The Walking Dead

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GRRM would say go big or go home and kill Rick off. He let everyone know half way in the first season that no one is safe even main characters on GoT. TWD should have done the same lol.
 
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#7,377
LOL at the anger of a less than good episode. After the praise this half of the season has gotten. Reminds me of the football forum between the end of the Bowling Green game and the end of the Oklahoma game.

Dwight said "You'll be alright" so clearly Daryl isn't dead. It was more or less an editing trick to startle the viewer for a split second.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
LOL at the anger of a less than good episode. After the praise this half of the season has gotten. Reminds me of the football forum between the end of the Bowling Green game and the end of the Oklahoma game.

Dwight said "You'll be alright" so clearly Daryl isn't dead. It was more or less an editing trick to startle the viewer for a split second.
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Seems like people are merely giving credit when credit is due, and calling out bad when it's bad. I don't see the big issue here. I find it LOL when some seem to get their shorts in a bind when some don't seem to act like Hardwick on Talking Dead.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Seems like people are merely giving credit when credit is due, and calling out bad when it's bad. I don't see the big issue here. I find it LOL when some seem to get their shorts in a bind when some don't seem to act like Hardwick on Talking Dead.
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I guess... I think the anger at bad episodes is a bit extreme at times.

Overall I agree this was one of the weaker episodes. Not any where near the some of the worst though. This episode's sole purpose was to get a batch of characters captured to set up the finale.

FTR I really don't care if the finale leaves with a cliff hanger either.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
I guess... I think the anger at bad episodes is a bit extreme at times.

Overall I agree this was one of the weaker episodes. Not any where near the some of the worst though. This episode's sole purpose was to get a batch of characters captured to set up the finale.

FTR I really don't care if the finale leaves with a cliff hanger either.
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no, it was pretty terrible. i could rant about this episode, including one or two things from this half of the season in general, for a good hour. you say its sole purpose was to set the episode up for the finale, but you fail to realize that the way they did this was so incredibly lazy, forced, gimmicky, and preposterous. the only reason this might not be in my bottom 3 episodes is that I wasn't completely bored out of my mind (and some of The Man in Black is always nice to hear). i can cut a little slack for Daryl letting his emotions and guilt get the best of him, and making a dumb mistake through it, cause he is human after all, but there's so much dumb going around through all the characters, it's almost impossible to excuse any of it.
 
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WarDamnVols said:
no, it was pretty terrible. i could rant about this episode, including one or two things from this half of the season in general, for a good hour. you say its sole purpose was to set the episode up for the finale, but you fail to realize that the way they did this was so incredibly lazy, forced, gimmicky, and preposterous. the only reason this might not be in my bottom 3 episodes is that I wasn't completely bored out of my mind (and some of The Man in Black is always nice to hear). i can cut a little slack for Daryl letting his emotions and guilt get the best of him, and making a dumb mistake through it, cause he is human after all, but there's so much dumb going around through all the characters, it's almost impossible to excuse any of it.
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Welcome to the world of fictional television. No matter how good of a show it is, there's always going to be mistakes by the writers and there's always going to be questionable actions that characters take. Sometimes I do feel like The Walking Dead tries too hard to make the story interesting but hey, it's still the #1 rated show on cable so they must still be doing something right. It's all based on what your perspective is to a certain tv show.
 
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Not even the worst of the season IMO. That award goes to the Morgan flashback episode. It may have been better written, but I don't feel that it required a ninety minute episode. They could have summarized how he reached that state of mind with a two minute monologue. As for this weeks episode, I'm somewhere in the middle. We've had better, and we've had worse. I can understand why some of the characters did what they did, and it did out things in place for the finale. Regardless of last weeks episode though, I think we're in for the best finale of the series.
 
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If history tells us anything, it's that regardless of who finds the horse, it probably won't make it through the episode. TWD hates horses.
 
