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Yo Grim..., TWD E5 doesn't seem to be working on ("sex" - Ed) - hen I try to play it it comes up with ("a great idea" - Ed), the ("auto responder" - Ed) crashed or failed to ("achieve an erecrion" - Ed)" - same on PS4, 360 and PC access to ("T-Rex" - Ed). Everything else seems to work fine on there.

I've no idea what you mean.

If I did know what you meant, I'd surely look into it of I know which series you meant..

I don't mean series 7 ep 5

Latest episode was pretty bad, even by TWD's own somewhat low standards.

Extra points for the clanging great continuity error where a metal/plastic ladle changes into a wooden spoon from one sentence to the next.

My official line on TWD has always been that it's generally above average enough to warrant the relatively small investment of time required to keep up with it, but between the grinding unpleasantness and babbling incoherent nonsense that Season 7 has served up thusfar, one has to wonder if the hour a week could be better spent doing something more worthwhile, like trying to construct a small wig-wam for earwigs out of scavenged nasal hair.

Each week I watch this show, enjoy it, and wonder what ridiculous reason Hearthly will give for not liking it. Was it devoid of hope? Too much hope? Not enough happening? Too much happening? Let's spin the Wheel of Hearthly!

It was a spoon! I didn't see that coming.

I thought it was another good episode. It showed a different way in which 'life goes on', had many hopeful scenes amongst the oppressive hell in which they live, and it had Trevor from GTA being funny.

IT CHANGED INTO A SPOON.

There is no spoon.

I also didn't know until yesterday that the guy playing Jesus was a posh British chap, who had previously been in Skins.

EDIT - I have no idea if he is actually posh, but he speaks like Jack Whitehall.

Are you sure?

Kung Fu Jesus. *sigh*

The guy with the moustache was pretty good.

Trevor from GTA V!

He's in loads of things. LOADS.

Liked him in Better Call Saul.

That even has Vaas from Far Cry 3 in it. The best computer game baddie ever.

I was telling the wife this story and as I did, found myself questioning how this continuity glitch was noted by a normal person.

Who didn't also note that Carl and Enid were walking to hilltop in the daylight, nighttime fires and crazy happened, and in the next scene were walking to hilltop in the daylight with no reference to them being away from Alexandria overnight.

non-linear story telling?

Supports the spoon theory.

Well yes, it's quite easy to think up all sorts of plausible explanations for Carl and Enid's jaunt out, but less easy to see how Maggie managed to magically transform a ladle into a spoon.

For Carl and Enid, they seem to operate semi-autonomously anyway (Enid in particular has been going off on trips outside the walls for as long as she's been in the programme as best I can recall), the whole community is under pressure to gather resources for The Saviours, so I can well believe Carl and Enid disappearing off overnight would go largely unnoticed and/or uncommented on.

As for the continuity error with the spoon, that was of course not what made me think it was a poor episode, it was pretty much everything else that happened, or was said (oh by christ some of the dialogue was bad), or was shown onscreen, that made me think that. Yes Mr Ogg is good, but he's actually better as Trevor in GTAV than he is in TWD for my money - he's kind of wasted here. (His turn in Better Call Saul was a fuckton better than this, in fact, Better Call Saul is in a whole other universe from TWD. The latest episode was both stupid and boring, you know something's really quite bad when you can't help but start dicking about with your phone and hoping for the programme to finish.)

Me continuing to watch TWD is like that bad relationship you just don't get out of for a long time after you really should have done, because somewhere inside you're clinging onto a sort of desperate hope that one day it'll go back to how it was before, but deep down you know it'll never happen and all that's left is empty fucking and the sadness of silence afterwards when you realise neither of you have a thing of any note or tenderness to say to one another. And then you wash your cock in the sink before trudging three miles in the pouring rain to get the Metrolink home, as your soul screams for something better.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/20 ... 90af92e683 - 'Worst episode ever'

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 26976.html - 'The most filler episode in the show's history'

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/the-walkin ... ting-lull/ - 'Never say the writers of The Walking Dead don't have a sense of humour. Because they must be playing with us, naming an episode as lifeless as this, 'Go Getters'.'

http://www.gamesradar.com/the-walking-d ... lkers-now/ - 'I’m officially rooting for the Walkers now. Well, and the tiger. '

You make me chuckle

Try not fucking The Walking Dead.

It probably isn't fixed, what with me having no idea what you're talking about. I doubt you should try it again.

