dudius
Well-Known Member
Good thoughts. You do gotta give some credit for what they attempt to do. I dont usually feel the tension that I think the show tries to make me feel, maybe I'm just jaded or spoiled from other things I've been into.
But a big thing to consider is that this isn't a movie based on a graphic novel, such as the Watchmen. That was fit into a 3 or 4 hour long directors cut and from what I'm told, stayed true to the graphic novel. This is cable TV, so the hate for the governor over his wicked deeds must be brought on by something different (unless what I heard about the comics comes up very soon. I mean, we do have three episodes left), because some **** just can't be shown on cable.
You also get the factor where the guy who wrote the comic is a writer for the show. I'll use an example of something similar. An ex girlfriend read The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks, the book to chick-flick guy. The book was about the girl and her dad and her romance was a side-story, but the movie was the same story but told differently to focus on the romance. With The Walking Dead, it still focuses on Rick but things are re-written to tell a similar story differently. Part of it is to keep things new and create surprises, and part of it is production limitations. Its possible that AMC wanted more episodes so the writers had to stretch the story out a bit.
But a big thing to consider is that this isn't a movie based on a graphic novel, such as the Watchmen. That was fit into a 3 or 4 hour long directors cut and from what I'm told, stayed true to the graphic novel. This is cable TV, so the hate for the governor over his wicked deeds must be brought on by something different (unless what I heard about the comics comes up very soon. I mean, we do have three episodes left), because some **** just can't be shown on cable.
You also get the factor where the guy who wrote the comic is a writer for the show. I'll use an example of something similar. An ex girlfriend read The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks, the book to chick-flick guy. The book was about the girl and her dad and her romance was a side-story, but the movie was the same story but told differently to focus on the romance. With The Walking Dead, it still focuses on Rick but things are re-written to tell a similar story differently. Part of it is to keep things new and create surprises, and part of it is production limitations. Its possible that AMC wanted more episodes so the writers had to stretch the story out a bit.