When did it turn to shit for you?
>>218979486when the governor died
>>218979486Middle of season 2.
When it was airing? Somewhere during season 2. Went back to rewatch the entire show once I heard it was finished and it's probably sometime during that tiger nigger thing, the later dragged out savior thing and most of what followed after the whisperers got introduced.
>>218979486Season 3 or something like that.
The latino gang hospice care episode in season 1. So like episode 2? Then in the season 1 finale, they hid behind a couple sandbags like 50 feet away to survive a huge building's explosion, and I never watched another episode. Show is trash
>>218979486Season 2. Andrea proves herself a massive liability, shooting Daryl in the head and receives no punishment. Continues to be a massive liability until she finally dies fucking 2 seasons later. Then, in her death scene, she fires a revolver and the retard showrunners decided to add in the sound of a casing hitting the floor. Shitshow.
It was a gradual process of enshittification. It was never really great, but it had potential, As the characters kept shifting or dying and getting replaced, the thing started getting repetitive and stale.Negan arc was a high point, but it was already not so good by then. After that, it's totally shit.
>>218979486When I realized they weren't going to explain a goddamn thing and it was just gore fetish shit. So almost immediately.
>>218979486Got bored mid way through the prison arc
I dropped it around season 5 cause it was going nowhere and there were really no likeable characters left
>>218979486A bit before Coral's death.
>>218979486Episode 3
>>218979486Dropped it when T-Dog died.
>>218979486I never watched beyond season 1 because all I was seeing was a soap opera with zombies in the background. From what I saw i made the right call.
>>218979486For me, it never really "turned" to shit. It was always kinda shit, but with just enough solid episodes and cliffhangers to keep watching. I dropped it after the season Rick "died".
>>218979486S2E1I foresaw the bullshit coming the moment they had a horde of zombies walk past people 2 feet from them and then not be attracted to the screaming woman inside the camper
From the start. I watched two episodes and gave up. Utter slop.
>>218979486After season two it was simply unwatchable, even the drunk parties we had on discord, it was just god awful
Only watched the first season. Not great, not terrible. I'm not a big fan of zombie movies to begin with but I just can't think of a way you could make a whole television series about this concept so I just stopped watching before I get tired and disappointed. Honestly the only reason I gave this show a chance is because I love the opening credits. Probably my favorite of all time. Even better than the x-files.
>>218979486I think when the prison arc ended I gave up.
>>218979486Back then, my interest was dropping the longer they would stay in a single location.I preferred the show when the survivors were on the move.The first dip in interest really started at the prison arc but gradually increased as it continued with some highs and lows.Alexandria (I think it was called?) was the moment I went "ok, it seems that they are going to be there for a while, smells bad".Negan hyped me back into curiosity right at the moment I was about to drop the show.After Negan arc, I dropped.One day I heard a rumor that the last episode of the show was released, I wasn't even aware that the show was still running lol.I binge watched all the way up to the end out of curiosity and boredom.It was utter dogshit.Sad, honestly, lot of good shows went to shit.
Easily season 5! There was no reason for the group to travel to Pittsburg. And it's not just the setting, it's the narrative structure. The subtle introduction of more fantastical elements instead of a mysterious science-based origin for the virus was both poorly conceived and executed. There were a few decent self-contained episodes in season 6--but the decline clearly started in season 5.
>>218979526FPBP. Every season after was just the same formula. >find settlement >wow everything is clean and organized >group joins >petty squabbles and arguing >zombies, who have been absent the whole season, appear and ruin everything >most new characters die, maybe one core group >move on to the next settlement
When they kill the Asian guy, a nigga appears.
>>218979535I didnt realize until years after I bought my Mossberg that I had the same model as Shane’s, heat shield and everything. I’ve been trying find the pistol grip stock but it’s pretty old and isn’t in circulation anymore. Have to get lucky on eBay or something.
>>218982013Basically. I blame Game of Thrones for being too popular. Every other show tried to emulate the style of multiple plots and groups happening at the same time, and cutting back and forth, occasionally crossing paths. It only works if you have a good foundation and good writing. Unfortunately nobody does and you get the last 3 seasons of WD. A bunch of weird half settlements with weak leaders and petty social issues and ZERO zombies.
>>218979486After the CDC blew up. It was over long before Rick hooked back up with Shane and Lori.
>>218979996I stopped watching when they killed off Glenn.They had already lost most of the likable characters and replaced them with DEI actors. Rick and Daryl were not strong enough characters to carry the show after that.
>>218982662>Negan hyped me back into curiosity right at the moment I was about to drop the show.Same, and I still think the second half of season six, leading up to Negan's appearance, was the best part of the show. Which is in stark contrast to the first part of that season, which was boring as hell.
>>218979486After governor arc when they started just reusing entire cycle of trusting and not trusting people and finding new community. It shown they have no idea what to do than killing new characters off
>>218979486Alexandria and every after = poo poo
>>218981906Why are you black?
>>218983375This is also where the shows quality takes a massive dive because it stopped just being about ricks group and started being about like three different survivor groups as well as whatever Negan was getting up to. So you'd sometimes start a plot line and not have it touched for like 4 episodes because a bunch of shit was happening with characters you didn't give a single fuck about. Not to mention the zombies kind of got completely sidelined and would only appear for a character to go full retard and get killed.
>>218979486S01E02
>>218979486Whenever all their weapons suddenly cut or stabbed through zombies heads like a hot knife to butter.
Most of the seasons have both good and bad parts, but Rick always makes it worth it. The show was truly done when Rick was gone.
>>218979486When Negan appeared.
>>218983037That only happens twice though.
>>218983952It’s at least 3 off the top of my head
>>218979486episode 1 season 1 shownikkers tongue my anus
>>218979486When the governator started doing world of Warcraft side quests. The show wasn’t respecting my time
>>218979486Season 2
>>218979673The complete absence of any understanding of how firearms operate was absolutely puzzling for this show. Rick looks like a a total faggot with how he holds his python
>>218979486The season where they spend the whole time at some gay ass farm house. Just fucking boring.
>>218979486Season 7 episode 2
>>218979668lmao deadass i tried watching this show multiple times and have never been able to get past the first season. that latino hospice always seemed so retarded to me
lost interest when they spent like 2 seasons chasing negan, stopped when the dork and the goblina got held in that train
>>218983826Truth. The pilot is great, everything after - SHIT.
>>218979535this
I remember the show being about things like merle and hershell discussing a passage of the Bible and moral implications, at some point it turned into a festival of interracial couples and lgtb gay stuff. I just did a 360 and never bothered to watch it anymore. I think the series diededed with the death of Merle
Zombie soap opera slop
>>218979486I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, zombie theme shows and movies should never stray too far from the initial outbreak. It’s most interesting when it’s still within a few weeks/months of the collapse. There are more interesting things at that point >potential stores with food that is up for grabs >medical supplies here and there >guns and ammo abundant >still remnants of government groups and military >decent amount of gas and electricity here and there When zombie movies/shows go too far and get into Amish level survival with spears and bows, it gets boring as shit.
>>218979486When Season 2 was a whole ass bottle episode
>>218979486Season 5>>218979535Season 2 is the best season and the mid-season reveal was fantastic.>>218981906Highest class individual in this thread right here.>>218983603You're no T-Dawg.
>>218979486S01E03The show was never good
>>218979486I went in excited back in the day because I was obsessed with the comic in the 00s, but I didn't love the first season, because it felt even more cartoonish than the comic, if that makes any sense. How many "racist, drug/alcohol-abusing, woman-hitting redneck" stereotypes do we need? Plus, I just found something cringe about there being a guy named "T-Dog" running around. Seeing Dale say the name "T-Dog" in a moment that's supposed to be serious just made me laugh. Lori is also somehow even more insufferable in the show than she was in the comic, and she was a cunty nightmare in that. In the comic, her and Shane fucking is a one-time thing that she instantly regrets, but in the show she's been like "Rick who?" the whole time. Then season 2 turned into a boring soap opera on a farm where you want to murder Andrea and Lori by the end of it, and season 3 somehow found a way to make the Governor boring. Then, the season 3 finale faked out like they were going to do the prison attack but then didn't just so they could drag out the prison story for another half-season was the point when I bailed. I ditched it really fucking early, all things considered.
>>218984019You are counting things that don't fit everything you said, then. It only really fits for the Woodbury and Alexandria.
>>218987077The comic did a pretty good of staying interesting as time passed, the show was just sloppy as fuck.
>>218988499I just started reading the comics. They are really cool. Only on book 2 so far. But I can already tell they are better.
>>218979486Season 8
>>218979486>oh that's there and i didn't even realize it. good thing i didn't blow my brains out nobody has ever pointed this shit out
>>218988675Yeah I think the comics are way better most of the time. Only Rick's actor makes the show worthwhile to me for the moments when he goes crazy on everyone. Most of the iconic big moments in the show are either directly from the comic or are a worse version of something the comic handled better.
>>218979486the moment they lost the farmthen the moment they lost the prison
>>218983375Daryl's been dogpoop after he got over his brother.Only other moment when he was semi interesting was when he was thinking about leaving with other prep loner chick
>>218984400how do i reeeeeeach deeese zombies maaaan
>>218979486>>218983037I had no issue with the group finding new settlements, wondering who dies next etc. It was done well but it felt so mundane post Governor and before Negan took place. Negan temporarily saved TWD for me but ever since Rick disappeared there was absolutely no reason to keep on watching it. Also it just felt "too stable" once they got Negan in jail, I didn't really watch past that but I heard about the human zombies which felt fucking cartooney and unserious, even for a show that has a 12 year old shoot a gun with no recoil.
>>218979486before season 3 was over I knew I wasn't going to keep watching, season 1 and 2 are still great desu
>>218989244The settlements probably would have been more interesting if the leaders weren’t dog poop the whole time.
show was always bad (s1 was mediocre tbf) but holy hell its gets worse. Only highlight of the entire show is carol turning into a terminator. turns into a retarded western and then boston legal by the end. also rick "killed" negan thenmost emasculating stupid way possible.
>>218989609Right, as the show progressed it got more woke.>woman leaders, girlbosses but at least Rick would stand up to them>white men bad (literally no black guys in the saviors settlement, just the prisoners)>fucking racemixing between rick and michonne lolTWD had really shown the difference between early to late 2010s
>>218989497reminder that there is an episode of s2 where all they do is pull a zombie out of the well and then it explodes and falls back in at the end
>>218979486When they killed off Beth is when it truly went beyond redemption. That whole cops in a hospital arc was so fucking bad and meaningless.
hey guys remember the garbage people and the reapers
>>218989750God all the random romance pairings were so cringe. I get some were in the comics but Jesus they were awkward and forced.
>>218989244They fucked up by making the zombie threat absolutely trivial by season 4. It gave up all of the zombie stuff for boring human drama, but then to kill time between the human drama there were still filler zombie scenes to kill them. Them pushing butter knives into a zombies head gently and killing it instantly took all the tension out of it.
>>218990718The worst part is when they DO use guns to fight zombies it looks fake as shit. Basically just rapid squeezing the trigger and waving it side to side with fire affects.
>>218983375>saviors arc takes place for just a little over a month >3 seasons
Season 3 with Andrea's cringe death and the shitty attack on the prison.
>>218979486When I saw that lady from Prison Break. Nothing against her personally but I didn't like her in that show and I didn't like her in this one either.
