tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81284532971826232232024-03-13T07:45:26.367-07:00Dead Bastards (A zombie novel) - The Walking Dead just got real for these guys. The official site for Dead Bastards. "A Scottish 28 Days Later with hints of The Walking Dead and Shaun of the Dead."Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-70060443242298589842021-06-19T19:44:00.004-07:002021-06-19T19:44:51.067-07:00Why I love zombies<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uDAfEjPgnpU/YMaRUSXjeXI/AAAAAAAAjQs/HMPP8fDWKPA8CFo3Qk9oODEhFW3gouGFwCNcBGAsYHQ/s300/zombies.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uDAfEjPgnpU/YMaRUSXjeXI/AAAAAAAAjQs/HMPP8fDWKPA8CFo3Qk9oODEhFW3gouGFwCNcBGAsYHQ/s0/zombies.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm not the only one obsessed with the dead who rise<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I often get asked when people look down my list of published books why I wrote a zombie novel? It doesn't seem to fit in with my profile - I've been a vegetarian for over 30 years and a crime writer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've written books on compassionate living, bullying due to my bitter experience of it, caring for your dog because of my experience of having rescue dogs all my life and I'd even written comedy books. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">How does that fit in with being obsessed with humans who die then come back to life, desperate to devour human flesh? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm obsessed to the point of coming up with theories of how an actual zombie apocalypse could start. When I go for walks with my rescue dog I think about where would be the best place to be holed up if the Dead started to roam the earth. How secure would that place be? How would we get food? How would we survive?</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a1s4L0UkkFE/YMaYpPkAzmI/AAAAAAAAjRI/FTRL3OMIkXkiMRwmuDeTYO3o8iwhidTQQCNcBGAsYHQ/s300/walking%2Bdead%2Bz.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a1s4L0UkkFE/YMaYpPkAzmI/AAAAAAAAjRI/FTRL3OMIkXkiMRwmuDeTYO3o8iwhidTQQCNcBGAsYHQ/s0/walking%2Bdead%2Bz.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seeing zombies through the eyes of Rick Grimes</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">That's the one thing the zombie genre gives you - pure escapism. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zombies give me something else to think about other than the problems we all face in our lives - nightmare neighbours, rude and obnoxious people who don't speak to you for 5 years and then out the blue accuse you of something nonsensical, constant worrying about money and the welfare of those we love. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zombies are my escape from the true horrors of the world - could anyone have imagined a pandemic like the one we are experiencing - and daily existence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Unlike real life, living humans who don't die and come back to life, with zombies you know where you are - avoid them or if they bite you and you die and then come back as one of them. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">If only life were just as simple. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I also love to be scared - whether it's in a movie, TV show, or in a novel but not in real life. There are enough things to scare you in real life. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I also love exploring how the zombie apocalypse brings out the best and worst in people. I enjoy the way anyone can be redeemed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">And that's one of the other things I enjoy most about the genre - how it explores the best and worst sides of human nature. Nothing shows someone's true colours as much as a zombie apocalypse. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YYu6Sr7205E/YMaQiPDRlsI/AAAAAAAAjQk/nqY0e8xzZXU85nmclrV5iwU1w2arixyPACNcBGAsYHQ/s960/strand%2Band%2Bmorgan.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YYu6Sr7205E/YMaQiPDRlsI/AAAAAAAAjQk/nqY0e8xzZXU85nmclrV5iwU1w2arixyPACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/strand%2Band%2Bmorgan.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nothing shows someone's true colours as much as a zombie apocalypse</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #cc0000;">SPOILER ALERT!</span> - </span><span style="font-family: courier;">Don't read the next bit if you haven't seen the season finale of Fear The Walking Dead. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Just ask Morgan Jones who was thrown into the path of walkers by a so-called ally Victor Strand in Fear The Walking Dead.</span></p><h2><span style="font-family: georgia;">**************</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you're interested in checking out my very Scottish zombie novel, here's it is - </span></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">One woman rages against the zombie hordes! Check it out <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://viewBook.at/DeadBastardsK" target="_blank">here</a> </span></b></span></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P2rWC3RskSY/YMaWOaTTA9I/AAAAAAAAjRA/1NMuhW2VIg8hRuwnTFORQh97LbkIKmXQgCNcBGAsYHQ/s642/dead%2Bbastards%2Bcover%2Bfor%2Bbadges.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="389" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P2rWC3RskSY/YMaWOaTTA9I/AAAAAAAAjRA/1NMuhW2VIg8hRuwnTFORQh97LbkIKmXQgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/dead%2Bbastards%2Bcover%2Bfor%2Bbadges.png" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Or, if you prefer direct links here -</span></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Amazon.com </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0187LFCVU&source=gmail&ust=1623713090163000&usg=AFQjCNEHrgJKDmrDnIWd9UsAC75PVCvWzQ" href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0187LFCVU" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/dp/<wbr></wbr>B0187LFCVU</a></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Amazon UK <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0187LFCVU&source=gmail&ust=1623713090163000&usg=AFQjCNHNKrEXfIEd33TL_adrletMt6qURA" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0187LFCVU" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/<wbr></wbr>B0187LFCVU</a></span></p><div>Amazon Canada <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0187LFCVU&source=gmail&ust=1623713090163000&usg=AFQjCNHNKrEXfIEd33TL_adrletMt6qURA" href="http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0187LFCVU" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.ca/dp/<wbr></wbr>B0187LFCVU</a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div>Amazon Australia <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0187LFCVU&source=gmail&ust=1623713090163000&usg=AFQjCNHNKrEXfIEd33TL_adrletMt6qURA" href="http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0187LFCVU" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/<wbr></wbr>B0187LFCVU</a><div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Stay safe everyone.