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HAH. GOOOOD FIRST LOOK! (Also: GOOOOOD MORNING!) This preview clip will certainly set aside all those fears that so many of us had that the second season of The Walking Dead would be a huge departure from the first season insofar as it would no longer feature any zombies whatsoever and all of Grimes’s t-shirts would be clean. GRIIIIIMES! Seriously, though, what is this clip? I mean, not just what is this clip in the sense that it is hilarious that anyone would consider this a preview of anything as it provides us with the very LEAST of our expectations (zombies, dead zombies, dirty Grimes) but also we spent the whole first season in the woods and only just barely managed to move the plot forward enough to BLOW UP THE CDC (still LOL about that) but so now in season 2 they just go right back to the quarry? Perfect. From the Hollywood Reporter:
With Season 2 set to pick up in October, series writer/executive producer Robert Kirkman told The Hollywood Reporter this month that Rick, Carl and company will be heading to the farm featured in the comics he created.
“The first season was all about being in the city, and dealing with zombies in the streets,” Kirkman said. “The second season is about zombies in the woods and what’s behind that next tree. It’s a much more rural setting.”
Uh, the first season was not all about being in the city. The first season was all about being at the quarry (in the woods) and taking long, multi-episode trips up and down the stairs of one department store (the quintessential “city experience,” I’m sure), and I will also point out that their trips from the quarry to the department store were the ONLY THING THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED on the show, so putting them on a farm (Quarry 2.0) without any trips to the department store sounds troublesome. And I’m not trying to tell AMC how to do its job, but if season 2 is going to take place on a farm, HOW ABOUT YOU SHOW US A FIRST LOOK AT THE FARM?! No? Just Grimes killing a zombie in some poison ivy? Fair enough. Just know that we are going to have a serious sit down conversation about your behavior when I become President of Entertainment. The Walking Dead season 2 premieres October…October what? YOU WON’T EVEN GIVE US THAT?! Oh, AMC, go to your room!
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I liked the original better:
$15 on Grimes making terrible decisions. I know, it’s a crazy thought, but I have to go with my gut on this one.
I am, however, looking forward to the return of “Carl.”
I’ll bet he just gets really angry at Homer’s incompetence and electrocutes himself.
If only Homer had left his pencils alone, this might all have been averted…
Poor old Grimey.
Carl Winslow?
Carl Winslow vs. Phillip Banks. DISCUSS.
UNCLE PHIL WAS THE VOICE OF SHREDDER.
Discussion over.
Holy. Shit.
Yeah seriously. When I found out it was basically all I could say for a day or two.
“Hey, [Not Actually] Betty White, do you have those TPS repor-
“UNCLE PHIL WAS SHREDDER!”
“What?”
Well, maybe that was the farm! Maybe it was a Christmas tree farm and Christmas trees in Georgia just look like regular trees until they are ripe.
Atlanta Monster here! And that is definitely really, extremely untrue! There are actually no trees here. Those are CGI trees. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong.
Any other questions? I can tell you about Gone with the Wind I guess! She wants to marry Ashley who is a male, not a female like you might have thought.
What can you tell me re: where the playas play?
Shhhh, we do not speak of such things; nay, such legends
the clairmont lounge!*
*disclaimer: i went there once and it was terrifying and i can’t pour bleach in my brain to get it out. whoopsies.
uh, clermont, i mean.
Little-known fact: “Clermont” is based on the Latin cleramatus meaning cler- “Hell”, and -matus, “on Earth.” But don’t fact-check that! It will break the spell.
I have been there, too! I don’t want to bleach my brain, but I did want to bleach my hands. Blondie was off that night, so a little disappointing.
And @mailman, it’s actually Celtic for “Where strippers go to die”
Now that you have identified yourself as an Atlanta Monster, I fully expect to see you at the meet up on August 13. NO EXCUSES!
What if he has leprosy?
No mercy, no remorse.
Also, I am a leper, but only just a little! It is contagious specifically between 4pm and 5pm, and also when I am feeling jealous. Oh, someone else’s comment was upvoted more than mine? STAY BACK
Wait so is that actually happening?
AMC’s programming ie usually so smart. It’s really disappointing that this one seems to lack braaaaaaaains.
Instead the video I can only see a crude, white-on-black box saying “THE VIDEO YOU ARE TRYING TO WATCH CANNOT BE VIEWED FROM YOUR CURRENT COUNTRY OR LOCATION”. Still looks way better than the first season!
That’s just ridiculous. Ever since Doom found that blog about how poorly he’s running Latveria, he’s really gone overboard with blocking stuff there.
Holy shit what is this show?!!? Did I just watch an extremely realistic portrayal of man smashing in a skull with a rock? Complete with spatter and chunks of bone flying!??! Someone please tell me I didn’t just see that.
