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Well, that escalated quickly. Wish they made the military a little bit more morally ambiguous. I mean, I could understand them being heavy handed, but I would also easily imagine that some of the soldiers would be a little more conflicted about how they were acting against other Americans.
Really not sure what the strategy the military is taking in this circumstance. Why not just kill everyone if that's how you are operating. Forming arbitrary "safe zones" right in the middle of heavily infected territory seems a bit ham-handed even for the US military.
Really not sure what the strategy the military is taking in this circumstance. Why not just kill everyone if that's how you are operating. Forming arbitrary "safe zones" right in the middle of heavily infected territory seems a bit ham-handed even for the US military.
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I am guessing it is desperation mode. They are doing what they can to find a cure, so they probably are pulling everyone with any type of illness to see if they can learn anything.
The military must be doing a good job, though...didn't see any zombies outside the fences ;p
The military must be doing a good job, though...didn't see any zombies outside the fences ;p
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Thank God we got the golfing during the apocalypse cliche out of the way!
Yeah I was a little bit annoyed that the military was made into such an obvious bad guy when there were plenty of other things the show could have focused on. I realize that when things break down, most soldiers fall back on discipline and the chain of command, but statistically speaking almost every single one of those soldiers (including the commander) would have lost their entire families and everyone they ever knew outside of their unit, so a little compassion wouldn't have been out of the ordinary. The commander being so glib about things was pretty annoying, it was like he just didn't give a fuck that the rest of the world as he knew it was pretty much dead. And why they didn't just capture people and put them in quarantine makes no sense, other than to just push our focus family into escaping. There are plenty of other ways they could have made them leave the safe zone besides trying to escape the big bad military.
My take on the characters so far:
Dad: Has potential, will probably sack up soon now that he's been shown how omg scary the army is. Won't die.
Mom: Probably the best character to this point. Won't die.
Ex-Wife: Cunt even before this episode, hope she dies, but she probably won't for another season or two because drama.
Her son: Even bigger pussy than the druggie son, that narration at the beginning, wtf? Hope he dies, won't anytime soon.
Druggie son: Annoying, but is actually a somewhat interesting character. Won't die for a long time.
Daughter: Too emo so far, better sister than drugboy deserves, super hot, hope she eventually morphs into something similar to her character from The 100 and kicks ass (and gets dirt on her face, oh my!). Won't die for many seasons, if ever. If she does, I will riot.
Mexican daughter (Ophelia): Super hot, willing to at least be a tease. Hopefully isn't an emotional wreck for too long when both of her parents die. Won't die for awhile.
Mexican mom and dad: Dad is going to die, probably in the season finale, either when he lets his wife kill him because she turned, or helping the rest of the cast escape while he stays behind since his wife is dead.
Yeah I was a little bit annoyed that the military was made into such an obvious bad guy when there were plenty of other things the show could have focused on. I realize that when things break down, most soldiers fall back on discipline and the chain of command, but statistically speaking almost every single one of those soldiers (including the commander) would have lost their entire families and everyone they ever knew outside of their unit, so a little compassion wouldn't have been out of the ordinary. The commander being so glib about things was pretty annoying, it was like he just didn't give a fuck that the rest of the world as he knew it was pretty much dead. And why they didn't just capture people and put them in quarantine makes no sense, other than to just push our focus family into escaping. There are plenty of other ways they could have made them leave the safe zone besides trying to escape the big bad military.
My take on the characters so far:
Dad: Has potential, will probably sack up soon now that he's been shown how omg scary the army is. Won't die.
Mom: Probably the best character to this point. Won't die.
Ex-Wife: Cunt even before this episode, hope she dies, but she probably won't for another season or two because drama.
Her son: Even bigger pussy than the druggie son, that narration at the beginning, wtf? Hope he dies, won't anytime soon.
Druggie son: Annoying, but is actually a somewhat interesting character. Won't die for a long time.
Daughter: Too emo so far, better sister than drugboy deserves, super hot, hope she eventually morphs into something similar to her character from The 100 and kicks ass (and gets dirt on her face, oh my!). Won't die for many seasons, if ever. If she does, I will riot.
Mexican daughter (Ophelia): Super hot, willing to at least be a tease. Hopefully isn't an emotional wreck for too long when both of her parents die. Won't die for awhile.
Mexican mom and dad: Dad is going to die, probably in the season finale, either when he lets his wife kill him because she turned, or helping the rest of the cast escape while he stays behind since his wife is dead.
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The Military shtick was too obvious. However, I do appreciate that they are taking their time on this, and not rushing to the point where Rick wakes up in the first season. Then it will just be The Walking Dead: LA. I do agree that the family and their co-inhabitants are still interesting despite the Military being fairly cliche.
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I was hoping they would of shed a little more light on how they got from last episode to this episode in establishing a 'DZ' and safe zones. It doesn't seem like it took that long to go from rioting in the streets to abandoned bodies in the streets. I get the feeling Ophelia is going to die which is going to send the father over the edge.
