The Walking Dead this Sunday 10 EST on AMC
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UPDATED: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 22:37
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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
I watched the premier last night at 10pm. Excellent show. The opening was a carbon-copy of 28 days later, but I was ok with it.
So it looks like we have the makings of a superior series, which of course means it will be canceled.
Hopefully it won't be canceled. AMC and FX both have some really good stuff - some of it very gritty. Breaking Bad, Terriers, Justified, Sons of Anarchy - both of these networks have found a niche that just isn't being addressed elsewhere, and they're making a name for themselves on the backs of some really good TV. Less-gritty fare - Mad Men, Rubicon, and Damages - still holds high-quality entertainment.
It's gotten to the point that if the show is on AMC or FX, I feel like I at least need to give it a look.
I'm hoping The Walking Dead will live up to the standards of Mad Men or Breaking Bad. If it does, it's likely to run for quite a few seasons yet!
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It's early... even so, I have a rant against a number of their choices, but I'm going to shut my yapper for now. 
I do recall that even in the comics it wasn't until after Atlanta that things started to pick up.
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Big fan of the comic. Havn't watched the premiere yet.
It did kick ass in the ratings, receiving a 3.3 share, which is quite high for cable. By way of comparison, True Blood's best ever rating was 3.2, and current MTV juggernaught Jersey Shore (which I have never, and will NEVER watch) has reached 3.4 only twice.
Coooool.
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Wow. Rubicon's finale got - if memory serves - something like a .9 or 1.2, something pretty low.
3.3 is huge for Walking Dead!
Wonder if that includes DVR recording. I DVRd it, but haven't watched yet. It's on the queue for tonight.
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Okay, HOLY CRAP!
Not so much "Ohmigodthat'sscary!" as "Ohmigodthat'sGORYASFUCKALL!"
It's funny, because the early scene with the shoot-out, I was thinking, "Wow, I remember the big controversy about 'Bonnie & Clyde' back in the day, and how it almost got an 'X' rating because it was so violent and graphic, and now this stuff on TV is worse..."
... And then it really amped up. Gore, guts, more gore, brains, blood, more gore...
Yikes!
I'm so there.
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Darabont has said they were given no restrictions on the gore. Nudity and language were the only things not allowed.
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I actually enjoyed the comic books more than watching this. I'll continue to watch it, but it didn't really grab me like I thought it would. It might get better.
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I thought the spikes that police lay out were specifically designed to let the tyres down slow and avoid major rollovers and crashes..
Hehe. thats the only gripe I had with it.
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Originally posted by Calhoun:
I thought the spikes that police lay out were specifically designed to let the tyres down slow and avoid major rollovers and crashes..
Hehe. thats the only gripe I had with it.
That's the kind of gripes I had... lapses of simple logic which are very important - critical - for creating a fictional world that the viewer can believe in. It seems like the more you ask an audience to believe in (like Zombies) the more real the rest of world has to be, or it just doesn't sell.
I think that was one of Firefly's great successes, and especially one of Fillion's great contributions; his every day persona. That made the space ships and science easier to accept. It continued with the other actors, their casual ease with each other in character made everything feel more real.
I have a list of these small things (once Rick got the low down on the situation, wouldn't he always - like when he's looking for gas - be walking around with a GUN OUT?!), but I'll save them for now... definitely interested in how the series progresses. Like I mentioned, after Atlanta is when most of the fun starts.
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I'm looking forward to the prison. Especially since Darabont seems to have a knack for stories set in prison settings....
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