Walking Dead– Season 3 **Spoilers**

[BrAinPaiNt]

You make some good points Future.

I think it takes looking at the situation as a whole... What I mean is look at the situation for the big perspective. Hell has literally turned upside down. I think the circumstances would turn anyone into a caricature if that's the right word.

Correct.

I have always said that zombie movies (shows) were never really about the zombies. The zombies were just the catalyst or accelerate to the humans. The humans and how they act or interact with other humans is always the central issue.

When so much is brought forward to cause massive confusion, horror, stress and any other negative emotion...the humans emotions and actions will be completely amplified to what their normal personality would be sometimes not only will they be amplified but at times completely changed.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Exactly right Brain.


Take Rick for instance.

He starts off getting shot in the first episode, which has to be very traumatic in its own right.

You get a snapshot of Rick's mindset right before he get's shot the second time, which puts him in the hospital. After the first bullet hits his vest, he gets up and says, "Can you believe that? he shot me."

If the first shot didn't shock him mentally, the second one definitely did.

And since that point he hasn't had any chance to "catch his breath" so to speak.

He wakes up in a world that would absolutely stun any of us, and then he finds out his family is missing.

Then he deals with extreme forms of violence both against he undead and the living.

He finds his family and then finds out his wife and best friend have been carrying on. And then he finds out his wife is preggers, with him maybe not being the father.

His best friend then attempts to kill him.

Oh and in between all that he witnesses his son being shot and almost dies. And he feels guilty for losing one of the members of this group– a small child who can't defend herself.

My gosh, who wouldn't be transformed after going through all that?

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Exactly right Brain.


Take Rick for instance.

He starts off getting shot in the first episode, which has to be very traumatic in its own right.

You get a snapshot of Rick's mindset right before he get's shot the second time, which puts him in the hospital. After the first bullet hits his vest, he gets up and says, "Can you believe that? he shot me."

If the first shot didn't shock him mentally, the second one definitely did.

And since that point he hasn't had any chance to "catch his breath" so to speak.

He wakes up in a world that would absolutely stun any of us, and then he finds out his family is missing.

Then he deals with extreme forms of violence both against he undead and the living.

He finds his family and then finds out his wife and best friend have been carrying on. And then he finds out his wife is preggers, with him maybe not being the father.

His best friend then attempts to kill him.

Oh and in between all that he witnesses his son being shot and almost dies. And he feels guilty for losing one of the members of this group– a small child who can't defend herself.

My gosh, who wouldn't be transformed after going through all that?

Yep and let's not forget that he killed the two guys at the bar so this sudden ability to kill someone else is not without history. But he still did so after being drawn on first at the bar and this time with the other guy clearly trying to get him bit twice.

 

[gambit187]

About a month ago I caught season 1 and 2 on NETFLIX......After watching I started to cry....because I felt like a bad person for missing such a great show......THIS STUFF IS GREAT....I'M HOOKED....LOL...yeah I know I'm late....and yes I am up to date on season 3 and loving it.....

I only hope that my sons are ready to kill zombies the way I have been teaching them like Karl. lol

 

[Phoenix]

About a month ago I caught season 1 and 2 on NETFLIX......After watching I started to cry....because I felt like a bad person for missing such a great show......THIS STUFF IS GREAT....I'M HOOKED....LOL...yeah I know I'm late....and yes I am up to date on season 3 and loving it.....

Not to get sidetracked too much, but I just finished doing the exact same thing in a sense...I watched all of S1 & S2 of Game of Thrones on HBO On Demand. Awesome show also!

 

[gambit187]

Found this site and event interesting......will most likely try to take my sons to one of these next year...

http://www.runforyourlives.com/

 

[theogt]

This season has been crazy good so far. The zombie slaying is balls to the wall.

 

[Future]

You make some good points Future.

I think it takes looking at the situation as a whole... What I mean is look at the situation for the big perspective. Hell has literally turned upside down. I think the circumstances would turn anyone into a caricature if that's the right word.

Well I guess maybe that's the whole point of the series then :laugh2:

The more I think on it, the more I think it's just the writing I don't like. Every character trait seems forced in that they aren't allowing the character development to be subtle. It's painfully obvious who they want the characters to be.

