The Walking Dead Season 2 Trailer

Rylo said:
Alright, if every dead person turns, what about all the dead people in the cars along the interstate? There were corpses all over the place that were just dead in their cars....they didn't reanimate.

Hmmm?
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I wondered about that too. Which makes me think that it mutated at a later point or there would be far more walkers about.
 
Scareb said:
Or maybe they just decomposed to the point that their brains completely died. I mean they're decomposing and they're stuck in a car under that heat, it wouldn't shock me at all.
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Yea, those cars are like ovens. Especially in that Georgia heat, wouldn't take long for brains to literally fry in there. Hell, hundreds of kids die every year because they were left in the parking lot car during the summer.
 
If the TV show was a like for like, carbon copy of the comics then there would be little to no dramatic impact of anything as it would already be in print, I personally can understand them taking the TV show in a different direction, its the very basis of an adaptation, I mean Spider-Man and Batman have spawned many many different versions and variations over the years. I really enjoyed the last episode and can't wait for the season finale, season 2 has defiinitely gotten better after a very slow start! Bye bye shane
 
If I were the comic creator, I would relish the opportunity to tell a different take on the story. Did you ever think that maybe he has full creative control, and is choosing something different for a different medium?
 
Yeah great slow burn, with awesome lead up to Shane's end and a new twist on the Zombie infection.
The thing I like about someone like T-Dog being so inconsequential is just that; even great characters can't outlast him. Anybody can survive, without a need for any type of character or charisma.
 
Kirkman, on TVline:

TVLINE | Shane turning into a zombie in the end pretty much confirms that everyone’s already infected. Can you confirm that that’s what Jenner whispered in Rick’s ear?
[Hesitates] Well, I can’t confirm that. But what I can say is that Shane turning after being stabbed definitely does inform Rick revealing what Jenner whispered, in the next episode.
TVLINE | So we’ll finally find out what he whispered in next week’s finale?
Yes.
TVLINE | Does Rick debate sharing this newfound intel with the others, or does the approaching zombie stampede delay that?
Yeah, there’s sh-t ton of zombies on the way to the farm, so he’s not going to have a lot of time for that.
TVLINE | This does raise the question about the dead bodies in the season-opening traffic jam — why hadn’t they all been turned?
I think if you go back and watch that [sequence you'll see] we were very careful to have them be in cars that were in accidents, so the brain would’ve had trauma. Or they had some kind of wounds somewhere on their heads to show that their brains had been killed, like somebody came across and killed them. We knew that we were building to this throughout the entire season.
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The complete article is kinda spoilery The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 12 -- Recap and Spoilers


One of the reasons people are falling into the comic/TV show debate is that the comic is just way better written, has better characterisations and is far better paced. While some are bitching just because they are deviating, I think most complaints are through exasperation that the TV show is ploughing its own territory in a hugeley inferior direction to the source material.
 
I'm finding it to be a severe burden to have been a fan of the comic before the show. I've been a fan since a little while after the comic debuted.

Unfortunately, like others have stated, you have to keep the two absolutely separate. It's hard, but it will just frustrate you ALOT more to keep analyzing it. Though, despite the severe changes from the comic, the show is having far more down turns than anything else. I find myself watching it just to see what Greg Nicotero comes up with, and that's about it.
 
I've read the comic since the beginning and I love the TV adaptation. When I watch the show now, I don't go "oh sweet, the tv adaptation of the comic book walking dead is on", it is it's own thing now. Now every Sunday I tune into my favorite zombie tv show.

Yeah, the writing in the comic is a lot better, but that's a comic book. TV and comics are paced completely different and you can't expect one to perfectly translate to the others.

I'll keep watching the show until the minute it goes off the air, but that might have something to do with being a zombie fanatic.
 
Scareb said:
Yeah, the writing in the comic is a lot better, but that's a comic book. TV and comics are paced completely different and you can't expect one to perfectly translate to the others.
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I don't think anyone is asking for a direct, word for word, scene for scene direct adaption. That wouldn't work. The comics have won so many awards for it's writing, for it's presentation of a world after the apocalypse. It's senseless to have abandoned all that writing that made it a smash hit as a comic to make up entirely different new stuff for the TV show.

