Kevin Smith on The Walking Dead Part 2

As promised, I wanted to jot down my two cents about Kevin Smith's appearance on Talking Dead this week, and his thoughts on episode 9 of Season 3 of The Walking Dead.
I always appreciate Kevin's unique brand of humour, and colourful commentary.  Hearing that he has nicknames for all of the regular Walking Dead characters, like calling Carl "Wyatt Twerp" really made my day.
As a Director, Kevin also had some interesting insight about the way the makers of The Walking Dead really ratchet up the conflict, while maintaining  a naturalistic humanist approach to their subject matter. 
On the flip side, Steven Yeun was very Glenn-centric in all of his answers, which I understand, and Glenn is a favourite character of mine...but sometimes I am looking for some more generalized info as opposed to having the guest star answer every question with: Well Glenn has really been through a lot lately and that leads him to be motivated to react like this in regards to that stimulus.  I totally get that he is under a big gag clause not to reveal any information about un-aired episodes, but it felt a little insight into the filming process or interactions with other cast members would have been appreciated.
Finally, I really dig the new One hour format for the show, and all of the extra interactions that it allows.  I hope they keep it.

Kevin Smith on The Walking Dead!

With the glorious return of the second half of season 3 of The Walking Dead Tonight, it is important to remember that The Talking Dead is back too!
And this week two amazing guests will be chatting about all things zombie.
The first guest is Steven Yeun, who plays Glenn on Walking Dead, everyone favourite kick ass pizza delivery boy.
The second guest is none other than actor, writer, director, producer,  Kevin Smith.  Smith's show Comic Book Men is also produced by AMC, and I have seen promo spots with him talking about how a series like The Walking Dead is a childhood dream come true. Smith has some wicked funny insights, and I can't wait to hear what he has to say about tonight's episode.
Tonight is also The Talking Dead's first one hour episode, a new format that I think will be great!
I'll be sure to post my thoughts after the episode has aired tonight.
Can't wait!

CM Punk and Yvette Nicole Brown on The Walking Dead: Part 2

Tonight's guest stars on The Talking Dead were  WWE Wrestler CM Punk and actress Yvette Nicole Brown of Community.

It was a very vocal episode, with both Punk and Yvette being very out spoken with their views on tonight's episode.  It was nice to finally see an episode where the guests are vying for camera time, both anxious to express their opinions on the series.  As much as I appreciate the inside insight that actual cast members can bring to the table, they are usually under a pretty strict gag order.

CM Punk was very well spoken, and had some crazy views, like stating that Merle was justified turning a walker loose on a restrained Glen as part of the interrogation process.  I suppose I can see what he was saying, but nobody messes with Glen!  That character proved he is totally bad ass tonight, both by refusing to cave to Merle's brutal interrogation, and then by taking out the walker while still secured to a chair.

Yvette Nicole Brown was also very well spoken, and she had some pretty great insight.  I loved the fact that when asked which Community character would be best suited to survive the Zombie Apocalypse, she had to consider before jumping on the band wagon to answer Ahbed. 
I also appreciated Yvette's view of Carl as an up and coming Alpha in training.  Carl is definitely maturing into a force to be reckoned with.  And he is making way better choices these days.

The background featurette that focused on how the film crew achieve the various zombie decapitations was also pretty cool to see.

OMG!  The special preview of next weeks season finale was incredible!   Michone meets Penny!  I agree with both CM Punk and Yvette, that Michone would have no problem decapitating a child should it come to that!

This episode was one of the best this season.  Great guests, great content.  A lot of solid fun!

CM Punk and Yvette Nicole Brown on The Walking Dead

Did my research and it turns out that WWE wrestler CM Punk, and actress Yvette Nicole Brown will be the guest stars on tomorrow night's episode of Talking Dead after The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 7.  Fans of the quirky show Community will recognize Yvette as the actress who plays Shirley.  I haven't watched wrestling in 15+ years so I have no idea who CM Punk is, but as always, I am interested to hear what both of these guests have to say about episode 7. 

Sarah Silverman on The Walking Dead Part 2

Okay, so I promised that I would write about Sarah Silverman's appearance on Talking Dead after last weeks episode of The Walking Dead.  Right off the bat I have to say I was underwhelmed.  I expect a certain amount of shock value out of Ms. Silverman as a comic, and I thought she may bring a little of this to her guest spot, but this was not the case.  She was introduced as having starred in the Disney Film, Wreck-It Ralph, and was pretty PG through the entire episode.
Really, the whole episode was underwhelming as there was not a guest appearance by a cast member...just some guy from a band I don't know...
Oh well, you can't win 'em all.

Sarah Silverman on The Walking Dead

I just saw that Sarah Silverman is going to be the guest star on next week's episode of Talking Dead, right after the 6th episode of The Walking Dead.

I am curious to see what kind of insight she brings to the table, and just how much of her quirky sense of humor shines through.  She really is one of the funniest comics out there right now.

I'll be sure to post about her appearance.

Wil Wheaton on Talking Dead

Well, I was right about the fact that a little name recognition goes a long way!
Will Wheaton's appearance on the Talking Dead tonight brought in a lot of traffic in here at wwwwd.  1226 hits in the last 3 hours to be precise.  So I would be remiss not to write a short blurb celebrating the appearance.
This week Chris Hardwick welcomed Wil Wheaton, and  Nick Gomez to the couch.  The topic, what else but Season 3 Episode 2.
Gomez, who played Tomas in tonight's episode, had a lot of interesting anecdotes to share regarding the filming of the episode.  It was also interesting that he was the secret cast member guest star tonight, since his character featured so heavily into the plot and action of the episode.  Despite the fact that tonight's episode will be his last appearance on the show, he certainly left an impression.  This is to be expected when you earn a machete to the skull from Rick Grimes!
It is apparent that Wheaton is a huge fan of The Walking Dead, as he seemed giddy to be on camera discussing the episode throughout the broadcast.  He wasn't actually called on to answer questions very often by Hardwick, doing most of his talking later in the episode - specifically to offer a pretty insightful commentary on the potential duality of Rick's current mindset in regards to the events of tonight's episode, ie killing Tomas, and leaving Andrew to die.  I also appreciated the take he had on Carl's actions this week, and I chuckled at the fact that he totally plugged Where's Carl (His own utube film) in his response.
To close out the episode Hardwick asked Wheaton  which Star Trek Captain he would prefer to have by his side in the event of a zombie apocalypse.  Wheaton's response:  James T. Kirk, cause he'd kick more ass. I certainly can't disagree with that logic.But who would win in a fight?  Rick Grimes or James Tiberius Kirk?