The Walking Dead: First Michonne Scene Revealed

During a special episode of AMC's Talking Dead last night, the first clip from The Walking Dead: Season 3 was shown. The clip was a short one, but it highlighted the zombie-fighting skills of Michonne (played by Treme's Danai Gurira), a major new character in Season 3 - one fans of the comic books have been excited to see for some time.

AMC have not posted the clip themselves as yet, so for now, here's a version posted by a fan (hence the less than broadcast-worthy quality).

Talking Dead also had a video of Walking Dead star Steven Yuen ("Glenn") taking host Chris Hardwick on a tour of the show's new prison set.

Source : ign[dot]com

Community: "Introduction To Finality" Review

Looking for reviews of the other two Community episodes that aired Thursday night? You can find the review of the video game-themed "Digital Estate Planning" here and check out the review of "The First Chang Dynasty here!

Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.

Our Community cup runneth over - three episodes in one night to sign off on Season 3! One can hardly complain, now can one? Where "The First Chang Dynasty" was a great way to bring the season to a close, "Introduction to Finality" felt a little out of place, with a tagged on series final ending, you know… just in case. This hurt the episode a bit, especially after two such notable outings.

The timeline of the last few episodes has been a bit of a problem for me. We've been skipping months at a time, and with "Digital Estate Planning," we seemed to leave the timeline altogether. The group got expelled, then months later learned that Chang might be behind the whole thing, then took a break to play a video game, then got reinstated to Greendale, and then months later are taking summer classes. Ultimately this isn't really a big deal, but it did hurt the flow of storytelling. When "Introduction to Finality" began, it was another episode that felt out of place, as if it could have been the first episode of next season.

And perhaps it was intended to be. "The First Chang Dynasty" gave us some great endings to multiple arcs and also supplied us with an interesting cliffhanger, having Troy sacrifice himself to the air condition repair school to save the group. As a first episode to Season 4, "Introduction to Finality" would have restarted the story telling be showing us the aftermath of Troy's departure (Abed cracking into Evil Abed) while also putting things back on track be quickly putting an end to Troy's air conditioning journey. Meanwhile, it started a storyline for Shirley and Pierce and their sandwich shop. But this was still Season 3.

So even though the laughs were there -- Evil Abed making Britta 10% darker, the quirky alternate reality of the repair school -- the whole thing felt very disjointed. And the Summer Fun Court storyline was very average, with Jeff's speech at the end being tedious and overwrought. And then the ending montage started and the purpose of this episode became very clear. This was shot months before anyone knew the fate of the series, and Dan Harmon and the writers had put together an ending to give us some closure on the series, if in fact this was going to be the last episode.

It was a nice montage, set to Community's theme song. Had this been the last ever episode, we would know that Jeff was one step closer to graduating and that he was ready to seek out his dad. We'd know that Abed was ready to grow up a bit, though not entirely. We'd know that the future for these characters looked hopefully. And we'd know that Star-Burns lives. But tacking this ending on to what was already an average, out of place episode simply added to the anticlimactic feel following the season true finale, "The Last Chang Dynasty."

But who can really complain? We get a Season 4!

Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/18/community-introduction-to-finality-review

Community: "The First Chang Dynasty" Review

Looking for our reviews of the other two Community episodes that aired Thursday night? You can find our review of the video game-themed "Digital Estate Planning" here. The season finale review will be up later this morning!

Full spoilers for the episode follow.

I love me a good heist movie. Heck, I love me a mediocre heist movie. So as it became clear where "The First Chang Dynasty" was going to take us, I was grinning from ear to ear. Sure, it was mostly a riff on Ocean's 11 and not the genre as a whole, but since said movie falls squarely in the "good" category, why complain? Where "Digital Estate Planning" faltered by feeling so out of place as an episode, "The First Chang Dynasty" continued (and ended) the story arcs we've been following for weeks.

Chang's rise to power had been a background story for much of the season. And I like that it's been in the background. Too much Chang can really wear thin. Tonight, we got some full on Chang, and since things have been leading to this, it was nice to give him free reign for a while. Britta perfectly summed up his leadership: "He's just like Stalin back in Russia times." The Chang posters around the campus, the aggressive security, the prescription throne-- all were exactly what we'd hope for once we got a clear look at Chang's rule.

