The Walking Dead TV show only thread- Part II ***See spoiler rules in first post***

[Locke]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

I quit watching in season 7 I think. Have they made any attempt to explain what caused the zombies?

Not specific to TWD, because I stopped at some point because they went on one of those interminably long mid-season breaks and, like Jiri, I'd been essentially hate-watching it already to that point.

But I dont remember where I left off, so even if I wanted to I dont know where to re-start and I dont really want to hop around a bunch of episodes to see if I remember where we were.

Furthermore...it lost my wife so I'd get a snarky "How was The Walking Dead?"

"Oh...it was awful."

I used to love Sunday evening TV. Walking Dead, Hell on Wheels, Game of Thrones, but then it all went to hell.

[Jiri Hrdina]

I think the show lost it's way because they were trying to build this bigger concept that bigger danger is the other living people not the zombies. It's the living people that are the walking dead! How meta.

Eff that though. The show was great in the early days because it was about scary-ass zombies eating people.

Not corrupt mayors. There's plenty of that sh** on TV.

I just wanted a damn zombie show.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by direwolf

He's the only character worth watching. I'll give the Negan/Maggie series a chance just because I like the character so much, and because Jeffrey Dean Morgan is awesome.

I'm done with the rest of it though. I have zero interest in any of those other spin-offs.

I haven’t watched any of the current spin-offs and have no plans to watch any of the upcoming ones either. The show had been treading water for quite some time and I like many had just been waiting to see it end, but I’m enjoying certain elements of the current plot which is more than I could say during a lot of stretches with this show.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

I think the show lost it's way because they were trying to build this bigger concept that bigger danger is the other living people not the zombies. It's the living people that are the walking dead! How meta.

Eff that though. The show was great in the early days because it was about scary-ass zombies eating people.

Not corrupt mayors. There's plenty of that sh** on TV.

I just wanted a damn zombie show.

when it comes to the undead, survival shows are better than politics and soap .

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

I quit watching in season 7 I think. Have they made any attempt to explain what caused the zombies?

I haven't watched the second/final season yet but they apparently say or atleast suggest what caused it in the final episode of Walking Dead: World Beyond.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

I'm excited to be finally done with this show. It's close to the end so I'm going to see it through but I don't enjoy it. It's hate watching.

I saw they were previewing 3 new shows with the TWD characters
- One with Rick and Michone
- One with Negan and Maggie
- One with Darryl, in Europe?!?!

Negan is the best thing about the show so I'm tempted to watch that one. But I should probably just do a clean break. I'm also curious how they explain Darryl ending up in Europe.

You had a post a few years ago where you mentioned you were still watching the show and you hated yourself for it. One of the funniest quips I remember ever reading here.

[dobbles]

Originally Posted by Locke

Not specific to TWD, because I stopped at some point because they went on one of those interminably long mid-season breaks and, like Jiri, I'd been essentially hate-watching it already to that point.

But I dont remember where I left off, so even if I wanted to I dont know where to re-start and I dont really want to hop around a bunch of episodes to see if I remember where we were.

Furthermore...it lost my wife so I'd get a snarky "How was The Walking Dead?"

"Oh...it was awful."

I used to love Sunday evening TV. Walking Dead, Hell on Wheels, Game of Thrones, but then it all went to hell.

Hell on Wheels was also a great show. Suffered from long breaks that would stall momentum, but great cast and story.


Like most others with TWD, I gave up long ago. I think I watched a bit more after big 'who will Negan kill' cliffhanger, but that was about the time I checked out.

Most of the complaints seem to be centered around how the show lost its zombie focused roots, aside from season 1, did it really have any??? Season 2 was the memorably slow and boring farm time. And then we already started setting up the eventual pattern of settle down -> new bad guy destroys everything -> gear up to beat bad guy -> battle that became the rest of the show?

I remember when I decided to stop watching I went ahead and read comic spoilers to at least see what happened in general. And much of what I read there pointed to the same content people dislike in the show; a bunch of people politics as settlements battle for supremacy. I wonder if people knew thats what they were in for all along if it would have ever become so popular?


