The Walking Dead on AMC

[ButteMT61]

just found this thread!! loved first series...cannt wait for nxt to start!!:eusa_clap

Watched the premier of season 2 again last night. It's a great show.

 

[MikePotts]

The Walking Dead was one of my guilty pleasures last season. I too watched the season 2 premiere and was disappointed to find only 5 zombie kills, non with the obvious tool !(a suppressed high powered pistol or rifle) and obvious product placement from Gerber Knives/Axes and Hyundai......they're goin' soft!

MP

 

[ButteMT61]

The Walking Dead was one of my guilty pleasures last season. I too watched the season 2 premiere and was disappointed to find only 5 zombie kills, non with the obvious tool !(a suppressed high powered pistol or rifle) and obvious product placement from Gerber Knives/Axes and Hyundai......they're goin' soft!

MP

Just payin' da bills!

 

[bunnyb.gal]

No spoilers, please! Think of us poor folk over the pond who have to wait until the 21st! :cry:

 

[Feraud]

and obvious product placement from Gerber Knives/Axes and Hyundai......they're goin' soft!

MP

Yes, that was obvious and awful..

 

[Marc Chevalier]

A 'season premiere' is supposed to be special, not just a plain ol' episode. "The Walking Dead" had an outstanding, out-of-the-ballbark first season opener ... but IMO, this second season premiere didn't seem special at all. It had the feel of an ordinary third or fourth episode, but (needlessly) longer.

 

[TCMfan25]

I thought it was good, but I agree with Marc, it lacked "season premiere pa-nash". I still enjoyed it.

In the first season was sad about the horse :deadhorse ...

 

[Marc Chevalier]

The horse was sad, yes. So was the pathetic female zombie that was cut in two, badly decomposed, and with no hope of capturing "food" ... and still she crawled, inch by inch.

But then, one magical day, she got herself a boyfriend.

 

[Edward]

Ha... priceless. I've been following the book from early on, and the half-zombie was equally emotionally affecting in that. I'm so glad they didn't let it down by going all mawkish and saccharine on screen. Beautifully realised.

 

[Story]

[video=youtube;giAQuLntqXY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giAQuLntqXY[/video]

 

[bunnyb.gal]

I thought it was good, but I agree with Marc, it lacked "season premiere pa-nash". I still enjoyed it.

In the first season was sad about the horse :deadhorse ...

Me, too - it reminds me of when I made myself watch the remake of I Am Legend, and I was so worried about the dog. That is one thing that tells me The Walking Dead is well done - I was worried about both the horse and the Sheriff.

I'm so looking forward to 10 p.m. on Friday!

 

[Feraud]

The excitement continues with the second episode... :bored:

 

[bunnyb.gal]

Okay, so the ending of the debut didn't have quite the "wow" factor of the 1st series (I mean, how can you beat that "totally up **** creek without a paddle" ending with the well-cued music and that beautiful shot where the camera moved up to show the little tiny tank and ALL THOSE ZOMBIES around it?), but still, I was so expecting a lurching zombie out of the bushes and not what did happen. Admittedly, I don't get around much, but it's still the best thing I've seen on the telly in a long while, and I'm planning on being in front of it for the duration of the series.

 

[Feraud]

I believe the show suffers from the loss of Darabont.

Are the critics even watching the same show??

But as THR's chief television critic Tim Goodman puts it, "The Walking Dead hasn’t lost the most important ingredient in its strangely successful recipe: it's thrilling."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/walking-dead-season-2-reviews-248798

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I believe the show suffers from the loss of Darabont.

I agree with you 100%. It's flagging. Second seasons are supposed to pick up speed: i.e., the second season of "Dexter", "Six Feet Under", "Breaking Bad", etc.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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An article by the Hollywood Reporter just made me realize how little job security actors have on a zombie show:


There also have been no public comments from the cast [about Darabont's firing], and a source with knowledge of the situation says AMC has been "terrorizing" them and their representatives to discourage them from speaking out on Darabont's behalf. "They're scared," confirms another insider. "They're on a zombie show. They are all really easy to kill off."


Ha!

 

[Feraud]

If the insider comment is true, it is a pathetic move by AMC to gag actors with a threat of becoming zombie fodder.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

If the insider comment is true, it is a pathetic move by AMC to gag actors with a threat of becoming zombie fodder.

Yep.


AMC is trying to cut costs because it owns the show completely. (Not so "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad".) One example from the article:

[AMC asked the show's makers] "Couldn't the audience hear the zombies sometimes and not see them, to save on makeup costs?"

 

[Tomasso]

[AMC asked the show's makers] "Couldn't the audience hear the zombies sometimes and not see them, to save on makeup costs?"

AMC “Story Matters Here”

 

[Marc Chevalier]

[AMC asked the show's makers] "Couldn't the audience hear the zombies sometimes and not see them, to save on makeup costs?"

AMC “Story Matters Here”

AMC "We Think We're Doing a Radio Show"