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Last night was great...loved the way they set the tone with the black and white vs color scenes. The broken time line was a great way to tell the story.
 
The contrast of color/B&W scenes and the nonlinear narrative were absolutely necessary for last night's episode to maintain suspense and drama, in the vein of Memento. Great season opener. Carol has really transformed into one of the most interesting characters on the show. Everything she does/says in that town has ulterior motives and since we're in on it, it makes every scene she's in hilarious. She's really in her element there. Lots of humor last night too. Probably the saddest part was seeing the dude who plays Dr. Dre in Straight Outta Compton with a female hairstyle. I literally thought for a second that Sasha got some new braids over the season break. :lol
 
Had no idea the dreads dude was that guy. I thought for sure the blonde guy that got his face ripped would be around for at least the whole season. Kinda disappointed with that.
 
As for next week..... Alexandria will still stand tall this season despite the thousands of zombies surrounding it. They will probably just bang on the fence and that will be that...

My initial thought was that they were leading the zombies toward Alexandria ... to populate a moat or something. Build an 8' deep, 30' wide trench all the way around the community, and fill it with 10,000 zombies. One draw bridge on either side. Sniper towers. Suck it, Wolves. And, stray zombies would fall in before reaching the wall. Might've worked better than this plan did. And, there would've been a few cool scenes of people falling in the moat and getting torn apart.

With the actual plan ... not sure what Daryl, Sasha and Abe were planning on doing after they finished their 20-mile trek. Can't exactly make a u-turn.

I thought it was a very good episode actually. The b&w was a good enough way to differentiate between flashbacks and present time. And, cutting back and forth helped balance the talking with the action.

I thought the kid from Can't Hardly Wait would last a bit longer than that.

SnakeDoc
 
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Black and white made it simple to follow flash backs. So you counted the hundreds of walkers and came up with 85%? That's impressive. Great episode btw

Well, unless you are an idiot, flashbacks are pretty easy to follow without the black and white. Hopefully this is not the direction this show is taking... it would be horrible. As for the zombies, go rewatch the episode and it is pretty easy to see that majority of zombies were female with there hair covering there faces. Lazy show writers probably did this to save time with make up....

I think if this show was that bad for you that you shouldn't bother watching anymore. If I felt your way, I sure wouldn't. I started watching a couple of new shows this season and at least one of them is on the brink of me just forgetting about it. I won't waste my time and effort on something I no longer like.

I don't hate the show, just the choices made by the show writers are terrible and make no sense. This show has the possibility to become one of the greatest show of all time, but dumb choices, oversight, terrible music selections, character development, same location, repetitiveness, and now this story line all have led this show down. It could have contended with Breaking Bad, but it is just executed at such a low level... it really is sad.

The contrast of color/B&W scenes and the nonlinear narrative were absolutely necessary for last night's episode to maintain suspense and drama, in the vein of Memento. Great season opener. Carol has really transformed into one of the most interesting characters on the show. Everything she does/says in that town has ulterior motives and since we're in on it, it makes every scene she's in hilarious. She's really in her element there. Lots of humor last night too. Probably the saddest part was seeing the dude who plays Dr. Dre in Straight Outta Compton with a female hairstyle. I literally thought for a second that Sasha got some new braids over the season break. :lol

Episode was not really suspenseful. I mean a horde of walkers slowly following Daryl for thirty minutes....

Carol is just pretending to be a "mom" instead of her non-believable "bada**" so if anything goes wrong, she is not a threat in the eyes of the citizen of Alexandria... Not much of everything she says has a ulterior motive...

That guy is Heath, a comic character.

My initial thought was that they were leading the zombies toward Alexandria ... to populate a moat or something. Build an 8' deep, 30' wide trench all the way around the community, and fill it with 10,000 zombies. One draw bridge on either side. Sniper towers. Suck it, Wolves. And, stray zombies would fall in before reaching the wall. Might've worked better than this plan did. And, there would've been a few cool scenes of people falling in the moat and getting torn apart.

With the actual plan ... not sure what Daryl, Sasha and Abe were planning on doing after they finished their 20-mile trek. Can't exactly make a u-turn.

I thought it was a very good episode actually. The b&w was a good enough way to differentiate between flashbacks and present time. And, cutting back and forth helped balance the talking with the action.

I thought the kid from Can't Hardly Wait would last a bit longer than that.

SnakeDoc

The whole plan of leading those zombies out was stupid and something they never should have done, just a garbage moment for the show to create a false sense of suspense... up until the end. They would have just pulled the semi truck out, let some zombies come out, close it back up, kill them, repeat until that is empty. Sure it would take a long time, but why did they only block off that small area with cars but then did not do the same for the whole way... or more importantly at least block the way that lead to Alexandria with cars.... but nooooo..... they leave the path to Alexandria completely open. They would not have done that.
 
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TMNM. :lol
 
Damn, some of those "village people" are dumb and irritating! I would have done the flame pit option. The walkers are contained. It would draw more walkers to that area. Much less risky than a Volksmarch and we know that went badly just as it was going to succeed. Preacher man, don't trust him. The cast is pretty large now, I expect some losses soon. Maybe we should start a dead pool? (A dead pool, also known as a death pool, is a game of prediction which involves guessing when someone will die. Sometimes it is a bet. The combination of dead or death, and betting pool, refers to such a gambling arrangement.
 
I was wondering why they didn't just find a way to burn all the walkers in the quarry, seems like it would be a simpler way to deal with them.

Thats kind of what I was thinking too. drench them in gasoline and shoot off a few of those flairs into the pit. Bye Bye Walkers.
 
Episode was not really suspenseful. I mean a horde of walkers slowly following Daryl for thirty minutes....

You do know what "suspense" means, right? Seeing the black and white scenes (which were story driven) inter-cut with the color scenes (which were action orientated) meant you had no idea how this plan was going to turn out or what certain people were gonna do. I thought Pete's son was gonna try and kill Rick for revenge when he followed Rick and Morgan outside of the gates. I also thought Carter was gonna try and kill Rick AGAIN, during the zombie herd. Lots of suspense there, you were just too busy contemplating complaining about it on the internet to notice. Like I said, if you show that episode in chronological order (like Memento) THEN it loses that suspense and drama.

Carol is just pretending to be a "mom" instead of her non-believable "bada**" so if anything goes wrong, she is not a threat in the eyes of the citizen of Alexandria... Not much of everything she says has a ulterior motive...

The stuff she says to the townspeople (which is what I was referring to) does. She's pretending to be one of "them" to manipulate them into doing what Rick and his group (which she's part of) want.

You need a dictionary homie. :lol


That's racist!!!!
 
You do know what "suspense" means, right? Seeing the black and white scenes (which were story driven) inter-cut with the color scenes (which were action orientated) meant you had no idea how this plan was going to turn out or what certain people were gonna do. I thought Pete's son was gonna try and kill Rick for revenge when he followed Rick and Morgan outside of the gates. I also thought Carter was gonna try and kill Rick AGAIN, during the zombie herd. Lots of suspense there, you were just too busy contemplating complaining about it on the internet to notice. Like I said, if you show that episode in chronological order (like Memento) THEN it loses that suspense and drama.

You thought Rick could die... and thought it was suspenseful?

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You must not read the comics.
 
I was wondering why they didn't just find a way to burn all the walkers in the quarry, seems like it would be a simpler way to deal with them.

I thought the same thing at first, but then I remember when they burned those walkers in a pit and they still lived, and also, that was a stone quarry full of walkers, I don't know how they could've burned them all. If you've ever been to a quarry, it's pretty big and deep.
 
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