The Walking Dead

[airtime143]

Shoulda turned Darryl and Dwight into a homosexual couple.

Not woke enough for my taste.

Who is top?

Daryl would be the knee jerk answer, but his brother walked all over him and he is more a follower than a leader.
Dwight of course is a literal cuck.
Maybe they never hooked up because nobody was bold enough to take initiative?

 

[Ares]

Who is top?

Daryl would be the knee jerk answer, but his brother walked all over him and he is more a follower than a leader.
Dwight of course is a literal cuck.
Maybe they never hooked up because nobody was bold enough to take initiative?

Just a pair of Bottoms traipsing around a world full of zombies.

 

[RacerX]

Bump update: show stills sucks, please end this slow AF soap opera so I don't feel obligated to watch anymore.

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

Bump update: show stills sucks, please end this slow AF soap opera so I don't feel obligated to watch anymore.

For real. I’ve invested so much time on this show it makes no sense to stop now. But it’s become a painful watch for awhile now. I’m ready for it to be done already. When I watch it now I usually just have it on in the background while I’m distracted by my phone

 

[Burque]

For real. I’ve invested so much time on this show it makes no sense to stop now. But it’s become a painful watch for awhile now. I’m ready for it to be done already. When I watch it now I usually just have it on in the background while I’m distracted by my phone

We went back and were watching the 1st season again, and the zombies are WAY fucking faster and smarter than they are now.

 

[Ares]

I'd argue the main reason the quality of the show has deteriorated is the scope.... it has simply gotten too wide, and many episodes try to tell way too many stories.

I recognize Game of Thrones made it look like you can write a story with dozens of primary characters, jump around the map, and still weave together a great overall story.... but TWD writers should realize they are not George RR Martin and they are writing TV episodes based off of comics (not novels) where they've diverged from their source material (Hey remember when GoT ran out of source material and started to suck?)

TWD seems to follow a limitless number of story threads in any given episode and has abandoned its own premise of... well Zombies....

I remember when one of my college roommates said "Dude, have you heard of this show The Walking Dead?"

I said "No." and he got all excited.

He said "Dude, it is YOUR show.... it is like Dawn of the Dead, but a TV show."

It has gone from that to "It is like a more woke version of This Is Us, but with zombies in the background"

 

[airtime143]

We went back and were watching the 1st season again, and the zombies are WAY fucking faster and smarter than they are now.

Yeah- they use rocks to smash windows, climb fences... now they are shambling disasters with egg-shell skulls.

The reapers are a weird addition... are they hunting for food or sport?
Russian military that travelled to the US to find out how we are doing?
Are they the ones that killed everyone on bloodsworth island?

The showdown with the reaper was ridiculous. so bad I am not even going to list all that sucked about it.

I think the only things I am looking forward to the remainder of this season are how they handle the leadership at the commonwealth and the Negan backstory episode.

Since this episode was made post covid with the new timeline for ending the series in place, I was disappointed at how friggin slow it was.



I did appreciate the new episode for a weird reason.

It allowed me to calibrate the height of the cast of Cobra Kai.

The "big" black dude that bullied Robbie in Juvie towered over him.
The same actor plays the guy with the mask and axes that showed up with maggie, and he looks average as can be with the walking dead actors.

 

[wonky73]

TIL the walking dead is still on.. I thought that show got canceled years ago.

 

[airtime143]

I'd argue the main reason the quality of the show has deteriorated is the scope.... it has simply gotten too wide, and many episodes try to tell way too many stories.

I recognize Game of Thrones made it look like you can write a story with dozens of primary characters, jump around the map, and still weave together a great overall story.... but TWD writers should realize they are not George RR Martin and they are writing TV episodes based off of comics (not novels) where they've diverged from their source material (Hey remember when GoT ran out of source material and started to suck?)

TWD seems to follow a limitless number of story threads in any given episode and has abandoned its own premise of... well Zombies....

I remember when one of my college roommates said "Dude, have you heard of this show The Walking Dead?"

I said "No." and he got all excited.

He said "Dude, it is YOUR show.... it is like Dawn of the Dead, but a TV show."

It has gone from that to "It is like a more woke version of This Is Us, but with zombies in the background"

Based on what I had heard about the remainder of this season, I had the impression the watering down of episodes was going to get better- each one more focused.

That dosent seem to be the case.

aside from the reaper showdown, the most cringeworthy moments IMO were the long haired dude being so tough "no sweat" when clearing the zombies at their camp sight, and then being over the top pants crappingly scared of the reapers.

it didnt make me view the reapers as more scary, it made me view that dude as more pussy.

