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Season 2 Finale – Michonne Rising

Well watched the final of the walking dead and it was great, mostly. The action was bit a cheesy and I think it could have been better if they toned it down a bit and made it a bit more realistic. For one you can’t just run around shooting accurately out of a moving car, maybe a car that is moving slow but definitely not one that is moving fast.Also Herschel pretty much had infinite ammo or something. Most pump action shot guns only hold between 4-6 shells. He shot like 20 times, I guess he could have reloaded off screen but they could have done a better job with this.

It was good to just have some action though, and I liked how they introduced the herd concept in detail pretty early in the show. They didn’t really talk about this in the comic until later.

I liked that Laurie is pretty much a worthless asshole. She was in comic as well, she doesn’t keep tabs on her kid at all, then the whole world is supposed to stop to help her search for her kid. There is like mass death closing in, and she wants people to basically commit suicide looking for Carl. How often is Carl off just doing whatever, it’s like letting your kid go play on the African savannah or something. He probably won’t get eaten by lions.

She gassed up Shane which caused him to try to kill Rick, and she also gassed up Rick telling him that Shane is a dangerous murderer. Then Rick kills Shane and she acts all upset and offended. I said this before I think it’s great she is a lead and she sucks. If she was Ms. Perfect June Cleaver style it would be boring.

Then once they escape, and Rick lets them know about the guy from CDC telling him they are all carriers of whatever makes them reanimate. Everyone gets upset, what for? It was kind of a stupid thing to do, but at the same time, who gives a shit? What difference does it make, its not like there is bunch of people around living long enough to die of natural causes anyway.

Then Carol piping in about striking out on her own. STFU, bitch, she just had to be rescued by Daryl or she would be dead. So far all she has been able to do is watch her daughter and husband die, and cry about it. She thinks she should strike out on her own?

Andreas chase though the woods was great . And finally Michonne is introduced, similar situation as the comic. She appears out of nowhere and saves one of the group from some zombies. I hope they do a better job with her then Andrea.

Season 2 Episode 12 – Better Angels

OK, watched this week’s episode of the Walking Dead and it seems like it’s back on track. One episode kind of sucks then the next is great then it flip flops back again. I have to look at the credits after the season is over and see who is responsible for the good episodes.Anyways Dale’s funeral interposed with the the zombie slaughter was great. Finally T-Dog is there getting some licks in doing something. It seems for a while now they should be more proactive on taking out zombies in the immediate area.  Dale in the comic lasted longer and was bitten by a zombie and then maimed by cannibals. He went on to die by Andrea’s side who was his lover, even though in the comic Andrea is younger and Dale was a lot fatter.Anyways the conflict with between Shane and Rick was partially defused, and then Laurie trying to make herself feel better went and stirred it up again.

Rest of the episode was great, and the final show down between Rick and Shane was good. In the comic Carl shot living Shane when he threatened Rick. I guess they thought it would better better to show him shoot a zombie Shane in the show for some reason.

They are kind of beating the premise that anyone who dies becomes a zombie into the ground at this point, it has been mentioned several times.  It’s a big revelation but at the same time doesn’t really change much in terms of course of action does it.

Well one episode left until we have to wait for season 3.

Season 2 Episode 11 – Judge, Jury, Executioner AKA There goes Dale

Watch the latest episode and it was OK but again it did not really grab me.  The plot with whether or not to kill Randall has been going on for awhile now, and I don’t really care anymore. Dale ran around whining etc.

Someone needs to smack the shit of Carl. First he mouths of to Carol, the he steals a gun from Squirrel man, he loses the gun and warns no one about the zombie. Then he follows the guys into the execution and screws that up. Seriously does anyone keep an eye on him.

Then Dale finds the cow with its guts torn out. See I kind of thought this end was pretty whack. How is that scrawny zombie going to kill a cow. Cows are huge and they can mess you up if you mess with them.  How would the zombie kill it? Bite it? One bite and the cow is going to leave, its not going to stand there while someone hurts it.

