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The Walking Dead; Zombie show on AMC.
Topic Started: Thu Nov 4, 2010 8:33 pm (12,601 Views)
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yay! look forward to talking with you about it.
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:gah: I cant watch on the 12th now...
the district managers wife invited me to an art show.. then dinner. Cant exactly turn that down.
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:wissa:

they do play it over and over again that day though.
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do they? its on at 9pm here
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some excerpts from an interview with the new writer
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But now, six months after Darabont left, with the first all-Mazzara episode about to air, can you say you have your own vision for the show?
I do. I see it as a horror show, and that just means to me that it needs to be incredibly suspenseful. That suspense could come from interpersonal drama or it could come from the zombie scare of the week. I’ve really been trying — and you’ll see in these next six episodes, but even in the midseason finale, which was the first final script that Frank did not touch — I’ve been trying to amp up the intensity of the show. To make it feel less safe, more dangerous, more in your face, taking away any good options for the characters. Their backs are against the wall and they’re frightened. I’m trying to keep the show as immediate as possible, so that an audience member can imagine themselves in that situation, and wonder, What would I do? That is something that I think I’m bringing to the show. Hopefully you can see that I’m trying to push people into new emotional territory.

Any particular characters you’ll be doing it with?
In the second episode, you’ll see Lori [the lead character’s pregnant wife] make a choice which is very, very different for her and very unique, and I bet you people will have strong reactions on the Internet: Would she do this, wouldn’t she do this? I hate her! or I can’t believe what she’s doing! And I’m just trying to explore new characters.

Do you ever get frustrated by fanboy reactions, which have often been viciously critical?
It’s been difficult. The fans do not understand the machinations of what’s happened behind the scenes. They don’t understand what’s mine, what’s Frank’s, what needed to be done to improve the show. I see the fans as an id for the show. They want it and they want it now and they want it to be great. I’ve recently joined Twitter in an attempt to communicate directly with the fans. Our fans are very, very important to us, and we do pay close attention to what they say. However, we have to stay true to ourselves as artists, because no two people ever have the same opinion. So we are cognizant of criticisms of the show. We are certainly aware of what people like and what people don’t, but at the end of the day we are a bunch of writers in the room and we try to make the best possible show that we can.

And what do you think of the specific criticisms — that the first season was badly written and implausible, while the second was just plain boring?
Number one, this is the first show I’m working on that anyone really watches or pays attention to, and I’ve been doing this since 1998. And two, there’s a high level of expectations. If we do a zombie attack in a particular episode, some people criticize us: “Well, it’s the zombie of the week.” If we don’t do a zombie of the week, people say, “There’s no zombies, it’s a bullshit show.” So, in the midseason premiere, there’s only two sort of throwaway zombies. The next few episodes are very zombie-heavy. Because that’s what fits with the story. It didn’t feel plausible, in that first episode after the zombie massacre inside the barn, that there would be a massacre an hour later.

There’s a great showdown scene in the episode that takes place in an actual saloon. Was that an intentional homage to something?
Well, that’s something else we’re trying to do. Evan Reilly wrote the scene — he’s a phenomenal writer and he grew up on Rescue Me. That’s a scene that we were trying to make as suspenseful as possible. The inspiration was, let’s say, the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds, where you’re just sitting on the edge of your chair, completely engrossed in a conversation but on edge. It’s a very long scene, longer than anything else we’ve done I believe, except for maybe the barn massacre, and hopefully just as engrossing.

Something I’d love to see is more living characters, and much more of the world beyond rural Georgia.
It broadens more. I feel that the show has been a little insular, a little incestuous, that it’s been a very small cast of characters on just a farm that appears to be very safe. I want to widen it. All of a sudden the outside world starts encroaching on our farm. And now there’s the suspense of, who’s out there? Are they coming? And all the interpersonal dynamics of the group are at loggerheads over this new threat.