 

[Ares]

TIL the walking dead is still on.. I thought that show got canceled years ago.

If it makes money, it stays on the air....

Like others in here, I've watched it too long to quit... lol I just wanna see how they end it.

 

[Ares]

Based on what I had heard about the remainder of this season, I had the impression the watering down of episodes was going to get better- each one more focused.

That dosent seem to be the case.

aside from the reaper showdown, the most cringeworthy moments IMO were the long haired dude being so tough "no sweat" when clearing the zombies at their camp sight, and then being over the top pants crappingly scared of the reapers.

it didnt make me view the reapers as more scary, it made me view that dude as more pussy.

Who grows up and/or lives in such a world without growing something of a thick skin?

They just keep trying to hammer on these notions about how the real challenge is mental/emotional.

I forget when the writing got so fucking soft, but everyone has to have these mental/emotional breakdowns now.

No one is (or can be) genuinely tough or unshakeable..... they all have to cry and have breakdowns.

And if that wasn't bad enough, they blend it with this oddly cavalier attitude people have about their physical safety from a world full of zombies that literally want to eat them alive, and one bite or scratch can effectively end your life.

No one is ever worried about their physical safety, but they have time to have a good cry at the drop of a hat.

Must be easy when the writers of the show simply dial up the zombies when needed and dial them down when it is time to get all emo.

According to TWD writers every person in the world is deeply sensitive emotionally but give nearly zero fucks about whether they live or die.... those things seem incompatible to me.

 

[airtime143]

ugh.
there is so damn much story to tell left, and they are wasting episodes.
It is nice to know daryl scored some trim, but this episode could be summed up in a 2 or 3 sentence explanation to carol.

I get the feeling this entire season is contractual filler while they flesh out the final run.

 

[Anytime23]

ugh.
there is so damn much story to tell left, and they are wasting episodes.
It is nice to know daryl scored some trim, but this episode could be summed up in a 2 or 3 sentence explanation to carol.

I get the feeling this entire season is contractual filler while they flesh out the final run.

Isn't this the final run?

I think it's a little late in the game for them to have an episode like that. Felt like a complete waste of time. Brought me back to the Daryl and Beth episode from a long time ago. That episode actually made me quit the show for a while. Going back to it, it wasn't so bad.

 

[Ares]

ugh.
there is so damn much story to tell left, and they are wasting episodes.
It is nice to know daryl scored some trim, but this episode could be summed up in a 2 or 3 sentence explanation to carol.

I get the feeling this entire season is contractual filler while they flesh out the final run.

I am of a similar opinion.

This is filler to "end" or prolong season 10 and get some money.

Season 11 will be the final season and close out the series... finally.

The last episode would have been interesting if it had been done in real time.

Like jump forward some time and show me the group looking for Rick and slowly people give up and only Daryl is left.

The emo shit they wanted to portray would have hit harder if you felt Daryl's isolation and frustration and loneliness build up as he can't find Rick and his friends abandon the search.

Maybe it is just me but I feel like the writers for TWD have made it very backward-looking... lots of characters who sulk an awful lot and have emo breakdowns and shit.

I don't see the point of that 8 year time jump if they were going to have the characters looking backwards half the time.... if the intervening 8 years had valuable story to tell, then it should have been told.

Feels like lazy bullshit writing to jump forward 8 years and then just fill in w/e you want via flashbacks.

And if you must do a flashback, it should have a really good fucking point to make... not just "Hey look Daryl likes women and probably got laid... also this is how he got his dog"

And lastly.... the story between him and the cabin fever lady is so played out at this point.... feels like a carbon copy of June/John in FTWD.

 

[airtime143]

Isn't this the final run?

I think it's a little late in the game for them to have an episode like that. Felt like a complete waste of time. Brought me back to the Daryl and Beth episode from a long time ago. That episode actually made me quit the show for a while. Going back to it, it wasn't so bad.

They are doing a handful of episodes to round this season out, then an extended final season.

I loved the show for most of the run, but over the past couple years they have been exploring dead ends that dont drive the plot, aside from perhaps minor emotional reasons.

The reason I enjoyed it for the first few seasons is because everything meant something to the plot for the most part. Careful watching was rewarded.
The repeat change in show-runners drove it in to the ground.

 

[Anytime23]

They are doing a handful of episodes to round this season out, then an extended final season.