The time skip is when it becomes garbage. I only finished watching because of sunk cost. And I've seen all the spin offs
I can't remember the episode or even the season, but there was a scene where there was this big shootout between like 20 people, and when it would cut to someone shooting, it was so painfully fucking obviously plug in muzzle flashes and the actor faking recoil. It was really, really bad. Like early 00s scifi channel original bad. That's when it died for me.
>>218993480Yeah the gun effects were probably the worst I’ve ever seen. And there’s no excuse for a show with that big of a budget. They actively had to avoid hiring staff that knew anything about guns. Who puts that much work into a violent zombie show based on a boomer zombie comic and cheap out on gun props?
>>218990885And every single character is immediately an elite sniper.
>>218994388It always annoyed me that Rosa, the 85 pound stick character with pencil thin arms was the one always toting a huge rifle when all the men had hand guns and melee weapons.
>>218994645Ranged weapons are DEX based, melee weapons STR based, duh!
When Rick was hallucinating Lori.But definitely when they had that weird quasi-ending where they're stuck in the farmhouse post-prison and Rick name-drops the show's title.
>>218979486>When did it turn to shit for you?The minute I started reading the comics and realized the show was always filler garbage.
When Glenn died and I realised I didn't give the slightest fuck. Was a clear sign I was watching on autopilot.
>>218979486Everything after this but it was already stretching itself to reach this cathartic payoff.
After they beat Glenn with the batnot because of that, but because negan was some skinny DYL
>>218979486For me, it was when Ey Rigg stopped burning local
>>218979486season 6 was so goddamn boring
>>218979486S1 E2Yet somehow I watched for 3 ducking seasons
When I knew something was up: Halloween episode where it's just Morgan and a goat man and we learn he's no-kill now.When I stopped bothering: Somewhere in season 11.But I think the real point of no return was the season cliffhanger and murdering Glenn. I know that second part is from the comics, doesn't matter. People didn't want to watch anymore. It's suffer porn.
>>218979486Whenever they got to Alexandria and it became basically a lesbian soap opera i stopped watching
>>218979486When the black chick with zombie slaves who was invincible and SUPER DISCIPLINED appeared on the show. Before that it had some credibility.
>>218979689This mostly, I was losing interest before Negan and I think I skipped a season somewhere, he brought a little spark, and then I sort of tapered off and stopped caring. My biggest gripes were how quickly they transitioned away from survival and the setting and made it more about personal drama within safe locations, and then how forced the interactions with zombies became. There are a million ways to script a scenario and yet they'd always boil it down to a forced outing where someone did something stupid and out of character, then at times zombies would teleport behind people and well there you go.Eh, what a waste.
>>218979486Best parts about the later seasons is watching negan completely drag is balls across the main group.Imagine being a casual watcher and seeing the characters you've spent six years watching up to the point get completely spiritually raped by a retired frat guy in a leather jacket with middle school boy humor, lmfao.
>>218979486I would have preferred to see Michonne give up and watch Rick bomb the ever living shit out of Portland.
>>218983037That's the Fear series. The Clark family destroys ever single settlement they visit. Daniel should have killed them.
>>218990718>They fucked up by making the zombie threat absolutely trivial by season 4Zombies stop being scary when you've been dealing with them for months or years. By that time they're dispersed, you know what attracts them, and how to kill them. Like it or not, anon, when you go years into the story post-apocalypse, they stop being a serious threat and more of a nuisance. Even the commonwealth had procedures for wandering hordes.
>>218979486Turned to shit in season 2 but I didn't give up watching until they revealed there was never a cure for the virus and those fucking hillbillies weren't actually important.
>>219004186The comics handled this problem a lot better, highly recommend reading them if you have the time
>>218979486It has different jump off points, which is pretty interesting to think about.>middle of season 2 (or even the start for some people)>governor dying>Glenn death fakeout>actual Glenn death (this was the point for a massive amount of people, the ratings went into freefall and stayed down for the rest of the show)
>>218990718>zombies only die from destroying the brain>stabbing a zombie in the mouth kills it
>>219004304>actual Glenn death (this was the point for a massive amount of people, the ratings went into freefall and stayed down for the rest of the show)I remember people used to have watch parties for this show and that was pretty much the final time people bothered. It wasn't even that people were massive Glen fans either, something about that episode and that season just pushed people away.
>>218979486whenever they started airing promos saying>more of what you want (human conflict)which wasnt what i wanted (i wanted zombies)
the season where they all got split so you'd get one episode of rick, then one of carol, then one of cutty, then something else, then some thing else, so it felt the season was extra long. then beth was kill'no.'and that's when i quit
>>219005584Fair. There's some faggot showrunner that does that with every show he takes over and it was also a way to extend the show without actually offering any plot advancement, since all those dumbass plots spread over half a season or more took place within the same day or two.
>>218979668>>218984400they are very respectful of their eldersq
I just finished the first season Fear TWD. I mostly liked the first two episodes.
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>>219005584Killing off Beth was bittersweet. At least she died pure, before she could be blacked by Everybody Hates Chris.>>219007248FTWD starts strong and ends kind of retarded, but still watchable. There are some really good characters. If you liked SoA there's a fun guest star in S3.
>>219007385The brown son is really annoying. Does he die?
>>219007548Yes, and it's a bad death that is a direct result of his own retardation. I think he dies late S2.
>>219007694Nice I just started S2
>>219007295lemtellusuminrig
Not getting a Rictatorship was disappointing.
>>219005527this. a zombies show with few zombies and mostly human on human conflict. gay and retarded. the show got weak during the prison arc, and especially after Shane died. Did not watch much further beyond that
>>219007835>Are you not entertained?
>>218979486Alexandria, too many people with storylines going nowhere or turning into a turd.
