The Walking Dead Season 3 Discussion Thread (Spoilers)

Holy shit! Next week is going to be crazy!!!

Shit... we are COOKING this season... next week needs to be here NOW!

Wonder who they'll kill first, Maggie or Glenn?

@Zacagawea: The new black guy.

After this episode, if The Governor and Andrea don't get fresh holes in their face soon, I'll be upset.

@awesomeusername said:

Holy shit! Next week is going to be crazy!!!

I feel like I say that every week. Holy crap I'm loving this season! If anyone hurts my Glenn and Maggie, heads will roll... HEADS WILL ROLL!!!!

@Patman99 said:

@awesomeusername said:

Holy shit! Next week is going to be crazy!!!

I feel like I say that every week. Holy crap I'm loving this season! If anyone hurts my Glenn and Maggie, heads will roll... HEADS WILL ROLL!!!!

Everyone says it every week! I'm never disappointed, that's for sure. I was ready to punch the Governor in the face through my t.v. if he raped my baby Maggie! PUNCHED! SHE'S MINE!!!

The Good:

• Incredible tension in the interrogation scenes, if only because we've built such a connection to Maggie that her scene with The Governor was legitimately disquieting.
• Michonne hooking up with Team Prison is awesome for the momentum of this season, which has already been thunderous.
• An enticing set-up for the first trading blows between Team Prison and Team Woodbury.

The Bad:

• Andrea's plotline is still boring. And her character remains unbearable. And her role this episode was nothing short of pointless.
• Let me get this straight. We've seen Maggie take the initiative at attack preemptively before. Glenn headbutts his captor and kills a walker while his hands are bound to a chair. Maggie isn't bound to anything (though her wrists are taped together) and puts up no fight? And then she spills the beans on the prison group? I don't know. I came away with an icky feeling about the way Maggie's part this episode was written. I can probably get talked out of this, but Maggie struck me as more of a fighter than what was represented this time around.
• The dude in the cabin? Still thinks there are cops around? What?

i cant beleive they copped out with Lori's death. but i guess it would be too hot for tv. first shane's and now this

@awesomeusername: I feel the same way. I long for the episode of when they finally get their shit in order and everyone is happy if only for an hour. As is with the rest of the series, every time there is a flicker of light, everything comes crashing down...

@Patman99: You'll die before that day in TWD ever comes. You can't ever be happy in a post-apocalyptic world!

I really hope Rick goes on a killing spree next episode. Also, Daryl better not switch sides!

Glenn was awesome in this episode. A big difference from Season 2 to 3 is how tougher everyone seems to be. I like it.

They've done a really good job with the Governor. I agree that Andrea hasn't been translated well. I've been hoping for them to get a handle on it, but I think that hole's been dug too deep. Kind of funny that one of the most tense, well-executed subplots involves two non-comic characters (Daryl and Merle). Not that it matters, just interesting to bring up.

Overall, this season kicks ass. I didn't think last season sucked by any means, but this one feels more like it should be, grittier, darker, and more macabre. I'm pretty fucking pumped for the next episode.

The only thing that sucks that next week's episode is the mid season finale. :(

The only thing that sucks that next week's episode is the mid season finale. :(

@Fluttercry said:

After this episode, if The Governor and Andrea don't get fresh holes in their face soon, I'll be upset.

Can't have anything against Andrea, she found a place to call home, she doesn't know what's really going on.

I found the moment with Carol reuniting with the group to be quite emotional, really drives home how much of a family they have become. Also does anyone else avoid the "NEXT TIME ON WALKING DEAD", I hate that shit, it needs to be taken away from TV shows, too many spoilers in them. Also I don't really think there are that many soldiers with the town, seems to be about 10 at the most and alot got taken out last episode.

@HistoryInRust said:

The Good:

• Incredible tension in the interrogation scenes, if only because we've built such a connection to Maggie that her scene with The Governor was legitimately disquieting.
• Michonne hooking up with Team Prison is awesome for the momentum of this season, which has already been thunderous.
• An enticing set-up for the first trading blows between Team Prison and Team Woodbury.

The Bad:

• Andrea's plotline is still boring. And her character remains unbearable. And her role this episode was nothing short of pointless.
• Let me get this straight. We've seen Maggie take the initiative at attack preemptively before. Glenn headbutts his captor and kills a walker while his hands are bound to a chair. Maggie isn't bound to anything (though her wrists are taped together) and puts up no fight? And then she spills the beans on the prison group? I don't know. I came away with an icky feeling about the way Maggie's part this episode was written. I can probably get talked out of this, but Maggie struck me as more of a fighter than what was represented this time around.
• The dude in the cabin? Still thinks there are cops around? What?

