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

[a-dev]

I'm surprised there are any walkers left due to the sheer volume they seem to decimate with ease every week.

Indeed. I'm sick of walkers frankly. It only gets interesting when they meet other people still alive.

So no I will not be bundled in with ADD serial gamers looking for elaborate walker deaths/death by walkers.

edit - dammit Nam! That's the second time in quick succession I've had to edit my post with a quote because you snuck a post in between

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

I'm surprised how many people are ignoring the substantial character development, claiming it's mindless zombie slaughter, yet, ironically, begging for just that under the guise of character development.

Can't ignore what's not there.

 

[Mr. EcKo]

 

[thenammagazine]

Can't ignore what's not there.

Well, you are. Whether it's Michonne, Carl or Daryl, Bob, even Sasha. They've all gone throw substantial growth since the mid-season premiere.

 

[pixletwin]

Can't ignore what's not there.

Last couple episodes developed Daryl and Beth (substantially) and Bob and Sasha. Just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it wasn't there.

Edit: Dammage Nam...

 

[crows]

Besides it is not like the zombies have been absent from the show this second half of the season. We have seen a lot of zombie smashing, Every episode had the characters taking out walkers. Carl, Michonne, Daryl, Tyreese, Maggie.....

There has been a good amount of action, It's not like they have been hanging out in the woods talking like if this was the Blair Witch Project or something.

 

[cilantropants]

Y'know, I've been tapping a ball peen hammer on my downstairs business once a week for 4 years now, and I really hate how it makes me feel. Gets me angry, upsets my stomach, I resent everything about it and can't find much good in doing it. I think I'm going to keep up with it, though, just to see if that feeling changes.

 

[a-dev]

Last couple episodes developed Daryl and Beth (substantially) and Bob and Sasha. Just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it wasn't there.

Edit: Dammage Nam...

It did so in the most boring of ways. Bob and Sasha's character growth arose from deciding whether or not to continue following Maggie...and in the end they decide to...continue following Maggie. Great?

Daryl and Beth's character growth arose from going from a clubhouse to another shelter and on to a house being run out by zombies each time (again it amazes me there's still so many). Daryl had a teenage tantrum about his youth and decides to let an actual teenager make decisions like 'lets burn down our shelter' despite the fact the woods are full of zombie herds. The rest is possible relationship building between him and Beth, fair enough, although that's slightly strange considering the age difference and seemingly everyone wants to see it which is strange to me but OK.

The show needs a Merle or a Shane but they keep killing those guys.

 

[a-dev]

Y'know, I've been tapping a ball peen hammer on my downstairs business once a week for 4 years now, and I really hate how it makes me feel. Gets me angry, upsets my stomach, I resent everything about it and can't find much good in doing it. I think I'm going to keep up with it, though, just to see if that feeling changes.

I consider myself exempt from this *** as I've only really started criticising the show since the prison assault finale. It would take a longer period of discontent than that to make me quit watching. You see that's not having ADD.

 

[thenammagazine]

Y'know, I've been tapping a ball peen hammer on my downstairs business once a week for 4 years now, and I really hate how it makes me feel. Gets me angry, upsets my stomach, I resent everything about it and can't find much good in doing it. I think I'm going to keep up with it, though, just to see if that feeling changes.

Is this "code" for butt problems?

 

[pixletwin]

It did so in the most boring of ways. Bob and Sasha's character growth arose from deciding whether or not to continue following Maggie...and in the end they decide to...continue following Maggie. Great?

FOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHH!!!

That was the sound of something going over your head.

 

[cilantropants]

It did so in the most boring of ways. Bob and Sasha's character growth arose from deciding whether or not to continue following Maggie...and in the end they decide to...continue following Maggie. Great?

Daryl and Beth's character growth arose from going from a clubhouse to another shelter and on to a house being run out by zombies each time (again it amazes me there's still so many). Daryl had a teenage tantrum about his youth and decides to let an actual teenager make decisions like 'lets burn down our shelter' despite the fact the woods are full of zombie herds. The rest is possible relationship building between him and Beth, fair enough, although that's slightly strange considering the age difference and seemingly everyone wants to see it which is strange to me but OK.

The show needs a Merle or a Shane but they keep killing those guys.

I think Abraham is supposed to bring that testosterone back. Although from he early experience I've had with him, I hope he's eaten soon.

