Can't wait to watch season 3 . I love zombi movies .

Real zombie movies are fun, aka voodoo zombies sticking their arms up out of graves, but science/virus zombie movies are a bore.

Rezident evil 2 is a science/virus zombie movie , and there are zombies sticking their arms up out of graves ...

The show kind of takes a different path to the same end result. What happens at the end of the first volume (and by extension into the third) happens together at the end of season 2. The upcoming season 3 will feature Michonne and the Governer, both characters from later volumes in the graphic novel series.

I thought the second season of the show was not good. It got very slow and boring before the mid-season break, and became a daytime soap opera that occasionally had zombies shambling around. I don't get the same tension from the show that I do from the books, either. In the books, you really get a sense that any main character could die and that noone is really safe or really coming out of the situation ahead. The show feels a lot more sterilized and I think it lessens the appeal.

Overall, I'm thinking of giving season 3 one last shot for the show to try and redeem itself. I normally wouldn't (given how boring I found the second season to be), but I really like the universe and the books and I would like to see the show reach some of the same magic. Hard to tell yet, though, how it's going to go. The show never quite matched the ferocity of the pilot episode.

Season 3 is off to a good start. Less forced melodrama, more zombie killing.

Wait, I made this thread? Weird. Anyway, I thought the season started off very strong. Mostly action with some nice dialogue bits, instead of the other way around. As always, I loved the gore. Gas-mask zombie was awesome, and my dad just about fainted when <spoiler> Rick started hacking off Hershel's leg. </spoiler>

Yes you can, you're doing it right now.

Much more action in this season . Lots of "walkers" , new characters .

"Shit happens."

*thuck*

My brother got me the Compendium One (#1-48). I never gave a damn about zombie stuff and it took me 6 months to start reading it, and I got hooked on the comic, even if sometimes it's predictable.

I'll pass on the TV show though.

Good plan. What most people miss is that "The Walking Dead" has *nothing* to do with zombies, anymore than Watchmen is about superheroes, or Raging Bull about boxing.

The problem is that the amazing book attracted a shit ton of those unwashed "zombie flic" masses, and their influx led to the creation of all this merchandising/spinoff BS.

It's so sad to see mainstream also-rans ruining a fine piece of art, but ce la vie.

Even the title "The Walking Dead" isn't referring at all to the zombies.

The first season wasn't bad to me. It did a lot to set the scene and actually set up that they would have to survive. The zombies were there in massive number, but they worked because you don't have to introduce them, everyone knows what a zombie is. The major goal was to introduce the characters.

The problem however came in the second season, which had massive drag on it. It didn't have to be zombies, but there was no real antagonist to it. Shane could have filled that role but he really seemed like a weaker threat. He did very little to undermine Rick's place as leader (It would have been nice to see supplies vanishing, arguments over that, etc). But the real fast is that the major plotline felt like it was dangling, with one character being really the only one who cared enough to look for a little girl.

I understand that getting shelter and getting the hell away from zombies is big for survival, but in the end the whole season didn't make for good television. In the end I was grateful for the zombies because it pushed them, it made something happen in the grand scheme of things.

Now, with Season 3, we're finally starting to see some sort of human antagonist. I'd hesitate calling him a 'greater threat', but he's someone to focus on, help drive the overall story. So it helps out nicely, the season feels like it's going to move better with little drag, and we see actual human threats, and even conflict in the main group (Which felt sorely needed in the second season).

Character wise...well, I don't have much there. I wish Rick would have held back from being so authoritarian, and his eagerness to do whatever it takes...could have been slowed down. I think the time skip was awful in that regard for that. Daryl I can like because he doesn't always come across as an ass, just someone who has to do what he has to do. Glenn and Maggie are the closest thing to a moral compass that the group has at this point, because Lori to me feels a bit off, and everyone else is sitting on shades of gray or not enough characterization (I'd kill to have Dale back in that regard) But I don't know, I'm still watching but I'm not entirely sure why.