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***OFFICIAL 'The Walking Dead' TV Series Thread*** (8 Viewers)
- Thread starter goonsquad
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Whoa, slow down there. Have you seen the show? They've never even had an actor nominated.
packersfan
Footballguy
At the risk of being accused of being a Walking Dead Fanboy, I do think Lincoln should've been nominated by now. He really has been quite good. Could make a strong argument for Melissa McBride too in a supporting role.
bigmarc27
Footballguy
Since when does moping around and yelling Carrrrwwwwlll deserve an acting award. This show has borderline soap opera level acting.
mr roboto
Footballguy
Spike
Footballguy
You realize they are competing in the best Drama Series with real shows like Mr Robot, Better Call Saul, House of Cards etc.? Maybe if there were a category for best Horror Series.
bigmarc27
Footballguy
The show is basically torture porn along the lines of Saw and Hostel and other hokey and cliche movies.
You get 20 mins of sobbing and introspection about how bad life is, followed by some minor character doing something stupid. Then main characters go fix said mistake. All seems well and then you get a jump scare and someone does.
Tune in next week!
You get 20 mins of sobbing and introspection about how bad life is, followed by some minor character doing something stupid. Then main characters go fix said mistake. All seems well and then you get a jump scare and someone does.
Tune in next week!
packersfan
Footballguy
Yup. I think Lincoln's been very good in this series and deserving or else I wouldn't have said it. Same for McBride. You guys feel differently. That's cool.
I don't get the "horror porn" comparisons. I can't stand that genre personally. Love this show obviously so I'm not seeing the comparisons. Obviously this show is violent but I think the storytelling, acting and everything else about it is so far above and beyond anything in that genre. At least the stuff I've seen. But again I can't stand the genre so I haven't bothered to watch much of it.
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packersfan
Footballguy
Don't consider that an insult. If I did I wouldn't be posting here as often as I do.Fanboy status confirmed.
Notorious T.R.E.
Showdown!™ Administrator
Snogger outdoing you as TWD apologist of late though. Need to pick your game up.Don't consider that an insult. If I did I wouldn't be posting here as often as I do.
Sconch
Footballguy
Nick Vermeil
Footballguy
Put me in the camp that thought this episode was a let down. The layoff before the reveal of who was killed removed any and all shock value. At this point, Glenn feels like a secondary character. I can't even remember the last scene he was in. On top of that, something about whacking Abe first further diffused the Glen killing. After watching one guy pulverized, the second just doesn't have the same impact.
So kind of a swing and miss for me.
So kind of a swing and miss for me.
bigmarc27
Footballguy
I think they're basically identical. They could have just shown big red getting popped one time in the head. Instead, dude beats a bloody stump into the ground. Could just show him pop Glenn. Instead you get mangled Glenn face and dude even comments about "man you're messed up and you're eye is popping out!!" Then we beat him to a bloody pulp.
Subtle it is not.
Its cool you like it, different strokes for different folks. My brother told me to watch it, he loves it. I watched it last night since he told me too, can't see myself continuing.
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EYLive
Footballguy
I feel the opposite way. I thought Negan would kill just one person. Once Abraham got smashed, I thought that was the end of it for the episode. Glenn getting smashed like a tee-ball for idiot Darryl's temper was a shock to me.
This.
Skip whacking Abe first.
The season finale should have ended with Negan's first slam on Glenn. Cut. Screen goes black. You hear the bat continue pounding. End of season. Their was so much momentum last season with Glenn and Maggie. It was all lost after the layoff. Plus Glenn didn't even really have any meaningful screen time this episode before getting whacked. We didn't reconnect.
The finale and the premier was poorly done dramatically. Ratings would have been huge regardless.
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tommyboy
Footballguy
You'd need to start at the beginning.
I wouldn't call it torture porn at all. It's zombie gore. The first few seasons deal with zombies, the last few seasons deal with other groups of survivors. The other groups are showing to be much harder to deal with than the zombies.
Which, if you imagine a zombie apocalypse to its logical conclusion, makes sense.
jamny
Footballguy
Yup.
