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Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Oct 22, 2015 17:25 ] |
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Plausible, as there must be something more at work there, but... ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Satsuma [ Thu Oct 22, 2015 17:48 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Oct 22, 2015 18:48 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Mon Oct 26, 2015 21:50 ] |
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The "oldest" zombies are looking pretty rotten these days. How much longer before they lose all structural integrity and just collapse under their own weight. |
Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Oct 27, 2015 8:58 ] |
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Dr Zoidberg wrote: The "oldest" zombies are looking pretty rotten these days. How much longer before they lose all structural integrity and just collapse under their own weight. I've noticed they seem to have moved the decomposition on a bit, although a lot of them are still looking in reasonably sprightly shape. EPISODE THREE: ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:35 ] |
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Hearthly wrote: Dr Zoidberg wrote: The "oldest" zombies are looking pretty rotten these days. How much longer before they lose all structural integrity and just collapse under their own weight. I've noticed they seem to have moved the decomposition on a bit, although a lot of them are still looking in reasonably sprightly shape. Yep, there's a good selection of "states" now. The one in the first episode of this series peeled all his flesh off as he went through the gap by the truck and there was another with an exposed ribcage last night. It can't be too much longer before some of them fall to bits. Thinking about it, how long is suppose to have passed in story time? |
Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:38 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
552 or more days in, apparently. http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/The_W ... w_Timeline |
Author: | Satsuma [ Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:01 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
e03: Another excellent episode. I did wonder how they would follow up last weeks episode but it turns out that they had that covered. Also: Rick is a badass and this is fine with me. |
Author: | Hearthly [ Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:26 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | asfish [ Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:34 ] |
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Tense 3 episodes, my wife had a pillow over her face during some of it as she couldn't watch! Great TV, I find it horrible and great all in the same moment. |
Author: | markg [ Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:38 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | MrChris [ Thu Oct 29, 2015 22:33 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! Rick is awesome. I know his brother. |
Author: | Grim... [ Thu Oct 29, 2015 22:38 ] |
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Damnit! |
Author: | MrChris [ Thu Oct 29, 2015 22:46 ] |
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Whoops. It's all over the internet anyway. Google told me it when I googled series 6 episode 3 - one of the top results. |
Author: | Zardoz [ Sat Oct 31, 2015 18:45 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
He should be. Great episode. |
Author: | MaliA [ Sat Oct 31, 2015 18:49 ] |
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It is flashback things that have confused me. |
Author: | Zardoz [ Sat Oct 31, 2015 19:33 ] |
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If you remember Woodstock you weren't really there. Man. |
Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Nov 02, 2015 22:52 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
Bit conflicted about episode four. On the one hand it was a great hour of telly but I'm not convinced it was a great episode of TWD, or a backstory that needed telling in such detail, unless they've got something very big planned for the character. The other main protagonist of the episode was excellent, I liked him. Plus some of it was rather clunky and required silly amounts of suspension of disbelief as to what was happening to move the GRAND CONVERSION forward. A decent watch though. |
Author: | Curiosity [ Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:44 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
I liked it. |
Author: | Satsuma [ Tue Nov 03, 2015 19:59 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
I enjoyed it. I think it needed telling too. The last time we saw Morgan for reals, he was a psychotic mess of a man willing to slit open Rick A hole. I'm sure there were a few people who wondered how he got from dribbling loon to buddhist monk and glossing over it with "Yeah, I'm alright now" isn't really an answer. This episode was. |
Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Nov 03, 2015 23:56 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
I'm not criticising the episode itself, in fact I guess the point is that it's so much better than what passes for standard TWD fare that a return to 'normal programming' next episode will be a bit of a let down. Generally speaking there are too many characters who aren't really interesting enough to care about, and it all gets lost a bit in the mulch. (To the extent that at the start of Season Six I had a genuinely hard time remembering who had fucking died in Season Five to start with.) Morgan's story is an interesting one, but back in the present day I fear he'll just go back to be a rather underwritten and underwhelming character like so many of the others are. (A lot of folks seem to think that the season that spent all that time on the farm was boring, but whilst it was quite slow I really liked it, as it gave a smaller roster of characters a lot more room to breathe and be human.) On top of that there are some characters I'm really fed up with too, Snarling Rick is just dull now, he really is. That's all part of what made the last episode really great, even if it wasn't perfect in and of itself. The other thing is that TWD as a whole isn't really going anywhere, I read this piece the other day and whilst I don't agree with all of it, I do think the guy makes some very valid points. http://www.pajiba.com/the_walking_dead/ ... g-dead.php Quote: Since the Doctor whispered into Rick’s ear at the end of the first season, there has not been a single new fact introduced about this world. There has been no direction, no gradual learning of more, no story development. So when the producers say they already know what happens in seasons ten through twelve? That’s no triumph of long term storytelling. The show will be in the same place it is now, regardless of who happens to be alive, or where they happen to be. All the physical moving around is just the illusion of story to mask the fact that there isn’t a story being told at all. The show isn’t going anywhere.
