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[roenick]

New Walking Dead showrunner confirmed, season 4 production begins in May

I still think with all their penny pinching ways that AMC is going to somehow kill this golden goose. I can only dream what this show would look like if Darabont was still in charge. Oh well.

Speaking of Darabont does anyone know when is 40's crime/cop noire show will be making its way to TV? Or is it still just an idea?

 

[jerseydevil]

Bernthal was on GEEK TIME a few weeks back, I think they shot the pilot at the very least. The name is being changed from L.A. NOIR to something undetermined, but yeah...it's moving forward.

 

[roenick]

Bernthal was on GEEK TIME a few weeks back, I think they shot the pilot at the very least. The name is being changed from L.A. NOIR to something undetermined, but yeah...it's moving forward.

Saw he is in the new Dwayne Johnson flick too. Good for him. I liked him as Shane and think he is a actor. I am looking forward to watching Darabont's new entry.

 

[roenick]

Nice epi tonight. Lenny was back! Dude is one great actor!

 

[KingInTheWest]

Wow that was a ridiculously good episode. In a world where Emmy voters actually watch genre shows, the guest actor would get a guest actor nomination for that instead of one of the five movie actors who take four days of their busy schedule to show up in a television series so they can get a step closer to their EGOT. All the traps were awesome and I give the show credit for bringing him back when I didn't expect him. I kept waiting for the hitchhiker to wander in at the end and then, poor guy. I am glad that Michonne is being given a personality finally, although I am not sure how she magically summoned Carl's picture into her hands in 10 seconds.

 

[roenick]

Wow that was a ridiculously good episode. In a world where Emmy voters actually watch genre shows, the guest actor would get a guest actor nomination for that instead of one of the five movie actors who take four days of their busy schedule to show up in a television series so they can get a step closer to their EGOT. All the traps were awesome and I give the show credit for bringing him back when I didn't expect him. I kept waiting for the hitchhiker to wander in at the end and then, poor guy. I am glad that Michonne is being given a personality finally, although I am not sure how she magically summoned Carl's picture into her hands in 10 seconds.

Regarding Michonne and the pic - didn't the zombies stop making noise while that all happened? I thought at first it was a sneak attack but who knows ... Oh and you knew what would happen to hitchhiker dude - no way someone walking would make it in this new world. Carl is bad ass but an impulsive kid!

 

[Dexter]

I noticed after Morgan stabbed Rick, the knife was just sitting on the ground completely new.

 

[jerseydevil]

Pretty crappy treatment of the highway wanderer. And then they take his pack while he's off taking a ****. Not very Christian guys. I liked seeing Lennie James again, but hey thanks 'previously on The Walking Dead' for telegraphing that surprise. WEAK. It was a decent episode but to completely remove the drama between Woodbury/the prison for a whole episode was a bad decision. Just made an uneven season moreso.

 

[roenick]

Agree jd but they have almost lost me completely. I am so apathetic towards the show right now. It almost feels like the are trying to spoon feed the audience. I am getting a bit tired of it. I spent most of last night switching between The Dead and The Bible over on the History Channel. I just rewatched most of what I missed after Talking Dead.

And about the hitcher - wasn't he eaten up - tore up body at the side of the road?

 

[beedee]

Yes, the hitcher was eaten/smeared along the highway, I saw that one coming from a mile away.

I thought it was refreshing to take a break from the prison and woodbury, seeing morgan, and the dynamic of being all alone in the apocalypse was pretty interesting. Did anyone else find it ironic that rick gave michonne crap for eating a bag of chips (or whatever she was eating), meanwhile, he was jacking a good amount of morgan's weapons and ammo?

 

[Creeping Death]

While this story arc was important, it just kind of sucks it happened after a slow episide. The last 2 episodes were slow to develop, but an important development. Rick is back. Seeing Morgan in the condition he was in. It was definitely a wakeup call for Rick's mental health. Between the supplies and the Carl/Michonne arc, it added to the core story. Its just too bad Woodbury was completely ignored. I think at some point Rick will go back to check on Morgan at some point Im sure. Hopefully it will follow more like the comics and Morgan will join the group.

 

[jerseydevil]

I think people are proclaiming Rick healed a little too quickly. I think his frantic pleading to a way further gone Morgan was Rick looking into a mirror. Hence his impassioned 'you gotta heal' speech. I think he was of the mind that if there was no hope for Morgan, how could he ever heal? The turning a blind eye to the hitchiker was Rick further miring himself into the 'no room for caring for anyone else' downward spiral that he has been sliding into. In order to move forward, he has to get his compassion back. I don't think he's quite there yet.

