mikedanger
Super Freak
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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
I will keep watching because I like to complain about stuff n thangs.
I will summarize, in case anyone doesn't want to read the WALL OF TEXT:
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.
There were tens of thousands of them, so it'd be extremely resource intensive. Not sure how they could, plausibly.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.
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...
TMNM.
I will summarize, in case anyone doesn't want to read the WALL OF TEXT:
Tell me when it wins an Emmy for something other than makeup.
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.
Tell me when it wins an Emmy for something other than makeup.
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.
Tell me when winning an Emmy is actually a worthy gauge for anything.
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