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***OFFICIAL 'The Walking Dead' TV Series Thread*** (2 Viewers)

snogger said:
Loved how a few minutes after Maggie confronts Negan for leaving her to die, she sacrifices a red shirt for the same reason. 
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This ticked me off too but for a slightly different reason.  The group has fought off way more walkers than that over and over again, plus they're in a train car where only one or two at most can get through the door at a time.  And she still doesn't want to attempt to save one of their own?

 
PlayaHata said:
This ticked me off too but for a slightly different reason.  The group has fought off way more walkers than that over and over again, plus they're in a train car where only one or two at most can get through the door at a time.  And she still doesn't want to attempt to save one of their own?
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It's kind of "deep" thinking.. 

He took off with their supplies, thus wasn't worth risking others to save him..

Much like Maggie planned to kill Negan, thus he didn't see a reason to risk his life for her.. :mellow:

 
Not as good as last week, but still a decent episode.. Just not enough Reapers.. but they sure are some sneaky little bleeps..
I know.. life is tough, and at a point you have to eat what you have to eat to live but .. :deadhorse:

Next weeks looks to be an introduction to the leader of the Reapers..

 
I enjoyed the first few episodes of the season. But now I see we are right back to the good ol' tried and true "Oh look, a group that is smarter, faster, and better equipped than us that totally makes us their b####." Not sure why I wasted time hoping for anything original for this final season. On the bright side, at the rate this new group kills them, they shouldn't be able to hold out more than two or three more episodes before they are totally wiped out.

 
Spent most of this last episode arguing with my wife about whether not or not the girl that abducts Daryl was Beth

also terrible episode BTW

 
Interesting as I thought it was a better then average episode.

Yes, we've been down this road it seems a hundred times with Bad guy group run by lunatic, but has good intentions shtick.. 
Still, I enjoyed the episode and the back and forth between Daryl and his lost love. The test was :eek:  

More interested in the Common Wealth storyline as that is where we need to get to.. rebuilding of society, so I'm glad to see in the preview they are returning there. 

 
Dan Lambskin said:
Spent most of this last episode arguing with my wife about whether not or not the girl that abducts Daryl was Beth

also terrible episode BTW
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Why couldnt daryl just make up some stuff about the group?  Why was he withholding?  It didnt really make any sense.

And yeah, another crazy bad guy that kills his own people.  Sigh, lets just get to the end of this and be done with it.

 
Why do they always have British actors try to have southern accents on this show?  Like many of the others, Pope's accent comes and goes.  They aren't in Georgia. They've been in/near DC for seasons.  Why the constant need for everyone to have a southern accent?  

 
I've seen every episode of this show. It hasn't been good since Season 5. Sure, maybe a moment here and there that shines, but overall it's been pretty mediocre to terrible. The current season is really lowering the bar further.

 
I mean, literally, the test for if Daryl could join this group is will he try and save himself and the only girl he's sexed in the past decade from a fire?

Who would've done anything different in that scenario?

 
Tried to watch this late last night after a LONG day of driving, eating too much and drinking. So I wasn't in the best state to follow along (and I almost fell asleep)

But I didn't see the point at all. Yet another group of seemingly evil people with a weird leader. Its just more of the same.

Whatever. Just want to see how the story ends at this point. The Commonwealth storyline is infinitely more interesting than whatever these Reapers are, but I get that they need a truly "evil" antagonist to take us to the end.

 
I couldn't get past how incredibly nerdy looking the Reapers leader is - horrible casting IMO.  This guy is the supposed leader of a bunch of macho ex-military mercenaries?  Yeah right.  🙄

 
pantherclub said:
Why couldnt daryl just make up some stuff about the group?  Why was he withholding?  It didnt really make any sense.

And yeah, another crazy bad guy that kills his own people.  Sigh, lets just get to the end of this and be done with it.
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If he gives up some :bs:   info right away there is no way they would have believed it.. They think they got the truth after water boarding and his cabin love begged him to give her something she could bring to the leader.