Maggie didn't want Glenn to get hurt so she spilled the beans, Maggie has only came up against zombies, it's a different story when your held captive and surrounded by men with guns .That cabin guy was obviously crazy.

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

Also does anyone else avoid the "NEXT TIME ON WALKING DEAD", I hate that shit, it needs to be taken away from TV shows, too many spoilers in them.

Only with Homeland, Game of Thrones, and Breaking Bad. Walking Dead is more of a fun show for me, so I don't mind the semi-spoiler nature of previews.

@TheHT said:

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

Also does anyone else avoid the "NEXT TIME ON WALKING DEAD", I hate that shit, it needs to be taken away from TV shows, too many spoilers in them.

Only with Homeland, Game of Thrones, and Breaking Bad. Walking Dead is more of a fun show for me, so I don't mind the semi-spoiler nature of previews.

Walking Dead has fast become my favourite show this season, the group this season are so bad ass. Breaking Bad turned pretty silly last season as much as I enjoyed it.

@Bourbon_Warrior: Yeah they really aren't pulling many punches. I kinda wish they'd slow down a bit. For as painfully slow season 2 was, season 3 is a motherfucking blitzkrieg so far.

@TheHT said:

@Bourbon_Warrior: Yeah they really aren't pulling many punches. I kinda wish they'd slow down a bit. For as painfully slow season 2 was, season 3 is a motherfucking blitzkrieg so far.

I actually really enjoyed season 2, gave you a chance to really get to know the characters, season 1 went so fast you really didn't get to know anyone and because of that a few death scenes have been really hard hitting that wouldn't of had the same impact otherwise.

It seems to fit in with AMC's half season break know, like breaking bad moved so fast last season it got a bit ridiculous, so many montages not enough chatting between characters.

I almost went on a rampage when he made Maggie take her shirt off. I'll kill him! Can't wait for next week, this shit is poppin.

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@TheHT said:

@Bourbon_Warrior: Yeah they really aren't pulling many punches. I kinda wish they'd slow down a bit. For as painfully slow season 2 was, season 3 is a motherfucking blitzkrieg so far.

I actually really enjoyed season 2, gave you a chance to really get to know the characters, season 1 went so fast you really didn't get to know anyone and because of that a few death scenes have been really hard hitting that wouldn't of had the same impact otherwise.

It seems to fit in with AMC's half season break know, like breaking bad moved so fast last season it got a bit ridiculous, so many montages not enough chatting between characters.

I'm sort of with you on this. While I like the general pace of this season, a lot of characters are getting lost under the noise and viscera. Herschel and Beth have had barely any screentime, and the prisoners are mostly worthless.

Damn fine episode. It's episodes like that which keep me watching this show. Much as I seem to complain about it in here from week to week, I do usually enjoy the show despite what I consider it's faults, but every so often an episode comes around where it's damn hard to find something to complain about.

But find something I shall! The scientist scenes. They sucked. If that's really what the scientists research has been about, then every scene involving him has been a waste.

Also I thought part of the reason Michonne went to the prison might've been that she "recognized" Glen and Maggie, so to speak, from all the stories she'd supposedly heard from Andrea during their time together. How many young Asian twenty somethings can there be getting all lovey dovey with a country gal in the zombie apocalypse, after all? Then when that wasn't the case I figured at the very least she'd bring up Andrea and/or Merle and that would be how she'd gain their attention, and she'd hear the names Rick, Daryl, Glen, Maggie, a kid named Carl and put 2 and 2 together, because again, Andrea apparently told her everything about herself in the time they shared between seasons. Instead the show kinda rushed past that bit and Rick and his couple of dudes rushed off all gung ho rather than gain even the smallest amount of intel, and Michonne either didn't bother to find out their names, or is too dumb to put 2 and 2 together.

I feel like they did that so they could have the inevitable "Andrea!? Merle?!" revelations next week, which I'll probably be complaining about afterwards.

edit: Oh, and crazy cabin dude. He was unnecessary.

@HistoryInRust said:

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@TheHT said:

@Bourbon_Warrior: Yeah they really aren't pulling many punches. I kinda wish they'd slow down a bit. For as painfully slow season 2 was, season 3 is a motherfucking blitzkrieg so far.

