The Walking Dead Season 5
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Hopefully not like the knock-off zombie films from the 80s / zombie cable crap of the 2000s, where cartoon-like gang members mix stereotyped behavior (from out of touch writers) with everyone suddenly wanting to become leader of everyone else, with the resultant violent power struggle only calmed down by zombie bites.
No doubt the Hispanic and black street gangs in LA will likely take control.
I'm originally from LA and there are some potentially interesting storylines based on the setting For example, how would very wealthy residents in Beverly Hills cope with the ZA? Would they try to use their money or fame to barter for safety?
Beverly Hills has highest police officer to resident ratio of any major city in the US. It seems as though areas like that should fair better because of the enormous law enforcement presence.
During the '92 Rodney Riots, Beverly Hills faced zero looting whereas the reset of the city was in a shambles because of so many police officers as well as privately contracted security guards.
I see an expanded replay of the Grady hospital situation: the police abusing the residents. With no structured government left, I see some police officers taking advantage of the "pretty people" they had to serve for so long.
I wonder when they will actually release the spin-off series. From what I read it will be off schedule with the current show. So can we infer by that a summer show? Year around Walking Dead. Ostensibly it sounds great and I'm excited. There is a risk for AMC that they will over saturate the genre and some - may lose interest in one or both or of the shows.
I hope they use "Thriller" as their theme music.
I would like to see a wealth of character development in 5B, and less shock events (assaults, death, etc.) that has ended every season.
The joined, running theme of this season was not giving in to what Terminus Mary said was the "world is telling you" --countering it with the "that's still us" humanitarian beliefs of Glenn & Tyreese. It is almost a guarantee that it will come back to haunt them (especially in the way Chad Coleman was dancing around the price of pacifist beliefs during his Talking Dead appearance), but there has to be some progressive direction (in the plot) that preserves humanity, instead of the ends justifies the means brutality seen in most of S4, and weaving through Beth's arc in S5.
The joined, running theme of this season was not giving in to what Terminus Mary said was the "world is telling you" --countering it with the "that's still us" humanitarian beliefs of Glenn & Tyreese. It is almost a guarantee that it will come back to haunt them (especially in the way Chad Coleman was dancing around the price of pacifist beliefs during his Talking Dead appearance), but there has to be some progressive direction (in the plot) that preserves humanity, instead of the ends justifies the means brutality seen in most of S4, and weaving through Beth's arc in S5.
I'm not looking forward to the aftermath of Beth's death. 
I'm not looking forward to the aftermath of Beth's death.
Well, it has to happen. Just about all behind and in front of the camera said Beth's death--who she was in that world--will have a great effect on the characters moving forward. It should, not only as a statement on her character / key to a worldview, but it would break the pattern of TWD deaths rarely having significant impact...more than Rick's Lori fantasies at best, or a couple of minor references at worst.
Even Shane, who was THE conflict / action motivator of S2, is only mentioned a few times in S3 (Lori talking to Hershel / Daryl making a joke about "little Shane" / the Governor's little stab & Andrea's brief dialogue with Carol). But there was no lingering effect so important a character.
So, I say get ready for Beth to shadow many episodes, unless all of that actor/producer "effect" talk was less than truthful.
Yes, I agree, her death should be a game changer for all the characters.
Major hallucinations, major guilt, major send off.
No one talking about tonight's episode so far?
Almost have no words...
I was just thinking that Tyrese was taking the moral compass role of Dale & Herschel
Well, with Gabriel, Noah and Morgan, they're perpetuating the idea that you can't have too many black men on Walking Dead! (Ok...not as bad as T-Dog days, but still....)
Tonight's episode was fantastic.
I mean, what happened in it sucked, but the whole way the episode was filmed, looked, edited, and framed was just very, very well done. And I had no idea the big event was going to happen because I've seen no spoilers on it, unlike the spoilers that came out about Beth's death and the leaks that happened just before the episode aired. (Emily moving out of her Atlanta apartment.)
But the framing device of the episode was great and the use of all of the more recent dead characters was great, including Beth and The Governor.
Interesting talks between Rick/Michonne and Glenn and, right now at least, it still seems Rick has an ounce or-two of his humanity, reason and compassion within him. Sort of interesting to hear what I guess was an "NPR-like" station which I assume was the memories of the broadcasts heard in the early days of the ZA, the language use in the broadcasts had a very NPR-like quality.
A good hour of TV and, again, some great, great work done for the overall look and feel for this episode.
The character death sucks but, I suppose more-or-less expected with this show and with the size of our cast. This death felt a little more real and inspired that Beth's death which felt a bit more cliched and seemed to be more for needing a shocking ending for the mid-season finale. Though, Beth's death will still have an impact on more members of the group than this one will.
Again, a good episode.
I mean, what happened in it sucked, but the whole way the episode was filmed, looked, edited, and framed was just very, very well done. And I had no idea the big event was going to happen because I've seen no spoilers on it, unlike the spoilers that came out about Beth's death and the leaks that happened just before the episode aired. (Emily moving out of her Atlanta apartment.)
But the framing device of the episode was great and the use of all of the more recent dead characters was great, including Beth and The Governor.
Interesting talks between Rick/Michonne and Glenn and, right now at least, it still seems Rick has an ounce or-two of his humanity, reason and compassion within him. Sort of interesting to hear what I guess was an "NPR-like" station which I assume was the memories of the broadcasts heard in the early days of the ZA, the language use in the broadcasts had a very NPR-like quality.
A good hour of TV and, again, some great, great work done for the overall look and feel for this episode.
The character death sucks but, I suppose more-or-less expected with this show and with the size of our cast. This death felt a little more real and inspired that Beth's death which felt a bit more cliched and seemed to be more for needing a shocking ending for the mid-season finale. Though, Beth's death will still have an impact on more members of the group than this one will.
Again, a good episode.
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