The Walking Dead, Am I Alone?

Ok you WD fans, don't forget, FTWD premieres this coming Sunday. :happy::excited:

Looking forward to talking with the rest of the fans of these series once they hit the airwaves again and the newest one for the first time.
 
OOPS! I forgot to share this clip, don't watch if you don't want to see Sundays opening scene at least yesterday when I saw it that's what I was told it would be.

 
Please what is a woot? Language barrier got stuck at the border along with squee??? Re WD, friends and I will be dressed appropriatlely for the premiere. Imagine the chagrin of the older sardines, here at the Tombs, when confronted with a bevy of young seniors dressed as zombies cavorting around the balcony BBQ? Posted a notice on the bulletin board re festivities, so far only two RSVP. A friend is bring a gynormous wall screen TV and setting it up. Another is supplying the booze, liberated from his recently deceased great Aunt's basement bar. She died in her sleep at home, compos mentis at 98. Champagne for me!
 
I just can't see the appeal, honestly, I don't like horror/vampire/zombie monster movies/tv shows or any of that stuff. Isn't the real world eeky-freaky enough?
 
tnthomas said:
April, thanks for the FTWD clip! :D



Some folks have this type of excitement awaiting the Super Bowl, I'm awaiting the FTWD premiere with the same fervor. :woot:
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You're welcome. I often use the same intro the sports announcers use around time for the show but instead I will say ARE YOU READY FOR SOME ________________________________________! <---insert, highly, anticipated show title.

Shalimar said:
Please what is a woot? Language barrier got stuck at the border along with squee??? Re WD, friends and I will be dressed appropriatlely for the premiere. Imagine the chagrin of the older sardines, here at the Tombs, when confronted with a bevy of young seniors dressed as zombies cavorting around the balcony BBQ? Posted a notice on the bulletin board re festivities, so far only two RSVP. A friend is bring a gynormous wall screen TV and setting it up. Another is supplying the booze, liberated from his recently deceased great Aunt's basement bar. She died in her sleep at home, compos mentis at 98. Champagne for me!
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It's a slang expression of glee, enthusiasm. Yahoo, WOO HOO other examples. I hope that helps.

Night, nite all. :)
 
Cookie, it took a bit for me to adjust to the graphic violence, just as it did when I watched Spartacus. Once accustomed to the gore, I was mesmerised by the character's realism and depth, and hooked on a multi-textured morality play, featuring the struggle of the human spirit locked in the recurrent battle between good and evil.
 
Shalimar said:
Cookie, it took a bit for me to adjust to the graphic violence, just as it did when I watched Spartacus. Once accustomed to the gore, I was mesmerised by the character's realism and depth, and hooked on a multi-textured morality play, featuring the struggle of the human spirit locked in the recurrent battle between good and evil.
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And that is it, in a nutshell. ;)

My laptop battery died before I got to do my "woot" reply, I was going to do more but I have to leave. Here's a small sample of "woot":

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As for "squee", I have no clue...
 
Cookie said:
I just can't see the appeal, honestly, I don't like horror/vampire/zombie monster movies/tv shows or any of that stuff. Isn't the real world eeky-freaky enough?
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Shalimar said:
Cookie, it took a bit for me to adjust to the graphic violence, just as it did when I watched Spartacus. Once accustomed to the gore, I was mesmerised by the character's realism and depth, and hooked on a multi-textured morality play, featuring the struggle of the human spirit locked in the recurrent battle between good and evil.
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^ Superb!

I've given other reason about what drew me to the show, but, I'll add a more personal note. I've been to some really dark places in my life and there's just something inspiring about the characters, watching them and all they go through and seeing how thought there are times they break down and want to give up, how they come through their struggles and find the will and way to continue on for whatever purpose they so make it up in their minds to do so. It truly is their deep human struggles and watching them overcome the toughest of times which is a testament to the human spirit of which I think keeps me and many others watching. And as I've also said, there are of course just as many in it for the gore,

As like many others I took a while, some two or so seasons, after the series had already started, to jump on board this boat. I hadn't any interest in the series till one long boring weekend, I hadn't anything else to do and nothing much else was on tv so I said what to I have to loose but a few minutes of time if I just tune in and see if I can't deal with it, I'll just turn it off, but, I watched and next thing you know, it was three hours later before I came up for air to go fix a meal and then to start watching the rest of the series marathon style.
 
