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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.

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.

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.

Well the episodes are continuing to be a bit slow. I actually kind of liked this episode, the character interactions are pretty believable, although they are beating the “father” angle to death. The farm sets looked pretty good as did the zombie in the well.

Probably the only thing I really didn’t like about this episode was lowering Glenn into the well to rope the zombie in the well. That was pretty ridiculous, that they would risk someone’s life to get a single zombie free from a well. I mean it’s not like they have an over abundance of people hanging around. Also it’s not really their well, and they don’t know how long they are staying there, and on top of that they did say they have three wells to choose from.

The scenes with the rose and Daryl was actually ok, as was Glenn hooking up with Maggie. The scenes with Hershel and Rick kind of dragged a bit and it kind of looked like they green screened in the mountains. It just didn’t look quite right. Anyways I guess it was a nice character development episode and even though there wasn’t much action I still thought it was ok.

Ok watched episode three last night, apparently I need to get on these posts quicker if I am going to keep up with the surge of traffic right after the show. This episode was ok but still has not really blown me away. The idea of shooting through the deer is dumb. In the comic Otis just accidentally shot Carl thinking he was a zombie. All this deer stuff and conversations about the deer are pretty whack really. What did Rick say? “Carl needs to live because he talked about THE DEER!” or something to that effect, that was just corny. Again they seem to want to make long conversation scenes between characters, which fall flat.

It also seemed kind of dumb for Daryl to leave his arrow in that hanging zombie, when he could just cut it down and get it back. They also did not raid that dead guy’s camp, in that scene. The conversations between Andrea and Daryl seem to flow much better then the other dialogue in the show. Don’t know if it’s written better or if they are better actors. Daryl is turning out to be one of the more entertaining characters and he didn’t appear in the comic.

The contrast between Dale in the comic and Dale in the show is pretty extreme. In the comic he was actually Andrea’s lover. I wonder if a relationship between a 60 year old man and a girl in her late twenties would have played out well in a television show.

Finally there was Otis in the end, which I thought was good. Part of what I liked about the comic was it kind of showed a sort of evolution in mankind where the most vicious people who are willing to do anything to survive come out on top. In the same note other survivors can be even worse than the walking dead, in terms of being a threat and only a few scenes in the show have captured any of that. Primarily I would say Merle cutting off his own hand, and Shane beating down Ed, and now Shane sacrificing Otis so he could make his escape. I hope there is more stuff like this in future shows and less scenes of Rick and Laurie discussing deer.

Just got back from vacation and was able to watch the first two episodes of season 2. This site never really got the following of my falling-skies site unfortunately so I doubt there is people waiting for my updates.

Anyways, watching the first two episodes they were not bad but they did not blow me away. The seem to be going into this scenes with way too much dialogue basically saying the same thing over and over again. They are messing up the Andrea character changing her too much from the comic in my opinion.

The scene with her arguing with Dale over having the gun went on way too long, as did the scene with Rick and Shane in the farm house in the second episode. There was too much dialogue not really saying anything and just eating time. The longer the dialogue goes on the weaker it sounds, in my opinion.

The zombies look great, I think they did a great job in casting the extras for their parts. The makeup looks great. The casting for Herschel is great as well.

I still wish they kept with the comic book story line more but there is probably a million fan boys saying the same thing right now.

I liked when they pulled up on the traffic jam and and Dale said they didn’t have enough gas to turn around, and some pointed out they could take gas out of all the broken down cars. The thought when through my head at the same time. So far I didn’t really see any groan inducing WTF moments but at the same time nothing really blew me away.

Looks like its got the Herschel farm at the end.

Well the finale of season one was kind of a dud in my opinion. Not a lot happened, and most of it didn’t really move the story along. The idea that all the world’s governments are gone and that the vatos and this group are still running around is kind of laughable. They don’t have bomb shelters in Washington, where the most powerful people in the country would be hunkered down?

The scientist, as I feared turned out to be threatening, threatening in a logical “for the greater good” sort of way, which was very predictable. We learned that they have no idea what causes the people to become zombies, and that there is no hope of rescue.

In the end I was wondering what was the whole point of the CDC being added to the story.  I mean they are exactly as they were before they went minus one black lady character. This whole episode was not in the comics at all.  In the comics Shane would be dead by now and they would be on their way to Herschell’s farm.  Personally I think the show would be way better if they just stuck right to the comic story line, since most of the stuff they have added has been pretty weak.