Did you tune in to the season 4 premiere of Breaking Bad Sunday night, if for nothing else than to catch the preview clip of The Walking Dead AMC has been teasing us with for weeks now?
I did.
And I expected something else entirely. I wanted a sneak peek to whet my whistle, not just another zombie shellacking. I wanted to see a hint of things to come, not just a random bludgeoning. I wanted an extra level of excitement from the sneak peek alone to get me pumped about the upcoming season, but instead I was left high and dry.
Sure, I’m thrilled we’re inching closer and closer to the new episodes. And I can’t wait. But the bone AMC tossed us wasn’t satisfying in the least. The stoning Rick took to that first zombie looked cheesy and fake. The dead on face plant to Zombie #2 afterward (Bullseye!) was too predictable. In my opinion, it was nothing more than fluff and it wasn’t up to snuff. (It was nice to see Rick had that anxious, desperate gleam in his eye, however. But other than that …)
If you weren’t around, the clip is below. Am I wrong for wanting a bit more substance from it? What say you?
Clacked by Michael Noble 
on Jul 19, 2011 @ 12:45 EST5EDT
Indeed, it was not much of anything.
I agree. It made it look like an empty-headed, violent zombie show. If this is what they think the viewers want, Season 2 may be disappointing. I watched Season 1 for all the subtle points in plot and character, essentially in spite of all the gore and zombie killing.
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Scott: With all the characterization they got right, all those subtle plot points, etc., I would be horrified if they chucked out the baby with the bath water.
That won’t happen.
If it does, there will be a cry so loud they won’t know what hit them.
I believe this was nothing more than an aside they threw at us to appease the masses. (And believe me, I’ve read: Some of those masses are giddy with delight over this piece.) This may be the bee’s knees to some, but not to me. I have little reservations about Season 2 not being as well plotted and produced as the previous. I have great faith.
What “subtle points in plot and character”? The dramatic aspects of the first season were shallow, typical, and boring. Without zombies, this show would be unwatchable.
Actually, for shallow, typical, and boring, see “Falling Skies”, a similar show about humans surviving after the end of the world. I’m still watching that, but the characters seem like cardboard cutouts compared to some of the people we got to know in the half-season of “The Walking Dead”.
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J: Did we watch the same program?
I’ll give you one example: The entire play out with Morgan Jones and his extremely emotive attempt at “releaving” his zombified wife of her undead state. Cripes! I was in tears and ached for the man! Seriously! That whole sequence was heart-rending and excellently acted in my opinion.
And that’s been a theme throughout the entire first abbreviated season. I not only have high expectations of same for Season 2, I hope there are times it’s expounded upon.
A shovel to the head or pop with a shotgun to a zombie’s noggin come a dime a dozen in any horror flick. Give me something more.
The Walking Dead gives that to me. Story, acting, production value, more.
The zombies are just the players in the game. Important ones, to be certain … but … they’re still just zombies …
I disagree.
What that sneak preview implied was that something’s gone horribly wrong.
Rick has no weapons, unkempt and alone.
I can’t wait to find out how that came to be.
Breaking Bad wipes the floor with this mediocre show. The writer of this article is an imbecile for tuning in specifically for a preview of TWD and not Breaking Bad`s premiere.
I bought season 1 of Breaking Bad at Target randomly for $10 one day. I watched all the episodes in pretty much one sitting. It’s hard to compare anything to that wonderful show.
Echos,
Michael didn’t say he watched Breaking Bad just to see the clip from TWD. What he did was lead with a question asking the readers if they tuned in for the season premiere of Breaking Bad, even if it was only for the clip from TWD.
By the way it was phrased I can see how you could misconstrue what he was saying, but if you were less inclined to go off on a name-calling rant you would have picked up on the fact that he never stated *he* only tuned in for the clip. Michael is a lot of things, some of them good, some of them bad, many of them unmentionable, but he is certainly not an imbecile. Even he knows you can find such clips in most of the intarweb tubes, so watching one show just for a clip from another is kind of pointless.
I don’t think many people who watch both series would disagree with the assertion that BB is a better show than TWD, but they are both very good shows. If you don’t like a show, fine, but calling people names because their opinions differ from yours is something we usually outgrow by the time we get to middle school. If you are in middle school, then I do apologize since name-calling would still be forgivable at your age, but if you’re not then maybe consider counting to 10 (about the time it takes to find and swallow a Xanax) before you rant on someone over an opinion.
If you’re a regular reader of CliqueClack you know Michael types with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek and his brain somewhere in the pile of dirty laundry collecting in a dank corner of his S&M dungeon. Regular readers wouldn’t have it any other way.
To Michael: You go, gurl! (And if you find a pair of leather bikini briefs, I think I left them last Saturday.)
Seriusly Tom. You rock.
Thanks Tara! Any and all compliments are both graciously accepted and applied towards inflating my ego.
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Watch it, Tom: I resemble some of those remarks.
And no: I’m not revealing which ones …
Michael, I’m still waiting on my briefs. And using the old, “But they still have that new bondage smell” excuse ain’t gonna fly with me, mister.
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Echos Myron: Who said I tuned in “… specifically for a preview of TWD and not Breaking Bad`s premiere” … ???
Perhaps I’m an odd duck with this one, but I didn’t watch the sneak peek at all. I’m a fan of both shows, but since I know I’ll be tuning in to watch TWD later this year, I skipped over the sneak peek while watching the season premier of BB on my DVR. I especially didn’t feel this was worth watching because of how far out the show’s premier is from Sunday. If it was in a week, or maybe a month, I might have watched it.
I’m actually getting a bit annoyed at all the sneak peeks and tiny scraps of tidbits of shows all the time. If you’re not going to show something significant in length and content, don’t bother.
Now someone will say “so you don’t watch movie trailers?” to which I’d reply that I’m not a fan of the “teaser trailer” but full blown trailers usually give a good idea of the movie and help decide if I’m going to see the movie in question.