The Walking Dead

Okay, who was blowing the horn? I don't think it was the one shown in the clips from next week.

Also, for Talking Dead, given past episodes is the "surprise guest" really that surprising?

*splorf*

"Let's face it, Carter, you threatened our favorite mullet. You had to go." (from the "In Memoriam" segment)

Not a bad premiere, better than Arrow's and Flash's anyway. And Heroes'. I missed the first minute, but it seems like they were going for in media res anyway.

Did....they really push the no way out button in episode 1?!?

Well, that explains the horn...

Carol remains the best character.

Regarding Kevin Smith's appearance on The Talking Dead, how on Earth had he never heard the term "Ricktatorship" before?

Goddamn , Carol is a badass.

She reminded me of a ninja/assassin.

My first thought was "so now carol is in assaind creed?"

Also, I know is not intentional, but seen a black men in chains....

That girl ate a turtle.

That is the most brutal, horrifying thing I think I've seen on this show.

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Also, "They got in the walls. They're gonna die. All of them."

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What a weird way to end an episode.

edited 23rd Oct '15 8:46:25 AM by Soble

Well, that addresses Glenn's fate, comic vs show...

Fuck.

Shit Glenn actually died tonight?

Looks that way.[edit].. though in the Talking Dead "In Memoriam" section they didn't specifically say Glenn was dead.[/edit]

BTW, was Rick Grimes bit on the hand earlier, or did he just cut himself?

edited 25th Oct '15 7:14:46 PM by Nohbody

Scott Gimple gave a note for reading on Talking, regarding Glenn's fate. Didn't specifically spell it out, but it read to me that it actually happened as it seems it did.

edited 25th Oct '15 7:25:02 PM by Nohbody

^^ Rick cut himself when stabbing a walker in the season opener. It's been bothering him ever since.

I'm waiting for the next episode, because this is too ambiguous.

On one hand, this is a classic set-up for a red herring. Keep dropping hints, throughout the episode, that he's doomed. Keep making sappy references to his wife and his past with Rick. Have Nicholas shoot himself, causing Glenn to fall, making it look like his body is being torn to threads. Only, that could be Nicholas on top of Glenn.

On the other hand, it could be set up to deliberately make us think that it's a red herring, and have him die. It'd be something of a double red herring, if you will. Yes, the hints were a bit too painfully obvious to be real. Yes, the fall is ambiguous. However, that also seems like it could be a set-up to give us hope. Id est, he could actually be dead.

In all honesty, his death would lead to better plot scenarios than his survival, and it's an interesting end for his relationship with Nick. It'd even be slightly poetic, if it didn't seem so forced.

I'd also like to note that I watched this in the late evening, and I saw some spoiler-free FB posts with people screaming about the show, so I knew that somebody was going to die, and I narrowed the least problematic candidate down to Glenn.

edited 26th Oct '15 10:17:26 AM by SpaceWolf

F'ck.

SPOILERS

For me, personally, I think Glenn's dead. I discussed the whole episode with my co-worker and I told him in a nutshell, I'm pretty damn sure he's dead. And he agrees. I will admit, at first, I thought Nicholas was the one getting eaten. But when the camera panned out and showed all those walkers everywhere, I told myself, "Um..............GLENN IS DEAD. D:"

At the same time though.....I don't think I'd be surprised if the creators go "Haha, we fooled you!" and Glenn shows up alive and well some episodes later.

I do not want them to do this. That would just be a cheap-ass copout and a major Ass Pull. And as Jeremy Jahns pointed out in his (SPOILER-FILLED) video, if someone else was in Glenn's position, he/she would be dead. Sparing Glenn, to me, feels like it wouldn't make sense because of the situation he was left in. And since this show has had no problem of killing off a bunch of other characters, I don't see why Glenn would have Plot Armor here.

....So. Was anyone else also upset when Nicholas died too? Or was it just me?

edited 29th Oct '15 9:34:28 AM by Tyk5919

The biggest reason why I think Glenn survived is because of how far before the end it occurred. For something that big not to happen at the climax or right before just doesn't make sense. Tyrese died at the end of the episode, Noah died right before the end of the episode, Beth died at the end of the episode, Bob died at the end of the episode, the crazy girl Carol killed died in the second/third last scene of the episode etc. Whereas Glenn "died" under such dodgy circumstances and the episode keeps going for another 15 minutes only to end with a cliffhanger that wouldn't have surprised us past episode 1 of the first season? I'm not buying that they would kill off one of the few remaining season 1 characters so anticlimactically.

To be fair, Glenn (allegedly) did die right before the final commercial break, as did Noah, Merle, and T-Dog. He didn't die at the very end, no, but he died pretty close to it. And yes, I will admit that his death was anticlimactic, to a degree, but I think that's what the creators (if Glenn is dead) intended. Sometimes you don't get some awesome or really cool, memorable death. Sometimes some random guy just falls on you and unintentionally pushes you into a herd of walkers. Hell, look at Tyreese. Guy got bitten on his arm because he didn't turn around. While I will admit that the way his death was executed, with him seeing visions of all those who have died, was done with skill and grace, that doesn't change the fact that Tyreese died because he didn't turn around. And then he got bit. And..........that's it. That or he might've died from blood loss after his arm was chopped off, but anyways..

Also, they've proven before that they have no problem killing off a main character in the shittiest way possible. I'm STILL irritated at the way Beth got killed. But hey, I could be wrong. Least we won't have to wait too long to find out what happens.

T-Dog died in the first half of that episode, and Noah and Merle's deaths carried over into the final scenes. In comparison Glenn's death just doesn't matter to the rest of the episode, which doesn't fit considering he is one of only five main characters from season one (six of you count Morgan) still alive.

I'm normally a sucker for backstory, and the one tonight for Morgan was a good one, but I'm kinda annoyed a bit about not finding out what really happened last week.

I suppose they're saving it up for the mid-season finale, a la Sophia's fate in season 2.

It does seem an awkward place for a flashback episode. But, having rwatched it, I'm glad I missed the first few minutes, I didn't know Morgan was talking to the Wolf guy he didn't kill.

Ah, Morgan episodes.

this show is, without a doubt, just swelling in the Grimdark now

Also I'm calling Glenn's alive now.

No way we find out his fate so anticlimatically two episodes later.

I really don't think he survived but the angle of the shot when they were pulling out intestines felt really awkward to me. Something was off. I'm not yet convinced he's alive but the weird shot nagged at me from the start

edited 3rd Nov '15 4:48:33 PM by Joesolo