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I've never posted over here and I just started lurking because I'm far from an expert of this show but I enjoy watching. I just wanted to put my two cents in about who Neegan kills and why I think it is important for it to be a big character.
After a while, all the main characters becoming super heroes and invincible becomes predictable and boring. Yeah, there have been deaths but no one from the core group. I understand killing one of these characters may make some fans upset but you have to at some point just so it's not so predictable.
For instance, Carol always does something crazy to get out of a jam. How many times is that going to happen before she gets axed?
Just my thoughts
 
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Orange And Garnet said:
I've never posted over here and I just started lurking because I'm far from an expert of this show but I enjoy watching. I just wanted to put my two cents in about who Neegan kills and why I think it is important for it to be a big character.
After a while, all the main characters becoming super heroes and invincible becomes predictable and boring. Yeah, there have been deaths but no one from the core group. I understand killing one of these characters may make some fans upset but you have to at some point just so it's not so predictable.
For instance, Carol always does something crazy to get out of a jam. How many times is that going to happen before she gets axed?
Just my thoughts
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I agree. In the comics, Negan is the main villain. More than the Governer. I want to see him take out a major character to show that he will be a force over the coming seasons.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
Welcome to the world of fictional television. No matter how good of a show it is, there's always going to be mistakes by the writers and there's always going to be questionable actions that characters take.
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some of the best shows I've seen haven't had remotely as much lazy and/or ****ty writing as this show displays at times (and to the WD's credit, there are much worse out there as well). saying every show has bad moments doesn't exactly excuse a show for being bad. lazy writing is lazy writing. having the career they have, i'd certainly appreciate for them to put more effort into their craft.

VolFreakJosh said:
Sometimes I do feel like The Walking Dead tries too hard to make the story interesting but hey, it's still the #1 rated show on cable so they must still be doing something right. It's all based on what your perspective is to a certain tv show.
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being popular doesn't necessarily equate "great."

Ethan Hooper said:
Not even the worst of the season IMO. That award goes to the Morgan flashback episode. It may have been better written, but I don't feel that it required a ninety minute episode. They could have summarized how he reached that state of mind with a two minute monologue. As for this weeks episode, I'm somewhere in the middle. We've had better, and we've had worse. I can understand why some of the characters did what they did, and it did out things in place for the finale. Regardless of last weeks episode though, I think we're in for the best finale of the series.
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eh, the Morgan episode had some god awful moments and wasn't really needed as an episode (especially a 90 min one), but some of the writing was very good and John Carroll Lynch's Eastman was a treat to watch. i enjoyed some aspects of it enough to give it a pass, though I'd agree that it's still bottom 3 of this season. i feel like most people aren't getting why this past week's episode was bad.
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
Oops
Thought that was in the regular end of show preview.
Sorry to all the spoilers that I crushed.
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not a huge deal, but it's best to spoiler anything you see in the "Next time on Walking Dead" previews. some people purposefully don't watch them so that they can go into the next episode itself completely fresh.
 
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WarDamnVols said:
some of the best shows I've seen haven't had remotely as much lazy and/or ****ty writing as this show displays at times (and to the WD's credit, there are much worse out there as well). saying every show has bad moments doesn't exactly excuse a show for being bad. lazy writing is lazy writing. having the career they have, i'd certainly appreciate for them to put more effort into their craft.



being popular doesn't necessarily equate "great."



eh, the Morgan episode had some god awful moments and wasn't really needed as an episode (especially a 90 min one), but some of the writing was very good and John Carroll Lynch's Eastman was a treat to watch. i enjoyed some aspects of it enough to give it a pass, though I'd agree that it's still bottom 3 of this season. i feel like most people aren't getting why this past week's episode was bad.
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Pretty much agree with all this.

The problem most, including me, had with the Morgan episode was when it was shown, not that it was a bad episode. It was shown immediately after the Glenn fakeout. Nobody wanted to see Morgan's journey to enlightenment at that particular time.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Pretty much agree with all this.

The problem most, including me, had with the Morgan episode was when it was shown, not that it was a bad episode. It was shown immediately after the Glenn fakeout. Nobody wanted to see Morgan's journey to enlightenment at that particular time.
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I didn't have a problem with the placement of Morgan's story. Kinda reminded of how Lost used to give you cliff hangers then switch to a different character's story the following episode.

Now I do think they should have gotten back to Glenn the following episode.

Ultimately I think k the Glenn fake out accomplished it's goal which was to generate conversation about his fate. In the thread alone there were those that thought he was dead for sure and others who kinda predicted it was going to go down about like it did.
 
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So does anyone think that the part of the finale that Andrew Lincoln said made him sick may not particularly be who Negan kills? We still don't know what happened with Maggie at the end of the episode. Just a thought.
 
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