During season one I kinda cringed a couple of times, but I think now I'm just totally turned off by it. The first scene was the one with the 3 women (Andrea, Carol and Jacqui maybe) and they make a joke about a vibrator. It was just corny and I think that instances like that have happened more and more often.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

This season has been crazy good so far. The zombie slaying is balls to the wall.

Totally agree. I really like how the characters evolved since last season and the Zombies have been overflowing so far. The next few episodes should be really good. Hopefully a little background for Michonne and some catch-up with what happened with her and Andrea since season two ended.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Totally agree. I really like how the characters evolved since last season and the Zombies have been overflowing so far. The next few episodes should be really good. Hopefully a little background for Michonne and some catch-up with what happened with her and Andrea since season two ended.

The reason the zombies are overflowing is because it's a prison and they didn't have a way to get out. Personally I would have stayed on the outside and just killed them through the fence before going in. :laugh2:

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Good interview with Glen Mazarra concerning the last episode...

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsideth...-outlook-and-what-happened-in-the-prison.html

 

[Derekmtl85]

Not to get sidetracked too much, but I just finished doing the exact same thing in a sense...I watched all of S1 & S2 of Game of Thrones on HBO On Demand. Awesome show also!

You should read the books. I love the show...but it doesn't even compare to the book series. Amazing.


As for the season so far...wow, what can you say? The first 2 episodes so far are two of the best of the series, in my opinion.

And yeah...saying the characters aren't believable because...1. A pregnant girl in a zombie apocalypse is too emotional? Really? lol I know girls more emotional than her, without being pregnant or the fear of having a zombie baby inside them

2. Hershel's innocent daughter, all she has ever known is her small town, small farm, easy simple life...now she has to watch people kill Walkers, kill humans, etc.

3. Rick ice cold...why wouldn't he be? His best friend tried to kill him, the guys in the bar tried to kill him, Walkers are trying to kill him, and everything that happened before the prison...i totally understand how ice cold he is. And even after he locked the door to the prison, leaving the prisoner outside with the Walkers, he still had the "God...i had to do it" type of look on his face.

4.Carl, he's growing up in a world with death and blood all over, normal kids are rebelious and fight with their parents...imagine in a zombie apocalypse.

Totally understand the evolution of the characters.

 

[Phoenix]

You should read the books. I love the show...but it doesn't even compare to the book series. Amazing.

Somebody else told me that not long ago...already bought and downloaded to my Kindle...they're next up in my reading queue

 

[Phrozen Phil]

A young guy I know has decided to stop reading the stories as he finds it too depressing. He describes the stories as "vacuuming up all hope". I, on the other hand, don't take it seriously at all. I must clearly state, for the record, that I have declined to go on a "Zombie Walk".

 

[Doomsday]

Great show, this season has been amazing so far.

A man has to do what a man has to do. That is especially true when he is defending his family and friends. Rick is a real man and he is going to do WHATEVER he has to keep his family alive, even if it means going against everything he use to believe in.

 

[Lodeus]

Andrea is getting annoying again.

 

[xout]

Stuff got real with this episode... The Governor is indeed a twisted freak. Here's hoping he proves to be a better antagonist than even Gus Fring or the Trinity Killer.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Stuff got real with this episode... The Governor is indeed a twisted freak. Here's hoping he proves to be a better antagonist than even Gus Fring or the Trinity Killer.

Yeah, kept waiting for him to show his evil side... About 45 minutes in.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Yeah, kept waiting for him to show his evil side... About 45 minutes in.

Well...I was waiting for him to go into his locked room, waiting for him to sit down and then waited for his daughter to move into the scene...only to see aquariums with zombie heads in them.

I realize the show tries to be different than the book but I thought the daughter thing would have fit in well but I guess they had enough little zombie girls with sophia. :laugh2:

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Well...I was waiting for him to go into his locked room, waiting for him to sit down and then waited for his daughter to move into the scene...only to see aquariums with zombie heads in them.

I realize the show tries to be different than the book but I thought the daughter thing would have fit in well but I guess they had enough little zombie girls with sophia. :laugh2:

The book is in many ways, which I guess they had to tone it down for TV, just really... ***** up, when it comes to folks doing weird or ghastly stuff.

Like the part in the book where the convict beheads two of Herschel's daughters.

I wasn't ready for that at all. :laugh1: