Walking Dead on AMC
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LordRavage
I dont care where they show it. I have been wanting to a see a zombie tv series for ages! The Walking Dead is fantastic and would love to see it as a regular tv series.
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The network that brought us Mad Men and Breaking Bad is weak? AMC is close to being the new HBO.
For a basic cable station, AMC is fantastic with censorship for their original series - they actually allow swearing. Sure, when it's aired it's blanked out, but once it's released on DVD, that doesn't matter any more.Frankie said:
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:eyeroll:Cat said:
Cat, what's your problem with AMC's original series content?
Have you seen Mad Men and/or Breaking Bad?Cat said:
WD is my fav comic book series... it's one of the few comics I actually go out and make a point of buying every month. I'm hopeful, but cautious.
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This.Cat said:
Unless they plan to air it uncut, it's going to suck.
Half of the cool factory aside from the great characters and wtfmoments in Walking Dead is A) the violence and B) the dialogue
AMC may be a cable station but they still can't say a lot of certain words that are considered profanity
Nor would they be able to truly show us the zombie loving gore Kirkman piles into his book
This would have been perfect on HBO or Showtime (imagine this as a lead in to True Blood or Dexter)
*sigh* I mean yea most of us fans will still watch it but seriously, it's going to be watered down zombies and the humans that interact with them
What makes good TV is a good story. Period. Sure, lots of things can ruin that, but lack of profanity is not one of those things. Though I can't be too surprised at your comments, Mav. You still like Heroes.
more blood, tits, and fucks automatically make a work better, this is a proven fact
wait a minute, I just realized I'm not 13
now banging that 15 year old last night is a problem
now banging that 15 year old last night is a problem
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It's not just profanity dude.MindDetective said:
The zombie gore is going to be minimal. Only slightly above what you could see on network tv.
Airing it on AMC affects everything from profanity, to the violence, to the gore and to the nudity.
Seriously, how many PG-13 zombie movies are there that have been good?
Imagine an ongoing pg-13 zombie show based on one great comic book..
Besides the zombie gore, which doesn't matter that much (though it needs to look good, some of the shots from the first issue such as the almost totally rotten body outside of the hospital would be awesomely disturbing) what does matter more is the interactions between the human characters. The often extremely brutal way the survivors treat one another. The comic is extremely brutal and yes, I do think it would hurt the series overall to be toned down. The comic's human on human violence is waaaaaaay more eerie and disturbing than the random zombie shit.
I would definitely rather the show be on Showtime or HBO.
I would definitely rather the show be on Showtime or HBO.
They edit those movies once, down to PG, and then play them whenever the fuck they want.Frankie said:
They play their original series at night, and rate them MA, and get away with a fuckton of HBO-level stuff on Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
The slasher TV show on CBS(C-B-S!) had as its first kill a dude get cut in half graphically, spitting up blood, then showed both halves with blood and bones/guts jutting out of each. American TV can push violence barriers all it wants, even cable. If the pilot comes out and it has less death than the A-Team, then rage away, but until then, it's reasonable to say that there's no reason to think this is gonna be neutered.
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