About a season after Negan appeared. But Negan’s appearance was peak walking dead for me. I couldn’t wait a week to see what happens so I started reading the comics to get ahead. Then the show got very boring and repetitive and gay and black so I lost interest. Still watched every now and then. Like I’ve seen the whisperer arec episodes, but only because I was already like 8 seasons deep and didn’t want it all to be for nothing. But after that I truly could not tolerate it so I stopped. I know there’s one or two more arcs after the whisperers and I just don’t care enough to watch.Still. Those 2 episodes - the end of I think season 5 and first episode of season 6 - were seriously something else. Extremely compelling.
I love season 2 so much brospeople hate itbut it was maximum comfy.
>>219007702>>219007694season 2 of FEAR is the most dull and boring shit I ever saw
I tuned out when they did another fake out death with Glenn and he hid under a dumpster to avoid being eaten??? Something like that. I wanted him dead so bad, I stopped watching the show.A few /tv/ spoilers later, I watched the Negan debut just to watch him die and I was NOT disappointed. Just wish it was me. And then Negan fucked his girlfriend?? Cooooold blooooded.
>>218979486Episode 4 of Season 1
>>218994388>>218993765The walking dead is notoriously bad about the portrayal of guns. Go to /k/. If there’s a thread about this subject, everyone is spamming “the walking dead is the worst offender”.its just awful. From infinite mags, to Glock safeties, to weird recoiling rifles, to incorrect terminology (“pull the operating rod”)
>>219008573Season 2 was brutal to watch live. So many episodes, particularly in the first half of the season, were basically “fuck around in the woods doing nothing to advance the plot for 95% of the run time.” It picks up after the barn reveal, but waiting a week for yet another “nothing happens” episode sucked. When you can binge episodes at your own pace this isn’t a problem. On the other hand we had fun watch threads and Shaneposting, so it wasn’t all bad.
>>218979486At this point, are there any other good zombie shows worth watching?
>>219008728you remind me of how awful ads were in walking dead.watching on streaming, the show is good watching it live with 50 commercials was completely bullshit. dear God that channel were assholes when it comes to ads holy fucking shit there was more ads than episode by the end
>>218979486i didn't like first season in the first place. did it get better?
>>218979486Right after the pilot.
>>219007248>>219007385Fear the walking dead was definitely entertaining in the start but holy shit does it get so much worse than even TWD later on. It's actually staggering how badly written everything is, at some point I just started fastforwarding because my retarded ass just had to see it all through to the end. If people thought TWD was a soap opera than FTWD is some peruvian soap opera that ran for 40 seasons.
i only really watches the first season of ftwd and my favorite character died at the end so i immediately lost interest
>>218993480
It happened a lot of times. It would be intolerably bad, so I'd drop the show. And then some time later I'd have nothing else to watch, and I'd maybe forget how shit it was, so I'd start watching again for a while, and then quit again some time later. I watched the main show up to season 8 plus all the spin-offs in exactly this way.
I think of walking dead as a rollercoaster. It went to shit and then came back up multiple times for me. I didn't care for season 2 much, but then the governor, but then the prison, but then the governor again, but then the governor died, but the cannibals were kinda cool i guess, then it sucked, but then negan showed up and made everything better. Eventually though once the other colonies got involved, we got the magical negro with his tiger, i stopped caring and stopped watching. Negan scenes are still the best. Last I heard the show spunoff in like 3 different series, which is stupid as hell.
>>219012166Grim
FTWD after the soft reboot is some of the most puzzling offensively dumb horrible television I have ever watched. I really liked the first 3 seasons.
>>218979486Season 2, the writers made it into a soap opera with low IQ characters
When Shane died. I don't know how people can like season 3 in the slightest. There's a fucking scene where they ambush the governor's group with smoke grenades, like they're seal team 6, then manage to grab their people while the governor's people are standing their choking and blind for some reason. Honestly one of the dumbest moments in a massively dumb show.
>>219012328The final season of Fear was ranked as the second worst show of the year just behind the widely reviled The Idol. I don't know what the AMC meetings were like where that turd managed to get 8 seasons. Sunk cost on building a "shared universe" like the MCU?
>>219012166>Let's waste ammo when it's already hard to findHoly shit none of the writers ever played DayZ or any survival games?
>>219012166>>219012552What are they even doing here? Did anybody inside die from this? Or are they just fucking up their windows for some reason?
>>219013004From what I could remember it was some retarded scare tactic
>>218987077Agreed. 28 Years Later is a recent example. I would personally love to see a proper adaptation of the World War Z book, that shows the government and military regrouping and retaking the continent. I liked how they had designations for every scenario, like LMOEs (Last Man on Earth), Day of the Dead-like manned governent/military facilities, and even how Fiddler's Green-styled walled cities actually served a strategic advantage to the government, because every zombie trying to beat its way into one of those settlements was one less zombie trying to follow them past the Rockies. It also covers the military being sent in to neutralize the Governor/Negan scenarios of warlords that had cropped up, and weren't so keen on relinquishing their power.
>>218979486>wife thinks her husband is dead>a few weeks later he jumps onto another dick>her husband returns back and he is OK with this
For me it was the island of all women so the lesbian character could find a gf.
Without a doubt at Alexandria. Everyone suddenly acting like a retard, you could tell the writers really wanted to force conflict between the group and Alexandria. Then the Negan plot was 99% boring filler
>>219004021It makes sense that Madison was supposed to be a villain but they pussied out.
>>218987077What about Day of the Dead
2nd season, when the loli they are looking for the entire season is found in the barn that they are living next to
All you really have to do is edit the show by removing scenes and filler and it could be great
>>218979526This
>>219015724Tbf it was the apocalypse and by latching onto Shane, Lori made the best possible choice to keep Coral alive. Rick probably would have been more upset if she tried hunkering down in a basement somewhere by herself and got their son killed in the process.