It'd be like taking the success of the Batman comics and adapting a movie where Bruce Wayne's parents are still alive and kicking, where he doesn't do the playboy facade, where he really doesn't do any Batman vigilante justice, and still calling the movie "Batman" and writing stuff that never happened in any way shape or form in the comics just because you want to exploit the name of the comic.

"Walking Dead" is effectively an Abrams "Star Trek" rip off. Only vaguely related to the original source work at this point.

Also, everything that everyone has complained about that I've read so far has been stuff that was NOT in the comic. No extended search for Sophia, the inconsistency with dead bodies in cars, Hershel's farm was a pit stop on the way out, the comics showed more preparation and defenses setup against the walkers.
 
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Nataku said:
I wondered about that too. Which makes me think that it mutated at a later point or there would be far more walkers about.
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You assume it's biological. There's no evidence there's anything to mutate. There's just as much evidence it's a curse from God.
 
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:lol:lol:lolYou posted that in this thread(y)thumbsup.
I'm glad it's different than comic, kinda like a parallel universe Walking Dead.
 
Flagg said:
Every dead body turning into a zombie worked fine in George Romero's zombie flicks. I personally like that idea better as if you want to be even a tiny bit realistic, if it took bites to turn you, days for you to die and then maybe a day to come back, the zombie plague would be over before it started. If EVERY dead body comes back, then you got some serious doo doo on your hands.

I watched the last episode again today and something else dawned on me. A few episodes ago Rick says they have to start using their knives etc. to kill zombies as they are running low on ammo. Carl shows up and instead of going "Dad, Shane is behind you and gonna chomp your butt" so he can knife him, he decides to go all Rambo and gun shane down. Whats this do? Alert the whole herd thats nearby to come and overrun the farm. Further proof Carl should be put down for the good of the group. :lol

If Carl would of just shot the deer instead of trying to go pet it, he never would of been shot. Otis would still be alive. Sophia would still be alive. Dale would still be alive. The bad guy raiders wouldn't of run into the group so all of them would be alive. Randall would be alive. Shane might not of gone off the deep end as badly as he did and would still be alive.

See? Every death this season can be blamed on Carl. String him up!
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how would sophia still be alive?

i mean they went to search for them with carl, and he got shot by otis. then otis left, and died. later on, you learn that it was otis who put zombie sophia in the barn.so this has happened before they even met otis.

just sayin.
also i think that the virus was airborn somehow, and everyone alive got infected at that time. but my guess is, every newborn wont be infected, as they werent alive during the airborn stuff (thinking it faded away by now), also they got somewhat of a resistance against the virus because of the mothers body and adapting to it in fetus stage. that would be a darn good reason for the baby.

also, i think the whole group is pretty stupid. sound attracts walkers. so, its probably a good idea to do gun training where they are staying. also lots of screaming and stuff. they should all die because they cant even keep to the simplest rules. the only guy so far i was sorry for dying was dale, because he actually wanted to do it the right way.
 
After rewatching the ending, I can say for certain that the flashes of the zombies eyes and mouths are representing Shane's mind slowly being reactivated by the virus, and that it also serves a bit of a visual foreshadowing to the audience of what is to become of Shane within the next couple of minutes of the episode.
 
I think they used the flashes of zombies after Shane died to cement the fact that you don't need to be bitten in order to come back. I mean when they found Randall, Darryl noticed the broken neck that killed him and he came back which gets the audience thinking and then Shane confirms what they might be thinking.
 
If it were just through an open wound, T-Dog (who just would NOT SHUT UP in this episode :D ) would have bought it on the highway at the start of the season.

As for the show not matching the comic, I understand that Kirkman had no idea the comic would be successful, so he burned through a lot of story arcs (Shane's for example) that he would have drawn out if he'd known how successful it would be.

Seriously, I was so glad T-Dog finally got lines...
 
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