Who knows, I just like to read this thread to know if the show ever got its act together.

[Nyah]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

The show was great in the early days because it was about scary-ass zombies eating people.

I agree with this. The pilot to TWD is legitimately my favourite episode of TV ever. That first season, and up until they brought in the Governor the show was great. Then it shifted to this human vs. human conflict, with the walkers as background props. That's where it started to lose me.

I stopped watching after the Negan/Glenn episode, and I only watched until then because I wanted to see if they had the balls to do it.

[Shazam]

Should I bother to spoiler?

Spoiler!

It just follows the comics. Eventually walkers are so rare that people pay money to see them.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Nyah

I agree with this. The pilot to TWD is legitimately my favourite episode of TV ever. That first season, and up until they brought in the Governor the show was great. Then it shifted to this human vs. human conflict, with the walkers as background props. That's where it started to lose me.

I stopped watching after the Negan/Glenn episode, and I only watched until then because I wanted to see if they had the balls to do it.

I agree that's when it started to shift but the original season building to Negan was arguably it's best.
After that all downhill.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

You had a post a few years ago where you mentioned you were still watching the show and you hated yourself for it. One of the funniest quips I remember ever reading here.

Imagine how much I hate myself now!

[AC]

I gave up on the show a few years ago, after first giving up on Fear the Walking Dead.

So glad I did, as it doesn't sound like it would have added any entertainment value since.

[Strange Brew]

I don't know if going away from zombies really killed the show. The Rick/Shane storyline was excellent as was Darryl and his brother. Maybe it was too much zombie and they got boring. Maybe the zombies should have evolved.

In any case, both the writing and characters got boring after a while. A finish line might really have helped this show much earlier.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

Maybe the zombies should have evolved.

I read an article that the new spin off in France will have "fast" zombies like in Universes like World War Z.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

I think the show lost it's way because they were trying to build this bigger concept that bigger danger is the other living people not the zombies. It's the living people that are the walking dead! How meta.

Eff that though. The show was great in the early days because it was about scary-ass zombies eating people.

Not corrupt mayors. There's plenty of that sh** on TV.

I just wanted a damn zombie show.

I mean it really is on me.

I should have ####ing learnt years ago with Lost, but no...I am a dummy

[DownInFlames]

I didn't mind that zombies were getting rarer. You'd expect that to happen over time. But they know that they're all infected with whatever causes it so why is there no effort to fix it?

It also became repetitive when the group would discover a new settlement that seems safe but then suddenly isn't. It's all man vs man conflict and none of the man vs nature that you would expect in a society trying to start over. That got old fast.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I read an article that the new spin off in France will have "fast" zombies like in Universes like World War Z.

Fast zombies are terrifying

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Fast zombies are terrifying

I loved WWZ for that. I'm one of the few people who really liked that film, despite being disappointed that it wasnt anything like the book.

It was so different that it was independently enjoyable.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Locke

I loved WWZ for that. I'm one of the few people who really liked that film, despite being disappointed that it wasnt anything like the book.

It was so different that it was independently enjoyable.

WWZ the movie was Ok but the book is outstanding. The movie really just took the name, and otherwise has nothing to do with the book.

In terms of fast zombies 28 days later really was the first (as far as i know). And then if I recall the re-make of Day of the Dead also had running zombies.

Both worth watching if speedy dead folk terrify you.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

WWZ the movie was Ok but the book is outstanding. The movie really just took the name, and otherwise has nothing to do with the book.

In terms of fast zombies 28 days later really was the first (as far as i know). And then if I recall the re-make of Day of the Dead also had running zombies.

Both worth watching if speedy dead folk terrify you.

I'm a huge WWZ fan, I really liked the movie, I loved the book but if you really want to get blown away hit up the Audiobook! It is, no word of a lie or exaggeration, PHENOMENAL.

Probably the best Audiobook I've ever heard.