The Walking Dead

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I have to agree that this was a fairly boring episode. But they had to set up the story line. If anything it did strengthen Beths character in the long run.

VolsDoc81TX said:
Yup A shot of Versed or Valium, even Xanax are all sedative hypnotics and can wipe out memory of recent events. Rohipnol too (date rape drug). When Daryl ran to the spot that Beth was abducted, there was no Walker corpse only some of her stuff. The Grady story of them saving her from a Walker was fabricated.
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Plus she didn't have a cut the on her face when she was abducted.

Now some more questions keep coming up.

1) who was running the mortician and were they connected to the Grady folks.

2) What is the time line from the turn to now?
Noah said he had been there about a year. So back tracking... Rick woke up just a few days to a week or so after at most. The first season only covered a week or so. The second picked up right where the first ended. Although it seemed like an eternity they probably only spent about 3 weeks or so there. We know there was an approximate 9 months between S2-S3 and the entirety of S3 was probably no more than a month. At this point we are at roughly 1 year since the turn.

The biggest undefined time span was S3 to S4. At the start of S4 they had a nice little community going at the prison with crops and livestock. My guess is another 9-12 months passed. The rest of the season was only about a week. S5 picked up right where S4 ended and we've only seen about two nights pass since the start. Which would mean Beth has to only been at Grady for about 3-4 days max.

In total I'm thinking is been just as over 2 years since turn.
 
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Coug said:
I wanted to bring something up that hasn't really been discussed. They claimed they "saved" these people from more dire circumstances but I'm not so sure that's what's really going on. Beth lost her memory of her abduction so I'm not so sure they aren't targeting people and drugging them. Might explain why Carol seems to be unconscious. There was no real reason for Beth to have forgotten what was going on.
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I can't remember the circumstances when she was taken other than her and Daryl were together. I never believed their stories, but they're the same people that Daryl saw. When she made it outside the hospital the cars had the crosses on the back glass that Daryl saw drive off with her.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
I have to agree that this was a fairly boring episode. But they had to set up the story line. If anything it did strengthen Beths character in the long run.

Plus she didn't have a cut the on her face when she was abducted.

Now some more questions keep coming up.

1) who was running the mortician and were they connected to the Grady folks.

2) What is the time line from the turn to now?
Noah said he had been there about a year. So back tracking... Rick woke up just a few days to a week or so after at most. The first season only covered a week or so. The second picked up right where the first ended. Although it seemed like an eternity they probably only spent about 3 weeks or so there. We know there was an approximate 9 months between S2-S3 and the entirety of S3 was probably no more than a month. At this point we are at roughly 1 year since the turn.

The biggest undefined time span was S3 to S4. At the start of S4 they had a nice little community going at the prison with crops and livestock. My guess is another 9-12 months passed. The rest of the season was only about a week. S5 picked up right where S4 ended and we've only seen about two nights pass since the start. Which would mean Beth has to only been at Grady for about 3-4 days max.

In total I'm thinking is been just as over 2 years since turn.
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I'm not sure if you watch The Talking Dead after the show but Chris Hardwick(the host) roughly did the math on an episode of The Talking Dead maybe two to three weeks ago. They figured from the time Rick woke up in the hospital up until now it's been roughly 3 and a half years. We speculated a while ago in this thread that he couldn't have been in the hospital unconscious for anymore than 2 weeks at the most.

TheDeeble said:
I can't remember the circumstances when she was taken other than her and Daryl were together. I never believed their stories, but they're the same people that Daryl saw. When she made it outside the hospital the cars had the crosses on the back glass that Daryl saw drive off with her.
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I'm with you. I think they drive around like predators hand picking the people they want to abduct and then pounce. The stories they come up with to explain how the people got to the hospital is BS.
 
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Coug said:
I'm not sure if you watch The Talking Dead after the show but Chris Hardwick(the host) roughly did the math on an episode of The Talking Dead maybe two to three weeks ago. They figured from the time Rick woke up in the hospital up until now it's been roughly 3 and a half years. We speculated a while ago in this thread that he couldn't have been in the hospital unconscious for anymore than 2 weeks at the most.
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I don't have cable so I have to watch it online Mondays. The Talking dead is a little harder to track down. I really only watch it after the mid season and season finale.

3.5 years seems too long unless during montage episode on the farm was a few months and the break between S3-4 was 18 months or so but Judith doesn't look much more than a year old.

I somewhat recall the Rick in hospital conversation but couldn't have been in there too long. Lack of medical care aside, the group want that far away and still camping outside of ATL.
 
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As a Georgia state student who is very familiar with downtown Atlanta, the building they were standing on didn't seem like the viewpoint from Grady memorial hospital. It seems slightly west than what the view normally would have been. On a side note, I can see my girlfriends dorm lol
 
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Daloth said:
You guys must be watching an entirely different show. The writing is terrible, and the acting is good B movie at best. You take out zombies and make the same characters living in the apocalypse and this show isn't even getting half the viewers. Americans love violence far too much, and the average viewer is not that into finding out about new societal norms or viewing the human psyche after excessive trauma.

Now if this were a British show... we might have something.
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I agree with that for the first 3 seasons but I thought the 4th improved a good bit, and so far season 5 has been much better.

Need to improve the acting on your show? Hire as many people from the Wire who will say yes.
 
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Daloth said:
You guys must be watching an entirely different show. The writing is terrible, and the acting is good B movie at best. You take out zombies and make the same characters living in the apocalypse and this show isn't even getting half the viewers. Americans love violence far too much, and the average viewer is not that into finding out about new societal norms or viewing the human psyche after excessive trauma.

