[TV SERIES] The Walking Dead & Fear the Walking Dead

As for the mid-season breaks, I'm sure that TV networks protect their shows like this against all the Holiday specials and the biggest television draw-the National Football league's last quarter of the regular season and subsequent playoffs. I can't say that I like it.
Now for show analysis:
I knew that the story line would have to move the group out of the prison, but the Black plague? Hell no-they won't go with Herschel to the rescue... Alright, how about an outbreak of zombieitis?...You kidding-this experienced group can dispatch 20 zombies an hour with a single paperclip and then find time to hoe the garden...and the Governor wandered aimlessly with one thought on his mind,"If I could only find a tank..that will fix'em."

I thought there was only one slow episode, but I thought this first half of the season was pretty good. Highlights that stood out:
The roof of the college leaking zombies. The mini van getting stuck atop a pile of zombies and Darrel forgetting that less spinning equals more traction. The Governor paying his respects to the nearly departed patriarch of the family that took him in-with a fire extinguisher. Carol's Little Hands Survival Training classes-early childhood development has always been key to societal stability. and ....Rick finds his humanity and then Herchel loses his Head!!! What the hell was that? Dang-I liked Hersch...

Mysteries to be solved: a. Where did everybody scatter to? b. When will Carol re-emerge? c. Where and who was that radio broadcast coming from? d. Is Judith missing or a snack? e. Will Rick, who is beaten to a pulp and stumbling around, be taken out by Seal Team Six who mistake him for the last remaining zombie in Georgia.

And finally...who deliberately introduced the plague into the prison and why.
 
I've been watching this from the first episode, but I've got to tell ya'...it's starting to wear me down.
It is just one episode after another of gloom and doom only be topped by the next episode that's gloomier and more doomed than the previous show. The gross killing of zombies by poking them in the eye has become mundane and the wonderful zombie make-up routine.

And now I find myself almost dreading to watch the next episode knowing something bad and depressing is on its way. I may not last much longer.

Anyone besides me watching "Almost Human"? I'm warming to it. http://www.fox.com/almost-human/
 
MTK-Your right about the gloom and doom and how it wears the viewer down. They need to hint at some destination or element that gives the characters and viewers hope in not just their survival, but their salvation. Then the viewer will continue to watch, confident that at the end, one of their favorite characters will survive.
 
Season Premiere Night for WD. My earlier post posited questions to resolve this season, but glimpses of the season through prevues provides not a hint of answers.
Question #1-Who will be the next major antagonist? The zombies, a new character or existing member of the group?
Question #2- The plot-where are the characters going and how are they getting there?
Question #3- Which major characters perish and which minor characters will evolve into major ones?
 
it would be nice to see the zombies mutate it a faster me thinking zombie lol what a contradiction a thinking zombie
 
Ah, the scenario you describe would be a new series titled-The Remaining. I love WD, but its plot has begun lacking something that the books, The Remaining, has- A reason to survive.
 
C'mon folks, two episodes left and the writers took a macabre turn last night. New something bad might happen to that group of characters, but never saw that one coming. Wonder if that will have an impact on viewership? I won't spoil it for you. I think it has been a pretty good second half of the season. The writers have all manner of storylines working. Some make you feel hopeful for some characters and other's just slap that thought out of your head. Right now, I have no clue who isn't getting their contract extended. Do we all agree that Karl's demise would make us feel better? And do you think the writers could give Darryl a break? As for Beth......?
 
Lizzie, a girl you can trust.
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SPOILER ALERT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOST RECENT EPISODE (AKA THE EPISODE PRIOR TO THE SEASON ENDING FINALE THIS COMING SUNDAY)

DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IT.


OK, I liked this last episode for 55 minutes. I thought for sure there were contracts getting cancelled, but they surprised me by giving us a "feel better" episode. It looked grim at first, characters survived when I thought they wouldn't.....Fine, no complaints (although the description of how the tunnel collapsed on those zombies was a real stretch) Everything is rolling and then the last couple of minutes defy every fiber of logic that the characters have developed to ensure their survival.

"TERMINUS" - First, this name doesn't give you the warm and fuzzy feeling that your visiting Andy Griffith's Mayberry, NC. Next, you come to this large, seemingly unoccupied, compound with tall security fencing. Not a walker or corpse in sight. Then the entire party wanders up to a heavy chain link gate with a sign that says "lower your weapons and c'mon in!" Well, why not? The gate has a chain on it, but it ain't locked. "Hey, do you smell barbeque? I bet Aunt Mae's cooking up some vittles."
Let's just lower those weapons and step right in.."Look at that vegetable garden. Isn't it lovely? Wow, That looks like sweet corn, yuumm-eeee! Is that Acorn squash? I'll bet they have brown sugar and butter for it, too!"

Don't pay no mind that there could be an army of pleasant townfolk transformed into head hunting cannibals armed with Bradley Fighting Vehicles and a battery of 105mm Artillery right behind the large brick structure with all the windows covered by corrugated metal. Now just keep walking deeper into the sun lit compound with its unlocked gate, not a single armed guard, no corpses, no walkers, and stroll up to a middle aged woman -who turns away from the grill, pleasantly smiles with a mouth full of normal teeth, and with a Meryl Streep like delivery, disarmingly says, "Welcome to Terminus."

It was so incredulous that I may have missed the next words, but I think she invited then to have something to eat. The writers had the characters abandon every tenant they had developed throughout the entire series to ensure their survival. I have decided that I want all of them to perish a most horrible death...perhaps the writers will repeat a scene from Outlaw Josey Wales and let our happy band of survivors be decently treated, decently fed and then decently shot. Unbelievable.
 
SPOILER ALERT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOST RECENT EPISODE (AKA THE EPISODE PRIOR TO THE SEASON ENDING FINALE THIS COMING SUNDAY)

The last minutes was wierd. No guards, no locks, no walkers in sight etc. Its strange that the main characters would let their guard down so easily.

Im sure we will get some answers in the season finale. Things wont be as good as they seem, Im sure.
 
I do recall the painting...I don't know who picked up on it, but the set designers must have had a little fun with that. Thanks for putting that up, Louis.

No Spoilers, but after the WD season has aired around the globe, we need to have a little discussion of the season finale.

I'll give it about a week before I speak my piece....counting down....
 
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