The Shrine

Pausing to talk is stupid. I'm done. *Drops mic* *Walks off stage*

Oh man, i'm glad she died. That was a very annoying sequence when she paused to talk and listen ALL the time.

My initial thought was that her dying was bullshit but what she became was so far away from the comic that I don't particularly mind as much as I thought.

I'm glad Tyreese is back with them - I like the actor.

I don't expect a lot of good things to happen to a bunch of identity-less elderly and children.

Pretty anti-climatic. I mean, the series did a pretty good job this season of staying exciting (minus the last ~3 eps) and building... but it kinda fizzled out at the end.
/shrug

Still enjoy the show though.

I agree about the attack... if that idiot hadn't wasted the grenade launcher ammo Maggie and Glenn would be dead.. Not that I want that - just saying that's what I'd have saved the grenade launcher for... not pre-emptive strikes against empty sniper nests. SOMETHING should have happened. I'm excited to see what they have Michonne do to avenge Andrea.

I like what they've been doing with Carl... the kid is a better actor than I gave him credit for in the first couple seasons. Surprised he hasn't grown a foot or something yet, though...

Yep, this show is officially AMC-ed. Every show I've seen on that channel (Rubicon and Breaking Bad) all fall into the same trap: over-dramatizing useless characters/plot points, underwhelming climactic plot sequences, and stalling and barely moving the plot forward at all (basically acting like filler a lot of the time)

I'm watching two HBO shows that move pretty slowly (Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire). But at least the plot's always moving forward, even if it is a little underwhelming (Game of Thrones).

Unfortunately, i think the rabid viewer base of GoT will start to get really peeved that nothing is happening by the 5th season, unless Martin allows HBO to deviate from the books. Like, skip books 4 and 5 entirely except for the major plot points.

I thought the attack did a good job of showing the power Woodbury had. For most of the season, i kept thinking, "Just fight them! You have guns, too!" but clearly, Woodbury had some awesome firepower and vehicles.

I agree that the end was dumb, though. Where did the gov go? Is he going to return all crazy and forever follow the group?...

The governor actor has been signed as a regular for season four, so expect him to be around for a great deal of it if not the entire thing.

Shrinweck wrote:The governor actor has been signed as a regular for season four, so expect him to be around for a great deal of it if not the entire thing.

There's three of them and two of them don't trust him. They should be a minor plot point unless he rebuilds.

BTW, have we all mentioned how insane it is they didn't go back to Woodbury and took everyone to the prison? I thought that was worth repeating...

Zeus wrote:
BTW, have we all mentioned how insane it is they didn't go back to Woodbury and took everyone to the prison? I thought that was worth repeating...

Haha, i thought the same thing. Really annoying how Rick flip flops to the extreme, too. "No new group members!" ... "Lets take in all the weak and feeble!"

Kind of funny the guy who plays Tyreese was at my gym today.

I've said it once and I'll say it a thousand times:



Also, these were funny:

Tyreese is an actual character in the comic and he's played by a good actor.. The other two black males were throw-aways and were barely (the prisoner) or not (T-Dog) even in the comic.

Shrinweck wrote:Tyreese is an actual character in the comic and he's played by a good actor.. The other two black males were throw-aways and were barely (the prisoner) or not (T-Dog) even in the comic.

And? So? What?

Daryl isn't even in the comics and he's the best character on the show. Yeah, I'm the first one to shout that movies and such should always stick to the source material, but this one aspect that even the comics got dead wrong.

They are in Georgia, for fuck's sake! Half of the population is black. Half of the cast should have been black.

Eh, yeah, blame that on a white author, writing for a white audience, in a medium that's dominated by white people. I hear very often from friends and strangers how if the star or too much of a cast of characters is a minority that they just can't connect with what's going on. This is a big problem in gaming, as well, since protagonists are basically always straight white males. Cross-cultural empathy is something that can only be built through experience being the minority and we're still quite far away from that unfortunately.

Also a lot of those survivors are from small towns which would quite possibly have a majority white population, and the blacks (in GA) which would have largely been in highly concentrated urban areas would be annihilated immediately. Also the black population of GA is 31%. Still underrepresented. Except for the prisoners. Half of them were black.