There have been recent news stories about things that Darabont wanted to do with the second season that were overruled by AMC. Were they — and you — unhappy with where he was taking the show?
Well, I would like to say that the first part of the season was something that Frank Darabont had a large hand in, and I helped design that under his direction. That was a vision that we both believed in. It was not a vision that he had and I didn’t believe in or that I had and Frank didn’t believe in. It’s not true that Frank had a particular vision of the show that was rejected by AMC and then I was brought in to create a demonstrably different vision of the show. That’s not accurate.

Any other inaccuracies you’d like to clear up?
There was no budgetary crisis on the show — that’s not accurate, that’s not accurate. I’ve been nickel-and-dimed by studios before. They have not nickel-and-dimed this show. They have put money into making this show the best possible show. I don’t want to talk about why Frank left, that’s his business, or why he was asked to leave or whatever you want to say, but the idea that there was a budgetary crisis that was AMC’s fault is completely inaccurate.

You can understand why people are curious. Even some of the actors seem not to know why Darabont got fired.
That’s Frank’s business and that’s AMC’s business. What happened was I was in the number-two position. I was really, let’s be honest, the only high-level executive with any extensive TV experience, and the only person with any showrunning experience. So they asked me to run the show. And I felt like I was at great risk, because if the show did not come together, if I did not improve some of the footage we had —

So it’s true, as reported, that there was a botched episode at the heart of this — the season opener?
It was not coming together in a way that we intended. Some of the storytelling, the pieces, the arcs — unfortunately sometimes you write things and you have to make adjustments, if that makes sense. That’s true on any show. I won’t say if that was issues with Frank, but I’ll just say that was a path that I needed to address when I came in, and some of the solutions were not readily apparen


http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/walking-dead-glen-mazzara-interivew-frank-darabont.html
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great episode. Good start to the season. Glad to see rick is finally stepping up and putting safety first
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so do you really think that carl is 'getting hard" from the life they are living?
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is carl the kid?

No I dont think hes getting hard... Sure we are going back a little...just a couple hundred years ago.. kids his age were trained to use a gun properly and go hunting... clean and dress the kill. He should be taught those things or hes not gonna make it.. Blood and gore is shocking to us because we dont do anything but go to the grocery store and pick through the meat department. (most of us)

sure killing a person is different.. but.. thats debatable here

He loved his friend.. but he understands that it wasnt her anymore... and that it needed to be taken care of... hes showing extreme maturity I think.
no one wants their corpse to end up that way...attacking and eat human flesh.. bleh
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I think kids are just more black and white than grownups. His friend is gone, now she is the scary enemy. There is no nostalgia or romanticising of it.
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well... you know kids better than me...lol
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Reading an interesting theory on another site.

Is Rick a zombie? If he's been infected with the virus but is immune to it he could be exibiting some sort of super recovery effects from it. That could be why he awoke from the coma. That could explain why Shane couldn't hear a heartbeat when he went to the hospital. It could also be what the doctor at the cdc told him
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sounds like a load to me :p

shane was in in a panic so to say... its not surprising he thought rick was dead.
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Nah, I don't think he's been infected with TS-19 either.
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omfg I didn't think I could hate lori anymore than I already did
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I was secretly hoping that the walkers would get her. :awol:

What about that kid that Rick pulled off the fence, :pinch: Where else is he going to go?
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they all seem awful convinced he will run off to the people who deserted him first chance he gets
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so on another forum someone came posted a comment that I thought perfectly described what is wrong with this season. He said the show needed to be a blend of the groups drama and struggles and some sense of what is going on in the larger world. Last season we got some sense of that with the trips to atlanta and cdc but it is really missing this season.
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Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:00 am
omfg I didn't think I could hate lori anymore than I already did
her husband is the most understanding guy on the planet!

he didnt bat and eyelash when she told him what shed done with Shane... now shes messing with his mind! OMG that is sad.
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Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:29 pm
wissaboo
Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:00 am
omfg I didn't think I could hate lori anymore than I already did
her husband is the most understanding guy on the planet!

he didnt bat and eyelash when she told him what shed done with Shane... now shes messing with his mind! OMG that is sad.
he barely paused when she told him the baby was probably shane's _lmao_
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