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The Walking Dead Season 7, Part 1 Sundays on AMC
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Disagree Guy
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Loved the first episode
Hated with a passion the second episode - worst of the entire show to date
Loved the third episode
I actually thought the acting was amazing. It's nice you get to see the back story of Dwight. He actually appears likeable, you can empathise with him. He's as much a prisoner as Daryl is.
The soundtrack was brilliant. They used songs that were so catchy it would be torture on a loop. Also the soundtrack where Dwight was aiming his gun at that man..... wow.
I think it advanced the story loads. My hatred for the tiger and Ezekiel was well documented last week but my god they pulled it back.
ZackieChan
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I agree about this episode. Thought it was brilliant.
Sorry about getting so uppity about your tiger spoilers a few weeks back! Thought it was a Negan thing, not some dopey new community. I didn't like that episode at all.
Disagree Guy
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That's ok man it was my bad. I didn't understand the rules properly but now I do.
Yeah I seriously stopped reading the comics once the tiger came in. Just nope.
On one hand it makes the TV show completely new to me now with the stuff that will be coming but on the other hand... there is a tiger on TV now
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Worst episodes ever? Did some of y'all just skip Season 2 entirely? Lol
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Contica
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Why is the tiger such a no no? There are actually people out there in the world who have large cats as pets. Are they still dangerous? Hell yeah! But it does happen, so I don't really find this, among all the weird stuff in The Walking Dead, to be far fetched at all.
Disagree Guy
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Tigers eat like 25 pounds of meat per day and Tigers raised in captivity will not eat rotten flesh. Carrion yes but not putrid.
Eventually it would attack the humans or they'd rebel against Ezekiel because of the sheer food consumption. It's just the most ridiculous shit ever.
Sony
Nintendo
Wait the song was actually played the hall? I thought only the viewer heard the song and it wasn't in the show?
Disagree Guy
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Yeah it was to torture Daryl - sleep deprevation. What a weird soundtrack choice if that was just for the audience hahaha
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
The song in the beginning during the montage was only audible to the audience.
The song that played over and over and over and over in Daryl's scenes was actually being played by Dwight and the other Saviors as a method of psychologically torturing Daryl.
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Contica
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I don't know much about captive tigers, but I can't find anything about them not eating rotten meat.
They don't have to eat every day though. Most large cats will stock up on food, then possibly not eat for several days. Even in captivity, they're not necessarily fed every day. A large animal can sustain a tiger for a week in the wild.
We saw the pigs, it was mentioned they live wild now. Technically there could be a lot of wild pigs roaming around. Let's not forget the zombie outbreak happened years ago. That's a lot of time for animal populations to rise dramatically since there are far fewer people actually hunting them.
So, since it looked like there was no shortage of food in the kingdom, this isn't necessarily an issue at all. We'll see, if in a future episode they talk about how food i scarce in the kingdom, then I'll agree, keeping a tiger is stupid.
Keyser Soze
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It was kinda obvious it was been played to torture him. He even reacted to it a few times - flinched and covered his ears.
I guess the director could have added a small 5 second scene of Dwight pushing play on a Hi-Fi or something to make it clear - maybe if there was not so many damn adverts they could have fit it in.
Disagree Guy
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A friend of mine works in a zoo, the info I have comes from him.
They don't have to eat every day that's right, in the wild they can gorge on 100 pounds or more and then not eat for days. Let's just remember this is a captive tiger though. They are very different, especially reared since a cub like Ezekiel said.
I just think it's incredibly unnecessary and needlessly farfetched, and yes I know this is a zombie show but it's biggest draw is the realistic way they approach it
dreamcastfan
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Well.. there seems to be plenty of horses around, and pigs... I would wager other animals as well that we don't see.. I'm sure things like that are helpful.
Escape Goat
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I think it had more to do with Glenn. Darryl wouldn't give Negan the satisfaction after what Negan did to his friend. Its a 1:1 with Dwight's sister.
poppabk
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I couldn't tell if they were giving the wild caught pigs because they wanted to give pigs fed on zombie meat, or if they were getting desperate because they had ran out of pigs they had raised themselves.
Frankfurter
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What I really dislike about EP 2 and 3 is that they just didn't show anything about Rick/Alexandria. Especially in EP 2 it would have been so easy to switch between the two to change the pacing a bit.
-Pyromaniac-
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awesome.
norman did great work this episode. There are so many characters on this show that sometimes that classics fall by the wayside but it was a good reminder of why so many fans love Daryl. He's a badass.
Dunedain_Ranger
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It's a show about zombies I let my sense of what's real and sensible go after the first episode so i wouldn't constantly ask " why wouldn't they just ........"
Disagree Guy
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Bring on the ice-cream shitting taco I suppose
ZackieChan
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Dunedain_Ranger
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You can cling on to your realism all you want. You know exactly what I intended as I said this is the same show that had Lori's whole body devoured by one zombie or carol perfectly aiming a firework at a gas tank from that far away and hitting it dead on.