 
(HULK) said:
I've seen every episode of this show. It hasn't been good since Season 5. Sure, maybe a moment here and there that shines, but overall it's been pretty mediocre to terrible. The current season is really lowering the bar further.
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Agree to Disagree on the current season lowering the bar.. The common wealth storyline is infinitely more interesting then the last 2 seasons.. I feel, so far, this "last season" is about as good as when Negan came around.. :shrug:  

 
The show is just blatantly copying its own story/plot points to try and drag out a 24-episode final season. 

- unhinged leader burns underling to death by throwing them headfirst into a fire, already did that with Negan.

- Daryl captured by a group of mean zealots and is held in a cell, surprised they didn't bring back the 'Easy Street' song too.

Should have just moved right into the Commonwealth storyline and euthanized this series as quuckly and mercifully as possible.  Instead they are just throwing in unoriginal filler to drag it out. 

Since my momma taught me to keep my mouth shut if I didn't have anything nice to say, I will say some of the cinematography and the way the series is being shot this season is actually pretty good.  The plot is terrible though. 

 
My biggest problem (or one of them anyway) is there’s just too many fringe characters I simply don’t care about, and then the original characters get so little screen time as a result I stopped caring about them as well

daryl, dog and Neegan probably the only interesting characters left, maybe just kill everyone off and turn it into a buddy comedy with them and dog

 
Dan Lambskin said:
My biggest problem (or one of them anyway) is there’s just too many fringe characters I simply don’t care about, and then the original characters get so little screen time as a result I stopped caring about them as well

daryl, dog and Neegan probably the only interesting characters left, maybe just kill everyone off and turn it into a buddy comedy with them and dog
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neegan is the only one I care about.  Daryl is just annoying with his stupid cross bow

 
snogger said:
Agree to Disagree on the current season lowering the bar.. The common wealth storyline is infinitely more interesting then the last 2 seasons.. I feel, so far, this "last season" is about as good as when Negan came around.. :shrug:  
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Well, the show was it's best PRIOR to Neegan. Neegan shows up and it's people magically hiding under dumpsters to escape what looked like certain death, resurfacing episodes later only to get their head bashed in almost immediately afterwards. Glenn and the dumpster is probably the jump the shark moment for the show.

While the commonwealth is interesting, last week's episode was all Reapers which is just a retread of something they've done far too many times. It wasn't any better than the Whisperers, but to your point, it might not have been worse. I'm just really annoyed with the Daryl fire challenge as there literally was only one possible outcome, making it a useless test.

 
The last episode I saw was Rick's "final" episode.  Not sure if it is worth binging or not (the past few pages of comments makes me lean "no").

 
Skipdog77 said:
The show is just blatantly copying its own story/plot points to try and drag out a 24-episode final season. 

- unhinged leader burns underling to death by throwing them headfirst into a fire, already did that with Negan.

- Daryl captured by a group of mean zealots and is held in a cell, surprised they didn't bring back the 'Easy Street' song too.

Should have just moved right into the Commonwealth storyline and euthanized this series as quuckly and mercifully as possible.  Instead they are just throwing in unoriginal filler to drag it out. 

Since my momma taught me to keep my mouth shut if I didn't have anything nice to say, I will say some of the cinematography and the way the series is being shot this season is actually pretty good.  The plot is terrible though. 
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Unfortunately, that is how the Comic went.. and whenever the writers of the show tried to deviate away from that storyline they got hammered. I think had they switched to the Common Wealth storyline, along with other communities that are trying to build, the story lines would have been better.

