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The Walking Dead on AMC


PantherBrew

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lemme tell you guys what walking dead is and is not about

it isn't about the endless chase for some stupid plot device like a cure or a safe haven. its not about rambo killing millions of zombies. its not about hope, or tomorrow or even the past.

its a modern tale of job without the godjob at the end. its about a good, decent man, an officer of the law, one of the best of us, a normal guy that is willing to do the right thing regardless of the personal sacrifices and consequences, and what he becomes when everything is slowly stripped away from him in this new world where he really has no place in the new society. how much can rick endure before he becomes something worse than shane?

so you can go ahead and wipe away those silly dreams of all the zombie films you've ever seen where the two young lovers get away in an airplane at the end, it just ain't gonna ever happen. and if that's what you need from television, is something that's wrapped up in a nice little bow and delivered on a tray beside a bowl of chicken soup, then you're watching the wrong show.

this is more like the original night of the living dead, where you survive the night only to be shot in the brain by another living human.

that's what this is about. cutting off someone's hand, a good person's hand that you've survived with since the beginning because they won't let go of you while they're being dragged down by a horde of dead people

yw

sooooooooooooo... what you're saying is that somebody's going to lose a hand? ;)

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that's the point. nowhere is safe, there's no cure, all that's left is surviving

there is always a cure or safe place in theory. The possiblity is the only thing that can keep it going. Otherwise, might as well turn the show off.

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there is always a cure or safe place in theory. The possiblity is the only thing that can keep it going. Otherwise, might as well turn the show off.

there's always the mirage of a safe haven, but everything you do just rings a dinner bell...unless you manage to make it out to an isolated island, but even then you just don't know

the minute you think you're safe, you're dead

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there's always the mirage of a safe haven, but everything you do just rings a dinner bell...unless you manage to make it out to an isolated island, but even then you just don't know

the minute you think you're safe, you're dead

You'd have to get to an island that had a stiff current around it. Otherwise, you'd just have zombie creatures of the black lagoon attacking.

Source material? I've only read the first book of the comics...

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I know people think that Lori is antagonizer in this whole Shane vs. Rick situation, but the reality is that she tried to make it right between them. At first she wanted him to just disappear because she didn't want to face reality. She knows she caused the rift between Shane and Rick, and she was trying to prevent anymore heartache in the camp by letting Shane know that she was truly sorry for messing with his emotions and that she is grateful for what he did for them. I think that is one of the first real humane touches with reality for Lori in the show, and for me at least, made her more likeable.

Shane was just losing his mind anyway, he thought he knew the right things to do in order to survive and couldn't really live that way, regardless. He just became an explosive headcase. I think it was fitting that Rick outsmarted Shane once again in order to take his life, and he let him know before he died, that he brought it all on himself. Rick showed true leadership when it mattered most.

I'll miss Shane on the show though, I knew he would have to die eventually, but I hated to see him killed.

Looks like things are going to get crazy really fast at the farm. Sucks that after next Sunday there won't be a new episode for almost 7 months.

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