Iām a huge TWD fan, didnāt get into it until it was mid-way through the second series but iāve watched it through a good 2 or 3 times now. Comic reader too, so itās interesting to be able to compare the two side-by-side. Speaking of comic storylines, this season of TWD should be f*cking awesome and it looks like theyāre jumping into a biiig event at the start of this season which will be sweet to see realised, as itās one of my favourite bits from the comic.
As for FTWD, I was a bit unsure about it at first but the more iāve seen and heard from this project, the more excited iāve become about it. That trailer looks great and itāll be interesting to get a different perspective of events from the same universe, and to finally see how this all startedā¦
I tend to just follow the terminology based on the source of the show, ie if it was a UK based show Iād say series 01, whereas if it was created in the US of A Iād go for season, as thatās what they call it, for example the video itself says season 06 in the title.
I like that youāve been a little ironic in this post as well bletchy, good work. Lifeās too short to stick at watching one of the most popular tv series in the world, but not so short that you donāt have time to draw attention to people using the term season rather than series!
Yeah Iāll definitely be watching both of those. Walking Dead seems to me to be one of the few shows that gets better and better with each season. Excuse me, going for a walk, gotta get my sneakers on.
Very good, Spudster, but itās not all about you, you know.
You know that you are a spud-I-like, so I wouldnāt be so personal as to dig you in the ribs over your use of language.
Iāve been posting that little footnote every time I comment on a multi-season ** TV show from the You Ess of Ayy.
Your post was simply collateral damage.
* - This should appear as if Iām smiling, and not have a stroke. We were promised Championsā League emoticons here, but all weāve got are these League of Wales ones.
The Walking Dead is one of the two shows that I look out for with any regularity. I think bletch needs to give it another go, particularly if the end of the first season is where he stopped. Kirkman does tread a lot of familiar ground to Romero. Slow zombies, the humans are the real villains of the piece, etc, etc. You could argue that all the show is doing is extending Romeroās template over a long run. Well, no-one else is managing that, not even Romero.
I must say, that Fear The Walking Dead trailer looks pretty impressive. Weāve never seen much of the outbreak itself. A few flashbacks, a little bit of an infested Atlanta. Seeing everything go off in LA could be very interesting.
I enjoyed it and got along to season 4, I think. Not sure it deserves the plaudits itās getting on here though. Itās entertaining but I canāt say it does much for illuminating the human condition in any way.
It asks what happens to civilised people when civilisation goes out of the window. How many carry those virtues inherently, and how many are simply operating within a civilised framework. What happens to people when you canāt simply order pizza? In a very consumerist society, it asks what happens if all of that goes away. Quite successfully, mostly. Normally, the post apocalypse is just biker gangs in bondage gear.
It asks what happens to civilised people when civilisation goes out of the window. How many carry those virtues inherently, and how many are simply operating within a civilised framework. What happens to people when you canāt simply order pizza? In a very consumerist society, it asks what happens if all of that goes away. Quite successfully, mostly. Normally, the post apocalypse is just biker gangs in bondage gear.
Hmmmā¦maybe. I havenāt read the graphic novels - maybe theyāre a little more nuanced (and interesting) than the TV series. As I said Iāve watched the first 4 seasons - I like it - just not that much.
Unfortunately, whenever anyone bangs on at me to watch a TV series my first response tends to be, āIs it as good as The Wire?ā. Which admittedly is a pretty high watermark. So, everything else is on a hiding to nothing, really.
Er no. If you considered the TV show to be a PG version of the comic book, you wouldnāt go far wrong. The TV show, grim as it often is, is like a soothing watercolour impression of the comic. It has rarely, if ever, gone as extreme as the comic book source material and theyāve unfailingly stepped away from each of the āreally badā things that happens in the comics. Michonneās treatment at the hands of the governor is 10x worse, as is her retribution.
I have seen the first two episodes of this, and am quite impressed. One the one hand, itās really narrow. Itās just about a couple of families as things unfold. On the other, there is some very impressive civilisation disintegration happening on a wider scale. At the end of episode two, I think weāre going to have the beginnings of a group of survivors.
I can possibly see everyone holding out in the school for a bit.
Watched the first 5 now. Itās an interesting storyline but the budget seems even less than the Walking Dead - very little of the large scale action youād expect in a city of millions. Theyāll be making millions thatās for sure.
They were very honest from the beginning of the showās production by saying that it wasnāt going to be a āguts n gloryā type gorefest, but more of a slow burn. Iām really enjoying it, but then again I am a big fan of the normal show so iām probably biased.
If peeps are wanting action and drama, tune in to Ep 1 of the new series of TWD next Sunday/Monday - big shitās going down!
^^^^ Agreed. I was reading some reviews online the other day and several people were making loads of comparisions with The Walking Dead and trying to even compare charaters, āis so and so the new Glenā, etc. Itās like they just want a clone of The walking dead, but just with different people. Iām also liking the fact itās slowly building up and looking at things differently
So thereās now going to be a spin-off of the spin-off!
Titled āFear the Walking Dead: Flight 462,ā the 16-part web series follows a group of passengers aboard a commercial airplane during an early outbreak. Throughout the short episodes, viewers will see the plane and the lives of its passengers put in jeopardy, once they discover an infected traveler.
āFlight 462ā will debut on Oct. 4 on AMC.com and will then air during two commercial breaks during āThe Walking Deadāsā Season 6 premiere on Oct. 11. Following the web seriesā premiere, the rest of the episodes, which are each less than one minute long, will bow every Sunday, both online and on TV during the flagship show.