The Walking Dead "The Walking Dead" General Stuff & Thaaaangs Thread - - - Part 12

[Man in the Suit]

New issue of the comic comes out tomorrow and it's supposedly a pretty big one. So get ready for "WILL THIS HAPPEN IN THE SHOW????"

 

[Elevator Man]

The Walking Dead showrunner promises 'You will see Rick Grimes smile'

It’s been a rough ride so far for Rick Grimes on season 7 of The Walking Dead. He had to sit back and watch his fellow Alexandrians be bludgeoned, gutted, shot, tortured, and beat up as Negan and the Saviors took control. Suffice it to say there was not a lot of time for chuckles or guffaws. But are things now starting to turn around?

Rick was finally ready to fight back by the end of the midseason finale, and his bro-down throwdown of a reunion hug with Daryl offered the promise of hope for our less-than-merry band of survivors. Showrunner Scott M. Gimple confirms that TWD’s second half of the season (which kicks off Feb. 12) will indeed feel very different from the episodes that preceded it, and that includes what may be the biggest Walking Dead twist of all. “It propels us into a very different half season from the one before it,” says Gimple of the midseason premiere, while adding the following promise: “Before the end of that very first episode back, you will see Rick Grimes smile.”

Smile?! Like, are we talking about an almost indecipherable smirk or a big toothy grin? Either way… WE’LL TAKE IT! Exec producer Greg Nicotero already explained to EW how they “had to burn the place down” before having the group rise up to fight the menace that is Negan, and Gimple is now echoing Andrew Lincoln’s comments to EW that “the thrill of the fight is back.”

With Rick, Daryl, Maggie, and others all now reunited at the Hilltop, the rest of season will likely be a walk-up to the “All Out War” arc from the comic on which the show is based. It means the days of silent subjugation are over, and that march towards war begins with a Feb. 12 episode that team TWD is excited to unleash. “The midseason premiere is a movie unto itself,” says Gimple. “Angela Kang wrote it, Greg Nicotero directed it, the cast knocked it out of the park — pretty much literally, you’ll see — and the crew pulled it all together, and it was a hell of a lot to pull together.”

Yeah Rick smiling again is what fans are really looking forward to in 7b. Come on Gimple and EW.

 

[Drizzle]

 

[scarlet-witch]

The Walking Dead showrunner promises 'You will see Rick Grimes smile'



Yeah Rick smiling again is what fans are really looking forward to in 7b. Come on Gimple and EW.

No kidding. It's a given that Rick would smile at some point.

If any character is in need of some actual happiness, It's Carol.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Eichorst's backstory showed something that was far more disturbing than what happened to Glenn. It wasn't as gory, but it had a sinister element in it that echoed events that actually took place in human history.

I don't know if you saw the episode where Eichorst was revealed to have once been a radio salesman with an affection for a woman named Helga, who was kind and encouraging to him. When Eichorst fell under the influence of the Nazis, Helga broke off their relationship because it was revealed that she was Jewish.

When other officers later learn that Eichorst once had a close relationship with a Jewish woman, he lied and said that she was fired from their workplace for stealing. Later in the episode, we see several Jewish people publically executed for petty (and sometimes, untrue) offenses. Helga is among them, and Eichorst realizes that his cowardly lie killed her. That scene had a disturbingly authentic element that TWD simply can't match because it's a purely fictional construct.

And while I'm no stranger to horror, I was cringing and gripping the armrests of my chair when Eichorst was ready to kill Dutch by ramming his vampire tongue up her vagina. There was something so cruel and dehumanizing about this that it actually made me a little queasy.

Yeah, I saw all of that and I didn't feel nearly as disturbed as I did by Glenn's death, I think the context of how it was done in front of his pregnant wife and then coupled with fact it wasn't one scene but 45 relentlessly intense minutes that also saw Rick essentially broken, it snowballed, and then you add in the connection the viewers have to these characters and the emotional response escalates. At any rate I respect that what I find disturbing differs from you and others.

 

[Drizzle]

If any character is in need of some actual happiness, It's Carol.

I'd put Maggie, Sasha or Daryl before Carol on that front.

 

[Hunter Rider]

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[scarlet-witch]

I'd put Maggie, Sasha or Daryl before Carol on that front.

Eh. Carol's been depressed since S5 and completely shut off from her family. It's actually quite irritating to see what they've done with her story when she's (IMO) one of the best characters.

 

[Xrated48]

No kidding. It's a given that Rick would smile at some point.

If any character is in need of some actual happiness, It's Carol.

Agreed, Carol was such a good character for me at least until the second half of season 6 when they basically ruined her by having her upset all the time.

 

[Elevator Man]

The Walking Dead Super Bowl Spot: 'Football is Over' Official Teaser

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[scarlet-witch]

Yeah, TWD. Advertise Negan some more, he's not killing your ratings or anything.

 

[Kane52630]

Discussion thread for episode 9 is up

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=523555

 

[Lantern Venom]

The Walking Dead Super Bowl Spot: 'Football is Over' Official Teaser

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This was actually the only thing related to the Super Bowl that I watched. Simple, but awesome.

 

[Elevator Man]

The Walking Dead showrunner reveals there is 'unfinished business' in Oceanside

Rick Grimes is on a mission to connect all the various communities in an attempt to take on Negan when The Walking Dead returns to AMC on Feb. 12. But what about the community he doesn’t even know about?