You didn’t just see that.
Phew! I was really worried that I had, so that’s a big relief. Thank, FT!
Want souvenirs? I can get you a box of tiny metal masks for cheap.
Leave it to a Latverian to not reply properly.
As I watched that preview all I could think was, this is the least necessary thing I have ever seen.
COUNTERPOINT:
The helmet is the “least necessary” part. The rest is very necessary.
The best part about bad adaptations of comic books is that instead of spending an 8 hours watching one entire season of garbage, you could just read all the comic books, and still have time to watch the Breaking Bad premiere a third time.
And on the flipside of bad adaptations, the Breaking Bad comic book really jumped the shark when Walt died then came back as four different Walter Whites.
Why did they make the 4th Walter White British? Weird choice. And the one way you could really tell was he’d just say “Pip pip, Cheerio” and “what’s all this rubbish” a lot, and they constantly drew a Chip Butty in his hand.
And the lorries. My god, they really drove that plot thread into the ground, didn’t they?
“Oy Guv’na! Idn’t ‘at a wee bit ‘o Meth idn’t it, in dat Lorrie, eh Guv’na? Eh? Oy, just a spot ‘o fun, I be havin’, yes I am, Jesse, yes I am Pip Pip cheerio and all ‘at rubbish.”
Don’t even get me started on Chris Claremont’s insistence on writing character-specific dialects! I still can’t figure out why he wrote Saul’s dialogue as if he was Cajun.
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I think I’ve gone too far.
This is the one where they have to go back to the island, right?
Or did I miss that already?
Oh boy. If the level of adaptation is basing seasons on the locales of the comic books, then I am afraid we are in trouble. To be fair to Kirkman, I am willing to believe his quote is slightly out of context, and he’s merely describing the difference in settings of the first two seasons, and not what the seasons are about.
I mean, season 1 was not about zombies in the city, it was about (and I’m trying to be generous here) a group of survivors at the start of a zombie apocalypse who are trying to stay out of harm’s way, look out for their own, and keep some semblance of their humanity intact. Kind of. They are new meat, and are rookies at making good decisions? They’re not hardened yet by the never-ending days and nights of dwindling food rations, too many lost friends due to lack of planning, and personal horrors or whatever.
So MAYBE Season 2 is actually about something like expanding on those themes of despair and horror and making smarter decisions to take care of your loved ones and insuring they don’t get devoured by zombies. They are moving further away from the cities, as they are basically zombie base camps, and are moving out into rural settings, but no place is truly safe as there are unspeakable horrors to discover in farm houses and such… or something like that, you know?
Or fuck. Who knows? maybe it is as simple as “This season will be about zombies hiding behind trees!”
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i’m still boycotting this show until michonne shows up with her ninja sword and takes her rightful place as the best character in that universe.
Yes x 1,000,000.
I”m super afraid that this show is borrowing writing staff from The Killing, and that we’ll never get out of the woods, or have any resolution of any kind, but that Grimes’s t-shirts will just keep getting GRIMIER (haha get it? a pun!) and eventually they’ll all be turned into zombies, and we’ll just be watching a show about ALL zombies.
-Gee, Rick, you’re looking a bit Grimey, you should wash up.
-But then what would me last name be, Cleans?
Between this and the golden crown scene from Game of Thrones, I think tv is getting too faceogynistic for my taste. Way too much object-on-face violence.
Or faceanthropic, really, as it does seem to be dude faces who are receiving most of the dramatic abuse.
anthropos refers to humans. women are humans too!
You meant faceandristic. (puts away the nerd glasses…)
Ugh you’re so right. I over-thought that comment and still fucked it up.
Season 2 predictions (while discarding all knowledge of the comics I have read):
- Shane will not die some more, but his obsession with Lori will get weirder.
- Michael Rooker will be back minus a hand (kidding. Not a prediction! already confirmed).
- They find a farm.
- A new character will be completely ignored for multiple episodes— really just a background extra— then all of a sudden at the beginning of an episode they will have a clunky scene of touchy-feely heart-to-heart exposition. Then they will be dead by the end of the episode.
- Doggy-style sex scene in the woods every other episode.
- A zombie gets pitchforked.
- Cars run out of gas.
- Barn Vatos.
Zombie father and son that Grimes abandoned in the Pilot will find him and eat him.
Season 2 of The Walking Dead – ROCKS!
I love a zombie apocalypse like I love Christmas, but I am very glad to see this one looks so mismanaged YET AGAIN that I can safely refuse to watch it. I hereby swear I will use those hours much more constructively (by rewatching old Buffy DVDs).
I’m wonder, like in season 1, if someone is going to venture deeper than necessary into the woods, at night, unarmed, by themselves, just to urinate — fully knowing that the world has been overrun by zombies for quite some time.