauhttp://lebeauleblog.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com