The Walking Dead Season 6 Discussion
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He's a regular on another series and they only gave him so much time away.
Father Gabriel decided to use his downtime to work on his car.
Nothing good can happen when Gabriel blows his horn.
He was the first person I thought of.
It's gotta be the Wolves, right? I mean we've already seen them use sound to control zombie herds. I suppose one possibility is that it's someone from the town who was not aware that the plan had to be implemented today, since it was just supposed to be a dry run after all.
Great opening episode. That walker herd was pretty intense from start to finish.
Great opening episode. That walker herd was pretty intense from start to finish.
On Talking Dead tonight, Mr Hooper M Gimple mentioned that they're steering away from saying precisely how long it's been since the ZA started. So I guess they're trying not to get bogged down in the technicalities of it all.
Though speaking of the passage of time, I noticed in the flashback sequences that Rick's face was in various states of healing, so obviously a fair amount of time has passed between seasons. Judith seemed bigger too, though I've got nothing to back that up.
One of the Wolves--or the random element, such as wandering Enid. Between her sneaking off last season, to the preview of the next episode where she gets in a car and writes some letters on the window, she could be more than she's letting on.
The problem with the in-universe being 2 years long is Carl. In real life, observe Chandler Riggs' growth from season 1 - 2 (2010 - 2011) that's how Carl should look now, if there's only been 2 years of the ZA.
So contrasting this to Fear.... what a difference!
Cool move with the back & white flashbacks.
Interesting to see the twists & turns of the trust between MOrgan & Rick... First, RIck is still suspicious, then they seem to trust & respect each other...then Rick confesses his true feelings abut almost killing Carter, so that throws off Morgan's trust...and then Carol's secret is exposed (to Morgan)..so that adds to the suspicion
I'm on #TeamMorgan
I just hope if Morgan has to go...it's simply to another camp, and not killed.
And on the Carl thing... That's one area I can fudge a lot on consistency.
Oh, and on Walking Dead... Scott Gimmple is a bg fanboy...lots of other references, such as Crisis on Inifinite Earths.Very nice. Makes me like the series more.
Maybe Fear needs someone like that to help run that show?
Cool move with the back & white flashbacks.
Interesting to see the twists & turns of the trust between MOrgan & Rick... First, RIck is still suspicious, then they seem to trust & respect each other...then Rick confesses his true feelings abut almost killing Carter, so that throws off Morgan's trust...and then Carol's secret is exposed (to Morgan)..so that adds to the suspicion
I'm on #TeamMorgan
I just hope if Morgan has to go...it's simply to another camp, and not killed.
And on the Carl thing... That's one area I can fudge a lot on consistency.
Oh, and on Walking Dead... Scott Gimmple is a bg fanboy...lots of other references, such as Crisis on Inifinite Earths.Very nice. Makes me like the series more.
Maybe Fear needs someone like that to help run that show?
I try not to get bogged down with the time really. They're obviously not paying that much attention to it, likely for a variety of production reasons.
Interesting episode. Carter dying seemed instantly apparent though. Talking Dead announcing a surprise guest cemented that. It was interesting to see our characters lead a herd. They're so behind Daniel Salazar.
I think the horn has to be the wolves. I'm sensing a short, early-season conflict coming with them like with the folks from Terminus. For it to be someone from Alexandria doing it deliberately seems like when people had conspiracies about Bob. The show just hasn't been that complex yet.
Interesting episode. Carter dying seemed instantly apparent though. Talking Dead announcing a surprise guest cemented that. It was interesting to see our characters lead a herd. They're so behind Daniel Salazar.
I think the horn has to be the wolves. I'm sensing a short, early-season conflict coming with them like with the folks from Terminus. For it to be someone from Alexandria doing it deliberately seems like when people had conspiracies about Bob. The show just hasn't been that complex yet.
I enjoyed the premier. I had no idea it was going to be 90 minutes, and it still felt short. I could have watched all night. I'm glad we finally got to see a big walker swarm on the move. The comics with the massive herds were my favorites.
Great premiere, and really loved the use of black and white.
I have to admit though I still don't understand what this big conflict is that's being built up between Morgan and Rick. Yeah Rick clearly has some trust issues and needs to be reigned in at times, but ultimately he still seems to have a good handle on what needs to be done and isn't anywhere close to being as corrupt or dangerous as a Governor or others we've seen.
So I'm not really sure what big issue Morgan has about it. Maybe Rick's methods aren't the best, but there's still nothing that seems worth starting a mutiny over or anything.
I have to admit though I still don't understand what this big conflict is that's being built up between Morgan and Rick. Yeah Rick clearly has some trust issues and needs to be reigned in at times, but ultimately he still seems to have a good handle on what needs to be done and isn't anywhere close to being as corrupt or dangerous as a Governor or others we've seen.
So I'm not really sure what big issue Morgan has about it. Maybe Rick's methods aren't the best, but there's still nothing that seems worth starting a mutiny over or anything.
