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Oh! Apologies for misinterpreting your comments. I thought...well, you know what I thought.
Well, I'm glad you're loving the comic, man!
One thing I will recant, however, is my insistence that people who like the show should read the comic.
If you like the show, DON'T read the comic.
Reason?
Well, in watching the second episode last night, which I really liked, I find my enthusiasm for the TV show's events to be less than what I'd like. They added in some extra stuff and they found a way to make the zombie escape scenes really intense. Hat's off to the tv show crew for making it really compelling.
But knowing what's going to happen next, for the most part, makes me anticipate the next episode less. Compare that with Sons Of Anarchy or Spartacus: Blood And Sand, where those shows reach a fever pitch because I don't know what's coming next (and are shows I both really, really enjoy,) and it makes me wish I could unabashedly love the tv show more.
I'll keep watching, of course. It's still a great show. But I don't have a burning drive to see the next episode. I'm eminently patient about it. Compared with other shows I've really loved in my day and I just wish I didn't know what happens next.
I understand how it works. I just don't really care for it. It's not like I dislike the tv series; I think it's awesome. I would just prefer it if they accomplished more story during an episode. That's something they'll have to feel out with time, and, with feedback from fans/critics, I'm sure they'll pace it a bit faster.
Bobak has the right idea. This is something I would like to watch all at once. Waiting a week between each episode and the story moving as slow as it is, it's a bit irritating to keep up with. If they stick close to the comics even a little bit, at this rate, it would probably take like 20 seasons to finish.
Heh, I wondered if you might come around to my way of thinking on this one.
I really loved the second episode, pretty much for the reasons you give here: the zombie chases were really intense. And you really do get a feeling that stuff is building to something, which is the entire point of the comic.
Honestly, it didn't bug me too much that they didn't make the camp. Obviously they're going to about 10 or 15 minutes into the next episode, and they want to keep as many cliffhangers as they can, after all.
I tell you one thing, though. I'm glad....
Spoiler:Shane dies soon. The actor they got for him is awful! Seriously. There are some other actors that look bad too, and I'm some of them are doomed to die eventually too.
Anyway. The guy they got to play Rick is excellent. Glad to see that role was well cast, at least.
With some of the additions that they have made to the show, that is something they could end up changing. I could see a TV show wanting to draw that out more.
Slowly working my way through the comics. On issue #37 right now. I can't think of a time where I've been so thoroughly involved in a story as I am with this one. I actually yelled "FUCK!!!" when..
Spoiler:the zombie bit into the doctor when they were escaping Woodbury
Slowly working my way through the comics. On issue #37 right now. I can't think of a time where I've been so thoroughly involved in a story as I am with this one. I actually yelled "FUCK!!!" when..
Spoiler:the zombie bit into the doctor when they were escaping Woodbury
This pacing is god-awful.
Well...I've been watching this and I can say I'm somewhat satisfied. Some of the actors are pretty bad...especially the main cop's patrol buddy (the one that screwing his wife)..
I am kind of with you on that count, Wes. More to the point, I don't think I care about it. If the show engages me, I generally don't notice 'bad' acting. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm just saying that if I enjoy the show, it's rare for me to put any effort into it.
For me, the live version of Shane isn't so much in his acting. It's more in the character's persona. Reading the comic, I never got the 'reverend Shane' persona out of that. The comic version of the character didn't come off this red to me. I don't mind that they changed it, but it just seems typical that because he's a cop from the south, he's got to be a 'good ol' boy.'
I don't know what you're disagreeing with. I don't see anywhere where what I said has a contradictory context to it.
I said Shane's acting isn't the issue for me. It's the persona. I never said that his bad acting was the reason the redneck aspect didn't work for me. I said the redneck aspect, all by itself, is irritating. Daniel Day Lewis could be playing Shane and I'd probably still find the 'reverend Shane' thing wierd and mildly offputting.
Sorry, this is what I meant:
Both Rick and Shane have the redneck thing going. I find Rick a lot more likeable, though, and I attribute that to the actor. And I think you're wrong about Daniel Day Lewis, too — if he was (somehow) in there, Shane would be much more interesting, I'm sure.
Anyways, it's a quibble, really. Pay no mind.