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Old 26-11-2016, 18:52
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Haha I think it was just my love of TWD that got me through
You must love Walking Dead... very, very much.

Fear the Walking Dead is the answer for anyone who ever asked the question, "Hey, what if Walking Dead was really, really crap?"
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Old 27-11-2016, 00:32
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You must love Walking Dead... very, very much.

Fear the Walking Dead is the answer for anyone who ever asked the question, "Hey, what if Walking Dead was really, really crap?"
Cruel but very very true

Fear The Walking Dead I lasted season 1 maybe episode 6, hateful characters, I wanted the Zombies to prevail!

Was only watching for Dougray Scott and then heard he got bumped off via a spoiler and that was that didn't bother anymore but I so wanted to like it!

Which brings me back to TWD, Glenn was the first Character I cared about, so I was hooked.

Was a bitter pill to swallow Glenn and Abe being offed, luckily I knew before the episode aired in the UK, so I didn't watch it, was reading online and listening when the killings happened (I'm not a big fan of gore)

But I'm loving this new series.

Jesus (New fav )
Morgan is coming good again and not some new age loony
Carole who knows what she is going to morph into this time
Loving Maggie and Sasha.
Interested to see how Rick is going to turn this around.
And I really really want (As I've mentioned a few times in this thread) Dwight to get his comeuppance.
All these reasons and more will keep me watching however bleak it is at the moment and however mind numbingly tedious Negan is!
I still think it's a fantastic show.
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Old 27-11-2016, 09:42
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I am still very happy with the WD, as someone says above, sure beats fear The Walking Dead! I don't care for many of the new characters but then there were always so many 'fillers' whose names I didn't catch anyway that this is nothing new.

I think its biggest problem at the moment is the need to show too many different streams such as Alexandria, Negan, Hilltop, The Kingdom, and, I presume this week Tara, but that is necessary as the Negan problem just can't be dealt with by a small group such as Ricks, whereas before everything just revolved around their small world - now we need to build up that bigger world to take on that bigger threat. Not ideal, but the payoff should be worth it...

Of course, what really, really, REALLY grinds my gears, is the fact we have tonights episode, then 2 more, and then that is it for a few months! Why can't they just run the Season in one go like TV shows used to, having a break after such a short run really bugs me - At least Gotham has a decent run of episodes - 12 usually - before going into a break, I can't help but feel not 'enough' has happened in the first half of the WD this season, we have had a run of 'scene-setting' episodes and nothing to really get stuck into...
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Old 27-11-2016, 10:06
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Episode 1 of this season (7), was always going to be difficult follow, with Glenn and Abraham being disbatched in that manner, for me it's the up there with the most disturbing scenes.
Dispondency of viewers, mirror in some way the lesser Alpha characters of the show are exhibiting, who are looking to Rick as the only one still in position to man up to Negan. Seeing Rick broken they are literally walking away and going back to their pre apocalyptic type.
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Old 27-11-2016, 13:21
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Anyone think it would be good to see Negan fight with no weapons just hand to hand combat with one of the main characters.
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Old 27-11-2016, 13:27
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But it has worked. Maybe Daryl's still holding out in his mind and is not completely cowed and broken yet, but Rick certainly is. As he said (or at least, my interpretation of what he said) he's not willing to get into a war he knows he can't win (at this stage). He's not in charge, Negan is, and whatever Negan says, goes, as far as Rick's concerned. Michonne had a weapon that Negan didn't know about, but Rick handed it over because he was terrified of what would happen if Negan later discovered it, and Rick knew there was a very good chance of that. Negan's act may all be a front to maintain control, but we know he's not bluffing. He's a very dangerous and violent man who will use, condones and encourages extreme violence in an instant to maintain his power.
On the other hand, he's keeping it secret that Maggie is still alive. In my view that's both inconsistent and stupid. Hiding guns is relatively easy. Hiding a person is harder, especially if they have a baby. Maggie nearly got caught immediately at Hilltop: she might have been seen dealing with the zombies and fires the Saviour's set; Gregory might have succeeded in turning her in; Saviours might have found her when searching Hilltop for food. Rick could have just said he left her with her husband's body and didn't know what happened to her after, but instead he lies.

So given that, why not also hide some guns? Rick has made a lot of bad choices over the years, but for me agreeing to unilaterally disarm is his worst. He's given away the future of his people. It's pretty clear from what happened at Hilltop that appeasement won't work with the Saviours for long.

Although, now that you mention it, what is odd is why Gregory should have looked so nervous and shifty, when - from Simon's p.o.v. - all he was doing was giving them a pretty great gift. Why be nervous about that?
From Simon's p.o.v. Gregory looked shifty because he was going to conceal the whiskey. He only gave it up because Simon pressured him into doing that.

In that timescale Negan's been told that Maggie has died and been buried but she's managed to walk and recover at the Hilltop . Carl and Enid have walked to the Hilltop in what seems to be a couple of hours , it's very confusing
Maggie had a van to get to Hilltop, and then a couple of days to recover. There were three days between Glenn dying and Negan turning up at Alexandria. Presumably Carl and Enid moved a bit quicker for having the skates, and it may have been more like 5 hours than 2. According to the wiki the distance is only 20 miles.

