Heard this morning that the guy who voices the Walking Dead commercials and promos died in a skydiving accident.
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So there were a lot of things to like about that finale but...I am sure I cannot be the only one who thought: 1) Where did a tribe in the zombie apocalypse get the ability to launch an anthrax attack? 2) Who the fuck walks away from an anthrax attack? 3) Why did certain people walk away from anthrax (i.e. Nick)? Some of this is just ridiculous but I got roped back in after a few decent episodes, so touche I guess.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Walker explained that they cultivated the anthrax from animal hides. Doesn't it occur naturally in cattle? I won't google it, but I assume there's a scientific basis for that. As for walking away, I'm guessing that home cooked by amateurs wouldn't be 100% lethal, unlike something created in a lab specifically to be weapon grade. As for why some walked away and some died, that's not a stretch at all. Why do some people walk away from a flu outbreak and some die? Stronger immune systems overall and/or an inherent resistance to that particular pathogen.
I was about to give up on the series, but it really hit its stride this season. I'm in.
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I know misery loves company, but I'm not falling for it, you bastards. Enjoy your stupid show.
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Well they picked up where they left off....annoying the shit out of me with stupid decisions and drawn out episodes.
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Yeah, obviously any opener gets an incomplete until we see how the season fleshes out. But the time jumps to not one, not two, but 3 different times in the future made it confusing as fuck, and there were at least 2 times where I pretty much wanted to choke the life out of the writers for both laziness and stupidity.
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So Carol looked over while on the bridge in the beginning and saw a graffiti flower (because that's what you graffiti when the world eats itself....flowers). She's going to die, isn't she?
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I didn’t catch that, wow
so first, the answer is yeah, but I think that’s always been coming. The whole hugging Darryl scene was also somewhat foreshadowing.
Other things I thought about the episode:
1- The flash-forwards seem to be a couple of years based on Judith’s age. What we know from them (besides the fact that Judith and Rick age, and Michonne doesn’t apparently) is that Rick and Michonne are still together and all four of them (Carl is heard) are still alive at the end of the war. Although the Weird Al was a nice touch, I have no earthly idea what the song selection means, though I imagine we will find out.
2- Speaking of the flash forward, I had thought that the war would encompass the entire season and the time gap would occur before season 9, but given how much we are seeing and seeing early…maybe the end of the war is the midseason finale? That would seem rushed, but given the complaints they were inundated with about dragging the last couple of seasons, and the declining viewership (despite being still very high), it wouldn’t be a shock.
3- Anyone hoping to see Negan’s intestines wrapped around a tree and Rick eating his brain Ray Liotta-in-Hannibal style are going to be sorely disappointed. That last flash-forward sequence about “mercy surpassing my wrath” indicates that Negan will indeed be jailed, not killed, as in the comic. Maybe his schtick will be better in a Hannibal Lecter prison-type role, where he doesn’t have to be overexposed and we don’t have to take him seriously as a dictator, although I imagine he will be around too much still because they ain’t paying JDM all that money to appear 2-3 times a year.
4- Judas Priest these writers are stupid. I mean Hue Jackson declining penalties stupid. Jim Harbaugh getting 9 M for 4th place division finishes stupid. You wanna set shit up? Awesome. But then don’t make the characters look dumber than a sack of hammers after doing so. Half the fucking dialogue in the episode was “only one person needs to die” and then that one person walks out in front of 50+ people with automatic and sighted sniper weapons (asshattery writing on its own)...and they promptly let him run his mouth, plead with his lieutenants to give up, and then let them all escape
Just full-on, completely engaged dumbfuckery.
5- Speaking of dumbfuckery, I am not even going to comment on the Gregory storyline, because I will throw my keyboard through my monitor. Suffice it to say that was even dumbfuckerer than #4 above, and that fucker has such change-the-channel heat that he could ruin the fucking show entirely if they keep writing that stupid shit in. Someone had best cut his balls off and hang them from a rear-view mirror as fuzzy dice, and pronto.
6- Maggie as the overall leader and main protagonist of the show after the war…that I can get behind, her character is possibly the one that has actually developed some (maybe Darryl too), but you know it won’t last long. As soon as the Whisperers appear, and they will, Rick will get out the trunk Mel Gibson-in-Patriot style, and he will shave and limp-dick his way right back into being the main focus again after about 2-3 episodes when everyone starts complaining.
7- Nice to see Rick, in the midst of a gigantic firefight with automatic weapons and an RV bomb, remembered to bring along his 1980s style Polaroid camera
Other things I thought about the episode:
1- The flash-forwards seem to be a couple of years based on Judith’s age. What we know from them (besides the fact that Judith and Rick age, and Michonne doesn’t apparently) is that Rick and Michonne are still together and all four of them (Carl is heard) are still alive at the end of the war. Although the Weird Al was a nice touch, I have no earthly idea what the song selection means, though I imagine we will find out.
2- Speaking of the flash forward, I had thought that the war would encompass the entire season and the time gap would occur before season 9, but given how much we are seeing and seeing early…maybe the end of the war is the midseason finale? That would seem rushed, but given the complaints they were inundated with about dragging the last couple of seasons, and the declining viewership (despite being still very high), it wouldn’t be a shock.
3- Anyone hoping to see Negan’s intestines wrapped around a tree and Rick eating his brain Ray Liotta-in-Hannibal style are going to be sorely disappointed. That last flash-forward sequence about “mercy surpassing my wrath” indicates that Negan will indeed be jailed, not killed, as in the comic. Maybe his schtick will be better in a Hannibal Lecter prison-type role, where he doesn’t have to be overexposed and we don’t have to take him seriously as a dictator, although I imagine he will be around too much still because they ain’t paying JDM all that money to appear 2-3 times a year.
4- Judas Priest these writers are stupid. I mean Hue Jackson declining penalties stupid. Jim Harbaugh getting 9 M for 4th place division finishes stupid. You wanna set shit up? Awesome. But then don’t make the characters look dumber than a sack of hammers after doing so. Half the fucking dialogue in the episode was “only one person needs to die” and then that one person walks out in front of 50+ people with automatic and sighted sniper weapons (asshattery writing on its own)...and they promptly let him run his mouth, plead with his lieutenants to give up, and then let them all escape
Just full-on, completely engaged dumbfuckery.5- Speaking of dumbfuckery, I am not even going to comment on the Gregory storyline, because I will throw my keyboard through my monitor. Suffice it to say that was even dumbfuckerer than #4 above, and that fucker has such change-the-channel heat that he could ruin the fucking show entirely if they keep writing that stupid shit in. Someone had best cut his balls off and hang them from a rear-view mirror as fuzzy dice, and pronto.
6- Maggie as the overall leader and main protagonist of the show after the war…that I can get behind, her character is possibly the one that has actually developed some (maybe Darryl too), but you know it won’t last long. As soon as the Whisperers appear, and they will, Rick will get out the trunk Mel Gibson-in-Patriot style, and he will shave and limp-dick his way right back into being the main focus again after about 2-3 episodes when everyone starts complaining.
7- Nice to see Rick, in the midst of a gigantic firefight with automatic weapons and an RV bomb, remembered to bring along his 1980s style Polaroid camera
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I thought this was pretty cool.....about the tributes this latest episode likely paid to the first episode
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That is very cool...the problem is they put these “Easter eggs” in so often you would have to go back from by frame in every episode multiple times to catch them all (not all are parallel shots, there are lots of others, these are cool because they pay homage to episode 1). To me they are always better if infrequent and things that somewhat-more-than-casual observers might catch. Many of them are buried so deep and on screen for such a short time it would take a film school class to analyze.
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