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"The hilarious nadir being a large band of people who seemingly live in the worlds biggest scrap heap rubbish dump and all act like they have concussion "Me am us guns you give." (That may be a direct quote). They all walked silently in patterns and wore grey and looked like they were looking for their missing synthesizers. Just rubbish"
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I think they were all given the THUNDERDOME script by mistake.
That's the only thing I can think of for their complete mind-wipe after a few years of zombie plague epidemic.
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"The hilarious nadir being a large band of people who seemingly live in the worlds biggest scrap heap rubbish dump and all act like they have concussion "Me am us guns you give." (That may be a direct quote). They all walked silently in patterns and wore grey and looked like they were looking for their missing synthesizers. Just rubbish"
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I think they were all given the THUNDERDOME script by mistake.
That's the only thing I can think of for their complete mind-wipe after a few years of zombie plague epidemic.
Understand well them do you. The initiation ceremony is finding all grey or black clothing then they bop you on the head. You also have to bring one piece if scrap metal for the pile!
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Yes kev n oblic - in fairness that group were unbelievably irritating.
Spoiler gag
i think they missed a trick at the end where bad fringe trimmed under a german helmet haircut girl gave the finger as their truck drove away in hail of bullets - how much funnier would it have been if her hand or finger got shot off??
How i woulda larfed. 
Btw from dragons news
" THE WALKING DEAD---the Season 7 finale drew 11.3 million viewers which is 20% lower than Season 6's finale and the lowest finale audience since Season 2's finale."
Well america voting with its... erm ...switch over knob.
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Dp. I thought - just like walking dead - id drag it out and post it again.
in the final analysis, people know when they are being toyed with and get annoyed with that.
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Apr 4, 2017 - 1:35 PM
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Lots of SPOILERS AHEAD. DON’T READ IF YOU HAVE SEEN THIS SEASON’S EPISODES.
As I said, times were good and times were bad for me. Too often, I felt the writers were just “filling up” the season instead of writing relevant meaty episodes that forwarded the narrative.
I really didn’t like the episode where Morgan, in his usual “angsty” mood, had to kill Richard. (Richard wanted the saviors to kill him to help the groups rise up, but they killed the young boy instead.) That whole scenario could have been accomplished in 15 minutes.
I thought the finale dragged out Sasha’s reflections and demise for way too long. She was in the “group,” but I never thought she was as important as Glenn or others. Her reflections upon her past lasted way too long. The writers were probably trying to add layers of sympathy.
On the other hand, some parts were good, and the finale provided some real surprises for me. I knew Negan wouldn’t die because I read he would be in season 8. I couldn’t figure out how he knew that an uprising was coming. I was surprised to see that Hippie Garbage Gal and her minions had sold Rick out.
When Negan was going to bash in Carl’s head, I thought Rick would plead and turn to his son with words of love, but he didn’t, and that didn’t ring true. However, having the tiger jump out just in time really did surprise me. I forgot that when one died, one became a zombie, so when Sasha came out as a zombie, I jumped. Too bad she didn’t chomp on Negan. I was glad to see some forces reunite and to see Carol back fighting instead of being all “angsty” again.
I am hoping season 8 will be exciting and will lack fillers. I haven’t read that there is a season 9, so maybe there will only be one season, and that will be the end. We’ll wait and see. (Somebody kill off Dr. Eugene please unless he changes.)
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Im with you joan.
Yes the relentless angst of characters does seem to last 17 scenes too many.
We had it for what seemed like 4 episodes with man with the kung fu stick.
Its yeah we get it. Why does everything like that have to be drawn, signposted, alarmed up, built in 20 ft lettering that lights up and sings and dances - jeez, you made your point, move on.
And yeah joan - fillers is exactly the right word.
And i still think badly trimmed hair shoulda had her hand shot off. 
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Apr 4, 2017 - 2:33 PM
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"Why does everything like that have to be drawn, signposted, alarmed up, built in 20 ft lettering that lights up and sings and dances - jeez, you made your point, move on."
Good point, Bill. Maybe they do that because people like you (PBW's) are watching it, and they want to make it easy for people like YOU to comprehend the stories. (Oh, forgive me, but I couldn't resist! )
emusician, I think you are right about binge watching. I'm hooked on the show, warts and all, so I watch it every Sunday night which means I get 5 minutes of the show and 4 minutes of advertisements. That drives me nuts!! Hour long shows used to have only about one advertisement every 15 minutes. That's gone now, especially on AMC.
