THE WALKING DEAD...and all things zombie

HughFreakingDillon

Indifference71 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I do miss the time when this show was looked forward to as a Live Watch type of show every week.  (Or, at least the same night)

Binged the first handful of seasons and then watched for a number of seasons in real time before the consistent shark jumping stuff got to be too much.

Might start a Daryl and Carol spin off.  Started Fear but go bored pretty quickly.

Takes a lot to make a show like that compelling, to me.  They had some really great episodes.

Yep.  Used to watch it live just about every Sunday night for a time there.  I tapped out a few seasons ago because it just got so ridiculous.  Can't believe it is still going....AMC sure milked this one as much as they could.  And sounds like it has been a mess behind the scenes with the creators and AMC suing each other over profits from the show.

yeah, my wife and i were the same. they milked it because, despite all the criticisms, it was still their number 1 show. used to watch talking dead and talk about it at work monday morning. 

i hadn't heard all the drama before. that's nuts. 

tempo_n_groove

HughFreakingDillon said:

Indifference71 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I do miss the time when this show was looked forward to as a Live Watch type of show every week.  (Or, at least the same night)

Binged the first handful of seasons and then watched for a number of seasons in real time before the consistent shark jumping stuff got to be too much.

Might start a Daryl and Carol spin off.  Started Fear but go bored pretty quickly.

Takes a lot to make a show like that compelling, to me.  They had some really great episodes.

Yep.  Used to watch it live just about every Sunday night for a time there.  I tapped out a few seasons ago because it just got so ridiculous.  Can't believe it is still going....AMC sure milked this one as much as they could.  And sounds like it has been a mess behind the scenes with the creators and AMC suing each other over profits from the show.

yeah, my wife and i were the same. they milked it because, despite all the criticisms, it was still their number 1 show. used to watch talking dead and talk about it at work monday morning. 

i hadn't heard all the drama before. that's nuts. 

Indifference71 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I do miss the time when this show was looked forward to as a Live Watch type of show every week.  (Or, at least the same night)

Binged the first handful of seasons and then watched for a number of seasons in real time before the consistent shark jumping stuff got to be too much.

Might start a Daryl and Carol spin off.  Started Fear but go bored pretty quickly.

Takes a lot to make a show like that compelling, to me.  They had some really great episodes.

Yep.  Used to watch it live just about every Sunday night for a time there.  I tapped out a few seasons ago because it just got so ridiculous.  Can't believe it is still going....AMC sure milked this one as much as they could.  And sounds like it has been a mess behind the scenes with the creators and AMC suing each other over profits from the show.

They started writing the same damn story over in a few episodes.  People go rogue and do stupid shit, group gets together to save them.  It's an ongoing theme.

Person needs to kill as many walkers as they can to fill a void.

Young kids continue to do beyond stupid things and seem to forget everything they've learned.

Any other reoccurring plot lines?

HughFreakingDillon

tempo_n_groove said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Indifference71 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I do miss the time when this show was looked forward to as a Live Watch type of show every week.  (Or, at least the same night)

Binged the first handful of seasons and then watched for a number of seasons in real time before the consistent shark jumping stuff got to be too much.

Might start a Daryl and Carol spin off.  Started Fear but go bored pretty quickly.

Takes a lot to make a show like that compelling, to me.  They had some really great episodes.

Yep.  Used to watch it live just about every Sunday night for a time there.  I tapped out a few seasons ago because it just got so ridiculous.  Can't believe it is still going....AMC sure milked this one as much as they could.  And sounds like it has been a mess behind the scenes with the creators and AMC suing each other over profits from the show.

yeah, my wife and i were the same. they milked it because, despite all the criticisms, it was still their number 1 show. used to watch talking dead and talk about it at work monday morning. 

i hadn't heard all the drama before. that's nuts. 

Indifference71 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I do miss the time when this show was looked forward to as a Live Watch type of show every week.  (Or, at least the same night)

Binged the first handful of seasons and then watched for a number of seasons in real time before the consistent shark jumping stuff got to be too much.

Might start a Daryl and Carol spin off.  Started Fear but go bored pretty quickly.

Takes a lot to make a show like that compelling, to me.  They had some really great episodes.

Yep.  Used to watch it live just about every Sunday night for a time there.  I tapped out a few seasons ago because it just got so ridiculous.  Can't believe it is still going....AMC sure milked this one as much as they could.  And sounds like it has been a mess behind the scenes with the creators and AMC suing each other over profits from the show.

They started writing the same damn story over in a few episodes.  People go rogue and do stupid shit, group gets together to save them.  It's an ongoing theme.

Person needs to kill as many walkers as they can to fill a void.

Young kids continue to do beyond stupid things and seem to forget everything they've learned.

Any other reoccurring plot lines?

oh, believe me, the monday morning conversations with coworkers slowly devolved from "that was awesome!" to "fuck that was dumb! why do they keep letting carl walk around unsupervised?". LOL

hedonist

Oh, the kids are killers (literally and figuratively). We cheered when Carol took out that one kid. Annoying as hell, that one.

