**Official 'The Walking Dead' Series Thread**

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  1. The Blackfish

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    He would "talk" to her on the phone in the comics but she never showed up as a ghost. Her death was also different
     
  2. bic

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    They really fucked that whole thing up. The only explanation I can think of is they couldn't do so much of what happened early on in the prison on AMC (mainly because so many of those characters didn't exist on the TV show) that they had to move stuff up to create filler as they introduced us to Woodbury. Thinking about it more now it all sucked. Everything has sucked. Fuck it all.

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    and they'll probably still gain viewers every week, which will piss me off more than anything in the episodes.
     
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  5. Nizz

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    Does it matter, the show would get trashed in this thread no matter what.

    Read the spoiler, will still watch.
     
  6. bic

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    Very long and bad grammar/spacing/whatever. Seems to recap the entire episode is decent detail...

    Episode opens with Rick watching through his binoculars and seeing Michonne walking around the overturned bus on the yard of the prison. As he explores the area, he suddenly sees the woman in white dress standing over ​​the graves of his wife and friends. He runs toward the tombs to meet her. As Rick approach the woman, she’s suddenly gone. He looks around and sees her again, but this time, beyond the prison gates. He leaves the prison yard. Michonne watch him go outside and close the door behind him. Finally,after approaching the women we can see that is Lori in her wedding dress. She touches his face, Rick smile and then kiss her. Michonne looks at Rick standing there alone. Cue theme music begins.

    InWoodbury, Andrea sits quietly in her apartment when the governorcalls the door. He says that her speech to the people is what theyneeded to hear. She asks about the prison and he says that as long asthey do not disturb in the city, they are not being bothered. Andreawants to see them. The governor changes the subject and says that heis not able to lead the people of the city at the moment, but thatAndrea can. He wants her to lead the city.

    On the road, Darylwatch Merle emerges from the forest. They talk about how they canfind food. Daryl tries to convince Merle that the prison is the bestoption but Merle does not agree saying that they don’t wanna lethim in, and that besides they're all dead anyway since Governor wantsto kill them.

    Glen has taken over the group. He want to return back to the city and kill the Governor. He asks the opinion of Michonne and she accepts. The rest of the group (except Rick) does not agree and feel they must leave the prison before is late. Glenn says they can not leave now because they have a crying baby and a man without a leg. Glenn and Carl go to secure the cells through which Tyresse and his group entered.

    The Governor surprises Milton while he’s doing some medical experiments. The Governor expressed how valuable Milton was and asks if he intend to stay. Milton says the idea of leaving the city never crossed his mind. He asks if Milton would take a bullet for him and Milton says yes. The Governor then asks Milton to watch over Andrea, because she does not know where her loyalty lies.

    Andrea approach to the main gates of Woodbury and asks where Martinez is. No one knows. Andrea sees Milton and asks where The Governor is but he does not give a direct answer.

    Glenn and Carl return. Hershel suggests again that they should leave the prison. Glenn says no. The group agrees. Axel offers to go with Glenn to explore the hidden side of the prison and then they find how the walkers enter to the building.

    Glen asks Axel to help thewomen pick up supplies because he will talk to Maggie. He asks Maggieif everything is okay and tells her that he wants to talk about"that". Glen asked if he raped her and she says no. Sheconfesses him that if she not undressed the Governor would cut offGlenn’s hand. Almost crying, she asks if he's happy now that knoweverything and when he goes to comfort her, she punches him and tellshim to leave the cell.

    On the outside, Carol and Axel areguarding the bridges in prison. Axel tells her that he is in jail forarmed robbery. He assaults a liquor store with a water gun. Thepolice searched the house and his brother found the gun that matchedthe description of the weapon used. Carol offer to teach him how touse a real gun. Axel is grateful to Carol.