>>219015900Nobody heard zombies shuffling around or moaning in that barn the entire time. Somehow.
by the end of the first episode
>>219016506I like the first two episodes as a sort of stand alone zombie movie, but don't really care much for anything after.
>>219015724>the only way my husbands partner, who sacrificed his life for him, will take care of us is if I sleep with him>oh and it’s only been 2-3 weeks Pretty weak excuse. Even if he really died that’s pretty low. For both Shane and Lori.
>>219016464>>219016608Meant to reply to this post
>>219015840Not my favorite, but a great movie still.
>>218979486Episode 2
>>219015831Madison becomes a villain in the last season then redeems herself, understandable if you quit watching by then though.
>>219012491Never seen that show, but I've never had a problem with that scene, and don't know why it gets spammed so much.>>219015751Nice.
>>219016764I watched till Season 3, then went back to the Walking Dead so I could get the context before Season 4 then got filterd by the Negan arc
>>218987077It would have been a way better story line to explore the CDC and the cross globe efforts to fight the outbreak and its break down. By the time they were in the prison and there were scenes of people standing along a fence poking zombies in the head with sticks with zero tension or threat it was barely watchable. I went back years later to finish the whole show and can't remember anything that happens after the rich white people town in virginia collapses. I think there's some people that figured out how to dress up as zombies and that's about it.
>>219016919>S4 they're living in a minor league baseball stadium>Madison, her kids and the rest of their group create a nice little community there>they get attacked>it's assumed Madison sacrificed herself to protect everyone else and died in a fire>fast forward to the final season (S8)>turns out she was rescued by a group that can give her the oxygen she needs to survive now but in return they make her kidnap babies/kids for them>they're not doing Epstein stuff, they just have some autistic idea that raising kids separated from their parents creates strong survivors for this world because they won't have parental bonds that might cause pain or make them behave irrationally>naturally a lot of people fucking hate Madison and the people she's working for>she is eventually convinced to fight against them and helps take them down>also Troy returns in S8, he didn't die in the dam
season 4 was awful but it came back around 6 and then died again in like 9
>>218979673>Then, in her death scene, she fires a revolver and the retard showrunners decided to add in the sound of a casing hitting the floorCan you explain? I dont know anything about guns, why was that retarded?
>>219017572That's not how revolvers work. They don't eject rounds when firing. Spent rounds have to be manually removed by releasing the cylinder.
>>218979535the correct answer
>>218993294>Because of sunk costI've never understood this mentality
>>219017337Appreciate the rundown. Might have to power through the Negan arc so I can witness that dumpster fire first hand.
>>219018174By the time you reach the last season of FTWD you will have witnessed mountains of garbage fire already, it's truly something special. I actually looked up some of the writers to see if they had down syndrome
>>219017810be grateful
how come no one ever explained to rick that you point your gun at what you want to shoot not the floor
>>218979535Same. That whole fucking season in a farm and a field, so boring.
>>218979486I watched it all the way up until Beth died in the hospital. We were Stockholm'd really good. Should have stopped right after season 1, RIP Darabont....
>>219023099>Dies to save random dude>Random dude dies horribly almost right after
>>218979486Every now and then I'll re-watch just S1 and I'm reminded of how much I loved it. I grew up with the show and watched until around season 6 but it's all a blur in my head outside of S1, S2. When I think of TWD I really only think of those first 6 episodes.
>>218979486When Jon Bernthall got in there. Insufferable cunt that he is.
>>218979486When they introduced Negan and the Saviors
Here's Sam Witwer talking about the Darabont drama. It's a pretty interesting listen. They really ruined any of the sovl that S1 had and whatever Darabont was planning for the future. Sucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyjdBac6p4
>>219025247>t. freezes global
I've been rewatching it so I can finish whatver happens after rick """dies""" and by season 5 and most of 6 it feels like a complete schizo mess. I'm half way through season 7 and feel like just giving up on it because of how every episode feels the sameseason 1 and 2 are very comfy when you don't have to wait a week for each episode
>>218979486It was a hard watch from 7x2 with all the bottle episodes but it killed all my enjoyment with 8x8. Killing Carl just to avoid paying him an adult salary was so retarded and the only good thing to come out of it was Andrew Lincoln realised how retarded the show got and made a BS excuse to leave, and Chandler's dad crashed out on facebook live and threatened to kill Scott Gimple over it until a day later his vods got DMCA'd by AMC and he issued a grovelling apology.
Is the lizzie/brighton sharbino schizoposter still in these threads?
>>219025469based Sam has the worst luck ever, every project he's attached to ends up mired in controversy or something that bogs it down, but he still keeps trucking on. Would have loved the Variant Walker backstory for his character from the pilot.
Can't wait to see how many times Bernthal rubs his shaved head and asks Odysseus something in this movie
>>219025137Season 1 takes me back to happier days. Still in high school and ignorant to most real world problems. It was probably the only show I would actually wait for week to week for new episodes. Then the next day me and my friend would talk about it in gym class and go over “zombie strategy” and how we would have survived better. God I miss when zombies were cool
>>218979535Lemme tell you something else man. True it has good moments but it also feels like it gets stuck and drags a bit but also losing frank darabont hurt. Each season has those stuck drag moments though and also ita when it started to be mostly in the woods and I found the city location pretty cool
>>218983089Best shotgun besides a semi or full automatic. It should be able to take down more than one but the guns have a lot of errors
>>218979486a few times I stopped watching it because of retarded plot points, only to go back and continue a few years later.The idiots camping in a quarry next to a town, no defences, not even a building a fence or stockade, then wondering why some of them get scoffed by random wandering zombies.When that machinegun was fired from the back of a truck at a car chasing it and the bullets just bounced off the bonnet. What the fuck was it firing, BB pellets?When the autist made EVERYONE'S guns explode with sabotaged ammo. Good job nobody in that entire fucking army was still using a few rounds that weren't sabotaged, or switched to melee weapons, right?
