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***OFFICIAL 'The Walking Dead' TV Series Thread*** (4 Viewers)

Not to defend, because I thought the cliffhanger was an incredibly weak way to go, but JDM did say on TTD last night that while they were filming his scene that they had all of the other characters stay in position and in character the entire time they were filming, even when the camera was just on him.  Normally shows use stand-ins in those types of scenes.  He said the entire cast stayed worked up in their characters emotionally and physically for the entire 15 hours to shoot the scene (in the cold), and that it totally drained them.  So I can see where Cohan's comments could be coming from, if that's what she was talking about. 

As far as Lincoln, nothing in that script would have kept me up for more than a minute or two. 
In the cold?  Like they didn't even break for lunch or go back to their trailers at any time during that 15 hours?  :rolleyes:  

Seriously, I get what you are saying, but I still think it was all fodder for publicity.  With anything said on TTD being the worst of all the fodder.

 
And unless I can see your breath when you're breathing it's not cold.  I don't think it even gets cold in rural Georgia.  Might explain the blanket around Daryl though.  And if they are such bad asses why did they give him a blanket?

 
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Redwes25 said:
They better kill one of Glenn, Maggie, Marchionne, Daryl or Carl.  I imagine Rick is safe but they need to kill a major character not Abraham or one of the more recent season add-ons.  
I'd bet the house that it's Abraham or Kenny Powers. 

 
Rick sucks.  Going around thinking his group can just roll over every group he comes across.  So stupid.  Not even a scouting mission to assess the Savior's strength, the group splitting up and going every which way.

I'm now #teamneegan

 
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Wingnut said:
The fact that Norman Reedus has a new show on AMC this year leads me to believe hes done on TWD.
Maybe I misheard them on TTD, but didn't they say he already filmed the first season, while TWD was on hiatus?

 
its like the joke about the hunter that gets raped by a bear.   

the next week the hunter goes hunting again, and gets raped by the bear, again.

3rd time the bear finds the hunter and says "you aren't really here for the hunting, are you?"

except in this case, the viewer is the hunter and Gimple/Kirkman/TWD writers are the bear
That joke sucks.

 
This season finale reminds me of a Friday night in Los Angeles. Really really bad traffic and detours and it takes forever. But at least at the end of the ####ty drive I got to see the Lion King and not a 15 minute one man show on his artistic interpretation of eenie meanie miney moe. 

 
shuke said:
Oh just a marker?  The guy spraying the paint was trying to look so ominous while shaking the can I couldn't help but laugh.
Yeah it was to let Rick know it was the same guy by marking him with a X and that they had been out smarted. 

 
And unless I can see your breath when you're breathing it's not cold.  I don't think it even gets cold in rural Georgia.  Might explain the blanket around Daryl though.  And if they are such bad asses why did they give him a blanket?


You could see Negan's breath when he was talking.

 
Harry Manback said:
Not really.
Ancient times


For most of human history, depending on the culture of the victors, enemy combatants on the losing side in a battle who had surrendered and been taken as a prisoner of war could expect to be either slaughtered or enslaved.[3] The first Roman gladiators were prisoners of war and were named according to their ethnic roots such as Samnite, Thracian, and the Gaul (Gallus).[4] Homer's Iliad describes Greek and Trojan soldiers offering rewards of wealth to opposing forces who have defeated them on the battlefield in exchange for mercy, but their offers are not always accepted; see Lycaon for example.

Typically, little distinction was made between enemy combatants and enemy civilians, although women and children were more likely to be spared. Sometimes, the purpose of a battle, if not a war, was to capture women, a practice known as raptio; the Rape of the Sabines was a large mass abduction by the founders of Rome. Typically women had no rights, and were held legally as chattel.[citation needed]

In the fourth century AD, Bishop Acacius of Amida, touched by the plight of Persian prisoners captured in a recent war with the Roman Empire, who were held in his town under appalling conditions and destined for a life of slavery, took the initiative of ransoming them, by selling his church's precious gold and silver vessels, and letting them return to their country. For this he was eventually canonized.[5]

 
Rick sucks.  Going around thinking his group can just roll over every group he comes across.  So stupid.  Not even a scouting mission to assess the Savior's strength, the group splitting up and going every which way.