Okay, thank you for doing nothing about it. It hasn't worked. And apologies for not talking about it on here.

I'm sort of leaning towards AE's viewpoint at the moment. I came for the gritty apocalypse survival tale but after some good seasons it's going down the daft comic book route. Obviously these are the roots of the programme but now there's tigers, comedy villains and the like I'm starting to get a bit annoyed.

There's only one tiger.

Any pre-episode thoughts, Hearthly?

It's going to be rubbish and disappointing, I just haven't made my mind up exactly how yet.

I'll be watching it after the family have gone up to bed, so expect grumpy reportage this side of midnight.

Or who knows, maybe it'll be this season's 'Morgan' episode, (you know, the one in Season 6 where it was just Morgan and that dude at his house), and I'll be super-impressed!

EDIT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%27s_Not_Here <<< This episode, which proves they can get it absolutely spot-on if they can be bothered. Seriously, this was such a fucking good episode, make them all as good as this one, idiots!

I should be an Executive Producer at AMC.

AE is going to be so cross tonight. I can't wait!

I bet he moans about the following:



Or, my favourite

Like so many episodes there's a little bit of promise in there, what happened to Heath and Tara could be an interesting story, but instead they manage to make both zombies and a community of lesbians boring. How is that even possible?

If it weren't for the fact I properly fancy Tara, that episode would have been borderline unwatchable.

It's not even worth getting started on the stupid shit or stuff that made no sense.

They should put the zombies in charge of making it, to improve overall quality.

Right I was a bit under the influence last night as it was my first evening off the 24 hour on-call rota for over a week so of course one celebrates this with the finest Pinot Grigio that Tesco have to offer in box form for under twenty quid.

COHERENT THOUGHTS:

Yeah, didn't like that one.

Nor did I

On the plus side Tara is well fit and I totes have the hots for her.

If it were some random secondary bloke character featuring prominently in that episode, I'd have been more aggrieved.

But yeah, TWD is basically crap now, they should do the decent thing and cull it this season with a proper send-off, but they won't do that because MONEY.



IT'S NO BOJACK HORSEMAN. Or Stranger Things. Or Fargo. Or Black Mirror. And fuck knows what else that does compelling storytelling about three billion times better than TWD has managed for quite some time.

I gave up after about five minutes on this one... I have to confess I was slightly prejudiced by you guys.

I thought it was a really good episode.

Also, the young girl clearly checked her ammo, realised she was running low, and had a look of resignation on her face, not amazement.

The fake Heath was stupid, but other than that I thought it was strong, and the community's location and policy made sense.

Ffs. The one member of the group who is a lesbian ends up in a lesbian commune? Wtf are the chances....

It's never said it's a lesbian commune. If anything, they express some interest in finding her male companion to see if he'll join them. I bet Heath will be kicking himself when she tells him what she actually did.

It's explicitly stated that it isn't a lesbian commune; Negan just killed all the men.

Yes but it makes it a lot more interesting if you imagine it's a lesbian commune.

I mean, the whole programme is so bad now that making up your own storylines is practically compulsory.

OMG the filthy things Tara got up to last episode, it's like she'd totally got over Denise really quickly, even before she realised Denise was dead thanks to her latent psychic powers that I also made up, and was onto hot lesbian orgies in a heartbeat. Momentous TWD experiences, classic season of a classic series, that just keeps the lesbian action coming thick and fast.

Heh.

Very nearly turned this off somewhere around the 24 minute mark, but persevered to the end. The Negan character is nothing more than a semi-pantomime villain with a penchant for torture and terrorising women, total waste of a very good actor to my mind.

The thing that really blew it for me was:



Everything after that was basically just nonsense. Negan is depressingly one-note and quickly gets boring. Watching him and Carl chat for extended periods of time? Not very interesting.

Is that the mid-season finale? I hope so. I'm going to start watching Westworld.

Nah, that's the set up episode for the mid season finale, where it will all kick off and end on a cliffhanger.

you make me laugh... moaning how bad something is but still watching

you make me laugh... moaning how bad something is but still watching

I loved every moment of it. Kevin is waaay better than the Governor.

Yes, Kevin is definitely one of the strongest characters in the franchise.

Oh well at least it's the end of season finale tomorrow, which means TWD will go away for a while. I need to get Westworld watched.

Midseason finale, a step above what we've had for most of Season 7 at least.



Overall then, most of the first half was disposable trash, most of the second half was solid - enough to bait the line to make it worth tuning in again when the second half of the season arrives next year sometime.