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The Walking Dead Season 4 - Official discussion thread

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Insomniator said:
Has anyone actually timed the commercials vs show time? Maybe its because this show is already boring and kind of sucks, but I feel like there is a commercial break every 5 damn minutes.

Also, LOL at the terminus scene. That was so bad it made the stupid flashbacks seem bearable. I'm watching strictly because I want to know what happens now... I don't ever expect the episodes to be any good anymore. I'd rather have the ramblings of LOST then Carl crying to michonne about how he is not what his dad thinks he is.
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Last night felt particularly bad for commercials but maybe it was just the pacing of the episode as a whole which felt off.

KT
 
KeithTalent said:
I can't imagine anyone missed the point of the flashbacks, it would be hard for them to be more obvious. The problem with them is in a one hour (less commercials) episode, there was just not enough time to include all of that and give a satisfying resolution to the other outstanding stories from the season. So they gave you flashbacks and some character stuff between Carl and Rick for 85% of the episode, then squished everything else into the last 15%.

That is the problem, not the flashbacks themselves.

KT
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Flashbacks are a poor storytelling element anyway, and this show have used them too often lately. If you need to remind me what happened earlier for me to understand what's about to happen, then you haven't told a very memorable story.
 
Jeeebus said:
I interpreted it as Rick making the connection between his missing friends and the food being served to his son... hence why he slaps the plate out of Carl's (was it him or someone else? I don't remember) hands before getting his gun on the guy. More of a gut reaction than anything. My friends are gone and you assholes are about to feed them to us.
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They didn't see the human remains until AFTER the scene with the food. He would have had no reason suspect anything about the food.

Only Carl and Michonne have plates of food, and the guy with the watch is handing someone a third plate when Rick slaps it out of his hand. Carl and Michonne drop theirs to draw their weapons.
 
gorcorps said:
Flashbacks are a poor storytelling element anyway, and this show have used them too often lately. If you need to remind me what happened earlier for me to understand what's about to happen, then you haven't told a very memorable story.
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It isn't "reminding us what happened earlier because, though flashbacks, they were new scenes. Didn't you notice how old Carl was? It was obvious and stuck out like a sore thumb.
 
It looks like Eugene made for a very good roast. AnyWho I thought the episode was one of the best of the season. It wasn't perfect but much better than most of the others.

Too bad I learned about the cannibalism stuff here in this thread. It would've had much more impact to me while watching the show had I not been as sure of it in advance. I think if I had not learned about it here I might've had my suspicions, but definitely not as much as I did going in after reading this thread.
 
CZroe said:
It isn't "reminding us what happened earlier because, though flashbacks, they were new scenes. Didn't you notice how old Carl was? It was obvious and stuck out like a sore thumb.
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I guess I'll have to watch more closely then. The only scene I remember was Carl cleaning his gun in the prison before Rick told him to leave it behind, and it wasn't really keeping my attention. I kept hoping for more details about Terminus and the group but they kept throwing those mood killing flashbacks in, and I'm just so sick of the god damned prison I didn't want to watch anything about it again.
 
Insomniator said:
Has anyone actually timed the commercials vs show time? Maybe its because this show is already boring and kind of sucks, but I feel like there is a commercial break every 5 damn minutes.

Also, LOL at the terminus scene. That was so bad it made the stupid flashbacks seem bearable. I'm watching strictly because I want to know what happens now... I don't ever expect the episodes to be any good anymore. I'd rather have the ramblings of LOST then Carl crying to michonne about how he is not what his dad thinks he is.
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42 minutes like any other hour long tv show.
 
so we all agreed they are cannibals right?
but why not eat the walkers instead? safe to assume live flesh is better than dead flesh?
 
luv2liv said:
so we all agreed they are cannibals right?
but why not eat the walkers instead? safe to assume live flesh is better than dead flesh?
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likely the same reason you (hopefully) wouldn't eat a piece of raw chicken that's been sitting outside in the hot sun for a week.
 
KMFJD said:
Any idea's what the significance of the people's names meant in the candle room?

/36:41 into the episode
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I bet thats where they worship and justify what they do. From the clues it looks like they had some sort of issue early on. My guesses are they had an insurection like the Governor or there was a group that arrived and didnt buy into soylent green ribs..


That room could have also been where they started sacrificing their own so the others could eat. What probably happened is they were crazy hungry and people started dying and the living started eating the ones who died and though. Hmmm these ribs are GOOD!
 
Judging from that room, they must have raided a huge candle factory, I bet they spend a crap ton on matches.
 
eugene, mustache and rosita were all there in shadow very much composited like the comic. These last two episodes had very interesting art direction and composition.
 
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