It's terrible now. It was much better before, it has potential to get better again. Or do you think people just complain and hate on stuff for no reason?
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‘The Walking Dead’ – Season 8 - Sundays on AMC
- Thread starter RatskyWatsky
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I'm honestly about to delete the show from my DVR at this point. Aside from the decision to kill Carl itself being terrible, Kirkman is trying to play around with people after the last episode's ending?
Come on. This is so dumb.
I thought this was going to return next week, but I guess I was wrong. Oh well. They could wait another four months and I wouldn't care much. Just going to keep watching it because I have been.
It's been pretty bad lately.
It's been pretty bad lately.
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I don't really see how killing Carl is inherently a bad decision. Show Carl barely resembles Comic Carl and literally everyone hated him, or liked to hate on him, since the show began. Like, it might end up being a bad move - or - it might be exactly what the show needs.
I dunno; never saw anyone say anything good about him.. kinda suspect how people reacted lol.
Carl's death = boring timeskip future
Rick is awesome but I rather see a future of Carl taking control and honoring everyone and being his own man.
Rick is awesome but I rather see a future of Carl taking control and honoring everyone and being his own man.
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We still have 8 episodes from Scott Gimple, so anything is possible!
I've only seen through episode 2 of season 8 and the show seems like it is just a silly mess at this point. Big battles have gone on for the last 3 episodes with 0 deaths of consequence on either side (not counting the one person who died before the battle in S7E16), they all have unlimited ammo now and then apparently another season 1 character has made his way to northern Virginia and joined Negan's army.
The main problem with the show for the last few of seasons is that there are TOO MANY CHARACTERS, too many stories, too many episodes and too little focus. I'd like to see a mass kill off of most of the cast but honestly that would be near impossible to do (they always seem to have an episode focusing on a character before they die) and I'm sure a ton of people would complain. They should just stick a fork in this show: it's done. But what will likely happen is that they will continue down the path of being a soap opera with guns and zombies until ratings peter out and it gets cancelled.
The main problem with the show for the last few of seasons is that there are TOO MANY CHARACTERS, too many stories, too many episodes and too little focus. I'd like to see a mass kill off of most of the cast but honestly that would be near impossible to do (they always seem to have an episode focusing on a character before they die) and I'm sure a ton of people would complain. They should just stick a fork in this show: it's done. But what will likely happen is that they will continue down the path of being a soap opera with guns and zombies until ratings peter out and it gets cancelled.
I always find it hilarious people say this show needs to end when its still like at the top of cable TV ratings. It is no where close to being canceled.
Even if it continues to dip I'm sure it will keep going until they feel like it's just not comfortably profitable anymore.
Who knows how many seasons in that will be..
Yep, it's still getting around 8 million live views an episode. And like every show these days the live+3 and live+7 numbers show a lot of people don't watch live. Episode 8 had like 7.8 in live views but around 12 million or so in the live+7.
Why would they cancel a show that's still pulling in that many people in it's 8th season. Not to mention the comic is still going strong and they have plenty of material they can still adapt.
Oh of course. Changes need to be made. But this show isn't ending before like Season 12.
Yes, but far, far worse. I caught up with the comics and they've done everything better, faster and smarter.
Eh, I think 4 more seasons would be pushing it. Eventually the veteran cast will grow tired and want out. Danai's career might be takin off due to Black Panther too and I'm sure she doesn't want to be around for much longer. Season 10/11 would make sense as a final season if they didn't want to overextend, but technically the show could go to 15 seasons if it wanted to.
Oh come on. I don't like how these past two seasons have gone but the show is far from unsalvageable.
The first two seasons of fear were pretty bad but season 3 was good.
The only thing I can think of to salvage the show is to do a soft reboot, kill off most of the main cast, put them back into survival mode and write some interesting stories and/or focus on the characters more. Or maybe that's what Fear the Walking Dead is supposed to be?
Even though his dad is a massive cunt and his character is not the best on the show, Chandler comes off as a cool dude. Hope he finds work outside TWD.
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Which is literally what the show has been since the first season.
It's still the #1 show on TV in 18-49.
Across the entire industry, live ratings (which are only a small part of the picture) are on a downward trend and have been for years. The Walking Dead's massive season-to-season growth was highly unusual and nearly unprecedented.
That chart is all sorts of fucked up lol
would like to see it compared to others. I've seen the GoT one and that's grander than grand.
I binge watched this whole show in the span of 2 weeks, now I am all caught up. Liked most of it, but honestly Negan drags the show down so damn much, he's uninteresting, he monologues all the damn time, those first few episodes of season 7 dragged so much.
Holy fuck. I forgot how Breaking Bad ended with a boner!Breaking Bad's final season was insanity.
It's an example set on how to end a show on high note.Breaking Bad's final season was insanity.
The quality between the very first episode of the series and where we're at now is so drastic, you'd think you were watching a completely different show.
Too bad they didn't have more competent hands on it throughout its seasons. The comic has provided decent to excellent content (generally very good); that potential has been monumentally squandered.
Hopefully the Carl stuff jump-starts character development/interactions and breathes some (much needed) new life into the dynamics of the group.
I dunno what they're gunna do with Negan to make him different than he's been though.
Too bad they didn't have more competent hands on it throughout its seasons. The comic has provided decent to excellent content (generally very good); that potential has been monumentally squandered.
Hopefully the Carl stuff jump-starts character development/interactions and breathes some (much needed) new life into the dynamics of the group.
I dunno what they're gunna do with Negan to make him different than he's been though.
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Yep. The "All Out War" arc and the build-up to it should have been a high point of the series. Instead, it's been the lowest point, marred by awful pacing, confusing plot advancement, ridiculous characterization, and often incomprehensible set piece battles. Seriously- the gun battles in the first 8 episodes of this season were terribly shot and constructed, and almost impossible to follow. It's like they just handed out guns, grabbed a couple cameras and got random shots of folks shooting and figured they'd make it work in the edit.
And that's why you don't keep a show spinning its wheels for 8+ seasons with no planned endgame in sight. Actors will start leaving the show one by one and we likely will not get satisfying conclusions for any of their arcs.
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Welp what? It says that her deal will still allow her to recur on The Walking Dead because the two shows' production schedules don't overlap - most likely the reason she chose 'Whiskey Cavalier' over the half-dozen other shows that she was being offered. There's also a very good chance that 'Whiskey Cavalier' doesn't even get picked up to series.
What? No it doesn't.
It says nothing about her deal and specifically says she could stay or leave entirely. It means there is the possibility that she could do both.
At this point I just assume the final episode of the show 5 years from now will have everyone dead except Rick and Daryl.
They'll mow down a thousand or so walkers each in the last episode, say their farewells and then drive off in separate directions while the credits roll.
They'll mow down a thousand or so walkers each in the last episode, say their farewells and then drive off in separate directions while the credits roll.
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That's a different article. You quoted my post and said the article I linked said that. :P
Either way, even that Deadline quote is still a giant "we'll see."
If her show gets picked up, let's be real, her time will be coming to an end on TWD.
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I wasn't paying attention to your source because I just assumed you were using Deadline like a normal person -__-
Other actors have balanced TWD with other projects though. They could easily do a couple of Maggie centric episodes per season and her screen time probably wouldn't decrease all that much given how many characters they're already juggling.