The the way the zombie killed Dale was pretty whack as well. Can you stick your hand into to your stomach? How strong do you have to be to stick your hand into a person’s abdomen? How sharp does your hand have to be? I don’t think it is possible. I mean its already been established that the zombies are not as strong as living people and also slower. So what was it a super zombie that can just disembowel people with its hand?

Season 2 episode 10 – 18 miles out

Guy Pile!

Well after last week’s good episode this week’s kind of sucked. The preview of what was coming at the beginning of the episode kind of sucked in my opinion. What is up with cutting your hand to get a little blood. Do you know what a pain in the ass a cut like that is. I mean it’s going to take weeks to heal and that’s if it doesn’t get infected. It can be a serious impediment. Anyone reading this who works with their hands knows what I mean.

Anyways the zombie action seemed kind of stale. I felt no stress for the characters.  Last week’s episode with the shoot out in the bar and approaching zombies was tense at the same level as a good movie. This fight at the public works just really didn’t grab me. Why are Shane and Rick carrying only one gun and knife each? The new young guy seems OK, so far. You can’t really tell if he is good or bad. Although when he was killing the girl zombie, he seemed like he might have a bad streak in him.

The zombie makeup is not that great, showing the zombies close in sunlight looks kind of weak. They should either step up the makeup of bit , or stick to night scenes without close ups. Obviously this a observation made by some talentless random blogger on the internet, but still. How much scarier did the zombies look last week than this week.

The suicide drama was kind of boring. It tapped that hopeless insanity that the comic captured so well for about 30 seconds when Maggie’s sister was suggesting they kill themselves together. Then the rest of it kind of got old and boring. In the comic there was an actual group suicide of some prominent characters, doesn’t look like we are getting it in the show.  Also Maggie’s’ sister was kind of an idiot in the comic, she repeatedly put the group in danger by doing stupid things.

Laurie was true to the comic in this episode, kind of idealistic, not realistic and self centered and self righteous. I like that, none of characters are supposed to be perfect.  Some of line’s the women said in this episode were kind of groan worthy though.

Andrea is still no where near as cool as she was in the comic.

Season 2 Episode 9 – Triggerfinger

Well the Walking Dead keeps getting better and better. Not only did we get a zombie tearing his face off pushing it through glass with teeth snapping kind of like one of the Cenobites from hell raiser, we also got some living people murdering each other action.

There really wasn’t much respite in the action in the this episode. Maybe for a minute when Carol was trying to communicate with squirrel man but it was short and ok.

The story arc has really left the comic book these last two episodes. In the comic they left Hershel’s farm peacefully in search for a new home. In the TV series it looks they may be driven from there.

Not really sure why Andrea is subscribing so much to Shane’s philosophy.  It would have been real hard to leave one wounded guy to get eaten, but at the same time he could prove dangerous.  I wonder if there will be a big fight for Hershel’s farm?

How long before someone kills Shane? He should really move on from Lori at some point, shouldn’t he? Andrea seems more fun without all the baggage.

Season 2 Episode 8 – Nebraska aka “I’m Rick Grimes … bitch!”

Come at me bro

Well the show is finally back on and it is good. That the show blends personal drama almost to the point of boredom and then suddenly snaps out of it, into some bizarre, bloody violent situation is great, in my opinion.

This episode primarily took place around Hershel’s farm in the aftermath of the shooting of the zombies in the barn. There is some debate on how wrong or right Shane was in getting rid of the walkers. Of course Dale is whining like a little bitch as usual, although he is accurate in portraying Shane as dangerous.

It struck me as kind of strange that Laurie would tell everyone where to bury the bodies of the dead. It’s not her farm, her land, and she only knew one of the dead. That just struck me as strange.

In the comic at this point everyone in Rick’s group left the farm along with Maggie, not sure where the show is going , though.

