BB 4/3/16

Good morning and happy Sunday Phoenix! Tonight is the season finale of The Walking Dead, and the buzz is that it’s going to be an episode where we will need “diapers and Kleenex”, so it ought to be good.

In honor of this, I thought I ought to do a little trivia about the show. Enjoy!

• All of the principal actors have a "Last Supper" the day they film their death scenes.
• During an interview, Robert Kirkman claimed Norman Reedus (Daryl) originally auditioned for the part of Merle Dixon. He was rejected, but his audition so intrigued the show-runners that they created the part of Daryl just for him.
• From season to season, the opening titles "decompose" more and more.
• In an interview on National Public Radio, Steven Yeun (Glenn) said that his parents (who emigrated from Korea as adults) watch the show faithfully but do not always understand the nuances of the English used in it, so they get a bootlegged version with Korean subtitles. Yuen also said that his father once asked him to thank Melissa McBride for saving his life. Even though Yeun reminded his father that it was all make-believe, Mr. Yuen insisted that his son should thank her, which he then did.
• Among the common nicknames for the Walking dead that are shared in different groups, are "Walkers", "Lamebrains", "Biters", "Rotters", "Lurkers", "Roamers", "Geeks". The term "Zombie" has never used throughout the course of the series.
• The Alexandria Safe Zone is actually filmed in Senoia, Georgia - across the railroad tracks from where the Woodbury set was created.
• The actors portraying the walkers are actually more talented than one might think. They have to walk and sound like the creatures, while also avoiding breathing too much. They also have to jolt their limbs to take bullets realistically, and effectively pretend to eat fake human flesh.
• A Greene family member has died in three of the four mid-season finales: Zombified Shawn and Annette Greene were put down by the group in The Walking Dead: Pretty Much Dead Already (2011), Hershel was decapitated by The Governor in The Walking Dead: Too Far Gone (2013), and Beth was shot by Dawn in The Walking Dead: Coda (2014). (hmmm…. Maybe Maggie gets it in this one?)

We know someone’s going to meet Negan’s bat, Lucille, at the end of this 90-minute finale episode. What’s your guess on who it will be? My guess is either Carol or Maggie.

Have a fangtastic day!<3 Brock V"""V