The Waiting is Brutal FOUR More Months Left

If you're like me you are counting the days or should I say months down to the start of the new season of The Walking Dead. I can't believe we still have a four month wait, the show returns in October. There has been talk that a trailer will be released some time in July (fingers crossed).

 

In a recent Produced By panel appearance at a Producers Guild event, someone asked “Walking Dead” producer David Alpert how he feels about working with "pre-existing" material and the challenges of adapting a long-lasting, successful comic book for television material for the series. 

According to Alpert, using Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead comic series as a template for the show has laid the ground work for many more seasons to come.“I happen to love working from source material, specifically because we have a pretty good idea of what season 10 is gonna be,” Alpert said. “We know where season 11 and 12… we have benchmarks and milestones for those seasons if we’re lucky enough to get there.”

Given the show’s exceptional ratings, The Walking Dead won’t go anywhere as long as the audience continues to grow and watch. Let's keep our fingers crossed that the AMC will keep it around for a very long time. I realize there is nothing I can write my fellow Dead Lovers that will make the wait more durable. So I'm guessing you are a bit starved by now and possibly looking at old episodes. Here's a video of the cast talking about the upcoming season. I hope this takes some of the sting away Cast Chat Enjoy!

The Walking Dead - Terminus Come for Sanctuary - Stay as a Meal

Walking Dead comic book fans and Telltale game series players suspected that Terminus had human ribs on the menu. But seeing decaying carcass of human remains tossed aside, like a turkey the day after Thanksgiving was shocking. Note: These remains look like something a butcher would throw out, cut with proficiency.
I believe Terminus is a remix of the two groups found in both the game and comic book. A group known as The Hunters were a roving band of cannibals. They appeared in Fear the Hunters storyline in the comics. They stalked, trapped and slowly killed other survivors for meat. Keep in mind, in this world you can't just kill people for food without them turning into Walkers. The Hunters would cut limbs off, tourniquet the wound and use the meat immediately. They always had fresh meat.

The second cannibalistic group resided on a Dairy Farm, led by Brenda St John. Her character appeared in Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead: Season One episode, Starved For Help. Like
Mary, Brenda appears to be a kindly older woman who is very welcoming to strangers. Her family lured survivors to their farm, similar to all the signage leading survivors to the welcoming doors of Terminus. Where Mary stands grilling slabs of meat.

Do you remember this guy?

Tryesse tried to help him on the railroad tracks. His dying words to Carol and Tyresse was "There's a safe place to bring the children. Trust me please ...follow the tracks." He sounded like a commercial for the place. Why was the man so infatic for them to go there? Could it be those men were scouts to lead unsuspecting people to the grill? 

I think we'll find that Terminus is probably a little bit like both groups. But they all have one thing in common ... a belief that everything taste the same with ketchup. If you are interested - I wrote an article on a news story about cannibalism in South Africa entitled Human Meat Burger. Fiction is not as far away off reality as you may think.

The Walking Dead Sneak Peek of Episode 13 "Alone"

Last week's episode, shows how disconnected Daryl and Beth truly were. If you remember while they were at the farm, Daryl had limited interaction with her and she was treated as a child who needed protection. But once they moved into the prison, I think Daryl viewed her as a liability. But when she didn't react to the death of Jimmy "her boyfriend", he saw her as cold and unfeeling.

In episode 12 “Still,” those misconceptions were shatter and the two have forged a new alliance as a team. While burning down the house in the woods, they have started anew. In the first sneak peek of episode 13 "Alone" you see the building of their friendship.

In the second sneak peek of “Alone”, Bob, Maggie and Sasha are standing back to back in the midst of a very dense fog. You can hear the Walkers coming closer to them. One by one, walkers emerge from the fog and the trio start putting them down. But things get very intense and speculation has been that Bob may be the next to go.

According to the official AMC description for the upcoming episode, one group finds shelter while another group has a realization about protection. What do you think? Is Bob next?

Is Tyresse the Next to Be Killed Off?

In episode 10 "Inmates" we saw Tyresse with an injured arm during the prison escape. Mika added to his pain when she scratched it while panicing in the woods. Is this a sign that he's in trouble? He's on his way with Carol and the kids to "Terminus". He is driven by keeping the kids safe but what about his own well being? If there are no medical supplies in Terminus, he will be in trouble with that open wound. Who knows, they may not even allow him to enter.

My concern began with the introduction of Abraham. In the comic series, he is best known as Tyreese's replacement, after Tyreese is beheaded by the Governor. Abraham eventually joins Rick and becomes his right hand man. But Tyreese is alive and Hershel was the unfortunate recipient of that katana. 

It appears that the writers sometimes avoid the same death to the characters in the comic series but tend to kill them off at different times in the television series. Is this the end for Tyreese? What do you think?