Re: The Walking Dead (Season 2)
I recognized it as soon as it popped up on the screen. *shrugs*
I recognized it as soon as it popped up on the screen. *shrugs*
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Re: The Walking Dead (Season 2)
Renewed for Season Three.
Only dropped two-tenths of a point from the season premiere. Drew 6.7 million viewers. Double the closest competitor, Real Housewives of New Jersey.*
The nerds have spoken.
*for cable"It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: The Walking Dead (Season 2)
Out of curiosity, what kind of sales does the comic have?Member of The OS Baseball Rocket Scientists AssociationComment
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Before the show aired, issue 71 sold 24,500 copies in its first month. That placed it 81st on the chart. I'm assuming that's not too bad considering there are a lot of comics released every month.
Sales in August over the years before it aired on AMC.
08/2005: The Walking Dead #21 – 17,668
08/2006: The Walking Dead #30 – 20,540
08/2007: The Walking Dead #40 – 22,989
08/2008: The Walking Dead #51 – 23,121
08/2009: The Walking Dead #64 – 24,393
08/2010: The Walking Dead #76 – 26,553
It had a strong following, no doubt.
In February 2011 The Walking Dead Issue #81 sold 30,750 copies in February 2011 just months after the first season aired.
And its latest issue #88 in August 2011 (ignoring October 2011 because final numbers aren't up) sold 31,839.
It seems to consistently be near the Top 50.
To put that in perspective, the number one comic Justice League sold 171,000 copies in August 2011. The top 20 comics sell over 50,000 copies.Last edited by CMH; 10-25-2011, 03:23 PM."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: The Walking Dead (Season 2)
I liked the 1st episode of season 2. It was very intense. The 2nd episode was very boring. A lot of time wasted on the kid. The show is about zombies not the kids. Lets get back to the program...Comment
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Agreed, but my problem with people complaining about the pacing is that none of the shows on AMC except for maybe Breaking Bad are extremely compelling week-to-week. They are all slow as hell. It takes an entire season to really see what they were trying to do.
I get it that people see zombies and want zombies and attacks and deaths and blood and all this crazy stuff, but we've been saying it on this board for a year that the show is not about zombies. It isn't. If anyone is watching this show hoping that it will someday be about zombies, you're playing a very dumb waiting game because it never will be.
It was and will always be a drama with zombies in it."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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If only the acting were consistent most wouldn't complain about the drama aspect...but the acting is inconsistent, and so, the people want some zombies to compensate for the bad acting/writing.Comment
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The acting is pretty bad. I'll give you that."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: The Walking Dead (Season 2)
It'd be more compelling (to those of you who are on the fence/losing hope, I personally love the show and will continue to watch week in and week out as this show confirms that I am incredibly glad to have my tastes and not 98% of OS's) if the acting was better and the characters that the show is about were less one-dimensional.
The show doesn't need more zombies - the tension they create with the sparse zombie attacks and seriously threatening situations involving the zombies is my favorite part. It's not overkill on the attacks and hordes and stuff.Comment
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I couldn't agree with you enough here Bean. I don't know if its for my bias towards zombies or what, but I have been enjoying this show regardless of how slow its been, the one dimensional characters, shoddy acting, and even questionable decisions the characters are making. I compare this show to all the **** zombie movies I have watched over the years and this is a masterpiece. I have my complaints like everyone else, but it won't stop me from watching.Comment
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Right, I definitely agree with you. I wasn't calling for more zombie attacks. It's not a remedy I want to see because it still wouldn't solve what brings the show down in its acting and writing. I can put up with bad acting if the writing was good and vice versa, but sometimes this show seems to flip-flop for no reason. AMC is definitely about slow pacing, but it isn't noticeable when the characters are compelling and the relationships are gripping enough to build story-arcs on. How many relationships in this series are worth building stories on? If we don't include relatives, how many real relationships exist? There's the love triangle and Dale and the Suicide Girl. Nothing else really. T-Bone kind of had something going for him, but they literally rush him off the screen. I'm not saying the show is horrible, it is a decent show that ultimately doesn't feel like a waste of time, but sometimes it feels like its pandering to the melodramatic crowd a bit too much.
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Re: The Walking Dead (Season 2)
I'm the biggest fan of the comic and series you'll find, but the acting is dragging the show down from where it could be. Hopefully Herschel's farm and the time there injects something into the show.HELLO BROOKYLN.
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