The Walking Dead: Season 7

This reminds me of a movie I watched called Vice (2015). Awful drag of a movie with a familiar concept that's been visited in many sci-fi films. It's much like the original Westworld (1973), where people go to a contained city inhabited by artificial people (automatons) to act out their basest fantasies, including rape, torture, murder, etc. Essentially, it's an adult amusement park. The artificials can be killed over & over, then reactivated, but they can't harm real humans.

And just imagine the depravity that something like a Holodeck would spawn - not to mention the addiction factor where people would just never leave once inside a fantasy. There are theories that say giving into base fantasies (such as with pornography) is just an addiction that only grows deeper the more one indulges, until it degrades all surrounding functions and leads to more & more extremes to fulfill the need for gratification.

That reminds me... I need to get off this Internet thingy for a while!

The irony here is that the show rightly depicts that with its progressing stages of violence (against the zombies, among the humans). In fact, it's portraying that theory quite well.

And yet, the theory also describes the ever-growing mass of viewers who are also in need of increasing amounts of gore and violence to satisfy them with this show.

Hmmm... and yeah, this interwebs thing has GOT to go!

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What I like about this show is the character development, storytelling, and chaos factor. I havent read the comic, so dont know how this will end.

Im stunned more comic book titles like this arent getting developed to a tv series. Vertigo comics Sandman would be as strong as Game Of Thrones, better than The Walking Dead even, if done correctly.

Daryl FTW.

Oh, when he punched Negan I cried out like he was dead already. Steels deduction was looking spot-on being the actor has other projects, but he was spared. Why?

Because Daryl is just that damn cool.

Notice he's a prisoner - which may mean a lot less camera time in the early part of this season while he filmed the next season of Ride with Norman Reedus. Just a guess.
Who knows - I don't know the schedules of these Hollywood mucky mucks!

I've said this before too - Norman Reedus authentically looks like a (fill in disparaging remark regarding backwoods inbred white-trash rednecks and / or stoners). Seriously - he's got permanently stoned looking eyes!
(I did see him younger and clean cut in an HBO movie about Betty Page!)

Oh he's owning that backwoods Natural Born Killers thing to a T, and not a filthier sex symbol has there ever been. I still laugh remembering when that now dead blonde shot him thinking he was a Walker, I think it was season 2.

Does anyone know why they dont call them zombies? Is there a copyright thingy somewhere or is it just the shows personal pride they have never used that word?

Oh I found the answer to my question...

Robert Kirkman reveals why zombies don't actually exist on "Walking Dead"

So, why are the living dead referred to as "walkers" instead of zombies on "The Walking Dead"?

One of the pleasures of watching AMC's new "Walking Dead" aftershow — "Talking Dead" — is the chance for fans to get answers to questions like that one. "Walking Dead" comics creator and TV series producer Robert Kirkman answered it on Sunday.

In the world of "The Walking Dead," he said, the concept of zombies doesn't exist.

"One of the things about this world is that people don't know how to shoot people in the head at first, and they're not familiar with zombies, per se," Kirkman said on "Talking Dead." "This isn't a world the (George) Romero movies exist in, for instance … because we don't want to portray it that way, we felt like having them be saying 'zombie' all the time would harken back to all of the zombie films which we, in the real world, know about.

"So by calling them something different, we're kind of giving a nod to … these people don't understand the situation. They've never seen this in pop culture, this is a completely new thing for them."

I don't know if it was a copyright thing (I don't think the word is owned by anyone - it's like "vampires" or "werewolves"), but I think Kirkman just didn't want his work associated with a million other "zombie" stories. Then it became a thing that a bunch of synonyms were used, but no one ever uttered the word zombie. Now, I'm not sure, but it seems that in the WD universe the word doesn't exist.

Originally the word didn't really mean flesh-eating dead people that rise enmasse due to some virus or radioactive meteorite or anything like that until the Romero age. Before that, it referred to a person in a death like state or a reanimated dead body raised by magic or spells that was under control of a Voodoo master.

Anyone here watch that Fear The Walking Dead? I havent heard alot of buzz, and curious if its worth checking out.

In my opinion, the comics did it better... as usual.

I've been watching it off and on. I've seen all the episodes but sometimes they're on in the background. I thought it would tell us more about how things happened in the first place... and they sort of did. But they jumped right into sh*t going down, and now it feels more like a parallel show rather than a real prequel. After all, we started The Walking Dead with Rick having been in a coma while everything went bad, so Fear the Walking Dead really isn't much before that.

It seems to be exploring a slightly different side of group interaction and it's putting the cast into different situations, but it'll soon end up where TWD is in a lot of ways. Both shows are in fairly temperate climates. (FTWD is set in California/Mexico.) I think there are a lot of strong, interesting characters, but again ... how will this show avoid some of the same pitfalls of TWD if it lasts as long?

What would have been really different would have been to place a group someplace with a real winter. That's a whole different mind-set about survival, I would think.

Panel for panel, I think the show did a really good job.

As hard as it was for us to watch the heartbreaking season seven premiere of The Walking Dead, Jeffrey Dean Morgan says, for him, it was even harder.

The 50-year-old actor -- who both horrified and impressed with his portrayal of the AMC drama's newest bad guy -- opened up to Interview magazine about the emotional toll Negan's fury took on him.

"Look, that whole episode was hard, and also because I did go through and smack everybody with Lucille at a certain point," he shared. "Everybody took a hit. All of that was hard. It got to the point where I didn't want to do it anymore. Emotionally I was completely drained -- all of us were, I would imagine."

Sunday's season premiere saw Negan take not one, but two victims, Abraham and Glenn, as he brutally bashed their heads in with his barbed wire-covered baseball bat, Lucille -- all in an attempt to break Andrew Lincoln's Rick.

"Andy and I just went through the ringer," Morgan explained. "It was a hard episode, and having to get there time and time again to do these horrible things… They're good people, I love them -- the whole cast -- so to keep riding them as hard as I was riding them, in-between takes it was like, god, you've got to catch your breath a little bit. It was just so ****ing heavy at all times."

"In the show that aired, there's no let up, and it was like that for 10 days for us," he added. "It wasn't just 40 minutes of it; it was 10 days of that, every day, all day."

According to Morgan, filming the episode wasn't just difficult because of the cruel way that Glenn and Abraham died. It was also hard for the cast to say goodbye to actors Steven Yeun, an original cast member, and Michael Cudlitz, who joined the series in season four.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/jef...1FJ?li=BBnbfcL

The episode was very well acted. JDM and Andrew Lincoln were fantastic.

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That was the hardest episode of tv I have watched. I don't know if I enjoyed it or not, but I doubt I will forget it.

The gurgling was a nice touch. I was not disappointed.

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Everyone has wanted him dead? Seriously? Wow, that is NOT the vibe I've ever gotten about that character.

Carl, sure. But hey...

Yeah Carl is now no longer annoying, yay! That hair though, he's gonna be doing shampoo commercials for Panteen.