it was the preview during the credits sequence at the end of the episode. Not sure what they showed during Badlands
I love that they had someone as bad ass as him still willing to to take the pacifist i shall not kill stance but he is outright stupid for stopping Carol. The Wolf literally said i am going to kill all of you why not let Carol do what she does best. Bloods not on his hands.
Well, that was disappointing. Morgan is a dumbass. Deanna's death scene was lame. Sam needs to be taken out. Walkers storming the house, someone yells, "close all the blinds and keep very quiet." (something to that affect) No one thinks to turn off the lame "Tiptoe through the tulips" music or was there something more symbolic there? Best thing about the episode was it brought back memories of Tiny Tim making his return to Rowan & Martins Laugh-In to perform "Tiptoe Through The Tulips". His first appearance featured Tim singing "On The Good Ship Lollipop", which lead the nation as a whole to proclaim, "What the hell did I just watch?"
Aew, I get a kick out of every one of your takes, but I feel like I should respond with twelve paragraphs, which immediately takes my energy. Sorry if it feels like I'm ditching you sometimes, but that's kind of how it is. My apologies. I just don't feel like my replies would live up to your questions. That out of the way, your take on Flannel Guy was perfect, I felt the same way. I've felt the same way about Senator Lady for a while too, even from the beginning.
A good friend of mine told me about Deadwood, and I've been meaning to binge on it for a while. No, I didn't like the Gov. Possibly because people hyped him up so much. Mainly because I really did find him boring. It was probably the actor, but there was more. Monotone parts, aside from Andrea's fantastic naked ass. His best part was when Michonne killed his daughter, there was so much potential, and it didn't nearly live up to that. He just bored me to death.
The Gov in the comic books was so much better than the one on the show. I hope they don't do the same thing with Negan.
I like Jeffrey Dean Morgan, he did a good job in Watchmen and a great job in Texas Rising. The only thing that can hold him back is the writers.
Pretty much this. The disappointment of the Governor pretty much killed the show for me. The writing that season was the absolute worst it's been, but I have I idea how anyone involved in the show could have interpreted the idea of that character (from what I read about the hype of him) to have been so dull as the actor portrayed him.
If you are just realizing this now, I don't know what to say. Nothing on this show is realistic, and it's been that way since the beginning. The premise of the entire show is zombies with rotted out stomachs magically get hungry, consume human flesh and gain energy from it. They somehow survive for years in near skeleton form with rotted flesh and muscles, but have strength to knock down metal fences and buildings. This show requires suspension of disbelief. The big thing that gave the Glenn fake death away was that it meant nothing. He died over somebody's stupidity. There was nobody there to witness it, nobody even knew if he was dead or alive. There was no closure for Maggie. It would have been way more upsetting to see the show write him off like that.
Suspension of disbelief is what is required to accept any fantasy. That has zero to do with evaluating the quality of the storytelling itself which has nothing to do with suspension of disbelief but whether the events, actions and decisions are plausible. It's one of the most basic storytelling requirements. Just because we accept a land of rotted zombies for the sake of the story existing doesn't mean there is no expectation of plausibility within that world. By your argument, had the show revealed that Glenn, in the moment, discovered he had the ability to shoot fire out if his ass then we'd just have to nod our head and say "hey, if I can suspend disbelief that zombies exist than it ain't too far fetched that Glenn is an as fire mutant." That's not how story telling works.
I agree with this and it is a big problem in shows. Fine, the world is ravaged by zombies and the rules have all changed, I get that and I'm fine with it. Just give me some rules that mean something and matter and are consistent. You don't have to tell me the rules, just you need to know them. Why are there zombies in a sewer with grass growing out of their faces? What in the world would draw a zombie into a locked sewer and lead it to just lay down and wait for prey to stumble upon them? Why wouldn't the zombies eat Glenn too? Why would Zen Master teacher die for someone he just met against one single zombie when it has been proven he can easily handle himself?
I hate to say it, but Z Nation has surpassed TWD as the better zombie show. When I first watched it, ZN was like a made-for-Chiller movie in writing and production, but it's funny as hell and doesn't take itself seriously and gets very creative in its plot devices. The acting is what it is, but I find myself more interested in it than I am with the predictable and faux-epic themes that TWD pretends at.
You are right and that was kind of my point. It's not just suspension of disbelief, it's more than that. The storytelling and character dialogue has been lacking since the beginning. Hardly any of it is even remotely realistic when it comes to how situations are handled and how characters interact with one another. That's exactly what I was talking about.
I agree the show has a history of simplicity and contrivance, but this mock death was different. It made zero sense and was crafted solely around the desire to deceive the audience.
