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Last of my series from 2015 tracing my Walking Dead Interviews with David Morrissey, Danai Gurira, and Michael Rooker
The Governor and Michone talk season three and your own personal walkers.
The Governor and Michone talk season three and your own personal walkers.
Roundtable interviews with David Morrissey who joins the cast as the Governor and Danai Gurira who plays Michonne.Special thanks to AMC and New York Comic Con.
We're in #TWDseason9 mid-season break mode, which is as good a time as any for a giveaway! It's also as good a time as any to remind you all that WE WANT YOU to be a guest-host on SQUAWKING DEAD! Also, answering any questions you may have Intro Music by GentleBruce (SoundCloud: @user-425767516) * Oh the boredom and anxiety over mid-season break... and opportunity * We'll be announcing A FEW #prizes for our #giveaway, NEXT WEEK * #EYE_in_the_Dark2 with the THREE-PEAT, virtual guest-hosting! * #Funkopop, Itty-bittys... perhaps another statue for the grand prize? * ARE YOU INTERESTED IN GUEST-HOSTING? info@squawkingdead.com or message us directly on SQUAWKINGDEAD.com * ...Manipulating Superfan-Rob into Guest-Hosting * Going over the ways #TWDJesus / #TomPayne was underutilized * ...It's not as simple-as-a-Gimple to lay blame for it, though * How are you holding up, in the meantime? * ...watching old episodes and realizing how incorrectly we remember them * slaughtering #SamanthaMorton's name (so, not #GenevieveMorton) #Alpha * #TheWhisperers bring back what terrified us about #TheGovernor ... #TeamNegan #Negan * Where is #TheOceanside? Did #Michonne do something? #CarolPeletier * ... #AngusSampson: Binge yourself ALL of #ShutEye on #Hulu, while on break * Who are you and where are you from? LEAVE A COMMENT! We'd love to speak with you (don't be shy) * Opinions on #FearTheWalkingDead? Let us know! #FearTWD #FTWD * What makes a decent (SQUAWKING DEAD) podcast host (spoiler: not much!) * The possibility of Henry being killed off... * The phenomenon that is #DarylDixon ... #RobertKirkman and #RickGrimes hand * The casts (mostly) music talents #FinalChild #ChandlerRiggs #EmilyKinney #JordanWoodsRobinson #KatelynNacon #XanderBerkely #KharyPayton * Let us know what YOU would like us to giveaway! ...or why YOU think you should guest-host --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/squawkingdead/message
#SeasonPremiere! FTWD observations/tie-ins! * Getting Eddie on the podcast * Reviews = positive. Ratings... #VOD / Cable woes * #AndrewLincoln's Walking #Deadwood open * #RICKGRIMES' LAST EPISODES: #Annoyed, but necessary #Marketing * #AlexandriaSafeZone's restoration * Where's #BabyGracie? #MurderofCrows #Ominous #Foreshadowing? * #TheSaviors starving in #TheSanctuary * Shouting out #Eye_in_the_Dark2 on #Instagram * Good #filmmaking signals key supporting roles #ZachMcGowan / #SaviorJustin * Saviors help solve communication problem #FearTWDseason4 * Sweeping/Labeling roads. Shipping #TWDJesus & #AaronTWD * Rick & #Jadis' accents #Yoda * #DC ruins and #walker #politicians / #lobbyists * Tangent: #Helicopter #TheCommonwealth #Coffee #Keurig * DC run = #TWDSeason1 vibes (Rick's #Atlanta gallop) * #GregNicotero's #walkers #Horror #CarlGrimes #RIPCarl #RIPCarlGrimes * #TWDcast meet #TheGovernor (of #Georgia) #NormanReedus #Knives * DC mission: saving The Saviors #ManifestDestiny * #TitleSequence visuals #ANewBeginning #BearMcCreary * Clever catch-up/reveal of characters * Exemplifying #Unity #Teambuilding * #SpiderWalker: #Spiders rock, #Cockaroaches / #WaterBugs suck * Nicotero is your #DadsBestFriend * #FatherGabriel & Anne moment #IntelligentDesign #DevolutionOfMan * #DarylDixon speaks! to #Oceanside #Cyndie. No Backstory, no problem * ...Peacetime allows reflection, but neglect dangers * #MaggieRhee & #TheHilltop election. #AMorePerfectUnion for #Michonne's Charter * ...#Corruption with #Progress OR #Honest but Ineffective? #Philosophy * #Gregory's commitment to weaselry until the end. Michonne's objection #jurisprudence * Maggie wielding power: A better Gregory? #CaveatEmptor #BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor * #KingEzekiel's (100th) proposal to #CarolPeletier. Core group misses each other (especially Daryl) * Daryl's new #ActionFigure accessories. Intro to #TWDMarco. #NormalLife vs #Survival * #FTWD hurricane affected #TWD * ...bridge out, walkie repeater destroyed, and ruined farming at The Sanctuary #TheWhisperers? #Beta #RyanHurst * Ken's last words, "Tell my dad to let Marco take my place." Marco and #TWDLydia? But Carl never got a funeral #Eulogy vs #Elegy * #cinematography between TWD seasons (FTWD, too) * Ken's death exposes Hilltop resentments * Funerals indicate shift from survival to civilization * ...Alden (ex-Savior) sings #TheLastRoseOfSummer. Gregory's dig at Maggie * Relationships: Daryl & Laura, Cyndie & Tara * Daryl evades leadership. Comparing him to #MadisonClark + #NickClark and walls * #SaviorsSaveUs #WeAreStillNegan: minimum info revealing schism in Sanctuary * Rick is deaf: The Sanctuary is failing * #TheKingdom never recovered since #AllOutWar * Rick: #heavyistheheadthatwearsthecrown. Gregory: unencumbered * #JustSayNo to Carol & Daryl: Why she doesn't want him to say while she leads * #ILosePeopleILoseMyself: Carol & Ezekiel * #Negan lives while Gregory dies * Maggie's foiled assassination #MamaBear #Hulk #Adrenaline * Maggie to Gregory, "Must be hard, not knowing your place," signals her frustration with Rick * Maggie won't go to Alexandria, "...because #Youknowwho's still there," Gregory * Backtrack: Ezekiel is corny. Both Carols like * Gregory's bravado confirms his prowess. His execution initiates dark times #ThereIsNoUs * ...Gregory's comic counterpart looks like Carl from #AquaTeenHungerForce * ...Gregory's choice to sow doubt as his last words. Hanging him from rafters of a new structure #Meaning * #AMC.com Sneak Peek: Michonne fails negotiations with Maggie. * Sneak Peek: Henry upends Justin; Daryl, "Are we on the same side, Rick?"; Alden compares Rick to Negan; Visiting Negan's cell * ...a reformed Negan and #JeffreyDeanMorgan's laugh * (F)TWD cast on press tours to promote the show * ...Latin television. Arabic names #DonFrancisco #SabadoGigante * ...Race & Marketing: Equal Opportunity evil/good on The Walking Dead * ...Don Francisco: body buried in #Chile, heart buried in #MexcioCity #Chopin --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/squawkingdead/message
Our first ever listener-poll chosen episode - THE GOVERNOR from the Walking Dead! Doc shudders over the unholy trinity of sexual taboos, and Anthony makes the fewest pop culture references in an episode! Listen now! (SIDE NOTE: After we recorded, we realized we had miscounted, and this was the 24th episode, not the 25th. Rather than re-record the intro, we left it in. Whoops.) SHOW NOTES: Introduction Anthony met his Extra Life fundraising goal - head will be shaved later this week! Background (07:28) The Governor, Brian Blake - created by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn in The Walking Dead #27 (April 2006) Head of Woodbury, Georgia, a small community of survivors who welcomes Rick Grimes and his crew Rick is disturbed to learn the Governor uses zombies as entertainment, and forces people to fight each other He has a small zombie girl chained up in his private living quarters - it's his niece, Penny, and their relationship becomes more sexual as the series progresses The Governor turns on Rick and his group after they refuse to accept his leadership, and cuts off Rick's hand Has Michonne tied up and rapes her repeatedly Lets everyone escape with the help of a guard, Martinez - keeps Michonne behind to continue abusing her - she breaks free and cuts off his arm, fingernails, and penis, and removes his left eye - he survives the ordeal thanks to a citizen with medical expertise Uses Martinez's death to rally Woodbury to attack Rick's group at their prison stronghold Tries to negotiate by using Tyreese as a hostage, but decapitates him with Michonne's katana Woodbury residents assault the prison with a tank, but after one of them shoots Lori and Judith, they turn on the Governor and throw him to the zombies Issues (19:08) Charismatic sociopath Grandiose and power hungry Relationship with Penny (28:35) Treatment (32:25) In-universe Out-of-universe Skit (43:25) Ending References: Game of Thrones fans react to the "Red Wedding" - Anthony - 07:07 "Are you not entertained?" from Gladiator - Anthony - 09:05 "It's all part of the plan" from The Dark Knight - Anthony - 09:50 Eye Scream - TV Tropes link - Anthony - 13:32 Game of Thrones - Theon kills Ser Rodrik - Anthony - 15:38 "Que Sera, Sera" by Doris Day - Doc/Anthony - 17:39 iTunes: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Twitter FacebookE-mailPatreon
Episodes 7 & 8 are NOW available for streaming on our #FacebookPage! * Dave & Carol flexing their (not so) creative muscles * #AMC, fooling viewers into watching #TheTerror... and Carol's not having it ("AMC: We're killing it! [GUTTURAL WALKER SOUND]" * Last episode, we thought #RickGrimes would receive the first spectral encounter: #MorganJones' spooky visit from Gavin * Doctor Dana: #Siddiq, passing her smell test * The conflict on the mount * Simon discarding his Satellite Outpost underlings, going for broke, getting weird - becoming his true self. * #MaggieRhee owning both her titles (Rhee and The Widow) * Low-rent #Negan (Simon), Scooby-Dooing it right into #TheHilltop's booby traps * Has Morgan set phasers back to stun...? * Is #RickGrimes gearing up for another killing spree, or is it getting a little chilly? * Carol called Dwight's conundrum, last week: maintaining his cover with #TheSaviors by shooting #Tara with an (unsullied) arrow * Saving Private Tobin: made of sterner stuff, in more than just build * Tara's 180° and owning up to that #TheGovernor life: She and Dwight (and Al, not "Philip") are more alike than she realized * Revisiting a Squawking Dead musing: Dwight saving DarylDixon's life enough for Daryl to come around? * Negan seems absolutely irredeemable: Is rehabilitating him a Kobayashi Maru exercise? * Iceberg Maggie: Hilltop only sees her superior leadership, unknowingly inspired to sacrifice themselves to exact revenge * Can Maggie resist Al's charms? * Negan's resistance to #Walker entrails: luck, leather, or...? * Henry's choice: not only a grave error, but could've minimized the walker deaths by keeping watch in the house * Dave, "Shut up, Al. Gregory's talking." A welcome amount of comic relief... and #XanderBerkeley. Memories of #AbrahamFord * Tobin's death and Henry's possible fate: The emotional toll levied on #CarolPeletier. Will the fate of Rick & Carol diverge from or conform to the comic * Advantage, Maggie: Time may have allowed her to come to her senses sooner, but how much time has truly passed? * AHK is heading to The Machine Shop and will confront #EugenePorter. How will Eugene's relationship be with Simon in charge * Morgan and Carol will eventually search for Henry, much to Carol's chagrin * #Jadis and other major unknowns * What does the future hold? Will the show's paradigm have to shift in order to save it? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/squawkingdead/message
* Yeah, ok, episodes are slowly lessening in intensity, but we still had an explosion AND a helicopter! * We're now on #GooglePlayMusic! ...and improved #FacebookPage * Carol's Roman Catholic spirit is moved by the #Negan/#FatherGabriel scenes * Restarting the Season from #TheSaviors' perspective - things are way clearer * Veins, balls, dicks... and the only character that seems to pull it off/out...? * More humor? PLEASE * the gratuitous opening scene * Father Gabriel: frustrating characters that are necessary disruptions to story progression * Ogg & Berkeley: The Ogg Couple * Simon: suggestively menacing; *break*fast for dinner. * Tying up the roles of The Savior Lieutenants in a bow: The Upper Echelon * Gavin: A middle-management post office worker. Clock in, clock out, works the bare minimum. * Is Almost-Negan "backsliding"/was the original leader of what's now The Saviors? * If people are a resource, and there are so many, how sustainable is The Saviors' model? * What Simon doesn't get: Negan's core philosophy is converting people into resources, whatever the cost. * Is this episode a Negan exposition, just to tear him down in the next Episode? * #EugenePorter is playing 5th dimensional chess in his head: what to do with Dwight, because his time is running out. * The valuable football that is Dr. Carson from Downton-- ...#TheHilltop is now being played by Richard Dean Anderson (#soileralert) * The last play and The #GarbagePeople's/Trash Hipsters' "flyer" * The usefulness/uselessness of Gregory, the politician, butting against Negan's core philosophy. * The way Negan/#DarylDixon justifies their killing * The show reminds us, again, how easy it is for #RickGrimes' crew to descend to The Saviors' level * Even in the face of someone who is trying to kill him, Negan can't resist a "pimping out" a prospective "trick"... and Father Gabriel knows it * ...and Gabriel's ploy works: Negan PROTECTS Gabriel, sifting through The Sanctuary herd. * Dwight's balls... and Sherry's coming back, God dammit! * ...did you just think of #TheGovernor? * Negan's Compulsion: Can't help from turning out people as a resource, even in the face of Rick's opposition (his toughest opponent) * The slow countdown to Simon's demise... * Admit it: you'd join The Saviors just for the Air-Conditioning. * The cult of Negan: The Saviors would fall apart without the "Law-and-Order President" * Father Gabriel can show Gregory a thing or two about threading the needle with Negan: Mutual Dependency/Respect. * Is Father Gabriel faking it (until he makes it)? ** SNEAK PEEKS ** * Rick and the Junkyard Gang: convincing them to join * #MaggieRhee & Jesus: a gauge on her ethics. Jesus can't save em all! ...giving #MorganJones a proper send-off * #Taryl: The kamikaze mission to kill Negan --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/squawkingdead/message
The Walker Nation crew discuss the character of "The Governor" from the AMC hit show "The Walking Dead!"
The Walker Nation crew discuss the character of "The Governor" from the AMC hit show "The Walking Dead!"