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geebsTV Commentary:
The Walking Dead- So this started up on AMC last night finally. Wow, the show is gorier than I expected. I mean, it is a show about zombies, but still I thought the make-up and wot-not was pretty good.
Hmm, I was thinking, this is one of the first TV shows I've seen based on a novel or comic series (I don't count Smallville or FNL) where I actually am very familiar with the work its based on. I mean, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, Dexter, are all based on books, but since I never read them, I don't have a mindset on how things are "supposed to" go. However, I'm a big fan of the comic, so I'm kinda curious how I will feel if they make significant deviations. I'll prolly be fine with it if they're done well.
Anyways, looking at the forums it seemed like there were a lot of people who really hated the convo in the beginning with Shane and Rick with Shane being all misogynistic. I mean, there were just like tons of posts where people were all, "I hated the first 10 minutes because of that conversation introducing us to the characters, but the rest of it was phenomenal".
I guess they were trying to spell out for the audience that Shane is a dick so there's no question of who'd we'd side with concerning Rick-Lori-Shane? And I don't mean in a shipper standpoint. Rick himself admits that he's not the best husband and father in the world, so maybe they were worried that people would be all, "Well, he apparently wasn't so great to his family before the outbreak, I'll reserve judgment on this whole Shane-Lori sitch". Particularly with the inevitable confrontation later that leads to Shane's death. Perhaps they definitely want to paint Shane as en a-hole so the audience will be fine with him getting killed off?
But yeah like I said, people really didn't like that conversation! I mean, the fact that Rick didn't lay into Shane for being an ass had some people thinking the Rick character is kinda pushover who'll go along with a stronger alpha male, even if they're a dick. Which is the exact opposite of Rick, in my opinion. Or who knows, the comic is up to issue #80 now, so its been a long time since the beginning, maybe Rick used to be like that. He definitely isn't now!
Also reading the forums, since we haven't seen too much of the characters yet, I know there were some people who were hoping there'll be some strong female characters (since Lori seems like a pushover), but I wonder if they'll get their wish by the end of the first 6 eps? I mean, Andrea doesn't really become a bad-ass I don't think until around the time Michonne shows up (or a little before), and that's like almost 20-25 issues in.
Amy's kinda cute. Too bad I know she's toast.
Oh, heh, sure that red-shirted dude at that one WoW event ended up looking all dorky on the internet, but hey, it got him immortalized as an NPC! So nerds, go ahead and point on useless knowledge about some geek thing at the panels at these conventions! You never know, you too may be added to canon! And wouldn't that be a dream come true?
The Walking Dead- So this started up on AMC last night finally. Wow, the show is gorier than I expected. I mean, it is a show about zombies, but still I thought the make-up and wot-not was pretty good.
Hmm, I was thinking, this is one of the first TV shows I've seen based on a novel or comic series (I don't count Smallville or FNL) where I actually am very familiar with the work its based on. I mean, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, Dexter, are all based on books, but since I never read them, I don't have a mindset on how things are "supposed to" go. However, I'm a big fan of the comic, so I'm kinda curious how I will feel if they make significant deviations. I'll prolly be fine with it if they're done well.
Anyways, looking at the forums it seemed like there were a lot of people who really hated the convo in the beginning with Shane and Rick with Shane being all misogynistic. I mean, there were just like tons of posts where people were all, "I hated the first 10 minutes because of that conversation introducing us to the characters, but the rest of it was phenomenal".
I guess they were trying to spell out for the audience that Shane is a dick so there's no question of who'd we'd side with concerning Rick-Lori-Shane? And I don't mean in a shipper standpoint. Rick himself admits that he's not the best husband and father in the world, so maybe they were worried that people would be all, "Well, he apparently wasn't so great to his family before the outbreak, I'll reserve judgment on this whole Shane-Lori sitch". Particularly with the inevitable confrontation later that leads to Shane's death. Perhaps they definitely want to paint Shane as en a-hole so the audience will be fine with him getting killed off?
But yeah like I said, people really didn't like that conversation! I mean, the fact that Rick didn't lay into Shane for being an ass had some people thinking the Rick character is kinda pushover who'll go along with a stronger alpha male, even if they're a dick. Which is the exact opposite of Rick, in my opinion. Or who knows, the comic is up to issue #80 now, so its been a long time since the beginning, maybe Rick used to be like that. He definitely isn't now!
Also reading the forums, since we haven't seen too much of the characters yet, I know there were some people who were hoping there'll be some strong female characters (since Lori seems like a pushover), but I wonder if they'll get their wish by the end of the first 6 eps? I mean, Andrea doesn't really become a bad-ass I don't think until around the time Michonne shows up (or a little before), and that's like almost 20-25 issues in.
Amy's kinda cute. Too bad I know she's toast.
Oh, heh, sure that red-shirted dude at that one WoW event ended up looking all dorky on the internet, but hey, it got him immortalized as an NPC! So nerds, go ahead and point on useless knowledge about some geek thing at the panels at these conventions! You never know, you too may be added to canon! And wouldn't that be a dream come true?
