Season 3 promo arrives for The Walking Dead

Please be better than season 2
Please be better than season 2
I really want to like this show.

`Darker,harder,faster,deeper ' Says Andrew Lincoln. 

Wow ! !  

A man after my own heart......

Well, hopefully they've learned the lessons of season 2 and are going to throw some intrigue in there and ramp up the tension rather than letting it fester.

The prison storyline is one of the most pivotal in the comics in that it shows how bad things can get and produced some of the most shocking moments.  Hopefully they won't lose that element of it even if they change it up a bit.

Exactly what I was thinking!!! I really want to like this show, but I'm finding it really hard too

Although Season 2 started poorly IMO (all the chasing around for the kid stuff) I did like the some of the stories near the end of the season (when they went to the town and had to fight the rogue humans AND the zombies for example) and Michonne's appearance bodes well for this season. I would sum up my feelings about Walking Dead so far as although I watch the show on TV I haven't bought the series on Blu Ray to watch it again....hopefully season 3 may change that

Let's hope they stick a little closer to the comics this time around.Some of the choices in season 2 were poor to say the least(Dales' death for example).This show rocks when zombies are in a scene.But when they're not;it can turn into a overwrought soap opera.I have faith it can return to season 1 form..

More zombies, less human conflict

I have only seen half of series - not season - two, as I had it on 'series' link but my girlfriend accidentally deleted it! You can understand my annoyance. However, I thought series two began well but then slowed down a bit and there wasn't enough z action for my liking. Series 1 and 2 will be purchased on DVD and the gf will be made to watch all of them from beginning to end!

Very much looking forward to series three and I think Andrew Lincoln is amazing as Rick Grimes. A sort of apocalyptic John Wayne. 

less human conflict? That's what the show is about. The title 'Walking Dead' refers to the survivors not the zombies themselves.

 I find that when this show is good, it's really good, and when it's bad it's totally awful.  The sizable chunk of season 2 that went to aimlessly searching for the lost kid--without any tension or sense of caring, and then to the characters being sort of bored shiftless ranchhands was mind blowing.  I had just about given up on the show all together when the last few epsiodes returned to tight plotting, a sense of jeapordy and some much needed action.

I don't mind it having a lot of human conflict, that is what makes any story engaging and a relentless zombie war would get boring--big moments get their punch because they munctuate many smaller moments.  I just found that the episodes that were about characters and personal conflict were not achieving either.  Inconsistent personalities, tedious choice of conflicts and hyperbolic reactions made for bad TV.

I think at least half of Walking Dead's ratings are people just wanting a zombie/horror/apocalypse show, and they (we) will hang on no matter what.  I find myself eager for season 3 despite how little of either of the first two seasons engaged or thrilled me.

Brains, brains, brains... the old zombie mantra. The highlight of Walking Dead (like so many other undead flicks, Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, etc) is that this is what it offers: brainy plots full of human conflict. This is precisely the reason the show has reached a third season and not died a death like formulaic, at-best-B-movie-quality sci fi shows like Terra Nova and Alcatraz. I'm amazed so many Den of Geek readers are commenting that they want less of this and more of the schlock!

You blew my mind with that one. Of course the title refers to the survivors, and it never occurred to me before...

Still, I'd rather less whining and more straight-up logical action. Some of the dufus moves the survivors have made, I just shook my head.

Human conflict is fine, but at least make the characters act logically. I'm so very glad the preachy old guy (can't remember his name, sorry) is gone. He was by far the most annoying one.

I haven't read the source material, so I have no idea if it was originally this way. Here's hoping for a strong Season 3!

Dale? Yeah I felt like I was the only who didn't like him, with his whole 'losing sense of what the world used to be like' argument.

But anyways, super excited for season 3!!!!

Dale, yeah that's him. In times of ultimate crisis you may need to peel back the layers of civilization and decorum and get down to the basics: life or death. Once you have the life/death problem sorted, then you can put back the layers and become proper civilized people again.

Prisons are all about life or death, doing what you need to survive and to hell with manners and etiquette. I hope they channel that for season 3.

Pretty much with everyone else in that i nearly lost interest halfway through season 2. But they pulled it out of the bag with the last few episodes. I think asking it to have more zombie action goes against the grain of what the show is about. Zombie apocalypse is just a backdrop to what this show/comic book is about. 

it's about the decisions made in order to survive in extreme circumstances. I am a reader of the comics and i watch the series. And i am grateful they have not taken the same path. It allows me to keep an interest in the show. what's the point if i already know what's going to happen. 

The comics are a map for the show not a script and that's how it works best.  This example is also shown well in the recent Marvel movies.  It's better to take inspiration from the source than slavishly follow it.  Maybe in 20-30 years if it's entered into some kind of canon of classic literature it will get the literal treatment via a remake but for now it's more important that the best elements of the comic are translated for the format it is being broadcast in.

As for deaths I think those that happened in the finale were fine by me if only because it again allows the TV show to have that difference from the comics and yet keep you guessing in the same way.  Plus for practical reasons they can't let the core cast grow too big without budget implications and I'd happily sacrifice Dale for Michonne.

 you obviously don't read the books, there's often times where in 200 pages of a graphic novel where they don't kill any zombies.

I think if more people read the comics than there would be a lot less bitching. I think if you added more action it would be boring, what is more interesting Transformers 3 or The Avengers? The Avengers not just cause it was a better movie but there's something leading to the explosions and action where as Michael Bay has no idea how to build a plot. If thos episodes in the middle weren't so boring then the finale wouldn't have been so epic. If the rest of the season was more like the finale it wouldn't have been much of a finale would it?

 i'm not sure of your point.  I haven't read the books, but then, I wasn't discussing them, nor was this article I was responding to.  I'll get around to reading them, I just have a long reading list of graphic novels that aren't conveniently adapted to television.  Either way, I'm not sure what you were saying.

Also, I came out in support of character story telling and human conflict, but just feel that the writers at the Walking Dead (tv show) failed on that end.  Maybe you didn't read my whole comment.  Going by the vast majority of comments I've seen on various articles, most people were unhappy/frustrated/bored with the searching for the kid storyline and the living on the quiet farm storyline.  Those stories were poorly chosen, then more importantly, poorly written.  Where Season 2 did excel was when the tension was ramped up with zombie copnfrontations, fleeing, missions.  Perhaps that kind of story is just much easier to tell.  It risks not being effective if characters and human conflict are done poorly.  Like in a B-movie when we don't care about characters who die

I don't need constant zombie kills.  I do feel in a story of human refugees in a zombie apocalypse, a certain level of tension and dread should be maintained within which stories and characters can be explored.  I want a walking dead tv show, i just feel its been pretty hit and miss, with the misses eating up a lot of screen time

I think the amount of discussion people have on-line about the show demonstrates that people want it and have made investments, the other side of that coin is how frustrated they feel when the creators drop the ball. 

The simple fact of Season 2 is the station gutted the budget, meaning the writers had to write half the season or more with the characters doing nothing more than sitting on a farm and bickering in contrived ways.  We know they can do better and the producers were rewarded with high ratings.  The audience has a right to feel frustrated.

 I don't equate good story-telling and characterization with boring.  What makes crisis moments in a story more effective is that the audience has been swept on a journey with the characters, come to know them and relate to them.  I'm fairly certain I am not in some minority camp when I say they just didn't do a great job with the "boring" episodes "in the middle".

I also do not think it is fair to ever ask an audience to read source material as a way of preparing to watch, that somehow if they are less than satisfied, the problem is they are not supplementing the story telling with reading the books.  each needs to stand alone, sufficient unto itself.  and each will tell different kinds of stories because the mediums are very different.