C) the ****ty writers left it unanswered because it doesn't matter who drove the bus.

Its obvious who drove that bus, the only surivior chick that was left alive after the gov shot everyone down. You remember the one, the one that slams both her hands against a bus window in order to be recognised as a human and not a walker.
Even though her actions would indicate me shooting her with panic the moment she did that.

So you all was mad that Darabont held back on the man in the tank from S1?

How could we be mad, since we didn't know it was supposed to happen until after he was let go from the show? In hindsight, I don't think there's anyone who wouldn't have wanted to see the show how FD intended it. That didn't happen, so we have to move on with what's there, and it's obviously not what he intended, at the very least, from a character development level.

I've always wanted to see more scenes from the intial outbreak, especially from a military perspective. It would have been refreshing and a nice change of pace

Only reason it never happened was b/c AMC is notoriously tight assed with their budget allocations and had most of season 2 confined to a farm in order to save money

Show your source

I think LFS (can't remember if that's his name for sure, but pretty sure that's it) was the first person to post it maybe in the season 2 thread. What he said jibes with knowledge I have from elsewhere. That's as much as I'm willing to say.

I don't think they ever got to shoot the episode and "blow their budget on it" like you suggest

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/01/09/fr...season-2-plan/

Here is the article italking about Darabon'ts plans for season 2 by James Hibberd of Entertainment Weekly

Since the plans were rejected by AMC, it's safe to say that the scenes were never actually shot

Really makes you think what could of been though

No, my understanding is that some of the Witwer stuff was shot.

Made an edit, because I was sketchy on remembering the details of what was planned.

I like it better than this show already.

ya but shows how poor the writing was. most people were agreeing with Shane for most of s2. yes he snapped. but he was still making hte most sense

It's better, sure, but it's still a huge disappointment. The actors aren't good enough to pull off campy humor without making the show feel like it's first level campy. They certainly can't pull off emotional scenes. And they all are trying to emulate their silver screen counterparts, who were far better actors, so their performances feel forced and unnatural.

I could have sworn that I read that the original concept, or one of the original concepts was to have it be almost completely episodic, with reoccuring rolls having only small spots. The meat of the show was going to be "Zombie Kill of the Week!!", which would have been ****ing glorious. Not only would it have been glorious, but it after the movie was made, it would have alleviated the issue of recasting the lead rolls. They really drop the ball here.

However, Alpha House (another Amazon Original pilot, which is currently free to view like the rest) is insanely good. John Goodman, comedy, enough said. I know I said, 'nuff siad, but the rest of the cast is awesome too.

Those Who Can't is my next watch. Looks to be a good dose of slapstick and shock value humor.

So, yeah, someone should probably start a Amazon Originals Pilot Season thread, no?

Was looking on a local tattoo shop website and found this cracker. I want to pop into the shop so i can find him for a interview and find out WTF was going through his head

That's absolutely horrendous.

In ten years, every conversation he has is going to begin with, "you see, there was this TV show..."

that actually does look better than walking dead

Most people will know what The Walking Dead is in 10 years. In 15 years, maybe not, and in 20 probably not.

I don't know Carl is only like 13

Comic readers

Man season 2 finale was awesome, how the **** does an abomination like the season 3 finale happen to these people?

Kinda bugged me that Milton didn't even try to help Andrea. Dude's legs should have been fine. You're going to die anyway, why not at least give it a shot. He seemed to linger forever.. he couldn't have slowly crawled over or somehow used his last strength to walk and grab the tool?

Ha, I didn't even think of this. He stayed alive for like 10 minutes of screen time, which has to represent in the ballpark of 30 minutes show time.

Man... this show and its contrivances.

silly bitch spent a whole episode trying to pick up wire cutters with her feet, pausing occasionally to chat to the guy who was about to turn into a zombie and eat her face. She deserved to die imo