I consider myself exempt from this *** as I've only really started criticising the show since the prison assault finale. It would take longer than that of discontent to make me quit watching.

There is always room for legitimate complaints, nothing is so great it can't be criticized. And there are plenty of fair complaints that can be made about the show.
I've just known more than a few people, and it seems there are some here, who have watched from the beginning and hated every single thing about it. I don't understand hating something so much, but continuing to watch it just so they can remind everyone else how much more they hate it each week.

Honestly, though, I'm not seeing what's so bad about this half of the season. They had to change it up again and I think they've succeeded in a good way.

 

[thenammagazine]

FOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHH!!!

That was the sound of something going over your head.

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[a-dev]

FOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHH!!!

That was the sound of something going over your head.

Are you saying I missed what the actual character development was? I'm pretty sure I didn't. You may be missing my point - that this character development wasn't interesting, wasn't worth showing and it did not progress the broader story in any way by the end of the episode than at the beginning. They decide they'll go to Terminus at the start. And at the end, after a few mind changes, they decide they'll go to Terminus. Wow. Nothing very compelling really and ultimately unmemorable. Unlike the Rick/Shane stuff, the virus and the Governor episodes earlier this season.

 

[Mister Ski]

I'm surprised how many people are ignoring the substantial character development, claiming it's mindless zombie slaughter, yet, ironically, begging for just that under the guise of character development.

Great post. Nicely sums up a lot of the moaning and groaning that goes on in here.

Apparently characters cannot develop unless they get killed off on a regular basis.

People are also forgetting that they are only days removed from a major character getting killed off and losing their home in the process. I think all the characters are being developed just fine.

 

[pixletwin]

Are you saying I missed what the actual character development was? I'm pretty sure I didn't. You may be missing my point - that this character development wasn't interesting, wasn't worth showing and it did not progress the broader story in any way by the end of the episode than at the beginning.

Well now that is is matter of opinion.

They decide they'll go to Terminus at the start. And at the end, after a few mind changes, they decide they'll go to Terminus. Wow. Nothing very compelling really and ultimately unmemorable. Unlike the Rick/Shane stuff, the virus and the Governor episodes earlier this season.

Yup... Pretty sure I did hear that FOOOOOOOOOSH sound again.

 

[thenammagazine]

Are you saying I missed what the actual character development was? I'm pretty sure I didn't. You may be missing my point - that this character development wasn't interesting, wasn't worth showing and it did not progress the broader story in any way by the end of the episode than at the beginning. They decide they'll go to Terminus at the start. And at the end, after a few mind changes, they decide they'll go to Terminus. Wow. Nothing very compelling really and ultimately unmemorable. Unlike the Rick/Shane stuff, the virus and the Governor episodes earlier this season.

By your rational, the Governor had zero character development. We knew he wanted to attack the prison at the middle of last season, when they'd captured Glen and Maggie. He attacked the prison in ep. 8 this season and died. According to you, the stuff in between doesn't matter at all.

 

[a-dev]

Yup... Pretty sure I did hear that FOOOOOOOOOSH sound again.

Err OK. So I guess I'll just arbitrarily say FOOOOOOOOOOSH back at you then since I'm sure I have at least as much reason to do so as you think you did.

 

[Mister Ski]

Are you saying I missed what the actual character development was? I'm pretty sure I didn't. You may be missing my point - that this character development wasn't interesting, wasn't worth showing and it did not progress the broader story in any way by the end of the episode than at the beginning. They decide they'll go to Terminus at the start. And at the end, after a few mind changes, they decide they'll go to Terminus. Wow. Nothing very compelling really and ultimately unmemorable. Unlike the Rick/Shane stuff, the virus and the Governor episodes earlier this season.

Those Governor episodes were f'ing pointless. Why spend two episodes on a character everyone knows is going to get killed off? I didn't care about the Governor's motivations for why he did what he did. I just wanted him dead and had to wait two extra episodes before it happened. We could have gone from episode 5 where the Governor was right outside the fence of the prison to episode 8 where he captures Michonne and Hershel and then attacks the prison.

 

[pixletwin]

Err OK. So I guess I'll just arbitrarily say FOOOOOOOOOOSH back at you then since I'm sure I have at least as much reason to do so as you think you did.

Look. I would spell it out for you but it would make my ears blush. I don't want my ears to blush.