Walking Dead Recap Episode 5: WILDFIRE

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We open on Rick out in a field away from camp on his recovered walkie talkie broadcasting to Morgan who he hopes is listening. He tells him not to go to Atlanta.

This is the aftermath of the dead invasion on the survivors campsite. Its the next morning and the people are still cleaning up and making sure the dead stay dead. Andrea is still cradling her dead sister's body and Rick and Shane are trying to figure out a way to tell her they need to make sure she doesn't come back. Rick says he'll tell her and approaches Andrea who, knowing what he's coming to tell her, whips out her 9mm and suggests he back the fuck up. Rick backs off quietly.

Merle and the other men of the group are pick axing the dead in their heads and moving bodies to be burned. One of the bodies he's moving to the fire pile is a group member. Glenn confronts him and tells him that only walkers are to burned. Their friends and family get buried. Darryl disagrees but moves the body to the bury pile anyway. Jim is moving a body when Jacqui notices he's bleeding. He tries to play it off like its the blood of the zombies but she says its fresh. Immediately alarming the group, they surround Jim and discover he has a bit wound from a zombie. They isolate him again. Darryl suggests that they kill him and make sure Amy stays dead. Dale agrees and Darryl moves toward Jim to make it happen when Rick and Shane shut down the debate and tell Darryl at gun point "we don't kill the living!"

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Didn't like this ep...starting not to feel this series...5 eps in and its almost nothing like the comic. Its turning into a typical zombie storyline....IMO
 
have to agree. nothing about five made me want to keep watching at all. they just went totally left field almost into some type of Resident evil mess or something. ill give it another episode or two; if no change then im done with this.
 
Ya ep 5 was a MAJOR letdown...Geechiedan got his wish smmfh

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and now for the gloat dance...

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but for real...thats not what I wanted..what i wanted was for someone in the group and whoever they run across to SPECULATE periodically what they THINK happened.

I didn't want real answers..at least not yet..just someone every once in a while speculating on it.
 
Ernest Dickerson directed this episode too.
I was expecting a bit more.

But I think this fell more on the writers wanting to tone things down a bit after last week.
 
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

and now for the gloat dance...

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but for real...thats not what I wanted..what i wanted was for someone in the group and whoever they run across to SPECULATE periodically what they THINK happened.

I didn't want real answers..at least not yet..just someone every once in a while speculating on it.

there is a bit of "what happened?" later, much later.. then.. fuck what happened.. run..
 
I just came upstairs from reading book 7 of the comic. Shits crazy addictive. I'm sitting there like, "I have to go to work tomorrow. I have to go to work tomorrow...two more pages...
 
Damn ya'll didn't like episode 5?

I don't know why. That scene with Andrea and her sister was tense as hell. The sound effects on them pick axing those zombie corpses was gruesome as shit. The scene between Rick and Shawn was tight. You can see their relationship crumbling.

What some people forget is that this isn't a show about zombies, it's a show about people, with zombies as a backdrop. It's the story of humans in a fucked up situation. If you're just looking for zombies eating ppl, this aint your show.

Those of us who read the comic know that there were issues where things were quiet. Usually right after or right before some majorly fucked up shit.
 
isn't there only six episodes anyway ? :confused: (that's what i heard)
i figured five was boring to make six (the finale) seem exciting. :dunno:
 
I don't know why. That scene with Andrea and her sister was tense as hell. The sound effects on them pick axing those zombie corpses was gruesome as shit. The scene between Rick and Shawn was tight. You can see their relationship crumbling.

What some people forget is that this isn't a show about zombies, it's a show about people, with zombies as a backdrop. It's the story of humans in a fucked up situation. If you're just looking for zombies eating ppl, this aint your show.

Those of us who read the comic know that there were issues where things were quiet. Usually right after or right before some majorly fucked up shit.

They refuse to hear you.

As I've also said it other threads, "THE WALKING DEAD" comic is more about the human condition and what we do in the more absurd of circumstances than it is about zombies eating folks. That even in the most fucked up, apocalyptic situations, we never let go of trivial shit like Race, Class, Sexism, Jealousy, Absolute Power, etc.

If all that series was about was zombies eating people, it wouldn't have even lasted past 20-30 issues.

It was scenes like Andrea and her transforming, zombified sister Amy that was way more chilling and sad than anything on the TV series so far. I ain't ever gonna forget that shit of zombie Amy desperately trying to reach out to Andrea to "taste" her, only to have her brains blown out.

And the Rick/Shane "showdown"...
Shane's character has become way too popular on this show now to have his life ended by "you know who" in less than six episodes.

