I am

I'm also looking forward to "Hell on wheels", but I'm a fool for westerns and western stuff.

Me too although the thought of the upcoming second season of Game of Thrones excites me even more!

Anyone planning on attending The Walking Dead panel at NYCC? Thinking about it, but might be too full/crowded...

Me too (Hence Red Dead every day for hours)! I actually forgot about this one. Looks good. My g/f got me Ken Burns 'The West' dvd series for my b-day watching it now.

I'm already anticipating being scared about whether or not any light is getting out through my curtains at night so that zombies can't see me as I go about my business...really, this show gets inside my head!

New Walking Dead webisodes are up!!!

http://kxfxhxc.squarespace.com/home/2011/10/4/the-walking-dead-webisodes.html

Can't wait for season 2!!!

I saw those, glad they offered them as Walking Dead Season 2 is top of my list for most anticipated return of a show. That said they were a little ehhhhhh.... I do see Season 2 Pass is now available on iTunes finally. That's how I'll be watching it. $34.99 but you do get more than double the episodes this year.

Oh wow this is fucking creepy:

http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/v ... -comic-con

Can not wait to watch this. Starts tonight.

^ Yep! Stoked for the season premiere tonight..


By the way, those without Netflix streaming.... AMC will be having a marathon of all the episodes in order up until the new episode starts. Starting @ 2:30 PM.

Did they ever state how many episodes there were this season?

I can't believe it's been a year.

Bryce it's 13 this season. First 9 starting tonight through mid December. Break, then last 4 starting in February.

Definitely stoked on the return of this show.

Does anyone know if AMC is going to show the premiere online like they did last year? Or do I have to wait till tomorrow for it to load to iTunes?

Seriously .... Does AMC stand for " Another Motherfucken Commercial" ....

Just let the show play already

at the end of last season the guy at the center for disease control whispered to Rick:




***SPOILER ALERT***




"I can see your house from here"

lol... i was thinking the same thing. high commercial to content ratio.

Saw it this morning on iTunes. Good thing about watching it there is it's commercial free. Was pretty surprised when I saw the episode was only just under 103 minutes as I thought the premiere was suppose to be and hour and a half. Which means they had 27 minutes of commercials last night! Pretty misleading to their viewership. Hope AMC isn't going to cut into the average 45 minute running showtime (from last year) with more commercials because they're so hard up for cash!

As far as the premiere content. (SPOILERS):

They have to give up looking for that kid. I was a little disappointed with the writing. Daryl & Rick cutting up the zombie should have revealed partial bits of Sophia. That would have been good writing and then the dilemma of breaking the bad news. More shocking. This is zombie apocalypse not the guiding light. So much potential with introducing more characters (survivors) and wasting familiar characters. I was hoping the premiere would reveal a new death and stray from the books (I know Carl survives and they're going to the Hershel farm right away)

That was one uneventful 90 minutes.

I'm just gonna say it ... The writing really sucked and I'm loosing interest in the characters already. Last nights bombardment of commercials totally threw me off. Everytime I was starting to connect BAM commercial. I can't find a character to connect with, and I can't feel for some of these people. Oddly I didn't flinch when carl got ...well you know. The character development is lacking and is just starting to get annoying.

I never read the books, but are there also such in your face catholic references as well ?

I mean come on already, a little more clever delivery and hidden symbolism would help.

Sorry to be a downer, but I hold higher hopes. Still time to turn it all around though. Kill everyone off and start again, including the writing staff

Yeah the writing was a little predictable, but with a year off and expectations high it was bound to disappoint. I wonder if losing Frank Darabont's direction will dull the show down? Last season was great because it was non stop tense moments. Danger lurking everywhere. Then again Breaking Bad started off super slow and closed out nice.

Rich no the books had pretty much zero Catholic references. I mean they meet a priest way way down the road from where they are now but that's all I can remember.

Did anyone catch the tent reference to Earl from last season? Kind of silly. The corpse had a button that said 'No excuse for Domestic Violence'! Earl was a wife abuser and got eaten in a tent.

Am I the only one hoping that Merle does not end up the Governor? It's seems too contrived and too easy.

EDIT: Damn this article I found just stole my thunder for noticing that button on freeze frame:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/17/walki ... kman-carl/

But Kirkman also states that they edited the first two episodes into one. Sounds like I would have liked to have seen the rest of the escape from CDC! Damn it! This is all marketing. Claim it to be a 1.5 hour premiere but use .5 of that for commercials. Then give an interview saying it was more action packed?! WTF? What now I have to buy the damn DVD set to see it unedited?

I love zombie stuff, and my wife likes the show so we watched it, but I still don't understand why they don't just adapt the comic. It is fast paced and reads like a movie already. Why change it?

Also, Lixx I think you're right about the governor.

If you don't mind waiting a little, buy the episodes from iTunes or pull 'em from USENET, where they usually show up less than two hours after the east coast broadcast. No commercial interruptions.

Need to watch this episode again but at least the scene with the dead shuffling through as the living hid under vehicles was creepy and suspenseful.

The commercials were coming non-stop last night, hopefully it was because it's the premier, and they wanted to sell tons of ad time. But I usually just watch Boardwalk Empire first, while I DVR Walking Dead.

Yeah Monday morning is my big show watch time. I watch everything online and iTunes downloads Monday or pirate sites offer them so...

So I think what is missing so far are that the characters left after last season just aren't that interesting. We never get to hear from Merle again (although I hope he does NOT come back as the Governor). Jim was cool but, we know how that turned out (I was hoping for a scene with him showing up randomly as a walker). I liked Morales & Jacqui. Morgan (Lenny James is just a brilliant actor) will show up eventually but the Hershel story arc is blah to me from the books. We have a pretty whiny crew left. Daryl and T Dog are ok but really, think about it:

The CDC blew up (quite a large explosion too) and that was your last hope for salvation, next we just see them on the road with zero real discussion? The initial scene with the herd of zombies was cool but the rest of the episode with the group drama AND three characters asking Jesus what to do was really annoying. Little girl should be inside a zombies rotted stomach by now.

I just hope the writing gets a little less predictable and not every episode is some moral dilemna. I don't need total carnage every 5 seconds but throw us off once in awhile, with a death, something. It does not just have to be about Rick Grimes keeping everyone safe 24-7. Some Cold Story would be good to, into the backgrounds of current characters, how they first escaped, kind of like that scene with Shane and Rick at the hospital last year.

speaking of commercials; I was making fun of Shane picking a Hyundai for his car out of all the other cars on the highway.

Then AMC cut to a Hyundai commercial