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2024/01/11 10:41:40
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2024/01/25 17:53:53
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Scott M. Gimple, the co-creator of the new “The Walking Dead” spin-off series “The Ones Who Live,” said he hopes to be able to reunite beloved franchise characters like Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), Michonne (Danai Gurira), Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), Negan Smith (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie Rhee (Lauren Cohan) in an epic series crossover.
“There are so many things with this universe that I plan and put together, but I also know that God laughs, and you have to pivot to something else,” Gimple said. “I absolutely have been working towards that and hoping towards that, but we’ll see what happens. It might be a version of it that no one expects.”
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2024/02/12 17:12:51
Subject: Re:Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2024/02/15 08:56:45
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
So I'm a few years late jumping on the bandwagon, but just started in on the original series. Watched the World Beyond on Amazon a while back, and that was rubbish, but really enjoying this one so far... Although series two was brutal.
A couple episodes into series 3, and I do have to ask (as I don't want to go back through the thread, to avoid spoilers) does 'Nice' Rick come back at some point, or is it Increasingly Poo-head Rick from here on in?
2024/02/15 10:12:11
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Be aware that going forward, its quality becomes really quite inconsistent. Not just season to season, but episode to episode. That being said, it’s still superior TV throughout.
However, it does find solid footing from Season 9 onwards which are my favourite seasons,
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Don't get me wrong, the trauma is appropriate and is a large part of what grounds the show. Too many of these sorts of shows have everyone, after an initial reaction, largely sailing through it like there's nothing wrong.
I also like the fact that after the chaos of season two it's really managed to create the feeling that nobody is safe.
My problem is more that the show needs to keep a threshold of likeable characters to keep me interested.
2024/02/16 21:08:16
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
insaniak wrote: So I'm a few years late jumping on the bandwagon, but just started in on the original series. Watched the World Beyond on Amazon a while back, and that was rubbish, but really enjoying this one so far... Although series two was brutal.
A couple episodes into series 3, and I do have to ask (as I don't want to go back through the thread, to avoid spoilers) does 'Nice' Rick come back at some point, or is it Increasingly Poo-head Rick from here on in?
He....goes back and forth. A lot...
2024/02/16 21:53:01
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
insaniak wrote: I also like that Carl's a bit less bratty in this season. Again, it was appropriate to the story, just not fun to watch...
He grows up quite a bit in the later seasons.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2024/02/17 00:39:05
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
He's had a lot of growth even just between season 2 and 3. I'm actually really impressed so far both with the writing of Carl as a character, and the acting chops of the kid playing him.
2024/02/17 13:01:49
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
I got as far as Season 6 years ago before I lost patience with it and gave up. I decided to try again fairly recently and watch it all through and I've got to Season 7 and then lost patience again. I wanted to watch some of the stuff with Khary Payton but I've lost interest with all the Negan stuff.
Has anyone seen the show about Daryl in France? I'm sort of fascinated by that.
Watching The Ones Who Live. It’s ok, I guess. Just feel like we’ve done this storyline a few times already. They turned The Commonwealth into the CRM so they could make this show. And then they already did a whole other show (world beyond) that was the same thing. I think they even destroyed it in that show. So they had to have a correction in this show saying basically “oh that was the other CRM”.
I think I’m bored because I just don’t think these evil empire factions are that realistic. I just don’t think the idea of the CRM which is an advanced society would go around just massacring everyone in sight would happen. I think 20 years into the apocalypse everyone would want to focus on establishing trade and reducing the overall amount of zombies on the planet but that’s just me I guess.
I think a good villain needs a good motive and the CRM is a lame and childish villain that’s motive seems to be: “we’re evil”.
2024/03/20 02:09:56
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
So I have reached the end of the original series. Overall, aside from series 7 (where I almost dropped out 2 or 3 times), and being consistently annoyed with walkers getting taken out with shallow stab wounds and inconsistent amounts of blunt force after they took the time to establish way early in the piece that the only active part of the brain is right at the brainstem... a thoroughly enjoyable ride.
Was going to move on to Fear the Walking Dead, but decided to go with Daryl Goes To France first instead, because... well, Daryl. First ep down, and pretty good so far.
2024/03/20 13:18:25
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
insaniak wrote: Was going to move on to Fear the Walking Dead, but decided to go with Daryl Goes To France first instead, because... well, Daryl. First ep down, and pretty good so far.
A good choice. Fear was a fair bit more uneven than TWD and can be quite a slog at times. Daryl Dixon has been my favorite spin-off so far (medieval weapons being used against walkers? YES!).
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2024/03/20 16:49:18
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Fear I just couldn’t get on with. Our initial heroes are just utterly unlikable. The show was meant to show how society fell. Then just….didnt. At all.
From there its basically scripted from the factory sweepings of the main series.
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: Fear I just couldn’t get on with. Our initial heroes are just utterly unlikable. The show was meant to show how society fell. Then just….didnt. At all.
From there its basically scripted from the factory sweepings of the main series.