    Merle and Daryl arewalking through the woods to the river to get some fish. They argueabout which direction to take when they hear a scream. Darylrecognized as a crying baby. They run to a bridge where a Spanishfamily is fending off the walkers. Daryl runs to the bridge whileMerle tries to stop him. Daryl begins to break down the walkers whileMerle covering. After clearing the bridge, Daryl asked if the familyis ok. Merle begins to ransack the car. The father of the familytries to stop Merle with his gun but Merle take it down and continuedlooting the car. Daryl appears behind Merle and aims his crossbow tooblige him to leave the car and allowing the Spanish family toescape.

    Daryl walks back into the woods and Merle follows him and scolds him for risking his life for strangers while not hesitate to give him up on a roof in Atlanta. Daryl says he was looking for him and he deserved what happened to him for everything he did before.Merle gets angrier and says "I'm sure you don’t told how we had planned to steal the camp". Daryl says that it never happened; Merle says that just because he was not there to help.Daryl calls on of his childhood abandonment and Merle accuses him of making him lose his hand in retaliation. Daryl says he lost his hand for being as he is. Merle attacks Daryl and takes him down,discovering in the process scars on the entire back of Daryl. Merle says he did not know but Daryl says that actually he knew because Merle had them as well and that's why he left first. Daryl start towalk and Merle asks where he is going. Daryl tells him back to the prison and Merle says he cannot go there because he tries to kill Glenn and Michonne. Daryl asks if he is leaving him again and then Merle begins to follow.

    Hershel calls for Glenn before he leavesto Woodbury. He question about going to that town and reminds himthat he needs him to protect Maggie. Glenn says that Hershel is thenext leader and gets into his car and leaves. Hershel sees Rickwalking around just outside the gates. Inside, Beth asks Maggie ifshe can take care of Judith for a moment as she cooks something andMaggie takes the baby.

    Hershel calls for Rick and at first the sheriff didn’t know from where the sound is coming, but finally sees Hershel inside the fences. Hershel tells Rick how much the group needs him. Glenn is at war and cannot be the new leader. Rick replied that Hershel must take the lead. Hershel asks what he is doing there;and Rick confesses that he has seen Lori and Shane. Hershel says that is only the manifestation of his fault and that needs to rest because the group needed him. Rick refuses. Michonne, still around the bus,watch the men talking.

    Outside in the yard, Axel continuestalking to Carol and flirting with her saying that she is a lady whensuddenly gets a bullet in the head killing him. The Governor and hismen are attacking the prison. Martinez has immobilized Rick outside.Hershel is hiding in the bushes just inside the enclosure. Carl andBeth are hiding behind the bleachers. Michonne takes refuge in thebus. Carol is using Axel's body as a shield, the bullets are flyingeverywhere. One of the men of Woodbury manages to take control of oneof the towers. Michonne exchanged fire with the Governor. Carl istrying to cover Carol who is still hidden under Axel’s body. Thefire cease. The calm is reassuring. Maggie comes running with weaponsfor Beth and Carol. Rick, still on the fence outside, is trying tofight Martinez. Maggie, Beth and Carl cover Carol and she reachesthem and takes a weapon. Rick looks how a van crashed straight intothe fences. The Van opens and releases a lot of walkers on thecourtyard. The driver, fully dressed in armor, runs off and returnswith the Governor.

    The fight resumes.

    Rick yells at Hershel to return to the prison. Maggie finally kills the sniper in the tower and as Rick turns to enter the fences, walkers begin to appear in the forest. The shooting has attracted them. The Governor and his men leave. Hershel is surrounded by walkers and Rick cannot help because he himself is being invaded. Glenn suddenly appears in the distance.Michonne with her Katana is making its way to Hershel. Rick is out of bullets and is struggling with two walkers and more are coming, a look of terror comes over him, he will die. Suddenly, an arrow through the head of the walker. The Dixon brothers come running,Merle kills another zombie attacking Rick while Daryl is killing walkers with arrows. Glenn and Michonne help Hershel climb in the car and drive to the secure area of ​​the prison. All are safe(except Axel).

