Wednesday, October 29, 2014

My Trip to Woodbury (Senoia, Georgia)

Earlier this month I went to visit Senoia, Georgia. I had to see where they filmed the Walking dead, in person. You probably have noticed by now I'm a huge Walking Dead fan. And yes you guessed it, Daryl is my favorite character, one of them. =)  I also like Michonne, Carol, Rick, and Beth (only cause I hope Daryl hooks up with either her or Carol lol) 
I visited Senoia, hoping I would see Norman Reedus or any of the actors randomly walking through town. But of course I visited on a weekend when they were off, and not filming. =( Oh well, moving on. 
We arrived pretty early, and decided to walk through the town, and see if we seen anything familiar from the show. 
 Of course one whole block of downtown Senoia is where they filmed Woodbury. =) Obviously.
 Such a nice place, small shops, I can see actors walking around this town feeling quite relaxed despite the tourists, like myself. lol
Noticed this on the sidewalk, every other TV show/movie filmed here had its own brick.

Finally The Woodbury Shoppe opened. We spoke with the owner/manager before she opened. She was very nice, and gave us some info about where they have filmed at. I kinda went a tad bit crazy and bought several things from the shoppe. (yea, I'm not telling exactly how much I spent. lol) 

All this, plus a Woodbury shirt, and an Ass Kicker onesie for my niece. =)
The Woodbury Shoppe was such an awesome place, not only did they have souvenirs for the obsessed fan, but they had tons of stuff in the basement. Here's just some of it. =)

My kids trying to keep those doors shut.. or trying to open them.. who knows. lol 
I loved this display. Would've liked to see the real Daryl though. ;)





Don't think I'll be going in this cell... lol




The Governer's heads, and Penny's cage!! 

You could can visit the prison at the Shoppe also. =)


 All over the walls was autographs  





After we left the Woodbury Shoppe, we drive around the town to find more filming locations, thanks to my handy little book "Locations-Locations of TWD Seasons 1-4" we found a few that were in Senoia. 
This is  set of Season 5, where they are filming right now.  Looks like a burnt church, I was told they built it to be burnt. 

Trailers where they are filming.

Sign on the road that takes you to the set.

The wall surrounding where they are filming. Word is, it might be there for 2-3 more years...

These tracks were right at the end of town. The track isn't used anymore, so it's where they filmed a lot of the track scenes. 

More tracks.

Seen this truck across the road from where the set is, though I'd take a picture. =)

They filmed the prison here, built a whole set that looked just like a real prison. Also in the woods around it, they filmed the governor throwing bodies in a lake off a dock. 

I believe this is Milton's Lab/ Governors Military head quarters

This is where Merle has his last drink before he goes to the stand off with the Governor and becomes a walker.
The Claimed House, Carl and Rick hide out here and later Michonne shows up. Then Rick gets a surprise visit from a Claimed gang.


This house wasn't filmed much at all on the outside, but a lot on the inside. I spoke with the owner, and he told me that they filmed the scenes where Michonne and Carl walk into a house and find bodies laying in beds, as well as the weird picture of a lady with sunflowers. 
This is the pudding house, while in the Claimed house, Carl leaves on his own, going inside this house, finding a can of pudding, setting on the roof, and eating it. 
This is the church that was in Season 2, called Sophia's Church. The group goes searching for Sophia, as they run through the graveyard, Daryl enters the church asking, "JC if he is taking any requests."
Overall my trip to see Woodbury was pretty awesome. I highly recommend going if you're a true Walking Dead Fan. And if you go, take the tour, it's long, and like $20 a person, but I wish I would've taken it. If I ever go again, just me and my husband, I definitely would. And if you're lucky and go when they're filming you might run into the actors just walking around town or setting having coffee at the local coffee shop. =) (BTW, 2-3 days before we went Norman Reedus was having coffee outside the coffee shop. Just my luck.. lol )

Check out the Woodbury Shoppe's facebook page for their info, and they also post pictures of their customers and any actor who decides to visit! =) 
https://www.facebook.com/WoodburyShoppe?fref=photo

Monday, October 27, 2014

The Walking Dead so far!

