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

[Starscream Soundwave]

Season one is the best for me

I think it peaked with two, personally. I'm worried if I watch the first two again I'll find the current ones unwatchable


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[a-dev]

For me it's season 1 all the way up to the end of the prison. From there all the moping through forest got boring and I found the remaining characters and their dynamics less interesting. I really missed Hershel in particular.

 

[crows]

I think the show is on a ratings high & AMC knows it, so they're extending the seasons more than it should be because they know people will watch regardless

This is true, walking dead is unbreakable. But i wonder how far they can push this

Try two or three

Most of this season has been forgettable dross. Show's definitely nowhere near as good as it was in the beginning.


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This tends to happen to most shows but walking dead is pushing its limits

 

[Starscream Soundwave]

For me it's season 1 all the way up to the end of the prison. From there all the moping through forest got boring and I found the remaining characters and their dynamics less interesting. I really missed Hershel in particular.

This tends to happen to most shows but walking dead is pushing its limits

True, it just feels like it's going nowhere at the moment. Doesn't make for good TV.


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[Darkseed]

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True, it just feels like it's going nowhere at the moment. Doesn't make for good TV.

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I love the show no matter how repeatable the stories have become but last few shows (last night especially) was wtf.

AMC is doing the show / fans wrong by extending seasons, plots etc just for ratings. Gonna ride this show until she can't go any further.

 

[pixletwin]

This episode was ok. It was moving the chess pieces. That's it.

Meh.

 

[Bo Shrek]

I almost feel like "Simon" is the better Negan. His acting is more engaging.

 

[a-dev]

Just watched it. I actually thought that episode was fine, some worthwhile scenes in there.

 

[DiFabio]

Eugene and Dwight are my favorite characters.

 

[Buttmunch]

This episode was ok. It was moving the chess pieces. That's it.

Meh.

They really are playing a slow game of chess. I don't really see there being a huge, mind blowing finale this year. More like Season 3 disappointing. Its like they set up this war at an awkward time. I can't imagine they'll have 16 episodes of war next year. Having a time jump like the comic did at the mid-season would be weird too. So maybe another 8 episodes of marching to war with the final 8 being the long-awaited actual war?

 

[EVILFACE]

I almost feel like "Simon" is the better Negan. His acting is more engaging.

Trevor is awesome. He is so animated with all his dialogue.

Otherwise episode was crap. We knew from the start that these 'snipers' sticking a rifle half way out of their lookout point, with the lens cap still on, wasn't going to get a shot off. And a single person running in guns a' blazin'

 

[Starscream Soundwave]

I love the show no matter how repeatable the stories have become but last few shows (last night especially) was wtf.

AMC is doing the show / fans wrong by extending seasons, plots etc just for ratings. Gonna ride this show until she can't go any further.

I still watch it but I do find it a lot less engaging. I don't even feel like this one was one of the worst offenders, it's just that all the episodes now have so little going on and it's really beginning to grind.

 

[Shawpaw]

I think the show is on a ratings high & AMC knows it, so they're extending the seasons more than it should be because they know people will watch regardless

I wonder if some of the push back for the show is from fans thinking they are being taken advantage of or some low level of disrespect.

I love the show no matter how repeatable the stories have become but last few shows (last night especially) was wtf.

AMC is doing the show / fans wrong by extending seasons, plots etc just for ratings. Gonna ride this show until she can't go any further.

This episode was ok. It was moving the chess pieces. That's it.

Meh.

And I'm fine with this. All stories have lulls. I think they are going to progress towards the war sooner rather than later, which will be engaging.

I also feel like this show has some disadvantage too as it's fairly close to the comic book. If this show was not based on any other medium and was unpredictable, people would be more engaged.

 

[The Ween]

It's dragging a little but I'm still engaged. Not sure why all the hate is out there for this show. I think people just get used to it's style and get bored. That's about the only thing I can come up with. Still delivers good storytelling with a bad CGI deer every now and then.

They've probably never watched Colony.

 

[crows]

i think the anticipation of the war and the hope of negan getting killed is making people anxious and frustrated with the slower aspects of the show right meow.