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p></div></div>Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-11132571601164757702018-08-31T18:12:00.000-07:002018-08-31T18:28:03.639-07:003 Times The Walking Dead messed up a chance to make the show better <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With Rick Grimes leaving The Walking Dead is huge shoes to fill </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">There's no doubt that the writing and character development on the hit show hasn't been as good as previous seasons since the introduction of Negan. So much time has been devoted to one of the most annoying characters in TV history who fans either hate or love that precious few other characters haven't got a look in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">Since Daryl used a rocket launcher on Negan's men he's hardly had a thing to do which seems grossly unfair because he's one of the main reasons the show became so popular. And he's not alone in not having enough to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">The show could stand to lose at least half a dozen characters - or more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">But there's also been some great opportunities missed to turn the show around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">I've listed just three but there's a lot more, including not killing Glenn and Carl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">1.<b>Simon should have killed Negan not the other way round. </b></span><b><br style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px; widows: auto;" /></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;"><b>The wrong bad guy died. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">Negan should have ended up dead </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">instead of the charismatic Simon. Simon was a far better character who could be threatening with a few words and he didn't go into endless long speeches, waving a bat around and grabbing his crotch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">Would Negan have really got the better of Simon in a one on one fight? I'm not the only one who doesn't think so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">More importantly why on earth would Rick let the sneering sociopath live? This is Rick who's despatched much less worthy victims in the past.</span><br />
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Troy would have made a splash in The Walking Dead.</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">In case you didn't watch Fear before Morgan crossed over, Troy was one of the sons of a white supremacist, survivalist rancher, who the main stars of the show ended up staying with in season 3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">Troy was unhinged, racist, evil but smart and believed he could find a cure for the zombie virus by executing people and timing how long it took them to reanimate. All of his victims seemed to be targeted for their ethnicity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">His days on Fear ended after Madison killed him with two whacks to the head with a hammer because he led the walker horde to the ranch and effectively got almost everyone killed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">Troy was excellently played by Daniel Sharman in a season where Fear wasn't just better than ever, but in some people's opinions was better than The Walking Dead, Troy was one of the main reasons why.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">Imagine how good it would be if Troy had survived and somehow ended up at The Hilltop and he was the one making eyes at Maggie and not Alden one of the prisoners from Negan's lot? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">Imagine the creeping horror when Maggie realize he's a monster after folk mysteriously disappear from Hilltop and end up as newly minted walkers? </span><br />
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<b>Cyndie could have been Clementine from the comics.</b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">When Tara met the mainly womenfolk of Oceanside who'd been devastated after Simon (without Negan's knowledge) massacred all their men and teenage boys, there was one character who stood out - Cyndi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">Only we didn't know who she was at first so I got my hopes up and thought, brilliant, Clementine the girl warrior from the excellent Walking Dead game is going to be on the show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.7369px;">Sure she came across as tough and is now the settlements de facto leader but she wasn't the Clementine players of that game love. And that was a pity because Clementine is as good if not better than most of the characters in The Walking Dead.</span></div>
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-58775998052291598102018-08-10T17:52:00.005-07:002018-08-10T18:02:21.952-07:003 ways Rick Grimes could exit The Walking Dead (including where he lives) <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">He wants to know what happens to Rick Grimes.</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If it does happen and the makers of The Walking Dead can't
change Andrew Lincoln's mind about leaving the show he made so popular, then
they'll need an exit plan for the former sheriff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, how might that go down? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. Rick goes on trial with Negan</span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Rick goes on trial for the ambush on Negan's men that started the war</b>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The storyline - Rick understands why Maggie's angry at him
over Negan and suggests putting Negan on trial with the death penalty or
imprisonment in the jail cell Morgan made for life as the potential
punishments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Negan says he'll only agree if Rick goes on trial too for
killing his men whilst they slept at one of the Sanctuary's satellite stations.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like Morgan Jones once said: "I'm a killer, Rick. I am,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Michonne defends Rick - In the comics she's a lawyer so
maybe she can do that on the show? The kicker is that she must defend Negan
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. Walking Dead started with Rick and Morgan and it should
end with Rick and Morgan. </span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">We go back to the start with Rick in a coma</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The storyline - Rick gets bitten and ends up in coma. He wakes
up years later and Morgan's there watching over him. Unusually for him he's
smiling. "When I heard a walker had taken a snack out of someone's arm and
survived, I knew it'd be you."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rick asks: "Where is Michonne, Judith, Daryl
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Morgan looks at him seriously and says, "Before I
answer that I need to tell you a story; a story about how the world we were
living in full of fighting and woe and misery and loss ended and a new one free
from all that begun."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The storyline - It's a dark night and in the woods Rick
meets someone to talk. We hear a person emerge from the darkness. A gun goes
off but we don't see the shooter's face as Rick goes down after being shot in
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Imagine the posters for the second half of the season - the
remaining cast lined up with wanted signs. Daryl, Maggie, Jesus, Eugene, even
shocker, Michonne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not my idea of a fitting goodbye for the mighty Rick Grimes,
but what if he's not dead and ends the season in a coma, the same way we first
