Ha I ain't mad...I'm just not gonna swallow the stupidity this show brings when it makes no sense.
Nothing about this show makes any sense at all any more....
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‘The Walking Dead’ – Season 8 - Sundays on AMC
- Thread starter RatskyWatsky
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Ha I ain't mad...I'm just not gonna swallow the stupidity this show brings when it makes no sense.
Nothing about this show makes any sense at all any more....
I thought for sure this was going to go into next season. Im shocked the war actually finished. I was shocked Eugene redeemed himself. I actually didnt see that coming.
Im glad they kept Negan alive. He's didnt get killed off in the comics (Im only partially aware of the comic storyline,) and JDM is too good to kill off anyways.
That ending with Jesus, Maggie, and Darrel was confusing. Now they bad guys huh?
Im glad they kept Negan alive. He's didnt get killed off in the comics (Im only partially aware of the comic storyline,) and JDM is too good to kill off anyways.
That ending with Jesus, Maggie, and Darrel was confusing. Now they bad guys huh?
Did you get your poster? They actually look pretty nice.
Also, at the end of the theater screening, Christ Hardwick told everyone to get home in time for Talking Dead but not to text and drive.
It can't be. That'll probably be part of it but we still need to know more about the old lady and the helicopters
Yup! I'm surprised at the quality, it doesn't feel cheap. It also looks nice imo. Definitely gonna put it on the wall at some point.
And yeah, the bit with Hardwick felt weird even aside from that. Very abrupt.
I thought that the theatrical screenings were supposed to be commercial-free?
Did you call the trash lady old? That actress is in her 30s.
Or are you talking about the Merle Streep look alike that sold documents ?
It was. They just had 30 mins of commercials and interviews and stuff before it all started. It was actually kind of annoying because I got sick of seeing some of the same scenes in commercials over and over. But once the shows started it was commercial free which was great.
It was all aired from 8:30-9:00. Once the show began, it was never interrupted for anything.
Yep I'm probably going to buy a cheap frame for mine this week
I don't buy the rebellion from Maggie, Jesus and D. Laughable really and writers should be ashamed. Jesus has been preaching peace this entire season. And D let Dwight go lol.
I think I might remove that bit subconsciously and just allow this episode to be my series finale because it seems things are going to get weird.
What about all those old man Rick scenes? Nothing was made from that?
I think I might remove that bit subconsciously and just allow this episode to be my series finale because it seems things are going to get weird.
What about all those old man Rick scenes? Nothing was made from that?
Thanks Maggie scene was the dumbest shit this show has pulled. Good ending to the season and then they add that crap in there? Seriously?
So I got dragged to this (I kid, I kid, just never watched a full ep of either show before today) by my Walking Dead fangirl gf. After the third time I saw the same clips, was like...this is ridiculous, lol
Anyway, being more or less a WD virgin, I liked the FTWD episode better; makes sense now that I know most of the folks were new. Likable characters, especially the gunslinger fella. Also, Jenna Elfman! I may very well check it out next week...
I just don't see why Maggie doesn't just off Negan in the middle of the night or whatever while he's in his cell. Lots of people want Negan dead, no one would know who did it.
That was just Carl's dream depiction of a possible peaceful future where at the time we were believing it was Rick's.
Yeah, very much came as an afterthought.
Okay, I'm glad I wasn't alone there. I literally went back on my DVR because I didn't understand what the hell they were talking about.
I don't understand how that scene made the final cut.
The episode was just frustrating for many reasons.
1. Negan fake death
2. Maggie splinter
3. "All Out War", is a tiny battle
4. Oceanside such an afterthought
5. No one dies for sucha build up.
I mean seriously. The same freaking cast is back next year. Some of the known actors should have taken a dip in this war but now we have to once again deal with the cry baby priest, the wuss Eugine, Rosita the angry tough girl and the indecisive Tara just to name a few.
