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The Walking Dead Season 2

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TorianaTollywobbles · 20/10/2011 19:54

Starts tomorrow night at 10pm in case you didn't already know!

And the last episode of Season 1 is on before in case you need to remember what happened

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roundcornsilkvirgin · 05/12/2011 16:32

'mad, over-acting Christopher Ecclestone in 28 Days Later' Grin
agreed he was terrible
can't do posh that man

roundcornsilkvirgin · 05/12/2011 16:37

agree they are all being a bit too polite about the land business but I think that maybe Rick is trying to make sure that Carl learns the correct values. The Road is also a good example of what society might descend to in a similar situation.

wintera · 05/12/2011 16:38

Agreed about Glenn asking Maggie's permission it was very sweet and noble of him. Glenn is also on my good guy list! I think dale needs to watch his back from now on, hope he doesn't turn his back on Shane that's for sure!

susiedaisy · 05/12/2011 16:41

'the road' is a bleak but IMO realistic view of what would happenSad

wintera · 05/12/2011 16:43

Have any of you see The mist? Not only are there a lot of behind the scenes people from the walking dead involved in that movie but some of the same cast too. I remember seeing Andrea, Dale and carol in it definitely, there may even be more.

roundcornsilkvirgin · 05/12/2011 16:45

was Daryl in it?

anonacfr · 05/12/2011 16:49

wintera plus Shane wasn't able to finish Sophia off and Rick was. I Agee about the group decisions. It's not difficult for Shane because he doesnt care about any of them aside from L & C.

When he was leader what exactly did he do apart from creep up to Lori and shag her? (how sensitive in the middle of a zombie apocalypse).
He didn't go scavenging in Atlanta, he vetoed any signs for other survivors and his big plan was to go to Forg Benning despite having seen the military lose control of the situation at the beginning of the outbreak.
In the meantime he had his people live in tents with the women ironing his clothes. Sensible.

anonacfr · 05/12/2011 16:51

The Mist was brutal!!! The ending just killed me. I don't remember Carol in it. Definitely no Daryl. It was originally a Stephen King short story.

wintera · 05/12/2011 16:59

Carol was the lady who leaves the supermarket to go and look for her kids. You also see her at the end and she has survived and found her kids. The walking dead and the mist are very similar I think. Agree about the ending! What a downer! Don't think I have ever seen such a downbeat ending before!

susiedaisy · 05/12/2011 17:10

Goes off to amazon to find the mistSmile

StealthPolarBear · 05/12/2011 17:27

I didn't think Shane didn't shoot Sophia because he couldn't bring himself to do it. I thought he and Andrea mainly didn't do it becuase they thought then that their group might start to agree with Herschel that they are too trigger happy. Carol etc already have their doubts about him. Rick or Carol herself had to shoot Sophia, anyone else would have been villified.
I know opening the barn doors was stupid from the point of view of killing the zombis safely, but he didnt want it to be 100% safe - he was making a point. Here they are - they're not your family and friends. Kill them or they'll kill you. Sort of making sure people saw the gravity of the situation that picking them off from above or setting fire to the barn wouldn't have done.
I also think Herschel needs to be careful - he is tellign them to bugger off having just told them he doesn't believe in guns and doesn't have one

AWimbaAllTheWay · 05/12/2011 17:40

I agree about Shane wanting to make a point re. the zombies Stealth.

I think they'll definitely move on from the farm now, it'd be a bit boring if they stayed there any longer!

susiedaisy · 05/12/2011 17:51

I'm glad someone else brought that up about Shane I think he wouldn't of hesitated to shoot Sophia but he knew he'd already pissed the group off and to shoot her may of ostracised him completely from the group, as a cop with a gun I'm guessing he's used to thinking on his feet and is used to seeing the worse side of human nature, so has adapted to the change much quicker than those who lived a sheltered life. And let's face it the police force and the armed forces are full of both those who want to make a difference (rick) and those who enjoy the action, guns and power that go with the job(Shane)

anonacfr · 05/12/2011 19:35

I didn't see that way at all. He looked genuinely shocked when he saw Sophia. They all did.
I think he chickened and he's already alienated the group- Lori was traumatised and whatever Lori says goes. You know she won't let him near her baby now.

