tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post6805645913351166498..comments2024-02-04T05:13:04.501-05:00Comments on Nik at Nite: The Walking Dead: Made to SufferNikki Staffordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463618183850438914noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-17428942155013279792013-01-09T23:07:46.185-05:002013-01-09T23:07:46.185-05:00I FINAAALLY caught up on this show! Thanks to the ...I FINAAALLY caught up on this show! Thanks to the miracle of DVR (newly introduced to our house) and the New Year's Day marathon.<br /><br />Oh my, but it is so good and I'm glad I can finally join in over here.<br /><br />I really only have one comment to add at the moment - in regards to the giant hole in the wall.<br /><br />I was under the impression that they had mostly stayed in C-Block. The prison is huge from the aerial shots they've shown and there have been a few times they've mentioned that there are walkers in parts of the prison they haven't gotten near. I think it's just the C-Block and the fenced in yard right outside there that they have cleared out and secured. It makes sense that there could be other areas not nearly as secure. They haven't been in the prison for long and were mostly trying to just deal with the convicts and find the kitchen and infirmary.<br /><br />Oh, and I too loved Carl and the way his locking in of the new group perfectly imitated Rick's locking in of Michonne from the previous episode.Rebecca T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11994380364321336824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-24869621091760083182012-12-13T16:44:08.757-05:002012-12-13T16:44:08.757-05:00@Efthymia: Note to self: I should stop watching th...<br>@Efthymia: <i>Note to self: I should stop watching this show while wearing my rose-coloured glasses.</i><br /><br />Are... Are you Cyclops?<br /><br />Seriously, though: I'm sorry; I pasted your comment above into a TextEdit file for a reply a week ago, only to find that now I have idea what I wanted to say in response to it.<br /><br />@AnonymousTim: <i>There can only be one!</i><br /><br />Ha. Sad, rueful ha.<br /><br />@Page48: <i>Note to Michonne: check to see if the child in the cage, on a chain, with a sack over her head is alive before setting it free in an enclosed area.</i><br /><br />Really!<br /><br />A bunch of <a href="http://blamken.blogspot.com/2012/12/no-guts-no-story.html" rel="nofollow"><i>Walking Dead</i> "Pictogags"</a> went up last week over at my blog, in case y'all are interested.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-11686549379682209232012-12-13T16:39:34.862-05:002012-12-13T16:39:34.862-05:00@Nikki: I felt like this show, like far too many o...<br>@Nikki: <i>I felt like this show, like far too many other shows on television, had to kill the </i>other<i> black man on the show (Oscar) in order to let Tyreese stay. It’s like they have a quota, and they are only allowed one black man at a time.</i><br /><br />Yeah. Over at Teebore's blog I referred to him as Black Man Standing. If he knew what had happened to T-Dog and New T-Do... um, Oscar, he might not be so quick to hang out near our gang.<br /><br />@Nikki: <i>From a purely production standpoint, I thought the teargas was genius</i><br /><br />I frankly thought that it was half-genius and half-<i>"Seriously?!?"</i> The fact that Glen mentioned that Merle was there almost right away after the melee lessened the eye-roll for me, but it's still such a tired tactic to keep everybody metaphorically and somewhat literally in the dark.<br /><br />@Nikki: <i>[D]id you notice the walker they ignored is the same one lumbering through the woods who stumbles upon Tyrese and his crew?</i><br /><br />I did not. That was a nice touch.<br /><br />@Josh: <i>The first half of this season has been a wild ride, and I really feel like the show has found its stride here, doing a much better job of balancing the various elements they deliver so well.</i><br /><br />I agree.<br /><br />@Josh: <i>Speaking of wicked impersonations</i><br /><br />Wolverine didn't come to mind for me, somehow, but according to friends' reactions you're not alone. <br /><br />The Governor might be David Morrissey doing Elvis, but the net result comes across for all the world like Liam Neeson doing a Southern accent (not 100% successfully, of course). And that kind of quirky, soothing resonance gets me a long way towards seeing how Andrea could fall for him. Not <i>all</i> the way, mind you; I still think that she's been way too taken in by having a big hunk of man around.<br /><br />Melissa McBride's Carol, as always, is the answer to what Jamie Lee Curtis would look like shooting a commercial for Activia during a rustic zombie apocalypse.