1. Negan fake death
2. Maggie splinter
3. "All Out War", is a tiny battle
4. Oceanside such an afterthought
5. No one dies for sucha build up.
I mean seriously. The same freaking cast is back next year. Some of the known actors should have taken a dip in this war but now we have to once again deal with the cry baby priest, the wuss Eugine, Rosita the angry tough girl and the indecisive Tara just to name a few.
How about weasle. Eitherway, some of these characters need to go to progress the story and give more time to others.
The one with the documents and knowledge in her head.
Jesus aside, what's laughable about it? Should Maggie and Daryl be OK with letting Negan live? And why would Daryl kill Dwight?
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And yet it was significantly more eventful than in the comics!
lol if they think anyone will consider Maggie or fucking Darryl a villain in an argument or split with Rick. Comedy option is them ending the next season with him killing either of them because What a Twist, but they didn't even have the balls to have Negan die of a badly-slit throat, so at least there's no realistic chance of that
I am pretty bummed that freaking no one died. The only notable deaths this season were 1) Carl, who nobody actually misses, and 2) the lieutenant that people liked the most. For a war that seemed to kill like 75% of the misc civilians at the allied settlements we sure don't have much to show for it. They even redeemed Eugene but didn't give a redemption death that would have made people care about him for more than 2 seconds again.
Rick slicing Negan's throat was so cold and brutal and awesome, which made it even more ridiculous that he survived. What's stopping Maggie or anyone else from killing him in his sleep or something, anyway?
Rick slicing Negan's throat was so cold and brutal and awesome, which made it even more ridiculous that he survived. What's stopping Maggie or anyone else from killing him in his sleep or something, anyway?
Never mind the gratuitous amount of blood and his inability to breathe or speak properly. Ugh. So horrible.
I like this theory.
Is Maggie still Pregnant? Like it legit feels like they just "dropped" that whole aspect and forgot about it.
The ending was absurd, especially having Jesus there after everything he talks about and stands up for, not wanting Morgan to kill anyone and then he has that meeting with Maggie? It's like the writers don't give a shit about characters or following their personalities.
The whole "battle" was very anti-climatic, this show has already had some of the most weird awkwardly paced "battle" scenes in a big tv show, I mean it is like they have no decent cinematographer or battle choreographer to give things any semblance of a real battle or suspense to it, like how many times people don't take cover, or even know how to hold their weapons or anything. It ends up feeling like a bad fan-made "cosplay" battle scene rather then a well budgeted tv show that should have people that know how to film that kind of thing.
Also was it just me, or did this season feel like they REALLY threw in way too many monologues? I mean who talks like that? It was like every other scene was just a character spouting exposition for the audience and reading from a book instead of actually having a human conversation.
The ending was absurd, especially having Jesus there after everything he talks about and stands up for, not wanting Morgan to kill anyone and then he has that meeting with Maggie? It's like the writers don't give a shit about characters or following their personalities.
The whole "battle" was very anti-climatic, this show has already had some of the most weird awkwardly paced "battle" scenes in a big tv show, I mean it is like they have no decent cinematographer or battle choreographer to give things any semblance of a real battle or suspense to it, like how many times people don't take cover, or even know how to hold their weapons or anything. It ends up feeling like a bad fan-made "cosplay" battle scene rather then a well budgeted tv show that should have people that know how to film that kind of thing.
Also was it just me, or did this season feel like they REALLY threw in way too many monologues? I mean who talks like that? It was like every other scene was just a character spouting exposition for the audience and reading from a book instead of actually having a human conversation.
Some thoughts.
- The scene where the crew was supposed to apparently see a herd of walkers in the distance. I had no idea what that was and apparently, other viewers had no idea either. That was so poorly shown to the audience.
- The guns firing off in the Saviors' faces was satisfying but also kind of laughable. Like... so many people shot their guns, some after others clearly died.
- The Maggie/Daryl turn might be one of the dumbest things this show has ever done. If Daryl truly felt that way, then he would have also killed Dwight. The two decisions don't match up. These characters are not being written with any sort of cohesiveness. And obviously Jesus isn't really going to go along with it because that would be completely out of character. It's honestly hard to put into words how incredibly stupid that decision was.