>>218979486Episode 2. The pilot was a really good short film that could have just stood on its own.
>>219026443Always wanted Witwer to be in more movies or shows. He's pretty underrated outside of the work he did for Star Wars. That Black Hawk Down with zombies idea would've been really fucking cool for an episode instead of one focused more on plot/dialogue. Always wonder how different the other seasons would've been had Darabont stayed.
>>218979486season 5, killing carl so early.
>>219028215they killed him in season 8 retard
Reminder: The main reason why these two even became a couple, was because Christian Serratos (Rosita) requested to work more with Seth Gilliam (Gabriel)
>>219028683And then they almost immediately dropped it only to come with some cuck story line later on. At least the negan dunk on him was funny
It's gotten popular again because of the memes and looking back it does have some funny dialogue and moments>listen to me olive oyl I was out there looking for that little girl every single day> Dale staring at shane> Negan in general
>>218984400They go back in a deleted scene and the governor already killed them all
>>219028683>cucked by Siddiq>raises Siddiq's kid>Rosita gets with Eugene anywaysomeone on set hated this mf
>>218984400I don't think it's that weird people stayed there. Any medical facility would be stocked with food and medicine.
they should have FUCKED
>>219030903They actually said there was a deleted scene where she took his virginity because they thought they were gonna die anyway and apparently he kept his socks on.
>>219030903Eugene belongs in the cuck chair
>>218979486When Frank Drarabont got fired
>>218979486Literally the second episode. I have never seen such a dramatic dip in quality in my life. And it just got worse from there with stupid shit like the heckin wholesome vatos defending the old folk's home.
>>218979486I stopped watching when Morgan found Rick
>>218998020yeah the actor was alright but he was way too shrimpy to play Negan
Maggie is so hot
MASSA RICKS I NEEDSA CLEAR
>>219025469making a bunch of standalone episode prequels about day one would have been interesting
>>219028683kek I forgot all about this, the romances on this show were retarded
>>218998020>>219034262Part of why he looked so awful as Negan is that they had to custom make him an extra thin leather jacket for long summer filming schedules. It always bugged the hell out of me, it looked like it would split down the back of he moved wrong. He honestly looked better without it. He still wasn't a huge guy, but he at least looked lean instead of a bones poking around in a garbage bag.
>>219036588fuck i didn't even think of how hot it must have been wearing that in the Georgia heat
>>218989750>fucking racemixing between rick and michonne lolAt least the guy was white.
>>219028871Negan went meta when he confronted the fat chicks in alexandria about starving
When this faggot was introduced. For the life of me I can not figure out how this character became so popular.
>>219037062Makes lulz, then he becomes a bit of pussy and tries to lay low his personality for most of it. Still an asshole mostly. "Le you murdered my husband, now come rescue my son in New York"- Magige.
>>219037130Maggie was annoying in season 11>be hilltop>everything is fucked up>Commonwealth offers to help rebuild>say no because muh daddy There's a huge difference between having a bad harvest and everything being burnt to the fucking ground.
Zombie stories are so fucking lame. It's a jewish fantasy about who can suffer the most. Dead Rising it's the only exception.
>>218989841I felt similarly and finally gave up then. All of her development and growth or whatever from the experience was rendered pointless because she inexplicably decided to virtually commit suicide to deal with Dawn immediately (instead of after she was safe) and never relayed any information to her group.
>>218979526FPBP
>>219012328The showrunners that fucked up Walking Dead took over FTWD. Not even kidding. As soon as that faggot Gimple took over, suddenly the colo grading becomes that dull grey shit and Morgan takes over as the main star.
>>218983375This is when I stopped reading the comic as well
>>218983375Then things got super serious. I guess they were trying alot with the later seasons trying to get the Latino chick to be the comic relief.
S7 was the point of no return
>>218979486The instant they reached Alexandria. Negan's entire operation makes zero sense and he has so many people within his operation who want to kill him like every single concubine he has yet no one does it. Half of his own men want to off him for how blatantly evil he is.I still have no understanding how his settlement functions because he very quickly will run out of people to give him tithes with how often he kills them, and he demands they get him stuff within a single week even though Alexandria within a few weeks was already dry even within a several day walk of their settlement. How did they survive at all?
>>218983089pistol grip sucks for hip fire
>>219012491an author I really like wrote this scene and im sad how fucking bad it was
>>219007548the daughter is also annoying but at least she's hot
>>219030903laura was hot af desu
>>219045518Do they mostly write for cartoons? Because that author is a total hack for thinking this idea would work for anything that isn't some kids cartoon.
>>219045518was the author 12?
>>219045587No, she's an autistic girl who wrote an autobiography about her burgeoning sexuality. It's not actually about sex, but the strange thoughts and misgivings of a teen sperg girl, as they relate to sex. It's incredibly funny. >>219045611a woman, so mentally, yes
>>219012491>>219045518Embarrassing.
>>219045712example story>be her>see pics of an aborted fetus >horrified by how it looks like a sphaghetti-o>fast forward >be college freshmen>at party>see two people making out heavy>get dared to hand them a condom and tell them to seal the deal>do dare and get $5 >fast forward>college senior>at house party>guy you handed condom to confronts you drunkenly>tell you that you ruined his life because he got her pregnant>demands you pay him for it>all you have is half a pack of smokes>give them over>he tells you that she had to have an abortion and had a breakdown over it and dumped him>remember what you even spent the $5 on from the bet>three cans of spaghetti-o's>mfw
>>218979535Shane's death really killed the show for me. It's like killing off Doakes in Dexter.