 

[adgy-san]

I think people are proclaiming Rick healed a little too quickly. I think his frantic pleading to a way further gone Morgan was Rick looking into a mirror. Hence his impassioned 'you gotta heal' speech. I think he was of the mind that if there was no hope for Morgan, how could he ever heal? The turning a blind eye to the hitchiker was Rick further miring himself into the 'no room for caring for anyone else' downward spiral that he has been sliding into. In order to move forward, he has to get his compassion back. I don't think he's quite there yet.

I assume the eventual reunion with Tyrese and company will see him fully healed.

 

[roenick]

On Talking Dead they were speculating just what you are saying jd. That Rick's pleading to Morgan was really talking to himself. The difference they thought was the shock of Morgan saying no brought Rick back.

The thing they said about the hitchhiker was that everyone realizes it is a new world, which compassion is too big a commodity to just give to anyone, especially someone you don't know. I don't know - seems realistic that you would have to act differently in this new world but it isn't very Christian.

For me, I would rather not live in a world like the show portrays. My wife and I agreed we would rather just be shot in the head.

 

[jerseydevil]

Full disclaimer...didn't watch Talking, so I wasn't just reciting their discussion.

And I know you have to be careful in the new world with who you choose to let in...but an able bodied male has to be at a premium, especially with the war on Woodbury. The prison has lots of cells for introduction periods. And Rick(depending on where they go with the story) may already have lost a good ally in Tyrese. You HAVE to replenish your numbers, so sooner or later Rick is gonna have to start bringing in strays. I just thought the complete disregard they had for the traveler was pretty repugnant. At least hear him out. Imagine the elation that you might be saved, only to have it ripped away...twice. Even Darryl went to the aid of the travellers on the road. Dunno...just seemed heartless. And then they casually take his bag. It just seemed out of sorts when he just went to great lengths to save someone in the form of Morgan, when it honestly would have been more humane to end his suffering.

 

[roenick]

Full disclaimer...didn't watch Talking, so I wasn't just reciting their discussion.

And I know you have to be careful in the new world with who you choose to let in...but an able bodied male has to be at a premium, especially with the war on Woodbury. The prison has lots of cells for introduction periods. And Rick(depending on where they go with the story) may already have lost a good ally in Tyrese. You HAVE to replenish your numbers, so sooner or later Rick is gonna have to start bringing in strays. I just thought the complete disregard they had for the traveler was pretty repugnant. At least hear him out. Imagine the elation that you might be saved, only to have it ripped away...twice. Even Darryl went to the aid of the travellers on the road. Dunno...just seemed heartless. And then they casually take his bag. It just seemed out of sorts when he just went to great lengths to save someone in the form of Morgan, when it honestly would have been more humane to end his suffering.

Actually totally agree with you and find it interesting. I have had great debates with my boss over this idea. He says in the brave new world you would have to be completely untrusting and non-Christian like (ala Shane). This is one of the reasons I wouldn't want to be around - not sure I could NOT show compassion without being jacked up for it.

 

[Dr. Naysay]

**** all that noise I loved that episode and I'm done trying to figure out why I like this show. I just do.

 

[jerseydevil]

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[Ecktore]

It was a great episode...and I'm kinda pissed about AMC telling us, and spoiling the surprise of having Morgan back for at least one more episode. In regards to the hitchhiker, yeah it sucked that they left him TWICE, but as my wife said....he's just another mouth to feed. And also, every reason that Rick pointed out to Morgan as to why he should have joined them in the prison, should have been enough for them to help out the hitchhiker. With that said, I think they would have helped him out the thrid time had he not been eaten.

 

[jerseydevil]

One of the best television shows in history will sadly come to an end this summer as Breaking Bad wraps up its final season on AMC. The network has released a new featurette for the last batch of 8 episodes that takes fans behind-the-scenes of the show, and it?s a total tease. The video doesn?t reveal anything at all about the final run of episodes (which is a good thing), but we do see the castmembers talking quite cryptically about what?s to come. The fifth season was split up into two batches of eight episodes, so I assume this upcoming run plays like the final half of one season rather than an entire new season.

Though we don?t know much plot-wise about the final episodes, we do know that Bryan Cranston directs the first episode back, Looper director Rian Johnson thankfully returns to helm another installment, and creator/showrunner Vince Gilligan wrote and directs the series finale. Hit the jump to watch the featurette. Breaking Bad is expected to return sometime in July, so hold on to your butts, folks.