Walking Dead Season 2

[kelmac07]

Great epsiode last night. Why in the hell did Rick come back for Shane? After all that sh@t, I'd have left him for Zombie Food. And Andrea is getting on my nerves...hell...so is Lori...someone needs to get bit and turn. Why is Daryl hiding out in the outskirts collecting ears? And why does Carol keep bugging Daryl, like she wants him. MORE ZOMBIES!! Loved the zombie sandwhich and the zombie waterfall. "We need to use our knives more".

[mase]

Originally Posted by kelmac07

Great epsiode last night. Why in the hell did Rick come back for Shane?

Remember the scene where Rick is looking at the 2 recently re-killed zombie officers laying on the ground. He must be thinking that he can't leave his partner behind. Than he goes back and saves Shane.

[OLS]

Darryl is likely just now having the time to digest the vision he had while he was arrow-stuck.
His brother appeared to him and chastised him pretty good for being everyone's be+ch.
I would imagine this was bound to happen.

Carol is coming down after her big loss and the finality of it to remembering him kind of rubbin
up against her a little bit during the search. She has seen the good side of him and he is RIGHT,
she IS ALONE and she does want to try and hook up with him because she is scared and alone.
I think it might still happen.At least in the episode RIGHT before his brother returns.

As for Shane, I agree, there is no way I would make the block and pick up Shane, he made his
bed. But this is just Rick again, he SEES both sides. Before the ZA, he worked with Shane,
likely was a bit turned off by the whole super-jock machismo, but thought, you know, that's
just HIM. We work together, that's my friend, I will have to just live with what I don't like.
It's all part of Rick's character. He knows HE IS RIGHT and he needs to give Shane time to
come around. At this point it is hard to SAY who is right. Or who's management style keeps
the group safest.

[Powers]

Originally Posted by mase

I must admit I'm getting pretty tired of the Rick vs. Shane dynamic. It's stalling the show.

I enjoy the Rick and Shane tension. It'd been under the surface for the entire show and they finally cleared the air a bit. To me they represent what the show is really trying to get at: pragmatism vs. humanity

Originally Posted by OLS

Darryl is likely just now having the time to digest the vision he had while he was arrow-stuck.
His brother appeared to him and chastised him pretty good for being everyone's be+ch.
I would imagine this was bound to happen.

Carol is coming down after her big loss and the finality of it to remembering him kind of rubbin
up against her a little bit during the search. She has seen the good side of him and he is RIGHT,
she IS ALONE and she does want to try and hook up with him because she is scared and alone.
I think it might still happen.At least in the episode RIGHT before his brother returns.

As for Shane, I agree, there is no way I would make the block and pick up Shane, he made his
bed. But this is just Rick again, he SEES both sides. Before the ZA, he worked with Shane,
likely was a bit turned off by the whole super-jock machismo, but thought, you know, that's
just HIM. We work together, that's my friend, I will have to just live with what I don't like.
It's all part of Rick's character. He knows HE IS RIGHT and he needs to give Shane time to
come around. At this point it is hard to SAY who is right. Or who's management style keeps
the group safest.

AMC does a "Behind the episode" after each one with the actors delving into their characters actions in each episode. I at first agreed with you, Brad, that Rick should've left his @ss, but the actors who play Shane and Rick address why Rick needs Shane and couldn't leave him and their points made sense to me. Rather than rehash it myself, here's the link:

http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dea...d-18-miles-out

[OLS]

Originally Posted by Powers

To me they represent what the show is really trying to get at: pragmatism vs. humanity

Damn college graduates......

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Haha, I liked it. I checked out the video and they basically said what I thought.
Rick wants to leave him, knows he deserves to BE LEFT, but the white side is
nothing without the black, he loves Shane because of what he was when they
were just buddies, he needs Shane to make whatever he is fighting for worth
having in the end.

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by Powers

I enjoy the Rick and Shane tension. It'd been under the surface for the entire show and they finally cleared the air a bit.

I agree, Michael.

[MikeyC]

Last night's episode was GREAT! Blond haired lady was annoying. I think Rick saw the two dead zombies in uniform on his way out of there and it reminded him of he and Shane which changed his mind about leaving him behind.