People who've never even read the series are whining.
People who have read the series are whining.

Some shit just doesn't translate well to TV/Movies because of dramatic effect and pacing. This has been why HollyWood has neglected comic book films for ages. And I think we are heading right back in that direction in a few years. Especially as HollyWood looks at all those "returns" dwindling due to constant whiny Fans, and people losing interest.

The great thing about "THE WALKING DEAD" so far is that the general public appears to be hooked past its initial Halloween "stunt broadcast". So hopefully it will last a while.
 
my problem is the drastic change in the story. Im not liking the direction its going is my opinion. the last episode was in fact boring i didnt feel any attachment and maybe because im looking at it with a critical eye and not just enjoying the show. thus is the price of putting on a show that already had a following.
 
This is the first zombie show or movie that I feel. Hopefully they keep it up. When that garage door opened it reminded me of something that would happen on left for dead the game.
 
Damn ya'll didn't like episode 5?

I don't know why. That scene with Andrea and her sister was tense as hell. The sound effects on them pick axing those zombie corpses was gruesome as shit. The scene between Rick and Shawn was tight. You can see their relationship crumbling.

What some people forget is that this isn't a show about zombies, it's a show about people, with zombies as a backdrop. It's the story of humans in a fucked up situation. If you're just looking for zombies eating ppl, this aint your show.

Those of us who read the comic know that there were issues where things were quiet. Usually right after or right before some majorly fucked up shit.

The Walking Dead are the survivors.. and it has a little hidden meaning in there as well.


I watched it again last night.. not as bad as i originally claimed. I still think the MVP's of the ep were dale, amy (who just laid there :lol:) and andrea. this is important for the show.

but the cdc stuff was a huge huge departure from the story. it takes away from another group of characters they meet later on. the despair of not knowing what is going on and why is important to the show.

Then again, its possible these 6 episodes were written with no expectations of doing a second season. it wasnt until episode 2 or 3 that amc asked for 13 more episodes. so i guess they expected to close out on the 6th episode.

also there is the issue of the helicopter. that is also later in the story. that introduces another group of survivors, probably one of the most important characters to be introduced ever.

as a whole the show is still good. its the cdc stuff i'm against. It wasnt about choosing to stay at camp or go to the cdc it was about shane wanting to stay at the camp cause there he felt important. rick wanted to go to a place with walls where they could hold up and be safe which then leads into them arguing and ..... other stuff...

the scene in the woods with rick and shane :smh: another huge departure.. it just feels like hollywood is more concerned with their bromance than what happens with lori, rick, carl regarding shane. not to mention no one at the camp seems to be bothered that shane was seeing his best friends (and his boss by the way) wife so casually. it was supposed to start a sense of mistrust. But instead we have this bullshit.

one little scene i didnt like was when Rick told carl that he would never run off again. maybe i'm wrong, but i dont recall rick ever saying this. part of the relationships rick has with the camp is about him running off all the time. he feels its his duty and i dont ever recall him making such a promise. the problem might be lori. in the comic she was a bit of a bitch (not just a dirty whore :lol:)

I just came upstairs from reading book 7 of the comic. Shits crazy addictive. I'm sitting there like, "I have to go to work tomorrow. I have to go to work tomorrow...two more pages...

i was the same way. i turned off my tv, ps3, etc and just sat there reading it all the way through, then... i reread it :lol:

fortunately i could read it on my phone so it was my daily reading during the commute to and from work. :dance: just read issue 79, issue 80 starts the new chapter "No Way Out"

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my problem is the drastic change in the story. Im not liking the direction its going is my opinion. the last episode was in fact boring i didnt feel any attachment and maybe because im looking at it with a critical eye and not just enjoying the show. thus is the price of putting on a show that already had a following.
 
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And this episode is exactly why I don't wan to see the gov. On screen. I would much rather have him left out entirely than have some fucked up bastardized version of him. I knew going in that it would be impossible for them to have this show play out like the comic book, the pacing being its biggest hindrance. The action/story may seem quick and jolting when you have a clip of them to read but when that shit is stretched month to month :smh:

So as to not be upset with the show I am going to continue to seperate the TWD tv universe from the TWD comic universe, and if you don't I am willing to bet you will be very disappointed when michonne shows up.

Do I like the cdc crap, NO. I am I willing to put up with it just to see one of my favorite comics appear in a different medium, yes.

But then again I am the same person that has had to suffer through three fucked up renditions of my favorite character (The Punisher) be brought to screen.
 
