The Walking Dead

[ChicagoCavFan]

The show jumped the shark for me just before Rick left. They had captured that dude who ran the gang in that warehouse. I know he flipped, which would have been interesting cause I like that character and actor, but life with 2 kids gets in the way of tv.

Anyone want to summarize what happened since that season?

 

[Jack Brickman]

The show jumped the shark for me just before Rick left. They had captured that dude who ran the gang in that warehouse. I know he flipped, which would have been interesting cause I like that character and actor, but life with 2 kids gets in the way of tv.

Anyone want to summarize what happened since that season?

It jumped the shark about four seasons before that lmao.

I honestly had no idea it was still on.

 

[ChicagoCavFan]

It jumped the shark about four seasons before that lmao.

I honestly had no idea it was still on.

Oh, I agree...but I was so pot committed, I had to maintain. I felt the series was coming to an end, but they kept replaying the same plot lines.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Oh, I agree...but I was so pot committed, I had to maintain. I felt the series was coming to an end, but they kept replaying the same plot lines.

I stopped watching when they did the cliffhanger before Negan killed Glenn even though literally everyone knew he was going to die. It felt cheap and lame and the show was already pretty bad so I tapped out.

 

[ChicagoCavFan]

That Glenn beheading stuck with me. Really hadn't seen something like that on network tv, which is all good. Not in a disgusting way either...moreso a surprising/shocking kinda way. I think that scene was done masterfully tbh, as WD had its moments. And they have the comics to fall back on if the audience is saying it is getting out of hand (in terms of jumping a shark).

I'm trying to recall, but there were some scenes where I just shook my head due to the extreme jumpage of sharks.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I stopped watching when they did the cliffhanger before Negan killed Glenn even though literally everyone knew he was going to die. It felt cheap and lame and the show was already pretty bad so I tapped out.

Maybe comic book readers knew he was going to die, but myself and a lot of show viewers didn't, and that cliffhanger really pissed me off. And their reasoning for it was so stupid: "we thought it would be interesting to have fans discuss who they thought it was", when the far more interesting discussions would be to discuss all the potential repercussions of who was getting killed.

And it was such an obvious attempt at audience manipulation that it pissed me off even more for that reason.

 

[Ohio]

I stopped watching when they did the cliffhanger before Negan killed Glenn even though literally everyone knew he was going to die. It felt cheap and lame and the show was already pretty bad so I tapped out.

Yep thats when I finally quit as well.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Anyone want to summarize what happened since that season?

Briefly, they stayed in the same geographic area for a few seasons. The main additional bad group they encountered was "The Whisperers" who wore skin masks of the dead and moved within hordes "whispering" to each other for directions. They could essentially control where hordes went, and used them as weapons. Of course, they were eventually defeated. During that time, Michonne found evidence that Rick had survived the blowing up of that bridge, so she disappeared and went looking for him.

Eugene ended up making radio contact with a woman in another location, and went looking for her with some others. They eventually met/were caputured by "the Commonwealth", which is a much larger and more advanced community than we have seen. As best as I can remember, some of them joined the Commonwealth, and some led by Maggie resisted. Obviously, it turns out the Commonwealth isn't nearly as nice as it seems as it is basically a despotism.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Maybe comic book readers knew he was going to die, but myself and a lot of show viewers didn't, and that cliffhanger really pissed me off. And their reasoning for it was so stupid: "we thought it would be interesting to have fans discuss who they thought it was", when the far more interesting discussions would be to discuss all the potential repercussions of who was getting killed.

And it was such an obvious attempt at audience manipulation that it pissed me off even more for that reason.

It was the same when they pulled the fake out death with Glenn earlier when he hid under the dumpster. I almost quit watching after that but gave it until the end of the season. Then they fucking did it again.

 

[Ohio]

It was the same when they pulled the fake out death with Glenn earlier when he hid under the dumpster. I almost quit watching after that but gave it until the end of the season. Then they fucking did it again.

LOL yeah same here…that pissed me off too.

 

[Chris]

Forgot about this show. Its still on?!

 

[inliner311]

It was the same when they pulled the fake out death with Glenn earlier when he hid under the dumpster. I almost quit watching after that but gave it until the end of the season. Then they fucking did it again.

They have moved away from that kind of who is going to die next and moved to how society runs. Pretty much all the walking dead shows are now more about society now.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

It was the same when they pulled the fake out death with Glenn earlier when he hid under the dumpster. I almost quit watching after that but gave it until the end of the season. Then they fucking did it again.

I forgot about that one. Yeah, that was bogus. It's one thing when a character kind of vanishes, because then it is fair game to assume they may have survived. But that was clearly intended to make it look like he'd actually died, so it sucked.

 

[Jack Brickman]

I forgot about that one. Yeah, that was bogus. It's one thing when a character kind of vanishes, because then it is fair game to assume they may have survived. But that was clearly intended to make it look like he'd actually died, so it sucked.

Yeah they literally showed him screaming with zombies seemingly eating him. It was cheap.

 

[Tonedef75]

Yep thats when I finally quit as well.

Count me in that club. Same reason as Jack, I thought it was cheap. They should have respected both the Negan character and the actor playing him enough to trust that’s what would drive the story.