King.

Regarding The Governor and Merle

I see Merle being the right hand man of The Governor, and Merle ATTEMPTING to cut off Rick's hand, for revenge. I could see The Governor being a sadistic SOB who is pleasant one minute, and evil the next. I fully expect Merle to constantly be wanting to harm Rick, only for The Governor to deny him the request. It simmers the entire season until around the finale when we get a Rick/Merle fight.

Regarding Lori

How I immediately took her anger is that she's upset that Rick didn't share the "we're all infected" news with her. She struggled with whether or not to go through with childbirth in this world. And in the end the decision was that the child should be kept for "hope" and "life going on". Rick was a big proponent of that. Now, he shares news that no matter what, they're fucked. You could live to be 90, and die of old age, but you'll still be cursed with being a walker. There is no hope.

They explained it well on the Talking Dead after show. Everyone is already infected, which means its either airborne, or a natural occurrence of some kind.

I think Carol is safe. There are just so many more places her character can go as her relationship with Darryl takes off. I'm looking forward to the cliche scene of her riding on the back of his motorcycle.

New trailer for the season finale.

Holy shitbuckets.

http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/on-air-trailer-season-finale-the-walking-dead

Here's who I see not making out out of the season finale.

1)Hershel and his entire remaining family, minus Maggie.

I think that, and one from "the group"

The groups taken a hit recently, I think anymore and they'd be biting off more than they have to at this point. Hershel dying would be dramatic and sad enough. I can especially see him sacrificing himself with some sort of "last stand" that allows the group to slip out the back.

Here's who I see not making out out of the season finale.

1)Hershel and his entire remaining family, minus Maggie.

and that's it.

Just being bitten by a zombie doesn't turn you. It's the infection from the bite that spreads and you get sick and die. Then you become undead. If you remember that's what happened to Jim in Season 1. You're being beaten by a disease infested, rotting corpse. Even though it's shown now that the dead become undead it still doesn't explain why the two security guards are undead.

Cause they died.

I'm just left wondering why

Someone who dies from getting their neck broken/stabbed in the heart resurrect in to a walker quicker then those bitten.

Season finale should be a hell of a good time!

I agree with the bar-part. Those guys threatened them so there was not really another option at that time. The decision had to be made very fast. No problem there.

But torturing a guy??? Executing him because you're afraid of him? That's something else and in my opinion totally undefendable. Killer zombie world or not.

How I think a character's death has changed all that...

Dale said something along the lines of "If we do this, the world we knew is gone." Well, yes, it is. And Dale had to die in order to drive that point home. It's a new world, one where ordinary people are going to have to do terrible things to survive.

They killed the dudes in the bar a couple episodes ago. The guys didn't threaten anything, they just wanted to join their community. That's pretty cold blooded.

They drew their guns first, not to mention insinuated that they'd rape the women in the group.

But even if they do, I'm only going to care about one or two of the deaths, and that's the failing of the series.

For you. I'd care. Series is doing just fine in my opinion.

But I feel like that sort of thing needs to just be accepted with episodic dramas. CSI, NCIS, Law & Order, etc. The main characters get in to these dangerous situations, and in the back of your mind you can't help but always know they're going to get out in the end. It's the Superman effect. No matter how much kryptonite Lex Luther chained Superman up with, we just knew that Superman was going to escape some how. And in the comics, when Superman was finally killed (in one reality) it was a "holy shit" moment, because it meant that much more. Same thing with CSI, and the rest of the shows. Plus, we're now in an age where all the behind the scenes dealings are almost always public knowledge. The fans know who has signed on for more than a season, who's holding off, who's unhappy, etc. For instance, Andrew Lincoln signed on for something like five seasons of The Walking Dead, if it goes that long. Well, we know Rick isn't going anywhere for five seasons. Now The Walking Dead is a unique situation because it also has the source material readily available for public knowledge, the graphic novel.

Granted, Kirkman has said many times that he doesn't mind them straying from the source material while writing the show, and the TV writers love doing it. But think about how many story arcs we're already able to spoil for ourselves. There's no guarantee that they'll hit and follow each and every one of them, but it gives us a chalk-written timeline to follow.

To give you an example about the era we're living in, they spoke about on The Walking Dead how the finale (or last few episodes) of the season is going to contain...

A zombie attack, or some sort of attack on the farm, where several of the big characters are going to get killed. And because of the graphic novel, and just the relationship of characters to the show, we know it's not going to be Rick, Carl, Glen, Dale, Lori, or Andrea. We KNOW it won't be Daryl because we KNOW by all the interviews and news items that are readily available that they love his character, and Norman Reedus has signed on for more seasons. So now we're only left with Carol, T-Dog, and every member of the Greene family. Shane, if you've read the graphic novel, has one of the most important deaths in the story. So important, and so iconic with the series, that we know it's gotta be done that way on the TV show.

Season 3 is going to be the start of, in my opinion, everyone being "fair game".

I have a strong feeling Merle might be a member or the leader of the new group. Especially since...