So yeah, definitely cheesy and repetitive in parts, but fun to watch. Fear had so many drawn-out “dramatic” scenes that got old quickly for me. I will still watch it when it comes back, if only to see if that side of things has improved. 

As to the behind the scenes hoopla, I stay outta that. I just want to have my fun without knowing the nonsense with legal crap. 

HughFreakingDillon

hedonist said:

Oh, the kids are killers (literally and figuratively). We cheered when Carol took out that one kid. Annoying as hell, that one.

So yeah, definitely cheesy and repetitive in parts, but fun to watch. Fear had so many drawn-out “dramatic” scenes that got old quickly for me. I will still watch it when it comes back, if only to see if that side of things has improved. 

As to the behind the scenes hoopla, I stay outta that. I just want to have my fun without knowing the nonsense with legal crap. 

that was conflicting for me. i mean, seriously, murdering a child? that was pretty fucked up to me, even though i understood the necessity, it's just the internal struggle of trying to take my "normal world" ethics out of play in a world where ethics and norms are turned on its head. 

i watched the first two seasons maybe of Fear? i recall feeling it wasn't worth the third. 

F Me In The Brain

I cheered for Carl to meet his end for years.
Most annoying character.

HughFreakingDillon

F Me In The Brain said:

I cheered for Carl to meet his end for years.
Most annoying character.

i think we all did, in a way. LOL

HughFreakingDillon

but carl did bring about some of my favourite memes. 

CORAL!!!

GlowGirl

I agree with a lot of you are saying here. It used to be my favorite show. I still watch, but can leave it on the DVR a few days before watching now. Talking Dead has also gotten tedious. I wonder what the Rick movies will be like.

tempo_n_groove

F Me In The Brain said:

I cheered for Carl to meet his end for years.
Most annoying character.

Cawwwwwrl was redeeming in the end though.  I finally liked him.

The pissant that Carol made cookies for?  uhg.  Good riddance.

Jumb0

GlowGirl said:

It used to be my favorite show. I still watch, but can leave it on the DVR a few days before watching now. 

Exactly where I am. I'm glad they announced that there is an end coming for the OG series. 
I've invested a lot into this show so I'll see it through, but it's no longer "must see tv" for me.

hedonist

tempo_n_groove said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I cheered for Carl to meet his end for years.
Most annoying character.

Cawwwwwrl was redeeming in the end though.  I finally liked him.

The pissant that Carol made cookies for?  uhg.  Good riddance.

That damn kid was obsessed with them. 

eeriepadave

Pretty awesome zombie movie, Train to Busan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyWuHv2-Abk

tempo_n_groove

I tried to pick back up on the Walking Dead and could not get into it.  I had planned to binge watch but after 10 minutes of it I wasn't even interested...

Haven't tried to watch the last year of Fear either.

Didn't even bother with the kids tie in show either...

eeriepadave

tempo_n_groove said:

I tried to pick back up on the Walking Dead and could not get into it.  I had planned to binge watch but after 10 minutes of it I wasn't even interested...

Haven't tried to watch the last year of Fear either.

Didn't even bother with the kids tie in show either...

I can't even remember where i left off at. It was probably a few seasons ago. I 'll probably rewatch it after it has all ended

HughFreakingDillon

eeriepadave said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I tried to pick back up on the Walking Dead and could not get into it.  I had planned to binge watch but after 10 minutes of it I wasn't even interested...

Haven't tried to watch the last year of Fear either.

Didn't even bother with the kids tie in show either...

I can't even remember where i left off at. It was probably a few seasons ago. I 'll probably rewatch it after it has all ended

i'm in that boat too. But I think i'm more recent than that. 

hedonist

I just want to know what happened to Rick.

Good lord, that show just blows now (last few seasons, actually).

And on second thought, fuck Rick. 

GlowGirl

hedonist said:

I just want to know what happened to Rick.

Good lord, that show just blows now (last few seasons, actually).

And on second thought, fuck Rick. 

It has gone down hill. I think I like Fear the Walking Dead now more than the OG series. They were supposed to make a movie that showed what happened to Rick. By the time it comes out will anyone really still give a shit what happened to him?

hedonist

GlowGirl said:

hedonist said:

I just want to know what happened to Rick.

Good lord, that show just blows now (last few seasons, actually).

And on second thought, fuck Rick. 

It has gone down hill. I think I like Fear the Walking Dead now more than the OG series. They were supposed to make a movie that showed what happened to Rick. By the time it comes out will anyone really still give a shit what happened to him?

We tried that one as well but then it became too silly. It was great before the mother (Kim Dickens) died!

tempo_n_groove

Has anyone watched this anymore?  I tried getting back into it a few months ago and it was just too stupid to continue.  It's like they let new writers and I mean NEW writers take over the helm.

Just curious.  Is Rick back yet, lol?