the walking dead premiere
Oct. 31st, 2010 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardMy main thought on The Walking Dead tonight: this would be much more awesome if the main killer was a woman. (An Asian woman! I kept recasting the (male, white) main character as Grace Park for some reason. OMG, how awesome would that be? Lena Headey would also be quite awesome. OMG, can we have the Connor family fighting zombies?)
I saw Sarah Wayne Callis's name in the opening credits, and got really excited -- but, uh, she didn't show up much, and she didn't have a gun. There are at least three characters so far in this show that would be much more interesting if they were women: considering there weren't that many characters with speaking parts, that's, um, saying something.
Will probably keep watching, as the roommate really likes zombies and so far seems to really like the show. On the other hand, they did a preview of the entire season, and holy shit, could they have cast more white men in this show? I mean, it's set in Georgia, I'm fairly sure the state is more diverse.
BUT WHY DID THEY HAVE TO KILL THE HORSE. Main character whose name I didn't catch got ten times more awesome as soon as he got the horse! I would totally have been much more interested in him if he'd KEPT THE GODDAMN HORSE.
Fail, partner, fail for hooking up with your partner's wife. I suspect that the chances of this ending in a stable threesome are slight, and are likely to end with the partner dying to save the main character and the MC ending back up with his wife.
Characters who would have been more awesome if at least one of them was female: main character, partner, sad father, motherless son. That about sums up everyone with a speaking part aside from the two actual women on screen, yes? Anyway. Fail points for starting with that conversation about how women are different than men, too; um...they needed it to establish that Main Character was having problems with his wife?
Other thoughts, developed after conversation with Texas: color and lighting is interesting -- the fact that the park is so bright, but the majority of the lighting is washed out. The sound/silence was good -- the beginning's a nice touch; I am a little impressed that they started off the show with the main killing a child. I understand the main a little more after seeing him, you know, put on his uniform, and you can tell that the braid on his hat is shined -- it's this sense of him armoring himself, and that combined with the horse definitely reads as knight in shining armor going into battle. Texas notes that the sound his hat makes when it hits the ground is "the sound of a good quality hat." Also impressed that the gunshot in the enclosed space of the tank deafened him; nice touch with the details. Do wish that the speaker over the radio at the end was a woman. (I sense a recurring theme, probably throughout the entire show, if the season preview is any clue.)
No, seriously, this would have been much improved if they'd cast Grace Park or Lena Headey as the main character. If I notice it, there's a problem. Although Texas has informed me that this is based off a comic book, and thus all roles are pretty much set, so... *sigh*
I saw Sarah Wayne Callis's name in the opening credits, and got really excited -- but, uh, she didn't show up much, and she didn't have a gun. There are at least three characters so far in this show that would be much more interesting if they were women: considering there weren't that many characters with speaking parts, that's, um, saying something.
Will probably keep watching, as the roommate really likes zombies and so far seems to really like the show. On the other hand, they did a preview of the entire season, and holy shit, could they have cast more white men in this show? I mean, it's set in Georgia, I'm fairly sure the state is more diverse.
BUT WHY DID THEY HAVE TO KILL THE HORSE. Main character whose name I didn't catch got ten times more awesome as soon as he got the horse! I would totally have been much more interested in him if he'd KEPT THE GODDAMN HORSE.
Fail, partner, fail for hooking up with your partner's wife. I suspect that the chances of this ending in a stable threesome are slight, and are likely to end with the partner dying to save the main character and the MC ending back up with his wife.
Characters who would have been more awesome if at least one of them was female: main character, partner, sad father, motherless son. That about sums up everyone with a speaking part aside from the two actual women on screen, yes? Anyway. Fail points for starting with that conversation about how women are different than men, too; um...they needed it to establish that Main Character was having problems with his wife?
Other thoughts, developed after conversation with Texas: color and lighting is interesting -- the fact that the park is so bright, but the majority of the lighting is washed out. The sound/silence was good -- the beginning's a nice touch; I am a little impressed that they started off the show with the main killing a child. I understand the main a little more after seeing him, you know, put on his uniform, and you can tell that the braid on his hat is shined -- it's this sense of him armoring himself, and that combined with the horse definitely reads as knight in shining armor going into battle. Texas notes that the sound his hat makes when it hits the ground is "the sound of a good quality hat." Also impressed that the gunshot in the enclosed space of the tank deafened him; nice touch with the details. Do wish that the speaker over the radio at the end was a woman. (I sense a recurring theme, probably throughout the entire show, if the season preview is any clue.)
No, seriously, this would have been much improved if they'd cast Grace Park or Lena Headey as the main character. If I notice it, there's a problem. Although Texas has informed me that this is based off a comic book, and thus all roles are pretty much set, so... *sigh*