It was a flashback, so hard to know when the napalm was deployed, but it is really curious on the timing. Obviously the cities would fall apart fastest given population density, but why LA take 9 days to reach what we see in FTWD, but Atlanta became so densely infected that carpet bombing was favorable to the kind of small scale street-to-street eradication we are seeing in FTWD. Perhaps higher level command and control of the military is falling apart, so local deployments are handling the outbreak in a really disparate way, but I'm not really sure.
Wish they wouldn't have fast forwarded those 9 days honestly. Would have been interesting to see a military crackdown in the surrounding area while the characters look on from the "safety" of the fences.
Was hoping they'd show an escalation in military response as things devolved. Have to think the initial deployment of the military domestically would start a little more benevolently, then escalate as the dire nature of the situation did. They just went from deployment to full on bad actor instantaneously. I think it would have made for better drama if the soldiers seemed more conflicted about this particular mission. Some would be calm, others might be triggerhappy, others might be conservative or conciliatory. They are just making them a monolithic, totalitarian gimmick for this show I guess.
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Introducing The Governor MkII - never trust a golf player
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Trying to think back through the Walking Dead, was there ever an episode where they never showed a walker?
There wasn't one in this weeks show, I thought the Mother might have had an encounter or close call when she went outside the fence. But no.
Perhaps they are doing it to give the main characters a feeling of false hope or security. And that the danger is mostly over and then have them thinking that the military are being too heavy handed and keeping secrets.
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Trying to think back through the Walking Dead, was there ever an episode where they never showed a walker?
There wasn't one in this weeks show, I thought the Mother might have had an encounter or close call when she went outside the fence. But no.
Perhaps they are doing it to give the main characters a feeling of false hope or security. And that the danger is mostly over and then have them thinking that the military are being too heavy handed and keeping secrets.
I thought the latest episode was pretty bad. I don't know why this show feels the need to insult the viewers intelligence by hand-holding every single plot line. Plus in typical TWD fashion hardly anything happened until the final 5 minutes.
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So fence off a few green zones, kill and burn everything in the perimeter, things seems pretty tame in the suburbs. I guess if the show was set in the city it'd already be TWD:LA.
Obvious conclusion is the safe sheltered community mutinies, only to find out that the evil jackbooted thugs were the only thing between them and the massive herd that they've been slowly losing control of.
It almost seems too logical. I guess that's why you need people doing incredibly stupid shit.
Obvious conclusion is the safe sheltered community mutinies, only to find out that the evil jackbooted thugs were the only thing between them and the massive herd that they've been slowly losing control of.
It almost seems too logical. I guess that's why you need people doing incredibly stupid shit.
I'm never going to rewatch it to confirm but I have to imagine with how slow and boring the second half of s1 and the entirety of s2 was of TWD there had to be some times where Shane and Andrea were too busy having a montage and Rick is frolicking through lush rolling hills ala The Sound of Music that they didn't have a zombie in it
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Yes, doing this did not hurt "The Strain" one bit.
Which clearly is the superior show right now.
This show has the same issue that TWD has, Logic holes so big you could fly an airplane through and a pace that makes time seem stand still. Loser cleans up the board on Monopoly and everyone laughs while playing? These writers have never played Monopoly with people who don't really like each other. We all know how that works out, and the loser certainly won't clean up the board. Who the fuck even plays that game in 2015?
Correct me if I'm wrong and this is just a thing people do in CA, but why the fuck would an English teacher have some huge ass pickup truck for a vehicle? Is he compensating for something? And why can't he drive it? Oh let's reverse through a 200m unlit tunnel, no need to turn around there and use the headlights. And why is the windshield cracked? Did HE run over junkie asshole? Man, that would be a twist.
There's currently not a single likable character on the show, except maybe Ofelia, but that could just be the case because she hardly got as much screen time as the zombies so far.
Barber from El Salvador is not badass enough to overcome the stereotyping - he simply doesn't get enough zombies to kill, Daryl would suffer the same fate if he got 1 kill in 4 episodes, then he'd just have been that guy with Nazi insignia on his bike.
Junkie loser is exactly that. Hope he simply disappears now.
The only thing I like is how they completely surprised me when instead of everything going to shit, the military shows up and turns their surburb into a safe zone. Which of course means that the last two episodes will be about that safe zone slowly, very, very slowly collapsing and people shouting at other people over the most insignificant things, and when the shit really hits the fan the Season is over. Which isn't even the worst case scenario. Worst case scenario is two more episodes of nothing in S01, FTWD S02 then being the same as TWD S02 (the farm). Relative safety for an entire season, and at the end they have to leave anyways.
And yes, as little as I think of your military, I don't see them going Babi Yar on their own population, which clearly was implied when blonde went out