Barry Burton
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Completely agreed. Daryl driving the ambulance off the bridge was when I stopped caring about realism on TWD. The little details that are unrealistic don't bother me at all anymore, only real egregious stuff like Glenn and the dumpster. A tiger? I'm fine with just going along with it.
superNESjoe
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The writers should be thankful every day that people continued watching after Season 2.
Dunedain_Ranger
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Maybe we should have a whole episode of shiva eating habits ?
AngmarsKing701
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Ep 1 - Trump's America. All about fear and consequences.
Ep 2 - Clinton's America. All about hope and being stronger together.
Ep 3 - Back in Trumpland.
Ep 2 - Clinton's America. All about hope and being stronger together.
Ep 3 - Back in Trumpland.
Disagree Guy
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And there we have it. The only way possible they could make a worse episode than episode 2.
Barry Burton
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I want 90 minutes of Morgan teaching it aikido!
WickedLaharl
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It would fit the slow crawl of desperately trying to drag this show on forever perfectly. I like TWD but dedicating entire episodes to one or two central characters is getting old and feels like AMC is purposely making the plot move as slowly as possible.
Wait I'm pretty sure they had a moment where someone pressed play.
Escape Goat
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I'd be happier if they stopped trying to adapt the comics. Just go do your own shit.
Air Zombie Meat
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I doubt they'll do much with the tiger. Gotta think of that special effects budget.
Idle Storm
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This caught me so off gaurd, I think a lot of good memes could come out of the scene where Negan ask's Daryl who he is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDCvH3XEHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDCvH3XEHs
J_Macgrady
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So Dwight/Negan's relationship is basically:
The weird thing about hanging out with Negan was that Dwight could hate him, and at the same time, still wanted Negan to like him. Dwight knew it was better being in the saviors hating life than to not be in it at all. Because being in the saviors is like being famous. People looked at you all the time and everybody just knew stuff about you.
The weird thing about hanging out with Negan was that Dwight could hate him, and at the same time, still wanted Negan to like him. Dwight knew it was better being in the saviors hating life than to not be in it at all. Because being in the saviors is like being famous. People looked at you all the time and everybody just knew stuff about you.
Air Zombie Meat
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Dwight wants Darryl to submit to confirm that he was right to do so himself or that he had no choice. I get why people wanted him to fake it (i did too at the time) but the inner conflict it's creating in Dwight is more interesting.
Lol so much season 2 hate here. Some of the best character development happened in lots of those episodes. Slow pace sure, and the story/location didn't move enough, but it's my second favorite season in the show. When you're not watching week to week it's much better (I initially hated it when it premiered).
We go from Rick/Shane to Dwight pointing a gun at some asshole we also don't care about who also can't act for shit? Sure, the story is moving along on paper, but the some people have REALLY lowered their expectations for the characters and their interactions with each other. That was the worst acted and written scene I've seen in the entire show.
TWD's biggest problem is that we spend too much time with characters we don't care about (which makes up a lot of the filler). Dwight, for me, is just another name on that ever growing list.
We go from Rick/Shane to Dwight pointing a gun at some asshole we also don't care about who also can't act for shit? Sure, the story is moving along on paper, but the some people have REALLY lowered their expectations for the characters and their interactions with each other. That was the worst acted and written scene I've seen in the entire show.
TWD's biggest problem is that we spend too much time with characters we don't care about (which makes up a lot of the filler). Dwight, for me, is just another name on that ever growing list.
Wait, was Season 2 Sophia?
If so, damn some ppl and their tastes, opinions. That was a great season. Shane was amazing. And the Sophia reveal, cmon. That alone was amazing.
GreySquirrel
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I can't remember what Daryl did to Dwight for Dwight to hate him so much?
Nothing really. IIRC he helped them in the woods trying to escape the Saviors. They thanked him by stealing his bike and stuff.
Daryl was there defending the Dr when they shot her. Maybe Dwight is pissed about that.
GreySquirrel
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That's what I thought. It's like "sorry for defending myself and you stealing my stuff?" I thought Daryl had caused Dwight's burn and I had forgotten about it at first but this episode revealed otherwise
RatskyWatsky
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L+SD ratings:
Season 7
Episode 1: 17.0 million 8.4 A18-49
Episode 2: 12.5 million 6.1 A18-49
Episode 3: 11.7 million 5.7 A18-49
That was the lowest rated episode since season 4 episode 7!
Season 7
Episode 1: 17.0 million 8.4 A18-49
Episode 2: 12.5 million 6.1 A18-49
Episode 3: 11.7 million 5.7 A18-49
That was the lowest rated episode since season 4 episode 7!
So 40% of the audience weren't kidding when they said they were done with this after that 1st episode massacre.
Just because of the crying face, right? Admit it.
yeah lol.
I look at the Saviors as a cult. Dwight might as well be brainwashed.
Sure was. But it was too boring.. right?
GreySquirrel
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I get that but it seemed like Dwight had a grudge with Daryl beyond that. Maybe it is actual jealousy with the way he is wearing his jacket and using his crossbow. If anything it's Eugene he should be pissed at
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