    The group observes that they had losteverything they've built, walkers roam the grounds. Rick turns andlooks into the distance, thinking about what just happened. They areat war. End of episode.
     
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  8. colonel_forbin

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    I understand they had to deviate a little because there's no way cable tv could show some stuff that happened in the comics, but it deviated entirely too much. I also understand they don't want to kill off all these characters that people on the show have become attached to because it could hurt ratings. However, there was just no need whatsoever to deviate from the comics like they have. The comics move much much faster so I guess they had to invent some stuff for filler, but the story arc of the comics is just so much better and would have been very easy to follow along with by just adding some more zombie killing and dialogue and keeping some characters around longer. There was just absolutely no need at all to deviate like they have. That's why Game of Thrones is so awesome.
     
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  10. Marty Kaan

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    FUCKING TERRIBLE
     
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  11. Nizz

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    And it begins
     
  12. three stacks

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    it began season 2. this show fucking sucks. not even zombies can save this bull shit.
     
  13. Lorne Malvo

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    I'm close to just not watching this show anymore.
     
  14. BMR

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    Episode sounds like shit.
     
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  15. New user

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    What begins? You might be the only person that defends this piece of shit show.

    The overwhelming consensus after the last episode was that it sucked. Nobody is expecting it to be awesome or on the same level of other current great TV shows, but it doesn't get trashed just for the sake of trashing it. Season 1 was decent, season 2 was absolutely awful (in contention for worst season of TV I've ever watched with the ki_lling), first half of season 3 was decent altho they butchered Michonne and did a terrible job of trying to get me to hate the Governor.

    Now this episode sucks, and there are rumors that they fired Mazzara (sp?) because the rest of these episodes are equally terrible. The reviewers are trashing it, people are close to giving up on watching, the grantland guy isn't even going to write about it anymore, etc. Seemingly the only thing going for the show is ratings...big fucking deal when the viewing public is retarded and 2 and a half men used to get insanely high ratings. You're incredibly naive if you think people hate on the show because it's the "cool" thing to do.
     
  16. Nizz

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    You'll still watch every episode. And I only read your first sentence but should give you the respect of reading the rest.
     
  17. bic

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    That's why I ended up just posting the fuck it all gif. I started trying to reason with myself as to why the show did what it did then I started envisioning what actually happened in the comics taking place on screen on a channel like HBO and I had an aneurysm and died.
     
  18. Nizz

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    I never defended Season 2. I don't think I did...it was complete shit.

    The downfall of this show began after season 1. I still root for it being on because of money.

    Constant change of showrunners will kill it. But sadly 12 million viewers on Sunday trumps the what, 20 posters here....
     
  19. three stacks

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    yea bro, you must be banking off of it :meh:
     
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  20. Snakes

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    That episode doesn't sound as bad as last week's.

    but el fucking el at Andrea's speech elevating her to leader of Woodberry. Like jesus christ that speech made me cringe
     
  21. Nizz

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    12...million...viewers. bro.
     
  22. CUZ28

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    season 1 only had 1 good episode, the pilot.
     
  23. The Blackfish

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    12 million viewers doesn't mean that they are putting out a quality product. They have an awesome premise and even better source material and are squandering it. Defending that is ridiculous.
     
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  24. three stacks

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    but 12 million viewers. U mad bro?
     
  25. Snakes

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    Honey boo boo comes to mind.
     
  26. swiggle

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    This thread is worse than the last episode
     
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  27. Nizz

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    as much as the TMB community claims an expertise doesn't realize people in hollywood give 0 fucks about you. 12 million viewers the return...but then the reported viewers this coming sunday is the real indicator.

    But obviously andres is mad. If you think this show is dog shit, don't watch. I am sure the 10 of you will be missed dearly.

