It is mind boggling how popular this show is for how atrocious it is. I'm almost wondering if it has this hipster mystique around it how where people just pretend like it isn't popular and liking TWD show makes you this geeky special flower. Almost like people who try-hard too much about loving Star Wars. Hell I saw someone on my facebook posted a meme that was like "Everyone is excited for Valentines day on the 14th but me...." and it was a picture of Daryel riding his bike. Its like ... bitch this show is wildly popular and gets unprecedented cable ratings. Of course people are fucking anticipating its return you dumb cunt.
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Cad
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Lol. They were talking at the beginning of this episode we watched last night and I was looking at my phone while the two characters on screen were talking and my wife was like, what'd they say? And I go, "who cares, it doesn't matter what they say. Lets just see what happens."
Gravel
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That about sums it up.
As someone who has quit this show twice (or maybe three times?), I mostly just have it on and tune out. It's not worth giving my undivided attention to. And like you said, the dialogue (of which there is WAY too much) is pretty irrelevant.
Attog
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That just killed me, I was like WTF did they get hit by a hellfire missile? Uh no it was Daryl with an invisible RPG. I had no idea that RPG's were so powerful.
popsicledeath
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The first rocket wtfasploshun was almost forgivable being TV and that most people don't understand real world explosives aren't nearly as flashy as Michael Bay movies where frag grenades explode in a ball of fire. The second rocket though that was wasted when a match would have sufficed by shooting it into the water.... nope.
And to those arguing the show has always been dumb. I dunno. I think the first season wasn't too bad. It all started going south when they started trying to introduce medical logic with the CDC shit that went nowhere and they couldn't seem to make that into a concrete story line. I don't know if they realized that sort of thing was beyond their average viewers comprehension or interest, or that it would wrap the show up too quickly, but they abandon any sense of greater story/motivation/mission and turned it into a monster-of-the-week self-contained-episode style approach.
The interesting thing is it's basically a monster of the week show that never introduces new monsters. And the self-contained-episode style writing isn't contained to one-off episodes, but stretched out to half or even an entire season. Maybe I've just been too selective and don't watch a lot of popular TV series, but for me this is the first show I've wanted for so long that is so vapid and lacking in any actual greater story. It barely even has recurring themes, as even shit like that isn't consistent. It's interesting to me in a meta sense, and still usually entertaining, just not in the 'omg that was literally the best television episode in history' that some people seem to enjoy it for.
What was the point, though? Oh yeah, the show started out with the hope and opportunity to be much more. It didn't have to be this bad. It was made this way.
And to those arguing the show has always been dumb. I dunno. I think the first season wasn't too bad. It all started going south when they started trying to introduce medical logic with the CDC shit that went nowhere and they couldn't seem to make that into a concrete story line. I don't know if they realized that sort of thing was beyond their average viewers comprehension or interest, or that it would wrap the show up too quickly, but they abandon any sense of greater story/motivation/mission and turned it into a monster-of-the-week self-contained-episode style approach.
The interesting thing is it's basically a monster of the week show that never introduces new monsters. And the self-contained-episode style writing isn't contained to one-off episodes, but stretched out to half or even an entire season. Maybe I've just been too selective and don't watch a lot of popular TV series, but for me this is the first show I've wanted for so long that is so vapid and lacking in any actual greater story. It barely even has recurring themes, as even shit like that isn't consistent. It's interesting to me in a meta sense, and still usually entertaining, just not in the 'omg that was literally the best television episode in history' that some people seem to enjoy it for.
What was the point, though? Oh yeah, the show started out with the hope and opportunity to be much more. It didn't have to be this bad. It was made this way.
Utnayan
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They could use a Tank, Hunter, and a Spitter. Some unique zombies, morphing, genetic mutations - it would be awesome.
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We are in the middle of a golden age of Television, you are seriously missing out
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Chukzombi
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This show from season 1 has always given RPG vibes. Each role is so one dimensional you easily class them
popsicledeath
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Including GI Joe with his "WHO'S DEANNA?" and "WHO'S NEGAN?" dialog that straight out of a bad RPG dialog tree.
The constant side-quest bloat in TWD is very innovative game design, too. Your average RPG has 40 hours of vapid, bloat they call content? Well, TWD has like 5 seasons of content! All we need now is for them to charge a DLC like fee for episodes that actually progress a meaningful story line! Hell, tape all scenes with a choice between good, evil and sarcastic dialog options and make a story-sync poll system where people can vote on what dialog leads to the same plot points! It could be the first truly triple A, next gen tv show.
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Cybsled
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Losing an eye for the show is easy. You just wear a patch over the damn thing ;p
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Yea, I guess that's true, but it should still show scars around the patch based on the severity of this specific injury. It does in the comics, and he often doesn't wear it for certain plot points. Like, a part of his face is gone, not just the eyeball missing from the socket. The socket itself has been blown away.
I'm sure that's how they'll handle it though, just put a very large eyepatch on him.
I'm sure that's how they'll handle it though, just put a very large eyepatch on him.
Chukzombi
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all the regulars can be played in EQ or DnD.
Daryl=half elf ranger
Michonne= erudite shadowknight
Carol=human Paladin
Glenn=some kind of rogue
Morgan=iksar monk
Abraham=Ogre or Barb warrior.
rick, let see, id say bard because every bard i have ever known in EQ was frigging temperamental because of all the song twisting they did so they were always under some kind of pain and stress.
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Z Nation is funny. the collector episode and murphy running a zombie strip joint had some legit laughs to it. everyone knows its taking the piss so no need to get invested. unlike this thread and 6 seasons of thewalkingretarded where no one has invented a fucking spear yet FUCK. SPEARS MOTHERFUCKER!! DO YOU USE THEM??? you could even whittle down a shovel if you needed to. fuck.
i mean look at that bad boy. grab 5 friends, make a shitty phalanx and solve the whole apocalypse in an afternoon.
actually z nation has only heightened my frustration with thewalkingdead. in z nation there's dumb shit and you yell at the television but you know its a piss take. but in thewalkingdeadits the same dumb shit x 6 seasons with the retardation magnified by a thousand, and all the while they are trying to be serious. it's embarrassing for everyone involved.
except for the trough scene at terminus. that was badass.