The Walking Dead Serious Discussion Thread V.6.0, Take season 7 like a champ....

[YOTTO]

Spoiler for tonight. Nothing really happens

[freeburn]

Spoiler for tonight. Nothing really happens

****in lol

[project3]

inb4 season 20 series finale ending, rick wakes up from coma...

[StarFox]

I’m gonna miss Carl, one of my fav characters from the comics and I think that Chandler Riggs got screwed by Scott Gimple/AMC

Hopefully FTWD season 4 will be awesome, the third season was great imo

[psai]

I’m gonna miss Carl, one of my fav characters from the comics and I think that Chandler Riggs got screwed by Scott Gimple/AMC

Hopefully FTWD season 4 will be awesome, the third season was great imo

i'm starting to like FTWD more than TWD. having a totally different cast of characters and a brand new setting is refreshing, and there's no comic basis for the plot so where the story will go next is a total mystery.

[IYIaYBe]

WD is a daytime soap opera for men at this point

HBO needs to do their own zombie show

[muscle beast]

I’m gonna miss Carl, one of my fav characters from the comics and I think that Chandler Riggs got screwed by Scott Gimple/AMC

Hopefully FTWD season 4 will be awesome, the third season was great imo

i'm starting to like FTWD more than TWD. having a totally different cast of characters and a brand new setting is refreshing, and there's no comic basis for the plot so where the story will go next is a total mystery.

I stopped watching FTWD after the mexican grandpa dude sacrificed himself in that barn/warehouse. Is that crackhead kid still a crackhead or did he wisen up?

[Bando]

Was a pretty good episode tonight. Only like 10 seconds of Rick crying.

[Ed_Norton_fan]

WD is a daytime soap opera for men at this point

HBO needs to do their own zombie show

Its called GoT

[WABeast]

I stopped watching FTWD after the mexican grandpa dude sacrificed himself in that barn/warehouse. Is that crackhead kid still a crackhead or did he wisen up?

The Grandpa didn't die. Kid still occasionally does drugs, but is making progress

[Hitch23]

I thought today's episode was the best in quite a while, even though I know that's not really saying too much considering the standard of the show of late. Either way I thought it was pretty entertaining, hopefully the show can actually start moving forward now

[Groce]

loled @ the garbage people getting lit up, so satisfying, shame that bitch Jadis is still alive though

[llcoolray3000]

loled @ the garbage people getting lit up, so satisfying, shame that bitch Jadis is still alive though

Stopped watching after the 3rd episode of this season. Watched the end of the midseason finale after hearing Carl died. Didn't watch Carl's sendoff episode last week because his character sucks on the show.

I caught the second half of last night's episode to see if it was still terrible. It is. Rick fired off at least 10 rounds, one-handed with the Python with absolutely ZERO recoil and zero reloading.

I had to LOL when the Garbage Pail Kids were immediately slaughtered after surrendering their weapons. Much more effective pro-2A argument than any gun-grabbing speech at the Oscars. I also found it funny that aside from the fact they were disarmed the other reason they were all killed is because the leader insisted on continuing to talk like an idiot.

The introduction of the trash people was the beginning of the end of the show. Too bad killing them all off won't be enough to revive it.

[gloria7]

Scott Gimple fked up the show since like season 4-5 when he took over. Just around the time ratings started dropping.

Since Scott the pimple got promoted and Angela Kang took his place, i have high hopes for whatever is left to be seen before the show is over.

[Critter5592]

Don't even watch this show anymore, but I randomly watched like 30 min of tonights episode. The villain that works under negan (forget his name), seems like he actually has a pretty cool role. I never understood why someone in his position wouldn't just kill Negan. The whole community runs on fear anyway, so you think if they fear negan they would fear the guy that killed him lmao

[JustiNtense]

I haven't watched this garbage since season two and hershels unlimited shotgun ammo cheat, but i heard that little **** died. It's about time. They should have threw him off a bridge a long time ago. He's inadvertently got so many people killed.

[CrimsonSteel]

Am I the only one who still enjoys the show? It's not top quality TV anymore, but I have a theory that is completely different than any other as to why it's not as captivating...

1. Binge watching is the new thing, and this show lends itself to a binge. Just look at the writing for the newer seasons. It's written for a binge. "This half of the season all happened in 2 days!" Well that's great writers, but maybe release it all at once as a marathon if that's the case? That'd be unprecedented. Make it an entire weekend thing, air all 8 episodes back to back. Then replay them the following weeks in order. That would be record breaking ratings right there. If you're gonna make the show geared towards a binge watch, it isn't gonna be nearly as effective when you have to wait week-to-week.

2. The commercials ruin the immersion of horror. This goes for any show, really. Imagine watching Game of Thrones or Westworld with commercial breaks? It'd be awful. Walking Dead is pretty much the only show I catch live on TV (and go to friends houses to watch the HBO stuff) and commercials in general make me wince. They're so terrible.

