Of course, the season 7 premiere was the catalyst for the show being turned into watered down family fun. Was it really fan backlash? Or was it advertisers that didn't want to be associated with such a violent show? The gore was the only thing keeping me going. These bloodless, CGI shootouts are getting very tiresome.
shareIt doesn't make any sense because they run all those previous season marathons filled with blood and gore and all the advertisers are on those.
What would you rather they use for the All Out War portion of the Walking Dead? Paper mache and clay models? Computer graphics are fine in TWD.
shareUnfortunately there's no easy way to check, but I'm pretty sure there's a larger audience who cares about the characters and their stories than those who are just looking for a gorefest/bloodbath. Gore was never what this show was focused on in the first place, even if there was a bit of a helping of it on the side. Season 7 episode 1 was the most poorly received TWD ep in recent memory. It was also one of the goriest. I don't know how they got it in their heads that all that many people wanted to see something so demoralizing and so bloody in the first place, but I think they've learned their lesson thanks to the poor reviews/reactions (seriously go look on Youtube at how the most popular reaction channel-ers took it) and ratings drops. (From what I understand, there are even people who didn't make it through the ep at all; it's like a modern version of what happened when The Exorcist was in theatres in the 1970s.)
shareSince they removed the blood, the ratings have dropped to an all time low, so there goes your theory that gore doesn't matter in a friggin' zombie show. The people that complained about season 7's opener were just the loud ones. The show has now been sanitized to the point where it's toothless.
shareI don't think it's that simple. The overall writing has gotten poorer, but the overall level of gore really hasn't changed all that much. Right now instead of walkers being the threat, humans are, so when there's violence, it tends to be more "efficient," shall we say, and not so messy. And it's not like they have a quota or something. Depending on what's happening on screen, some scenes and episodes might have more, some scenes/eps might have less. This was never really a consistent episode-to-episode thing.
What has been consistent about this show from the beginning though is that it has always, always been focused primarily on what's happening with the characters before zombie gross-outs and other typical tropes of most other zombie-related franchises. That's why a large proportion of TWD fans are NOT fans of other zombie franchises. The real problem is that their original selling point-- writing and characters-- haven't been developing very well (with some exceptions) since at least last season, and just about everybody is getting bored with how stale it's becoming.
Have you played the games btw? I'm sure they're more oriented toward folks who aren't so invested in characters and moral conflict and just want to see guts spill.
Did you miss the zombies here and there biting and eating people in the last three episodes or something? This week we had a dude getting bit in the head and blood guzzed all over the place. When the King ambushed those saviors in the opening in the forest they all had bloody gunshots riddling their bodies. Nothing is being toned down.
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