The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Comic and Un-aired Spoilers unwelcome!)

[DiFabio]

I'm actually looking forward to the show moving on from this "oh, this world we inhabit is just sooooo dark and . . . apocalyptic". We get it, you're living in bad times. You guys know how to farm, build and make the best of what you have so move on from this "on the road again" rut you're in (that you've constantly found yourselves in since Season 2).

Despite not liking last week's episode, I did like Michonne's lines about finding someplace stable. I think once we get to Negan and the politics of this world with the different secure kingdoms, this show will be better. Negan alone should add a certain flair that the show is severely lacking. I mean, if done right, we'll actually have a character that laughs in the face of most of the things that are currently happening. The walkers should have lost their menace a while ago and be used as traps only. Move it from merely "survive getting bit from random walkers" to something more interesting. Not every community should automatically be doomed to be another Woodbury or Terminus, so once we get into things like turf wars or rations that basically become taxes and the politics of the "normal" day to day life, I believe it will get better.

I know people said it was "boring", but I liked Season 4 and Farmer Rick. I'm looking forward to when we're back to that and the threat isn't a villain coming in with a tank to blow your house down to force you back on the road, but instead, a villain that waltzes right into your community and wants to play mind games with you so he can take your stuff.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

Kinda weird/depressing that the more or less silent samurai is now the group's voice of hope.

 

[cilantropants]

I'm actually looking forward to the show moving on from this "oh, this world we inhabit is just sooooo dark and . . . apocalyptic". We get it, you're living in bad times. You guys know how to farm, build and make the best of what you have so move on from this "on the road again" rut you're in (that you've constantly found yourselves in since Season 2).

Despite not liking last week's episode, I did like Michonne's lines about finding someplace stable. I think once we get to Negan and the politics of this world with the different secure kingdoms, this show will be better. Negan alone should add a certain flair that the show is severely lacking. I mean, if done right, we'll actually have a character that laughs in the face of most of the things that are currently happening. The walkers should have lost their menace a while ago and be used as traps only. Move it from merely "survive getting bit from random walkers" to something more interesting. Not every community should automatically be doomed to be another Woodbury or Terminus, so once we get into things like turf wars or rations that basically become taxes and the politics of the "normal" day to day life, I believe it will get better.

I know people said it was "boring", but I liked Season 4 and Farmer Rick. I'm looking forward to when we're back to that and the threat isn't a villain coming in with a tank to blow your house down to force you back on the road, but instead, a villain that waltzes right into your community and wants to play mind games with you so he can take your stuff.

The last thing I look for in my escapist entertainment, particularly that set in the impossible universe of a global zombie apocalypse, is a reflection of "normal" day to day life with politics, taxes, farming and stability. I'll tune into Downton Abbey for that, thankyouverymuch.

It's been a while since the breakdown of society, but it should realistically take a really, really, really long time for them to think they can just start right back up again. It's still folly at this stage, and that's what Rick realized when the prison went sideways.

 

[DiFabio]

Eh, I knew someone would post that in regards to politics.

Walking Dead world politics would be a lot more fun than the kind of crap we see in reality, day in, day out. Also, Negan's taxation wouldn't be anything like bumping the price of bread up.

 

[cilantropants]

No. They'd be exactly the same.

We've already had this show anyway. It was called Little House On The Prairie.

 

[SnakeDoctor]

I know people said it was "boring", but I liked Season 4 and Farmer Rick. I'm looking forward to when we're back to that and the threat isn't a villain coming in with a tank to blow your house down to force you back on the road, but instead, a villain that waltzes right into your community and wants to play mind games with you so he can take your stuff.

That's an interesting point about the villain. One of my favorite episodes of the entire run was 'Nebraska' -- where Rick follows Hershel to a bar after Shane guns down the barn-zombies, then goes Raylan-Givens on a couple of smooth-talking thugs. The guy in the bar was one of the best short-lived villains of the series so far. The dialogue was much more subtle than some of the more in-your-face threats ... but the threat was palpable in every innocuous-sounding line.

I liked that episode a lot. It set off the annoying, never-ending "Kill Randall" debate ... but, that bar showdown is one of my favorite scenes in the series. And, there's not even a zombie in it.

SnakeDoc

 

[DiFabio]

Yup, I agree.

With all the events that have happened throughout the show, you sort of take those little things for granted.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

As far as anyone knows, other than an isolated pocket here and there, the only decent people left in the world are all in Rick's group.

 

[Matt S]

This beyotch at work spoiled the death in this last episode for me...some people!!! Told her Rick Dies next week....she learned nervous. Sometimes I feel all this show has left: shocking deaths

 

[Merle's Right Hand]

I'm actually looking forward to the show moving on from this "oh, this world we inhabit is just sooooo dark and . . . apocalyptic". We get it, you're living in bad times. You guys know how to farm, build and make the best of what you have so move on from this "on the road again" rut you're in (that you've constantly found yourselves in since Season 2).

Yes, that bugs me too. There are people living in the world now who are worse off and not bitching about it all the time.

 

[Merle's Right Hand]

No. They'd be exactly the same.

We've already had this show anyway. It was called Little House On The Prairie.

Funny, I used to watch that all the time as a kid and don't remember Charles Ingalls decapitating Nels Olesen when he charged too much for a sack of beans.

 

[Merle's Right Hand]

As far as anyone knows, other than an isolated pocket here and there, the only decent people left in the world are all in Rick's group.

There were good people in Woodbury...too bad they got in the way of the show and had to be killed.

 

[cilantropants]

Funny, I used to watch that all the time as a kid and don't remember Charles Ingalls decapitating Nels Olesen when he charged too much for a sack of beans.

Nels would never do that. Harriet was the sleazy one.

I just don't get how the answer to cries of bad writing on a fantasy escape is to make a farming show about civil society. Plenty of that kind of thing across the decades to not have to turn this into one more of them.

 

[menoseloso]

I'm actually looking forward to the show moving on from this "oh, this world we inhabit is just sooooo dark and . . . apocalyptic". We get it, you're living in bad times. You guys know how to farm, build and make the best of what you have so move on from this "on the road again" rut you're in (that you've constantly found yourselves in since Season 2).

Despite not liking last week's episode, I did like Michonne's lines about finding someplace stable. I think once we get to Negan and the politics of this world with the different secure kingdoms, this show will be better. Negan alone should add a certain flair that the show is severely lacking. I mean, if done right, we'll actually have a character that laughs in the face of most of the things that are currently happening. The walkers should have lost their menace a while ago and be used as traps only. Move it from merely "survive getting bit from random walkers" to something more interesting. Not every community should automatically be doomed to be another Woodbury or Terminus, so once we get into things like turf wars or rations that basically become taxes and the politics of the "normal" day to day life, I believe it will get better.

I know people said it was "boring", but I liked Season 4 and Farmer Rick. I'm looking forward to when we're back to that and the threat isn't a villain coming in with a tank to blow your house down to force you back on the road, but instead, a villain that waltzes right into your community and wants to play mind games with you so he can take your stuff.

I just hope they don't tone down Negan anymore than they have to. It worked for the governor in the context of the story at the time, but Negans a whole different ball game.

 

[a-dev]

Negan will be a polite and well-spoken fellow altogether. He will frown on cursing and consider Rick's group ''hardcore'' for occasionally using the word '****'

 

[menoseloso]

Nels would never do that. Harriet was the sleazy one.

I just don't get how the answer to cries of bad writing on a fantasy escape is to make a farming show about civil society. Plenty of that kind of thing across the decades to not have to turn this into one more of them.

You haven't read the comics have you? It won't be boring.

Negan will be a polite and well-spoken fellow altogether. He will frown on cursing and consider Rick's group ''hardcore'' for occasionally using the word '****'

"I just stuck my finger in your pride and you hugged me for it."

 

[devilof76]

The world they live in is dark and apocalyptic. Dark and apocalyptic things happen. They don't happen to illustrate the situation. They happen because that is the situation.

Maybe what this show needs is Hopeman...

 

[Mr. Green]

u fellas are speaking an alien language now...whos this negan fella? don't answer. Mr. Green thought this show is about zombies eating people? guess some peep still have the luxury to farm and wait for the crops to grow. sure why not

 

[cilantropants]

You haven't read the comics have you? It won't be boring.

I read them to a bit after the prison, and have kept up on the details every few months since. I know what happens, but the show is not the comic.

It makes no sense to me to complain about predictability in the writing so vociferously, yet only offer an answer that is rooted entirely in making the characters and the story even more predictable.
This is simply not a story about rebuilding.

 

[devilof76]

The comics never got so boring as when they settled down again. Tragedy is what makes this show. The only thing good about what gets built is how it gets knocked down, and how many people were in it when it fell.