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like Morgan Jones says: "Everything gets a
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The Walking Dead has been Rick Grimes from day 1</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love The Walking Dead. When Rick Grimes and the walkers
shambled onto my TV screen eight years ago, I was in Heaven. You see I love
zombies, walkers, the undead, shamblers, whatever you want to call them -
deadites, anybody, or is that just for the awesome Ash vs. Evil Dead? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally after so many years of making do with some fantastic
and not so fantastic zombie movies (Brain Dead, anyone - I can't be the only
one unlucky to see that?), I had the TV show of my dreams.</span></div>
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How The Walking Dead began</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first episode shot by Frank Dabaront, director of the
best movie ever according to imdb.com (The Shawshank Redemption) and filmed
like 28 Hours Later, was engrossing pulsating stuff. Immediately I was hooked
on sheriff Rick Grimes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wanted him to survive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wanted him to be reunited with his family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wanted him to kill Shane who was trying to kill him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wanted Morgan Jones who saved Rick's life and his son
Duane who was named, I hope, after the main character in the cult classic Night
of the Living Dead to be on the end of that walkie-talkie one day after they
parted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Walking Dead is Rick Grimes.</span></div>
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"You're my brother, Daryl."</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He's the beating heart of The Walking Dead. He's the string
that ties everybody together, this weird bunch of survivors. He's Daryl's
brother. Michonne's lover. Maggie's mentor. Morgan's permanent anchor to this
world. He's the one who banished Carol then welcomed her back. He's Carl's dad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He's the one man who got the better of Negan and before him
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He's the man with the plan - even when it's not a particularly
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without him how can the show go on?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course I don't want the show to end. Talking with other
Walking Dead fans about walkers and how to survive in this apocalyptic hell has
been an absolute pleasure. It's gotten me through some tough times including
the death of my father. But here's the rub. I love the show so much I don't
want to see it limping on and becoming even more of a shadow of what it once
was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I definitely don't want to see one of the best ever TV characters in Rick
Grimes ruined any more. Maybe Andrew Lincoln feels the same way and that's why
he's leaving? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The last two seasons have been pretty terrible. Since Negan
appeared, because of some awful writing every character has got a dose of the
stupids. Almost everyone got caught by braggart Negan and had to bow down as he
set about Abraham and then Glenn with the swing of a baseball bat. Worst of
all, Rick was broken. His de facto brother Daryl was broken when he was held
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Could Daryl and Carol save The Walking Dead?</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If as looks likely they do keep on making The Walking Dead, maybe the only two people who could try to replace Rick are Daryl and Carol and
together? Side by side they could be the dream team - I hope. </span></div>
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if as looks likely Maggie and Michonne do leave - one for a TV show, the other
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I heard a main character from The Walking Dead was
heading over to little sister show Fear, I assumed because it was going to be
filmed in </span><st1:state style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
that Abraham would made the journey. This worried me because it's hard to care
about a character who's dead in TWD. Finding out it was going to be Morgan was
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Apart from maybe Andrew Lincoln who plays Rick Grimes,
Lennie James who's been in many of the The Walking Dead's best episodes (the
pilot, the brilliant Clear and bottle Morgan episode where he meets the Zen
master) is the show's best actor in my opinion. His portrayal of a battled
weary apocalyptic soldier suffering from PTSD has been hard to watch at times,
but its been mesmerizing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Its a delight to see him in action in a more lighthearted
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fear now has a touch of the Wild West with John Dorie</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Place a man like Morgan who's at the end of his tether in
Fear The Walking Dead, introduce a gunslinger cowboy called John Dorie
("ie, not y like the fish") and a hard-ass journalist in a customised
walker killing machine in the shape of Al, and you don't just have our fave
staff wielding hero smiling again, you also have Walking Dead fans who've been
weighed down by the misery of the big show grinning away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fear by bringing in these three amazing characters has shown
us how good a zombie show can be, reminding us of the good old days in The
Walking Dead before<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the poorly written
Negan storyline that turned what should have been a great character into a
caricature whilst making other smart characters do dumb things that's lost the
show so many viewers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ironically this belter of a premiere for season four of Fear
The Walking Dead is only ruined by the last few minutes when Nick, Alicia, </span><st1:place style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" w:st="on">Strand</st1:place><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> and Luciana turn up wielding weapons and looking
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The low point of Fear was when some of the original characters show up</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hopefully the show won't switch solely back to focus on the Clark family at the expense of the ever excellent Morgan and his
fun new friends John Dorie and Althea (call me Al) because the newest members
of the Fearverse are more entertaining than the Clarks ever were and that's
coming from someone who thought last season's Fear was better than TWD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For most of The Walking Dead we've been Team Rick all the
way. But since he and his gang slaughtered the Saviors at an outpost as the men
slept, there have been accusations that our favourite apocalyptic sheriff is as
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An accusation that was aimed firmly at Rick again after he
executed the Hilltop prisoners who’d escaped and that included the man who’d
just saved his life. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. People follow him freely. They can leave freely.</span></b></div>
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around saying. "I am Negan." Rick's in a group: Negan's in a cult.