<br /><br />On the point of Rick's hallucinations, plural, this visual one and earlier the one with the phone in the prison, I've noticed that nobody here in previous posts brought up that Shane was hallucinating before he died. At the time I remember thinking, and I also remember not being <i>alone</i> in thinking, that it seemed as though — despite the fact that the virus was revealed to already be in just about everybody — the virus could get living people agitated, delusional, and violent either as a result of a walker scratch transmitting or accelerating some heightened form of the virus or simply due to stressful situations accelerating it. Shane's increasingly psychotic behavior was evidence of this as was, I think, that of the kid they'd been keeping captive. Whether Rick is generally more stable than Shane and thus can keep a lid on things rather than heading down a slippery slope remains to be seen, but I feel like the show is pointing us in at least the direction of asking that question.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-17769884808376910222012-12-13T16:35:47.893-05:002012-12-13T16:35:47.893-05:00This is the braaawling over
Heads in aquariums
Hea...<br>This is the braaawling over<br />Heads in aquariums<br />Heads in aquariums<br />Aquariuuuuums<br />Aquariiiiiuuuuums ...<br /><br />Great post, guys! I'm sorry that my reply's so belated. The past week was not a kind one.<br /><br />Don't let the fact that I mostly quote back Nikki make you think that you're in my, um, blind spot, Josh. <br /><br />@Josh: <i>even though its tenderest moments were between a bloodthirsty madman and his zombified daughter. Which, now that I think about it, sort of typifies everything I love most about this show.</i><br /><br />Yup.<br /><br />I'm not sure that <i>I</i> wouldn't hold on to the irrational hope or desire, if not the actual belief, that there was something of my loved one left in a walker, were this show to be my reality. Yet it's hard to see how there's any going back just based on what these bodies have been through after death. It's sad, in more than one sense of the word, that the Governor – like perhaps his pet scientist Milton and like Herschel in Season Two and, doubtless, like many others — doesn't get that walkers are not the people that used to live in those bodies but are something that <i>happened to</i> those bodies.<br /><br />@Nikki: <i>Michonne immediately leaps into action, saying soothing words and trying to calm the little girl.</i><br /><br />Unless you're on a TV show, by the way, I think that taking off the hood is pretty much the <i>first</i> thing you do there. And unless the Guv perfumes her while he brushes her hair, wouldn't (ex-)Penny* have a telltale smell in addition to a hiss that Michonne should recognize? [*Oh, Monty Python would have a <i>field</i> day with zombies. "This is a dead child."] <br /><br />@Nikki: <i>unlike the Governor, she can separate the living from the undead</i><br /><br />Michonne excels at separating things, that's for sure.<br /><br />@Nikki: <i>She was doing what she had to do, just as Carl did to Lori. It’s the humane thing to let them go.</i><br /><br />I don't disagree — but something tells me that Michonne wasn't just honoring Penny's memory or the dignity of her former life here. There may well have been lingering resentment over the fact that she had to behead her two pet walkers when she and Andrea were on the verge of discovery by the Woodbury scout team. <br /><br />Of course it could just <i>also</i> be Michonne being pissy or getting revenge for the Governor taking her sword (and "taking" Andrea) or even, like you say, doing him a favor. I get the feeling that in addition to her sensing that Woodbury had a creepy underbelly she's just not into pretending that civilization matters anymore. The walkers aren't gonna revert to their old human selves and him keeping Penny is purely a nostalgic attachment; getting back to your point, it's not really his decision to make and only arguably his delusion to have, one that she took out of his hands.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-33338758634253953452012-12-05T23:45:02.283-05:002012-12-05T23:45:02.283-05:00I saw the ep on Sunday and I'm almost through ...<br>I saw the ep on Sunday and I'm almost through your <i>Walking Dead</i> posts to date, Nikki. Hopefully I'll get to comment tomorrow. For now: This was a good episode in almost certainly the best season to date (to date), and based on your past writeups I'm sure that the analysis is tops as well.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-83851064037109896622012-12-05T00:56:19.664-05:002012-12-05T00:56:19.664-05:00Is this a great show or what?