 

[Shawpaw]

They've probably never watched Colony.

i think the anticipation of the war and the hope of negan getting killed is making people anxious and frustrated with the slower aspects of the show right meow.

I would agree with this.

 

[SnakeDoctor]

This half season has been good. But, I'm not a fan of the Sasha/ Rosita tangent at all.

I'm pretty good at suspending disbelief ... and even occasionally going along with bad ideas so long as I can see why the character might think it's a good idea. But, I'm having trouble figuring the upside to this 'assassination' plan. Either they kill Negan before Alexandria/Hilltop/Kingdom are ready to handle the retaliation, and they get people killed. Or, they fail, and get people killed. Idea makes no sense. And, the participants aren't important enough to give a damn whether they die or not. The plot doesn't make tactical sense, and it doesn't even make sense with the character progression. Rosita is hellbent on dying to avenge a dude that burned her?

And ... why leave the sniper roost? That was a damn good spot, with a view of a courtyard that Negan regularly frequents. Why not wait there more than 20-minutes? Worst snipers ever. So you didn't have a shot. There's another one coming around. Sit still. Stare through the scope for a few days. Wait for your moment. I don't understand the strange false urgency. Negan's not going anywhere. Why abandon the spot for a hand-to-hand raid, when all you have to do is wait for a shot?

I guess you could just write it off to "well ... they're stupid and they don't know what they're doing". Maybe even throw in a "dingy broads" insult, because it's fun to occasionally sound like Archie Bunker.

Or, maybe, they just have a death wish ... no matter how many of their cohorts' skulls get crushed as a consequence.

Weird senseless sub-plot.

SnakeDoc

 

[kiwiatlarge]

I kept expecting Simon to do to the Hilltop leader what Trevor did in his first cutscene to the leader of "The Lost" biker gang...

 

[kreaturekomfort]

This half season has been good. But, I'm not a fan of the Sasha/ Rosita tangent at all.

I'm pretty good at suspending disbelief ... and even occasionally going along with bad ideas so long as I can see why the character might think it's a good idea. But, I'm having trouble figuring the upside to this 'assassination' plan. Either they kill Negan before Alexandria/Hilltop/Kingdom are ready to handle the retaliation, and they get people killed. Or, they fail, and get people killed. Idea makes no sense. And, the participants aren't important enough to give a damn whether they die or not. The plot doesn't make tactical sense, and it doesn't even make sense with the character progression. Rosita is hellbent on dying to avenge a dude that burned her?

And ... why leave the sniper roost? That was a damn good spot, with a view of a courtyard that Negan regularly frequents. Why not wait there more than 20-minutes? Worst snipers ever. So you didn't have a shot. There's another one coming around. Sit still. Stare through the scope for a few days. Wait for your moment. I don't understand the strange false urgency. Negan's not going anywhere. Why abandon the spot for a hand-to-hand raid, when all you have to do is wait for a shot?

I guess you could just write it off to "well ... they're stupid and they don't know what they're doing". Maybe even throw in a "dingy broads" insult, because it's fun to occasionally sound like Archie Bunker.

Or, maybe, they just have a death wish ... no matter how many of their cohorts' skulls get crushed as a consequence.

Weird senseless sub-plot.

SnakeDoc

Well, to two of your points-

Rosita's motive to kill Negan goes beyond a little facial scar and has far more to do with avenging Abraham (and Glenn, and hell, anybody who's fallen victim
to Negan's sadistic bullying). Despite the dissolution of their relationship prior to his death, Abraham meant a great deal to her.

And as far as the sudden abandoning of their vantage point with the snipe rifle, that was simple- we all heard Eugene's radio transmission telling people to go outside and start gathering up more walkers, so in a matter of minutes there were going to be Saviors searching in the immediate outside areas. They'd have risked
being found and killed by staying.

But, nope, I'm not a fan of the Rosita/Sasha suicide mission either.

 

[abake]

I just hope the both of them get killed sooner rather than later. I hate this type of "desperate" characters...