The Artisan
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tl;dr at the botom
decided to make this thread when I caught up on showing my mom the Waling Dead from the beginning, which I also hadn't done because I started watching the show from season 4.
Season 1: I liked a lot of the characters, in fact I'd go so far as to say if I watched this show from the beginning, then Dale would've been my favorite character.
Season 2: I also used to hear people talk shit about this season coz it was so slow. I didn't really care for that, I hate the horror genre let alone the zombie subgenre, it's the characters is why i watch the show, now obviously shane was a villain, the only that annoyed me was how long they were taking with his antagonization. it was dragging.
Season 3: Milton I felt kinda bad for and honestly I felt like Andrea could've survived that but they killed her off maybe the actress didn't wanna do the show no more or something.
Season 4: This is where I started watching the show, and I found the characters madd compelling but the dialogue pretty bad sometimes, and yeah that is just one of the weakpoints of the show I guess. It ended on a cliffhanger with me wanting to see more.
Season 5: Eventually I felt they were being a little annoying with how the handle the villains. The season 5 trailer was not only misleading, it was literally false advertising - with Gareth having a convo saying the words "We go to Washington, and cure this thing." Anyways, the hunters didn't last long but I thought they'd keep Gareth around, unfortunately no because...that horrific origin story they were giving to the Terminus people, you'd think they wanted to show some sort of humanity side to them, but...they were once good people, bad people came in and took over, then they took back over and turned to cannibals? Okay... and they're all dead by episode 3. Why were we supposed to sympathize with any of them if they all end up dead?
Then there's the Beth storyline... And it was fine, but the way they had her die in the midseason finale...It really felt unnatural, inorganic and routine. As if they felt like they had to kill someone by the midseason finale and had it be Beth, with this (arguably filler) storyline, build up her character for half a season, and then kill her? Fuck that shit. I think it would've been awesome seeing Beth with a designated role in Alexandria by now.
Season 5 didn't really end on a cliffhanger, I thought the ending was pretty conclusive. Season 4 ended on a cliffhanger though, but it was a conclusive one. It was appropriate, now...
...Season 6: This season was a bunch of bullshit. It had some high highs, one of which in my opinion a highest of a high, but this season had the lowest of the lows. Again with the villains, I thought there was gonna be more come out of I guess the alpha wolf, based on showing how capable they were if not with firearms than with traps because of all those zombies they had in those trucks and the way to get all of them back in there.
First of all, that Glenn bullshit - here's the fucking thing with that, it's like the show's narrative is breaking the 4th wall and playing a game with the viewer, making them think it's Glenn getting eaten alive. And then the next episode, they have the nerve to not even show what happens next, but stick in an extended episode catching up exclusively on Morgan.
That's bullshit because it puts a cliffhanger ending episode right before it and puts that shit on pause for an irrelevant flashback! If they did this episode after the midseason premier, or just had it be the season premier, then it would've been fine. Then eventually we get to the episode where we see what happens to Glenn, where the camera now takes better shots showing the viewer that it was Nicholas getting devoured all along and Glenn got under the dumpster. All stuff they could've showed when it happened the first place but they just wanted to play a fucking game,
and then we get to that bullshit cliffhanger of this season. This cliffhanger is injustice. They explained it on Talking Dead as "This is this part of RIck's story coming to an end, and a new one beginning at the beginning of season 6."
Except the problem with that is that yes Rick and his family sees the person getting beat to death, but the viewer did not see him/her. And that's the narrative again playing another fuckin game with the viewer.
Based on my living situation, I'm probably not gonna catch the season 6 premier or any episode on time this year, and I feel like part of the reason for that is lost interest. I'll probably still watch it all, but the reason for my massive disinterest in Fear was the walking dead season 6 finale that came right before it. But this show finally did Rick x Michonne, and that'll make the show still worth watching.
tl;dr
This show was good and even story was good, the actual presentation was getting so fucking bad, parts of season 5, and then 6...I'll still watch the show but maybe not as avidly as before.
