I have to laugh at this photo though, he'd probably break his wrist if he actually had to fire the gun (recoil on something like that must be insane).
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I have to laugh at this photo though, he'd probably break his wrist if he actually had to fire the gun (recoil on something like that must be insane).
The Storyteller
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Please explain this "definition of filler" because using the word to describe an episode of TV you don't like is the definition of lazy criticism.
The Storyteller
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But that episode added so much character definition to Carl, Rick and Michonne, and has ultimately set up his return this season. So that wasn't at all filler?
So like, really, what the fuck is filler? Maybe we should just stop using that dumb word if people insist on using it as a default negative, or misusing it to describe slower character focused episodes (which ultimately work to raise stakes for the "bigger" episodes by building stronger relationships and characterization)
Last Uchiha
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The next episode will be a great one.
+I'm pretty happy Daryl sided with Tyrese's plan, sometimes he gets a little too 'whatever Rick does'
-Sasha is real schupid
+I think the Beth arc is great and Beth has improved as a character
-Gabriel fights off a Walker..with his hands. His hands. A Walker. His first Walker. That should have been game over for Gabriel
+Maggie covering Eugene =3
-Sasha is real schupid
+I think the Beth arc is great and Beth has improved as a character
-Gabriel fights off a Walker..with his hands. His hands. A Walker. His first Walker. That should have been game over for Gabriel
+Maggie covering Eugene =3
I guess it describes an episode that doesn't move the plot forward, which is starting to become every single one of them. So yeh, it's a dumb word to describe an episode of The Walking Dead.
Yeah. I miss him eye-fucking the camera
one that restores confidence in the viewer that the writers know where the story is going, presumably
You're crazy man. Walking Dead might lose it every so often. But Heroes was fucking awful. Like, the worst show ever.
I liked this episode. But then, I like most of them. Sasha is, however, a fucking idiot.
I really dont have a decent explanation
My main grip with the show is the "Nothing happens" complain. Yet a lot of things are actually happening.... and i feel the show sucks now more than ever.
I dont know, maybe i expected something different from the road the show is taking. Like i said some replies back, season 2 was bad but we had hope things would be better in the future, so we would take more shit. Now time has passed, things didnt got better and we dont have too much patience anymore with the show.
I wish they focus more on gathering food, shelter, ammo and interesting ideas to survive/rebuild than running from annoying threat to annoying threat.
I dont have a lot of hope...
AngmarsKing701
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Was that not the rest of my post? I felt it was disjointed and they tried to cover everyone without really giving sufficient time to any one group. I thought because of that they didn't advance much in the way of the story or the characters.
They found a yo-yo, though.
*Shrug*
Might have been my expectations were set high. I thought they'd get inside the prison at least, but we got Glenn fishing and Abe sulking and Eugene unconscious and Beth ... well, being Beth. I'm surprised she didn't try to sing Carol awake.
It felt too spread out, like they tried to connect a lot of dots between eps 4, 5 and 6 to setup for 8, without really having the kind of focus the show is capable of bringing. They filled in the gaps, almost too literally, and thus the episode was filler.
I love the show, but actually agree with this. Every other show has a hook. "Maybe they'll get off the island". "Maybe Jack will get away/vengeance". "Maybe Walt will actually earn enough money for his family" etc.
Walking Dead? Nothing. No hope. Just that Rick manages to kill everyone.
I'm okay with this, but perspective is important. I am willing to accept that everything means nothing, and everyone will die eventually.
They needed him alive as a bargaining chip. If he was just some dude that tried to kill them like the Terminus people of course he'd be dead no hesitation. Daryl's not soft, he's just being pragmatic. I have no doubt he'll have no qualms with slaughtering the hospital cops when the showdown with Dawn happens.
Keyser Soze
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Walking Dead is one of the few shows on TV that can happily march towards toward the whole main cast dying horribly as they work to the final episode. Or maybe all but one dies, and the final scene is the last survivor sobbing in a cabin surrounded by 100s of Walkers.
I feel if AMC are respectable to the show runners, this show could go out with an amazing finish - simply as no other show could justifiably end that way.
No of the hero characters can "win," and the show has been about them surviving during its run, so going gritty and dark seems when the show finally want to end us a fantastic way to go IMO.
terrdactycalsrock
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I like to imagine that what we're seeing is basically civilizations rebooting themselves. At the beginning there was little groups, and they didnt really have any safe places to stay. Now, groups are getting much larger, places like the prison, and Terminus are popping up. Eventally, I think, humans will get to where they were before the zombie outbreak. What we're seeing in the walking dead is just the building blocks to that future. And of course, Rick and crew what be around for it. Its so far in the future they will all be dead.
Hilarious post. Way to embarrass yourself.
I've been critiquing the show, And many people have echoed my comments. Many of them. You've decided to attack me instead of what I've written. You're way too attached to his show and you need to take a break and think about that.
Hereos was more ambitious with its time travelling stuff and had plenty of great moments during the first season. WD has made a show about survival boring. Furthermore, it had made zombies boring. A true feat.
That would be an amazing ending.