3. This is the biggest one, and I never see anyone mention it. The location is fuking boring. Not the fact they're in one spot for an entire season. (The quarry, the farm, the prison, the road, Alexandria, Hilltop, Kingdom.) But the fact that every spot looks the same. I feel like they've filmed the entire show in the same square mile. It all looks the same, it all has the same vibe. Even a season with snow would completely change the tone for a bit. (They had snow in the comics.) They should have moved the filming location out of Georgia to coincide with the point in which the characters themselves left Georgia. The only time I don't feel like they're stuck in this little box of repetition was scenes in Atlanta. (And I miss the urban settings, too.)

[llcoolray3000]

I agree that the setting has gotten stale. The locations are all too similar, and there is no sense of geography (where locations are in relation to each other and how far apart they are). I would guess it is a budget saving approach, but it does affect the storytelling as well.

[CaliSuperSport]

fuark, Enid is my post apocalyptic 9/10

[badreligion]

fuark, Enid is my post apocalyptic 9/10

This .

[TaeBoNinja]

fuark, Enid is my post apocalyptic 9/10

Poor Cuarrl never got to clap dem cheeks.

[CaliSuperSport]

Poor Cuarrl never got to clap dem cheeks.

Poor Coral died a virgin and never got some to feel them DSL's

Never understood the logic that Shane was the best thing about the show. The dude backstabbed his friend, banged his wife, couldn't hold the group together, got jealous af when Rick came back and took over, tried to start a mutiny, and then just gets killed by Rick and forgotten about after. He was a weak foe more than anything.

Shane was great, watching him and Rick clash were some of my favorite scenes in the show. I wouldn't call your best friend turning Judas a weak foe at all.

But one thing the show has been hit or miss on: referencing old storylines. Like you'd think in this setting where you have alot of free time, there'd be more reflection interlaced with actual footage. I'm surprised they didn't show any flashbacks with Coral's death. Instead they always do these long monologues with the actor staring into space.

[kneeonbelly]

Don't even watch this show anymore, but I randomly watched like 30 min of tonights episode. The villain that works under negan (forget his name), seems like he actually has a pretty cool role. I never understood why someone in his position wouldn't just kill Negan. The whole community runs on fear anyway, so you think if they fear negan they would fear the guy that killed him lmao

i think it was implied that negan took that compound and most of the people from steven ogg (the character who's name i also forgot). Thats why hes left in command under negan but there is tension. last nights episode was pretty good i appreciate all the character building

[CaliSuperSport]

I agree that the setting has gotten stale. The locations are all too similar, and there is no sense of geography (where locations are in relation to each other and how far apart they are). I would guess it is a budget saving approach, but it does affect the storytelling as well.

There was way too much fukin filler in this show over the last 2 seasons and the whole thing has gotten stale. IMO it's already jumped the shark for a number of reasons:

-threats like the walkers have been diminished with the extra focus on Negan.
-extremely poor fight choreography (dat dere infinite ammo cheat)
-Too much telling, not showing, with character back stories
-some bad acting, from key characters no less
-obscene plot armor

I don't get that rush or heart pounding emotion from the show anymore, I'm just kinda waiting for it to deliver again at this point. I used to be on the edge of my seat all the way through Season 6 and part of 7.

[Postmort3m]

GLAD Cuarrl never got to clap dem cheeks.

I agree 100%

[llcoolray3000]

There was way too much fukin filler in this show over the last 2 seasons and the whole thing has gotten stale. IMO it's already jumped the shark for a number of reasons:

-threats like the walkers have been diminished with the extra focus on Negan.
-extremely poor fight choreography (dat dere infinite ammo cheat)
-Too much telling, not showing, with character back stories
-some bad acting, from key characters no less
-obscene plot armor

I don't get that rush or heart pounding emotion from the show anymore, I'm just kinda waiting for it to deliver again at this point. I used to be on the edge of my seat all the way through Season 6 and part of 7.

Definitely.

The contrived "dumpster Glenn" cliffhanger followed by the contrived "who did Negan kill?" cliffhanger really did some damage to my ability to like the show.

[CaliSuperSport]

Definitely.

The contrived "dumpster Glenn" cliffhanger followed by the contrived "who did Negan kill?" cliffhanger really did some damage to my ability to like the show.

Serious, to play it out like Glenn actually died was a bad move.

I'm getting cheesy NBC drama show vibes from this show at times. Rick, Carol, and a few others have given questionable performances. Also Coral's death was directed very badly. Between splicing it with irrelevant scenes, having him monologue so much, and no flashback scenes. They could have done way better.

I'm under the impression that key show runners have been replaced since 2010, and it's showing.

[BetaAsPhuck]

fuark, Enid is my post apocalyptic 9/10

[Luc1fer]

I thought the last episode was decent, although my expectations are very, very low at this point.

I really wanted Negan to discover what Simon did.

[CaliSuperSport]

sweet jesus

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