I actually really enjoyed season 2, gave you a chance to really get to know the characters, season 1 went so fast you really didn't get to know anyone and because of that a few death scenes have been really hard hitting that wouldn't of had the same impact otherwise.

It seems to fit in with AMC's half season break know, like breaking bad moved so fast last season it got a bit ridiculous, so many montages not enough chatting between characters.

I'm sort of with you on this. While I like the general pace of this season, a lot of characters are getting lost under the noise and viscera. Herschel and Beth have had barely any screentime, and the prisoners are mostly worthless.

That's always been the case. Just really consider how much T-Dogg. Carol (up until this year, although even this year all she's done was disappear for an hour before being presumed dead and missing two or three episodes), Sofia, Beth (who's name I didn't even know until this season, and I still probably wouldn't if you didn't mention it first), and, hell, all the people who died who's names I can't even remember (everyone outside of Shane and Dale, I suppose) really ever did, or how well you got to know them.

@pyromagnestir: Yeah. You're right. T-Dogg was a particular travesty, really. Considering he had all of fifteen lines last season.

@pyromagnestir said:

@HistoryInRust said:

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@TheHT said:

@Bourbon_Warrior: Yeah they really aren't pulling many punches. I kinda wish they'd slow down a bit. For as painfully slow season 2 was, season 3 is a motherfucking blitzkrieg so far.

I actually really enjoyed season 2, gave you a chance to really get to know the characters, season 1 went so fast you really didn't get to know anyone and because of that a few death scenes have been really hard hitting that wouldn't of had the same impact otherwise.

It seems to fit in with AMC's half season break know, like breaking bad moved so fast last season it got a bit ridiculous, so many montages not enough chatting between characters.

I'm sort of with you on this. While I like the general pace of this season, a lot of characters are getting lost under the noise and viscera. Herschel and Beth have had barely any screentime, and the prisoners are mostly worthless.

That's always been the case. Just really consider how much T-Dogg. Carol (up until this year, although even this year all she's done was disappear for an hour before being presumed dead and missing two or three episodes), Sofia, Beth (who's name I didn't even know until this season, and I still probably wouldn't if you didn't mention it first), and, hell, all the people who died who's names I can't even remember (everyone outside of Shane and Dale, I suppose) really ever did, or how well you got to know them.

I have a feeling the actor who played T Dogg wasn't a very good actor because they killed him and replaced him with another black guy and you really can't tell that he's gone. Plus they gave him shit all lines in season 2, I feel their budget got cut a bit in season 2 because you had multiple episodes when people on the farm werent in episodes, I mean how big is this god damn farm plus 2 members of Hershells familys only dialouge was them screaming when getting killed. Would be cool if somehow they write Clementine into the story for fans of the game, she would recognize Andy.

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@pyromagnestir said:

@HistoryInRust said:

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@TheHT said:

@Bourbon_Warrior: Yeah they really aren't pulling many punches. I kinda wish they'd slow down a bit. For as painfully slow season 2 was, season 3 is a motherfucking blitzkrieg so far.

I actually really enjoyed season 2, gave you a chance to really get to know the characters, season 1 went so fast you really didn't get to know anyone and because of that a few death scenes have been really hard hitting that wouldn't of had the same impact otherwise.

It seems to fit in with AMC's half season break know, like breaking bad moved so fast last season it got a bit ridiculous, so many montages not enough chatting between characters.

I'm sort of with you on this. While I like the general pace of this season, a lot of characters are getting lost under the noise and viscera. Herschel and Beth have had barely any screentime, and the prisoners are mostly worthless.

That's always been the case. Just really consider how much T-Dogg. Carol (up until this year, although even this year all she's done was disappear for an hour before being presumed dead and missing two or three episodes), Sofia, Beth (who's name I didn't even know until this season, and I still probably wouldn't if you didn't mention it first), and, hell, all the people who died who's names I can't even remember (everyone outside of Shane and Dale, I suppose) really ever did, or how well you got to know them.

I have a feeling the actor who played T Dogg wasn't a very good actor because they killed him and replaced him with another black guy and you really can't tell that he's gone. Plus they gave him shit all lines in season 2, I feel their budget got cut a bit in season 2 because you had multiple episodes when people on the farm werent in episodes, I mean how big is this god damn farm plus 2 members of Hershells familys only dialouge was them screaming when getting killed. Would be cool if somehow they write Clementine into the story for fans of the game, she would recognize Andy.

