Mid-Season Finale

edited January 2013 in The Walking Dead
I really enjoyed the episode and can't wait for February,what about you guys(and girls),what do you think?
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  • edited December 2012
    I'm with you. I've enjoyed this season so far, and I really look forward to what they come up with next. What will they do with Darryl and Merle? It'll be fun to find out.
  • edited December 2012
    I also liked the episode. It surprised me that the Governor betrayed Merle.
  • edited December 2012
    Seeing that trusting Merle cost him his eye, and the termination of his undead daughter. It's not so surprising.
  • edited December 2012
    Sodawasser wrote: »
    I also liked the episode. It surprised me that the Governor betrayed Merle.

    Maybe he truly believed Merle betrayed him?
  • edited December 2012
    Yeah you are right, I forgot that Merle told him that Michonne is dead. My fault :P
    Anyway I didn't suspect the end.
  • edited December 2012
    Loved it. Still can't understand how unbelievable stupid and non-observant andrea is.
    the ending was really exciting, until they showed the preview for february where you could see daryl alive. uber fail.
  • edited December 2012
    personally, I don't think chuck norris could take on the dixon brothers combined and win. The governor has no chance.
  • edited December 2012
    Oh God, Andrea. She used to just annoy me, but now I hope they bump her off. Michonne saves your life and takes care of you for eight months? Great. You bone the Governor a couple of days and now you're gonna side with him? What a crappy friend you are. Hope things go real well with that sweet new man of hers!
  • edited December 2012
    Major spoilers ahead!!!


    Who thinks Merle is suppose to be Martinez from the comics and is just being planted to help infiltrate the prison?
  • edited December 2012
    That actually sounds likely!

    By the way,I am sorry about putting this in the wrong forum,I thought I was in the spoiler section when I posted this thread.
  • edited December 2012
    Consider it moved. All you had to do was ask, y'know. ;)
  • edited December 2012
    ...I expect an arena fight against the two Dixon's.
    And the "black guy that got shot" Is Oscar.
    Is it that hard to remember one name?
  • edited December 2012
    ...I expect an arena fight against the two Dixon's.
    And the "black guy that got shot" Is Oscar.
    Is it that hard to remember one name?

    Given that he was really just irrelevant in the long run...yea, kind of is.
  • edited December 2012
    What about the injustice that Wolverine got killed? Lol.
  • edited December 2012
    Daryl's going to die. Which is good. It'll let the public audience know that the writers do not care who they are killing off, even if they have an immense fan group. Kirkman does this all the time.
  • edited December 2012
    Zeruis wrote: »
    Daryl's going to die. Which is good. It'll let the public audience know that the writers do not care who they are killing off, even if they have an immense fan group. Kirkman does this all the time.

    What about Merle?
  • edited December 2012
    Even though I hated him, I cried when Michonne shoved a glass shard through his eye. I was in tears when he was pleading for "Penny's" life, but I lost it with the shard. I don't think even he deserves that. EVEN after what he did to Maggie.
  • edited December 2012
    I love this show but I hate ALL the women, yes that includes Michonne. They are all annoying and badly written. But I can't wait to see what happens with Rick, Daryl, and Merle.
  • edited December 2012
    honstly i can see merle dying soon and daryl being pissed
  • edited December 2012
    Zeruis wrote: »
    Daryl's going to die. Which is good. It'll let the public audience know that the writers do not care who they are killing off, even if they have an immense fan group. Kirkman does this all the time.

    Errr - nope?

    You could see Daryl alive several times in the Season 3.5 preview (example 1 2). He will definitely survive the Woodbury incidents.
  • edited December 2012
    Zeruis wrote: »
    Daryl's going to die. Which is good. It'll let the public audience know that the writers do not care who they are killing off, even if they have an immense fan group. Kirkman does this all the time.

    Didn't they already do that with Shane? I know a lot of people disliked the character on the show, but he did have a lot of fans and he was a huge part of the first two seasons.

    Also with the Sophia situation and Carl killing Lori after she gave the birth the show has already proven they're not afraid of having dark moments or of killing off major characters.
  • edited December 2012
    dubesor wrote: »
    Errr - nope?

    You could see Daryl alive several times in the Season 3.5 preview (example 1 2). He will definitely survive the Woodbury incidents.

    Sure. He'll survive the next episode. I like Daryl, it's just the undeniable fact that "The dead always win".
  • edited December 2012
    Also with the Sophia situation and Carl killing Lori after she gave the birth the show has already proven they're not afraid of having dark moments or of killing off major characters.

    Since when was Sophia ever a major character?:confused:
    And Lori was probably the most hated character until then.

    Shane is different. Sure he went absolutely crazy but at least he brought some spice and violence within the group which no other character really does.
  • edited December 2012
    Isnt this the wrong forum for this?
  • edited December 2012
    Kirkman kills characters because No one is safe in the Walking Dead :D

    I'm pretty sure if he kept them alive people would be yelling "Oh So-and-so has plot armour so they can't die."