And endangering the group to 'prove a point' is incredibly stupid. He basically did an Andrea on them except without a safety net.

I still think he chickened out and found that he couldn't do it. He looked traumatised. I also think he's lost the group already. Lori was traumatised and whatever she says goes. There isno way she's going to let him near her baby now.
If he was opening the barn doors to 'prove a point' it was incredibly misguided. He basically nearly got them all killed by doing an Andrea on them without a safety net.

I think he's lost it. The Dale v Shane scene was v significant- Dale, along with the rest of the group represents the human positive side of survival. Shane represents the animal negative side. At the moment he has Andrea with him but when the gun novelty factor runs out she's bound to realise that his way won't work.
Daryl with his practical no no sense approach is the perfect balance of the two. He's the perfect survivalist.

anonacfr · 05/12/2011 19:41

WTF happened to my editing?????

ILovePonyo · 05/12/2011 20:16

Agree about smug Andrea, it seems to me she is smirking in a 'I'm the only woman with a gun therefore I'm a badass' way, whereas actually she has just got lucky with her shooting after messing things up so bad shooting Daryl.

Anyone else notice that Daryl said the only reason he was looking for Sophia was "what else would I do?" (or words to that effect). Well now that he doesn't need to look for her anymore, what will he do...? Clash with Shane for one thing by the look of the next episode.

Can we have some SPOILERS alerts - I didn't know Shane died in the comic :(

PaulaMummyKnowsBest · 05/12/2011 20:27

i hope that Shane dies it gives us all something to look forward too

I hope that they do move on now and start meeting other people, they stayed at the farm for too long

wintera · 05/12/2011 20:29

I don't think the thing about Shane was actually a spoiler to be honest. He died very early on in the comics so they are not following the same storyline. In fact Otis was a much bigger character in the comics and he lasted well longer than Shane but yet in the tv show he was killed straightaway. And the Daryl character isn't even in the comic. Spoilers from the comic don't really mean anything with regards to the tv show, it's completely different. It's like true blood if anyone watches that? I've read the books so friends always ask me about certain characters but yet sometimes they were never even in the books!

JKSLtd · 05/12/2011 20:31

Agree wish we had spoiler rollovers like other sites.

Though haven't comic readers said the tv programme hasn't followed the comics so far?

In a way i kind of respect Andrea - i mean she is now using a gun, she didn't flinch at shooting the walkers, except Sophia (that bit was so sad :( ) - which they all did.
I think it's high time we have a tough woman, if not more than one please!

Poor Herschel, however misguided, must be broken now.

I did wonder how on earth they got the walkers into the barn, those things (cattle things?) answered that - preseume they threw news ones down from the hayloft.

ILovePonyo · 05/12/2011 20:36

Fair enough about the comics, I didn't know that, interesting esp about Otis being a bigger character. What else is different in the comic then?! Grin

JKS I want to like Andrea, I agree with you, but there is just something that is annoying me about her Hmm

ZeldaUpNorth · 05/12/2011 20:42

Is there "The Walking Dead" books or just comics? I've never really got away with comics.

wintera · 05/12/2011 20:57

I think the biggest diffs are that merle and Daryl don't exist in the comics. All that stuff at the end of season one at the cdc centre never happened. By this point in the comic Andrea and Dale would already be an item! And the whole Sophia getting lost, turning up a walker in the barn never happened either.

If it was following the comics then you know the bit when Shane pulled the gun on Rick in the woods and was contemplating shooting Rick? Well that is the point in the comic where Carl shoots Shane to protect his dad.

ILovePonyo · 05/12/2011 21:02

Cool thanks wintera, interesting stuff indeed. And a big fat yuck to Andrea and Dale being an item Shock

anonacfr · 05/12/2011 21:29

See if Carl had shot Shane to protect his dad it might have endeared me to the little brat. As it is he annoys the fuck out of me. He's so patr

moragbellingham · 05/12/2011 21:52

Anyone think that there was way more than 12 zombies that they shot at the end?
I did think that they'd linger on Hershel's wife but we never really knew which one she was.