The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)

This Show went really, really bad. I'm out...

well fortunately you've got 10 months before you'll have another episode to complain about.

Fucking lol (or facepalm, I'm not sure) at the scientist explaining what synapses are. Welcome to Tardland.

  On 12/7/2010 at 11:13 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

Fucking lol (or facepalm, I'm not sure) at the scientist explaining what synapses are. Welcome to Tardland.

at least that part was realistic. ignorant people are everywhere.

I really dug the first 5 episodes but the last one irritated me.

The 10th time they had to hold somebody back because they were angry and had a weapon. "We don't kill the living." Stop Daryl from freaking out yet again. Stop Shane with the shotgun.

The character-repeats-the-revelation-for-people-who-can't-discern-it-for-themselves. "I did it for my wife...her..." *points to screen* "So, TS-19 was your wife."

And I'm pretty sure the CDC doesn't explode if it loses power. Can't confirm this though. Why didn't they just pull the plug on the generator so it couldn't power the computer to blow them up?

Despite all this, I eagerly anticipate season 2.

(CDC guy told Rick his wife was preggers and it's Shane's, he found out from the blood test)

  On 12/8/2010 at 5:47 AM, autopilot said:

I really dug the first 5 episodes but the last one irritated me.

 

The 10th time they had to hold somebody back because they were angry and had a weapon. "We don't kill the living." Stop Daryl from freaking out yet again. Stop Shane with the shotgun.

 

The character-repeats-the-revelation-for-people-who-can't-discern-it-for-themselves. "I did it for my wife...her..." *points to screen* "So, TS-19 was your wife."

 

And I'm pretty sure the CDC doesn't explode if it loses power. Can't confirm this though. Why didn't they just pull the plug on the generator so it couldn't power the computer to blow them up?

 

Despite all this, I eagerly anticipate season 2.

 

(CDC guy told Rick his wife was preggers and it's Shane's, he found out from the blood test)

Your reason for hating the episode are fucking idiotic and wannabe pretentious.

Also , thanks fore the spoilers you twat.

BOXING DAY IS A TROLL

I'm assuming that, because you're upset by spoilers, you haven't seen the last episode. (Why are you reading a discussion thread about it then? There's bound to be spoilers.)

Thus, you have not yet witnessed what a pile of shite the last episode was.

Thus, I am more qualified to complain about it than you are.

desmond in the hatch had a countdown too.

  On 12/8/2010 at 6:06 PM, autopilot said:

I'm assuming that, because you're upset by spoilers, you haven't seen the last episode. (Why are you reading a discussion thread about it then? There's bound to be spoilers.)

 

Thus, you have not yet witnessed what a pile of shite the last episode was.

 

Thus, I am more qualified to complain about it than you are.

I saw the episode , and it was awesome. (i insulted you about the spoilers because i thought you already read the comic [because in the episode we only see a whisper , he doesn't mention pregnancy])

You are one of those guys that want to be smart by pointing out ILLOGICAL thing in FICTION

  On 12/8/2010 at 6:11 PM, Boxing Day said:

  On 12/8/2010 at 6:06 PM, autopilot said:

I'm assuming that, because you're upset by spoilers, you haven't seen the last episode. (Why are you reading a discussion thread about it then? There's bound to be spoilers.)

 

Thus, you have not yet witnessed what a pile of shite the last episode was.

 

Thus, I am more qualified to complain about it than you are.

 

I saw the episode , and it was awesome. (i insulted you about the spoilers because i thought you already read the comic [because in the episode we only see a whisper , he doesn't mention pregnancy])

 

You are one of those guys that want to be smart by pointing out ILLOGICAL thing in FICTION

I have not read the comic, that last bit about his wife and shane was speculation.

I am all for suspension of disbelief for entertaining fiction. Hell, I thoroughly enjoyed Sunshine despite it occuring in an alternate reality where none of our universe's laws of physics/heat/gravity/reality apply.