Well, I made a pan of baked ziti, so, in about 8 minutes I'll be plopping down in front of TV GETTING READING FOR SOME WD!


There's a special show on of season 6 of TWD that will be on before tonight's main attraction, so, I look forward to either chatting you all up later tonight or tomorrow.

Enjoy deadheads. :D WOO HOO! WOOT WOOT!
 
AprilT said:
Well, I made a pan of baked ziti, so, in about 8 minutes I'll be plopping down in front of TV GETTING READING FOR SOME WD!


There's a special show on of season 6 of TWD that will be on before tonight's main attraction, so, I look forward to either chatting you all up later tonight or tomorrow.

Enjoy deadheads. :D WOO HOO! WOOT WOOT!
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Yay, a pan of ziti and an evening of TWD...you're all set April! <woot>



You know, some wondered about the "guts & gore" aspect of the show, and I just think that a lot of folks get an adrenaline spike from viewing horrifying imagery. :shrug:
 
So.....season 1 episode 1 of Fear the Walking Dead has aired, what do ya all think? True, it's not Rick Michonne and Daryl but it's still developing.

If you're not familiar with L.A. / Southern Calif. culture, you soon will be. Kind of stereotypical, but basically accurate.
 
I've been spending quite a bit of time arguing over the merits of the pacing of the first episode with a bunch of youngins, I thought I would wait it out to see how you all felt about the show. I thought it played out quite well, some questionable moments, but, over all I thought it was pretty good.
 
April, I must admit that the addict's mother irritates me, although I am not exactly sure why. At the moment I am having trouble recalling the names of principal cast members. Ravioli brain, I think. Lol. I have made enough homemade ravioli for an army in prep for tomorrow night's episode.
 
A number of the cast members don't seem to be resonating with the audience just yet and the mom rubs a lot of people the wrong way, including myself to a degree, but, I think she kind of got to me toward the end. She's had to build up some defenses to deal with raising her kids and some other things as far as the ex I'm guessing. I didn't feel the chemistry between her and her boyfriend. Yeah, you're not the only one lacking in the name recall department. :( In time like by end of season, we should have the names down then forget them all over again. :D
 
This show/s are hit or miss with me. The frustrating thing here is that the viewer already knows about the head shot as pointed out when the girls viewed the video. The doctor knew something about them wanting the oldman taken downstairs right after dying. And like any good campy horror movie they all do the same stupid things like go to an abandoned building/drug den in the middle of night.
 
WhatInThe said:
This show/s are hit or miss with me. The frustrating thing here is that the viewer already knows about the head shot as pointed out when the girls viewed the video. The doctor knew something about them wanting the oldman taken downstairs right after dying. And like any good campy horror movie they all do the same stupid things like go to an abandoned building/drug den in the middle of night.
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Yes, that was just dumb, dumb, dumb, but oh how it made for good spine tingling moments even so. One of the other moments that was both seat clingy and funny as heck in a way was when the mother was trying to get the attention of the principal and he was just sitting there not turning. It was like we weren't quite sure what to expect in the moment sort of like the writers were having a good laugh at our expense in the moment and it was worth it. That tickled some of us, because it really wouldn't have made sense, but, still it was like, well, maybe. :D

But yes, there were some nonsensical moments as it tends to be in the show, but, I'm giving it a chance to build as I still like much else about the overall feel of the show. At one point TWD almost lost me as a viewer when it got way out of hand in laxing sensibilities, but, they were able to recover, plus I am enough vested in several of the characters to keep hope alive that the writing was going to get better, though if it hadn't, I was ready to give it up. Fortunately they knocked it out of the park with end of season 4 and end of season 5.
 

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