How did this borefest last 12 years?
I mean, seriously?
sharesome people really like zombies. I'm not one of them.
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I liked the first few seasons but it got stale quick.
shareThe first 3-4 seasons are generally excellent. Seasons 5-8, it gets more hit-or-miss. Season 9 thru now it becomes a real shit show repeating the same formula of endless conflict with various antagonist villians/groups, with zombies as occasional threats.
shareThe first 3-4 seasons are generally excellent.
No, they're really, really not. The show in that period featured some of the worst writing to be found anywhere on television, particularly in season 3.
THAT JUST IS NOT TRUE...THOSE FIRST THREE SEASONS WERE EPIC...THE WORLD CAUGHT WALKING DEAD FEVER.
shareThe show became dumber and dumber while also devolving into a pattern of 5 minutes of plots being stretched to fill entire episodes. By the 3rd season, the writers were writing so little that production had to be repeatedly shut down. The showrunner's gofer was allowed to "write" an ep. One entire ep was 2 characters just looking at one another.
shareI'll bet if you try real hard, you'll learn to enjoy things you watch.
shareI'll bet if you try real hard, you'll learn that some people have something you lack: Taste and reasonable expectations.
shareWhatever works for you. I like to take things in the spirit they are intended. Everyone's "tastes and expectations" are different and there is no right or wrong in subjective areas.
shareCompletely agree. Even season 1 had many really dumb and lazy moments already, Darabond or not.
I never liked this series and stopped watching it within or after season 3. After that I just checked in every few years to laugh my ass off over the dumb and repetitive nonsense thee people go through and what idiotic decisions they make.
My favorite was a scene where Daryl came across a walker in some forest, almost completely skeletonized, you could see the hollow rib cage...... and it reached out for him making zombie and breathing noises. Without lungs.
No. I am unwilling to suspend my disbelief to a level of pure retardation.
Season 1 is, among other things, where all the timeline problems began. Rick had to be in the hospital less than 2 weeks--he still had an open wound and was still able to walk around and perform complex tasks, but everything else was indicating it had been much longer, and a scientist even says, at one point, it had been 6 1/2 months! These were probably just quality-control problems initially, but they kept turning up in the later seasons, indicating that no one involved in the writing, post-Darabont, really even cared about what they were writing. And boy, did THAT ever start to show in every aspect of the series!
Season 3 stands out as the absolute worst season of the show, as far as bad/cretinous writing is concerned. Every episode was some new collection of inanities, with 2 or 3 minutes of plot stretched into entire hours; by the end of the season, the writers were doing so little work that, it was later revealed, production had to be repeatedly shut down.
Nothing to add!
shareI think season two is just as bad as season 3. During season two they just stayed on a farm the entire time and were worried about all of the woman's menstrual cycles lining up.
I remember hearing about how production kept being shut down during season number 3.
I can't believe how such an interesting subject (the first of its kind for a TV series) ended up being written by clueless dolts, who had no life experience and as a result, couldn't write their way out of a paper bag.
This was the number one show on TV for a bit. The only way that I can think of to explain that was that people were tuning in because the concept was interesting and then they stuck around in the hopes that it would get better. Unfortunately, it just kept getting worse and eventually 99% of the people watching tuned out.
Yes, depending on how you're grading these things, season 2 could be seen as just as bad. If one is looking at the stupidity of the writing, I think season 3 is the worst at that, by far. As far as being dull and little happening, both seasons are guilty. As far as bad moves, I can't imagine why writers, given a zombie apocalypse with which to work on a weekly basis (a first of its kind, as you say) decided, after a 6 episode first season, to then immediately write the zombie apocalypse out of the story and leave it out for nearly the entirety of the next season, but to be fair, Frank Darabont initially had a VERY different idea for how season 2 should go, one that sounded far better but that was, by circumstances, sequentially abandoned. His original "Blackhawk Down With Zombies" ep with which he wanted to kick off that season sounded great. That was vetoed. Then, his next idea, which would have taken the characters into Atlanta, was shot but abandoned and never aired, for reasons that were never made particularly clear. What we got for the season 2 opener, then, was a version of what was supposed to be the 3rd ep of the season, one that was then padded with entirely extraneous material--dulled down--to make it a 90-minute ep.
sharerepeating the same formula of endless conflict with various antagonist villians/groups, with zombies as occasional threats.
whats wrong with that? thats exactly how it should be
TWD writing was questionable to say the least regarding this. We saw entire conflicts and characters almost cut and paste by the end. It felt like the show was going absolutely nowhere. It also had major casting issues across its run to be fair, so it wasn't entirely their fault.
shareI stopped watching it years ago but it still keeps going. Should have finished like 5 seasons ago when it still was decent.
shareThey probably got their rating figures from people rewatching Seasons 1-4 which are just so much better than anything since, though admittedly this current season has actually had way better pacing than the previous five.
shareI lasted up till Season 6 but stopped watching as the show became repetitive and lacked any sense of hope. I get it is a dark theme but are we just meant to keep watching them wander around, find what they think is a good place then get pushed out of it or leave it and keep getting killed?