I'm now #teamneegan
To be fair, the biggest group Rick ran into was Woodbury and then he spend a year (?) at Alexandria seeing no one new. Then out of nowhere there's a huge, organized army.

 
snogger said:
wait.. what???  :mellow:

The acting there and the story itself is 10..no make that 100 times worse..

I suffered through last season so will tune in for episode 1 of season 2.. But if it is as bad as last year I'm out and won't feel like I missed a thing.
Haven't seen a bottle rocket explosion yet on FTWD.

 
Maybe I misheard them on TTD, but didn't they say he already filmed the first season, while TWD was on hiatus?
No clue, I dont watch TTD. In fact, I quit TWD when I found out Glen wasnt really dead. Havent watched a minute since until the last half hour of last nights finale.

 
Maybe I misheard them on TTD, but didn't they say he already filmed the first season, while TWD was on hiatus?
My guess it is done... I watched the premiere episode a couple months back as part of AMC survey group. I'm not a big cycle person but it was interesting enough that I'll tune into another episode when they start airing them. :thumbup:

 
Just finally got myself to watch this "finale".

So many things but who cares...beating a dead horse over some of these things...so why bother?

As to who it is...it's definitely Eugene.  He had the "you're a survivor...we just didn't know it" speech from Abraham and Eugene tells Rick to ask Abraham about the reloading so the writers could impart knowledge to Rick after Eugene's death.

That'll be this groups way to revolt...build up the ammo cache and any weaponry they can muster.

I'm ever hopeful that there will be so much backlash on this episode that the writers actually retool and actually kill off someone who actually "matters".

Maybe someone will get a gig over the summer that'll cause them to have to be written out...who knows...but they definitely telegraphed this to be Eugene...but left it open for other options.

 
There's very little chance someone like Negan wouldn't kill Rick.

You kill that group's leader...you put a serious dent in them ever rising up to revolt.

The only thing keeping Rick alive is the writers.

 
After accepting the dumb cliff hanger which I (and I'm sure others) joked about them doing weeks ago the rest of the episode was pretty good. The build up to meeting Negan was pretty cool, the way they were getting screwed with by his men and the noose kept tightening, the last corner they turned where they saw the giant group, the whistling in the woods, all well done and pretty suspenseful. 

The show is pretty dumb but still entertaining.

 
After accepting the dumb cliff hanger which I (and I'm sure others) joked about them doing weeks ago the rest of the episode was pretty good. The build up to meeting Negan was pretty cool, the way they were getting screwed with by his men and the noose kept tightening, the last corner they turned where they saw the giant group, the whistling in the woods, all well done and pretty suspenseful. 

The show is pretty dumb but still entertaining.
That is the part that people are missing.  Watching cocky and unbeatable Rick slowly come to the realization that his group is out of their league and in so far over their head that they are going to die and it is his fault.  You can see it going progressively during the episode and he it sinks into his head that they are screwed.

Yes the "cliffhanger" was brutal. Let's not destroy the entire episode over a bad ending that is meant to have the exact conversation that we are having.

 
He never says "catch a tiger by the toe." that could be added into an expanded scene to change who gets whacked.
He did...he pointed at Darryl when he said "a tiger" and pointed at Sasha when he said "by his toe".

 
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Agree it's Eugene. They made a point of having Red tell him welcome to stage two, he's a survivor. Then he gave Rick the plans to how to make bullets. Setting up not being there anymore. Though I guess he may "survive," since he's now a survivor and all.

 
It's either Eugene or #####nuts. Once the man hugs start, gotta squelch those feelings. Hell, Neegan's group has opened the can of gay worms. Where's the wimmens at? 

