Walking Dead becomes TALKING Dead
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TALK TALK TALK TALK AD NAUSEUM
Dumping it for good!
The Walking Dead's early seasons were very good indeed. However more and more, especially over the last two series, each episode seems to consist of TALK TALK TALK TALK AD NAUSEUM interspersed with two minute bursts of action.
This season has had a few absolutely dire episodes of mind-numbing long periods of introspective/soul searching/ruminating/whatever! taking up the majority of the programme. The last straw was Monday's Season 5, Episode 10 'Them' as the infuriating thing is that as they ramble on and on in a supposedly 'deep' manner one has to scream out loud it's BORING and NOT captivating, or engaging, or thought provoking. My brain is hurting waiting for them to stop talking but no on and on it goes TALK TALK TALK TALK AD NAUSEUM. Beggaring belief in the previous week's episode even the zombies got to talk and ramble on!
A lot of series tend to go downhill after initial first and sometimes second series but has there ever been any plummet to such dire depths as The W/Talking Dead'. I'm not the kind of viewer that just wants bang bang action, i can appreciate good and great conversations that add to a story etc. but the 'interludes' in the W/Talking Dead would zombify anybody's brain.
Dumping it for good!
The Walking Dead's early seasons were very good indeed. However more and more, especially over the last two series, each episode seems to consist of TALK TALK TALK TALK AD NAUSEUM interspersed with two minute bursts of action.
This season has had a few absolutely dire episodes of mind-numbing long periods of introspective/soul searching/ruminating/whatever! taking up the majority of the programme. The last straw was Monday's Season 5, Episode 10 'Them' as the infuriating thing is that as they ramble on and on in a supposedly 'deep' manner one has to scream out loud it's BORING and NOT captivating, or engaging, or thought provoking. My brain is hurting waiting for them to stop talking but no on and on it goes TALK TALK TALK TALK AD NAUSEUM. Beggaring belief in the previous week's episode even the zombies got to talk and ramble on!
A lot of series tend to go downhill after initial first and sometimes second series but has there ever been any plummet to such dire depths as The W/Talking Dead'. I'm not the kind of viewer that just wants bang bang action, i can appreciate good and great conversations that add to a story etc. but the 'interludes' in the W/Talking Dead would zombify anybody's brain.
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Less action and more beautiful writing is always a good thing.
The scene where they was holding the door shut was such perfectly written.
Some of the script during the recent episode really got to the heart of what being human and being alive is about and why humans "survive" against hardships.
More of the same and less Zombies, They are a useful plot device but should never be the story, The story has to be about why they want to stay alive not just how they stay alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnWd0iv8Dq4
"I don't like that Bradley Pitts anyway....too much acting"
Also, is the OP aware that the Americans have after show where they talk about TWD called Talking Dead, making their constant use of the pun somewhat annoying and the thread title perhaps misleading?
I've only read the early comic books, but from what I've read it looks like the TV show is taking elements from the comic books, shoving them in a blender and making them fit.
For example
But thanks for announcing that your flouncing. I'll sleep much better tonight knowing that.
Its just a TV show. nobody really cares if you're fed up with it,
WRONG!
Far from a simple brain and i could put forward some hilarious outstanding bloopers within the last few episodes as the series slumps into farce. Have a Google and you'll find plenty of media outlets and social media also spotting the same faults.
Go back to bed now that you've gone to the effort of writing a post due to your caring about my post lol.
What has the views of Social Media have to do with anything? Its mostly made up a bunch of idiots and or trolls (same goes for the media).
People don't agree with a simplistic argument and the default fall back is "social media agrees with me", IMO if social media agrees then you 9/10 times you need to rethink your thoughts.
Not being stupid and being able to spot "bloopers" are entirely unconnected.
I'm assuming, by "bloopers" you mean continuity errors. If that's the case, it doesn't require intelligence to spot them, just the attention span of a gnat...
Why don't you enlighten us?
Classic
Ha go find another TV show bandwagon to jump on. People enjoy shows or they dont, how can you say that another persons opinion is WRONG. Oh no, are ther bloopers in the show?!?!?
Yep they've done with wandering around aimlessly again and they're about to join another community and settle down and start farming again
In the first series i would watch with my face partially covered and still be jumping when an unexpected zombie event happened.
Now i watch it in the same way i watch any other soap type show. Its on and i follow it but it doesnt scare me anymore. The zombies lack anything remotely scary but i guess thats what the producers have chosen, to focus less on them and more on the characters.
Unfortunitely the rest of it sometimes lacks. I find that when it ends i think "is it the end already? Nothing has happened this episode". I suppose though theres not a lot different they can do.
Really? As much as I love it, I don't think TWD has ever been scary.
I think it has suffered from going a bit too frequent and graphic with it's violence, and as a result the violence in the show has lost it's power to shock and surprise a bit. I think the show would have been better served saving the graphic violence and using it sparingly to increase the impact of certain moments. However, that would have a probably pissed a lot of people off...
I used to be terrified when all seemed calm and then BAM zombie on screen! Or when the music used to build up so you knew something scary was going to happen and it did. You were expecting it but still shocked when it happened.
Now i watch it half expecting nothing to happen. Most of the time you can easily get 20 minutes of chat and stuff with nothing remotely scary happening.
I guess maybe i have just become used to it? Although i suspect you are right too. Theres so many scenes where they just slice up zombies and walkers arent seen as a threat (eg when that girl was crying by a tree, feet away from a zombie) that they dont scare us anymore. But then i guess thats the whole point? The characters are supposed to be feeling more danger from other survivors, but then i dont see other survivors as obvious enemies in the same way the walkers once were.
Cool we've expressed our different opinions so guess we'll agree to differ on the quality (or lack of) of the dialogue - no biggie.
As mentioned earlier i'm not a viewer who needs tons of 'action' however i do think it has gone way too far in the talk, talk side of things, so agree a lot with your second paragraph above.
I'm that kind of viewer as well and haven't been able to motivate myself to watch the latest episode. The main problem for me is just not caring about the characters all that much.
And I know it was always inevitable, but the Walkers have pretty much become an irrelevance these days. I wish they'd gone down the route of having the Walkers gain some sort of intelligence or strategy - or at very least learn to walk faster, lol.
Hey everyone. Look at MY opinion! It matters! Even if it makes zero sense!
God bless the internet.