The cult of one - Negan. </span></div>
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Rick sees women as equals and doesn't need to bribe, threaten or coerce anyone
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Stop making smart folk do dumb things</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rick goes back to the Garbage people. Yep, the same ones who
stabbed him in the back and sides with Negan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jesus brings some of Negan's soldiers back to the Hilltop as
prisoners and Maggie lets him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come on Walking Dead writers, you need to do better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The only message Rick should have been delivering is a
bullet in the show's most annoying character's brain. Jesus, Jesus, why would
you bring some of Negan's band of killers back to your home? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The characters doing dumb things all started with the
contrived situation whereby most of Rick's pals all ended up waiting to see if
they'd be next to be on the barbed wire Lucille that Negan was swinging. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>How did they fit the huge cast into one pic?</b></span></td></tr>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cut the cast </span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's too many of them and there's not enough we really
care about. Would we really care if Rosita died? They haven't developed the
character enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Same goes for <st1:place w:st="on">Tara</st1:place>. I
probably wouldn't be saying that if they'd actually allowed a same sex couple
to be happy and not be torn apart by death and we'd seen their relationship
develop. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As for slimeball Gregory. He's guilty of treason so why
isn't he dead? And he's annoying. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Jesus character has lost his way telling people like
Maggie who watched her husband Glenn get his head caved in with a baseball bat
that she's got to show compassion. Would anyone miss him now his earlier
promise has been ruined by weak writing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enid wouldn't be missed either. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rid Trash People of</span></b></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The ridiculous Jadis</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Apart from the spike covered armoured walker Rick's forced
to fight by the Garbage people what have this band of weirdoes and one word
sentence talkers brought to the show? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time to take out Jadis and the rest of her boring trash.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The only good thing the trash people have brought to the show</b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Give us & Daryl something to laugh at</span></b></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">When Daryl smiles we smile</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hey, we know it’s the apocalypse and end of the world stuff,
but does it have to be so darn depressing all the time? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What's wrong with a laugh every so often like one of the
best Rick lines ever to Daryl when he has to leave him at the Kingdom so Negan
doesn't find him at <st1:city w:st="on">Alexandria</st1:city>? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His parting words were - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Maybe you can stare him (Ezekiel) into
submission."</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Give us some hope of a cure</span></b></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>When Eugene arrived there was hope</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />We haven't had that since Abraham and Rosita arrived on the
scene with Eugene who conned them into believing he had a cure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every show needs hope. The Walking Dead has lost of that. Every season now seems to be about beating the next big bad like Negan. </span></div>
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-89087334672249726842017-11-27T10:44:00.004-08:002017-11-27T10:48:38.650-08:00Morgan Jones crossing over to Fear the Walking Dead could herald in the Whisperers <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The news that Morgan will be
The Walking Dead character crossing over to Fear The Walking Dead, has been met
with some anger and confusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Anger because had the show
just telegraphed the major character who will die in The Walking Dead? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Confusion because everybody
assumed it would be Abraham our favourite ginger haired sergeant who'd be
making the crossover and that Fear would focus on him and has family and how he
lost them to the walkers after they ran off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">So, what will Morgan's story
focus on - if it's a full story that is and not a blink and you'll miss it
cameo?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Considering the timeline it
looks like the events Fear The Walking Dead will have will feature Morgan from
between season one when Sherriff Rick Grimes leaves him and his son Duane and
season three, Clear where Morgan Jones appears to have turned crazy. At that
point when Rick meets him, his son Duane is dead with the suggestion that the wife
he couldn't kill, Jenny, bit the poor kid and Morgan Jones had to put him down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">During his now legendary
rant, Morgan talks about -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"People wearing dead
people's faces."</b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Clearly he's talking about
the Whisperers who skin walkers and wear them so they can easily get through
the walker hordes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Rick thinks Morgan's gone bananas and replies- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>"I'm not wearing a dead man's face."</b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The Whisperers make Negan
and the Saviors look like teddy bears and are led by a scary female character
called Alpha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">With Morgan and the
Whisperers Fear The Walking Dead season 4 could be very entertaining indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-16250097842459910112017-10-21T18:27:00.001-07:002017-10-21T18:37:24.507-07:00Why we need more of Carol and Daryl in season 8 of The Walking Dead <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Season 8 has teased more Daryl and Carol</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Walking Dead's main strength is in its relationships and not many are stronger than the one between Daryl and Carol, a bond that was forged forever in season 2 when Carol's daughter Sophia went missing and Daryl refused to stop searching for the little girl.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Daryl comforted Carol when she lost her daughter Sophia</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That search ended in possibly the most famous scene in the show's history when a walker-died or zombified Sophia came shambling out of Herschel's barn. She was promptly dispatched by a Rick Grimes bullet as Daryl comforted the grieving mother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of the few highlights of season 7 was the couple's reunion at the cottage outside the Kingdom where Carol was staying. Daryl didn't tell his friend about the death of Glenn and Abraham at Negan's hands because he knew she was suffering from some kind of mental breakdown. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The weakest part of the writing though was that Daryl didn't kill Richard there and then for trying to use Carol to lure Negan and his Saviours into an ambush at Carol's cottage. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That task fell to Morgan after Richard got his child protege Benjamin killed by Negan's thugs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In another lighthearted moment, who can forget Richard apologising to Carol in front of Morgan when he visited her at the cottage and was talking about rallying King Ezekiel to fight Negan?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Richard thinks all the talk of violence will upset Carol. Little does he know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Morgan responds by telling Richard that Carol's probably the best fighter they have. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I don't know about you, but both Carol centred incidents made me smile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let's be honest, there wasn't much to smile about in the rest of season 7 especially the wretched first half of that gloomy season, including that depressing Daryl episode.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If The Walking Dead needs more screen time for the characters we really care about, that means seeing more of this interesting pair and cutting the less popular characters.</span></span><br />
