Comments on: The night I hated The Walking Dead https://cliqueclack.com/p/the-walking-dead-say-the-word/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Steven https://cliqueclack.com/p/the-walking-dead-say-the-word/#comment-4856 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:33:11 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=3666#comment-4856 I agree with the two replies! If you only want walker head shots and spatter, go play a video game. This is SERIES TV. There has to be some time for the characters to deal with what they have been through.

]]> By: ScottH https://cliqueclack.com/p/the-walking-dead-say-the-word/#comment-4354 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:00:00 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=3666#comment-4354 I’ve never seen the comics. I partially agree with the premise here. But Season 3 has veered more and more into this gratuitous gore category. There has been far less in terms of characterization of anyone. What I liked about Seasons 1 and 2 (yes, especially on the farm!) is that these felt like real people dealing with their personal issues as well as the walker apocalypse. This season, I feel like I’m watching a live-action comic book. Lots of heads getting split open, lots of barely-one-dimensional characters like the snarling, inarticulate Michonne (why couldn’t she simply explain her suspicions to Andrea? because then we wouldn’t have the idiot plot), and tons and tons of intestines and other gore. Outside of a few shades of humanity from Hershel, and maybe a few moments between Glenn and Maggie, there’s been almost none of that this year. It’s just a big horror show. Watch the people slaughter the zombies. Rinse, repeat.

]]> By: Brett https://cliqueclack.com/p/the-walking-dead-say-the-word/#comment-3996 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:29:51 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=3666#comment-3996 I really enjoyed last night’s episode, I didn’t feel like there were any ‘over the top shenanigans’. Rick’s killer rampage seemed perfectly justified and I thought they did a great job with the audio effects leading up to his storming back into the prison ax in hand. We’ve seen a growing dark side to Rick as the series has gone on and his shock and grief over Lori’s death caused him to completely check out of reality and fully embrace that dark, primal side as he tracked and killed the monsters ‘responsible’ for the situation leading to Lori’s death.

Merle obviously has more than one screw loose, a situation not helped by his abandonment by Rick’s gang back in season 1. But he’s NOT dumb, so I found it believable that he might play along with the Governor and act like his puppet, but he’d have no hesitation slitting the Governor’s throat if he felt it better served him. I predict that we’ll discover that the puppetry is part thanks for being rescued, part act as he bides his time.

I’m still trying to catch up in the comics, but if you watch this behind the scenes video on the making of the zombie fight cub scene, they make it sound like these ‘staged fights’ play prominently in the comic book. So it is quite possible that this comes directly from Kirkman’s original work.

https://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/contains-spoilers-the-making-of-episode-305-say-the-word-inside-the-walking-dead

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