stickem wrote:well this is a walking dead thread discussion thread and i'm just venting from time to time as i watch the series also. i'm not bashing anyone for liking the show so don't take it as a personal attack that i don't like the way the series is headed.
I'm with this StickyGuy all the way. He's only pointing out the fact that the characters lack any common sense, the story drags, and that although it isn't meant to be the comic panel for panel, the show should follow the comic to some extent (please leave the friggin farm).
I mentioned earlier that things have changed in the writing staff, and I'm more than aware of how this season ends and how the new one will begin. Plus there is all that legal nonsense with Darabount. The show will never be as good as the comic, but it doesn't have to be to make an incredible show. The fact remains that fans of the comic don't want constant super zombie action, they also don't want idiots dicking around for forty five minutes. All they want is a slice of emotion that appears throughout every page of the comic. I could be wrong, but I don't remember Rick telling everyone in a state of clairvoyance "It's not them. It's us. We are the walking dead". That's the stuff that makes the hair on your neck stand up.
There's a part in every arc of a story where character development should really come to a halt and exposition should take over. I will say the past two episodes have done a good job at this, but as I said before the show should be renamed "The Standing Living".
The series will keep getting better Stickitto'em, that's for sure. But I doubt we'll see anything close to something written by, say, David Chase (oh, and pick up the April issue of Vanity Fair) but the show will keep improving.
-------Alright, that in mind the whole zombie blood stuff on the show drives me crazy. People have open wounds and literally smear zombie blood on said wounds. The hell is with that?
I think another problem, being a fan of the comic, is how differently comics and TV can show emotion. One large page, close up view of a character's face as he comes acrosss and gives the revelation that "We are the Walking Dead.", while every tiny detail of his face is magically brought to together with bolded text and teary eyes. That's in a comic. Something like that wouldn't work in TV. It might for some, but there's something about TV that makes a scene like that less appealing.
Also, the comic manages to have exposition while continuing the action. A split second decision to shoot a certain direction isn't noticed as much in TV, but in a comic it is something that glaringly sticks out, as it would in real life.
Meh, I just see comics as this form of art that is otherwise unable to be reproduced. I think that really gives it storytelling abilities beyond other forms of art.
Forlorn Drifter wrote:
Meh, I just see comics as this form of art that is otherwise unable to be reproduced. I think that really gives it storytelling abilities beyond other forms of art.
I really want to agree with you, I do, but it would also be safe to say that film is a form of art that is otherwise unable to be reproduced. It's just a medium after all.
Speaking of, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on an original storyboard of Carl throwing rocks at a zombie like a sissy.
Forlorn Drifter wrote:
Meh, I just see comics as this form of art that is otherwise unable to be reproduced. I think that really gives it storytelling abilities beyond other forms of art.
I really want to agree with you, I do, but it would also be safe to say that film is a form of art that is otherwise unable to be reproduced. It's just a medium after all.
Speaking of, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on an original storyboard of Carl throwing rocks at a zombie like a sissy.
Its arguable. I've seen comics that are very movielike in their showing of movement and more frames per page, with a larger focus on the whole picture over details. Like a movie, the details were only revealed when they were needed.
stickem wrote:well this is a walking dead thread discussion thread and i'm just venting from time to time as i watch the series also. i'm not bashing anyone for liking the show so don't take it as a personal attack that i don't like the way the series is headed.
I'm with this StickyGuy all the way. He's only pointing out the fact that the characters lack any common sense, the story drags, and that although it isn't meant to be the comic panel for panel, the show should follow the comic to some extent (please leave the friggin farm).
I mentioned earlier that things have changed in the writing staff, and I'm more than aware of how this season ends and how the new one will begin. Plus there is all that legal nonsense with Darabount. The show will never be as good as the comic, but it doesn't have to be to make an incredible show. The fact remains that fans of the comic don't want constant super zombie action, they also don't want idiots dicking around for forty five minutes. All they want is a slice of emotion that appears throughout every page of the comic. I could be wrong, but I don't remember Rick telling everyone in a state of clairvoyance "It's not them. It's us. We are the walking dead". That's the stuff that makes the hair on your neck stand up.
There's a part in every arc of a story where character development should really come to a halt and exposition should take over. I will say the past two episodes have done a good job at this, but as I said before the show should be renamed "The Standing Living".
The series will keep getting better Stickitto'em, that's for sure. But I doubt we'll see anything close to something written by, say, David Chase (oh, and pick up the April issue of Vanity Fair) but the show will keep improving.
-------Alright, that in mind the whole zombie blood stuff on the show drives me crazy. People have open wounds and literally smear zombie blood on said wounds. The hell is with that?
i think the governor storyline next season (hopefully they'll be leaving the farm by then) will open things up quite a bit and appeal to both sides. that and the offing of a character in the next 1 or 2 episodes that shouldn't even be alive right now. her/his storyline is played out and getting annoying.
T-Dogg needs a better agent. His line reading of "Aw hells naw" is quality stuff.
One thing amc could do is up the gore when zombies are involved. They won't be able to show many of the events that happen in the next arc, but they can be alluded to. I'm just very excited at the hopes of seeing an athletic woman with mocha colored skin that carries one shiny sword.
^ Really? Cause I didn't feel any empathy for him at all. Well, maybe a little empathy while he was having his heart-to-heart with Lorrie, but by the end..... Nope. Empathy be gone.
