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GreenLantern · 10-22-2012, 10:29 AM

This thread is about the AMC show The Walking Dead. Anything is fair game in here up until the current release of the comics, no spoilers necessary for anything. If you have not read the comics and/or do not want any plot points to be possibly spoiled, please exit thread now.

Last chance.

GreenLantern · 10-22-2012, 10:32 AM

I really liked that episode last night, and it will be interesting to see how things play out. The prison was handled a lot better than in the comics. I always thought it was weird that they were just so friendly with these prisoners, trusting even. I guess when the world has gone apocoliptic you are less worried about something a society created that no longer exists..

But Rick was just spot on, no hesitation, he did everything he could to help them, and at the end of the day it was putting his group at risk. So he did what needed to be done.

Herschell also seems to be going the route of Dale..

Woodbury is next, I wonder how they will handle the massive rape scene between the Governer and sword chick..

Also it is nice to have our own thread, that is tear free!

Hockeyguy15 · 10-22-2012, 10:44 AM

I think had the leader of the prisoners not been so stand-offish at the start Rick would have been a little less hard ass with him. Right away the guy is pretty much telling Rick to take his group and go. For sure it was either Rick or him, and that guy had no idea that Rick is a stone cold bad ass.

HELPNEEDED · 10-22-2012, 10:59 AM

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I think had the leader of the prisoners not been so stand-offish at the start Rick would have been a little less hard ass with him. Right away the guy is pretty much telling Rick to take his group and go. For sure it was either Rick or him, and that guy had no idea that Rick is a stone cold bad ass.

Thats from yestedays episode.

GreenLantern · 10-22-2012, 11:04 AM

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I think had the leader of the prisoners not been so stand-offish at the start Rick would have been a little less hard ass with him. Right away the guy is pretty much telling Rick to take his group and go. For sure it was either Rick or him, and that guy had no idea that Rick is a stone cold bad ass.

Thats true I never thought about that, these guys didn't know how it was outside. They still thought there was hospitals and police. I don't think they grasped the entire situation until the last two were abandoned in their cell block.

The world has changed and so have the people in it.. the prisoners in the prison are the last truly 'innocent' people left in the world. A little irony there, you think he was trying to get that deep?

Radio · 10-23-2012, 04:50 PM

I like how they use elements from the comics but change it up.

It was Rick that uses the zombie attack as a chance to kill the "unruly" prisoner. Whereas in the show it's Tomas that tries to use the confusion to off Rick.

I am wondering if that sniveler will kill Beth, similar to the sociopath that cuts the heads off Herschel's youngest daughters or if he'll be the redneck prisoner from the comics.

getbak · 10-23-2012, 05:33 PM

If I could make a suggestion, this thread might get more traffic if comic spoilers were limited to just the first 48 issues. Everyone is reading the comics at a different pace and through different means. Some people don't read the individual issues, but wait for the 6 issue collections, which are only up to issue #96 right now.

If a person is caught up to issue #96, they can certainly participate in most of the discussion comparing the tv series to the comics, but might still avoid the thread in case someone mentions something from issue #100.

Allowing spoilers up to the end of issue #48 would cover everything in the prison and Governor storylines, so we could still discuss things that are likely to happen on the show in the near future (likely the next two seasons, at least).

That said, I'm not suggesting anyone police the thread pointing out that someone mentioned something that happened in issue #52 of the comic, but all the major plot points and character deaths and such should be pretty easy to remember if they happened after the prison or not.

GreenLantern · 10-23-2012, 08:39 PM

I thought about this and it is a good point. I have read right up until issue 103, so I am good to go. But a lot of people haven't, maybe we should try and keep it lined up with the TV series?

It won't be an easy task... but we can still discuss anything after that point with the use of spoilers? I was working just fine in the other thread with spoilers, but I understand why others don't want them in there at all.

Hemi-Cuda · 10-23-2012, 08:41 PM

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I like how they use elements from the comics but change it up.

It was Rick that uses the zombie attack as a chance to kill the "unruly" prisoner. Whereas in the show it's Tomas that tries to use the confusion to off Rick.

