Gotta say, I'm down with team Negan.
Or I would be if he wasn't such a grandstanding moustache twirler.
The Walking Dead
It was a good episode, but I kind of just wanted it to be over. How long until Negan dies? Maybe at the end of next season? I vote Rick does it. A promise is a promise, after all.
I'm thinking this one might run for a while. Certainly longer than the Governor storyline.
Finding it hard to muster much sympathy for Rick's group given their actions last season. If Negan played it straighter, with less obvious enthusiasm, it would be a much closer call
Considering Negan is still alive in the comics - I don't think we'll be seeing him die anytime soon.
Amazing episode though - so powerful.
Another show I am woefully behind on. In the best way possible, kids totally eat into your TV watching time.
Actually, I didn't care for the episode. My wife didn't either.
I should start off saying I don't know the comics and only watch the show. With that...and the season finale episode, it was stupid. All it was was running around and bumping into road blocks. The attempt of getting crazier and crazier was really just numbing to watch. Then, the whole getting captured by this guy who just starts rambling and rambling before killing someone. Both my wife and I were thinking it was probably one of the worst season finales ever.
Then, the new season starts. Oh, yeah, this guy. My wife was really turned off by the gore and the brutality of it all. I just got tired of it and Nigen just going on and on. IF it gets better, then it sets him up to be a great bad guy that they can continue on. If not, then the show is going to start sucking. After the episode, my says she thinks it jumped the shark tank. She looked on FB and many people she knows were saying they were done with the show for one reason or another.
I didn't think it was that good an episode. Brutal? Yes. Annoying? Yes. Man...they could've just shortened it a whole lot with less Nigen going on and on.
Edited by heychadwickActually, I didn't care of the episode. My wife didn't either.
I didn't care for it either, really. But then it's been going downhill in my eyes since season 4. Some of the decisions by the group and individuals in that time, and some of the situations they've been placed in have been baffling at best, laughable at worst. Seasons 1-3, great. Since then I've found myself rolling my eyes and shouting "oh, come ON!" at the TV with increasing frequency.
Did anyone notice that season 7 started in almost EXACTLY the same fashion as season 5? Almost exactly the same group of characters, in almost exactly the same situation... the only thing different this time around was the outcome.
Disappointed with Negan so far, considering the big bad he was made out to be, and considering he has every right to take the actions he has. Like I said, far too much grandstanding. I get that's his character from the comics, but I don't think it's transalating well onto the screen. He's almost comical in his villainy.
Morgan is doing great with Negan. In the comics it is far easier to dismiss Negan as just a bully. Morgan brings a whole lot of menace and intellect to it so far. Looking forward to the rest of the season.
This episode was finally the straw that broke us of a bad habit, I think.
The character of Negan is entirely too over the top, for me. We get it, you're a bad guy. Let's move on, already.
The death was ludicrously drawn out, even/especially after letting it sit all summer. I'm super-happy about who got it, because that character annoyed the piss out of me, too.
Regarding... well, let's hide this...
Wait... where's the spoiler tag thingie...?
Is this it?
Ok, cool. The thing that really took it over the top to brain-bleeding stupidity for me, though, was Glen.
Why go through all the utterly stupid gymnastics of "He's been hiding under the dumpster this whole time!!!" if you're just going to kill him two episodes later anyway???
What (I think) they should have done is had... Stupid Hair killed dramatically in the Season 6 finale (maybe with his stupid mullety friend, too) skip the idiotic gimmicky wait for the reveal, and then, if they were going to kill Glen in the S7 Premiere anyway, just DO IT, out of no-where. I think that would have at least kept our interest AND demonstrated that they're trying to find their balls, again.
But maybe not, really, because above all else it's Negan's outlandishly over-done mustache twirling that really killed it for me.
Also, after testing out the spoiler tag thing and making sure it worked, I almost posted it with everything currently in the tag AFTER the cut. Because I know how to intarwub.
Anyway, aside from a few scenes here and there, we haven't really enjoyed the show since the barn scene in Season 2(?). We keep watching it and having, like, watcher's remorse week after week. I've tried to like it, but what ends up happening is we just drink and yell at the TV all through each episode.
I'm glad people like it, I'll miss Daryl, but I'll be glad to have that hour back, I think.
And so will my liver.
That was my last episode of the Walking Dead.
I stuck with it for 6 full seasons, over a hundred hours. This pretty much sums it up .
Totally jumped the shark.
Done and out.
I am definitely switching to watching Westworld live. They haven't completely lost me. I just love Jeffery Dean Morgan's Negan. They just need to learn how to actually create tension and stop the bait and switch. It would've been much stronger if last season ended with the first kill, and then do the second one early this season.
Yeah, my comments about Negan were no reflection on JDM; his acting is top notch, it's just the material he has to work with. "Pee pee pants time", really?
Agree with most of NotBatman's spoilerificated text. The character death made sense in context, but the execution (no pun intended) was lame.
There's still a lot of positives and potential with the show and places it can go, but it clearly needs to cut out the cheap tricks and start taking real risks.
