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2022/11/24 10:41:58
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
First season where we follow the family I was wanting them to hurry up and get ded. Just loathsome characters I couldn’t root for.
The bit with Virginia was….OK, I suppose? But then we get Lionel Luther and his madcap nuke scheme of zero sense.
I really disliked the first couple of seasons but stuck with it and it got better… until it got worse… then got better… then got worse again. The plots were generally disappointing. A few clever concepts that were not executed well due to often mediocre at best writing. But some cool characters… cool characters often wasted with poor writing though.
Spoiler:
So no CRM vs Commonwealth troops conflict yet? Will it ever come given the feeling of the season finale and th8ngs moving elsewhere in the spin-offs?
Rick, the Grumpy Gnome
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2022/11/24 23:44:49
Subject: Re:Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Yes, it is done finally. It was pretty much what I expected. Quite frankly a lot of the final season's oompf was spoiled by AMC's announcing the various spinoffs. Like we know Negan, Maggie, Daryl and Carol will survive. We also know Rick and Michonne will be back in some way so that's not some huge shocker that it would have been. I'm sure all of that was much to the annoyance of the people who work on this show. Some suit at AMC Corporate figured might as well start advertising now for some reason even though those shows don't come out till next year apparently. Imagine, how big all the announcements would have been if they were saved for right after the last episode.
2022/11/25 15:52:08
Subject: Re:Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
KamikazeCanuck wrote: Yes, it is done finally. It was pretty much what I expected. Quite frankly a lot of the final season's oompf was spoiled by AMC's announcing the various spinoffs. Like we know Negan, Maggie, Daryl and Carol will survive. We also know Rick and Michonne will be back in some way so that's not some huge shocker that it would have been. I'm sure all of that was much to the annoyance of the people who work on this show. Some suit at AMC Corporate figured might as well start advertising now for some reason even though those shows don't come out till next year apparently. Imagine, how big all the announcements would have been if they were saved for right after the last episode.
'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
2022/11/25 21:49:57
Subject: Re:Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
KamikazeCanuck wrote: Yes, it is done finally. It was pretty much what I expected. Quite frankly a lot of the final season's oompf was spoiled by AMC's announcing the various spinoffs. Like we know Negan, Maggie, Daryl and Carol will survive. We also know Rick and Michonne will be back in some way so that's not some huge shocker that it would have been. I'm sure all of that was much to the annoyance of the people who work on this show. Some suit at AMC Corporate figured might as well start advertising now for some reason even though those shows don't come out till next year apparently. Imagine, how big all the announcements would have been if they were saved for right after the last episode.
Ya but the fact she was originally going to be on the show shows she was going to survive. If not for that spoiler she would have been my pick to be the comic book fill in for [/spoiler]The death of Rick. I kind of think of here as the Rick of the TV Universe.[spoiler]
The actress who played Rosita revealed on Talking Dead that she had to convince them to kill her off. Like, what kind of Walking Dead Finale has no deaths? They've become really gun shy and need to save all their characters for the spinoffs.
2022/11/25 23:05:12
Subject: Re:Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
KamikazeCanuck wrote: Ya but the fact she was originally going to be on the show shows she was going to survive.
Not if they hadn't filmed it yet and wanted a shocking death in the final episode.
'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
2022/12/01 13:16:21
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Nightlord1987 wrote: Wow..that info dump that Rosita got from the CB Radio lady was waaaaay too hamfisted.
This season was really rushed.
Not really rushed, but they did try to fit in a bit too much for the number of episodes (24 - 8 more than the usual 16) that they had to work with.
'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
2022/12/09 18:04:21
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
I’m still somewhat impressed they kept some things fresh, even if it was grey around the temples.
Having stuck with it through thick and thin (then back to thick again) I don’t feel particularly disappointed.
There are specific moments I loved, and others I felt “you’re doing that now?”.
On the latter? Daryl’s line about Pamela’s flaw being wanting to get things back As They Were, rather than building something new and ideally better. I don’t disagree with him. But in the last segments of the last third of the last season? Really? You couldn’t have introduced that excellent point somewhat earlier? Like….season earlier.