Click on Chang's fearsome face to enter for your chance to win a Chang poster signed by Ken Jeong!

Watching the study group figure out a way to free Dean Pelton was a hoot. Once Troy got his inside info from the air conditioning repair school, the plan was put in place. Things unfolded perfectly, with Jeff going over the steps while split screens showed the action that was taking place. It was a delightfully perfect Community spin on Danny Ocean breaking into the Bellagio. And it was funny. This series always does an amazing job of smartly, often meticulously mimicking countless genres while never forgetting to make the audience laugh.

And even get emotional on occasion. After the failing plan that was all part of the plan actually failed, the study group found themselves locked up without a way out. This is where Troy stepped up and made his wordless pact with the AC school: "A man is only as good as his nod through a camera to a guy with a button." This brought us back to another storyline carrying through mush of this season. It took a while, but Troy was now promised to the repair school.

IGN TV Executive Editor took this pic of Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs and Jim Rash on the set of "The First Chang Dynasty"

Really, "The First Chang Dynasty" brought some pitch perfect closure to numerous storylines running through Season 3. The Ocean's 11 riff was a fun way to wrap the package, but the gift on the inside was seeing how everything would come to an end. There was still one episode left, but "The First Chang Dynasty" worked perfectly as a conclusion to the season.

Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/18/community-the-first-chang-dynasty-review

Wrestling Wrap Up: The Big Show Cries!

So Cena has to lose at Over the Limit now, right?

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Yes, after last night's half-hour comedy hour of Gleaming the Cube references, Ace Ventura impressions, and f***ing Puck puns, Johnny's gonna go over.



Unless we can believe that the WWE is ready to put an end to the whole "Johnny as dual GM/Overlord" angle so quickly. Which, personally, I can't. Plus, the ultra-scientifically accurate science meter – the Opposite Momentum Rule – scientifically dictates that Cena will scientifically lose. BEAKERS!!!



Something else to consider? What kind of match would Johnny vs. Cena one-on-one be? Yeah, the WWE is trying to sell this PPV as a sort of "watch Johnny get his ass handed to him" deal, but we all remember what a tedious trudge it was to watch Vince get completely thrashed by Bret back at 'Mania 26. It went from being cathartic to being suicide-inducing in, like, no time flat.

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So the key to Johnny's upcoming win probably lies in Big Show's emotional firing. For a while, some thought that Lesnar might help Johnny win, but he seems to have been shifted away from Cena and into the "Heyman/Triple" story, so it's gotta be Show, right? After all, they quickly made his apology storyline a big deal, with a video package and all. It was only a week old! And suddenly, a story that most of us figured would drag on a bit longer got a big huge, strangely emotional, segment on
RAW last night. Now, it's clear that
Big Show has way fewer days ahead of him, wrestling-wise, than he does behind him, but it was still a stretch to sell that an on-the-spot firing would affect him on such a Lee Strasberg level. Maybe it's because they knew it would be a hard sell, being such a quick turnaround on the story and all, that they figured that Show really, desperately had to nail it. I mean, that was his freakin' Emmy clip. And yes, I do believe that Big Show loves what he does, and loves all the fanimals out there, but the guy cried more than Edge did when Edge had to legitimately retire from the business forever.








I mean, the guy cried as if he'd just seen a school bus full of orphans go up in flames, while careening off a cliff. As if he'd just watched one of those Sarah McLachlan SPCA commercials where they threaten to execute kittens in front of you. The guy wept as if someone pulled his dad's coffin out of the ground with a tow chain and dragged it down across the lawn of a cemetery, with him on top holding on for dear life.








As ridiculous as Show's over-reaction was, I suppose it was necessary. And I have to commend him for being able to actually emote like that in a live segment. That was some intense scene-work. That was sense memory-meets-childhood regression. That was advanced "lie on your mat and become the color blue" workshop stuff. That was "you can't cry like this unless you've got past trauma to readily sift through" s***.

Come on, WWE.com. YOU HAD ONE JOB TO DO!

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More from Big Show's cry-cry, plus Heyman and
Triple H, on page 2…

Source : http://tv.ign.com/articles/122/1224618p1.html