They started this storyline with Daryl resenting the group. It'd be the perfect time to re-introduce Merle back in to the picture, to make Daryl choose. Also, Kirkman has promised a "huge payoff" for the 2nd half of this season.

Just in time for January 2nd.

Apparently clues about next season are in the episode "Birth"

Verrryyy interesting...

"American Horror Story" brought its first season to an end Wednesday night (Dec. 21) leaving the viewers wondering what is going to happen with the Harmon family and their supporting characters in Season 2. Executive producer Ryan Murphy spoke with the press Thursday and spilled all the details (without spoilers) for next season.

"The only thing I guess I will say about that is next year of the show, every season of the show, will be a different haunting," says Murphy. "What you saw in the finale was the end of the Harmon house and the second season of the show will be a brand new home or building to haunt, I guess is the proper way to put it. Just like this year, every season of the show will have a beginning, a middle and an end."

"That being said, what we're going to do with the actors is some of them will be coming back," Murphy continues. "and also new faces on the show, but [the returning actors] will be playing completely different characters. Completely different creatures and monsters, etc."

Murphy also says that this idea of an "anthology show" was the "design of the show from the beginning," which he thinks is a "cool, interesting way to tell a horror show."

Along with the new haunting, Murphy says there will be a new theme for the show.

"Every season also, along with being a new haunting, will also have a new overriding theme," says Murphy. "The theme of this year, as I've said many times, was 'infidelity.' Next year will have a different theme and a new cast of characters to go with it."

We won't have to wait to long to find out who makes up the new cast and what the new storyline will be. Murphy says the full cast and the storyline for Season 2 will probably be announced in February.

Don't worry - not all the faces from Season 1 will be gone, but mum's the word on which ones may return and in what capacity. But it won't be the same as the first season.

"Connie and Dylan will not be playing the leads on the show," says Murphy. "Their stories are done. People that will be coming back will be playing completely new characters."

"I love those characters and I mourn them, I will miss them," Murphy continues. "But I think the aspects of the show everyone loves, the mysteries and the love stories, will all be there in the second season, albeit with new actors and new characters ... I just hope that people who love the show, I can say with 100% optimism I think they will love the second season, perhaps moreso, based on what we have cooked up."

If you were a fan of the true crime aspect of the show - Mena Suvari as the Black Dahlia, for example - don't worry. That won't be going away.

"We will always have characters or real-life situations based on American true-horror crimes. I'm not interested in doing another house, just a house story. We're not going to move to Maine and do another haunted cottage," says Murphy. "There are all different types of American horror stories to tell."

"I'm really interested in serial killing stories or true crime stories or prison stories, so that's the thing. You can see as long as we all do our good work and people are continually interested, that every year on the show is almost a little miniseries in itself and can be a completely radically different type of show," he continues.

But there is one topic that is off limits.

"I wouldn't do a season about vampires," Murphy laughs. "But everything else is fair game. What we're planning now is very different from the California house approach."

We can hardly wait to find out.

So, basically, if I understand that correctly, each season is stand alone. That's actually really interesting, and I'm intrigued about how the structure of the show will work. Especially with returning actors playing new characters. I also am intrigued about the earlier sentence about next season being a new home or building to haunt. I guess there's a chance that it won't even be the same house. I'm putting my trust in the creators though.

A lot of people hated the finale. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

"Deb, he kidnapped Harrison. So I killed him."

It's a reasonable half truth that I'm sure Dexter can get by everyone.

Which is why I'm not upset about Deb finding out about Dexter, I'm upset that it was done via the Doomsday killer, especially after he kidnapped Harrison. Much more interesting if it was just some shmuck who killed a few sorority girls and isn't associated with Dexter in anyway. Someone who Dexter would have no reason to kill.

I'm enjoying it, but I'm having a really hard time figuring out how they're going to do a second season of this.

Agreed. I was talking about that last night with a friend. Really feel like they blew their load too soon with a lot of stuff. I think really the only way they can keep the show interesting for more than a second season would be to get a new family in the house.

Is no one watching this? it's amazing!

I have a strong feeling the season finale will see Deb get killed.

On Talking Dead they mentioned how the scene was shot two ways. One as we saw, Sophia all zombiefied up. The other, with her completely looking normal. In the second version she stepped out of the barn, cringed at the sunlight, and looked innocently at the group. It was supposed to show Hershel's point of view on zombies. Only when Rick stepped up ready to fire would we see Sophia as what she truly was. I LOVE that ending and so wish they went with it.

Regarding why it was never mentioned..

Otis was in charge of rounding up the walkers and putting them in the barn. Because when they first arrived they were all about saving Carl, they never mentioned "We also lost a little girl". Had they done that, Otis could've said "We found her."

Get this! On my Tribute to the Troops show (which I have running in place of Superstars), Wade Barrett defeated Kevin Nash in the main event, and then Beth Phoenix came out and walked to the back with him. Well on Nitro, HHH just defeated CM Punk, and Beth just came out and walked to the back with him! Slut

This game will be amazing if Barrett and Triple H form a tag team.