And this episode is exactly why I don't wan to see the gov. On screen. I would much rather have him left out entirely than have some fucked up bastardized version of him. I knew going in that it would be impossible for them to have this show play out like the comic book, the pacing being its biggest hindrance. The action/story may seem quick and jolting when you have a clip of them to read but when that shit is stretched month to month :smh:

So as to not be upset with the show I am going to continue to seperate the TWD tv universe from the TWD comic universe, and if you don't I am willing to bet you will be very disappointed when michonne shows up.

Do I like the cdc crap, NO. I am I willing to put up with it just to see one of my favorite comics appear in a different medium, yes.

But then again I am the same person that has had to suffer through three fucked up renditions of my favorite character (The Punisher) be brought to screen.


i'm with you on this.. damned if you do damned if you dont. the funny thing is at work i was pushing the walking dead on my tv watching co workers. they were sort of against it. but they started to watch it and are hooked.. these folk who love tv, shows that i dont really watch.. i'm not that much of a tv buff, i'm just now watching shows and thats thanks to netflix, these folk found episode 5 to be the best episode of the series so far.. go figure..

but they are also the ones that never read the books..
 
Like I said man these cats could never direct a movie or show. Shit would be all action and no substance. If these cats were directing it the black chick would have showed up in episode 2.
 
Like I said man these cats could never direct a movie or show. Shit would be all action and no substance. If these cats were directing it the black chick would have showed up in episode 2.

if who directed it? someone other than frank darabont?
 
the scene in the woods with rick and shane :smh: another huge departure.. it just feels like hollywood is more concerned with their bromance than what happens with lori, rick, carl regarding shane. not to mention no one at the camp seems to be bothered that shane was seeing his best friends (and his boss by the way) wife so casually. it was supposed to start a sense of mistrust. But instead we have this bullshit.

Fans of the comic are bitching too much.

Ya'll want everything to happen when you want it to.

We know whats going to happen with Rick and Shane, it's just isn't going to happen as soon as it did in the comic.

This is TV, you've got to pace it differently.

It's obvious that their building up to it...
 
Ya I was just being facetious...@ the direction they seem to be going w/ this I'd settled for the campfire discussion...I really really really hope they do not attempt to explain the zombie phenomena or try to find a cure...(a) it's too cliche and (b) it's a HUUUGE deviation from the comic storyline...I not a "purist" or anything...I was content w/ the additional characters and the subtle plot twists but right now it appears to be going in a direction that is totally against what the comic is about...I'm SO disappointed!

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

and now for the gloat dance...

:dance2::dance::dance2::dance:




but for real...thats not what I wanted..what i wanted was for someone in the group and whoever they run across to SPECULATE periodically what they THINK happened.

I didn't want real answers..at least not yet..just someone every once in a while speculating on it.
 
They refuse to hear you.

No one's ignoring him...we've said that to death in several threads...the shit got boring when that scientist @ CDC was introduced...a possible attempt to explain the zombies and discuss hopes/efforts toward a cure goes against exactly what the book is about and what you preaching which most in hear are familiar w/ so you not saying nothing
 
i'm with you on this.. damned if you do damned if you dont. the funny thing is at work i was pushing the walking dead on my tv watching co workers. they were sort of against it. but they started to watch it and are hooked.. these folk who love tv, shows that i dont really watch.. i'm not that much of a tv buff, i'm just now watching shows and thats thanks to netflix, these folk found episode 5 to be the best episode of the series so far.. go figure..

but they are also the ones that never read the books..

Right...this is what I was saying in the other thread...and why the show ultimately will be dumbed down and why I don't see major dramatic/traumatic events that happened in the comic playing out on the small screen cuz the type of tube dummies that you mentioned would not enjoy watching the despair that took place in the comic nor would they want to fathom the possibility that the living are more of a constant threat than the living dead...I said in that other thread how they handle the Shane/Rick incident will tell me how prepared they are willing to go...they don't seem to mind showing the violence between the zombies/humans but I honestly don't think they are prepared to show that same violence amongst the living...wow...it's just 1 ep but damn they did a lot of damage w/ that dumb ass predictable CDC shit
 
Fans of the comic are bitching too much.

Ya'll want everything to happen when you want it to.

We know whats going to happen with Rick and Shane, it's just isn't going to happen as soon as it did in the comic.

This is TV, you've got to pace it differently.

It's obvious that their building up to it...

Bullshit...the main complaint of the fans is the pandering to slow tv audiences by attempting to explain/sugarcoat the situation...prior to this CDC bullshit everyone was pretty much on the same page as far as enjoying the show
 
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