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-78363279405522921902017-07-09T19:33:00.001-07:002021-12-12T21:19:36.481-08:00The Walking Dead gets real in Scotland - Dead Bastards<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">That's a whole lot of zombie action for less than the price of a cup of coffee. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Grab your copy now.</span><br />
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-44220312360814206422017-04-05T19:26:00.005-07:002017-04-05T19:42:26.277-07:00The Walking Dead season 7 finale could have been much better<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I enjoyed The Walking Dead Season 7 finale but I can't help feeling it could have been better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A whole lot better with a faster pace and if things had happened differently. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here's some things that bugged me about the finale -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1. Michonne getting her ass kicked</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Michonne v Tamiel - Come off it, the woman who could kill you with a stare, who cost the Governor an eye, who took down all those walkers when Merle left her tied up outside an abandoned motel (This Sorrowful Life) </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">almost gets killed by Tamiel. Really? Especially after Jadis wants to "lay with Rick?" and Michonne's still seething about that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now that's suspending belief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2. Jadis and her garbage people being as weird as ever</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looking like something out of Mad Max and talking in one word sentences, there's still no explanation as to why this not so merry band are the way they are. Are they from a deaf school or maybe a school with special needs? Why's Jadis the only one who talks whilst the others stand around like teachers at a school prom?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More importantly, how did they manage to make a deal with Negan when they use two worded sentences?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Explanations needed or they just come across as dumb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3. The Sasha/Abraham flashbacks</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Were a good idea but they dragged the story right down and (and maybe it's just me) but the couple were only together about five minutes and as much as I liked the characters individually they weren't a couple long enough to make the flashbacks particularly poignant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Instead of the over long flashbacks between them they should have shown the moment Rick was first greeted by Glenn with the words over the radio: "Hey, dumb ass."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That would have tied in with Maggie's moving voice over at the end about Rick and Glenn bringing everybody together. Glenn deserved to be paid homage to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>4. Negan's still alive - Rick should have ripped out his throat.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Almost bitten by walker Sasha, almost eaten by Shiva the tiger, why can't he die already? Walking Dead fans seem to be split into two camps - those who think Negan is the best thing ever and those who hate him and want him off the show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Me, I fall into the second camp. Every time you see Negan he's at his bullying, swaggering worst. I don't blame the actor who's doing the best with what he's got. Nope, I blame the lazy writers who think a comic character can translate directly from a graphic novel to a TV screen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It doesn't work. They either need to sort this or kill Negan off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that brings me to my last point...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Negan shouldn't be the big bad in a show about zombies. That should fall to the zombies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>5. The lack of full on walker action </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Okay, we get that The Walking Dead are the humans in the show and not the walkers as we first thought, but where are the zombies? Arguably Season 7 has been the worst season of the show, and the main reason for that is a lack of undead action. We want more junk yard spiked walkers, more sand dwellers, more walker hordes. Have fun with them like Z Nation and Ash versus Evil do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remember primarily that it's a zombie show. Villains will come and go but zombies are forever. We need more of them.</span><br />
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-51551616804956307142016-12-29T22:08:00.000-08:002016-12-29T22:08:25.249-08:00Michael Rooker (Merle Dixon) explains how The Walking Dead should end <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-48358556732654483792016-12-05T17:23:00.001-08:002016-12-05T17:23:51.873-08:00Why Negan's ruining The Walking Dead<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Like a lot of Walking Dead fans I was looking forward to meeting Negan. He's such a major character in the comics and when the part was cast you thought this will be interesting. <br />
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Since his introduction Negan has ruined the show for me and I'm not alone. <br />
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Before he was first seen on screen we heard cast regulars saying how mesmerizing Jeffery Dean Morgan is in the role. But if he's so good, why is the world's most popular TV show losing so many viewers?<br />
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Sure not seeing most of our favourites on screen each week doesn't help - but then, maybe letting the cast do other things is the only way to keep them?<br />
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These so called bottle episodes have mainly fallen flat, apart from one. Hey, why give us just one episode of King Ezekiel, Chiva, court jester Jerry and rebellious Richard who the King saved from Negan's bunch of thugs?<br />
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Glenn's grisly death that was seen as too sick by some with the double whammy of losing Abraham first also delivered a right punch in the gut. Some viewers said they wouldn't be watching again. <br />
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But it's having the show that's strength has been its strong characters like Carol, Rick, Michonne and Daryl, centre around just one man that's really screwing with the Walkerverse.<br />
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For one thing, Negan's predictable posturing has got boring. There's no surprises. He's the Big Bad Wolf who's gonna blow everyone's house down. He's the panto villains who never says something in a word where twenty will do.<br />
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He's got fan favourite Daryl Dixon as some kind of janitor, shuffling about in rags.<br />
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And he kills boy children as young as eleven according to the Oceansiders.<br />
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And that's the thing about Negan - he's too extreme and it wouldn't surprise you to find out he eats babies too.<br />
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He's not a leader. He's the biggest bully the show has ever had. Watching him make a man like Rick Grimes cower and Daryl Dixon walk around in rags is not what I want to be watching. Nor is hearing about his wives - women forced to sleep with him in exchange for keeping their loved ones safe.<br />
