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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Dervacumen on December 02, 2011, 10:56:58 pm ---Stopped reading at page 4 of this thread because I'm behind an episode or two.  Never read the comic and won't.  This is the only TV show I've made a point to watch in the past several years except for a few glimpses of stuff here and there...
But...so far for me season two sucks.  It's just way too much character development and not enough zombie action.  It seems like season one was the test to see if it would make it, and then by surprise it was picked up and the writers scrambled to make some episodes to buy time while they got more zombie stuff happening.
I still like it but it's gonna lose me if there isn't more zombie action.  It's like the writers are milking it to make $$$ rather than just torturing the heck out of everyone until some escapes or everyone dies.  I don't think people got in to this series because of the drama so much as the intense feeling of stress and freakoutedness they felt in the first season.

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Well you are missing out then.  Due to the lack of budget restraints the comic is infinately better than the series.  Of course their current situation is kind of lame, but pacing is slow in comics. 

I think if you read the comics you would understand better, but the Walking Dead is NOT about the zombies.  They are an afterthought 90% of the time in the comics.  They just throw some zombie carnage here and there to keep the whole thing from getting boring.  They build tension FOREVER and then just when you think "are we going to see any zombies?" the flood gates let loose and it's utter carnage for two or three books.

Myself (and I think many of the Walking Dead fans) feel the opposite to how you do.  The first season was fairly terrible.  The first couple of episodes were ripped almost directly from the comics, making them predictable to the fans and the last couple went so far into "cliche zombie movie" territory that it wasn't even funny.  Season 2 thus far has had much better pacing, more drama, and just enough zombie mayhem to keep things interesting.  Also the comic tie-in is getting MUCH looser.  It seems that they only visited the farm to pick up a few key characters that are in the books and the rest of the plot (mostly anyway) is totally different.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 03, 2011, 02:30:49 am ---
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on December 02, 2011, 10:56:58 pm ---Stopped reading at page 4 of this thread because I'm behind an episode or two.  Never read the comic and won't.  This is the only TV show I've made a point to watch in the past several years except for a few glimpses of stuff here and there...
But...so far for me season two sucks.  It's just way too much character development and not enough zombie action.  It seems like season one was the test to see if it would make it, and then by surprise it was picked up and the writers scrambled to make some episodes to buy time while they got more zombie stuff happening.
I still like it but it's gonna lose me if there isn't more zombie action.  It's like the writers are milking it to make $$$ rather than just torturing the heck out of everyone until some escapes or everyone dies.  I don't think people got in to this series because of the drama so much as the intense feeling of stress and freakoutedness they felt in the first season.

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Well you are missing out then.  Due to the lack of budget restraints the comic is infinately better than the series.  Of course their current situation is kind of lame, but pacing is slow in comics. 

I think if you read the comics you would understand better, but the Walking Dead is NOT about the zombies.  They are an afterthought 90% of the time in the comics.  They just throw some zombie carnage here and there to keep the whole thing from getting boring.  They build tension FOREVER and then just when you think "are we going to see any zombies?" the flood gates let loose and it's utter carnage for two or three books.

Myself (and I think many of the Walking Dead fans) feel the opposite to how you do.  The first season was fairly terrible.  The first couple of episodes were ripped almost directly from the comics, making them predictable to the fans and the last couple went so far into "cliche zombie movie" territory that it wasn't even funny.  Season 2 thus far has had much better pacing, more drama, and just enough zombie mayhem to keep things interesting.  Also the comic tie-in is getting MUCH looser.  It seems that they only visited the farm to pick up a few key characters that are in the books and the rest of the plot (mostly anyway) is totally different.

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Find myself agreeing with ark and HC in the same week...  :dizzy:

Dervacumen:
I guess this thread isn't for me so I'll back out.  I'm not interested in debating the difference between written and film adaptation.  I'm watching the show because I liked the first few episodes.  Now I'm losing interest.  Reading a book isn't going to change that, so what's the point.  If anything it's going to piss me off even more.

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: Dervacumen on December 03, 2011, 03:19:03 pm ---Now I'm losing interest.  Reading a book isn't going to change that, so what's the point.  If anything it's going to piss me off even more.

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Or you could see the potential for the future, based on what happens in the comics.

Howard_Casto:
Yup that is what I was going to say.  If they even loosely base things on the comics all kinds of awesome is going to happen if they make it to fort bragg.

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