The Walking Dead has so far aired 70 episodes. The last time any actual plot development happened was in episode six. The next 64 have just been slowly cutting away the characters you love. And that’s not any kind of story. |
Author: | Satsuma [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 0:35 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
What a load of old bolllocks. If you want to watch a zombie film where they look for a cure then you can watch the myriad of shitty (and some not so shitty) films that do just that. Next he'll be complaining that Eastenders hasn't advanced its story since the Well 'ard died. |
Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:11 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
Whilst ultimately a dead end, the 'Get to Washington' thing was a genuine plot point, as was the attempt to create a genuine agrarian community at the prison. Not sure what they really want out of the show (though I agree it probably has a limited shelf life). |
Author: | asfish [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:32 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
What makes the show so good (and tense) is that it doesn't have any long plot with a magic cure or trying to get to mega city where everything is safe and normal. It just shows what it would be like if this happened and you were trying to survive It would be nice to have a little more understanding of what has happened now and again though. |
Author: | RuySan [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 16:35 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
The last episode was one of my favourites in a long while. It reminded me of the governor episode, and for me these are the most interesting ones. Lately TWD has became a blurry mess of noise and boredom, and this was a nice break. And that bald man might have been the best person on earth. |
Author: | MrChris [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 22:19 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
Yes, there hasn't been a very obvious overarching story arc, and there's no defined end for the series. The thing is, of course, that the source material didn't either. Basically, it's a soap opera. Yes, it has guns, and zombies and shit, but it's a soap opera. A very good, very astute soap opera exploring human behaviour. |
Author: | MaliA [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 22:27 ] |
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I really enjoyed it. I wasn't sure at first, but it really pulled through well. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | MrChris [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 22:28 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 22:31 ] |
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Do zombies shit? |
Author: | MrChris [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 22:33 ] |
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That undigested human flesh has to go somewhere. |
Author: | MrChris [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 22:49 ] |
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Wow. Very, very, very good episode. Best one for a long while. |
Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 23:23 ] |
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Lennie James is great. |
Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 23:24 ] |
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RuySan wrote: The last episode was one of my favourites in a long while. It reminded me of the governor episode, and for me these are the most interesting ones. Lately TWD has became a blurry mess of noise and boredom, and this was a nice break. And that bald man might have been the best person on earth. Apart from the whole... ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | MrChris [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 23:27 ] |
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It wasn't for kicks though, was it. Even a little bit. |
Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Nov 09, 2015 22:49 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
So not a great episode then. As suspected Morgan is reduced to effectively a non-existent character for the duration (he got to scowl a bit at Rick), and as for the other stuff.... ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! Enjoyable enough fluff I suppose, but for every quality episode like 'Here's Not Here', we get three or four duffers like this. |
Author: | Curiosity [ Mon Nov 09, 2015 23:08 ] |
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I think it was downbeat, but necessary. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Nov 09, 2015 23:12 ] |
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Downbeat is one thing, ignoring the events of the previous episodes and indeed the major characters who really need to be chipping in right now is quite another. Sunday night’s episode of The Walking Dead was an absolute mess. |
Author: | Curiosity [ Mon Nov 09, 2015 23:25 ] |
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Fair to say I couldn't really disagree with you more, or the muppet who wrote a rubbish write up that amounted to, "WHY AREN'T MY FAVE GUYS IN THIS? I NEED TO NOT HAVE ANY NEW CHARACTERS IN THIS BECAUSE I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM!". How can someone complain that not every conversation in the universe is included in the screen time? Rick clearly shows that he has debriefed with Carol. Why would someone demand that this absolutely has to be on the show? I just don't really understand how people can ask for a show to be more intelligent whilst then needing every little detail to be spelled out. Maybe next week we'll see what Carol was up to? Maybe next week it'll just be Daryl et al? Maybe they regularly do this? |
Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Nov 10, 2015 9:23 ] |