I loved the show for most of the run, but over the past couple years they have been exploring dead ends that dont drive the plot, aside from perhaps minor emotional reasons.

The reason I enjoyed it for the first few seasons is because everything meant something to the plot for the most part. Careful watching was rewarded.
The repeat change in show-runners drove it in to the ground.

Yeah at this point im still watching because i was so invested early on. Ive taken a lot of breaks from the show and then would binge watch and play catchup. I find myself enjoying it more that way when i kind of have the parts i love about the show more fresh in my mind.

I don't know what the show is missing but it just gets tiring watching them kind of rehash the same thing over and over. Its like every season we get a new character who suddenly finds their humanity and refuses to take action against the living.

I never read the comics but im not sure where they can go with this show. How many fresh ideas can they bring to the table? Either there's light at the end of the tunnel with some sort of cure and rebuilding of humanity or its just endless living v dead v living. Kill someone before they kill you.

 

[airtime143]

Yeah at this point im still watching because i was so invested early on. Ive taken a lot of breaks from the show and then would binge watch and play catchup. I find myself enjoying it more that way when i kind of have the parts i love about the show more fresh in my mind.

I don't know what the show is missing but it just gets tiring watching them kind of rehash the same thing over and over. Its like every season we get a new character who suddenly finds their humanity and refuses to take action against the living.

I never read the comics but im not sure where they can go with this show. How many fresh ideas can they bring to the table? Either there's light at the end of the tunnel with some sort of cure and rebuilding of humanity or its just endless living v dead v living. Kill someone before they kill you.

I always wanted them to introduce a resolution... and I suppose it is still possible that they will.
A cure seems far fetched unless there is an intact country out there. possible, but improbable.

i was toying with the thought that those born after the outbreak would be immune to the virus.
to my knowledge, there have been no kids born after the outbreak that have been killed or bitten.

After the commonwealth story plays out, it would be cool to see judith or herschel get bitten on their torso (somewhere you cant amputate) and not turn.

As for the last season- We know it is the commonwealth, but who the hell knows how they will play it.
Could be our heros take it over.

I used to think the group that took rick was separate from the commonwealth, but I am not so sure anymore.

What I do know is that my only remaining hope for the series and the movies is that Daryl and Rick unite once more. give me that, and I will be happy.


I would really like to see the last scene be rick dying, and viewing turning in to a zombie with his eyes. Darkness, then fuzzy awareness, and a glimpse of humans viewed through a fucked up zombie brain.
or even more terrifying, and internal monologue of awareness as humans bear down on him to kill him, where you realize there is a thinking person in there, but they have no control.

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

It’s been mostly filler for the last five seasons lol. Last time I was interested Eugene was faking he has the cure. There has to be something like a new society coming out of this or a cure or the bad guys destroy what’s left with humanity. Give me something other than another spin off doing the same shit in another locale or some woke garbage teen crap show that I didn’t even bother to watch a minute of

 

[Sculpt]

ugh.
there is so damn much story to tell left, and they are wasting episodes.
It is nice to know daryl scored some trim, but this episode could be summed up in a 2 or 3 sentence explanation to carol.

I get the feeling this entire season is contractual filler while they flesh out the final run.

"Home Sweet Home": Maggie home, the Reaper. I didn't mind this ep. It was very soap opera, but that's an ongoing component to the show. That aspect of this ep wasn't particularly good, but wasn't unwatchable. The Maggie meeting Negan was good, but probably far too small. The Reaper sniping folks were somewhat exciting, but short. The end fight of the Reaper seemed illogical -- like why didn't he kill Daryl while he was helpless when he's a killer. And the ending death... guess he didn't want to take anyone with him. Didn't learn enough about the Reapers to want to see more of them.

"Find Me": Now this ep, I really didn't mind at all. I thought it was kinda sweet in a good way. It explains why he was away for so long, which had baffled me a bit.

The interactions between Daryl and Carol were interesting... but also a little confusing because it has been so long since I've seen the show, I couldn't remember some of what happened between the two, so I had trouble following some of their ending confrontation.

 

[Anytime23]

It’s been mostly filler for the last five seasons lol. Last time I was interested Eugene was faking he has the cure. There has to be something like a new society coming out of this or a cure or the bad guys destroy what’s left with humanity. Give me something other than another spin off doing the same shit in another locale or some woke garbage teen crap show that I didn’t even bother to watch a minute of

That 2nd spinoff with the teens looks dreadful.

I just miss Shane, man. The show was great for a handful of seasons but it's never been the same for me since they killed my guy.