[mosesbotbol]

Tension is getting thick. They both need each other as they are best fighters. Loving this season!

[OLS]

I am going to watch it here in a bit...glad to hear there are lots of zombies about.
I also want to curb some of my enthusiasm from earlier in this thread. In defense of
why they don't pick up MP5s or M-16s that are lying here and there, I said "hey, the
zombies are not sprinters, they shamble everywhere...if you had bullets in your gun,
you would not be over-run." I guess I was mistaken. Lately they seem to have been
training or something. They can chase you pretty fast. I need to go back and re-watch
the seasons and see if they have altered the physics of zombiehood some or I was just
not noticing it. Seems they are speeding up, though. Anyone else seem to notice this?

[massphatness]

Originally Posted by OLS

Seems they are speeding up, though. Anyone else seem to notice this?

Yup

Originally Posted by massphatness

Are the zombies faster this year?

So while "Sprinting Dead" doesn't quite roll off the tongue, "Walking Dead" is a bit of a misnomer.

[Malazan]

In the Graphic Novel, Little Carl kills Shane at the Resevoir area they are camped at in Season one. Shane goes to shoot Rick and Carl shoots Shane through the neck.

I wonder if they will have Carl bump Shane off in the Series

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by Malazan

In the Graphic Novel, Little Carl kills Shane at the Resevoir area they are camped at in Season one. Shane goes to shoot Rick and Carl shoots Shane through the neck.

I wonder if they will have Carl bump Shane off in the Series

Anything else you can spoil for me while you're here?

[Malazan]

Originally Posted by icehog3

Anything else you can spoil for me while you're here?

The TV Series differs a lot from the Graphic Novel, so I'm not saying they are gonna do it

In the books, Sophia is still alive, and her mother dead, where as, in the TV show, they killed Sophia off

[Skywalker]

Hershel is really Shane's father (and Rick's second cousin, on his mother's side)!

Originally Posted by icehog3

Anything else you can spoil for me while you're here?

[OLS]

To me it makes a viewer wonder....IS THERE a chance that these people are going to "wake up" from all this carnage
and zombie-ism? Maybe they are speeding up as they become more human. I mean I seriously doubt it, as do
all of you. But I thought it was my imagination, but maybe they are really being told to move faster to ramp up
the fear factor. Although we have had requests to stop with the references to the comic, I can tell now just
how SLOW this train is moving from having exposure to both the show and the comics. After having a major chunk
of my life stolen by that sham of a show "LOST", I can tell they are taking their sweet time over moving out of the
Greene Family Farm and getting to this other place they need to get to for the plotline. A much more secure spot.
But you know they are going to try and make that location last a whole season like this farm BS. I still like the show,
if I had NO EXPOSURE to the comic, I would still think the farm series is boring me to tears, but the show is still
worth watching for now. I enjoyed the last episode I watched last night, they seem to be over way too fast for me,
though. I am just getting my Zombie boner and they go to black for the last time.

[Blak Smyth]

I have only watched the first few minutes of the most recent episode and I gotta admit, the talking to with Shane in the intesection was just what I needed to see. I think I am ready to get back into the series. I am excited to watch the rest of the episode now.

[mase]

There was a point when Shane was examining one of the re-dead zombie officers looking for a bit mark. Rick says they were probably infected by a scratch. What do you make of this? Do you think the "infection" spread through some other means?

[Powers]

Originally Posted by mase

There was a point when Shane was examining one of the re-dead zombie officers looking for a bit mark. Rick says they were probably infected by a scratch. What do you make of this? Do you think the "infection" spread through some other means?

If you remember what they pulled into was a Public Works facility. I think it got into the water supply

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by mase

There was a point when Shane was examining one of the re-dead zombie officers looking for a bit mark. Rick says they were probably infected by a scratch. What do you make of this? Do you think the "infection" spread through some other means?

I am thinking the virus has gone airborne, and direct contact might no longer be necessary for some humans to become zombified.

[Powers]

Originally Posted by icehog3

I am thinking the virus has gone airborne, and direct contact might no longer be necessary for some humans to become zombified.

Or its being transferred thru the internet!!