    You can't win :rolleyes:
  • edited December 2012
    dubesor wrote: »
    Since when was Sophia ever a major character?:confused:
    And Lori was probably the most hated character until then.

    Shane is different. Sure he went absolutely crazy but at least he brought some spice and violence within the group which no other character really does.

    Shane was the example of them killing off a major/popular character, Sophia and Lori were examples of the show going in a darker direction (although I guess Lori could be counted as a major character). It's rare for any show to kill a child especially like that and I don't think any show has had a child have to kill their own mother.
  • edited December 2012
    Instead, we get this sweet guy who really hasn't done a single bad thing.

    It's easy to make a total psychopath asshole who we all want dead and that was pretty much comic Gov to a tee. Hiding that from the TV series audience was a good choice. Like Kirkman said, we get to see him in layers. You're slowly introduced to him and his depravity and that makes it more shocking.

    And he's certainly getting on par with his comic version, I'm willing to bet he'll get even worse by the end of the season.
  • edited December 2012
    Actually, killing shane was...well following the comics...he just was around for much longer...as was Lori dying. Sophia dying marks a huge deviation from the comics.

    Most people watching the show haven't read the comics so to them it was a huge moment when Shane was killed off. The post I quoted states that they should kill Daryl off to show that anyone can die no matter how popular the character is. I was saying that killing Shane has already proven to the TV viewers that the show is willing to go in that direction and the deaths of Lori & Sophia show the audience that their not afraid of going in a darker direction.
  • edited December 2012
    Panzer89 wrote: »
    It's easy to make a total psychopath asshole who we all want dead and that was pretty much comic Gov to a tee. Hiding that from the TV series audience was a good choice. Like Kirkman said, we get to see him in layers. You're slowly introduced to him and his depravity and that makes it more shocking.

    And he's certainly getting on par with his comic version, I'm willing to bet he'll get even worse by the end of the season.

    Still, I don't think the almost-rape scene did anything but show that you can't show things on primetime. Now it looks like he was a halfway decent guy with an excuse to kill. The rape scene should have been axed entirely or given to Merle.
  • edited December 2012
    Consider it moved. All you had to do was ask, y'know. ;)

    Thanks,I never realised you could do that.
  • edited December 2012
    Sure. He'll survive the next episode. I like Daryl, it's just the undeniable fact that "The dead always win".

    It's more like stupid people let the dead win.
  • edited December 2012
    Most people watching the show haven't read the comics so to them it was a huge moment when Shane was killed off. The post I quoted states that they should kill Daryl off to show that anyone can die no matter how popular the character is. I was saying that killing Shane has already proven to the TV viewers that the show is willing to go in that direction and the deaths of Lori & Sophia show the audience that their not afraid of going in a darker direction.

    Killing off major characters may hurt the show since people will stop watching if characters keep getting killed off.
  • edited December 2012
    Then they just should grow up a little bit. People die in TWD.
  • edited December 2012
    Killing off major characters may hurt the show since people will stop watching if characters keep getting killed off.

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  • edited December 2012
    Sodawasser wrote: »
    I also liked the episode. It surprised me that the Governor betrayed Merle.

    Merle already betrayed the Governor. Merle lied about Michonne being dead. That's why the Governor betrayed him back.
  • edited December 2012
    err, wasn't really betrayal, he was killing 2 birds with 1 stone. first getting rid of merle because he was lying and couldn't be trusted and second explaining his folks that it really wasn't his fault, that they are secure but merle helped the terrorists get in.
  • edited December 2012
    dubesor wrote: »
    err, wasn't really betrayal, he was killing 2 birds with 1 stone. first getting rid of merle because he was lying and couldn't be trusted and second explaining his folks that it really wasn't his fault, that they are secure but merle helped the terrorists get in.

    Except that it was a lie.
  • edited December 2012
    I know, the 2nd part was. But still, the fact that Merle betrayed him majorly just before this made it seem like the governor was reasonable. they need to work on making the governor seem more like he is in the comics, more evil, less excuses.

    poor guy lost his penny, poor guy keeps zombieheads to toughen against reality, yadayada. No, stop all this BS and show us the true comic governor
  • edited December 2012
    Some of you really need to start tuning into Talking Dead. Robert Kirkman addressed that very subject Sunday night. They made a conscious decision to start him out as a very nuanced, political-type individual and they would peel these layers back over time and eventually The Governor we all know from the comics will emerge and it will be glorious. People don't seem to take the formula that the showrunners have used since the beginning into account when they form their opinions.
  • edited December 2012
    Except, as I said, it implies that he was transformed by outside events and not actually a bad person to begin with. If they wanted to make that arc more convincing, it needed to have the rape played normally, or taken out. Glen Mazzara is playing the Walking Dead as standard television, and that's one of the biggest problems. It's too far adapted to TV.

    Showrunners shouldn't stick to what they always do, they should be more focused on bringing the moments of the comic to life. To me those are Carl shooting [human] Shane, Tyreese in the prison (which still could happen), "We are the walking dead!", Lori's death, and Glenn meeting Lucille. So far, they haven't got a single PANEL right.
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