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The Walking Dead Season 4 - Official discussion thread

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Adrenaline said:
I am in the same boat with Breaking Bad. I watched the first three episodes and am debating on it as well.
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Breaking Bad tends to be very slow paced at the beginning of each season and picks up a lot more toward the end. In my opinion, it's a huge flaw with the show's pacing, and it's why I'm baffled that anyone can consider it to be great. Good? Sure.

As for The Walking Dead, Season 2 starts off incredibly slow as well, and it picks up quite a bit more in the second half. Season 1 isn't too bad, but the beginning is a little slow as it tries to show you more of the world and its rather hellish state.

KMFJD said:
Just a wild guess but Tyresse's new love interest was the one that drove the truck full of zombies into the prison last season
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I was rather confused when I saw them macking, because I thought he was with the black woman who was part of his original group. :$
 
I watched the first episode yesterday (between being sick and trying to work from home) and I don't know how I feel about it. I mean, the animals and people getting sick is going to throw a wrench in living peacefully, but I just felt like they were over playing the drama. Rick finding some crazy lady wasn't great, but I liked the army medic struggling with alcoholism or at least a past addiction of boozing. It was subtle enough to not be overplayed and it was a decent plot device.

The black brother and sister I feel have a larger story to play out, and I feel like a lot of the new prison people are sleepers for the Governor (which was kind of a let down they didn't resolve it).

I do still like Darrell (just like everyone else I suppose) and I wish he had said something about his past being am Irish vigilante as a throw back to Boondock Saints.

Carl is still as annoying as ever. Even more so now that everything doesn't revolve around him somehow causing everyone else to be in danger or some tragedy.

Perhaps I am over analyzing the first episode. But, that is what happens when there is nothing else worth watching on TV! Except maybe the League.
 
I remembered her as being his wife too, but they mentioned something about her being the boss of him since she was born in this episode, implying sister (and presumably mentioned in others as well, i just forget).

needs more apocalypse, less sitting in prison. I guess taking it on the road is high budget.
 
Just a theory;

I am thinking that the walker at the fence with the weird eyes looked very odd to Rick. Like it was a walker that looked like no other they have seen before. Then when the kid died and opened his eyes as a fresh walker the eyes were the same as the one at the fence. My thought is that there is something new killing living people and turning them to walkers. A new virus or that the virus they already have is mutating and people with weak immune systems just can no longer fight the virus and thus succumb to it and die.

Oh just started looking at this thread so if someone already said this then my bad.
 
SamQuint said:
Just a theory;

I am thinking that the walker at the fence with the weird eyes looked very odd to Rick. Like it was a walker that looked like no other they have seen before. Then when the kid died and opened his eyes as a fresh walker the eyes were the same as the one at the fence. My thought is that there is something new killing living people and turning them to walkers. A new virus or that the virus they already have is mutating and people with weak immune systems just can no longer fight the virus and thus succumb to it and die.

Oh just started looking at this thread so if someone already said this then my bad.
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The animals also were dying, though they didn't show them turning. I think the virus has mutated and is killing people who are otherwise 'immune' up until now.
 
SamQuint said:
Just a theory;

I am thinking that the walker at the fence with the weird eyes looked very odd to Rick. Like it was a walker that looked like no other they have seen before. Then when the kid died and opened his eyes as a fresh walker the eyes were the same as the one at the fence. My thought is that there is something new killing living people and turning them to walkers. A new virus or that the virus they already have is mutating and people with weak immune systems just can no longer fight the virus and thus succumb to it and die.

Oh just started looking at this thread so if someone already said this then my bad.
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Your theory might just be right. What else can it be? I can't think of anything at this time.
 
smackababy said:
The animals also were dying, though they didn't show them turning. I think the virus has mutated and is killing people who are otherwise 'immune' up until now.
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Have they ever shown any animals turn to zombie animals? Maybe the virus just eventually kills the animals but they don't turn since they are not human. They have been eating any animal they can find. Darrly has been eating squirrels and such.
 
SamQuint said:
Have they ever shown any animals turn to zombie animals? Maybe the virus just eventually kills the animals but they don't turn since they are not human. They have been eating any animal they can find. Darrly has been eating squirrels and such.
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No, they haven't shown them. But, they did show two animals being sickly and dying (both hogs though). I think there is reason to believe the virus has mutated in some way. The kid who died also talked about eating a deer Darrell had killed recently.
 
I'm going with the bad water explanation. Corrupted drinking water has always been a problem for people, especially in times of disaster and wars.
 
lozina said:
Nope no animal zombies
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Your wrong. Next episode the dead pig will turn, and kills Ricks son.
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It actually would be neat if the animals started turning. Zombie birds attacking you, deer, dogs, other road kill trying to eat you would be pretty freaky.
 
Red Storm said:
It actually would be neat if the animals started turning. Zombie birds attacking you, deer, dogs, other road kill trying to eat you would be pretty freaky.
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I'd imagine if that actually happened, they wouldn't last the rest of Season 4. Dogs, coyotes, big cats, etc are all much faster and move a lot quieter than humans or walkers. And then birds... Plus, they'd run out of food quite quickly I'd imagine.
 
It's obviously not a mutated zombie virus. They never even said that the existing contagion is viral. It could be a flesh-eating bacteria that wasn't contagious enough to cause a pandemic until we suddenly had a bunch of rotting corpses walking around people/animals with suddenly poor healthcare and hygiene. It could even be simple Swine Flu killing those with poor immune systems with the bloody eyes just being a consequence of the infection they already have.
 
MrColin said:
The series in one sentence:

There is really nothing compelling about this show whatsoever, no interesting characters, no stimulating or thought provoking subplot or theme. Just zombies and survivors who are themselves just bored and annoyed by the banality of the whole zombie thing.

At best, the show is depressing and that is about it.
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Then go watch something else and STFU.

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Goes for a bunch of folks in here. If you don't like it then don't watch it and stop trying to make other people join you in your misery.
 
CZroe said:
It's obviously not a mutated zombie virus. They never even said that the existing contagion is viral. It could be a flesh-eating bacteria that wasn't contagious enough to cause a pandemic until we suddenly had a bunch of rotting corpses walking around people/animals with suddenly poor healthcare and hygiene. It could even be simple Swine Flu killing those with poor immune systems with the bloody eyes just being a consequence of the infection they already have.
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I don't think that is obvious at all. And you're expecting the deaths to be something logical (like a pathogen that spread due to the poor hygiene) in a show centered around magic zombies. A standard, run of the mill disease doesn't help advance the plot more than a few episodes. "Oh, looks like we have to bath more regularly now and cook our meat through properly!" doesn't exactly make for interesting TV.

They already have a large, secure structure and agriculture to support their life style. That has to be disrupted in some way, otherwise the show is just The Young and the Restless where someone has to do zombie fence clean up every day.
 
smackababy said:
They already have a large, secure structure and agriculture to support their life style. That has to be disrupted in some way, otherwise the show is just The Young and the Restless where someone has to do zombie fence clean up every day.
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That little garden doesn't look big enough to sustain one person. How many people do they have know, ~50?

They still have to search for supplies, and they are also searching for survivors. The show could be just as exciting if the prison was a safe place.
 
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