To the point I think that point could almost support a limited series (say, a season or two, three at the most) exploring how The Commonwealth came to be. Maybe just a string of linked specials, like TV movies. One a month over a year, with time jumps to keep things moving. Or even just Commonwealth, Year 1 - 12. We know it’s around 12 years since the Apocalypse, as Judith Grimes provides a sort of narrative sidereal time stamp. Conceived at the start, approx 11-12 at the end (according to a cursory Google).
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The network announced today that its very first Walking Dead spinoff series, Fear the Walking Dead, will officially conclude after the show's upcoming eighth season, which is slated to premiere in May. In terms of plot, the final 12 episodes finds Morgan Jones (Lennie James) and Madison Clark (Kim Dixons) teaming up to rescue the former's daughter, Mo, from the clutches of PADRE.
'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
2023/01/10 18:28:39
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
I’ve tried. I’ve really honestly tried to get on with that show, and I just can’t. It did get a bit better once the original, singularly unlikable family snuffed it. Then it just disappeared up its own arse, rehashing TWD into a less interesting package. Oh, and jumped the Shark with a madman nuking stuff.
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Much as I like some of the characters in Fear, it is definitely time to end it and move on. In a show filled with bad decisions, the nukes definitely were a step way too far. Bringing Madison back was painful… like season 1. The question now is, how exactly do they end it? Misery for everyone?
Rick, the Grumpy Gnome
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2023/01/11 08:12:26
Subject: Re:Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Grumpy Gnome wrote: Much as I like some of the characters in Fear, it is definitely time to end it and move on. In a show filled with bad decisions, the nukes definitely were a step way too far. Bringing Madison back was painful… like season 1. The question now is, how exactly do they end it? Misery for everyone?
Morgan wakes up in the shower with any luck.
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Grumpy Gnome wrote: Much as I like some of the characters in Fear, it is definitely time to end it and move on. In a show filled with bad decisions, the nukes definitely were a step way too far. Bringing Madison back was painful… like season 1. The question now is, how exactly do they end it? Misery for everyone?
Morgan wakes up in the shower with any luck.
Haha! Yeah… I wish.
Rick, the Grumpy Gnome
https://thegrumpygnome.home.blog/
2023/01/11 14:40:41
Subject: Re:Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
We finally have a brief summary for the upcoming Dead City and Daryl Dixon shows from SYFY Wire:
The official log line for Dead City reads: "Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror." And across the Atlantic, the Daryl Dixon log line says: "Daryl (Reedus) washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan."
'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
2023/01/11 14:47:55
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
OK, Manhattan is big. And densely populated. But if it’s cut off, and has significant survivors? How comes years later (possibly squeaking into a decade now) it’s still infested with the dead?
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You'll have five months to decide if Dead City is something you'd like to see. From SYFY Wire:
The Walking Dead: Dead City premieres in June on AMC and AMC+.
'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
2023/01/11 19:28:22
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: Honestly don’t know. It could be one of those “self contained, but with optional endings if we want to continue it” things.
Interview With the Vampire was 7 episodes and Mayfair Witches looks to be 8 episodes, while the first seasons of The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead were each 6 episodes. That just seems to be the way AMC does the first season of a new series.
'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
2023/03/26 22:01:14
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
2023/03/27 07:21:03
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
2023/05/11 19:52:38
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Gonna pass on that one. I liked Maggie but the more time that has passed I realize I've never liked this version of Negan. Dislike of Negan overcoming any modest like of Maggie.
2023/10/13 13:29:14
Subject: Re:Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
Melissa McBride and Norman Reedus are reuniting, with McBride set to join Season 2 of “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” in a reprisal of the role of Carol Peletier.
The announcement was made as part of AMC‘s presentation at New York Comic Con. McBride will officially join the spinoff in a series regular role for its already announced second season, which will be titled “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon — The Book of Carol.”
The first season has been really good. Let's hope they can keep the magic for the second season,
Second teaser for 'The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live' coming in February 2024:
'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
2023/10/18 22:22:31
Subject: Walking Dead TV Show **Spoilers** (comic talk only in spoiler tags)
KamikazeCanuck wrote: I guess I missed a whole season of Daryl in France? How was it?
Good. I'd recommend that if anyone dropped out of watching either TWD or FTWD to give it a try (Daryl fighting walkers with a single-handed flail is )
And the walkers are even more frightening, because some of them are portrayed by French mimes
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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
2024/01/10 18:24:39
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
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