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Just read on Ew.com that, after 3 weeks there will apparently be a 3 month break before episodes resume.
THE GOOD: I kinda wish TRUE BLOOD did this too... the tormenting 9 month wait between seasons is terrible to sit through.
THE BAD: Waiting the 3 months Plus the potential to kill momentum for the casual, less-dedicated viewers. Also, the more than likely breaking up of DVD seasons into parts 1 and 2, which I view as a big money-grab.
Overall I guess this is okay... I certainly will be glad not to wait 9 to 11 months for Season 3.
but I am AGAINST buying separate DVD sets for 1 season of a 13 episode show...
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Where was that? I did not see it in his weekly summary Q&A...unless I somehow skipped it...
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Worst episode since the CDC. The plot ground to a halt, and the paltry character development didn't make up for it. This entire episode could have been effectively told in 20 minutes and then we could have moved on. Why tease prominent shots of Click Here For A Spoilerthe barn, if you aren't even going to use it in the cliffhanger?
Click Here For A SpoilerEven my wife, who I never told about the books said "so who's dead in the barn then"?
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Loved this episode... zombie in the well... so gross... loved the hookup between Glenn and Maggie... "I'll have sex with you. It's not like our options are vast these days"... it's the end of the world, so why shouldn't the nerdy pizza delivery guy be getting some... I know lots of people are complaining about how slow the show is moving, but I love the pace... tension can be a really difficult thing to create, but this show does it expertly... so glad I finally relented and started watching...
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Normally, I'd agree that the pace of the show helps build drama and tension. But this last episode just killed the momentum.
I get the impression that the Merle we saw in the sneak peek is a dream or hallucination or something of Darryl's. Darryl realizes he's getting soft so he dreams of big brother telling him to man up.
I like the idea of carol and Darryl as a couple. But we all know where Carol's weak, needy personality leads her... There's sadly no place for her in a world like this. Darryl and Andrea might work better. Anyone else hoping we *don't* see Andrea and Dale hook up?
My prediction for Sophia? She found another, not so good group of survivors (or is found by them) and quickly becomes brainwashed as, sadly, any child would in those circumstances.
Speaking of Sophia, her mother seems to be taking it a little too well. If my child were lost in zombie infested country I'd be batshit insane or out there looking for her. Probably both.
Anyway, still love this show but they gotta pick up the pace.
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I thought it was a terrific episode, personally. I didn't feel the character development was at all "paltry"! And wasn't the well zombie sequence absolutely hilarious as well as gross?
This episode mirrored the comic's tendency to balance action out with downtime, but I loved every bit of it.
Hope we're closer to Andrea becoming a crackshot. I think they're building to it so that it becomes an outlet for her to refocus and have a purpose in life again.
Another funny moment for me was them showing Lori taking her pregnancy test! Sorry, but seeing her squat and hearing her do her business was kinda silly. A flash to her looking at it would have sufficed!
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One of my biggest complaints about this lame missing Sophia storyline is Carol's reactions, or more correctly NON-reactions. I have tried to somewhat temper my complaints by telling myself, "old rules no longer apply"... but I still think Carol would either be crying all the time not just shedding a tear or two here and there, and I definitely think she would have insisted on staying where Sophia disappeared.
EVERYONE on EW.com is bitching about the missing Sophia storyline... this is KILLING the show for many and they need to bring this to a conclusion quickly.
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Yeah, I never would have thought it would still be unresolved, and Carol's reactions ARE underwhelmed. But pretty much everything else is going fine. I thought Andrea, for example, is moving to a better place.
LOVED the Carl/hat scene! Hopefully, it'll be on his head from now on!
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Did anyone else watch the webisodes? I thought it rocked!
Showing the TWD world in the very early stages of the zombie takeover almost seems sacreligous, but it worked without breaking any of kirkman's rules.
Lots of cool zombie moments. What happens when a dead body reanimates while someone is trying to give her CPR? Exactly what you'd think would happen.
And we saw how that torn in half zombie woman Rick first saw in the pilot died. So sad. We forget all those random undead have stories too. I hope we get webisodes showing how more of the more prominent zombies we've seen wound up dead. Well-zombie? That guy who hung himself in the woods?
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