Yeah pretty much. Extremely uneven from season to season too. The coolest scene was in season 1 or 2 when the original Dad guy killed those two dude-bros by hand in a total rage. After that though the rest of the series is quite missable. I gave up on it and didn't watch the last season. When they brought back Madison I thought that might be cool but their idea was to make her character the complete opposite of what she was. She like goes around stealing babies for no discernable reason now? So dumb, I'm out. Also, Morgan is jut plain annoying now.
2024/03/21 20:13:30
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
They somehow kept finding new and inexplicably duller sharks to jump. Including Lex Luther’s Dad deciding throwing in some Nukes out to keep things fun.
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Which was almost interesting but then somehow wasn't. I think the main problem with TWD TVverse is they think they need a villain all the time. I think the zombie craze took off because of the survivalism aspect. People started to think about how'd they get by in an apocalyptic world. How to get food and water and whatnot. Not which cartoonish supervillain they will have to vanquish next, each one more ridiculous than the last. I think apocalyptic survival is interesting on its own but I'm probably in the minority. Ironically, the TV Show is more comic-bookey than the comic book.
2024/03/25 22:36:28
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Fear the Walking Dead suffers from basically every character being some degree of insufferable.
Not necessarily all at once. Instead it's like they have an insufferable whiny bitch ball they take turns passing around. The kid characters especially come off as suicidally oblivious and the parents unforgivable for how much they coddle their kids in a disaster scenario and the kids even worse for acting like the zombie apocalypse is somehow the same kind of crisis as having their phone and internet access revoked and oh they can't go to the hip cool kid party either. On account of all the cool kids being dead.
IMO this makes Fear the Walking Dead even less enjoyable, especially as latter seasons build on this by always making you hate a character anytime something even mildly interesting seems like it might happen to them.
Most character deaths in the show are actually hilarious more than sad, just because you'll hate the characters so much by the time they die you'll be happy to see them gone. But that short catharsis isn't worth all the insane padding on the show, or how much stupid gak the stupid whiny gak characters survive before finally dying in a way somehow more absurd than all the obvious ways they should have died already.
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I dunno if I’m being overly generous to the writers, but I feel that the original family being no hopers could’ve been an interesting idea.
Say what you like about the middle season of Walking Dead, but once we get that time jump, our survivors feel like authentic survivors. Sure, not everyone is a combat monster. But they all have their role within their settlements, ensuring the whole of the thing ticks over.
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It looks like The Ones Who Live was meant to be a miniseries and currently there's no plans for a second season (but as they say, anything can happen). The first half of E6 was the best of the series, leaning into a political thriller with the senior staff of the CRM using the military to take out any perceived threats (as seen in Worlds Beyond) without the Civic Republic's knowledge. This would have been a great concept to run the show for three or four seasons, but by the end of the episode all of the bad guys were dead in one stroke (due to stupidity) and the Civic Republic is now buddy buddy with all of the other communities. What a waste...
I am however looking forward to Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol...
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2024/04/03 20:27:05
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Ghaz wrote: It looks like The Ones Who Live was meant to be a miniseries and currently there's no plans for a second season (but as they say, anything can happen). The first half of E6 was the best of the series, leaning into a political thriller with the senior staff of the CRM using the military to take out any perceived threats (as seen in Worlds Beyond) without the Civic Republic's knowledge. This would have been a great concept to run the show for three or four seasons, but by the end of the episode all of the bad guys were dead in one stroke (due to stupidity) and the Civic Republic is now buddy buddy with all of the other communities. What a waste...
I am however looking forward to Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol...
I thought the best part of the whole series was the last 12 seconds of the show where they gloss over the fact that when its revealed that a military coup was just thwarted and so the Civic Republic initiates reforms which make it a place you'd actually want to live in. That should have been the whole show, not the last 12 seconds. IMO that would have been more interesting than punching bad guys in the face some more.
2024/06/14 21:37:49
Subject: Re:Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Seven, the Belgian Shepherd who played Dog on “The Walking Dead,” has died, AMC announced Thursday on social media.
“Rest in peace, Seven. #TWD’s best boy,” the network posted on its Instagram. The dog appeared on the last three seasons of “The Walking Dead” as the companion of Daryl Dixon, played by Norman Reedus.
The canine’s co-stars paid tribute to Seven on social media. Reedus posted behind-the-scenes photos of him and Seven on his Instagram story, writing with a broken heart emoji, “Gonna miss you seven. Best tv buddy ever.”
“The Walking Dead’s” official X account posted a photo of Melissa McBride, who played Carol on the series, with Seven. The caption reads: “All dogs go to heaven. Rest in peace, Seven.” Negan actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan replied to the post with three heart emojis.
“RIP Seven,” Kang shared on Instagram alongside a crying face emoji.
Other “Walking Dead” cast members, including Yvette Nicole Brown, Sabrina Gennarino, Khary Payton and Lynn Collins, also honored Seven on social media, as well as Angela Kang, who served as showrunner of “The Walking Dead” during its last three seasons.
Seven appeared in 26 episodes, including the series finale, of AMC’s zombie apocalypse series. His character, Dog, is described as “brave and loyal to his allies” on the “Walking Dead” Fandom site: “He never shies away from danger and always listens to his owner, Daryl Dixon. To his enemies, Dog can be quite vicious, going in to bite them if it means protecting his allies.”
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2024/06/14 22:17:14
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