I am wondering if that sniveler will kill Beth, similar to the sociopath that cuts the heads off Herschel's youngest daughters or if he'll be the redneck prisoner from the comics.

i doubt we'll see one of the prisoners go sociopath. there aren't as many people that made it to the prison in the TV series as there was in the comics, so if you kill off Herschel's youngest daughter then there's no one to fill Sophia's role of being Carl's friend (unless they want to dehumanize Carl completely). my guess is that the black prisoner (the one not afraid of being shot in the head by Rick) becomes a permanent member of the group, and the redneck ends up as fodder when the showdown happens with the Governor

MrMastodonFarm · 10-23-2012, 08:43 PM

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i doubt we'll see one of the prisoners go sociopath. there aren't as many people that made it to the prison in the TV series as there was in the comics, so if you kill off Herschel's youngest daughter then there's no one to fill Sophia's role of being Carl's friend (unless they want to dehumanize Carl completely). my guess is that the black prisoner (the one not afraid of being shot in the head by Rick) becomes a permanent member of the group, and the redneck ends up as fodder when the showdown happens with the Governor

They already have a token big black character though! Two won't survive!

Hemi-Cuda · 10-23-2012, 08:52 PM

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They already have a token big black character though! Two won't survive!

wait, WTF are you doing in this thread?

MrMastodonFarm · 10-23-2012, 09:01 PM

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wait, WTF are you doing in this thread?

I'm totally caught up on the comics, issue 102. I just get a little tired of going into the main thread and seeing 75% of a page in spoiler tags. When discussing the TV show there really isn't a need to bring up the differences in the comics all the time.

Plus, I have to get caught up on things I notice GreenLantern is into, I don't want him nerd-raging and PM'ing me spoilers again.

Radio · 10-23-2012, 11:31 PM

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They already have a token big black character though! Two won't survive!

Merle will kill T-Dog for leaving him on the roof and the other guy will take his place. He'll become Tyrese sans professional football.

Bertuzzied · 10-24-2012, 09:37 AM

The comics are getting kind of boring. I guess a never ending zombie story does have it's limits. The best part of the whole series is still the prison and the governor.

Radio · 10-24-2012, 04:08 PM

Anybody ever read Rise of the Governor. It's a novel about how the governor comes to be. It's pretty good and has a decent twist at the end.

JerzeeGirl · 10-25-2012, 08:52 AM

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Anybody ever read Rise of the Governor. It's a novel about how the governor comes to be. It's pretty good and has a decent twist at the end.

I read it - found the book a little hard to get into at first but by the end I thought the story was pretty good. The sequel, The Road To Woodbury, was just released right around the start of season 3, going to be sure to check that one out soon.

Hockeyguy15 · 10-25-2012, 10:37 AM

I have the book at home waiting for me to crack open. With it being winter I will probably start reading it soon.

GreenLantern · 10-30-2012, 10:07 AM

Well that was an interesting episode. I was just waiting for them to show his daughter chained up and for everyone to go OMG THAT SICK SOB, then they showed all these heads. Which is pretty disturbing as well, but a bit different.

It is pretty cool to read the comics, get one story line, then watch the show and see how someone else would do it. I am glad they have deviated this much but kept some of the core elements the same.

If Andrea is with the Governor... who will snipe all of his men from the guard tower?

Hemi-Cuda · 10-30-2012, 10:21 AM

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Well that was an interesting episode. I was just waiting for them to show his daughter chained up and for everyone to go OMG THAT SICK SOB, then they showed all these heads. Which is pretty disturbing as well, but a bit different.

It is pretty cool to read the comics, get one story line, then watch the show and see how someone else would do it. I am glad they have deviated this much but kept some of the core elements the same.

If Andrea is with the Governor... who will snipe all of his men from the guard tower?

Carl. that would be badass

JerzeeGirl · 10-30-2012, 10:44 AM

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Well that was an interesting episode. I was just waiting for them to show his daughter chained up and for everyone to go OMG THAT SICK SOB, then they showed all these heads. Which is pretty disturbing as well, but a bit different.

It is pretty cool to read the comics, get one story line, then watch the show and see how someone else would do it. I am glad they have deviated this much but kept some of the core elements the same.

If Andrea is with the Governor... who will snipe all of his men from the guard tower?

I was sooooo waiting to see Penny & just slightly disappointed that they seem to have decided against that storyline for the governor - there's something so creepy about the kids who are zombies (like the little girl in episode 1 or Sophia).