It also seemed stupid that Laurie would go to get Rick and Glen by herself. I mean they just left to go get Herschel, then she leaves right after to go get them. Give it a minute. Plus how many people are just kind of chilling around camp? She couldn’t have taken anyone with her? What was Daryle doing exactly, cutting sticks to throw at squirrels?

The ending was great.

 

 

 

The differences between the TV show and Comic book – Season 2

Well now that The Walking Dead is on hiatus for a couple months I have to come up with a few other things to write about. This website is actually getting some traffic now, which is pretty surprising with every newspaper in the country apparently doing recaps and commentary on each episode. I mean how is some lowly webmaster supposed to compete with paid writers from major newspapers? By channeling my inner geek and digging out my Walking Dead Comic books, that’s how. How many of them actually read the comic book, or even knew the “The Walking Dead” existed before AMC?

Ok I know I mention stuff that is different from the comic book all the time but bear with me, there isn’t going to be an episode for a while and I need to keep this site going.

This second season started with group traveling on the highway and getting caught in a traffic jam, which in turn leads them to the events which brings them to the Herschel Farm. In the comic book they are on the road but before they get to the Herschel farm they run into Tyreese along with his teenage daughter and her boyfriend. Tyreese is not in the show at least not yet.  I am kind of wondering if T-dog and Daryl are sort of Tyreese split into two characters. In the comic Tyresse is a black ex-football player who ends up hooking up with Carol and is pretty bad ass when it comes to killing the “walkers”.  In the show it looks like  Daryl is hooking up with Carol and is kind of bad ass and well.  T-Dog is black and has a name that starts with “T”, kind of a reach maybe.

Along the way they find what they think is a deserted housing development called “Wiltshire Estates” and camp out in it. Long story short it’s full of zombies and Donna gets eaten. This “Wiltshire Estates” is pretty much exactly like the development Shane took Andrea to in the show when she is learning to shoot. Also this is where Andrea and Dale hook up, also Andrea is younger in the comic, Dale is fatter and not a clown like in the show.

Andrea is much different in the comic although she is kind of becoming more like her comic version in the last couple episodes. In the comic she learned to shoot after  Amy died and never went  through the suicidal dysfunctional period that is in the show. In fact in the comic this other character  Donna’s husband gets all fatalistic after Donna’s death and Andrea jumps on him for being weak and self centered.

When they get to Herschel’s farm there are more people there in the comic then in the show, there is Lacey, Arnold, Rachael and Susie.  Also Glen was actually trying to hookup with Carol before Tyreese swept her away in the comic.

 

 

 

Season 2 Episode 7 Pretty Much Dead Already AKA “they find sophia”

Finally the episode everyone has been waiting for. Last night’s episode delivered in spades, after wading thru the last couple drama/soap episodes.

They had the little bit of interpersonal drama but not over done, little bit of love interest between Daryl and Carol. You can tell because they put more eye makeup on Carol. A little bit of arguing between Maggie and Hershel but none of this stuff dragged the pace.

Dale is such a whiny douchebag in the show compared to the comic, some of the stuff he is saying is true but who cares? He thinks he is going to hide their guns when theoretically a herd of the “walkers” could show up at any time, how smart is that? I know Shane is supposed to be bad and all but tell the truth it made you feel good when he punked Dale and took the guns. In fact I hate to say it but Shane is becoming one of my favorite characters. Shane’s happening, making moves, living large. He may have knocked up his best friend’s wife and murdered Otis but those are small things in this new world. Now he is taking command, sleeping with Andrea, make Dale wet his pants. No one else is doing anything really. What’s T-dog been up to …  jack shit. Without Shane this show would be boring as hell.

How about Rick and dumbass Hershcel pulling the zombies out of the creek with the dog catcher sticks? For one the zombies didn’t look deep enough to get stuck, they were just kind of standing there swaying around. Two what dumbass would look at those snarling nasty things and think, let’s try to help them? Come on, I know in the comic Hershel keep his family in the barn but going out and catching strangers in coveralls. For what? To feed them chickens?

