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zer0das
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tofucake
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Disengaged
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On February 11 2013 12:18 krndandaman wrote: merle is such a troll. he reminds me of singed if anyone plays LoL u know what i mean haha God damnit . . . Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu Singed | ||
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Kamikiri
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snotboogie
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Patpoose
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p4NDemik
United States13896 Posts
As far as the actual episode it was just ... blah. It felt like the characters were just announcing out loud every emotion rather than actually acting and showing emotion through body language, facial expressions, etc. Carl having crazy dough-eyes when Rick was deciding whether or not to allow Tyreese and his group to stay was laughable after he spent 5-10 minutes on screen being this tough kid who wouldn't give Tyreese's group the time of day. I can't even put that on the kid actor though, that's the director's fault. Hallucination-zombie-Lori was also not really my cup of tea. The auditory hallucinations were one thing and it made sense as a sort of fucked up coping mechanism. The visual hallucination after a 2 month hiatus is like "WHOAH where did this come from?" maybe it would have played better if viewed in quick succession after the other episodes, I don't know, but it was laughable for me personally. | ||
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
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Eishi_Ki
Korea (South)1667 Posts
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TheExile19
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- rick holding his daughter; certainly wasn't subtle, but it worked to show how desperately he fears being alone with this new responsibility and alone with his thoughts to think about lori. - herschel and glenn. remember when herschel was a drag? now he's the emotional and moral center of the show, no matter how many godawful speeches andrea makes. rest of it was sound and fury, signifying nothing. daryl going off with merle makes narrative sense and no other kind of sense. everyone else was angry! tormented! unsure! all wasted because the entire episode is devoted to subplots and the kind of character drama that TWD season 2 was rife with, with the same problem where you don't learn anything new about the characters and it comes off as filler. I haven't been so bored with an episode since the doldrums of season 2. little worried about the rest of the season now; this show has never been a masterpiece, but at the least it was consistently entertaining for the right and wrong reasons. On February 11 2013 15:15 Eishi_Ki wrote: What the fuck was the Beth-Rick thing happening? Surely not for any other TV show I watch, I would feel unsure about casting aspersions on the writing staff, but it seems safe to say that nobody knows exactly what her character is or what they want to do with her. thus in season 3, she is randomly attracted to others/the attraction of others, and somebody noticed that beth and rick have literally never interacted heretofore so there she is in all her glorious awkwardness. | ||
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
On February 11 2013 13:15 snotboogie wrote: Andrea's speech was possibly the least believable I've ever seen. I want to think that it was so bad that it couldn't have been anything but really genuine. But I can't. It made me facepalm. Other than that, I can't find any things to pick at this episode. Really enjoyable. Maybe needs better actors and script, but Glenn's boot stomp made up for it. | ||
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Eishi_Ki
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Live2Win
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On February 11 2013 15:27 Eishi_Ki wrote: I got the feeling Rick felt the baby was actually Shane's and not his due to the baby's reaction to him holding her my friend was saying maybe Rick's weird reaction to holding the baby is because maybe the baby looks like Shane. I think there's something to that | ||
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TheExile19
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On February 11 2013 15:27 Eishi_Ki wrote: I got the feeling Rick felt the baby was actually Shane's and not his due to the baby's reaction to him holding her I thought rick in action against the governor compared to rick back at the prison looking forward to constantly fixing other people's small, obnoxious problems and caring for yet another person - a person who best reflects what he sees as his failed responsibility to lori and maybe shane - was conveyed really well by the scene with judith. he can put it aside when he's focused on shooting mans and zombies, but then he has to come back and face all of that while coming down from a combat/survival high and it suuuuuucks. maybe I picked this out because that particular dichotomy is reflective of a deeper problem with the show in that when there's zombies on the screen, everything's good and then it bogs down in underwritten, cliched interpersonal conflicts and it suuuuuucks. edit: that the end of the episode culminates with him breaking down at having to manage yet another group of assholes is a pretty good indicator of that weariness of leadership. that daryl, arguably the second most capable to lead, just took off to follow neohitler around the woods certainly didn't help. | ||
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freeshooter
United States477 Posts
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sung_moon
United States10110 Posts
Andrea's speech to the townspeople and Rick's hallucination honestly had me chuckling btw. | ||
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DannyJ
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MethodSC
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TheExile19
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On February 11 2013 16:10 DannyJ wrote: I find this season extremely underwhelming in general. It's moving along at such a plodding pace and Rick's sweaty/crazy eyes starting moments are getting pretty repetitive. Not to mention the acting isn't exactly stellar. this season is greased lightning compared to season 2 and until these past few episodes the newness of woodbury and the prison situation was more than enough to keep things going, as was lori and the prisoners. now we're seeing them recycle the latter, and unsubtly callback the former to overwrite and overstate that, yes, rick isn't holding up well. it feels like a concession to the fact that they can't just go at the governor again at the very start of this half of the season, which is acceptable, but the problem is that these subplots do nothing to address the greater question of survival that people are watching this show for: - we know that they can get by without daryl - we know that only half of the new group is dumb enough to start trouble, and they seem like clods - they aren't going to kill off rick, so his plight earns sympathy but doesn't ultimately mean much so, whence comes the tension as we bridge the necessary gap from now to the next faceoff with the governor? don't know, hope the writers do. | ||
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Dosey
United States4505 Posts
On February 11 2013 16:15 MethodSC wrote: meh pretty stale episode, but I guess it's expected. still, this season has been WAY better than season 2 imo. Well... pretty much anything would be better than season 2. I'd rather watch smallville season 57 than watch season 2 again. | ||
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