    The point of my argument is whether your opinion of it being shit doens't mean jack shit though opinions on here are treated like gold though.

    It's mindless entertainment. Half the hate is because it doesn't follow the comic book. Nothing ever follows anything correctly. It's television.

    But carry on, because obviously you're all the intelligent ones in this world.

    This thread has never been happy, and never will. You end up finding a character to completely despise (Lori, or Tara in True Blood) and go with it. Then critique every detail.

    if you all want to come out here and run Hollywood, please come and try. Or stay on your comptuers and stay blogging.

    excuse my grammar, it's pilot season and I had 5 seconds to come here and continue this fun argument.
     
  28. The Blackfish

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    That's not true, everyone here loved season 1 and most including myself enjoyed the beginning of season 3. We want it to be good which is why we keep watching. Maybe the next show runner can turn it around.

    You obviously like it as is which is fine, but getting all bent out of shape because the rest of us don't is silly.
     
  29. fsutony

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    The podcast did say they were doing reshoots so maybe they can change some things and make this season a little better.:idk:

    At least AMC knows that its shit and is trying to fix it that gives us a little hope that the series will someday live up to the comics
     
  30. Nizz

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    Im not bent out of shape, i just find it hilarious of how harsh everyone critiques it. Trust me, if I was bent out of shape I would be cursing a lot.

    Season 2 was shit, not every episode of this season will be good or great but still, I don't find a single episode where someone bitches.

    Again, it's hilarious. Not bent out of shape.

    But I will say and agree with everyone about Mazzara and that getting rid of him and keep changing showrunners will hurt the show. I don't think that's a guarantee but it gets annoying.
     
  31. Nizz

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    AMC knows because they don't have too much running that's giving them attention. Their other 2 great shows are about to end.

    They do have 2 pilots this year that I thoroughly enjoy, one for sure will work the other not so much.

    But for now Walking Dead will be their money maker...
     
  32. slogan119

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    What's coming out that looks pretty decent?
     
  33. Moxin24

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    fsuNizz seems like the kind of guy who enjoys Around the Horn.
     
  34. Houndster

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    fsuNizz get me a writing gig and I'll make a show that lives up to TMB standards.
     
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  36. Nizz

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    I want to throw rocks at the screen when I've watched that
     
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  38. Earn_Marks

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    I think the Governor knows that, but the thought inflates her ego enough to only slightly questions it based on his melt down.
     
  39. Snakes

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    My initial reaction is to think you are giving the writers too much credit. But hopefully I am wrong.
     
  40. Nizz

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    It's the same with British actors some of the time. A lot of them have real good theatre training. Plus their is a hotness to them. There a ton of factors.
     
  41. eHo

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    Ratings bro. Stop critiquing everything.
     
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  42. bic

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    I wouldn't be surprised if Mazzara did a decent job (as he did the first half of the season) and AMC thought it was awful and is now going to make it worse. I think that would be par for the course.
     
  43. Nizz

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    touche. They're just so loud all the time.
     
  44. CUZ28

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    They can do regional accents better than americans.

    Jodie Foster and Sandra Bullock won oscars playing southern women that sound like they took their accents from the dvd box set of the beverly hillbillies. Everyone in the departed that wasn't from boston sounded like complete shit.
     
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  45. Nizz

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    Hell yea
     
  46. Pelican

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    Lol I forgot how awesome Carol's husband was.
     
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  47. 941Gator

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    I'm assuming ghost lori is in his head and not necessarily something we are supposed to believe he is actually seeing. I'm also not going to pretend that I know what it's like to have been through what he/they have gone through. Seeing a vision of his wife wouldn't be that farfetched for someone mourning without a zombie apocalypse, let alone with one.

    I'm enjoying this season, but I will say they need to step up their cliff hanger game to Breaking Bad's level.
     
  48. Cardeja12

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    ed could keep a bitch in line
     
  49. The Blackfish

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    Just saw Merle in Tombstone