The Walking Dead

[Jack Brickman]

I keep thinking the awesomeness is right around the corner, but they really stretch this out.

Rick was abducted.
Negan needs to get out and kill somebody.
The whisperers story had a ton of potential, but I really wanted them to murk that staff- weilding, do-gooder teenage naive fuck. They had this perfect: daughter of Alpha really did lead him on and then they murder him. Would have been great.
At least Beta is still around. Looks like next week gets crazy.

I'm like 90% sure Beta in the comics was Kevin Love. He was a white, famous basketball player but they never say his name.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I keep thinking the awesomeness is right around the corner, but they really stretch this out.

Rick was abducted.
Negan needs to get out and kill somebody.
The whisperers story had a ton of potential, but I really wanted them to murk that staff- weilding, do-gooder teenage naive fuck. They had this perfect: daughter of Alpha really did lead him on and then they murder him. Would have been great.
At least Beta is still around. Looks like next week gets crazy.

The girl who plays Lydia is really good. But that teenage kid is beyond horrible.

 

[Stark]

Comic readers will like how this scene was executed. I thought tonight's episode was phenomenal.

Spoiler

 

[The Oi]

Another week?

 

[Stark]

Another week?

I'm going to bump this thread every Sunday from now until the end of time, even when the show isn't on, just to spite you.

 

[The Oi]

I'm going to bump this thread every Sunday from now until the end of time, even when the show isn't on, just to spite you.

Herschel still around?

 

[Stark]

Herschel still around?

Spoiler

The actor actually just passed away from cancer recently. He was a really good dude.

 

[The Oi]

Spoiler

The actor actually just passed away from cancer recently. He was a really good dude.

What’s going on with andrea? She had the worst run on television.

 

[Stark]

What’s going on with andrea? She had the worst run on television.

Dead since the end of season three I think. The producers and writers butchered that character worse than any other character in the show's history. She was the most unlikable person on the show, but probably one of the five or six best characters throughout the entirety of the comic.

 

[SalvadoranCavsfan]

I actually stopped watching after Andrea died.

Not because I liked her, but because she was so shitty and then the writers wanted me to feel bad when she got killed. That's when I knew I was done.

I can't speak for the quality now though.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Comic readers will like how this scene was executed. I thought tonight's episode was phenomenal.

Spoiler

Seems like it was pretty shot for shot from the comics. No idea who any of the characters were, though. I assume if you cared about at least a couple of them it was effective.

 

[Stark]

Seems like it was pretty shot for shot from the comics. No idea who any of the characters were, though. I assume if you cared about at least a couple of them it was effective.

The big hitters from that were supposed to be Ozzy (the first dude and leader of a new group that was just introduced, he was a pretty cool guy), Enid (Carl's old girlfriend and Hilltop's medic), Tara (been around since season 4's arc with The Governor), and Henry (Carol and King Ezekiel's adopted son and the kid who was taking on Carl's arc with Lydia).

They couldn't afford to go super crazy with the names on there since Rick and Maggie both left the show (although Maggie will be back next season) and we need to keep some recognizable names. I'd actually argue that the show was more heavy-hitting in terms of character importance on the pikes than the comics were. There were two group leaders, another long-standing character who was a doctor, and two of the show's most important character's son up there who was a central point of the entire season. Plus D.J. and Tammy Rose were both also up there, not major characters by any means, but fan favorite background characters nonetheless.

If you haven't been watching, then I get it probably wouldn't mean a whole lot, but people keeping up with the show would agree that they definitely didn't cop us out on this scene.

 

[Stark]

I actually stopped watching after Andrea died.

Not because I liked her, but because she was so shitty and then the writers wanted me to feel bad when she got killed. That's when I knew I was done.

I can't speak for the quality now though.

Yeah, Andrea died at the end of season three and her entire arc throughout the show after season one was just terrible. I was glad that she died, but the show wanted us to treat that as the season's "big loss" and wanted us to feel bad about it when most people were out celebrating. The show really ruined her. She is one of my absolute favorites in the comics, and not annoying as all shit.

The show really did get good though right after you stopped watching. Season 4 all the way up through the midway point of season 6 was probably the prime of the show in my opinion, although the current season 9 is doing a really good job considering the cast isn't nearly as good as it used to be due to stupid deaths in seasons 7 & 8 and some actors wanting to move on.

Still have to wait on the finale for S9 obviously, but I'd probably rank the show seasons like this. If the finale for 9 blows me away, then it has a good chance of passing season 4.

1. Season 6
2. Season 5
3. Season 4
4. Season 9
5. Season 2
6. Season 1
7. Season 8
8. Season 3
9. Season 7

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Other than some needlessly sappy melodrama early in the episode, it was really good. I'm just glad Henry is dead - for me, he was as annoying as Andrea.

Still kind of bugged by some inconsistencies. Last season, we saw that Eugene could make ammunition. This season, they are vulnerable to the Whisperers because they don't have any. Why? Couldn't there have been a sentence or two from Eugene or explaining why?

Just a weird thing.

 

[Stark]

Other than some needlessly sappy melodrama early in the episode, it was really good. I'm just glad Henry is dead - for me, he was as annoying as Andrea.

Still kind of bugged by some inconsistencies. Last season, we saw that Eugene could make ammunition. This season, they are vulnerable to the Whisperers because they don't have any. Why? Couldn't there have been a sentence or two from Eugene or explaining why?

Just a weird thing.

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. My three thoughts on it are:

1) Producing ammunition still takes resources, and we are seven years after the war with Negan. Maybe they just ran out of excess stuff to make the bullets with and only have a select amount of available ammo.
2) Daryl did say when he first met Alpha that they had enough ammo to blow them all away, but then that one lady had that baby and Daryl pretty much shut up.
3) All the ammo in the world wouldn't have made a difference against that mega-horde that Alpha showed Daryl in the last episode, so they'll have to do something different to fight them.