The only problem is that every group we've seen is crazy as hell. One of the show's themes seems to be that only the strong survive and that survival is brutal. I don't see there being a happy ending with what we've seen of the remaining humanity; they're all killers, delusional, or insane. Maybe the spin-off will change that a little.
RustyNails
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You're not critiquing the show dude. You're having a massive heart attack along with a brain aneurysm and a terrible diarrhea along with it. Show has problems but it's NO WAY near Heroes terrible. The day Rick turns to Carl and says "You know Carl, we really are the walking dead" is the day when you are allowed to make that comparison.
I think so too. Missed opportunity.
anything would have been better than running off like a scooby doo villain.
ToyMachine228
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I always envisioned the comics ending with essentially everyone dying and Carl having one final scene with a dying Rick and then walking into the sunset, cowboy hat and gun in hand. Show Carl however is not as likeable as comic Carl who is an amazing character.
Plenty of things I didn't like from the episode, let's see:
- Beth passes by and the old guy starts coughing, no one suspects anything. Beth passes by again and magically the old guy is fine. No one suspected anything.
- Bob and his "Were you a cop?" line when talking to Rick.
- Shootout scene was weird. It was 5 of them against a car that appeared out of nowhere, literally.
- Ninja zombie attacking Gabriel.
- While we are talking about Gabriel, why the fuck did he think leaving was a good idea? No matter how fucked up he is after seeing what Rick's group does, he HAS to know he can't make it on his own.
- Sasha's stupidity because of a guy named Bob... I had to laugh at that last scene.
AngmarsKing701
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This is a great list
william_557
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filler - a part of a show's story not relevant to the overall plot i'd say
HadesGigas
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This show doesn't even have an overall plot. It's plot is "here are some people that aren't dead, watch them until they're dead".
Christopher
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Why is Tyrese such a punk now...my god it's so awful.
this is a pretty spot on description actually.
Tyreses is a character that still has his head on straight.
Miles Quaritch
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Watched the episode last night and thought it was pretty good, shame about Sasha's stupidity towards the end, but what's happening with Rick?
The scene where he's holding the gun on the cop who attacks Daryl, he legit looks like a man who is about to break and go on a murderous rampage and his earlier reaction to Daryl siding with Tyrese in not killing the cops.
Is crazy Rick about to re-emerge? Yknow, the one who too pleasure in massacring those marauders Daryl was hanging with back in season 4?
The scene where he's holding the gun on the cop who attacks Daryl, he legit looks like a man who is about to break and go on a murderous rampage and his earlier reaction to Daryl siding with Tyrese in not killing the cops.
Is crazy Rick about to re-emerge? Yknow, the one who too pleasure in massacring those marauders Daryl was hanging with back in season 4?
I hope so, I love that Rick.
-Pyromaniac-
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I don't think there is a crazy Rick any more. I think he has went half half on being insane and being a good guy but now he has combined the two into some badass hybrid. When business needs to be handled he is down to handle it and wants to do it the best possible way.
Those were the eyes of a man who wanted to lay down that copper so damn bad lol.
Those were the eyes of a man who wanted to lay down that copper so damn bad lol.
Yeah your right, he is still in control of himself but can still go HAM when need be.
The gun he is using with the silencer is bad ass too.
Air Zombie Meat
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I think he's lost it already. He's just a cold blooded killer now. Theres a reason his own son keeps trying to talk him into having some humanity.
AngmarsKing701
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Seriously. That was such a tease.
Skinny Pete
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In February most likely.
SuperSonic1305
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When they are done with this filler arc and get back to the real story.
AngmarsKing701
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-Pyromaniac-
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interesting. I don't think I mind that info coming out early, I think it caused some intrigue during times where the show was criticized for being slow for no reason.
But yeah there's some stuff the comic did crazy fast that the show took a while to do and vice versa.
CreeperBlocks
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So are these Cops based on anyone in the comics? or are they new?
I wasn't vehemently opposed to the CDC episode like it seemed most people were. I thought it was a nice departure from always being on the road or held up in a shit hole. I actually preferred the way "we're all infected" was handled in the TV show vs the comic.
(Comic Spoilers)
Rick taking Jenner's words and keeping them to himself for the entirety of Season 2 since he didn't know whether to believe him or not was great. If you actually go back and marathon Season 2, you can see there are a bunch of moments where Jenner's words are haunting Rick and he almost spills it but he doesn't want to believe it. He doesn't want what Jenner told him to be true. And then ultimately, Rick confirms the truth in the exact same way: Shane coming back even though he wasn't bit. In the comic, Rick taking a motorcycle from the prison all the way back to Atlanta to find Shane's grave felt like too much (for lack of better wording).
-Pyromaniac-
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I said it before but walking dead always kills (multiple puns there) on season and midseason finales. Should be a good one.
ToyMachine228
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I still miss Rick driving out of his way to go dig up Shane and shoot him in the end like in the comics.
Can't wait. Wonder if something happens to Beth. I'd like to see Maggie's reaction considering she mentioned her sister's name like twice since the prison went up in flames.
Only T-Lion got the axe in the Season 3 midseason finale but I suppose that was enough... ;_;
CreeperBlocks
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