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The issue for me is (as per my previous moans), that there are too many 'main' characters and they get little enough screen time as it is, without chucking in a pointless filler episode which is pretty much all Episode 5 amounted to. In effect there was only one piece of 'news' in the entire episode, everything else was twaddle. Plus when it can't even be consistent in its own universe, and not even for so much as ten minutes of screen time, it stretches my patience somewhat. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! It was a crap episode that did nothing and went nowhere, and wasted time on 'non-characters' when there already isn't enough screen time to go around. Very disappointing after the excellent previous episode. Sometimes less really is more. |
Author: | Satsuma [ Tue Nov 10, 2015 12:10 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
Curiosity wrote: I think it was downbeat, but necessary. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! I'm paraphrasing what I read on the TWD subreddit but this spoiler is about the ending to the episode. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Satsuma [ Tue Nov 10, 2015 12:35 ] |
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Curiosity wrote: Fair to say I couldn't really disagree with you more, or the muppet who wrote a rubbish write up that amounted to, "WHY AREN'T MY FAVE GUYS IN THIS? I NEED TO NOT HAVE ANY NEW CHARACTERS IN THIS BECAUSE I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM!". I don't know whether you'd seen the writer's edit at the bottom of the article (or even if it was there at the time you made your post) but he basically says exactly this. Waaah, where's Glenn, waaaah. Anyway, as much as I disagree with AE's constant moaning or the way which people are nitpicking now about logical consistencies (or lack thereof) but I agree with him that this was a terrible episode. It was all filler. It may set up some other scenarios later in the season (it better or "teach me to shoot" "nah, he's looking after the baby" "I'll just draw this map and put on some pretentious Latin" and "IM STABBING A ZOMBIE IN THE CHEST BECAUSE IVE LEARNT NOTHING" will be all rather pointless and truly will be 'filler') but it was all terribly done throughout. Whoops better spoiler some moans: ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Nov 16, 2015 22:23 ] |
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Not an amazing episode this week but better than the last one at least. Albeit not massively better. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! Overall I'd say it was watchable and not annoyingly bad. |
Author: | Curiosity [ Mon Nov 16, 2015 23:11 ] |
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I love Abraham. One thing that annoyed the fuck out of me was: ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 0:11 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
Curiosity wrote: I love Abraham. One thing that annoyed the fuck out of me was: ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! As for Abraham yes I like the character but (a) I think him and Eugene bounce off each other nicely and (b) Sasha is a dull character IMO and the two of them don't gel at all. Their dialogue sections have been, quite frankly, rather boring. At one point I sort of lost track of what the hell it was they were waffling on about. The real problem I have with how this series is panning out is the scattering of the main characters all over the place into different situations and different areas and different times, it's not doing it all any great favours in terms of a cohesive narrative. I'm sure I remember the prison/farm/governer seasons holding together a lot more tightly. We're seeing so little of some of the characters that it can be hard to pick up the thread of what they were up to the last time we saw them, and that makes it harder to care. |
Author: | Zardoz [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 1:52 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Nov 24, 2015 20:15 ] |
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Latest episode was solid enough I thought. And it had a decent amount of Maggie and Tara in it, which is nice. I think Tara is my favourite. I'm a bit tired of Deanna popping up at the end of conversations looking like one of those Star Trek aliens to say something though. |
Author: | Satsuma [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 19:55 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
Just in case anyone downloads this, you'll probably miss the post-credits scene. But fear not, uncle Ian has got you covered. Well, someone else on the internet but I'm sharing with you, init. Post-Credits: http://youtu.be/yJPnFdkJtyw Telly box watchers might just want to wait until the credits finish. That's right, I'm telling you how to watch telly. You can thank me later. |
Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 22:49 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
Credit where it's due that was a good episode, and overall this season has put me in a 'looking forward to seeing what happens next' frame of mind, despite one awful episode and one poor one - so it's clearly doing something right. Thanks for the tip there too Ian, for some reason my 'broadcast episode' didn't include the post-credits scene, despite it being a standard 'broadcast episode'. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! Still a decent episode though. |
Author: | Satsuma [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 22:54 ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Walking Dead |
Those pale heads though, it just looked ridiculous. |
Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Nov 30, 2015 22:57 ] |
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Saturnalian wrote: Those pale heads though, it just looked ridiculous. See now I didn't pick up that in case you accused me of MOANING ALL THE TIME. But yes I did think that too. Zombies don't see too good, apparently. |
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