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The Walking Dead Season 5

I literally clapped when I saw Morgan. BOOYAH!

I honestly thought it was going to be Chris Hardwick under that mask, and that they just had a little fun filming an on-set intro for the season premiere of Talking Dead.

It was odd Marvel-like tag scene.


Yeah..it was weird...I too thought it was a Talking Dead skit, since it appeared after the previews/credits, and afterward, like WalkerBait, felt it to be like a Marvel post-credits scene.

VERY WELL done.

For the one who asked...the mask was a light weight way to protect himself from bites.

Can't wait to see how Morgan re-connects.
 
It's kind of like the thing with the hippie Sam. That may not have been apparent to many viewers what the connection there was.
Haven't seen that episode since it first aired so I can hardly remember what he looked like, therefore didn't make the connection at all when I watched the ep today. Only just found that out now, ha so thanks for that :)

I didn't get that either.

I also didn't realize that there was a post-credits scene so I missed Morgan. I had read the headline of a news story that said a season 3 character re-appeared. I thought it might have been a misdirection and thought that maybe that first blonde zombie with the handcuffs around her arm was supposed to be Andrea :lol:

The episode was very action-heavy though and I liked that. Loved Carol going all 'Predator'. Walking Dead does strike me as an odd show sometimes, sometimes they stay in one place for far too long and other times they get somewhere they've been searching for for ages and then it's done in one episode. Not sure about the flashbacks, seemed an odd change in structure and I hope they don't become a big part of the season.
 
The Walking Dead Season 5 breaks its own record - likely with a combined 22 million live and non-live viewers. The Walking Dead now commands a whopping $436,000 for a 30 second ad which eclipses even Monday night Football.


Forbes
With 17.3 million viewers, last night’s season five premiere of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” was the highest rated show in cable television history. The show topped a 2007 airing of “High School Musical 2″ which aired on August 17, 2007 and drew 17.2 million viewers as highest-rated live/same day non-sports telecast in cable history. The ratings top the season 4 premiers which drew a series-best 16.1 million same day viewers.
That season 4 premiere, with 21.1 million total viewers, had been the most watched cable show of all time when considering time-shifted viewing, which wasn’t much of a factor when HSM set its record in 2007. . Last night’s premiere, entitled No Sanctuary, is expected to break that record with more than 22 million total viewers.
What’s been even more impressive than the raw numbers is “The Walking Dead’s” demographic performance, and last night was no exception. With 11 million viewers, a 6% increase over last year, the premiere was the most watched show in the 18-49 age group, beating powerhouse live programming like Sunday Night Football.
‘The Walking Dead’ is one of those increasingly rare shows today that can command a live audience not significantly cannibalized by time-shifted viewing,” said AMC president Charlie Collier. “Who would have thought that cannibalized television could be curtailed by cannibal-ized television?” The network announced before the premiere that it has renewed the wildly popular show for a sixth season.
 
Wow, Awesome episode. I suspected at the end of last Season that Carol and Tyrese building up a new group were the most likely way for the writers to rescue the gang, but, I didn't expect Carol to do it all by herself and put Rambo to shame :bolian:

Time to edit her name into all those "Chuck Norris is so Bad Ass..." Memes :devil:

Carol and Darryl reuniting, and then Rick and Karl reuniting with Judith was about the biggest Fangasm ever.
 
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I thought Tyrese DID kill the guy?
See, I don't think so... It's a little vague. He stops Carol from going into the cabin. I'm thinking he let the guy go after beating the crap out of him and lies to Carol about it.

Also that guy was not featured in the Talking Dead's 'In Memoriam' segment. hmm...

yeah, I had that same thought.

I have to say, Carol is quite the deadshot with fireworks. In my (limited) experience rockets like that almost never go where you think they will.
 
I wonder how long this show will be on before they'll let it end.

As long as they have eyes on the ads they will churn out stories.

The real questions for me are:

1. How long before the public gets bored with the zombie genre?

2. How far can they stretch our disbelief and with the number of close calls before it becomes unrealistic for the current main characters to still be survivors in a ZA?

3. How greedy will the actors get and will AMC dump anyone of them if they become too greedy?

4. Is the zombie acp. the draw for the show or the current characters/actors?
 
I'll admit I stayed hooked on this episode. My one factor in deciding if I continued watching was going to be how long they dragged out being in Terminus. I was pretty shocked they wrapped it up so quick. Now, hopefully, the rest of the seven episodes won't involve them wandering in the woods.
 
