Tag: NOCemDead
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Love Story of the Zombie Apocalypse: Real-Life Horror in Walking Dead
April 1, 2015 April 2, 2015 Shannon Gibney
Yes, folks, there is a thing more dangerous than a feral, brain-munching horde of zombies: A straight white man who swears that he will do everything in his power to save and protect you and your children.
If you didn't learn this one, primary lesson from five seasons of The Walking Dead, then you might need to go back and rewatch them right quick, 'cause this is a lesson that isn't just applicable in the Zombie Apocalypse.
In this week's epic and appropriately bloody season finale, we got to see this truth played out in spades in the aftermath of Rick officially Losing. His. Damn. Mind after tackling his new lady's (in his mind only) husband Pete — which spiraled out into the street where they commenced to beat each other to a pulp — until Michonne knocked him out, ostensibly to save him and the townsfolk (and us) from himself.
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Hard N.O.C. Life, Horror, Television1 Comment
Hard N.O.C. Life Rewind: The Walking Dead Returns
February 7, 2014 February 21, 2014 The Nerds of Color
This Sunday night at 9pm on AMC, the fourth season of The Walking Dead is set to resume. To prep for the return of Rick, Glenn, Maggie, Tyreese, Daryl and company, flashback to Episode Seven of Hard N.O.C. Life when … Continue reading Hard N.O.C. Life Rewind: The Walking Dead Returns
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NOC Recaps The Walking Dead: Truth and Consequences
November 4, 2013 November 23, 2013 Jenn
Welcome to our recap of The Walking Dead, Season 4, episode 4! Please also check out archives of our live-tweeting coverage of the episode as it happened (#NOCemdead) from the official @TheNerdsofColor Twitter account, with bonus contribution by me through my @Reappropriate Twitter handle.
And now, on with the recap!
Spoiler alert! This is a recap. You know the drill.
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NOC Recaps The Walking Dead: Blackened Catfish
October 21, 2013 February 20, 2014 J. Lamb (Snoopy Jenkins)
The Walking Dead, AMC's smash-hit zombie apocalypse action-drama, owes much of its success to the general interest in and support for gore-infested violence by American audiences. This season's premiere raked in 16.1 million viewers, and devoured more 18-49 year old view attention than this season's N.F.L. games. Thanks to Jenn Reappropriate's conference commitments, I watched and live-tweeted "Infected!", last-night's episode , and my perspective and mild spoilers follow.
Robert Kirkman's dystopia appealed as a comic because, during most of its run, the narrative focus highlighted human survivors. Rick's post-traumatic insanity, Sophia's alternate mental universe, Carl's sociopathic nihilism, and even Michonne's clumsy sexuality all fell within what reader would recognize as human responses to the unreasonable events presented by The Walking Dead. One of the most useful moments in the comic happens somewhere in the Prison, when Rick, in a frenzied monologue, explains the nature of the new world no meek can inherit.
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Zombies! NOC 'Em Dead with Angry Asian Man
October 18, 2013 June 26, 2014 The Nerds of Color
With The Walking Dead breaking ratings records and topping direct market sales charts, what better time to discuss the undead phenomenon on Hard N.O.C. Life? So we wrap up Walker Week with an in-depth look at both The Walking Dead comic and television series and the genre of zombie fiction writ large.
Joining Keith (@the_real_chow) on the panel today are N.O.C. regulars N'Jaila Rhee (@BlasianBytch) and Raymond Chow. The panel also welcomes to the show for the very first time, the Angry Asian Man himself, Phil Yu (@angryasianman). As always, Hard N.O.C. Life is directed by the indomitable Nelson Wong (@aarisings).
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NOC Recaps The Walking Dead: Accidents Happen
October 14, 2013 February 20, 2014 Jenn
Welcome to our recap of Season 4, Episode 1 of The Walking Dead, "30 Days Without an Accident," which first aired on October 13, 2013! Also check out the Storify of our Sunday night live-tweeting!
Don't click on if you don't want spoilers. Then again, what are you doing reading a recap if you don't want spoilers?
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#NOCemDead: We Live-Tweeted the Walking Dead Premiere
October 14, 2013 October 14, 2013 The Nerds of Color
Last night, millions of viewers tuned in to AMC's The Walking Dead for its fourth season premiere. And the Nerds were no exception. Throughout the broadcast, our very own Jenn Fang took to twitter to live-tweet the whole thing. Some choice tweets are below, but you can view the whole stream on Storify or follow @TheNerdsofColor on twitter. Use the hashtag #NOCemDead to join in on the fun as we attempt to live-tweet the whole season!
Things I'll be looking for @WalkingDead_AMC: Introduction of two simultaneous Black men surviving at once? #NOCemDead #WalkingDead
— The Nerds of Color (@TheNerdsofColor) October 14, 2013
Also, SPOILERS!!!!!
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Glenn of The Walking Dead is the Best Response to Anti-Asian Stereotyping
October 11, 2013 November 9, 2015 Jenn
In honour of The Walking Dead's upcoming season 4 premiere this Sunday on AMC, I am re-posting this post, which originally appeared on Reappropriate in February 2013.
Spoiler alert: I'm going to be talking about the events of Walking Dead up until Season 3, Episode 10. If you haven't watched yet and don't want the plot spoiled, don't read on.
Hours after his reunion with long-lost brother Merle, Daryl has chosen his brother over his new family of survivors. After escaping from Woodbury with a banished Merle, Rick and Glenn are unwilling to bring him back to the prison; Daryl decides to strike out into the woods with his brother rather than abandon him to the wilderness. Blood, after all, is thicker than water, right?
But, it turns out, that after a year on the road with Rick and the gang, Daryl now shares less in common with his brother Merle than he thought.
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