TWD

[BigMotherTucker]

Just now watching the walking dead season cliffhanger. I've noticed this year that the effects team are starting to use effects instead of firing dummy rounds. It greatly diminishes the watching experience for me.

 

[MSUDC11]

They’re gonna have to wrap this thing up in the next year or two if they want to keep any resemblance of a fan base. No other option. Quickly becoming one of the biggest collapses in TV history.

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

I actually watched the last 4 episodes last week. I am getting close to the point of just not even caring.

 

[BigMotherTucker]

I agree... The issue for me is, the show was better when there is a possibility of a cure. Getting to the cdc storyline... Secret mission storyline. Farming and waring can only go so far with me. Negan needs to die but we all know that's not going to happen. The storyline with him should have wrapped up last year, but they've drug it on for two seasons. With out the possibility for a cure, I just don't care.

 

[mcdawg22]

They’re gonna have to wrap this thing up in the next year or two if they want to keep any resemblance of a fan base. No other option. Quickly becoming one of the biggest collapses in TV history.

It's still doing well in the ratings.

 

[engie]

I agree... The issue for me is, the show was better when there is a possibility of a cure. Getting to the cdc storyline... Secret mission storyline. Farming and waring can only go so far with me. Negan needs to die but we all know that's not going to happen. The storyline with him should have wrapped up last year, but they've drug it on for two seasons. With out the possibility for a cure, I just don't care.

Agreed. I’d also be good with a world war z(book) type of thing where any form of real winning is done in a creative but mindful fashion.

The “cure” idea could be reintroduced in a different package by letting Carl beat/have immunity to the bite virus. Am I dreaming that they had a copter fly over this season also?

 

[TBone.sixpack]

I seem to remember a helicopter as well. I do watch it half-heartedly though. I have Negan fatigue.

 

[MSUDC11]

It's still doing well in the ratings.

Um, that’s not true at all. They have lost more than half their fan base in barely over a year.

The season 7 premiere last year had 17 million viewers. The most recent episode had 7.89 million. This is the worst ratings they’ve had since Season 2 before the show got really big.

 

[whosyourdawgy]

Negan needs to die quickly along with all of his group because I’m tired of everyone of those characters. No way any of those guys can survive if the show is to go forward. I kinda hope Carl is immune to the bite as well. But he looked pretty damn sick in the last episode

 

[mcdawg22]

Um, that’s not true at all. They have lost more than half their fan base in barely over a year.

The season 7 premiere last year had 17 million viewers. The most recent episode had 7.89 million. This is the worst ratings they’ve had since Season 2 before the show got really big.

Sure by its own standards it's not doing as well, but it's still the second highest rated cable show behind MNF. No doubt it's lost a ton of viewers but it's not going anywhere as long as the cast and crew are happy because it gets enough eyeballs to keep it profitable.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

I thought I’ve seen them do that for a long time. I remember Hershell firing off at least 50 rounds from a pump shotgun with fire coming out the barrel. Same thing with an AR at the prison. It had to have 300 rounds incendiary rounds in a magazine.

 

[LawDawg97]

It is true

Um, that’s not true at all.

Just because it’s not doing as well in the ratings as it was, doesn’t mean it’s not doing well. Still a highly rated show.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

Negan needs to die quickly...

Well, I don’t see that happening. Comic spoilers ahead... The material from the comic that the show is covering now (“All Out War”) was 50+ issues ago. And Negan is still alive in the comic.

The problem with the show is the pacing. They could have started “All Out War” to start the second half of last season, and finished it in those eight episodes. But they dragged out Season 7, and now they’re dragging out “All Out War” for all of this season.

 

[thebushman82]

Stopped watching a few weeks ago. Don’t miss it. The fake gun fire and just overall ****** production/writing has dug a hole that can’t be saved for me. It’s just tiresome now. Same thing every season. Bad guy, fight, kill bad guy. Much better when there was a hope for a cure. Negan is the savior for that show and why most people have stuck around.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

I had to jump ship last season. It's just kept getting worse and worse. Almost all of my friends watched it religiously at one point now none of us watch at all.

 

[ronpolk]

I had to jump ship last season. It's just kept getting worse and worse. Almost all of my friends watched it religiously at one point now none of us watch at all.

I’ve watched it pretty religiously in the past but I was 3 episodes behind until his past week. It’s been pretty terrible. I’m not even sure anything has really happened over the past 6 or 7 episodes. I’ll watch the rest of this season but if the second half sucks, I’m done.

 

[Tigr2ndbase]

Loved the show at the beginning. Now the writing has gotten so terrible it’s comical. If wife didn’t hooked into the show I’d be done with it. The one concept I think would be cool to do is a spinoff from the viewpoints of some of these “villains”. If the did a show from the governors or negans life from the start of the disease, that would be cool to see. From that view point, I’m sure it would seem like Rick and his crew were the bad guys.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

Yep helicopter. And strangely Rick seems as disinterested in the whirly bird as I do at this point.

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[engie]

That didn't make sense that Rick would be uninterested in the chopper. It did make sense that he wouldn't look up at it or call attention to himself since he would obviously be at a huge disadvantage if it wasn't friendly however. But it should have been a huge story immediately thereafter.

I wish these shows(GOT included at this point) would spend time putting people into these situations and letting their actions happen organically rather than forcing them into nonsensical deals outside of their character to hit certain plot points. Obviously anyone in charge in that world is going to be highly intelligent with tremendous survival skills. So they should do as highly intelligent people do. Not carry on conversations with Negan outside his compound inside sniper chip shot range. Nor have Negan walk outside into the circumstances. That kind of stuff is killing the whole deal for me. They asked Kirkman about that on Talking Dead -- and he was like "well, that's obvious" -- meaning that they couldn't kill off Negan like that due to the story needed. Well, if you don't want him to die like that -- don't make him do something stupid like that -- where ANY form of sense would dictate his certain death as well as every Savior that walked out that door. If they want him to be a bad ***, make him a bad ***. Not a dumb *** that talks like a bad ***.

It's amazing to me that these base defense locations -- with all of the expendable manpower they all seem to have as/when the plot necessitates -- aren't running excavators around the clock building trenches to fortify greater and greater acreage for themselves against the walkers -- and bottleneck access routes of into their locations period(which they then fortify with manpower and add constant layers to their defenses. Being behind a simple wall doesn't grant them any real safety at all as presented by the series. Just creates a target. Especially when we've already been introduced to the site with all of the heavy equipment in the series right beside Alexandria. A few simple things like this would make these shows so much better to me...