... I kept thinking, why the hell would the deer let the little kid practically walk right up to it. You know something bad was going to happen but I just thought that whole scene could have been done better.
Any fans here?
Thought tonight's episode could have been a bit better, but the ending was crazy. Thoughts?
As I understood it, last season was originally planned to be the entire story and was re-written midway through once it became a hit and was renewed, which explained some of the tail off after a strong beginning. This season, I'm not sure about writers, but a key person higher up (producer/director/etc.) left the show midway through the season. The early episodes are still under his watch, but at some point there will be a changeover. Rumor was that costs were cut and we'd see less zombie action, but that has since been denied.Apparently, they fired the entire group of writer's after last season, so I think last night demonstrated that the new group of writers will keep the series faster paced.
...one of the zombies, who gets a bit of face time, appears to be the bassist from Anthrax, complete with his funky beard.
I meant that they planned on telling A complete story that ended after the six episode season. More of a mini-series than a continuing series.I doubt that they ever planned on having last season contain the entire story, mainly because that's impossible since the comics are still going strong (90 issues at this point, I believe).
That shelter didn't work so well last night.For the most part, I'm guessing it's because it's a house on wheels, so they have a mobile shelter. But more than that, for awhile the RV was almost like a character itself in the books, so the fanboy uproar if they didn't have it would be pretty enormous.
Well, Frank Darabont (of Shawshank and Green Mile fame) was fired from the show, and the rumors are that 1) he was overwhelmed by the workload a TV schedule puts on you, or 2) he was against the budget cuts and he and AMC had differences of opinion on that, or 3) he hired a director that AMC was not a fan of after seeing the dailies (which is why there were two directors credited for last night's episode), or 4) he wanted to have only freelance writers work this season, and not a consistent writing staff.
I doubt that they ever planned on having last season contain the entire story, mainly because that's impossible since the comics are still going strong (90 issues at this point, I believe). Last season I think they veered too much from the books, but this season it sounds like they're going to follow the general plot of them a little more closely, thank goodness. The books are great, which is why I never understood why they strayed so far from them last year (for example - last year's pilot was extremely faithful, and it was by far the best episode last year...the show got sidetracked and kind of, frankly, underwhelming when they created new material that was outside the realm of the books).
Regarding Daryl, I think it's kind of funny that Robert Kirkman (who created the comics) has said Daryl is probably his favorite character, despite the fact that the character wasn't even in the books.
And he is deadly accurate with the crossbow. Such a badas$. That shot last episode of the arrow going through the head of that zombie was art.That's because Norman Reedus is awesome! Actually, Daryl is the perfect guy to survive a zombie apocalypse. He, in many ways, has saved the groups collective a$$es more than once already. And he has a bitchin ride now.