Well we are 3 episodes in on the newest season of The Walking Dead. A lot has already happened. Spoilers are ahead if you haven't seen any of the show.
One thing that happened really quickly is that they were out of terminus in the first episode, thanks to Carol. Carol proved to be a major bad ass in that first episode. Of course she already was pretty tough because she did things I don't see anyone else being able to do. Example killing Lizzie, Rick the way he is now, would've been able to do it, but before, when he was the farmer, not so much.
Carol starts a big riot with an explosion, which let all the walkers into Terminus. Pulling a trick from way back she covers herself in yucky walker guts, and walks with them infiltrating Terminus and shooting a bunch of people including Mary (the cook, Gareth's mom).
While all that is going on, it gives Rick, Glenn, and Daryl the opportunity to escape before being drained. They shoot a few Terminus people and release their people from train car A.
Tyrese has Judith, and beats the crap out of some Terminus dude that threatens to kill Judith. (Carol and Tyrese tied him up, not very good obviously, he confirmed what Carol thought about the group being in trouble. Which leads to her going into Terminus with the walkers.)
The end of the first episode is pretty awesome, it shows every reuniting, Tyrese reuniting with Sasha, and Rick/Carl reuniting with Judith. The first episode was the best season premiere ever in my opinion. Also at the end Morgan shows up, and it looks like he's following the group, tracking them.. something like that.
Episode 2 starts with the group talking about a few things, Carol talking with Daryl, I'm guessing about things she's done, basically the group is kinda mending fences. They hear a man screaming, needing help and it turns out to be Gabriel who's a priest. He leads them to his church. Right off the bat you can tell that Gabriel is scared to death, he's a coward, seems harmless, but does have a secret. You see little clues here and there, about what it is. He also takes part of the group to a close food bank where they get supplies. But it's a close call because there is about 10 walkers where the food is, along with a ton of water which leaked into the basement from a hole in the roof. But things happen and Bob gets pulled under the water, and lives. Later that night though he walks outside the church for some reason, and starts crying. This leads you to believe he was bitten. He's knocked out by Gareth and some more Terminus people, and wakes up tied up, by a campfire where they are eating his leg.
Now episode 3, confirms that Bob was bitten, he tells the hunters who've kidnapped him and ate his leg. He tells them that he's "Tainted Meat". Of course this freaks them out, and they start spitting the meat out. They take him back to the church and leave him outside. While he was kidnapped in the previous episode I forgot to mention that Carol almost leaves, but Daryl stops her and then they take off in a car chasing a car that has people that took Beth in it.
The group (Rick's Group) find Bob outside the church, after confronting Gabriel forcing him to tell his secret that he locked himself in his church and let all of his "flock" die outside the church.
They think Gabriel had something to do with three of their group missing. But they realize he didn't.
And once they get Bob back they find out it was the hunters, (people of terminus) that took him. They set up a plan that involves a few tricks. They trap the hunters in the church and ambush them, killing them all. After that Abraham, Rosetta, Eugene, Glenn & Maggie (who were kinda forced but chose to in the end), and Tara all leave to go to Washington D.C. I think that's the worst thing they could've done, is separate the group again. They just got back together, and it sucks.
Michonne sets on the churches steps and talks with Gabriel for a while, until they hear a noise, and Gabriel runs in. Michonne walks towards the trees, only to see Daryl stepping out, looking a bit sad, and moving slow. She asks where Carol is, and he doesn't say anything, he looks behind him telling someone in the trees they can come out.
So my question now is who the hell was in the trees behind him. You would think that if it was a guy, he wouldn't be hiding behind Daryl, but Daryl has no crossbow, so does the person have Carol as a hostage, and has Daryl's crossbow?? Or has Carol gone undercover where Beth is? Is the person Morgan? He might not know that he's following Rick's group, and therefore is a bit skittish about things. What do you think? Is the person Beth? But we see in the previews that Beth is in a hospital type environment. But I'm thinking, like other episodes that is going to be a flashback, showing exactly what happened when she was taken, and what has happened since. But what do you think about the season so far? Will the group meet up again??