US: The Walking Dead Season 3 (contains spoilers)

It didn't surprise me that the Governor survived. There was an interview on 5 live film review podcast a few weeks back. He explained that in American TV you get signed up to a network on a 5-7 year contract. You basically have to put your trust in the network that the work will come.

Seeing the success in the character created, it was a no brainer that they would keep him on. They have him tied up in a long contract already.
 
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Nexus18 said:
Some funny/good stuff here:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/x-most-frustrating-things-about-the-walking-dead

Although a few are wrong or could be explained easily.
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:D Some of those are ace.

I love the "grass stays mowed" one from the first series. Also the zombie extra drinking water in the background (?!).


Most of those are obviously genuine "mistakes" or oversights in production, but I think the question of zombie strength is something that's not been properly addressed. Sometimes zombies seem to be almost abnormally strong (like the zombie that got Dale), whereas other times they seem to be almost comically weak.
 
Duff-Man said:
I love the "grass stays mowed" one from the first series. Also the zombie extra drinking water in the background (?!).


Most of those are obviously genuine "mistakes" or oversights in production, but I think the question of zombie strength is something that's not been properly addressed. Sometimes zombies seem to be almost abnormally strong (like the zombie that got Dale), whereas other times they seem to be almost comically weak.
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haha yeah those two were epic! :D I loved the governor ones :D


That is what some people have been talking about recently largely due to how Andrea went out i.e. the fresher the zombie/corpse, the stronger it is (as in it keeps its strength and gets weaker over time due to its muscles etc. rotting away), as people have said, Andrea was more than capable of killing walkers as long as she had some sharp/blunt tool, however, she couldn't manage Milton when she had one hand free with a pair of pliers, however, you then look at Merle, a fresh corpse/zombie yet could be easily pushed around/handled. Of course, another reason could be that she was pretty weak after all the carry on trying to get to the prison and for all we know was locked in that room for 1/2 +days with no food, water etc.

That scene could have been done so much better.
 
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Andrea killing Milton doesn't actually make much sense to me.

I mean in that, he's going to be on her as he's eating her.
If she killed him with the weapon she had, she could have done that as he'd lunged instead of fannying around getting free.

The difficulty of killing Milton would be stupidly higher with him eating away.

I'd rather they just walk in on Milton snacking on her turning body.

Obviously, feel free to disagree, :p
 
Very lame finale. Kinda puts me off S4.

In other news:

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Martini1991 said:
I'd rather they just walk in on Milton snacking on her turning body.

Obviously, feel free to disagree, :p
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Agreed... This would have had more impact.

The only downside is that it would have required somewhat convenient timing. There is only going to be a short space of time between Milton starting to snack on her, and her dying as a result. She needed to still be alive in order to have the scene with Michonne, which showed us a different side to her character.

Perhaps a compromise, where Milton had scratched and chewed her legs to shreds before she killed him? Or even just some significant injury to Andrea to make her less able to fight back. We could easily have seen the Governor smash in her ankles or something so that she couldn't walk? That might also have helped explain her difficulty in picking up the pliers.

I liked the scenes with Andrea and Milton, and I really liked the scene at the end with Michonne and the rest of the gang. I agree that the way it played out could have been better handled though.
 
I agree with Duff-man, I thought the finale was pretty good, with the exception of Andrea trying to free herself. By the way, to those saying she had one arm free, she definitely managed to get the second arm free with the pliers and stand up out of the chair, you can see her do it just before it cuts to the door. The only explanation I have for her not being able to deal with Milton before getting bitten is that maybe she hadn't had anything to eat or drink for days and was very weak. Otherwise, that whole scene is pretty stupid.
 
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I agree with Duff-man, I thought the finale was pretty good, with the exception of Andrea trying to free herself. By the way, to those saying she had one arm free, she definitely managed to get the second arm free with the pliers and stand up out of the chair, you can see her do it just before it cuts to the door. The only explanation I have for her not being able to deal with Milton before getting bitten is that maybe she hadn't had anything to eat or drink for days and was very weak. Otherwise, that whole scene is pretty stupid.
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And I'm sure she didn't suddenly get stronger with him on top of her chewing down :p
 
Duff-Man said:
Aside from this mountain of evidence, it's pretty much zombie lore 101. Zombies are mindless, they want to eat flesh, and if you get bitten then you turn into one of them.
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Let me clear up, I'm just airing questionable plot points which seem pretty weak when it suits them. Mainly Hershel, but we could argue all day about "they cut it off above the bite" :P

However, here's an interesting thing.
Milton had quite literally just turned, the potency of his infection can't be as great as those who've been dead for months and months and started to fester.

All I'm saying is they should've just had her unquestionably unable to continue living. It's stuff like that which keeps on happening during the show, like that list someone posted earlier.
I'd like to understand the whole "They're infected but not fully infected" thing, as if there's some tolerence there. Also, it'd be naive to assume some rare people in the population may not be immune, would you risk life over that chance?

Edit: But that's the way they wanted it to end, just like a lot of other plot points.
Edit2: Unless those cells activate post death and why living don't... "die".
 
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Just finished watching S3.

Awesomeness.

But one thing bothered me...

In the episode 'clear' why on earth did they only take a handful of guns from his stockpile? I mean...they left 90% of it behind for 1 person seems a bit strange, unless i'm just thinking like a greedy pig and if it was me I would have left him with 5-10 weapons and ammo and taken the rest I mean they didn't even use a grenade and he had at least 50 :rolleyes:

Maybe it's just the gamer in me, but that prison would have been rigged up like a mofo...
 
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I don't understand why go back to the prison and not take over woodbury and i would have loved to have seen them open the torture room door to see 2 x zombies stood there with their backs to us.

Cut to:

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Only it's Andrea!!! She turns, runs at our heroes, heroes hesitate, but ultimately BOOM! HS!
 
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Perhaps a compromise, where Milton had scratched and chewed her legs to shreds before she killed him? Or even just some significant injury to Andrea to make her less able to fight back. We could easily have seen the Governor smash in her ankles or something so that she couldn't walk? That might also have helped explain her difficulty in picking up the pliers.
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I hadn't thought of it like that but I think you're right. This scene needed to happen in the way it did but would have been so much better and more "believable" if she'd have been injured. Maybe in order for her to escape the final handcuff, she snapped her wrist which made it difficult for her to attack Milton.

Maybe even change pliers to a hacksaw so she had to cut her way free, it just felt to me like they knew she had to die and couldn't be bothered to spend much time on it!

Saying that I still enjoyed it and I stand by my previous point, i'm glad she is gone ... hopefully Michonne doesn't keep seeing her like Rick sees Lori ;)
 
Have to say that is one thing, which I really liked about the finale, the soundtrack:




Love the youtube comments for stuff like this:

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The "tell Carl to come join me" part could be mistaken for something else though....... O.o :p
 
Wow an entire season and thats the best they could do
Hard to post spoilers. Easier to say very nearly bugger all happened. Lost one good character and one really annoying one.
 
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Afaic Carl did the right thing the mofo was taking too long and weighing up his chances, I felt no tension just annoyance at the Andrea scenes, but overall still good fun and better than revolution so far.
 
Naff way of ending the season IMO, I read that they didn't want the show to have one main bad guy per season who ultimately gets killed off and while i do enjoy Morrissey's character I'm not sure I want whole another season built around him - hopefully like they did with Merle he won't come back straight away....
 
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