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Walking Dead Premiere

February 15, 2012 by · Comments Off on Walking Dead Premiere 

Walking Dead Premiere, To say the barn massacre was a pivotal moment in the lives of the survivors on “The Walking Dead” (Sun., 9 p.m. EST on AMC) would be stating the obvious. But it wasn’t clear just how crucial putting down the walkers in Hershel’s barn, including his wife and daughter and the missing Sophia, would prove to be until the closing moments of the mid-season premiere.

The action picked up where it left off, with Hershel on his knees in shock and Carol beside herself with grief, and with Rick standing over the body of her daughter having just dispatched her second “life.” Hershel finally reached his limit and announced that Rick’s group needed to vacate the farm immediately. But this was a Hershel grieving and coming to some uncomfortable realizations himself.

As hard as Carol was taking the loss of her daughter, it hit Daryl pretty hard, too. He’s had the visage of his dead(?) brother Merle goading him for wasting his time with these people while he was out looking for her. He put more blood, sweat and tears into the search than anyone, and it was all a waste.

When Hershel’s youngest daughter collapsed inexplicably, Hershel was nowhere to be found. Instead, in his own grief he had made his way back into town and his favorite watering hole. That’s where Rick and Glenn found him. It was in this moment perhaps that Hershel officially became one of them. He had to admit that his own beliefs that the walkers were still alive — just sick and in need of a cure — were wrong, leaving him a shell of a man. He wasn’t the leader he’d wanted to be, and he’d been misleading his own flock for so long, wasting time corralling walkers and passing judgment on those who put them down.

But Rick had suffered his own crisis of faith when Sophia had come shambling out of the barn. He was the leader of his group, and he’d just wasted their time and efforts on a fruitless search for a girl who’d been dead and on the property with them the whole time. How she got there — was it Otis before Shane put him down? — is a mystery for which there may never be an answer.

As for Shane, Dale finally opened up to someone his own concerns about the cold-blooded killer when he confided in Lori that he believed Shane had killed Otis. He didn’t tell her about Shane putting Rick in the sight of his gun at one point, but that would have probably pushed her too far over the edge. As it is, they’re talking about Shane putting down a man none of them knew. That would have had her facing the fact of one man she loves considering putting down another; and the father of her child at that.

Perhaps it was this state of shock that led to her reckless decision to go after Glenn and Rick on her own. Surely, Maggie would have gone with her, had she asked. After all, she’d dropped the “L” word to Glenn, who panicked and didn’t return the favor. But while Lori was having a rough time getting to town, instead hitting a walker and rolling off the road, the boys got a couple of unexpected visitors to the bar.

Walking Dead Premiere

October 17, 2011 by · Comments Off on Walking Dead Premiere 

Walking Dead PremiereWalking Dead Premiere, One week after “Breaking Bad” gave his jaw the final explosion of the season, AMC has delivered once again as “The Walking Dead”. The post-zombie apocalypse series crawled back to television on Sunday night, and ended with one hell of a gut shot – literally.

In the second season premiere last night, Southern lawmen Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal) spent most of the episode to dodge zombies and walking in the woods in search of a mate disappeared. Reported by Rick’s son, Carl (Chandler Riggs), the trio’s journey took a turn for the mysterious when they ran into a deer in the woods … a deer that was killed in cold blood in a matter of seconds later, the victim of a shooter is not seen. That deer was not the only injured party, either: That bullet himself found his final destination in the abdomen poor Carl.

Shot in the stomach in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but two men and who knows how many zombies hidden for the company, Carl’s chances of survival is very slim. Regardless of whether or not, a child shot in the belly certainly qualifies as crossing a line, but there are fears for the actor Chandler Riggs – according to “The Walking Dead” comic book creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman, Chandler was very much on board from the scene.

“Chandler, I think I was super excited,” Kirkman said MTV News about the reaction of the young actor to the audience about the fate of his character. “It was like, ‘I’m going to get shot? This is great!” Chandler is really about those things. ”

Kirkman, who was on set during filming, describes the process of filming a Carl accident. “I have to witness what is called” Chuck Chandler, “where you basically pick up his pants and jacket, and then swing it in a mat that was covered with leaves … he was totally into it.”

“Every time you shoot a child in the display, you have to make sure the child is well with him,” he joked. “I think most of it was digital effects.”

Beyond the construction of a controversial water cooler time to shoot a child, Kirkman said the scene is another interesting aspect of the adaptation of “The Walking Dead” comic book to television.

“I think that’s the magic of the series, embodied in that scene,” he said. “It [the scene] is something that happens in the [first phase] comic book series, and is a terrible thing. We are not waiting for that kid to get shot. People who have read the comic known to occur, but how it came to the scene in the TV show was done in a way that even if you are completely, 100 percent familiar with the comic, you’re not seeing that goes, ‘I bet you’re about to receive a shot. This is the part where you get shot. ”

“It shocks even me,” he continued. “I’ve seen that episode, probably – I will not exaggerate -. 400 times since I am always sitting there watching it going, ‘OK, smiles, then moves the deer ears, and that gun that comes, then – oh God, it was! never really be determined when the firearm is coming. It always amazes me really. I think it’s a cool scene. “

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