Now if this were a British show... we might have something.
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The acting and writing are terrible? GTFO. It's not going to win any Emmys but it's nowhere close to terrible.
 
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Daloth said:
You guys must be watching an entirely different show. The writing is terrible, and the acting is good B movie at best. You take out zombies and make the same characters living in the apocalypse and this show isn't even getting half the viewers. Americans love violence far too much, and the average viewer is not that into finding out about new societal norms or viewing the human psyche after excessive trauma.
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There are violent shows that don't do well at all. Shows just as violent as this one. What makes this one successful if the acting and writing is so bad?
 
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I look at this show a lot like 24. I'm entertained. The whole good acting, good writing is a fairly new concept to TV. HBO spends millions per episode for those things.
 
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It's definitely not the best acting or the best writing, but that's what makes it stand out among other shows in this genre.
 
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Persian Vol said:
As a Georgia state student who is very familiar with downtown Atlanta, the building they were standing on didn't seem like the viewpoint from Grady memorial hospital. It seems slightly west than what the view normally would have been. On a side note, I can see my girlfriends dorm lol
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The The view from that window is faked.
They actually filmed in an abandoned hospital in northern Georgia.

On a sidenote that is kind of funny that you can see a college dorm in the background of that picture.
Hope your girlfriend is okay :)
 
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I thought the Noah character might have eluded to three things that would be really cool.

First, that the folks at grady made he and his dad choose between them for who would get saved. Noah was taken because he was not as strong. If he was found by Carol and Darryl then they could hatch a plan for her to be "saved." that would put her on the inside and him on the outside with a plan.

Next, this is a reach but Noah stated that he and his father were looking for his uncle. It would be convenient to find out that his uncle is Morgan and that ties them to Rick and the rest of the group.

Lastly, he mentioned he came from Richmond and that it had walls. I didnt get a good look at Abraham's map but there is a good chance he would go through Richmond to get to DC. So, maybe the next season finally leaves Georgia and is focused on Virginia and DC.

Also next episode look to be an Abraham episode. I bet they go through his backstory and him beating someones face in with a can of food is a flashback. Probably showing how bad he got before finding Eugene and his mission.
Well, I'm probably wrong about all of this anyways. Just wanted to share
 
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n_huffhines said:
Not really. It's not the zombie crowd that makes this show so popular. It's the people who are curious about how humans behave in an apocalyptic scenario.

If this were just a zombie show, then it wouldn't be AMC's top show. You'd probably be watching it on Sci Fi, and I wouldn't be watching at all.
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Lol I think you greatly underestimate how big Zombies are right now. If it was just another apocalyptic show it would have been cancelled 3 years ago. It's the mesh of both elements that make it so popular. Take the threat of Zombies off this show and its nowhere near the same show. I'd be willing to bet if you did a poll on viewers, it would be more zombie fans than not.
 
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NochNoch said:
I agree with that for the first 3 seasons but I thought the 4th improved a good bit, and so far season 5 has been much better.

Need to improve the acting on your show? Hire as many people from the Wire who will say yes.
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My dream is after Justified wraps this year, they hire Walton Goggins to be the main bad guy next year. Lol
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
I don't have cable so I have to watch it online Mondays. The Talking dead is a little harder to track down. I really only watch it after the mid season and season finale.

3.5 years seems too long unless during montage episode on the farm was a few months and the break between S3-4 was 18 months or so but Judith doesn't look much more than a year old.

I somewhat recall the Rick in hospital conversation but couldn't have been in there too long. Lack of medical care aside, the group want that far away and still camping outside of ATL.
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Aren't you jailbroke? If so get Movie Box
 
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BadJerry20 said:
My dream is after Justified wraps this year, they hire Walton Goggins to be the main bad guy next year. Lol
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Well he's losing he's losing Boyd and the transvestite hooker role from Sons of Anarchy all in the same year so he should have some free time on his hands.
 
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govols/cc said:
Aren't you jailbroke? If so get Movie Box
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My iPad is jailbroke. I use Movie Box for TWD (although AMC TV.COM has finally started carrying full.episodes with commercials of course). Haven't noticed Talking Dead on Movie Box.
 
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At my office, 3-4 of the administrators and I have The Walking Dead lunch every Tuesday. (Allows everyone to watch first)
Has been fun. Funny how the discussion of the episode often parallels the discussion here.

Geeky yes, but makes work a lot more fun.
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
At my office, 3-4 of the administrators and I have The Walking Dead lunch every Tuesday. (Allows everyone to watch first)
Has been fun. Funny how the discussion of the episode often parallels the discussion here.

Geeky yes, but makes work a lot more fun.
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Breaks up the routine of Favorite Taylor Swift song huh Doc? :)
 
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coffeecountyvol said:
I thought the Noah character might have eluded to three things that would be really cool.

First, that the folks at grady made he and his dad choose between them for who would get saved. Noah was taken because he was not as strong. If he was found by Carol and Darryl then they could hatch a plan for her to be "saved." that would put her on the inside and him on the outside with a plan.

Next, this is a reach but Noah stated that he and his father were looking for his uncle. It would be convenient to find out that his uncle is Morgan and that ties them to Rick and the rest of the group.

Lastly, he mentioned he came from Richmond and that it had walls. I didnt get a good look at Abraham's map but there is a good chance he would go through Richmond to get to DC. So, maybe the next season finally leaves Georgia and is focused on Virginia and DC.

Also next episode look to be an Abraham episode. I bet they go through his backstory and him beating someones face in with a can of food is a flashback. Probably showing how bad he got before finding Eugene and his mission.
Well, I'm probably wrong about all of this anyways. Just wanted to share
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It's a reach for sure, but I would be cool with that. I want Morgan back.
 
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