Re: TV: The Walking Dead
Posted: Mon November 30, 2015 4:03 pm
Let's have 5 episodes building toward a showdown between Carl and this other fuck who wants him and Rick dead amount to absolutely zero consequence. Great idea.

that and didn't the priest say a line from Star Wars?Kaius wrote:The best part of the show was this screen cap
I'm sure it was unintentional, but he said "there's... too many of them".Kaius wrote:I don't know, did he?
That Ron kid is just as annoying as Carl.Kaius wrote:I don't know why I'm letting myself get upset over a show about zombies. I guess I just had big expectations for this episode and was let down in pretty much every way possible.
Jesus, this show added another kid? Do they learn nothing?E.H. Ruddock wrote:That Ron kid is just as annoying as Carl.Kaius wrote:I don't know why I'm letting myself get upset over a show about zombies. I guess I just had big expectations for this episode and was let down in pretty much every way possible.
Plus baby Judith plus Maggie's pregnant.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Jesus, this show added another kid? Do they learn nothing?E.H. Ruddock wrote:That Ron kid is just as annoying as Carl.Kaius wrote:I don't know why I'm letting myself get upset over a show about zombies. I guess I just had big expectations for this episode and was let down in pretty much every way possible.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Yeah it has essentially turned into the "cliffhanger at the end of every episode" type of show. So annoying. When did TV in general start thinking that this is what we want week after week? There are still a very few shows that don't feel the need to do this, but that number is dwindling.tragabigzanda wrote:I gave up on this show right after they killed the Governor. Don't those who still watch it feel like the writers and showrunners are just yanking your chain week after week? Anyway, that's why I left -- I hate when art doesn't respect the viewer's intelligence.
And I understand pacing issues may be prevalent when dealing with a cast this large, but I think that's why I get so frustrated by the choices being made. There is A LOT of wasted screen time on largely inconsequential exposition and redundant dialogue considering the source material. I'm not naive, so I understand that extending story lines with excessive filler scenes and ending every episode with a cliffhanger seems to be the successful formula, but If I didn't feel so invested in the story because of my fandom of the book, I wouldn't waste anymore of my time.The Argonaut wrote:I still look forward to this show more than any other. An episode is never all bad, but pacing (over an episode, over a season) has been a problem for this show since the beginning. It may be the show's only serious problem.