The Walking Dead

thought it was ok and better than s1 and 2

Olebass_sl said:

To match the comic the Gov still needs to die and surely they are not going to drag out another whole season to do it.

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If there's any show that could do it, this is it. It's fucking Dragonball Z with zombies.

I'm about fed up with this show. They drag the story out so much, and it ends up being completely underwhelming. What bugs me the most is how they actually use commercial breaks to create cliffhangers, instead of just making an engaging show from beginning to end without gimmicks.

My thoughts on S4+ (very mild comic spoilers)

It is now clear to me that the more substance the show has to work with, the worse it is. When nothing happens, all we can really complain about is that nothing happened. But when stuff happens, we get a glimpse into the Downs Syndrome of the writing staff. Just a few bits:

Milton gets stabbed a million times, and Andrea just sits there chatting with him. There's no panic, no "HOLY FUCK THIS GUY IS ABOUT TO TURN INTO A ZOMBIE AND I AM HANDCUFFED TO A CHAIR," just chit-chatting. When he looks like he's dying, that doesn't speed her up. She instead tries the 5 year old "if I don't move, the monster won't see me" trick. Oh and how god damn hard is it to pick up pliers with your feet? For fucks sake. When she finally started getting it, I face-palmed even before it happened because I knew she was going to drop them in some dramatic "so close but oh shit they fell" like what happens in every terrible show/movie ever made ever. And um, can pliers actually break handcuffs? Seemed odd. She got the fuckers off fast once she had pliers with no cutting ability whatsoever in her hands.

Town assault: they have a fucking mounted gun that alone would overpower everyone in the prison with 1 guy. They roll in shooting grenades into the towers. Ok sweet. Prison people are fucked. Message accomplished. Then they go into a dark room all clumped up. OK, not a big deal. They aren't military so you can't expect perfection. Suddenly stun grenades or flashbangs or whatever the hell goes off and HELL YEA, EVERYONE'S ABOUT TO GET FUCKED UP. Oh wait we just have guys outside. We didn't want to use that great ambush except to force them outside where they were 4 minutes ago. But at least now they are caught off guard, and the prison people have far superior position and cover, aiming down with automatic weapons at a flood of people coming out of the door. Saweet, people are about to get fucked up. You could close your eyes and shoot and you would hit like 5 people. Somehow no one dies. No one dies. No one. Not a single person gets hit in any part of their body by a bullet. They then change back to physical form and run to the trucks, and I'm thinking "oh shit, this is about to get REAL YALL, HERE COMES THE MOUNTED GUN, GLENN AND MAGGIE ARE FUCKED, THOSE PLATES OF BULLSHIT METAL ARE GONNA GET SHREDDED. Instead the town folk run away. "I fight walkers, not people. I'm not going back there. Oh what's that, I knew we were going to the prison to kill a bunch of murderers when we went to the prison, ie the motherfucking reason we went? Oh yea, I just forgot that fact for this speech because I want the Guvna to have an excuse to massacre all of us."

Now fast forward toward the end. They find the survivor of Guvna's massacre, go to the town. We find out later they intended not to fight, after they heard what happened from the survivor. So they approach the gate guarded by token black male and female (black chick is fucking hot, btw, and also looks half asian), and instead of saying "yo, here's your member, let's talk," they return fire and nearly kill the token blacks before realizing "oh yea we didn't want to kill you guys, I forgot. Sorry." So they stop shooting and instead they put their hands up as a sign of non-aggression. This is good. Putting your hands up shows that you aren't reaching for a weapon. You have to put your hands down to get the weapon and then back up to actually use the weapon. It means that, if this person is trying to shoot you, you have lots of warning. This makes people feel safe. This is why "hands up" is good. There is one small problem with their execution: DARRYL HAS A MOTHERFUCKING AUTOMATIC WEAPON IN HIS HANDS. HE'S CARRYING THE FUCKING THING. "Oh it's cool, my hands are up, which means we aren't going to shoot you." Except if they were lying, as murderous people tend to do, they could have killed the blacks the second they opened the door with absolutely 0% chance of death.

I hate this show. It's beyond horrible. It's like every Paul Walker movie ever made distilled down into its pure essence of terrible and then that pure essence is somehow cloned and injected into each individual minute of this show. I wish I was Tiberius from Spartacus: War of the Damned so I could rape this show.

