Very good, Spudster, but itâs not all about you, you know.
You know that you are a spud-I-like, so I wouldnât be so personal as to dig you in the ribs over your use of language.
Iâve 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 Iâm smiling, and not have a stroke. We were promised Championsâ League emoticons here, but all weâve 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 Romeroâs 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. Weâve 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 itâs getting on here though. Itâs entertaining but I canât 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 canât 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 canât 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.
HmmmâŚmaybe. I havenât read the graphic novels - maybe theyâre a little more nuanced (and interesting) than the TV series. As I said Iâve 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, âIs it as good as The Wire?â. 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 wouldnât 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 theyâve unfailingly stepped away from each of the âreally badâ things that happens in the comics. Michonneâs 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, itâs really narrow. Itâs 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 weâre 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. Itâs an interesting storyline but the budget seems even less than the Walking Dead - very little of the large scale action youâd expect in a city of millions. Theyâll be making millions thatâs for sure.
They were very honest from the beginning of the showâs production by saying that it wasnât going to be a âguts n gloryâ type gorefest, but more of a slow burn. Iâm really enjoying it, but then again I am a big fan of the normal show so iâm probably biased.
If peeps are wanting action and drama, tune in to Ep 1 of the new series of TWD next Sunday/Monday - big shitâs 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, âis so and so the new Glenâ, etc. Itâs like they just want a clone of The walking dead, but just with different people. Iâm also liking the fact itâs slowly building up and looking at things differently
So thereâs now going to be a spin-off of the spin-off!
Titled âFear the Walking Dead: Flight 462,â 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.
âFlight 462â will debut on Oct. 4 on AMC.com and will then air during two commercial breaks during âThe Walking Deadâsâ Season 6 premiere on Oct. 11. Following the web seriesâ 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.
I was really looking forward to Fear the Walking Dead. Thereâs a whole load of drama in the slow discovery of the outbreak and the effect on towns and cities that was lost due to the (clever) opening of TWD. Also, TWD has really sunk into a mediocre soap opera with zombies in the background, which is what eventually happens to all long running series, not always with the zombies, but with whatever that series special thing is. In the end, there is never anywhere to go but versions of the same old plotlines surrounding character interaction. So we get the same old romantic conflicts, parent-child conflicts, crisis of self-belief problems etc that are all a bit samey.
FTWD gave them a legitimate chance to rewind the clock and go back to the fun, exciting starting bit and what did they do? They put the outbreak mostly into the background and focused instead on the family soap opera bit! Itâs well made, but ultimately a wasted chance to give us something interesting and different in the world of TWD. I hope it improves, but the breakdown of civilisation is almost complete already, so what else is there left but the plot of TWD (and every other long running series) to be rehashed.
Now theyâll need to go to NY and restart all over again and try to make a sparse, tense and genuinely disturbing series about the outbreak.
Yep, good points there, agree âFearâ missed a trick, like you say itâs already got to the point of breakdown. I thought they would have focused more on the development of the people first getting the virus, where to start with people might have survived longer knowing they had it but hadnât turned yet, or the turn was slower. I thought the end of episode 6 was a bit dissapointing as well.