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Walking Dead spoiler zone talk (primarily tv show)

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So to continue a convo from the random thoughts thread....

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Random-Thoughts/post/649443/#TopicPost649443

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twister111 said:

Re: Walking Dead
I feel they shot themselves in the foot with the season 3 ending in that it pretty much wraps up the series. Seriously aside from 1 plot point in regards to 1 person everything is wrapped up. It's like how I felt after the 4th episode of the 4th series of Misfits. There's nothing cliffhanger-esque enough for me to feel like I would have to watch the next episode.
Really? I thought the way season three ended almost felt like it was cut off mid episode. It was pretty anti-climactic, and nothing from the season was resolved. In the comics, the events of the season three finale are a pretty big game changer moment in the series.

I wonder how close they'll follow the books following the wrapping up of the prison storyline. The nomadic nature of the next several storylines doesn't seem very conducive to television. With the way it is going, I half expect them to drag the governor stuff on until the end of season four, then end it there. Or choosing to stray in a completely different direction than the comics all together. Just about everything that happens following the prison prior to making it to the Alexandria Safe-Zone is a bit too extreme even for AMC anyway. I also wouldn't be surprised if they skip straight to the Alexandria Safe-Zone from the prison.

One thing I love about season one, is the ending is almost an adequate end to the series anyway. There are plenty of loose threads, but watching the survivors pile into the Winnebago and drive off into the distance after learning that the world is entirely screwed and no cure is on the way, was a pretty great ending. Given the mess that seasons two and three are, that is always going to be my end to the series.


Well to me anyway. I don't really see what's there that desperately needs to be wrapped up after the end of season 3.

I mean you find out what happened with Merle. You find out what happened with Morgan. In the end the survivors find a place to stay and if it ended there you could imagine that they fortify the place and just start living their lives. The only real loose thread is one guy who just got everyone to turn against him on the loose out there in zombie land. Really if it ended there it's easy to just imagine he got eaten by a bunch of zombies.

I don't know maybe you could tell me what exactly felt "cut off mid episode" because I didn't personally feel that. It felt like an end to the entire series. Come to think of it maybe I feel this way because I don't give a damn about that Phil guy. I don't care what he does on the show at all. They could replace him with a cardboard cut out and I'd actually be more interested. Since the actors would be forced to carry on conversations with a piece of cardboard and make it interesting.

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It felt really anticlimactic. We spend the whole episode watching Andrea trying to escape, the others find her dying, she dies, and the season ends.

They have all those extra survivors now, usually in The Walking Dead, people turn out to be far, far, far more dangerous than walkers (which is actually the punchline of the title in the comics, Rick's famous "We ARE the walking dead!" speech). But even if they do stupidly trust all those new survivors, they also have to feed them. Nothing resolved in season three, it ended with more problems than they started out with, which is appropriate for a continuing TV show.

Merle and Morgan are the only things resolved in the story, and neither one was of any importance to the overall story. It was nice to see the show's take on what happened to Morgan, but that part was done so much better in the book. If they would have included a few extra aspects to that, it would have been really cool. I was also disappointed Morgan didn't join the group of survivors like he does in the books. So yay, we found him, but nothing came of it.