Rick definitely was the one pissing his pants. What a colossal #####.

 
That is the part that people are missing.  Watching cocky and unbeatable Rick slowly come to the realization that his group is out of their league and in so far over their head that they are going to die and it is his fault.  You can see it going progressively during the episode and he it sinks into his head that they are screwed.

Yes the "cliffhanger" was brutal. Let's not destroy the entire episode over a bad ending that is meant to have the exact conversation that we are having.
No one is missing it. We got it. In fact, the problem is we got it much quicker than Rick did, because the writers have been hanging this over our heads all season. So while Rick was taking 4 tries at passing to figure things out, many of us were just bored waiting for it to inevitably happen. It didn't help that the breaks from that repetition were the awful Carol/Morgan subplot. 

 
I really hope it's Glenn. I would hate to see the constant, inevitable "mah babyyyyy" coming from him in the upcoming seasons. And I hope Maggie kills herself.

 
It's Abraham.  The Glenn/Maggie romance keeps the chicks in on the show. Darryl is a fan favorite who they aren't going to kill. Abraham is too much of a wildcard for Negan to let live and he knows it from when he stood up.  

 
As long as they don't kill Rosita, I'm good.  I really want Rick to go tho.  So tired of his ####.   

btw, what happened to that Jesus fellow?  He seemed like he could've been useful but nowhere to be found.  

 
As long as they don't kill Rosita, I'm good.  I really want Rick to go tho.  So tired of his ####.   

btw, what happened to that Jesus fellow?  He seemed like he could've been useful but nowhere to be found.  
Perhaps Neegan will take a page out of Jabba the Huts playbook and keep Rosita chained to his throne dressed in fetish wear.  I know I would.

 
It's Glen, they've fake killed him too many times.

Hell, maybe they'll kill off 2 people. Surprise us a bit.
I thought the way to do the comic story justice and keep some kind of swerve in there would have been to unexpectedly kill 2 characters.  

Show SOMEBODY getting killed like in the comic, then just when everyone thinks it's over, have Negan say, "you know what, one more" and kill someone else.

They could have used the cliffhanger trick for the second death and had people debate who that was all summer. At least then you get the emotional impact of Glenn's death and one that could get the producers' ratings-loving rocks off. 

 
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Interesting read: Comments From The Cast And Crew On ‘The Walking Dead’ Cliffhanger Don’t Seem To Add Up

Obviously spoilers if you haven't watched the Finale yet.
I actually thought about this theory myself. The stuff Cohan and Lincoln said just didn't seem to fit the "sickening" bill. Maybe they decided after the backlash (aka publicity) from the Glenn dumpster dive to do another massive cliffhanger on if someone dies, or who it might be. Wouldn't put it past them. 

 
I actually thought about this theory myself. The stuff Cohan and Lincoln said just didn't seem to fit the "sickening" bill. Maybe they decided after the backlash (aka publicity) from the Glenn dumpster dive to do another massive cliffhanger on if someone dies, or who it might be. Wouldn't put it past them. 
Yeah it sounds like they had written it in prior and then changed their minds and made it a cliffhanger.

 
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I thought the way to do the comic story justice and keep some kind of swerve in there would have been to unexpectedly kill 2 characters.  

Show Glenn getting killed like in the comic, then just when everyone thinks it's over, have Negan say, "you know what, one more" and kill someone else.

They could have used the cliffhanger trick for the second death and had people debate who that was all summer. At least then you get the emotional impact of Glenn's death and one that could get the producers' ratings-loving rocks off. 
:homer:

 
he really should have kept going ... and you are NOT it, repeat
lol yep, after the repeated RV dead end scenes, I really thought he might do just that. On second thought, he could have done it, narrowed it down to two or three and had THAT be the cliffhanger, and i think there would have been at least a little less angry backlash from the fan base. 

 

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