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Nathan Fillion's love letter to The Walking Dead:

If you are looking for a recap of the last episode, you are going to be disappointed. There are no tidbits or insights about “What do you think this character will do?” here. This is a love letter.

Let’s talk about entertainment. Some television I watch for the escape, and some, for the journey. The difference being is whether this show is distracting me, or can this piece of work suspend disbelief and transport me to a realm of “what if.” I certainly won’t tune in next week if I don’t care about what happens next. Give me a story that has me asking what I’d do in that same situation. Let me be concerned for characters I’ve come to know, watch them learn and grow, or stagnate and fail. Let me hate them, let them disappoint me. Let me see them make choices shaped by their experiences.

When I really sink into a program, it transcends the typical watching at home alone experience. I want to share it, to gather my friends. I have beverages and food, sometimes in the theme of the show. It becomes an event. We revel in the excitement of having waited all week, chatting about parts that moved us, predicting what will happen next and why we think so. I bring new people who have never seen the show into the fold, and I see the excitement grow inside them just from being surrounded by others who are already swept away. We gather in front of the TV and dim the lights. Everyone finds a comfortable position, we make our last minute jokes and comments, and then—silence. The show begins. The waiting is over. The week spent talking about the last episode is over. The anticipation is satiated. The journey continues.

We spend commercial breaks hooting, gasping, and commenting, positively or negatively, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that we are being made to feel. Emotions are welling up from nothing—nothing but a well-crafted story.

Thank you, Walking Dead. Thank you for enduring the heat in Atlanta. Thank you for the sacrifice of displacing yourselves from your homes. Thank you, cast and crew, writers and producers, casting and costumes. Thank you, make up and hair departments, PA’s and all the artists who play walkers. All of you, thank you.

For those of you who have not yet seen The Walking Dead, you don’t have to be interested in the apocalypse. You needn’t enjoy wondering about how you’d survive if society, commerce, infrastructure, and civilization stopped. You don’t even have to like thinking about defenses against zombies to enjoy good storytelling…

but it helps.

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Lalalalal, not reading anything above. Can someone give me the episode name of the finale? DVR botched up again.

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http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/08/ad-rock-beastie-boys-wants-be-walking-dead

Beastie Boy Ad-Rock wants to be on The Walking Dead. He kills walkers like this, he kills walkers like that, he kills them with a wiffle ball bat

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http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/08/ad-rock-beastie-boys-wants-be-walking-dead

Beastie Boy Ad-Rock wants to be on The Walking Dead. He kills walkers like this, he kills walkers like that, he kills them with a wiffle ball bat

I saw him on Fallon the other night. I'd prefer if he wasn't anywhere near The Walking Dead.

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I wouldn't mind seeing some celebrities make cameos as Zombies and what not just to lighten the mood, like Bill Murray in Zombie Land.

There's a scene in an episode of The Leftovers where they pay tribute to all the celebrities who vanished and the montage included Shaq, Condi Rice, The Pope, Jennifer Lopez. It was pretty funny.

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Eh, I'm not a big fan of celebrity stuff, I don't feel like it's something that would work at all in The Walking Dead. Closest I want to come is something like Tyreese in the comics where he's an football player who almost made it big once.

Eh, I dunno ... maybe off hand or on the lower 'celebrity' end I wouldn't mind it.

I mean, when they were in Atlanta it would have been far fetched or out of place if someone from the Braves or Falcons was wondering the streets downtown ? or the local sportscaster, dj ? the mayor ? some of the CNN personalities ?

I don't think so.

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