See, I don't think so... It's a little vague. He stops Carol from going into the cabin. I'm thinking he let the guy go after beating the crap out of him and lies to Carol about it.

Also that guy was not featured in the Talking Dead's 'In Memoriam' segment. hmm...

yeah, I had that same thought.

I have to say, Carol is quite the deadshot with fireworks. In my (limited) experience rockets like that almost never go where you think they will.

I never thought that guy was dead in the first place and was a little surprised when Tyrese said he was.

As for Carol: She picked up a lot of knowledge on launching fireworks — from watching Ed on his drunken Saturday nights.
"Hey Carol, Sofia! Watch me hit the mailbox! YEE HAW!!"

<shoosh>
<kaBOOOOM>
 
They were still able to hope before Terminus, but I don't think they will ever feel trusting about any outsiders again.

After the flood of living threats they had to fight in every season, it just makes no sense to walk into Terminus as seen in the S4 finale. ultimately, trust had them seconds away from having their throats cut. If not for a completely random element--Carol (the woman Rick kicked out), Rick and most of the prison survivors (except Beth & Tyrese) would be BBQ.

I'm sure Eugene is lying about having any information about a "Cure". This is just his way of staying alive -- make everyone put saving his life ahead of their own. Did anyone notice his reaction to a walker near him when they were escaping the train car? Almost an "eek!" and then someone took out the walker. He is totally helpless, not capable of fighting or wielding weapons, so he's found a way to survive.
His refusal to learn how to fight makes Eugene a very distasteful character. If children can learn how to use weapons (Carl and Lizzie), or someone once a mousy victim of abuse (Carol), then there's no excuse for a healthy grown man--with members of the military as companions--should be ignorant of basic self defense.
 
Is he actively refusing to learn, or is he just admitting his incompetence? Refusing makes him a distasteful character; incompetence is just a necessary evil for the group to deal with.

Besides, wasn't he the one who pushed to go find Glenn's group?
 
^ I think Eugene uses the "I'm not battle abled" as a crutch & a power play. Did everyone see him purposefully sidestep walkers during the escape? This group we are watching evolve has zero room in it for a piece of luggage who is endangering everyone (& himself) by not contributing in some way. That he may be who he claims, is even more reason to do so, and absolutely not a reason to be a bloody football. Carol & Tyrese just showed up with the group football. Can't afford another one

Like people have said. The children are doing it. To not do so, when you claim to be the last damn hope for humanity suggests you don't give enough of a crap to protect yourself. The Carolnator will jump all in his shit if she sees that

There may be some room to allow him to avoid doing recon & point, & otherwise dangerous battle duty, because if it's true, then keeping him alive might be a priority (Frankly though, I'd want some proof of that) but to not even attempt to protect yourself as best you can, & the clan you need watching your back? Lame, and yes, it comes of as pomposity & entitlement, & would get him knocked on his ass if I was around

He blew out the truck tires because he didn't even bother to use the damn gun like a gun. He just waved it around, like he'd never even seen one. That's BS. He uses his doing it badly as negative reinforcement for them not doing it for him. That's refusal. He thinks (Or is putting on bogus airs) that he's too important to have to be expected to do it. He's wrong, & if he's half as smart or important as he claims, he'd know that.

If I were truly the last person who could do something about the ongoing end of mankind, I'd be John Fucking Connors from The Terminator. Eugene's reckoning is coming & likely rather soon

Well, they didn't just "wander into Terminus all willy nilly" they did enter through the back-entrance armed and prepared. (Though they probably should have monitored the place for the better part of a day to get a feel for it.) But it's not like they walked in through the proverbial front door like the Abraham/Glenn/Maggie group did.
I was kind of clumping both groups together, but still, Rick's group went in blind too, & if you have doubt enough to store away weapons, then you have doubt enough to split up & maybe send in recon first, & if you're these people, you should have doubt, about everyone, & every place, a mile before you get to it
 
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My one completely arbitrary & pointless gripe of the episode is this:

Carol: We're friends of the chick with the sword & the kid in the hat

So apparently you're familiar with it. So then why the hell didn't you take 12 seconds & pick out the sword when you grabbed the crossbow? It couldn't have been far & it sticks out like a ruby in a pile of glass. That's just mean. Carol's mean now. :lol:

& before anyone climbs down my throat, you all know you were thinking about it too. Don't deny it :guffaw:I'm surprised it didn't get brought up on Talking Dead

Her sword was in the bag of weapons that Rick buried.
He even describes it right down to the handle. Right before he said something like I'm going to use it to kill you.
 
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