After last night’s finale which broke it’s own ratings record (9 Million viewers), a slew of information has emerged. If you’re a fan*, or someone who doesn’t like spoilers, avoid reading the rest of this. If not, and you’re like me who likes to know as much as possible, then read on!
The tail end of the finale featured a woman in a poncho with 2 chained zombies. That would be Michonne. She was basically introduced the same way she was from the comics. Wielding a Samurai sword. We didn’t see her face, most likely because she hadn’t been cast yet. Well, now she’s been cast. A lady named Danai Guria will be picking up the Katana and do some zombie slaying for the next season, and hopefully longer.
As a big fan of the comic* It was cool that the final shot was of the prison, as thats the point where things get really crazy, and some truly shocking things happen.
What is also confirmed (and something we all have hoped for) is that Michael Rooker will be returning as Merle, and he was quoted recently as saying that he’d “Lost 20 pounds for the role.” so this means that we will be seeing Merle post-hacksaw, and probably not eating well, thus the losing of weight. Wouldn’t doubt he runs into The Governor’s crew and becomes a part of it. Let’s hope its more than just one episode. Is it too much to hope for him to be a regular for the season?
Either way I’m really looking forward to this next season and what horrific treasures it bestows on us.
*I, like others was put off by how slow the first half was, but man did these last 6 episodes really pick up the pace. The finale may very well be the best episode of the season, with the “Rick and Shane throw down over killing the kid” episode. Both of which were coincidentally directed by Ernest Dickerson. For the record, I loved all 6 episodes of the short first season. I’ll be with this show until the end.
*I’ve known about the comic for years, but it wasn’t until just before the show premiered that I picked up the first volume, and then got hooked and ordered the rest of the volumes that were available on Amazon. Makes for compelling reading.
source: Collider
source: bloody-disgusting
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This explains Rooker’s gaunt appearance at a horror covention in NJ two weekends ago. I was worried the man was sick.
Man, he must be really skinny then. Too bad he had to lose weight, he probably doesn’t have his abs of steel anymore.
rene, you might get tired of the books after the governor saga ends as I did. But I agree, the stuff in the prison is excellent…but the show has taken a lot of liberties already that I don’t know what to expect from it.
Sadly I fear that there is no possible way AMC will dramatize – or be able to dramatize – some of the sick shit that goes down re: The Governor/Prison storylines. But if the TV show keeps throwing curve balls like they have been doing and mixing it up a little, I’ll continue to enjoy the print and filmed alt-realities of TWD silmultaneously.
Oh, and perhaps controversially, I think Season 2 improved dramatically since Darabont’s departure…
It has slowed down once they got to “that place” where they’re at now, but I like where things are going. Kirkman is still surprising me with what kind of hell he’s going to put Rick Grimes through.
I’m definitely looking forward to what they end up doing with the prison on the show. Lots of different twists they can add in.
As a fan of the comic, I enjoyed the second season a lot more than the first, as the first seemed to try to cover much more ground than it should have, and in only half the episodes of a regular season. I can understand that during production of the first season, they didn’t know if there would BE a second season yet, so they had to plan for the worst, but they already had the characters bumping into other groups of survivors who weren’t what they seemed (and ultimately meant NOTHING to the overall story) by the third episode and having everything explained to them in the sixth (which hasn’t even happened in the book in nearly 100 issues), when it really should have JUST been about our core group and how they’re adjusting to the zombie apocalypse. As mentioned, a lot of messed up shit happens once the prison and Governor get involved, and part of it was because our group hadn’t really run into any other large groups yet, and they were SO willing to trust anyone else at that point. While I’d like to see the prison stuff stretched out into 2 seasons (or just one extra long one), they really need to get a move on, because Lori’s pregnancy gives them a timeline that they need to stick by, and it’s only a matter of time before the kid playing Carl really starts to grow up. Regarding how the prison storyline ties up in the comics, I’m REALLY interested to see if they go there…
I wonder if Merle will be the Mayor.
Governor. And it’s already confirmed that he won’t, since they’ve cast another actor in the role.
Also, I doubt that the Governor will play much of a role in season 3. They need to settle down into life at the prison before he comes along and ruins it. My guess is he won’t appear until the last episode, like Michonne did this year.
I doubt they’d announce such a casting decision for a character who’d appear in the next to last shot of the season 3 finale. I agree though, that he likely won’t be a major player until the latter half of the season.
I’m really excited for the next season. The prison arc and the Governor stoylines lines should be really cool to watch.
I’m interested to see how T-Dawg will develop. I imagine that they’re will be some prisoners who stayed there, and some will no doubt be black, and immediately assume T-Dawg is with and understand them. And Michonne will be crazy to watch. That actress is fucking great. Watch The Visitor if you want to see how good she can be.
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