The one thing we can all celebrate, however, is hurray for Andrea's stupid face being dead.

Other than the schoolbus with armor( which was part of a wall in Woodbury wasn't it ALA Road Warrior style ) did they not grab any of the other damn trucks on the road including the jeep with the 50 cal?
What about all the weapons those people had? What about all the supplies in Woodbury? They could have cut out 3 shit episodes earlier on and gave us a much better season for sure. We had hours of shit and no story at all only to have it crammed at the end.

I've never said I was done with the show, but there has to be a lot more people who think this is all bullshit.
We need a walkingdeadsucks.com page.


Edit. I looked around at some blog pages for walking dead. A lot of pissed off people, not just on this forum.

Dabamf_sl said:

I hate this show. It's beyond horrible. It's like every Paul Walker movie ever made distilled down into its pure essence of terrible and then that pure essence is somehow cloned and injected into each individual minute of this show. I wish I was Tiberius from Spartacus: War of the Damned so I could rape this show.

The one thing we can all celebrate, however, is hurray for Andrea's stupid face being dead.

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Wtf dude, why you gotta drag Paul Walker into this? He actually did make one decent movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404390/

i would only come back to s4 if people say its miraculously awesome and only after the mid season finale is done. whats there to look forward to? more prison drama? now we get more whiners talking about how much life sucks intercut with more trivial zombie kills. who is next season's villain? the governor again? some new group he meets up with and tags along with? they had 16 fucking episodes to resolve the prison and the governor but apparently they jerked off so much they didnt do a goddamn thing to move the story along.

as to that "war" at the prison. those guys all rushed inside leaving their truck mounted weaponry behind unguarded. a less retarded person would have mounted those guns and cut down all those mofuckers as they ran out of the prison.

So much fail, so little time. Not gonna re-hash the shitty shit in this episode, looks like most of it was covered. Although, Iwouldlike to know where I can pick up some +5 Pliers of Handcuff Cutting.

Just wanted to say I'm looking forward to watching"Dabamf: Raper of Shows". That would be fuckloads better than this show has ever been.

I'm cool with next season if every time Carl opens his mouth Rick backhands the fuck out of him. Seriously this little fuck needs to die already!!!!

I'm cool with next season if every time they meet someone new Carl shoots them in the face, then shoots Hershel for being a whiny bitch.

Gunnar_sl said:

S what, governor comes back next season? Maybe he puts together a new group and comes back as the guy who beats someone to death with a bat in the comics I forget his name.

Lame.

Season finales aren't suppose to have the only good part be the open.

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Nice.

The prison assault was so laugh out loud funny. One flashbang goes off, they all scatter. Then we get to see 20+ armed people get chased off by two. The hilarity continued when the Gov. mows down his people except white guy (who's son ate it the previous episode and didn't seem that broken up over it) who still just stands there with a gun pointed at the Gov. only to be shot in the head. I agree with others, half the time you really have to question whether this show is supposed to be a comedy or not.

Andrea going down is the only redeeming thing that happened and of course they dragged that out till the very end. It wasn't even as good as when Merle went out the previous episode/Dale/Sophia.

I'll still watch S4 because half the fun is pointing out the ridiculousness of the writing every episode.

Well, as was evidenced by the swift retreat, the vast majority of the people aren't fighters...they're just soft civilians, not battle tested due to their time at Woodbury, who really wanted no part in the whole exercise. It was disappointing, but not really far fetched. The whole point with the guy with the gun from Tyrese's group showed 2 things: 1) He was a scared shit (remember the argument between Tyrese and the guy about an episode or so ago? It's inferred that that dude was afraid and Tyrese had to save that girl) 2) He was all talk (think back to the episode where he talks big about going after a kid+woman). Again, not totally out of the realm of possibility.

I kept seeing the "There will be 27 people killed" but I don't think I saw 27 die. Are we to assume the governor shot 24 of his own people during the drive away from the prison? It certainly didn't seem like he shot more than like 10 people; where were the others? Also, they hyped the episode so much and made it all about the showdown yet nothing at all happened. They also ramped up the commercials as it was like 5 minutes of minimal dialogue, blood and nothing......then a commercial. Pretty awful season finale, imo.

Maester Chuk_sl said:

Are you going somewhere abe?

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No, I just bet all of you are just way to curious leave the show and will be back in fall. It's ok to love to hate the show.