I haven’t been able to find a thread for this show, and I’m a rather big fan myself. So I decided, why not start one? Discuss the show/comic here.
Also: https://www.amctv.com/
Season 4 trailer is there.
Edit: [COLOR=‘Red’] CAUTION, MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.
I was rather disappointed with how season 3 was finalised, but I still can’t wait for season 4.
I thought it ended alright, but I preferred the end of season 2 against the others so far.
I liked the first season but then they spent the entire next season at some goddamn cottage with no zombies around and I didn’t even watch it.
Yeah, it was kinda slow. But it picks up bout halfway through. And 3rd season is pretty slow at times, but it picks up. And the slow parts are full of information.
I’m not expecting S4 to be better than S3 because AMC keeps the budget as tight as they can and the show suffers for it, Season 2 being an example of how lack of money kept the episodes mostly about stupid farm drama.
Also, don’t forget Breaking Bad comes back in August, I’m so hype.
Yeah, AMC does budget pretty tight, but this season looks promising anyways. And yeah, the new BB looks good.
One thing that I really liked about the first season is that it immediately diverted from typical zombie movie stuff by not killing people all the time. The protagonist encounters that black guy and his kid, and then they part ways without anyone dying!
…Then two seasons later he comes back and his kid is dead and the other guy is insane because of an aborted plot thread or something. That did not come off on me well.
Then there’s that scene where they encounter a hitchhiker who they completely ignore even as he runs after their car screaming for their help. If your idea of character development is that your leads have becomes soulless assholes then your show isn’t really one that appeals to me.
It’s not a heartless development, it’s harsh reality. That entire thing was simply to show that the way things are has twisted everyone’s perceptions of what’s wrong and right. I mean, c’mon, it’s an apocalypse. Is everyone supposed to be heroic to a fault? In my opinion, it only added to the show.
What he did was heartless, cruel, and downright asshole-ish, yes. But since Rick is considered the white knight in the beginning, the dramatic twists and turns of his development is meant to show that even the most just change for the worst in ways. And he’s not even completely void of compassion. He’s just lost all his trust in people outside of his group, his surroundings made him jaded.
The same goes for any of the other characters. Murrel is an asshole, a sadistic fuck that would just as easily gut a man as well as rape his daughter. But look at what he turns into in the end. He does something I didn’t think he could do. The shows not all about “lets make everyone slowly an asshole” it’s about an apocalypse and how they (the characters) cope with it.
Glen: nerdy, weak looking guy in the beginning. But through the course of the series, you see him toughen up and become more than the go to guy for scavenging supplies and see him become a viable leader of the group.
Carl (or Karl): soft hearted, scaredy cat kinda personality. You see him from a young age to now (bout 14-16 I believe) and he changes drastically. Season two, he couldn’t kill a walker. Season 3, he’s laying em down left and right. And he’s twisted with the world he’s in, just as any kid without a moral compass would do.
I think Daryl is the only character still alive that hasn’t changed too much, or had many things he does that paints him in a different light. Outside of[COLOR=‘Black’]killing his brother
Really, they aren’t becoming soulless assholes. They’re just becoming what it takes to survive. God knows why they didn’t save the hitchhiker, but it shows how everyone’s changed, for better or worse.
You have to bear in mind that is the only recent episode I’ve actually seen. 
Honestly, it’s a running theme in the comic too- the whole point was to change Rick so completely over the course of the series that he’s basically a different person.
I figured from the beginning that he would showcase the human development when you take the white knight figure and subject them to life or death situations, betrayal, and decisions that cost lives. Such as, [COLOR=‘Black’]in season 1 when he chains Murral to the pipe on the roof; as he is in the series now, he would have let him rot up there most likely. But back then, he did what he could to get to him, because he felt bad about it.
I do really enjoy character development like that, but only if it’s a good direction. I have a thing about happy endings, I’m weird like that.
His character curve isn’t all bad or unhappy. It’s mostly unhappy, but the show isn’t exactly a bright, sunny atmosphere haha so it’s to be expected. See, I enjoy the whole white knight becomes bloodstained development. Even in the stories I wrote, my heroes are anti-heroes and the endings are usually bittersweet.
But anyways, the show has it’s fair share of both happy, sad, awesome, and thrilling endings and moments.
The Walking Dead is about the complete breakdown of society as well as government structure and how we as humans are forced to try to deal with that security blanket being stripped away and violently taken from us.
It is about the power struggles between people that would not normally step up and those that would and choose not to.
It is about the degradation of society as the survival expectations are about as low as the lifespan of a spider.
It is about how humans struggle to recreate the structure of ‘normal’ society and then struggle as they fail time and again.
They have to re-create what the ‘law’ is, they have to re-create what is ‘moral’ or ‘right’.
They have to reprogram their brains to accept that there is no such thing as ‘safe’ but only ‘safer’.
Oh and there are zombies.
Really, really squishy zombies.
Some are filled with water as well 
the well zombie looked a lot like a floater (I think is its name) from dead island.
oh gawd that one was especially horrific.
I honestly wonder how some of the things that happen in that show smell and feel >.<
Gotta love T-Dog there though, with his “God forbid we shoot him.” Or whatever he said.
Saw a clip once where they explained the ‘meat’ that the zombies were eating was basically bbq beef with a bit of dye in it to make it look more red and bloody.
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