Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [MARK YOUR SPOILERS!]

MaidOfKandar

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

If this season is as good as it is setting up to be there will be no problem getting renewed for future seasons, but the question is will they be willing to invest enough to make sure the the show is top notch in quality. I still think episodes should be an hour long, and not longer seasons like some are asking for on Twitter.
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

MaidOfKandar said:
ETA, Bruce is apparently requesting fans contact Starz to demand more AvED and a season three and four renewal.  Looks like the network is on the fence RE further seasons.

Putting more thoughts over in the non-spoiler thread, since they're non-spoilery, and looping around to respond later!

My heart  dropped seeing this, but seeing how the budget was upped i can kinda see why starz is abit nervous renewing them, hopefully the dvd sales and viewership rises for this season and from the looks of it the show's gaining ground for a fanbase as the hashtag and search  for the shows title have been pretty active these past couple days plus it trending twice on facebook could leave room for hope. It would really suck to see this show end just when it was starting to expand on its story and characters :/
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

@Nick - there's an episode 1 season 2 screening set for two hours from now, if we find out it didn't happen then we'll have to wonder what's up with Comic Con's censorship. If it does, we'll know that it was some smoke and mirrors afoot.

@Joe - apparently the pre-orders for the s1 DVD have been somewhat mediocre, sadly. I'm personally holding back til it drops in price around the holiday season since I can't justify spending $56 on a DVD right now.

It all kinda sadly fits together - it looks like the Emmy campaign, all of the gimmicky stuff on the social media - it's all desperate work to get people to talk about the show. They want or need a reason to justify renewing it with the numbers it's getting. They basically closed the panel by asking people to subscribe and say they subscribed because of AvED.
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

I guess the one positive to take away from this bleak news is that at least starz has not given up on this show and are trying to give it it's just dues, any other network would have just cancelled it right on the spot, at least with starz there trying there best to get it to where it needs to be for them and i for one commend them for that.
 

MaidOfKandar

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

ETA: screening is definitely happening, there are tweets coming out of the press room.
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

MaidOfKandar said:
ETA: screening is definitely happening, there are tweets coming out of the press room.

Everything's dead quiet on social media, must be watching it right now.

First reaction is in !


[font=Arial, sans-serif]The S2 premiere episode of [/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]#AshVsEvilDead[img=33x33]https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags/Starz-AvEDFinals_160707/chainsaw.png[/img][/font][font=Arial, sans-serif] was an absolute blast. So much blood, so much goo, all around a ton of fun. [/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]#SDCC2016[/font]

Source : https://twitter.com/thehorrorchick/status/757087841709088768
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

[font=Arial, sans-serif]Heather Wixson ‏@thehorrorchick  48m48 minutes agoSan Diego, CA[/font]

[font=Arial, sans-serif]Best line had to be "I don't know if I'm drunk enough to know if that's good weird or bad weird, but I can get there." #AshVsEvilDead[img=16x16]https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags/Starz-AvEDFinals_160707/chainsaw.png[/img][/font]

Collider will have the first reaction tomorrow.

They also showed the "banned" trailer. So......
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

MaidOfKandar said:
[font=Arial, sans-serif]Heather Wixson ‏@thehorrorchick  48m48 minutes agoSan Diego, CA[/font]

[font=Arial, sans-serif]Best line had to be "I don't know if I'm drunk enough to know if that's good weird or bad weird, but I can get there." #AshVsEvilDead[img=16x16]https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags/Starz-AvEDFinals_160707/chainsaw.png[/img][/font]

Collider will have the first reaction tomorrow.

They also showed the "banned" trailer.  So......

Actually it was a clean version which has snippets of new footage but it is mostly edited down to a green band trailer, so no it was not the banned trailer. 

Here's that trailer 

https://www.facebook.com/shalla.whitson/videos/10207033819155683/

I want a gif of kelly slapping chet, it's just priceless
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

I'm still curious as to what the point of banning it was, because I'm pretty sure 30 percent of the gore in the red band is in the first episode.

ETA: they kept in the nudity from Ash'a magazine and everyone's blood-laden faces but excised the half-desiccated corpses and the gore discretion shots. Huh.
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

MaidOfKandar said:
I'm still curious as to what the point of banning it was, because I'm pretty sure 30 percent of the gore in the red band is in the first episode.

ETA: they kept in the nudity from Ash'a magazine and everyone's blood-laden faces but excised the half-desiccated corpses and the gore discretion shots. Huh.

Yeeeah, i'm starting to think whoever made that call was being a bit of a nitpicker, comic con let's walking dead a whole bunch of other shows and movies get away with a lot worse so i have no idea why ED was too much to handle for them  :rolleyes:

Off-Topic 

Alright i am  completely exhausted from all the info finding and posting and keeping up with all evil dead news and breaking down footage so i'm gonna be away for a bit but i will be back soon, later deadites !
 

MaidOfKandar

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

And the only places they'd be showing the trailer would be either at the episode premiere or the panel. If you're going to either you've likely seen season 1 and you're immune to the gore.

I can't blame you, I'm tracking about three different properties during the convention and I'm about ready to melt! Enjoy your rest, will be back with replies and actual info tomorow.
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

*patiently waits for Starz to post the Ash vs Evil Dead panel*
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

The funny thing is they posted another panel from Comic-Con last night so Starz is taking their sweet ass time when it comes to posting the Ash vs Evil Dead Panel, haha. I just fired off a Tweet, and asked them about it in case they forgot... or fell asleep after a long night of partying. You never know.
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

Nick el Ass said:
The reviews for episode #1 of AvED season 2 are coming in fast, and in spoilerific fashion.  


http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/tv-review-ash-vs-evil-dead---season-2-episode-1-comic-con-2016-313

Sound's like the first episode is going to be a blast to watch if that is just the first five minutes ! 