>>219045904in the books, doakes survives the whole series, but he get his arms and legs removed and his tongue excised. he uses a computer to continue talking shit to Dex, like stephen hawking lmao
>>218979486I watched like 25 seasons of this and spinoffsnever got into the Rick spinoff because he's my least favorite character, he's annoying
>>219045882lol okay thats kinda funny.is this actually worth a read?
>>218987077>When zombie movies/shows go too far and get into Amish level survival with spears and bows, it gets boring as shit.Yeah it stops being horror themed or about the zombies at that point and is just a generic post-apoc story
>>218988499>>218988675the comic killed off characters too frequently just as they were getting interesting
you now remember a giant black guy with an axe that was cool but died like bitch in the same episode, so a few episodes later they make him a twin brother
>>219046324patsy parisi
>>218979486>>218979535>>218979673Anyone who didn't drop this trash show in season 2 is an ultimate pleb and any opinion they have on any piece of Television & Film is automatically invalidated
i actually always enjoyed the soap drama between bullshit characters, regardless of how dumb whatever was going on. There were some good performances full of pathos and good lines throughout the entire show's run. The show as a whole is a mess, and shouldn't really be considered an "entire" show, the first 5-6 seasons, especially anything pre-rick have so little to do with the after rick stuff. For me, the absolute jumped the shark moment was the garbage dump people where they were all weird mad max people that chose to live in a fucking garbage dump but suddenly forgot how to speak normal english? Also, shocked none of you even mentioned the fucking tiger as when the show jumped the shark. That said, I loved ezekiel and the Kingdom folks were based and goofy and brought joy to the show, so I don't hate them. The showdown with Negan's crew where Eugene magically made every single gun explode in their hands was also retarded.I laughed when enid and the kids got heads put on spikes, but shed a tear when rosita died
>>219046845>when enid and the kids got heads put on spikesi was furious that they killed my wife tara off screen
the video tape lesbian from FTWD is the only nice thing from the later seasons of the show. Don't bother after that
>is cutest girl on the show>dies for some bullshit reason>no one ever mentions her afterwards, not even her sister
>>219047217tragic tits
>>218979535Shane’s death presented the problem that GoT had. Killing off too many enticing characters. With TWD there’s no ups and downs like a roller coaster, each season progressively got worse.
Long shot requestAnyone have that one image that anons used to have that had all the dead black characters ascending to heaven, with T-Dog at the top like Jesus? Every time a new black person died they got added to the image
>>219028683I seriously doubt that. Literally every couple on the show was interracial at one point. There was probably some diversity agenda at play.
>>219047276no, GOT killing off characters actually contributed to the show. Every major character's death creates more new drama, power vacuums or they get killed off when their arc is done anyway.That being said, the show did kill off more characters than the books did just so they didn't have to pay the actors
>>218979486Died after season 2. Things became a little interesting again when Alexandria was introduced and the group was thrust into civilized society but that faded with the typical bs.
>>219047352GOT died when the war of 5 kings ended. Then it was just sequential asspulls keeping Cersei propped up because everyone literally had no reason to fight each other. The books still have a lot going on but the show fizzled out by the time season 4 ended. Tywin’s death was the end of an era.
>>219047277interesting
>>218983037Don't forget>every human they meet is a vicious psychopath that enjoys killingGod I hate this trope.
>>219049070>>every human they meet is a vicious psychopath that enjoys killingyes we know, le people are the real le monsters. but it's boring as shit
>>219049332zombie apocalypse but its the purge, except only blacks are allowed to purgenogstorm (2026)
>>219049414I'm disappointed they never showed any racial tensions in America aside from one guy in the first season being a nazi biker
>>219049562im so happy amc got away with saying nigger on primetime in 2010
>>218979486At the start of episode 2 with the fake out ending that Rick was going to shoot himself after being surrounded by zombies under the tank because they had to do an audience GOTCHA! acting like he was in an inescapable situation when an open hatch into the tank was literally right in front of him but he had to lay there dramatically pretending like he was doomed.
>>218979486episode 2, completely different vibe to episode 1
>>219049332I wouldn't even mind it that much if it wasn't so on the nose. >Shane - insane psychopath>the Governor - insane pychopath>Terminus people - insane pychopaths>Negan's bikers - insane psychopaths>Negan - insane psychopathI mean, c'mon man. Admittedly, Shane actually had a proper story arc that explained why he went nuts but the point still stands.
>>218988422Holy fucking autism
>>219046845>shocked none of you even mentioned the fucking tiger as when the show jumped the sharkLiterally the 3rd post in the thread
>>218979486After shane died
>>218983843They bugged me too. Blunt weapons are the only ones they should have used.
>>218987077Yeah, me too, I always liked the breakdown/outbreak part to these kinds of stories; that's why left 4 dead is my favorite zombie media. Why can't an outbreak happen over weeks or months instead of a few days? Zombie apocalypse > zombie post-apocalypse
>>218988296>How many "racist, drug/alcohol-abusing, woman-hitting redneck" stereotypes do we need? Plus, I just found something cringe about there being a guy named "T-Dog" running around. Seeing Dale say the name "T-Dog" in a moment that's supposed to be serious just made me laugh.Are you from the South? Because I am, and characters like Merle and T-dog remind me of people from the south. Shane especially reminds me a lot of people I know irl.
>>219007835Maybe Rick becoming like the governor but less evil would have been interesting
The thing with this show is that it was diamonds mixed with shit from the very start. They just changed the type of shit and the shit-to-diamonds ratio as time had gone on.It's kind of fascinating really. It doesn't really jump the shark, it does Tony Hawk shit with the shark for 13 seasons (or whatever the final number is), it's just a little less obvious early on.