I liked it I was afraid they'd wuss out and not kill you know who I actually liked the bait and switch.
I think this will be a better season than the last.
Wow, I thought I was alone in thinking the Negan thing was total ****. My wife and I turned it off half way through. Negan talking about absolutely nothing for one and a half episodes killed it for us. We switched over to Son of Zorn .. and laughed. TWD seems to have become 'meet baddies, lose friends, beat baddies, repeat' and this just seems like another splash of the formula.
I did give up on the show in season 2 (the farm one) when I quipped with my wife that the next time Rick's wife says "We need to talk" I'm walking away. I kid you not, less than a minute later the TV was off. Thankfully, my wife persisted and assured me that S3 picks up the pace again.
With that in mind, maybe I'll wait until half way through the season and have a binge .. but if I come across another pointless monologue of Negan's .. I'm staying with Son of Zorg for good.
Oh, I have been wanting to watch Son of Zorg. It looks right up my alley.
Yeah, I am hoping TWD picks up. It has the potential to lead to Negan being a greater enemy with this drawn out episode. It just better return to normal right afterwards.
I'm waiting fir the Walking Dead to go "The Road" on us.
Give us some REAL tough decisions.
What happens when the supplies finally run out? (oh wait, we're growing crops, farming and breeding cattle now). When the bullets run out? (don't worry! Eugene's going ti manufacture them all by himself!). When someone's hurt, can't keep up and slowing the group down? (don't worry, even Negan's got a doctor!)
This is a world where all hope is supposedly gone, but the group keeps getting givenan out.
At some point, they need to decide certain characters aren't pulling their weight, and get left behind.
At some point it someone gets injured and slows the group down, they're going to get abandoned (or worse).
At some point, supplies (and hope) will be so low that the group will tear itself apart
I feel like TWD and I are in an abusive relationship.
I watch it. It lets me down. Then it shows things that make me think it could get better. Let down again.
Perhaps I should have just stopped after S2 taking an eternity to go anywhere. But no I stuck with it.
JDM is brilliant as Negan, who I really like as an antagonist. But the end finale of S6 and the opener of S7 was handled very poorly.
I'm looking forward to 4 episodes of someone walking somewhere now. You know, in case we get too excited.
Is it just me or do all (well most) zombie movies/stories eventually turn into post apoc drama? Yeah I know, zombies are a metaphor for disaster, humans are the real monsters,gangs are more dangerous than zombies, living inisde a stressed group is hard but come on! I'd like some genually scary zombie stuff, not D a ys of our lives with a few walkers in the background.
Anyone got some sugestions?
Is it just me or do all (well most) zombie movies/stories eventually turn into post apoc drama? Yeah I know, zombies are a metaphor for disaster, humans are the real monsters,gangs are more dangerous than zombies, living inisde a stressed group is hard but come on! I'd like some genually scary zombie stuff, not D a ys of our lives with a few walkers in the background.
Anyone got some sugestions?
I think the show does a good balance of walker vs living threats to the group. There's certainly been plenty of "scary" moments with the walkers, whether it's jump in your seat moments, or just large herds going after the group like on the farm or at Alexandria.
As for the premiere. I thought it was intense and amazing. Definitely super dark and depressing, but very well done. JDM was a great actor in his scenes, as was Lincoln. Not sure where all the hate is coming from, it was pretty close to the comics in tone, violence, and even using the exact same dialogue for some parts. It certainly could have been a lot gorier than it was, the majority of his swings were off camera or just above the head so you rarely saw them connecting. I think some other deaths have been worse, like Dale's for instance getting his guts ripped apart.
Still my favorite show on television currently by a long shot.
Is it just me or do all (well most) zombie movies/stories eventually turn into post apoc drama? Yeah I know, zombies are a metaphor for disaster, humans are the real monsters,gangs are more dangerous than zombies, living inisde a stressed group is hard but come on! I'd like some genually scary zombie stuff, not D a ys of our lives with a few walkers in the background.
...but the show was always about the people and not the zombies. I know that my wife and I were skeptical about getting into the show as we just weren't into zombies, but people told us it's more about the people than the zombies. So, we tried it, agreed with them, and liked it. It's always been about the people more than the zombies.
As for favorite show on tv...I'll have to see how the rest of the season goes. I'm not sure. I do enjoy Star Wars Rebels with my son quite a bit. I'm also liking Lethal Weapon. Game of Thrones just got too different than the books. Does Netflix count? I'd put Stranger Things before TWD. Same with Luke Cage.
I'm a bit seried out at the moment I think. I read about the season premiere (I'm a bit spoiler resistant, I don't usually care much) and what I read in the reviews was enough for me to preemptively decide to drop the show, and my wife agreed.
We've given some shows a chance, but nothing is really dragging us in, Stranger Things was done in a weekend, as was Luke Cage.
So I'm currently rewatching Star Trek TOS, for the first time in ages and ages, and loving it, the acting may be cheesy sometimes, but the stories themselves hold up as well as say, Twilight Zone.
There's nothing new that I really care for though.