In the episode “Swear,” Tara washed ashore at a place called Oceanside and found a well-armed group of women. She promised she would keep their existence under wraps, but that was before she learned what Negan and his goons did to Glenn, Abraham, and her girlfriend Denise. Will Tara still honor the secret now that she knows the stakes? And how might Oceanside possibly fit into the jigsaw puzzle that is the rest of the season?

We went to showrunner Scott M. Gimple for answers, and he had an interesting tease as far as that goes, while also dropping some intel on a big episode coming up for Dwight. Here’s our quick-hit lightning round Q&A about what’s in store.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You established these different communities in the first half of the season. Are we going to see them start to connect now in 7B?
SCOTT M. GIMPLE: I’ll just say that there are a lot of common threads within these communities now — they’re bound together in one way or another. That’s going to draw them to each other.

7A kind of mirrored the second half of season 4 in that people were spread out and a lot of the main characters we only saw in 2 or 3 episodes. Is that going to continue here, or do these communities connecting mean we’re going to see more of everyone together?
The structure of 7B is very different, just as 4A was different to 4B — and the connections and characters are coming together.

Oceanside is much different and introduced much later in the comic. Why decide to bring it in here and should fans expect that we have not seen the last of them?
There’s definitely unfinished business there. And the information that Oceanside — and what it possesses — would be a very big deal to Rick.

What can you say about Dwight moving forward and his relationship to Negan, because we’re getting close to a pretty pivotal time for him in the comics?
Easy, Dalton! Easy, big fella! Don’t make me angry like an old man trying to send soup back in a deli. Let us not spoil anything. Or, at least, if peeps want to spoil it, reading the comic is the best way to do it. I will say that an aspect of episode 11 deals a LOT with this.

 

[Elevator Man]

The Walking Dead: 'Future' Season 7 Official Teaser

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Nice! Looking forward to Carol joining the fight.

 

[Elevator Man]

The Walking Dead Showrunner on the New Worlds of Season 7

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[Hotwire]

Episode 10:

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New Best Friends. “While searching for a missing Alexandrian, Rick and his group encounter a mysterious collective, its inhabitants unlike any they have come across."

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The Whisperers???

 

[scarlet-witch]

^ it's way too early for

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the Whisperers

 

[Hunter Rider]

The first 2 eps of the second half of the season have been good, the scene where Rick and Michonne took the walkers out with the wire between the two cars was awesome.

The garbage dwelling group are an odd bunch, they talk like they are from another planet and look like they escaped from an 80's post-apocalyptic sci fi movie.

Rick battling the spiky walker was cool and the scenes with Daryl and Carol were great, I knew he would end up going soft on her. Morgan is so irritating, as Daryl said, wake up!

 

[Elevator Man]

Morgan has proven before that he'd take a life to save one i.e. saving Carol from that wounded Savior. He doesn't believe killing is always the option to handling a threat. That's why he's looks for other more humane options that won't lead to more killing and bloodshed when dealing with threats such as the Saviors. After a while killing takes it's toll on people. Look at Morgan and Carol for example of what all that killing has done to them mentally. He's hesitant about him and the Kingdom joining Rick and Co. against the Saviors b/c it'll lead to more casualties from both sides of the war. During 6b he believed there was another option on dealing with the Saviors instead of attacking one of their outposts, which at the time Rick and co. thought was the Saviors only headquarters. Turned out Morgan was somewhat right to not make the first move on killing the Saviors b/c Rick and co. only ended up taking out a small amount of a much larger group. Abe and Glenn suffered the consequences for the attack on that satellite outpost. I believe Morgan will step up when Ezekiel decides to join Rick and co. in fighting the Saviors. Morgan's proven before that he'd take a life to save one. Now that his bo staff was taken from him he'll probably be compelled to use guns more often, unfortunately. I liked that bo staff.

Daryl's irritating me a little. Why would he leave the only place that offers asylum to strangers like him? Ezekiel was doing him and Rick's group a favor by allowing him to stay there until the situation was resolved. Then he decides to go to the Hilltop on foot, which is asinine b/c the Saviors are hunting him for escaping. Once Daryl shows up at the Hilltop he'll be jeopardizing that community's safety by being there. I 'll chalk it up as Daryl having some sort of death wish. I'm also ambivalent about him lying to Carol. I understand he believed he was protecting her b/c all the killing she has endured to protect her family has taken it's toll on her. So he felt she didn't need to know about Glenn and Abe dying, ASZ (the Kingdom, Hilltop) living under the Saviors thumb, etc. At the same time she had the right to know that Glenn, Abe, Olivia, etc. were killed by the Saviors b/c they were her family/friends. He's giving her a false sense of hope and security. He's also putting her life in danger having her believe the Saviors are all dead. It'll only cause more drama once she finds out Daryl lied to her. Hiding the truth from her could mess with her head even more.

 

[Filmfan93]

2 episodes in throughout the 2nd half of Season 7 and still no Negan. This show is seriously wasting JDM. Nothing like what he was in the season premiere in terms of both screen presence and overall screen time.

 

[Drizzle]

He's back in the next episode.

 

[Elevator Man]

Based off the promos for this Sunday's episode (ep 7.11). It should feature plenty of Negan in it.

 

[Morg]

WD t shirt controversy

 

[righthooksrus86]

WD t shirt controversy

What? I dont get it...how is that racist? Did Negan use the N word in the comics and they just changed it for the show?