>>218979486Terminus season. It was just so ridiculous and half-assed.>everybody is separated from the prison because the Governator was so craaaazy with his attack>let's all follow signs for this other settlement>some good character interactions between people separated who hadn't really talked together on screen before, best part of the season>get to Terminus>oh SHIT they're evil cannibal pscyopaths! Rick is angry! Oh wait they all get killed in like 5 seconds except for the leader who vows revenge and the gang escapes>find church where the shady priest is still praying>angry cannibal leader finds them like one episode later, gets bamboozled by Rick and gang>Rick kills him with the thing he said he was gonna do it with like three episodes ago, this is supposed to be cathartic>season farts out an end with another "The real monster is man" message and I can't remember a single time a zombie was actually menacingThis is when I truly signed off. Glad I did because later I saw that faulty ammunition scene getting posted and laughed my ass off knowing they were truly off the rails.
This was the most inconsistent TV show in all of history, you had 10/10 "kino/cinema" moments back to back with legitimate "hi mark" 1/10 moments. You'd think the writers and directors of the 10/10 moments would weigh in and tell the people fucking up the show with $0.50 north korean made deer CGI to not fuck up the show for the couple of kino makers left, but alas, the crap won out and the show eventually died.For the entire runtime of the show I was flip flopping between wanting to drop it and "giving it just one more chance" to thinking "Damn... that was well pulled off" just a single episode later.Even other beloved shows like LOST had a quality range between 9 and 5, the best were a 9 and the worst were 5. I know no other show that legitimately has some of the best TV and some of the worst TV ever made in the same show, even the same fucking season over multiple seasons.
>>219045156My hips are for closing doors dancing with whores, not shooting guns.
>>219050244Zombie land was the first movie I saw that introduced the slow breakout. It would make sense. The US is fucking huge. There are thousands of small towns in the middle of nowhere that would be unaffected for months.
>>219047352>GOT killing off characters actually contributed to the showno it didnt, because the dead characters would be replaced by shittier characters, which is exactly the reason why i dropped the show. its just killing off people for shock value, and then watching shittier characters deal with that fact. its the same formula repeated ad nauseum
>>218979486I never really liked it. But then again I'm also a bit biased because my ex-fiance was on it a few times as an extra/stand in
>>218979486Season one when they dressed up as zombies.
>>218979486When my wife Beth died.
>>219047352>Every major character's death creates more new drama, power vacuums or they get killed off when their arc is done anyway.That doesn't work when they're just replaced by shittier characters.
>>219053831I think it worked fine until season 4
>>219045882That is absolutely kino.>>219046633Anyone filtered by season 2 is an absolute pleb.>>219047277I might but it would be in my unsorted 2009-2014 folder and it wasn't near the "You're no T-Dawg" gif I already posted so it might be hard to find.
>>219055152https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssm8Ml5sOoThe lone walker in the field with the shane/rick situation was kino but watching that season while it was airing was such a fucking slog
>>218979486S1E1 when they skipped the best part of any disaster fiction, the unfolding of the disaster onto everyday life.Fear The Walking Dead S1 is good tho.
>Half of complaints itt are about following comics story 1:1I get when you complain about opposite but this is retarded
>>218979486glenn was a good guy
>>219056862>Fear The Walking Dead S1 is good tho.it's all downhill from there but yea I'm glad FTWD season 1 exists
For me overall after S1E6. I love the lore, and they should've pursued a cure/vax. But alas it just turned into a treadmill. I did also did like "Fear the walking dead" But only up to half season 2. If they ever make a serious attempt on a spinoff/remake. They should have maybe a couple of slow burn episodes before the zombies even arrive. Like fear the walking dead but even slower, and begin at the Bio lab in France. Then make maybe five or six sessions where the goal is clear and no more boomerang story telling
>>218979486About 20-30 minutes into the first episode.
>>219050854My favorite part of that season is how the writers and cast forgot Maggie and Beth are sisters
>>219058010What makes you say that
>>219058103They were separated the whole season, yet they weren’t bothered by that and didn’t give a shit about trying to find each other. Maggie was only concerned about finding Glen. All of the notes and clues she left behind were for Glen. Considering each other was the only family either woman had left, you’d think there would be a little more concern about reuniting.
when daryl went from a SS motorcycle riding racist meth head hick to wholesome chungus greasy hair grandpa
wow glenn that was kinda rude
>>219058260after they left the farm I don't remember them ever acknowledging that Maggie and Beth were related even oncevery strange
>>219058897Because beth was just some side character they forgot about, they do this with a lot of side characters. They just stand around in the background until it's time for their small characterization episode right before they get killed off.
The search for Sofia was terrible, show was decent when the group was just trying to survive day by day, once the show just became about the group constantly fighting other groups it became shit.
>>218984400>>218988296People treat like Darabont's firing like a massive tragedy but they forget how much corny shit was introduced under his watch in the first and second seasons>latino hospice>CDC episode>semi-sentient zombies idea>goofy ass characters
>>219013179>>219013004IIRC the goal was to keep the Saviors pinned down in the Sanctuary while making a fuck ton of noise, so it'd attract a horde and keep them penned in while Rick and his gang scooted away to take care of all the other outposts. So it's not completely retarded when you consider the show writers always enable the infinite ammunition cheat.
>>218988675how do you feel about the art change
What is it about Glen dying that turned people off to the series? It seems like a common falling off point for both tv watchers and comic readers.
>>219047217Its weird how she looks related to that actress that played Luna Lovegood, but no relation at all.
>>219059966Glenn was a fan favorite and for good reason. His death came off more mean spirited then the show usually was.
My biggest complaint was walkers teleporting out of nowhere to bite or attack someone.
>>219059966they killed him twice
>>218979486never watched further than season 2It just seems liek a sopa opera. I would prefere more a focus on actual zombies than this whole "humans are the problem" thingAlso its just boring
maggie walled hard but she was a prime cutie early on
>>219060936I liked Whiskey Cavalier, although Ray carried that show.
>>219060082She looks like she either works in HR or is a girlboss.