- Just to add onto that, Daryl coming out of the shadows was hilarious and it wasn't supposed to be.
I'm going to give the new showrunner a chance to turn things around. I think it's possible.
But as it is right now, The Walking Dead is bad. It isn't flawed, it isn't "dumb but entertaining." It is a bad television show. I really hoped that the finale would be a springboard into the show reinventing itself. It wasn't. It was a standard episode that was filled with bad writing, questionable editing and no vision.
Fucking hell.
- The scene where the crew was supposed to apparently see a herd of walkers in the distance. I had no idea what that was and apparently, other viewers had no idea either. That was so poorly shown to the audience.
- The guns firing off in the Saviors' faces was satisfying but also kind of laughable. Like... so many people shot their guns, some after others clearly died.
- The Maggie/Daryl turn might be one of the dumbest things this show has ever done. If Daryl truly felt that way, then he would have also killed Dwight. The two decisions don't match up. These characters are not being written with any sort of cohesiveness. And obviously Jesus isn't really going to go along with it because that would be completely out of character. It's honestly hard to put into words how incredibly stupid that decision was.
- Just to add onto that, Daryl coming out of the shadows was hilarious and it wasn't supposed to be.
I'm going to give the new showrunner a chance to turn things around. I think it's possible.
But as it is right now, The Walking Dead is bad. It isn't flawed, it isn't "dumb but entertaining." It is a bad television show. I really hoped that the finale would be a springboard into the show reinventing itself. It wasn't. It was a standard episode that was filled with bad writing, questionable editing and no vision.
Fucking hell.
They didn't turn on Rick did I watch the same finale as other people?
I get it's his son, but I don't understand why Rick seems to be treating Carl's letters like they're gospel instead of the ramblings of a dying kid that was pretty much a moron on his best day. Should have killed Negan and be done with it. Won't be able to do any of the stuff from the comics people wanted to see without Carl anyways. I honestly had already stopped watching after Carl died, but I tuned in tonight to see if the show would have the balls to kill Negan, and it didn't, so I won't be back next season.
More like Carl's letters saved Rick from becoming a monster and kept him human. He had to come to peace with that and actually build a civilization.
TBH that could have been the series finale.
I thoroughly enjoyed this entire arc. From Glens death to this finale.
So can we expect Negan, Rick, Michonne vs Daryl Maggie and Jesus?
Seems thats how its gonna gow down.
Never thought I'd ever say that.
Never got that Goku and Jiren tag team, so Rick and Negan will have to do.
I thoroughly enjoyed this entire arc. From Glens death to this finale.
So can we expect Negan, Rick, Michonne vs Daryl Maggie and Jesus?
Seems thats how its gonna gow down.
Never thought I'd ever say that.
Never got that Goku and Jiren tag team, so Rick and Negan will have to do.
Yes, the reason people are saying that is because they watched it.
They didn't turn on him or betray him they just wanna kill Negan. That's not a betrayal.
Nah man, they said they're gonna show RICK that not killing Negan was wrong.
That, plus the eerie ass music, it was all played out to be a betrayal.
They are literally sneaking behind his back and plotting against him to undo the decision he made by murdering a man -- while the scene was purposefully written with a foreboding tone as Maggie says they're going to "show him" why he was wrong.
That is, factually, turning on him.
Like, the entire point of the scene was to tease season 9 being Maggie and Daryl vs. Rick and Michonne.
Middle of the night?? Maggie or Daryl should've walked right the fuck up in that moment and put 8920734234 caps in that motherfucker......
FUCK. THAT. No way I'm letting Rick pull some shit like that after all Neegan did. FUCK. THAT. Now they're gonna contrive some uprising shit instead of handling it right then.......... gtfo with that shit man..
I found the overall finale to be quite not the best. I had expected a bit more of a brutal final battle similar to that of that mob battle in The Dark Knight Rises. I felt the show was kind of hinting at it given there was all of that talk of being low on ammunition. It would have been neat seeing two groups of humans being so desperate to destroy each other that they have been devolved to such a sorry state that they literally had grab at each others' throats with their bare hands. Instead, it was one sided and we got the typical off-screen shooty shooty bang bang.
