Season 5 - Official Preview Pics & Vids

[MinionZombie]

The first teaser image for season 5 has been released: We'll use this thread to post official previews of season 5 (i.e. stuff from AMC, news, and official trailers). Please remember to keep theories regarding upcoming plotlines (especially if based on the comic book series) within "SPOILER TAGS" - if you don't know how to use Spoiler Tags, visit the FAQ for more information (link at the top of the forum).

[bassman]

Sheesh. Rick's face for a first photo? It's like they're not even trying anymore.... Remember how much excitement the first photo of Season One created? Rick walking up the street with his hat and gas can in hand? It looked like it jumped straight out of the comic and had everyone buzzing. Flash forward to season five and we have.....Rick mugging. How exciting.

[Neil]

Sheesh. Rick's face for a first photo? It's like they're not even trying anymore.... Remember how much excitement the first photo of Season One created? Rick walking up the street with his hat and gas can in hand? It looked like it jumped straight out of the comic and had everyone buzzing. Flash forward to season five and we have.....Rick mugging. How exciting. Oh... I thought it was quite an nice effective photo...

[AcesandEights]

I think the best teaser photo for the next season they could possibly do would be a nicely stylized image of...   some of the Terminus crew sitting down to a nice barbecue. Nothing too overt mind you.

[MinionZombie]

Yeah, it's a bit of an underwhelming image as the first for season five. Something more ... evocative ... would have been nicer. Something you could read into a bit more ... this, not so much. I suppose we're essentially being told that season 5 picks up right where season 4 left off, so that's a change after two seasons of time jumps (which helped with the story they wanted to tell as well as Riggs' growth spurt), whereas where we are now you can't really have a time jump. Hmmm ... I wonder if we'll get to see a winter scenario, at least for an episode ... and then have a time jump an episode or few into proceedings. As a teaser image it's not really teasing me. I'd really like something to salivate over ... something that suggests a new element ... or hints at a revelation or coming danger or whatever. I already know Rick's in the show and still in train car "A". Nice to have anyway, though.

[Moon Knight]

I don't care what the photo is, as long as I know season 5 is officially in production I'm excited.

[zombieparanoia]

Season 5: Things and Stuff, return of the eyef*ck.

[rongravy]

return of the eyef*ck. I didn't wanna be the one to say it, but yeah. Eye f*cking his way outta that trailer, and into your pants...

[MinionZombie]

Season 5: Things and Stuff, return of the eyef*ck. Eye f*cking his way outta that trailer, and into your pants...

[MinionZombie]

Q&A with EP Gale Anne Hurd - http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-d...er_sweepstakes Presumably the premiere will still be the usual running time, but it sounds like it's going to have some impressive scale to it (seems like they've got some extra production time locked in for the first episode) ... so perhaps it'll be like 4x01 in terms of increased scale ... we shall see.

[facestabber]

The 1 hour run time for season premier bothers me. What is so difficult about a 1.5 hour season opener?

[bassman]

The 1 hour run time for season premier bothers me. What is so difficult about a 1.5 hour season opener? Darabont's pilot was the only episode ever intended to be longer than the usual 42-46 minute run time. Season Two's premiere was only longer due to issues behind the scenes and was two episodes edited together. So because of those examples most people seem to expect longer premieres and assume there are quality issues if the premiere is a normal length, but they've never been planned to be any longer.

[MinionZombie]

True, true. Although it would be nice if they could do an extended premiere episode for the beginning of new seasons, something to make a bigger deal out of it. "24" often do double episode premieres so it's more of an event - however - considering AMC have their schedule tightly packed and very solid with TWD, then Talking Dead, then TWD again, then Comic Book Men, there would be no place to fit in an episode that's any longer than that. Those re-run showings help boost the numbers for the night and grab headlines, so it's understandable why they're sticking with what's worked well for them. So I suppose what we can have instead is a more epic feel to those standard 43 minutes of show - e.g. 4x01's "Big Spot!" scene, which was quite something. With a couple of extra days on their production schedule for 5x01, it sounds like, perhaps, we'll be getting something bigger than usual in the opening episode of the season (i.e. something that requires additional days of shooting to pull off due to its complexity).

[AcesandEights]

Darabont's pilot was the only episode ever intended to be longer than the usual 42-46 minute run time. Season Two's premiere was only longer due to issues behind the scenes and was two episodes edited together. So because of those examples most people seem to expect longer premieres and assume there are quality issues if the premiere is a normal length, but they've never been planned to be any longer. I actually don't expect it for those reasons, I expect it due to how well the show has been received and how nice it would be to pack some detail into an otherwise short season and format (1 hour doesn't mean much with all those commercials). Though, to be frank, I'd prefer longer season finales, if I had to choose.

[zombieparanoia]

True, true. Although it would be nice if they could do an extended premiere episode for the beginning of new seasons, something to make a bigger deal out of it. "24" often do double episode premieres so it's more of an event - however - considering AMC have their schedule tightly packed and very solid with TWD, then Talking Dead, then TWD again, then Comic Book Men, there would be no place to fit in an episode that's any longer than that. Those re-run showings help boost the numbers for the night and grab headlines, so it's understandable why they're sticking with what's worked well for them. So I suppose what we can have instead is a more epic feel to those standard 43 minutes of show - e.g. 4x01's "Big Spot!" scene, which was quite something. With a couple of extra days on their production schedule for 5x01, it sounds like, perhaps, we'll be getting something bigger than usual in the opening episode of the season (i.e. something that requires additional days of shooting to pull off due to its complexity). Surely AMC would be able to make more money off skipping the talking dead for a night and running the premiere right through? They are just after the dollars after all as we've seen them do a lot of bad things to the show to make or save a few bucks.