The first rule about Zombie club is that you DON'T TALK ABOUT ZOMBIE CLUB.Quote:
However Zombies don't have to be undead. Civil unrest also applies when you are keeping your family safe from the hording drones chanting OBAMA or similar.
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The first rule about Zombie club is that you DON'T TALK ABOUT ZOMBIE CLUB.Quote:
However Zombies don't have to be undead. Civil unrest also applies when you are keeping your family safe from the hording drones chanting OBAMA or similar.
Anybody catch the latest episode? Watched it last night and I was blown away, best episode yet!
Yeah, that was quite the episode! From the twist with the Vatos to that ending.
During the Mexican Standoff (Ba Dum Tish! :D) I couldn't help but think of the line from Tombstone, "You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I turn your head into a canoe. You understand me?" Once that plot twist hit though, made me do a complete 180.
Great TV! Too bad only 2 more eps until the break. :(
Frank Darabont FIRES Entire Walking Dead Writing Staff
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December 1, 2010
With The Walking Dead about to finish its first season this Sunday, how is executive producer and guiding light Frank Darabont celebrating the show's huge success? By firing the series' entire writing staff.
According to Deadline, Darabont canned all the writers for the show, including executive producer and second-in-command Charles "Chic" Eglee. It's not unusual for TV show writing staffs to go through changes between seasons, and sometimes the staff is even "laid off" temporarily during a hiatus. But Darabont's move is more surprising, as is the news that he might not even retain a staff for the show's second season.
Instead, Darabont may use freelance writers to pen the scripts for season two rather than keeping a full team of scribes on the payroll. When you look at the credits for the show's first season, it kind of makes sense: Darabont himself wrote two of the six episodes and was heavily involved in rewriting or co-writing the other four. Of those, two were written by outside writers, one was penned by Glen Mazzara, and the fourth was written by Robert Kirkman, creator of the comic book on which the show is based. So it doesn't appear that the full-time staff was a necessity.
If he does plan to use only freelancers, however, Darabont could run into problems with the Writers Guild, which frowns upon that sort of thing on a network series. And with AMC ordering 13 episodes for the second season, the workload may be much heavier—possibly requiring Darabont to keep a bunch of writers around all the time anyway.
No final decision has been made yet on how this will shake out, and there's still time to iron it all out, since AMC doesn't plan to launch season two until around Halloween of next year. (:() We hope that Darabont knows what he's doing, especially since The Walking Dead has been so freakin' awesome so far, but what kind of signal does it send to fire a hit show's entire writing team?
I can understand why he'd fire the writing staff if 4 of the 6 episodes weren't written by them.
I can also understand it when he reads the feedback. The issue I see with the show right now is pacing. It needs to uptick a notch. I'm not talking shakey cam resident evil pacing, I'm talking about trimming some of the unnecessary scenes...like the most recent episode...it took 5 minutes to walk from the vehicles to the door of the CDC. In real life it would have taken 30 seconds. Trim some of that junk up and the pacing will be right on key.
Agreed. Especially if they are going to be making the "seasons" as short as they are talking about.
What the hell?
Are they gonna mount a rescue for the Korean guy?
Yeah, I watched 2 episodes the other night.
:D
Gotta agree with Mal in that they need to push the pace a bit.
Hey Mal. Whad'ya say we go in on writing an episode. Get our foot in the door.
I agree as well, for the most part. The pacing has bothered me from the beginning. Mal makes a good point. Why slow down things that don't need to be, it comes off as a lame attempt to build suspense. However, the scene with the older guy talking about time right before the attack was cinema quality pacing. I give the networks serious props for taking a chance on this though. Cable just keeps getting better!
Don't know where the phrase came from, but every time I saw a headshot on that show, I silently yelled, "BOOM HEADSHOT!!"
:D
Came from a guy that goes by FPS Doug. Videos at the link... :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQFYceNZS8
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Thanks, Ryan.
I got 707. I could probably improve that if I were more patient. heh.
I'm really bummed out because I recently switched to direct tv and AMC is not in hd. It was on my old cable and I can't believe its not on satellite. The biggest reason I made the switch, besides the cost, was the sheer enormity of the amount on hd channels on dish. Hopefully gets switched over to hd soon.
Damn, that sucks catfish. You tried calling them to see if they have plans to add it?