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What do I want to see on the show? How about this-<br />
When the two D's, Daryl and Dwight were alone in that room with Negan and he was boasting about sleeping with Dwight's wife and contributing to the death of his wife's sister, they could and should have tried to kill Negan. <br />
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Dwight could have let Daryl go then come out roaring, "The prisoner killed Negan." Then he could have taken over. <br />
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At the end of the day, Negan is just one man. He can die like everybody else. Yet he's treated like he's untouchable. <br />
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But the worst thing about the baseball bat wielding thug isn't his grinning thuggery that's all done with a tremendous amount of bragging and long winded speeches, it's that in Negan's world the threat from walkers seems have been extinguished and he's the biggest threat to civilization. <br />
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Here we have a zombie show where the undead are getting less and less terrifying as the show goes on and one character is the source of all the fear.<br />
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It's time The Walking Dead's makers realised it's a show about zombies and not about a smug thug with a baseball bst named after his dead wife Lucille.<br />
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Wow, that was a shocker of an episode. (If you haven't watched the season 7 Walking Dead premiere please stop reading as there's spoilers ahead.)<br />
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When Glenn got his comic book death, it was Daryl who some folk blamed after he punched Negan for killing Abraham. The reasoning I guess, is that if he hadn't done that Glenn would have still been alive.<br />
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<b>But, is fan favourite Daryl really the dumb ass here? </b><br />
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No. To me, its Rick Grimes. The leader the group would follow anywhere who made the biggest mistake of all - not knowing his enemy.<br />
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I might have been in the majority here, but I'm glad Daryl landed a punch on the most evil character in The Walking Dead so far. And that's saying a lot when you remember how the cannibal Terminus lot saw other survivors (including children) as food. <br />
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<b>Why blame Rick? </b><br />
When they all had the meeting in the church to discuss taking on Negan's Saviors (Season 6 episode 12 "Not tomorrow yet"), only Morgan suggested talking to them first, which might not have been such a bad idea. They would have been able to see the lay of the land. Find out just how big an army he had.<br />
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Heck, they might actually have found out what this big, bad Negan looked like. <br />
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Even Rick admitted he knew how dangerous the Saviours were in the church meeting - "These saviors they almost killed Daryl, Sasha and Abraham on the road. Now sooner or later they would have found us, just like those wolves did, just like Jesus did. They would have killed someone or some of us and they would try to own us and we would try to stop them."<br />
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Then he emphasised that the decision to go after Negan and the saviors "needs to be a group decision."<br />
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So, who stepped up and said, "Hey, going in without knowing much is stupid, Rick"?<br />
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What about soldier Abraham? Where was he with his words of advice?<br />
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Why no reconnaissance? Soldiers don't blunder in, they have battle plans. Where was Abraham's?<br />
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Sasha was a firefighter in her old life. That's a job that takes a tremendous amount of discipline and planning. Yet she forgot everything when it came to the chat in the church.<br />
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Michonne is a planner. Rick would have listened to her.<br />
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Only Morgan stepped up and said his piece. His advice about talking to the saviors first was a bad idea. Maybe then they'd have learnt that taking on Negan and his mob wasn't something they could do alone.<br />
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Rick and all the others ignored Morgan. They went in blindly, even taking pregnant Maggie along and murdered Negan's men in their compound whilst they slept.<br />
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Heck, Rick even executed a man they thought was Negan without checking out who he was first.<br />
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For the first time we started to think, hey, maybe Rick and his group of survivors are the bad guys.<br />
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Ultimately though, it was Rick being a dumbass - as Glenn famously called him in season one when he saved them from encroaching walkers - that ultimately led to the death of two of the show's most iconic characters.<br />
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He was the leader without a proper plan. He didn't even know who Negan was.<br />
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-20297387535509171272016-10-24T18:05:00.002-07:002016-10-24T18:05:33.786-07:00How Negan dies on The Walking Dead<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What I hope happens to evil Negan on The Walking Dead - he gets eaten by Maggie and Glenn's zombie baby. </div>
Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-3517493406754715272016-10-19T18:27:00.001-07:002016-10-19T18:27:49.547-07:00You've been bitten. How long do you have? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-66916540996422374492016-09-18T17:46:00.004-07:002016-09-18T17:48:56.237-07:00The Walking Dead's Biggest Shock Ever? Every baby Dies. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There have been rumors that more than one main character will die in The Walking Dead season 7 premiere. And that whatever happens will be a major game changer for the show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I wrote a blog post on <a href="http://deidbastards.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/why-glen-should-not-be-killed-in.html" target="_blank">Why it shouldn't be Glenn they kill </a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and another on Who I think will die in the show. You can read it <a href="http://deidbastards.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/abraham-to-lose-his-shit-and-life-in.html" target="_blank">here</a> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">But what if Negan doesn't kill them all?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maggie's in a pretty bad way and it's odds on that somebody will die trying to help her. Not that anybody can help her unless the laughably named Saviors have a doctor. Let's face it calling bloodthirsty thugs who murder some of your group to teach them a lesson the saviors is a bit like calling Terminus Disneyland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But there's still a strong chance that Maggie and her baby may not survive and it won't be Negan's fault?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In episode 13 of season, The Same Boat, Carol and Maggie are captured during Rick's ill fated attempt to kill Negan who's nowhere the complex they raid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After Maggie reveals she's pregnant, one of her captors a young woman with a striking resemblance to Maggie, reveals she was pregnant too but lost the baby in the apocalyptic world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What if since the outbreak very few or no woman can have a baby? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sure Lori had Judith, but what if she got pregnant BEFORE the outbreak? Maybe to Shane when Rick was in a coma? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now that would be the biggest game changer in the Walking Dead universe since the 'We're all infected.' </span></div>
Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-60394293845555283632016-09-11T17:13:00.001-07:002016-09-18T17:41:46.898-07:00When you get depressed by The Walking Dead and death/deaths to come at Negan's hands, remember this...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-34208144260238571302016-09-08T19:01:00.001-07:002016-09-08T21:01:39.853-07:00Why Glenn shouldn't Die in The Walking Dead <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We've waited such a long time after being left in heartbreaking limbo over what's been a very long summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Will Glenn be the one to die like he does in the comics at the end of Negan's bat Lucille?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you're asking me, the last thing I want is the TV show to follow the comics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For one thing, it makes it too predictable and I want to be surprised.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Killing off such a major character as Glenn would be a death too far. Tyreeses's death in the show was pointless apart from letting someone direct a Tarrantino-esque episode. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The show simply doesn't have enough major characters to lose Glenn, one of say only half a dozen characters that could have a stand alone episode and keep you interested. Apart from flashes from Aaron, the Alexandrians have been a boring, whining, inspid lot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Rick's new squeeze and her two kids died, did we care? </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Glenn feel like he's the one person on the show who represents us. Maybe it's because we've been with him from the beginning.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the minute the former pizza delivery boy arrived on the scene and saved Rick Grimes. To the moment he finally had to break his code of having never killed a human being at one of Negan's outposts.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, who should Negan kill?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love horror movies, so this is how I'd like things to go -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Negan swings his baseball bat like a pantomime villain and aims it at the man he perceives as the biggest physical threat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Someone who glares him down whilst everybody watches on helplessly or looks away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Somebody who doesn't quiver in fear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That man's Abraham. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The shock of what's happening makes Maggie go into premature labour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The baby comes out stillborn and starts to eat her. After the first bite, Maggie's fate is sealed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As everybody watches on in horror, Negan merely smiles. When you're a sociopath and kill without any regret or emotion, watching a zombie baby eat it's mom ain't that shocking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>How would that change The Walking Dead universe?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. It could mean that since the outbreak most babies cannot be born safely. Lori was okay because she might have become pregnant by Shane/Rick before the outbreak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. With Maggie gone, Glenn would have to find a way to carry on. Would he turn to the dark side? I sure hope so. It'd give us a chance to see another side to him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. Carol would come back in full psycho killer mode, something I hope she will do when she hears about what Negan did and how he steals men's partners and forces them to sleep with him in exchange for food (that's if his character follows the comic). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. Morgan would need to realise his "All life is precious" mantra should be "Some life is precious and the other kind needs a bullet to the head." We could get to see more of that stick action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, what do you think folks, how would you like to see The Walking Dead premiere go? </span></div>
Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-88822558726731950742016-06-18T12:32:00.000-07:002016-09-17T12:53:09.503-07:00Abraham dies in The Walking Dead at Negan's hands (My prediction)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With the season 6 finale of The Walking Dead leaving us puzzled/angry/incensed and wondering who Negan killed with his baseball bat Lucille,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> there's a lot of theories going around about who got their head smashed in with Negan's barbed wire bat when Season 7 starts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my last post, I wrote about how Carol <a href="http://deidbastards.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/why-carol-will-die-to-save-daryl-dixon.html" target="_blank">would die to save Daryl</a>, not because I thought it'd happen (Carol is one of the few stars in the show who can go all Die Hard on her enemies ass - just ask the saviors), but because it'd make a fitting end for a warrior.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, Carol is safe after Morgan saved her from her death wish, Together they've met one of the members of The kingdom, a community led by Ezekiel who we'll be seeing soon along with his pet tiger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Someone who definitely has been captured is is Abraham who left with Rick's and Co to take Maggie to the doc at the Hilltop colony. Since Denise's death and Rick shot dead the only other doctor, Alexandria has no doctor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is why I think with some regret that Abraham will be the one one Negan takes out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. Denise's death by arrow was Abraham's death in the comics. Seems like they wanted Abraham to die a more iconic death. Keeping him for Negan, perhaps?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. Once a man gets their shit together in The Walking Dead, they're doomed. Abraham ditched Rosita (he did it in such a callous way, she should have killed him) after he decided Sasha was the one he wanted to be with. Happiness doesn't survive in the walkerverse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. Michael Cudlitz said in an interview after Beth's death, that she didn't deserve the death she got and Abraham death by arrow in the comics wasn't a big enough death for Abraham. The actor wanted an iconic death. What more iconic death could there be than at the hands of Negan?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Read the interview with the actor <a href="http://undeadwalking.com/2015/04/13/walking-dead-death-spoilers-abraham-ford-michael-cudlitz/" target="_blank">here</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Soon we'll know the truth - we hope - but its The Walking Dead's capacity to have us talking about these things that makes it the biggest TV show in the world.</span><br />
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-52394745255158857982016-05-05T20:09:00.000-07:002016-05-05T14:18:41.404-07:00What next in Season 7 of The Walking Dead? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Walking Dead season 6 finale left most of frustrated, angry, sad even as we watched what we assume was someone die at the hands of Negan's vicious bat Lucille.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But with Morgan and Carol coming across two men in body armour who are probably from The Kingdom, the finale did offer some hope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But apart from us meeting new people, what else can we expect in season 7 of the hit show?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's some suggestions -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. Michonne's gets her revenge on the man who cut off one of her dreads.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. Where Daryl's arrow goes into Dwight, the X-ray will look like this. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. If Abraham does get battered to death by Negan's baseball bat this is how he'll go out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. The next time Rick hears a man whistle, he'll do this.</span></span><br />
