The Walking Dead Season 2 Trailer

The chick with the sword and chained zombies came off as extremely far fetched and removed from the setting of the show. It was shot totally wrong from a viewers stand point. It was shot as a fantasy/sci fi introduction and not on the same "real life" type setting the show is set in. Just a terrible introduction.

But it was almost the same way she was introduced in the comic (carrying two chained zombies and a sworn and removing one zombie's head off), yet no one had any problem with that. The show has its fair share of over the top moments that people have no problem with, yet Michonne's introduction is too "fantasy/scifi"?
 
the introduction was that of a jedi ninja with mystical powers over the undead. Completely removed from the shows existing setting.
 
I think that the walkers being able to be towed on chains is a little far fetched as I don't get why they wouldn't still try and attack her. But as far as her loping off a zombies head with a sword it isn't all that unrealistic. As long as its sharp and got some weight behind it would do the job.
 
I dunno, I mean I could see Michonne on the move, who knows where from or where to or why when she hears the gun shots. Not only that but a raging barn fire might tell her that there are people nearby. Wether they are dead or alive is moot, as long as there may be supplies. So she hears Andreas gun shots and makes her way over, swish goes the head.

As for the zombies, it's actually pretty simple. Cut off their arms, their lower jaw, their nose and remove their eyes. Maybe even their ears. She does that and those walkers won't do a damn thing. I'm hoping that the show figured that out.
 
the introduction was that of a jedi ninja with mystical powers over the undead. Completely removed from the shows existing setting.

I tend to agree with you that her introduction was stark, and stood out as a tonal shift in the show. The difference is, I like that. And, if the story is going where the comic went, it's going to bridge a gap, because the setting is going to change.

I thought this finale was OK. It still had a lot of the overwrought nonsense melodrama that season 2 was chocked full of.
 
Scareb pretty much nailed the walkers with Michonne. If keeping in tow with the comic, that's her boyfriend and brother behind her. One or both were African American, so I'm assuming they're sticking true to atleast one of them being her brother.

Basically chopping the jaws and arms off of the zombies allows them NOT to reach out and get her, or clamp down a chomp on her. It also provides her a good amount of cover is she has to pass by a herd. The smell of the zombies around her basically camouflage her. At one point in the comics she even states that the two zombies she has got USED to her and eventually stopped trying to go after her. They just started to follower her.

And sorry Oneye, but the comic and the show will always be compared no matter how many people don't want it to. Separating them isn't completely possible. While they are separate, they are also connected. Without the comic there would be no show. Comparing the two and having a basis to go on starts a good discussion/debate.

Seeing Michonne's entrance has brought me hope in the series once more. She is my absolute favorite character in the series, and I beg that they do her character right in the show!
 
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Scareb pretty much nailed the walkers with Michonne. If keeping in tow with the comic, that's her boyfriend and brother behind her. One or both were African American, so I'm assuming they're sticking true to atleast one of them being her brother.

It was her boyfriend (Mike), and her boyfriend's best friend (Terry). Mike was on the left (her right), and Terry was on the right (her left).

Here she is chopping off Terry's arm
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And here is the panel that mentions the zombies in tow helped her

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Also I think someone asked awhile back why is she using a kitana, she preferred it over a loud gun and it was more readily available. Plus she took fencing lessons as a kid and in college

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I'll just drop out the thread then. No biggy.

I wouldnt leave just yet, and the thread will die down soon, but I understand what you mean. The past few pages have been almost grueling to read. You have the "so-called" experts of the comic with its this way or no way,...then you have the "so-called" tv show experts. On top of all that you have the people who are trying to relate this to real life, and seem to forget that this is just make believe and are looking for reasons and explanations that will not happen.

It reminds me of people who like a band when they are still unknown but then get real popular real quick and those people that use to like them when they started out have to remind us every single time that they are a true fan and are experts on the subject.


My advice, is sit back grab some popcorn and laugh at some of these posts. Think of it as a lurker zombie that Kirkman defines: "Lurkers are the zombies that just sit around playing "dead" until someone reaches them and they bite them. Lurkers can be the real threat because they can pass as dead zombies." ;)


EDIT: Of course Im making very broad generalizations to get ONEYE to stick around :D
 
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I'm not saying I'm an expert. I personally am saying that I don't see why people who watch the show claim that Michonne is "farfetched" and doesn't fit, when the show itself is about zombies, which are just as much if not more farfetched than Michonne's appearance is. And the fact that there are tons of farfetched moments in the show that people had no issues with, yet Michonne is farfetched and doesn't fit? That makes no sense whatsoever.

As far as I'm concerned, Michonne's appearance fits just as much as Daryl Dixon and the episode dedicated to his bad day where he got thrown from a horse, fell down a hill, got an arrow stuck through him, attempted to climb a hill, fell down again, took on two/three zombies (one of them using the arrow that was stuck through him), climbed the hill again, got shot at by Andrea and survived the whole ordeal to be back on his feet about a week later. She fits just as much as Rick and Glenn walking down a street covered in zombie guts in an attempt to get a delivery van from a construction site and then it begins to rain. She's fits just as much as the whole CDC, with one last guy trying to solve the problem of the infection with an artificial intelligent computer system with a realistic human sounding voice. And, she fits just as much as Lori flipping a car and walking away unscaved or Rick and Shane killing zombies with knives to the head with ease and not one of the knives having problems going in or coming out, or Rick's quick draw in the bar shooting two guys almost like a gunslinger from a Wild West movie or TV show.

That was all I'm saying, and that's all I'm saying. No more, no less, I believe Michonne doesn't stand out at all in comparison to all the other things in the show. I believe she fits perfectly, because that was the world created by Kirkman for the comic, and its the same world that is brought to life in the TV show. If you get rid of Michonne because she seems farfetched, you might as well remove the zombies from the show all together and have the show be about surviving a post-pandemic plague.
 
The most unrealistic thing about Michonne is how she found a katana that is durable enough, isnt' just a wall hanger, to actually stand up to repeated use. In the comic she finds it in a teenager's bedroom? I doubt he'd have a battle usable katana in a high schooler's bedroom. But I can look past that minor detail.
 
I like how they used an extra stand in to be her in that last scene so they didn't have to have an official casting or credit announcement in the episode, it came just as a surprise.
 
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