This episode was excessively melodramatic, and they keep doing the same tropes over and over. Person has a weapon, person is angry, person tries to attack another person, someone holds them back. This happens over and over and over in the series, mostly with Norman Reedus' character. Eventually you start rolling your eyes going "Yeah, we get it, Daryl's a loose cannon."

Also, Exposition For Dummies isn't a problem with fiction or bad science or suspension of disbelief, it's a problem with bad writing. Good writers and actors can let information trickle to the viewer so they have the same realization/revelation at the same time as the character's supposed to. Having one person explain "This is the way it is." and then having another character repeat the exact same thing and say "Oh, I see, this is the way it is." or "You mean, this is the way it is?" is realllly shitty writing, and implies that us viewers are so dumb that when he says "my wife" and points at the screen, we thought he was talking about someone other than TS-19. It makes me roll my eyes no matter what show or movie or book it takes place in.

I'm not even going to get into how it seems like most of these characters sound like they're reading this dialogue off a script page for the first time in their lives.

Having not read the comics, I can't say whether or not the dialogue is as stiff in it. I think the appeal of this show, and why I will continue to watch it, will be to see the societal and dramatic scenarios explored in a long-form post apocalyptic serial, stuff that can't really be touched in a 1.5 hour long horror movie. (although 28 days later did a fantastic job of exploring many of these ideas competently and intelligently during its runtime) As much as I was entertained by it, and look forward to where they go with it, I can't deny that the writing has been exceptionally shitty at times. And not in the nitpicking nerd style "omg the enterprise could have just used their backup photon shield" way, in the "wow this is flat out shitty dialogue and real people don't talk this way" way.

well this show had potential but what a load of fuckign shite it turned out to be.

awful writing.

awful dialogue

awful acting

last episode was really painful to watch

i want to be excited for season 2 but FUCK

This pilot was brilliant too. Maybe darabont should have directed all the episodes...

Comic-book spoilers don't mean much, they're only following the storyline and even that they make changes. Good thing is that the writing staff is going to be all new for season 2, they talked about using only freelancers, well see, they seem aware that season 1 wasn't as great as they had hoped.

It were alright for a TV program. Everyones so fucking militant about everything .

  On 12/8/2010 at 6:32 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

well this show had potential but what a load of fucking shite it turned out to be.

 

awful writing.

awful dialogue

awful acting

last episode was really painful to watch

 

i want to be excited for season 2 but FUCK

truth

did anyone else watch the second season premiere? lol at the deer scene.

I only watched the trailer for season 2 and that was enough to put me off.

I thought this new episode was better than most of the first season tbqh. Might just be because Kirkman had a hand in writing it.

i love this series just cause its fun zombie tv. you guys are a bunch of downers. but i lolled at kids getting shot.

Ok i just went through and read this entire thread. holy fuck you guys are a bunch of cunts. what the fuck were you expecting from a zombie premise? this is good tv. entertains the fuck out of me more than house or criminal minds or desperate housewives or the xfactor or whatever. but there isn't anything you guys can't hate. god damn. it must suck to be you.

i like that it has bear mccreary doing the music. i'm not too into the show, but i find it more enjoyable than a lot of the shit on tv.

that blonde woman who wanted to die at the cdc is annoying. if I were that old guy I would hand her a gun and tell her it's not too late to take the easy way out.

  On 10/17/2011 at 9:00 AM, essines said:

Ok i just went through and read this entire thread. holy fuck you guys are a bunch of cunts. what the fuck were you expecting from a zombie premise? this is good tv. entertains the fuck out of me more than house or criminal minds or desperate housewives or the xfactor or whatever. but there isn't anything you guys can't hate. god damn. it must suck to be you.

If you'd read the comics you would get the complains, besides if you remove the zombies you get a really lame and boring TV show, if not more than those shows you listed.

If you remove the premise of the series you get a different, more boring series, gotcha.