I feel after the whole conflicted was over, things started feeling rushed. As if the show was trying to acknowledge as many arcs as possible and close them all up to call it a day. I felt it was rushing itself to cut from one scene of characters to the next to do it all. Here is Maggie talking to dude who wants to totally bone her NEXT here is Rosita and Tera visiting Sanctuary, oh look how quickly they've all become frie- NEXT here is Daryl and Dwight, oh they don't like each other still, get out of here you ugly burnt face man- NEXT uh oh, Maggie and Daryl don't like Negan being alive NEXT alright finally here is Rick and Michonne talking to Negan about his fate NEXT here is Morgan talking about being alone because HE KNOWS WHAT IT IS.
They really could have left a lot of this stuff out and kept the essentials. Negan's fate and Dwight's fate. The two main antagonists and what happens to them. Seeing Sanctuary all pretty and friendly that quickly didn't make sense to me and would have been better to have seen that in the next season, rather than just shoving it in right then and there. We didn't need that Godfather-esque Maggie seen to imply something completely out of character with these characters. I felt it was implied enough that keeping Negan alive leaves Maggie with some bad blood. Leave that tension to start building up next season, not explicitly shove in this moustache-twirling scene with Maggie and Daryl plotting and scheming. And all of the Morgan stuff could have just moved over to Fear.
Overall, I don't think it was very fulfilling. After almost three seasons of this Saviors nonsense, it just didn't pan out well at all.
Indeed. They showed up for like one little scene to throw some molotovs and that was it. At only a small group of Saviors at that. Enough Saviors that it didn't even seem necessary to evacuate all of Hilltop. It's another aspect of this finale that really leads me to believe this was rather rushed. I wouldn't be surprised if we never saw Oceanside again, and I would be okay with that because I don't care about them.
I feel after the whole conflicted was over, things started feeling rushed. As if the show was trying to acknowledge as many arcs as possible and close them all up to call it a day. I felt it was rushing itself to cut from one scene of characters to the next to do it all. Here is Maggie talking to dude who wants to totally bone her NEXT here is Rosita and Tera visiting Sanctuary, oh look how quickly they've all become frie- NEXT here is Daryl and Dwight, oh they don't like each other still, get out of here you ugly burnt face man- NEXT uh oh, Maggie and Daryl don't like Negan being alive NEXT alright finally here is Rick and Michonne talking to Negan about his fate NEXT here is Morgan talking about being alone because HE KNOWS WHAT IT IS.
They really could have left a lot of this stuff out and kept the essentials. Negan's fate and Dwight's fate. The two main antagonists and what happens to them. Seeing Sanctuary all pretty and friendly that quickly didn't make sense to me and would have been better to have seen that in the next season, rather than just shoving it in right then and there. We didn't need that Godfather-esque Maggie seen to imply something completely out of character with these characters. I felt it was implied enough that keeping Negan alive leaves Maggie with some bad blood. Leave that tension to start building up next season, not explicitly shove in this moustache-twirling scene with Maggie and Daryl plotting and scheming. And all of the Morgan stuff could have just moved over to Fear.
Overall, I don't think it was very fulfilling. After almost three seasons of this Saviors nonsense, it just didn't pan out well at all.
Indeed. They showed up for like one little scene to throw some molotovs and that was it. At only a small group of Saviors at that. Enough Saviors that it didn't even seem necessary to evacuate all of Hilltop. It's another aspect of this finale that really leads me to believe this was rather rushed. I wouldn't be surprised if we never saw Oceanside again, and I would be okay with that because I don't care about them.
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I am so annoyed that the girl with the neck tattoo that ratted out Two-Face got to live.
Im supposed to buy that a bunch of those evil people are suddenly working for the greater good? I dont recall her doing anything worth sympathy
Im supposed to buy that a bunch of those evil people are suddenly working for the greater good? I dont recall her doing anything worth sympathy
Was really expecting some preview or last minute after credit sequence hinting at the Whisperers.