I really like the fact that they aren't going to waste a second episode on just getting to elk grove, it sounds like to me this season is going to be a very fast paced ride from what it sounds like.
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

io9 liked it too.

Dread Central, however, did not.

More details from i09 :

On Ash and his dad's relationship:

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]“[Ash’s father] doesn’t like his son,” Majors said. “[Ash] goes back to his home town, where he created the mess to begin with, and left me there trying to clean up his mess. The town kind of went against me, also, because they didn’t want to be associated with the father of ‘Ashy Slashy’.”[/font]

Since AOD is officially canon now, how the hell do people not believe that Ash telling the truth, A, and B, how the hell did Ash manage to unlearn his lesson THAT quickly?

More on Chet:

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]“Chet is a very questionable character on his own ... he makes drinks laced with ketamine. So that’s not a healthy situation,” [/font]

Ohhhkay.  What is it with this show and hallucinogens?  Stop winking at the audience!

SFX battle:

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]“There’s a fight with a colon. An extended fight with a colon.”[/font]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]On the big bad:[/font]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif][size=medium][font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]Season two will also feature a yet-to-be-known character who will play a very important role. “There’s also a new main, main baddie, who is a nasty fucker. But we’re gonna take him down. If we can,” Campbell said.[/font]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]“It’s somebody who was intimately connected to [Lucy Lawless’ character] Ruby,” Rob Tapert—who produced the original Evil Dead movies, includingArmy of Darknesswhich will get shout-outs this season—explained. “[This character] now knows that Ash is the chosen one, and he must be stopped at all costs.”
[/font]
[/font][/size]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]So Ruby's ex-lover?[/font]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]Sam Raimi's level of participation:[/font]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif][size=medium][font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]While Sam Raimi is still involved in[/font][font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif] Ash vs Evil Dead[/font][font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif], his role in season two is somewhat reduced, according to Tapert. “Sam had a huge footprint in the first season. [The season two plot of] going back home, some of the casting decisions, including Lee, and some things we played around with involving his beloved Delta [car]—[those are things] that he had to sign off on, and he was very much ultimately behind those things. He was very involved in the first part of the second season, getting that all set up. But he’s been involved in some other big movie projects that sort of sucked him away for the later half of the season.”[/font][/font][/size]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif][size=medium][font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]Just admit he rubber stamped it, guys[/font][/font][/size]
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

MaidOfKandar said:
io9 liked it too.

Dread Central, however, did not.

More details from i09 :

On Ash and his dad's relationship:

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]“[Ash’s father] doesn’t like his son,” Majors said. “[Ash] goes back to his home town, where he created the mess to begin with, and left me there trying to clean up his mess. The town kind of went against me, also, because they didn’t want to be associated with the father of ‘Ashy Slashy’.”[/font]

Since AOD is officially canon now, how the hell do people not believe that Ash telling the truth, A, and B, how the hell did Ash manage to unlearn his lesson THAT quickly?

More on Chet:

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]“Chet is a very questionable character on his own ... he makes drinks laced with ketamine. So that’s not a healthy situation,” [/font]

Ohhhkay.  What is it with this show and hallucinogens?  Stop winking at the audience!

SFX battle:

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]“There’s a fight with a colon. An extended fight with a colon.”[/font]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]On the big bad:[/font]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif][size=medium][font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]Season two will also feature a yet-to-be-known character who will play a very important role. “There’s also a new main, main baddie, who is a nasty fucker. But we’re gonna take him down. If we can,” Campbell said.[/font]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]“It’s somebody who was intimately connected to [Lucy Lawless’ character] Ruby,” Rob Tapert—who produced the original Evil Dead movies, includingArmy of Darknesswhich will get shout-outs this season—explained. “[This character] now knows that Ash is the chosen one, and he must be stopped at all costs.”
[/font]
[/font][/size]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]So Ruby's ex-lover?[/font]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]Sam Raimi's level of participation:[/font]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif][size=medium][font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]While Sam Raimi is still involved in[/font][font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif] Ash vs Evil Dead[/font][font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif], his role in season two is somewhat reduced, according to Tapert. “Sam had a huge footprint in the first season. [The season two plot of] going back home, some of the casting decisions, including Lee, and some things we played around with involving his beloved Delta [car]—[those are things] that he had to sign off on, and he was very much ultimately behind those things. He was very involved in the first part of the second season, getting that all set up. But he’s been involved in some other big movie projects that sort of sucked him away for the later half of the season.”[/font][/font][/size]

[font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif][size=medium][font=ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif]Just admit he rubber stamped it, guys[/font][/font][/size]

A lot can happen in 30 year's being alone in a rv camper just drinking and running from place to place being alone all the time looking after a book that's caused severe trauma both mentally and physically, so it doesn't surprise me none he slowly unlearned his lesson from AOD and went back to his old ways during that long stretch of time, that's just the way i see it. 

As for the town folk not believing him, i have a feeling ash just didn't come back to his home town and the town eventually started the rumors ,name  and song for him during that time, then they ran his father out of town because of the whole deal which is quite honestly sad. So them not believing a word ash says makes sense as he hasn't been seen or heard from when he first went out to that cabin.

I'm quite interested in seeing who this main antagonist will be but as for right now, it's a wait and see game for me :/

I'm wondering how come chet does that  and i wonder if that won't play a role in a future episode.

I honestly cannot wait to see that colon fight, it just screams Evil Dead with a hint of re-animator to it. 

The other thing i can't wait to see is the relationship between ash and his father and how they will reconnect over the course of this season.
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

Betcha that "big bad" will be the asylum psychiatrist from the trailer.
 

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RE: Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 General Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

The panel has been posted.

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgmHHbleJpQ[/video]
 
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