AMC's The Walking Dead

I really wanted him to tell Lori to STFU, but I knew it wasn't going to happen.

 

Damn, I'm a posting mad man today. I can now reveal one of my spoilers from a few pages ago since it's been set up.

The production team around here said they've had to build those prison sets because they were unable to find one to film in. I'd guess (and this isn't a huge revelation) that last night's prison was CGI.

 

I know! I actually said to JR "I guess he won't talk for about a season and a half now."

 

And if you remember, Zombie Shane closed the gap between him and Rick pretty quickly.

 

I wanted him to tell her to GTFO, but knew that wasn't going to happen either.

And dammit, after last week's preview I hoped Carol was going to bite the dust. But no.

 

I'm thinking that the newer the zombie, the quicker. Logically speaking.

 

That makes a lot of sense.

 

A little excerpt from EW's season-ender recap with Glen Mazzara. One less thing to complain about in Season 3, it appears:

Q. T-Dog managed to survive the season finale. I think it’s fair to say that, of all the characters, I think we’ve gotten to know him the least. Is he more of a presence next year?

A. There is a plan for T-Dog. Given all of the things that I had to focus on to develop the show in a way that I felt was best, I will say that T-Dog got short shrift. We took care of business, and now we can delve into Michonne and the Governor and T-Dog and all these other characters. T-Dog fans will be happy. We’re no longer interested in having a character in the background only saying one line per episode. We’re done with that. But again, we only had so much real estate, and it was very important for me to tell Rick’s story.

 

I completely agree on Lori. Completely annoying. I will say that I used to not be able to stand Andrea, yet now I'm glad they kept her alive.

 

I wouldn't mind if the fetus died, zombiefied and ate her from the inside out. Just sayin'.

 

This, from the Grantland review of the season finale....

Last night’s teaser asked us to accept that the rampaging herd could be traced back to the still-incongruous helicopter flying over Atlanta in the pilot, the proverbial flap of a butterfly wing that eventually transformed into a tornado. Well, OK. Sure. But it took them all this time — and one measly bang from Carl’s big-boy Super Soaker — to reach our gang?

 

I can accept the helicopter set the herd in motion. They could only follow the sound so long, so after a while they're just wandering aimlessly. Considering the farm is (in real life) about 35-40 miles from where Rick saw the helicopter reflection, it could theoretically take the zombies a while to get to the farm. Now, we've seen the survivor group on the farm from about the dead of summer to fall - so let's say four months. So, four months and 40 miles. That's a helluva slow pace, but they're zombies, so I'm not really sure one can predict a pace.

With all of that, I can also buy into Carl's gunshot essentially ringing the dinner bell. But what I find a bit ridiculous is all the other gunshots on or near the farm before then - Andrea's stupid fucking sniper shot at Daryl, the random wasting of hundreds of bullets in the name of target practice, the barn massacre - that didn't attract walkers. I guess we're to assume the massive herd wasn't close enough to the farm during these moments?