I think there would have been more discussion over the summer about where the show will go from here if the killing was shown in the finale. As it was, all anyone cared about was who is going to die. I didn't even care anymore, I just wanted the show to get past it. Now we can move on to the season.
bigmarc27
Footballguy
I've seen most of it - probably all of it except last season. I just got tired of it. I was convinced to watch the premiere because it was a "game changer" (not my words).
Just not my thing.
ConnSKINS26
Footballguy
You watched 5 seasons of something that just isn't your thing?
SacramentoBob
Footballguy
Negan is no more brutal than the Governor, he just has a much bigger and competent posse instead of a bunch of villagers with guns.Just throwing this out there but...
Negan >>> x infinity Governor
shadyridr
Footballguy
There's only 5 actors nominated every year and he is nowhere near any of them. Nobody on this show deserves to be nominated for an Emmy. Let's be serious here.
Thunderlips
Footballguy
I think the finale/premiere way they broke it up sucks.....but I think future watchers who have the luxury to binge watch it will go into that episode with all that momentum.
Nick Vermeil
Footballguy
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tdoss
Footballguy
I don't watch spoilers or commercials.
I just watch from my dvr.
It's beside the point...is there a way to unsubscribe to this thing?
SacramentoBob
Footballguy
I think rape would be fairly common in a world like that.IvanKaramazov said:
SacramentoBob
Footballguy
For TV, they could've killed Abraham at the end of S6, then gone with the surprise kill of Glenn during S7E1.Thunderlips said:
SacramentoBob
Footballguy
If Rick comes back in the RV and walks out with just Negan's head, the rest of his gang falls in line.ghostguy123 said:
LOL, Negan had the gun and he's not going to actually let Rick just kill him. Also, if Rick does somehow kill him, as soon as he comes out his people are dead and so is he. You think a gang of Negan's crew is just going to bow down to a random guy? This isn't Riddick, they'd kill him and Negan's #2 (likely in the crowd) takes over.
Man, great start to the season and all people in here do is whine about a show they continue to watch. Thread's the same as last season. Have fun.
Thunderlips
Footballguy
Agreed. If they knew they were doing two, there's no reason why they couldn't hav done that.
Jayrok
Footballguy
I think under your profile you can go into "manage followed content" to see what threads you are receiving notifications for and click "change preference", then click "do not send me any notifications." There's also an "unfollow" button there too. Not sure if it is the same when you are using a mobile app on your phone.
BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
snogger
Footballguy
I was going with.. Much BETTER character then the Governor ever was.. Never cared for the way the Governor was portrayed..SacramentoBob said:Negan is no more brutal than the Governor, he just has a much bigger and competent posse instead of a bunch of villagers with guns.Just throwing this out there but...
Negan >>> x infinity Governor
Not sure if it was the actor, or the writing for his character but he was close to "dale" in regards to :X
packersfan
Footballguy
I'm gonna piss a whole lotta people off by saying this but I don't give a rip.shadyridr said:
I think Better Call Saul is seriously overrated.
And I was a ginormous Breaking Bad fan and I pretty much think Vince Gilligan can do no wrong.
packersfan
Footballguy
Franknbeans
Footballguy
Sconch
Footballguy
packersfan
Footballguy
snogger
Footballguy
Food.. Hilltop had it, they needed it.. Hilltop made a deal that if Rick & Co. took care of Negan they'd supply Alexandria with food.
Rick was under the impression that Negan's group would be easy to take out since they've had no problems taking out other adversary's. .. he was severely mistaken and lost 2 of his own in the most brutal way
packersfan
Footballguy
I knew what happened in the comics so a part of me thought they would avoid doing a repeat of what happened there just to throw us like they often do. So I was surprised they went beat for beat in terms of how Glenn died in the comics and recreated it on the show as well.
Sconch
Footballguy
Sorry, somebody else said that JDM should have won an emmy. You just think Lincoln should have been nominated. I sit corrected.
packersfan
Footballguy
Yup. I would not have given Lincoln a Best Actor Emmy over those who have won during TWD's run. Let's be clear about that.