Oh man, if they had a Clementine appear on the show that would be amazing. But that's never gonna happen, unless they had a family in the Governor's town that would resemble Clem and her family.

Michonne is pissing me off. Why hasn't she told the group that both Andrea and Meryl are in Woodbury? It would save a lot of time and unnecessary drama.

TYRESE!!!!!

@Phatmac DAT HAMMER!

Sooooo Andrea wasn't freaked out about the zombie head wall? Can she die now?

So, as soon as that black prison guy died (who they brought in as soon as T-Dog bit the dust), a new black guy is introduced. Is there a network rule of "only one black male cast member at a time"?

Andrea is the weakest character in the show now that Lori is gone. Still a damn good episode. Plenty of action. Anyone know how long the mid season break is?

Fuck me, how can they cut it off like that; going to be a long wait...

Looks like February is gonna be a godlike month.

So, as soon as that black prison guy died (who they brought in as soon as T-Dog bit the dust), a new black guy is introduced. Is there a network rule of "only one black male cast member at a time"?

@laserbolts said:

Andrea is the weakest character in the show now that Lori is gone. Still a damn good episode. Plenty of action. Anyone know how long the mid season break is?

Until February, they said. No idea the actual date.

What a stunning episode. Probably my second favorite of the season behind the birth episode, which was the emotional highpoint of the series.

Fuuuck don't end it there!

@Trainer_Red said:

Michonne is pissing me off. Why hasn't she told the group that both Andrea and Meryl are in Woodbury? It would save a lot of time and unnecessary drama.

Does she actually know they're the group Andrea was with before?

@Fluttercry said:

Sooooo Andrea wasn't freaked out about the zombie head wall? Can she die now?

She asked him 'what the hell' that was about, and he said something along the lines of doing it to prepare himself for the horrors outside.

@laserbolts said:

Andrea is the weakest character in the show now that Lori is gone. Still a damn good episode. Plenty of action. Anyone know how long the mid season break is?

New episodes in February, according to that Windows 8 commercial.

Fantastic episode. Fantastic first half of a season too. Even if the kid's not the best actor, it's nice to see Carl getting written some good scenes.

Fuck cliffhangers. And fuck the Talking Dead dude. Annoying little twerp.

Man, that fight between Michonne and The Governor was fucking brutal! After this incredible episode, the wait for February will be hard. I just hope the rest of the season continues to deliver on this level.

@DeathByWaffle said:

So, as soon as that black prison guy died (who they brought in as soon as T-Dog bit the dust), a new black guy is introduced. Is there a network rule of "only one black male cast member at a time"?

I know that feel, bro. Tyresse is an important dude, at least in the comics, so he'll hopefully stick around (Or maybe he won't...). I was really hoping Oscar would make it since he seemed like a really decent person. Also, I always felt sorry for Axel but now he just seems like a pervert. Oh well...

@Patman99 said:

Also, I always felt sorry for Axel but now he just seems like a pervert. Oh well...

As he said, there was not a lot of women in prison. His social skills and desire with/for the opposite sex are probably off the charts. You can safely continue feeling sorry for him.

@LikeaSsur said:

@Patman99 said:

Also, I always felt sorry for Axel but now he just seems like a pervert. Oh well...

As he said, there was not a lot of women in prison. His social skills and desire with/for the opposite sex are probably off the charts. You can safely continue feeling sorry for him.

If he's anything like his character in the comics...

Don't feel sorry for him is all I'm saying.

@LikeaSsur: Ah, that is a weak excuse. He is no longer in my good books. I just always felt that the prisoners were treated like shit and now the one decent guy died and the other is hornier than a jackrabbit.

That episode was crazy! I will put myself into a coma until February.

But yeah, a great episode. I should've seen Oscar dying though. They got a new black guy now. This is just ridiculous. I just know that if Deryl dies, I'm killing someone. He better never die. But that was a great first half season. Also, Andrea is such a fuck. I also see Carl shooting Axels brains out.

@TheHT: That's still fucking creepy. Even if it's true.

@Kidavenger said:

@LikeaSsur said:

@Patman99 said:

Also, I always felt sorry for Axel but now he just seems like a pervert. Oh well...

As he said, there was not a lot of women in prison. His social skills and desire with/for the opposite sex are probably off the charts. You can safely continue feeling sorry for him.

If he's anything like his character in the comics...

Don't feel sorry for him is all I'm saying.

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