No idea regarding the Comics how long the Reapers story line sticks around as I gave up reading them around theNegan storyline... But being as they only have about 15 members, it can't be for long.. I hope .. :oldunsure:  

 
Corporation said:
The last episode I saw was Rick's "final" episode.  Not sure if it is worth binging or not (the past few pages of comments makes me lean "no").
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Skip over every episode of the Whisperers unless you like the museums, old movie projectors and county fairs. I was so excited for that story line in the first episode where Rosita and Eugene did the Arnold hide from the Predator in the mud bit. That excitement of a potential turnaround back to goodness lasted a few minutes into the next episode.

Is Rosita still alive? Haven’t watched any of the new season. It’s not on Hulu and there isn’t a chance I’ll pay to watch it. 

 
stbugs said:
Skip over every episode of the Whisperers unless you like the museums, old movie projectors and county fairs. I was so excited for that story line in the first episode where Rosita and Eugene did the Arnold hide from the Predator in the mud bit. That excitement of a potential turnaround back to goodness lasted a few minutes into the next episode.

Is Rosita still alive? Haven’t watched any of the new season. It’s not on Hulu and there isn’t a chance I’ll pay to watch it. 
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Rosita is alive and got knocked up by Gabriel. I can't remember if she had the baby.

 
snogger said:
Unfortunately, that is how the Comic went.. and whenever the writers of the show tried to deviate away from that storyline they got hammered. I think had they switched to the Common Wealth storyline, along with other communities that are trying to build, the story lines would have been better.

No idea regarding the Comics how long the Reapers story line sticks around as I gave up reading them around theNegan storyline... But being as they only have about 15 members, it can't be for long.. I hope .. :oldunsure:  
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I don't think there is a Reapers storyline in the comic.  They added it to the show, but its basically the Saviors storyline all over again.  I'm assuming they added it solely to fill out the 24 episode final season, because its not very good and totally unnecessary other than to sell ad time on AMC.

 
snogger said:
Unfortunately, that is how the Comic went.. and whenever the writers of the show tried to deviate away from that storyline they got hammered. I think had they switched to the Common Wealth storyline, along with other communities that are trying to build, the story lines would have been better.

No idea regarding the Comics how long the Reapers story line sticks around as I gave up reading them around theNegan storyline... But being as they only have about 15 members, it can't be for long.. I hope .. :oldunsure:  
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I don't think the Reapers were ever in the comics. If they were, I don't remember them.

 
(HULK) said:
snogger said:
Unfortunately, that is how the Comic went.. and whenever the writers of the show tried to deviate away from that storyline they got hammered. I think had they switched to the Common Wealth storyline, along with other communities that are trying to build, the story lines would have been better.

No idea regarding the Comics how long the Reapers story line sticks around as I gave up reading them around theNegan storyline... But being as they only have about 15 members, it can't be for long.. I hope .. :oldunsure:  
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I don't think the Reapers were ever in the comics. If they were, I don't remember them.
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Yea. no idea.. Like I said, I stopped reading at the Point Negan was introduced .. Just was saying that the comics, up to Negan and Whispers had the same story line.. Meet bad group, defeat bad group.. meet even badder group, defeat even badder group.. Meet worse group.. beat worse group.. :yawn:  

Show would have been much better off dumping the rinse and repeat story lines right after the Negan one ended and moved onto the rebuilding story line that most of us can agree on is 100 times more interesting.. 

 
Dan Lambskin said:
daryl, dog and Neegan probably the only interesting characters left, maybe just kill everyone off and turn it into a buddy comedy with them and dog
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I don't know. In the first episode or two, how many times did dog just take off and nearly get Daryl killed? Even his idiotic behavior was becoming unbearable.

 
snogger said:
Yea. no idea.. Like I said, I stopped reading at the Point Negan was introduced .. Just was saying that the comics, up to Negan and Whispers had the same story line.. Meet bad group, defeat bad group.. meet even badder group, defeat even badder group.. Meet worse group.. beat worse group.. :yawn:  

Show would have been much better off dumping the rinse and repeat story lines right after the Negan one ended and moved onto the rebuilding story line that most of us can agree on is 100 times more interesting.. 
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The TV series ADDED more of these groups. Remember the 'claimed' guys? They weren't in the comics. Also the Wolves... they were BARELY a thing in the comics and the show made a bigger arc out of them.