What do you think?
Got high and
Season 1: I liked a lot of the characters, in fact I'd go so far as to say if I watched this show from the beginning, then Dale would've been my favorite character.
Season 2: I also used to hear people talk shit about this season coz it was so slow. I didn't really care for that, I hate the horror genre let alone the zombie subgenre, it's the characters is why i watch the show, now obviously shane was a villain, the only that annoyed me was how long they were taking with his antagonization. it was dragging.
Season 3: Milton I felt kinda bad for and honestly I felt like Andrea could've survived that but they killed her off maybe the actress didn't wanna do the show no more or something.
Season 4: This is where I started watching the show, and I found the characters madd compelling but the dialogue pretty bad sometimes, and yeah that is just one of the weakpoints of the show I guess. It ended on a cliffhanger with me wanting to see more.
Season 5: Eventually I felt they were being a little annoying with how the handle the villains. The season 5 trailer was not only misleading, it was literally false advertising - with Gareth having a convo saying the words "We go to Washington, and cure this thing." Anyways, the hunters didn't last long but I thought they'd keep Gareth around, unfortunately no because...that horrific origin story they were giving to the Terminus people, you'd think they wanted to show some sort of humanity side to them, but...they were once good people, bad people came in and took over, then they took back over and turned to cannibals? Okay... and they're all dead by episode 3. Why were we supposed to sympathize with any of them if they all end up dead?
Then there's the Beth storyline... And it was fine, but the way they had her die in the midseason finale...It really felt unnatural, inorganic and routine. As if they felt like they had to kill someone by the midseason finale and had it be Beth, with this (arguably filler) storyline, build up her character for half a season, and then kill her? Fuck that shit. I think it would've been awesome seeing Beth with a designated role in Alexandria by now.
Season 5 didn't really end on a cliffhanger, I thought the ending was pretty conclusive. Season 4 ended on a cliffhanger though, but it was a conclusive one. It was appropriate, now...
...Season 6: This season was a bunch of bullshit. It had some high highs, one of which in my opinion a highest of a high, but this season had the lowest of the lows. Again with the villains, I thought there was gonna be more come out of I guess the alpha wolf, based on showing how capable they were if not with firearms than with traps because of all those zombies they had in those trucks and the way to get all of them back in there.
First of all, that Glenn bullshit - here's the fucking thing with that, it's like the show's narrative is breaking the 4th wall and playing a game with the viewer, making them think it's Glenn getting eaten alive. And then the next episode, they have the nerve to not even show what happens next, but stick in an extended episode catching up exclusively on Morgan.
That's bullshit because it puts a cliffhanger ending episode right before it and puts that shit on pause for an irrelevant flashback! If they did this episode after the midseason premier, or just had it be the season premier, then it would've been fine. Then eventually we get to the episode where we see what happens to Glenn, where the camera now takes better shots showing the viewer that it was Nicholas getting devoured all along and Glenn got under the dumpster. All stuff they could've showed when it happened the first place but they just wanted to play a fucking game,
and then we get to that bullshit cliffhanger of this season. This cliffhanger is injustice. They explained it on Talking Dead as "This is this part of RIck's story coming to an end, and a new one beginning at the beginning of season 6."
Except the problem with that is that yes Rick and his family sees the person getting beat to death, but the viewer did not see him/her. And that's the narrative again playing another fuckin game with the viewer.
Based on my living situation, I'm probably not gonna catch the season 6 premier or any episode on time this year, and I feel like part of the reason for that is lost interest. I'll probably still watch it all, but the reason for my massive disinterest in Fear was the walking dead season 6 finale that came right before it. But this show finally did Rick x Michonne, and that'll make the show still worth watching.
tl;dr
This show was good and even story was good, the actual presentation was getting so fucking bad, parts of season 5, and then 6...I'll still watch the show but maybe not as avidly as before.
What do you think?
