The Walking Dead

bravesnumberone said:
This show is just constantly one step forward, two steps back. Writing is lazy as ****. All these dumbass decisions made by everyone for convenience. I hope Negan kills all of them.
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Show has constantly struggled. Season 1 was great,it paced well, it setup many characters and worked. But it was only 6 episodes. Season 2 took one arx from the comics (which was 8 comics or less) and stretched it to 13. Then they took the prison, maybe the highlight of the comics and ripe with stories that could be told abouthow they made a life there and so on so forth, and cut it short to the governors raid. In the comics, the prison and up to the Governor's raid was 25 comics long. TGhis show took 6 comics and turned it into 13 episodes and 25 comics and turned them in 20 episodes. And the original stuff they came up with wasn't too great or I'd forgive it.

To me the greatest crimes of the show though were killing off Andrea who's an awesome character in the comics, and not killing off Judith. Killing Judith (who died in her mother's arms) was the earth shattering moment for Rick, losing his wife and his daughter in one fell swoop, he went crazy after it.

I stopped watching midway through season 4, it was getting too stupid and all they did was plod. No character development, just more living and killing zomvies. Who were not convincing as sometimes they were super cunning, other times they were stupid and killed easily.
 
I'm with zeets. I still catch up with the show, but it has really lost something. I thought the show used to strike a nice balance between the physical terror of the situation and the existential aspects of living in a world in which the world has come off its moorings. Now they play with that, but not in nearly as insightful a way as they did in the first few seasons. Now it comes off as "same old/same old."

I feel that the same thing happened with the old Highlander series starring Adrian Paul. It really ran out of story ideas and the overarching storyline for Duncan McLeod simply ran out of steam as a result. Some shows just run on beyond their expiration date. Same could be said for Breaking Bad except the acting saved that show from becoming too tedious.
 
To add, the theme I think the show was missing out on when it hit the late 3rd season was that the cast is the Walking Dead.

To pull a graphic of sorts from the comic (editted to include the previous context)

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To me that's the weight that the show started missing.
 
Hope they all died so these gutless showrunners and AMC people will be out of a job.

The Walking Dead could learn a lot from Game of Thrones. They turned what could have been one of the iconic TV moments of all time into an abortion.
 
The Don said:
Lol wut. Negan was the best part of that finale. Not his fault they didn't show anyone actually get killed.
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What was interesting or the least bit menacing about his character? I dare say they could've gone into most any acting class in Hollywood and found someone better. There are hundreds of great villain type actors out there. Maybe he'll get better but The Gov was way more believable.

In other words, he did NOT have that 1000 yard stare, not even a little bit. His number one, the guy who shot Daryl, is a better villain.
 
I've not read the comics, other than plot summaries. But what I gather is we're getting a very watered down version of Negan. I think it's a good casting choice and he did fine with the material he was given to work with. This show is the definition of sell-out. I seriously doubt the writers even know who got killed. Leave it up to focus groups this summer.

Probably gonna be someone minor like Aaron or Rosita. Lulz. I'll stick around to see who died, but not sure beyond that. They essentially ruined what was a pretty decent episode and a solid season with that crap.
 
bravesnumberone said:
I've not read the comics, other than plot summaries. But what I gather is we're getting a very watered down version of Negan. I think it's a good casting choice and he did fine with the material he was given to work with. This show is the definition of sell-out. I seriously doubt the writers even know who got killed. Leave it up to focus groups this summer.

Probably gonna be someone minor like Aaron or Rosita. Lulz. I'll stick around to see who died, but not sure beyond that. They essentially ruined what was a pretty decent episode and a solid season with that crap.
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It has to be either Glen or Daryl to have the same impact it did in the comics. But yeah the cliffhanger is lame. I thought Jeffery Dean Morgan did a good job as Negan in that episode. I mean one of his main traits is saying the F bomb non stop. Something you can't really do on the show.
 
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