 
(HULK) said:
snogger said:
Yea. no idea.. Like I said, I stopped reading at the Point Negan was introduced .. Just was saying that the comics, up to Negan and Whispers had the same story line.. Meet bad group, defeat bad group.. meet even badder group, defeat even badder group.. Meet worse group.. beat worse group.. :yawn:  

Show would have been much better off dumping the rinse and repeat story lines right after the Negan one ended and moved onto the rebuilding story line that most of us can agree on is 100 times more interesting.. 
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The TV series ADDED more of these groups. Remember the 'claimed' guys? They weren't in the comics. Also the Wolves... they were BARELY a thing in the comics and the show made a bigger arc out of them.
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were the garbage pail kids in the comics?

jeebus :lol:  

this show got sooooooooooooo stupid.

 
Wow.. filler episode that filled in nothing.. Judith gets bullied and threatened a boy, who cares.. Group goes to hill top finds left over Whispers.... Who cares..common wealth was a complete waste of time...

Only thing that was semi-interesting was the Maggie-Negan back and forth which could have been part of the next episode.

Complete waste of an hour.. :thumbdown:

 
"HUNGRY"

lololololololol

That was by far the worst episode of the series and probably in the running for top 10 worst of all time.

I am not even sure what I watched.  It was a literal soap opera between Daryl and the other dude and the girl.  None of it makes sense.  And the wild people living in the walls.  Seriously wtf?

 
pantherclub said:
"HUNGRY"

lololololololol

That was by far the worst episode of the series and probably in the running for top 10 worst of all time.

I am not even sure what I watched.  It was a literal soap opera between Daryl and the other dude and the girl.  None of it makes sense.  And the wild people living in the walls.  Seriously wtf?
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that's a really low bar to limbo under.

 
snogger said:
Show would have been much better off dumping the rinse and repeat story lines right after the Negan one ended and moved onto the rebuilding story line that most of us can agree on is 100 times more interesting.. 
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Show would have been better if Maggie found out Negan had hidden his family away somewhere "safe" and she found them and executed them in front of him.

That generates the kind of buzz and fan interest that the show is taking a "new tone"

So you can't show an adult shooting a kid in the head on national television. Kurt Sutter got around this a bit on Sons of Anarchy where he showed a clear minor, the daughter of someone, get burned alive.

Maggie could have just burned Negan's kids alive. Then shoot Negan in the spine and force him into a wheel chair. That would be a true game changer.

The show missed the best opportunity in S2-S3. The show should have split in two. Half the show covering Rick's group and half the show covering Shane's split from the main group. The show should have had Lori leave with Shane and have Carl stay with Rick. That's some real conflict there. Rick with Lori is a writers nightmare. Rick without Lori is open to tons of real possibilities.

Then if the show was even smarter, they would have taken Morgan and Glenn and used them into the Fear The Walking Dead spin off. Give them their own show. Instead of using Morgan as a late lead replacement. Glenn was very much beloved by fans and many fans would have followed the new show in better numbers.

They killed off too many of the better actors in the beginning. A lot of those original Atlanta survivors were actually decent actors. AMC could have started pulling actors from their other shows to help. Some of the supporting cast from Mad Men and some from Breaking Bad.

The real problem was giving so much power to Kirkman, who is a comic book writer and not someone who has written for TV before. What makes a comic book work is not what makes a TV show work.

 
pantherclub said:
"HUNGRY"

lololololololol

That was by far the worst episode of the series and probably in the running for top 10 worst of all time.

I am not even sure what I watched.  It was a literal soap opera between Daryl and the other dude and the girl.  None of it makes sense.  And the wild people living in the walls.  Seriously wtf?
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Is this still going? Last episode I watched was when the one girl came out of the coffin a few seasons ago. 

 
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