The Walking Dead

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Vaclav_sl said:
It's Daryll - he's getting his own show on AMC
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Yeah. There is no mystery here and reading the last two pages of people thinking fan reaction is primary over everything else is silly. It's been done to death. I just mentioned this in The Star Wars thread about Finn. Same applies whenever actors contracts are up. It's called Limbo and its fucking retarded. They will kill whoever is the most expensive or can't return. As of right now that's 1 person. But they left it up in thei air in case things change.

Show has been on for so long now I give it a lot of leeway. It's really fucking hard to keep doing a show and make it fresh and exciting after all these episodes. Go ask Lost how that works out.
 
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I still say Aaron. What's the point of calling out Carl if he's not going to whack the guy sitting next to him (Eugene or Aaron).
 
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His show is 6 episodes of him riding around the country on a motorcycle. It probably took a week to film from start to finish. I highly doubt that effects Walking Dead in any way shape or form.
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And the "leaving the show as a badass" that they did? Like they do with basically every other major character that goes away?

Not to mention the showrunner said it was a major people that people were attached to... that's not going to be Aaron. Even Eugene would be a stretch. Sorry if you're in denial, but it's Daryl.
 
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Major character could be any character that has been around for multiple seasons. Sasha, Abe, Rosita, and Eugene have been around for 3-4 seasons. Michonne has only been around slightly longer than them. The core group (Rick, Glenn, Daryl, Carl) have been there since the start, with Maggie the season after.

Aaron is the noob in the group, so to speak.
 
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I think you're taking that "beloved" thing to heart a little too much. Even Aaron could be considered "beloved" depending upon your perspective. I'm sure someone out there considers Aaron their favorite character. Also, think about it, if he describes the person as "not important" or "sort of liked" not only does that steer us clear of all the "important" characters, and trivializes what is supposed to be a series-defining scene, but it makes that actor feel sort of shitty that they weren't really all that meaningful to the story (even if they know it).

To me that's just producer talk for "they are all important!"
 
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For you comics guys, what do I need to buy, issues, volumes, etc. to pick up reading from here on.
 
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For you comics guys, what do I need to buy, issues, volumes, etc. to pick up reading from here on.
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The 2 big compendiums (there may be another one now I dunno) cover issues 1 to like 99 I think, and they end pretty much right here. I think the stuff happening now happens in like issue 100 or something.

So you could basically start at issue 99 or 100 and progress forward from there, I dunno.

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There's a Compendium 3 now that covers #97-144, that would be what I would pick up. Its 35 bucks on Amazon and probably gets you nearly up to current with the comics I imagine.
 
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Yeah, that was my read on the finale. By doing it that way they leave themselves open up until the day they start shooting the next season. It's less about being a cliffhanger for the audience and more about not making a decision until they absolutely have to.
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I was thinking the same thing. They could literally follow who people freak out about the most and choose them or not choose them based on that.
 
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Vaclav_sl said:
Sorry if you're in denial, but it's Daryl.
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I'm not in denial. I don't care who it is. I just think his other show is not a point as to why he would be gone. In fact, I think it's a reason he will still be there. It's basically pulling in Walking Dead fans to watch another show on their network. It's a free fanbase. If they can him on Walking Dead, that fan base wanes immediately. No one cares about Norman Reedus. Boondock Saints 1 was sweet, don't get me wrong, but this guy can't draw an audience all by himself.

Now add on to the fact that this guy is the face of the franchise. Every single gay ass mobile game and Facebook game about the Walking Dead features this guy as their advertiser. Just look at the number of idiots rolling around H1Z1 wielding a crossbow. I think that, realistically, they won't do it because he is part of the cash cow.
 
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Agreed. His I ride motorcycles show makes more sense next to TWD not in replacement of it. Daryl is safe.
 
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Would be interesting to flip it back to Glenn - I could at least see that though. No damn way it's Aaron.
 
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This show is so frustrating for me. I think I like it better than a lot of you, because I think it has good bones and has some good ideas and can present some truly epic scenes, but just executes many of its scenes so poorly sometimes (with overly sappy dialogue and musical cues). I think some of the paths they want characters to take would be interesting to go down, but they do it so quickly and sloppily. Having a well-written transformation of badass Carol to broken Carol would have been very effective but it was so, so, rushed. At least I thought Morgan's shift was slightly better. The writers too rarely want to take the time to slow cook anything -- they just stick it in the microwave and hope for the best.

Even this last episode, which I thought was a good buildup of impending doom, kind of blows it by relying on a cliffhanger. I'm of the belief that if a cliffhanger is something that you will likely learn in the next five minutes of the next season, it's a shitty cliffhanger. The "cliffhanger" part of it should have been wondering "How the hell do they with this seemingly overwhelming foe?" not who's dead.
 
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I could not stand the last few episodes with the Saviors, for reasons I don't think anyone has mentioned. Any time Rick's group is wandering anywhere, roads, towns, or in the middle of the fucking woods, there's a perfectly crafted ambush fully encircling them that they did not notice until it was fully sprung. Repeatedly. Last episode, they hit roadblocks at all the roads, understandable. Then they ditch the roads and walk into what else? A perfectly crafted ambush. Apparently including all the people previously at the roadblocks, because they just knew they were going to ditch the RV at exactly that time and in that exact place and walk exactly there.
 
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Thengel_sl said:
I could not stand the last few episodes with the Saviors, for reasons I don't think anyone has mentioned. Any time Rick's group is wandering anywhere, roads, towns, or in the middle of the fucking woods, there's a perfectly crafted ambush fully encircling them that they did not notice until it was fully sprung. Repeatedly. Last episode, they hit roadblocks at all the roads, understandable. Then they ditch the roads and walk into what else? A perfectly crafted ambush. Apparently including all the people previously at the roadblocks, because they just knew they were going to ditch the RV at exactly that time and in that exact place and walk exactly there.
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So I'll agree that this is a little silly from a realism perspective but the whole point of this is for Rick to get knocked down a peg. He thinks his dirty dozen are the apocalypse all stars and the truth is they just aren't shit compared to the numbers and organization of this other group. I hated the cliffhanger. It's the most iconic scene of the comics and we didn't get it, but I'm not going to be too upset with how they handled Rick realizing the truth.
 
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