Morgan does not believe in killing the living, period. Since his arrival he's seen Rick kill members of Rick's own group under circumstances which are at least debatable. This will not sit well.
I totally said that to my wife last night. I think they've been hinting at a Maggie pregnancy since late last season, though she and Glenn may have only suspected it and not known for sure. They definitely know now. The subtext was practically screaming it.
Oh, did not catch that. But it fits.
I'm wondering if we'll get some Morgan backstory at all.
He's gone through a similar progression as Rick, although is always ahead of the curve. Think about it:
When they first meet, Rick doesn't know what's going on with the apocalypse while Morgan teaches him what's going on. Morgan's wife is dead.
The next time they meet, Rick is aware of what's going on, but Morgan is hostile to any and every person, and is kinda psycho. And now Lori is dead.
Now they meet again, and Rick is hostile to any and every person, and has definitely had his psycho moments. But Morgan has regained his sanity and now holds a different view on the value of life and punishment.
Morgan's "friend" may not have just shown him the martial arts, he may have also guided him along this path. And now Morgan feels that he needs to guide Rick along this path. So that is the conflict. Morgan is like the parent trying to instruct his child to not make the same mistakes he did.
Great episode. Made even more intense by the immediate comparison to the slow, character lacking FTWD.
Enjoyed the non-linear storytelling of the ep and the use of black & white to split them. Within the space of one episode they demonstrated a rift as well as a nascent friendship between two characters (Rick & Carter) plus gave us some nice recaps on the few cracks there are in the community.
My only criticisms would be... not enough Carol (love the fact that Morgan isn't falling for her crap... he knows she's badass) and the fact that there was no real exploration of events immediately after Pete's death. Plus I was expecting more Morgan info. Wasn't he heading somewhere?
The horn? Maybe it was coral (Carl) banging his new girlfriend in the car (since we didn't see him in the ep, I'll assume that's what he was doing).
Enjoyed the non-linear storytelling of the ep and the use of black & white to split them. Within the space of one episode they demonstrated a rift as well as a nascent friendship between two characters (Rick & Carter) plus gave us some nice recaps on the few cracks there are in the community.
My only criticisms would be... not enough Carol (love the fact that Morgan isn't falling for her crap... he knows she's badass) and the fact that there was no real exploration of events immediately after Pete's death. Plus I was expecting more Morgan info. Wasn't he heading somewhere?
The horn? Maybe it was coral (Carl) banging his new girlfriend in the car (since we didn't see him in the ep, I'll assume that's what he was doing).
Thought it was a great episode and and a great use of the B&W for the past, er, "slightly before the present" scenes. They filmed it well to, it almost had a very "NOLD" "feel" to it in the way it was filmed (not in the quality of it though, since it was still HD) which was better than when AMC ran "B&W Versions" of the first season episodes a year or two ago, didn't work since the episodes were filmed more dynamically. Here in the B&W shots it seemed to be filmed less extravagantly to let the effects of B&W sink in better.
I sort of wonder what the end-game was with the mega-herd. Okay, they led them out of the quarry.... Now what?
Seems to me the plan should have maybe been to lead them in a loop back *to* the quarry edge where they can fall off into it and get damaged enough to no longer be a threat. With how the quarry was set-up I do wonder if it wasn't set-up by The Wolves similar to the food warehouse set-up with the trailers. They had some sinister motivation for this if/when the edges gave out letting the walkers loose, knowing by the time it happened the group of walkers would be massive.
I like the "respect" that seems to be building between Glenn and the Woodbury doofus. He certainly seems to get that Glenn knows what he's doing, what he's talking about and to take him seriously.
Maggie's pregnant. Which may spell trouble for Glenn.
Rick's teetering between crazy but still grasping for at some of his humanity and Morgan may bring him back from that brink a bit.
Loved Tara's line, thanking that Eugene's hair still lives on.
Man, Abraham has a way with words!
I sort of wonder what the end-game was with the mega-herd. Okay, they led them out of the quarry.... Now what?
Seems to me the plan should have maybe been to lead them in a loop back *to* the quarry edge where they can fall off into it and get damaged enough to no longer be a threat. With how the quarry was set-up I do wonder if it wasn't set-up by The Wolves similar to the food warehouse set-up with the trailers. They had some sinister motivation for this if/when the edges gave out letting the walkers loose, knowing by the time it happened the group of walkers would be massive.
I like the "respect" that seems to be building between Glenn and the Woodbury doofus. He certainly seems to get that Glenn knows what he's doing, what he's talking about and to take him seriously.
Maggie's pregnant. Which may spell trouble for Glenn.
Rick's teetering between crazy but still grasping for at some of his humanity and Morgan may bring him back from that brink a bit.
Loved Tara's line, thanking that Eugene's hair still lives on.
Man, Abraham has a way with words!
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