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The Walking Dead - season 6 discussion thread

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Rick is just the whipping post for emotional break down I guess. How do you survive the apocalypse? Don't be close to him. Might as well give anyone he cares about red shirts at this point.
 
DixyCrat said:
Saul is a very slow burn; I loved it.
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Yep. So was Breaking Bad at first. Vince Gilligan's pacing is methodical but it just keeps driving forward until you can't imagine how he will top whatever crazy thing just happened... but the pacing never steps back before going forward again. He consistently does top it, sometimes after a brief, suspenseful, pause, leaving you wondering "how will he top this without it getting ridiculous?" over and over and over.
 
First off I'm glad the Spawn of Porchdick are finally gone, but did the show kind of cross a line here? I don't remember on a series showing children graphically killed before. That's always been taboo in TV and most movies. Even Carol mercy killing the psycho girl was off screen ("Just look at the flowers"). I saw a post in another forum by someone who'd been watching since day one and she said that when they start showing kids getting slaughter she's done with the show. What do you all think? I'm not quite sure. I couldn't stand the kid, but still...
 
Good dammit, shot straight in the face and Coral is still alive. Stop torturing us, asshat writers.
 
Leyawiin said:
First off I'm glad the Spawn of Porchdick are finally gone, but did the show kind of cross a line here? I don't remember on a series showing children graphically killed before. That's always been taboo in TV and most movies. Even Carol mercy killing the psycho girl was off screen ("Just look at the flowers"). I saw a post in another forum by someone who'd been watching since day one and she said that when they start showing kids getting slaughter she's done with the show. What do you all think? I'm not quite sure. I couldn't stand the kid, but still...
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I would have sworn they've done similar stuff before but I can't actually recall any particular instance. What about the girls at the prison. Didn't all of them end up dead? Can't remember the circumstances or what they showed.

Anyway, I think you can argue that a kid being eaten by a zombie is different than a similar type of scene in say a cop show.

Although I wouldn't advocate showing graphic violence against children, I think it's a good idea for children to understand that bad shit can happen to to them. There was a reason that Grimm's fairy tales tend to revolve around children getting eaten, mutilated or whatever.
 
Leyawiin said:
First off I'm glad the Spawn of Porchdick are finally gone, but did the show kind of cross a line here? I don't remember on a series showing children graphically killed before. That's always been taboo in TV and most movies. Even Carol mercy killing the psycho girl was off screen ("Just look at the flowers"). I saw a post in another forum by someone who'd been watching since day one and she said that when they start showing kids getting slaughter she's done with the show. What do you all think? I'm not quite sure. I couldn't stand the kid, but still...
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This doesn't bother me at all.
 
Charmonium said:
I would have sworn they've done similar stuff before but I can't actually recall any particular instance. What about the girls at the prison. Didn't all of them end up dead? Can't remember the circumstances or what they showed.

Anyway, I think you can argue that a kid being eaten by a zombie is different than a similar type of scene in say a cop show.

Although I wouldn't advocate showing graphic violence against children, I think it's a good idea for children to understand that bad shit can happen to to them. There was a reason that Grimm's fairy tales tend to revolve around children getting eaten, mutilated or whatever.
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n/m - In Ashe vs. the Evil Dead series they brutally killed a child and showed it. Granted it was Starz, but it is becoming more common.
 
Do zombies go to a spa to keep their hair and nails at the same length it was when they died?
 
Jessie :-(. So fucking hot (Maggie is still #1 though). And I hate to say it, but I'm glad Sam sucked the big one. Ron was kind of annoying too but Sam was just complete fail.

Man, lot of surprises with this last episode. I thought the "Fruit Ninja" sequence that someone above mentioned was pretty cool, too. Kinda wondering what's gonna happen in the next episode; I guess I saw the preview for next week's at the end of last night's episode but I wasn't paying much attention and couldn't make out what's going on now.
 
As a body starts to desiccate, the skin and muscle retract making it seem like the nails have grown.

Not sure how the hair myth started.
 
Leyawiin said:
First off I'm glad the Spawn of Porchdick are finally gone, but did the show kind of cross a line here? I don't remember on a series showing children graphically killed before. That's always been taboo in TV and most movies. Even Carol mercy killing the psycho girl was off screen ("Just look at the flowers"). I saw a post in another forum by someone who'd been watching since day one and she said that when they start showing kids getting slaughter she's done with the show. What do you all think? I'm not quite sure. I couldn't stand the kid, but still...
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They've done it when they were walkers. The show started with Rick shooting the little girl walker right in the head. You also had Sophia. It may not be eaten, but a head shot is pretty graphic.
 
Ugh. I didn't care to see a 10 year old get murdered. That was messed the fuck up. It wasn't the poor kid's fault the adults were dumb asses and basically ignored and traumatized the fuck out of him like they did.
 
Why did the walkers start eating Sam and Jessie? I thought they were protected by zombie guts. Is it because they were talking?
 
Bird222 said:
Why did the walkers start eating Sam and Jessie? I thought they were protected by zombie guts. Is it because they were talking?
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Exactly. Zombies may think they smell like zombies, but zombies don't talk so they go toward the voice regardless of what they smell like.
 
exdeath said:
Ugh. I didn't care to see a 10 year old get murdered. That was messed the fuck up. It wasn't the poor kid's fault the adults were dumb asses and basically ignored and traumatized the fuck out of him like they did.
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What were they supposed to do? Leave him locked up alone in the house?
 
I was very disappointed by the
Sam/Jessie death
scene, but not because of what happened, per se, but, how it was presented.

1. Though it was suppose to be nighttime, it was clearly shot in daylight and filtered down, making it look odd (see some unfiltered shots below);
2. Lots of slow motion moving and talking, making it hard to focus on what was happening;
3. Lots of short flashbacks, also disorientating.

Because of this, I fully expected it to be a dream or someone's hallucination!

Even after the scene was over, I still did not believe it was "real" until
the Wolf mentioned the walkers moving towards the gunshots
.

I did not go back to re-watch the scene, but, because of my assumption it was not "real", I think it was a little lost on me.

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MotionMan
 
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