Rodafowa wrote:
Mr Kissyfur wrote:
We had cable for a while in London, and it's proper fucking waste of money as there's generally only one show on over the entire sixty gajillion channels that we ever want to watch.
How many shows do you usually watch at once, then?
I'm obviously a bit less enamoured of this show than everyone else, ever. It just feels a bit predictable and a lot plodding. Liked the resolution of the storyline with the gang in Ep 4, though.
No, you're not alone. I don't think it's brilliant either. I could write at length at why I know it's broken but I don't have the time. Basically the pacing is fucked, completely. It isn't gritty enough either, by a long stretch. Sure the fanboys love it as they're privy to the character shading and plot arcs, those of us who aren't are finding it unengaging as it seems to have this slow measured pace of clunky character development scenes sprinkled in, which are probably lifted verbatim from the comic, but simply being used as flags to draw your attention to one of the characters in that reminiscence about to come a cropper later that same episode. There are too many examples of frankly fucking idiotic behaviour being used as plot devices to create tension, but how anybody who hasn't read the comics can give a flying fuck about the characters when they're that stupid and deserve to be fucking dead, has a huge impact on any tension.
It is weird. It has all the ingredients to be something truly special but it feels like there's a committee at the tiller fucking everything up. The only thing I can't complain about is the make-up department. The make-up and zombie effects are first class. It's a shame the script is so-so and the characters are all 2D ciphers.
I'm quite disappointed as I was expecting something awesome and what I got wasn't crap, but it's a long way shy of as good as most of the people in this thread find it.