I loved the Govern...Is this a great show or what? <br /><br />I loved the Governator's first moment with Merle after the Michonne incident. With Andrea also present, he could hardly tear into Merle without admitting to his previously sanctioned (but failed) hit on Michonne in front of Andrea. Awkward!<br /><br />On the subject of only one black man per show, I often took note that Dixon was the 'token' on "Alias" for "five incredible years". Currently, Neville holds that distinction on "Revolution". A lot of shows take that route. <br /><br />Phillip Broyles occupies a similar role in "Fringe", although briefly there was Henry the Cabby from Over There and that one shape shifter (the guy from "24").<br /><br />Maggie killed a guy. Note to self: don't piss Maggie off.<br /><br />Note to Maggie: Kill Andrea. <br /><br />Note to Michonne: check to see if the child in the cage, on a chain, with a sack over her head is alive before setting it free in an enclosed area.<br /><br />Note to the Guv: you ordered a hit on Michonne and now she came back and whacked your dead zombified, starving child. You had that (and the eye thing) coming. Suck it up, princess.<br /><br />This was an amazing episode. I watched it at work. It was like getting paid to watch "The Walking Dead".Page48https://www.blogger.com/profile/09728079057077761364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-75636894280694565082012-12-04T16:49:49.396-05:002012-12-04T16:49:49.396-05:00First of all - DENNIS CUTTY!!!! He was a favorite...First of all - DENNIS CUTTY!!!! He was a favorite of mine on The Wire and it's great to see him here. He doesn't need a weapon - he could just punch the zombie's heads off!<br /><br />TWD with African-Americans is like the Highlander - There can only be one! I thought the same as you immediately Nikki.<br /><br />Why didn't Michonne just tell Andrea that the Governor has two of her friends locked up and she's here with Rick and the others? I felt like I was watching Lost for a minute - why don't they communicate?<br /><br />So Lori and Axel were off "keeping guard" together? Uh-huh - sure they were. I was worried for uh...Kelly(?) during Axel's talk as I've now read the books and the prisoners were A LOT more sinister there than in the show. <br /><br />All in all a great episode and a great half-season. Thanks so much for the recaps - you always point out at least one thing I didn't catch (this week the thing about the girl and the raw meat).<br /><br />Happy holidays to all!<br /><br /> -Tim AlanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-24451698661349012142012-12-04T14:33:44.819-05:002012-12-04T14:33:44.819-05:00There was no doubt that Merle's lie was going ...There was no doubt that Merle's lie was going to come back to bite him in the ass, and I had hoped that it would be the thing to get him to Daryl's side instead of the other way round (which is what seems to be happening) but I wasn't expecting an "IF they survive the Colosseum"... I spent two weeks worrying about Glenn and it never crossed my mind that Daryl might be in danger (other than his brother's negative influence, that is). I mean, it's Daryl; he's a bad-ass; he can't die! (Right? Right? Someone reassure me, please!)<br />Note to self: I should stop watching this show while wearing my rose-coloured glasses.<br /><br />Even though the logical part of me was sure that Michonne was safe because they wouldn't have introduced one of the awesomest characters ever only to kill her off so soon, I couldn't help being in absolute agony both when she was fighting the governor and when Andrea had the gun pointed at her.<br />Ah, Andrea... the only excuse I accept now is that she is being drugged during all her time in Woodbury (but, sadly, I doubt that).<br /><br />No, I don't feel sorry about the "poor, defenseless" people of Woodbury: they're the same people who enjoy zombie fights and are going all "off with their heads" with Daryl and Merle -they're the Colosseum attendees, satisfied with bread and spectacle. If this is the humankind they're trying to protect and save, it's not worth it.<br /><br />And of course the living are worse than the living dead -when haven't they been in zombie lore? And aren't we human beings worse than any animal?Efthymianoreply@blogger.com