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Wot ya saying Huey? That im dumb n thick? And everything has to be spoon-fed and dumbed down and obvious and have every inch of its lily gilded for people like me to follow it?!!
Ok, fair assessment.
btw emusician, good point about the box set bingeing, as you say, when theres no wait, its less irritating.
In uk i think we get 4 advert breaks per episode.
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i think they missed a trick at the end where bad fringe trimmed under a german helmet haircut girl gave the finger as their truck drove away in hail of bullets - how much funnier would it have been if her hand or finger got shot off??
That was Negan.
First of all, I assume we don't have to spoiler-warn in this thread, since it's not a good idea to click on it if you still haven't seen the finale?
I'm caught up on the show but yes, the spoiler feature should be used in this thread because people should be allowed to explore the thread thinking they might find discussion of the actual music and score since the thread title says as much and this is the General Discussion side of the board.
Why this thread continues on and on (and on) while only intermittently paying lip service to the music baffles me when there is a Non-Film Score Discussion side to the Forum and pretty much every other time people reserve non-film score talk to that area. Can't figure out why this is the exception, because the music is barely discussed here. Maybe 10% of the time?
So yes, the spoiler feature should be used, it's not that difficult and there is a spoiler feature on this forum that is extremely easy to use...
So as to practice what I preach here, I will continue to voice my support of Bear McCreary's phenomenal score to the show and continue to lament its lack of official release by any label in any format. Last night's episode had typical excellent work, particularly the finale cue which featured typical wonderful "episode summary montage" music that swelled and emotionally accompanied the visuals perfectly. I'm a huge synth fan so the bold, stylish electronics that are (as usual) featured very prominently in the sound mix are as awesome and badass as ever.
So far my favorite score moment from the season was the epically heartbreaking and poignant tune that played while Dwight visited the abandoned home he was supposed to meet Sherry in while the voiceover of her letter played in the background, announcing her permanent departure.
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I think a better solution would be to move the topic to the 'non-film' area and put a spoiler warning in the headline. It's rather cumbersome to insert the spoiler code throughout bits and pieces of a longer post.
I completely agree. The topic belongs there and as it would no longer masquerade as a thread about the score, a title with 'spoiler' in the headline would make everything quite clear.
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When I first started watching this show, which was 5 years after it originally aired, I immediately went to Amazon to order the soundtrack(s). It did not even remotely cross my mind that there would be none to be had -outside of the (very short) song soundtracks. I couldn’t believe it.
By all means -- avoid the "Global Stage Orchestra Performs The Walking Dead" score album available digitally. I got suckered by it. It looks awesome -- nearly "2 hours" of music, 22 tracks from the first three seasons, many of them quite lengthy, when this music is not available anywhere else.
I sampled several tracks and was so desperate to have any TWD score that I was willing to forgive the fact that it was not the original TWD score as written for the show but cheaply rendered synth re-recordings. I figured a lot of the show's original score was synth work or specialty instruments and maybe the southern rock style of the early seasons could be passably imitated, and occasionally it was...but what really pissed me off was that nearly all of the tracks were not as long as they appeared to be -- they were only half as long, and then looped so that each track basically repeats itself within each track. So if a track is listed as being 3:00 long, most often it's really only 1:30, and then just repeats the same exact material from 1:30-3:00 as it did from 0:00-1:30, which is shameless and misleading.
Some of the synth strings and orch is horrendous, too, so in the end it's better to have nothing at all and just keep fingers crossed waiting for a genuine McCreary release one day. Well, I will amend that slightly -- the GSO version of "Sophia's Theme" is pretty good, but then that's probably my favorite cue from the whole series and I was so happy to have that available, even if it was a cheap knockoff.
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I did download the “Mercy of the Living” track though, because it is one of my favorite pieces of music from one of my favorite scenes of the show
Love that piece! And yeah, they did get that track to sound reasonably close and it sounds pretty good, definitely good enough to download in the absence of the real McCoy.
Also, stuff like the Governor suspense material and the Vatos stuff (and electric guitar-heavy stuff) is worth something because it's not too hard to match synth for synth, although of course the real thing is always better.
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Series 8 starts tonight.
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