The finale was great Shane re-armed everyone and then they shot the shit out of the zombies in the barn. In the comic the zombies escaped and pretty much the same thing happened but since they escaped Herschel had to recognize that what he is doing is way too unsafe.  Then finally there was Sofia appearing possibly the best scene in the second season so far. Looking forward to watching the rest of season, which I guess is delayed until Febuary which is total bullshit, in my opinion.

 

 

Season Episode 6 – Secrets

Well another kind of slow moving episode of the The Walking Dead. At least there was some action in this one. Am I the only one getting a little sick of the drama with Laurie? I get it, she is anguished etc.

Anyways everyone tells everyone else’s secrets, except only two non-Herschel Family people know about the dead people in the barn, so there are still some secrets laying around.

Finally Andrea learns to shoot, this whole firearms training scene happened in the camp near Atlanta in the comic books and drew a large amount of walkers to the camp. In the television show they did the training away from where they lived which made more sense so perhaps that won’t happen in the show.  Carl learns to shoot finally as well and for those of you who have read the comic, I wonder if he will be shooting people and Zombies next episode.

What else happened? Laurie is pregnant, she doesn’t want to be pregnant, then she wants to be pregnant, first she doesn’t tell Rick , then she tells Rick , Laurie Laurie Laurie  …..

Glen and Maggie get attacked by a walker and Glenn smashes the shit out it.  Perhaps Maggie will come to her senses about keeping the walkers in the barn?  Well if it follows the comic, she probably will next week.

Andrea and Shane go on a little side mission and shoot up some zombies and then hump in the car afterwards. That was a pretty good part of the show.  Although in the comic, I’m trying to remember I may have to dig the comics back out,  everyone actually slept in a housing development similar to that one, and woke up to the zombies and people dying all over.  I wish they had kept that scene in the show.

Shane is developing into a more and more menacing character which is great. Dale is such a busy body in the show, can you believe that he was actually banging Andrea in the comic?

I hope the action takes off next week, the small doses of action and then the long drama is ok,  but it’s time for some shooting.

Season 2 Episode 5 – Chupacabra

Well the show keeps plodding along, and I keep watching it. Personally I find the non zombie scenes are done well enough so I really haven’t minded the relatively long lull in the action. The little bit of action there was was pretty brutal and pretty well done, although I’m not really sure why Daryl pulled that arrow out forward, seemed like it would have come out better going the other way. Maybe he could not reach it. Using the visions Daryl had of his brother in the preview was kind of a cheap trick in my opinion, but nothing new.

Watching the helicopters fire bomb Atlanta was a pretty big plus, in my opinion, they could have shown a bit more of that.

For those of you who are getting a bit bored with the lack of death and general zombie destruction, let me assure you, if the show continues to generally follow the comic book, there is plenty coming.

Perhaps one of the more disappointing change from the comic book has been Andrea. In the comic she is pretty much one of the most bad ass members of the group. In fact Andrea, Rick and Tryone (missing from the show, unless t-dog is supposed to be him, which would be pretty weak, since in the comic Tryone is a failed professional football player who is huge, and kind of excels at destroying zombies with hand tools) are pretty much the soldiers of the group. In the comic Andrea has a huge aptitude for shooting rifles and is the group’s sniper, who often supports the others from a distance. In the show she seems kind of scared/depressed  and trying to prove herself constantly. In the comic she is aggressive , self confident and people look to her for protection.  If this is the televisions version of her, I’m sort of wondering how crappy they will make Michone.

Scott Wilson continues to play a good Herschel in my opinion, pretty much right out of the comic.

Again the show is was entertaining and pretty well done, I would say I am looking forward to next week’s episode.

Although at this point in the comic little Carl had already killed several zombies and at least one person.