Though this episode did make it clear that Negan had no idea Alexandria and Hilltop were in communication, had not known that Maggie was ill, and had not known that her illness was forcing Rick to take her to Hilltop. That makes the previous season finale all the stranger. Negan must have blocked all the roads out of Alexandria, not just the ones that led to Hilltop.
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Old 27-11-2016, 23:56
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its never been about zombies its always been about people.

it seems to me people want the show to be simpler than it is..?
I said it was about people v zombies, now it is about people v people, and the tone has got waaay darker, thats why people are turning off.
Poeple can shout about it being "what the comics are", they can sit back and say its "smart tv", and that people "didnt understand what the programme was about" all they want,but at the end of the day, we were all watching, now we arent "all watching", now we are divided and a huge chunk has stopped watching, this may even end the show, i just hope they com e up with a good ending.
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Old 28-11-2016, 13:42
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Stupid people doing stupid things again!

Considering they're all terrified of strangers it doesn't take them five minutes to trust and ask the stranger to stay with them. As for staying hidden expending hundreds of rounds of ammunition is not the best way to go about that - they're terrible shots too.

You would think they would be better at avoiding walkers by now, same tedious fumbling about.

I don't mind the slow pace but the intermingling scenes are so sloppy and poorly thought out they are dragging every episode down.
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Old 28-11-2016, 16:59
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Stupid people doing stupid things again!

Considering they're all terrified of strangers it doesn't take them five minutes to trust and ask the stranger to stay with them. As for staying hidden expending hundreds of rounds of ammunition is not the best way to go about that - they're terrible shots too.

You would think they would be better at avoiding walkers by now, same tedious fumbling about.

I don't mind the slow pace but the intermingling scenes are so sloppy and poorly thought out they are dragging every episode down.
Guns and zombies are a bit like the hand-grenades of goodies and baddies. If someone is "weak" they will empty a clip and hit nothing, yet a hero like Rick can run while firing a huge handgun and get headshots with every single shot.

It was actually a welcome surprise to see Michonne being realistically bad with a rifle.
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Old 28-11-2016, 17:01
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The tedium of this season is shocking.
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Old 28-11-2016, 17:28
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Think I may be one of a select few but I actually enjoyed this Tara ep.I thought it was nice for Tara to have her own stand alone episode to build up her character more. An interesting introduction of Oceanside and not really filler to me. At first I thought it was going to be terrible, but I think Tara's quirkiness made it work. So many of the characters are cold and stoic, it's refreshing to see Negan and his larger than life sense of humor and Tara's awkward goofiness.
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Old 28-11-2016, 17:33
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Stupid people doing stupid things again!

Considering they're all terrified of strangers it doesn't take them five minutes to trust and ask the stranger to stay with them.

My take on that was that they didn't want to kill Tara as they realised she wasn't a bad person and may be an asset to them. Of course, if she chose not to stay then they would have no option but to kill her, which is what they tried to do, but this would have to be a last resort for them.
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Old 28-11-2016, 17:41
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looks okay tonight...
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Old 28-11-2016, 20:25
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I found it boring. Too many of these filler episodes. Too many characters. Just have a massive culling and stick with one group. Some characters we haven't seen since the 2nd episode. We are now on the 7th next week.
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Old 28-11-2016, 21:18
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Ah, a village of women..... didn't Z-Nation do something like that?
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Old 28-11-2016, 21:19
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Ah, a village of women..... didn't Z-Nation do something like that?
which TWD did first in the comics
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Old 28-11-2016, 21:37
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which TWD did first in the comics
Ah, OK, I've never read the comics
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Old 28-11-2016, 21:38
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Ah, another community which Rick/his people can muck up despite them surviving quite happily before.
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Old 28-11-2016, 21:45
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Ah, another community which Rick/his people can muck up despite them surviving quite happily before.
hahahahaha
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Old 28-11-2016, 22:04
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Good girl Tara. So do we think Heath is dead?
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Old 28-11-2016, 22:06
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I haven't looked around but I guess this episode will get lots of hate. I didn't mind it, there have definitely been much worse, the season has had really bad pacing though.
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Old 28-11-2016, 22:19
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Christ this season is hard work. 6 episodes in and we have already had 3 episodes which focus just on one group! Add to that with nearly half the season down we are what about 6/7 days in to the narrative of season 7.

I know all seasons have had slow patches but this season more than ever seems to be all over the place and never moving the actual story on. Next week seems to be all about Negan and the survivors, so that would be 5 weeks since we seen anything on Carol and Morgan.

Watched the show from day one and will continue to as well but frustrates the hell out of me sometimes.
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Old 28-11-2016, 22:21
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which TWD did first in the comics
Which place was that? I've read all the comics but can't for the life of me remember a place full of women.
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Old 28-11-2016, 22:24
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I've liked the season so far. We obviously had the money episode with the killings but then we've seen what happens next;. We got a taste of the saviours with Daryl. We saw Morgan and Carol with the kingdom. We got an update on how the changed environment was affecting Alexandra and then saw what was happening at the Hilltop. I like seeing other communities and that's what this episode did.

The Negan storyline isn't going to be wrapped up this season, he is too big of a character. Plus otherwise we'll just end up with a new baddie introduced each season.

We now have four communities affected by the Saviours and it will be interesting to see how it pans out.

I wouldn't be surprised if Rosita is killed by the mid-season premiere. Shame as she's turning into a great character.
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Old 28-11-2016, 22:28
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I think Heath must be dead or his escape would be as unlikely as Glenns from under the big dustbin.......

I thought tonight's episode was OK but still not sure that I like the format of these standalone episodes seemingly every week

Presumably all the strands will come together later in the series
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