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-27584706798659930252016-05-05T14:17:00.001-07:002016-05-05T14:17:07.371-07:00What The Walking Dead taught me about writing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Dumb decisions brought Rick and the gang to this point.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most of the second half of Season 6 of The Walking Dead didn't make sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most of the characters we know and love acted like they'd lost their minds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Okay, I've said it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And I'm not alone in thinking it. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The Walking Dead made us feel like this.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The last few episodes leading up the Walking Dead season 6 finale had a lot of people screaming at their TV screens. The reason - the characters that viewers know (probably as well as most family members) and love started acting out of character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take Rick Grimes. He goes after Negan's gang not even knowing who exactly they are, what Negan looks like and whether his group will be outnumbered and outgunned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Does that make any sense for such a shrewd leader? No way, Jose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then there's our beloved Daryl Dixon. With the big bogey man coming in the shape of comic villain Negan (did Rick Grimes really think the red shirt he killed so easily in a previous episode was dictator Negan - I doubt it), Daryl Dixon decided to go after Savior Dwight who killed Dr Denise with an arrow to the head. Daryl believed he'd caused her death by not killing Dwight when he had the chance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If Daryl Dixon had gone after his zombie apocalypse soulmate, Carol, that'd have made sense. But getting justice for Denise, I just don't see it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rick and Daryl weren't the only ones behaving out of character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Carol, the mother of the group, decides to leave Tobin a Dear John letter and quit Alexandria. Bully Negan's heading their way, but hey she can't kill for anyone any more. Even though she's pretty good at it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Soldier Abraham doesn't even suggest they do some fact-finding on Negan and his band of thieves before they kill some of his cohorts whilst they're sleeping. There's no due diligence like, "Hey, Rick shouldn't we check the guy you're about to kill genuinely is the Big, Bad Wolf?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But, no the story isn't being dictated by Rick, Daryl, Carol and Abraham. What Rick and Co do is being dictated by the story. The writers are using them like pawns on a chessboard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Annoying isn't it when characters are manipulated like that, and unsatisfying. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that's why so many fans like me are angry with The Walking Dead - we know these characters and how they'll react and its not how they've been acting on the show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rick would find out everything he could about Negan before he went after him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Daryl wouldn't go and get himself and a lot of his friends taken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Carol would kill again - even if it was one last time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Abraham would say to Rick, "We need to do this right."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Michonne getting caught? No way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No matter what you're writing, your characters have to act in a believable way. Rick, Daryl, Carol and Abraham haven't been doing that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their characters have been messed with to make the story go a certain way and that leaves viewers disappointed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As a writer, you don't want your readers to feel the same way. They'd be perfectly entitled to throw your book across the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Characters must be consistent and if they change, there must be a very good reason for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Good storytelling has to make some sense, or your readers will be left disappointed. </span></div>
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-20855160449026156322016-03-25T17:38:00.002-07:002016-04-02T13:21:27.320-07:00How Carol could die to save Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead Season 6 finale<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Negan does first appear in Issue 100, he punishes Rick Grime's group for taking on The Saviors by choosing someone in the group to bash with his baseball bat, named Lucille. In the comics, Glenn gets his head bashed in.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Who'll meet their grisly end under Negan's bat?</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But, wouldn't it make more sense if Negan targets Daryl instead? He did after all vaporise some of his best men and equipment with a rocket launcher after they made the mistake of telling Daryl, Abraham and Sasha, "Everything you own is Negan's now."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No wonder they ended up as puddles of blood. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, Negan targets Daryl. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Step toward Carol. "He might have killed a few of your gang, but I killed a lot," she sneers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She'll tell how she trapped the newly arrived Saviors on the kill floor, which had been doused with gasoline and how she then threw her lit cigarette into the room and watched as their bodies went up in flames. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Carol threw the match that burned the saviors alive. Will Negan take his revenge?</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Way to out psycho a psycho Carol. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Would it be any wonder if Negan decided to turn Lucille on one the most dangerous people in the walkerverse? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What do you think? Who will end their days as a bloody pulp? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If Carol does die she'll go out as the woman who singlehandedly saved them all from Terminus, in one of the best all-time episodes of The Walking Dead.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Negan could choose to kill more than one person. The actor who plays Heath has landed the starring role in the 24 reboot, so it could be him.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Could Abraham be next to go? </b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Abraham dodged an arrow death in the TV show and poor doctor Denise got it instead. Could his luck be about to run out? He seems to be the most likely candidate. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Note - this is how I'd write it and not based on any inside information or spoilers I've read. </span></span></div>
Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-83775138643204752902016-03-12T16:34:00.003-08:002016-03-12T16:38:53.712-08:00From The Walking Dead to Bosch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Sophia came out of the barn, we all held our breath...</span></h3>
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Jennifer Lee Thomson, Jenny Thomsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07999487852799181636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128453297182623223.post-77500564277155864512016-03-02T17:54:00.002-08:002016-03-02T18:08:03.065-08:00Why Negan won't take Carol or Michonne as one of his wives <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>In the comics, Walking Dead villain Negan has a number of women as his wives.</b><br />
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<b>Here's why Carol won't be one of them.</b><br />
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<b>Carol would be the last wife Negan would ever have.</b></h2>
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<b>Or Michonne..</b></div>
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<b>Meet the men who previously pissed her off..</b></div>
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