Posted on 09/30/2016 8:46:45 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
2 hour season finale this Sunday.
Episode 14 is called "Wrath".
Episode 15 is called "North".
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I really tried to like this show as I am a big time WD fan. And there have been a couple of episodes (out of what, 4 seasons now) - and have given it every chance. But the bottom line is the show sucks. The characters suck. The actors suck. The writing sucks. The story lines (to the extent there are any) suck. It just sucks.
Thanks for posting! Have a great weekend!
I’m a big WD fan and I too tried to like this show, but I couldn’t. I decided it’s because I just don’t like the characters. At all. Especially the kids, I couldn’t feel sympathetic for any of them.
Big TWD fan here.
I root for the bad guys in FTWD because the characters suck.
Sunday’s finale might also end the series for me.
It is just bad.
Yep ... their last chance at redemption. If it's still boring, I'm done with it.
Hate to say but I stopped watching this show because I can’t figure out what it’s about. What are these people doing? Are they trying to get to safety? Or what? It’s just not as interesting as TWD is.
I’m actually looking forward to this! I was about to give up on this until the back end of season 2... it has been very very good.
This is the most unlikable cast of characters in zombie history. It even beats Z Nation.
If they had any imagination and creativity, they should have made the spinoff to Walking Dead an anthology series with one to three episode stories with different casts exploring the zombie catastrophe at different times and in different places.
This would make each story unpredictable as the characters would be new and all would be disposable.
Instead, it’s more of the same and just a bore.
Yep, hubby and I stopped watching some weeks ago. There was NO character in that show that, when coming face to face with a "walker", I wasn't pulling for the walker. Unlikeable characters, the "father" figure character was weak, the chief female character was annoying as hell. The drug addict son was too bizarre to relate to --- I probably should have stopped watching sooner.
Hi, please remove me from the FTWD chat. Hubby and I stopped watching the show some weeks back, and we won’t be going back to it.
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it is an interesting take as it is kind of like how liberals deal with twd scenario. i dont like’the characters much, they make incredibly stupid mistakes, they deny reality to their own peril becauseof stupid beliefs, and they splinter off under’stress because there isnt really an alpha among them. they hate guns and now they wish they had them. they had no real military or cop’person around with knowledge of how to do certain things and be a leader people could build a group around. instead we got a gay love theme to mexico and bratty and doped’up kids basically’dictating the groups critical’decisions.
its libs in twd versus flyover country in twd.
And none of the actors have the slightest bit of charisma. The only actor that had some, and an interesting character to play, was the Ruben Blades character and he got killed off. I can’t get over that - the only interesting character in the entire show got killed off.
Have watched a few of season 2 episode, though AMC makes it hard as they would not leave up the old episodes in any kind f a predictable sequence, hence I missed a few of the first 7 in season 2.
That said here are the defects of season 2 part 1-7:
1)The portion they were on the boat was turning into a “lost in space” kind of show. Each episode was a neat package, yes there was something unresolved but it was kind formulaic.
2) The characters had no larger sense of nobility, a hold over from season 1, so it was hard to pull for them. They were perfectly willing to cause the death of many innocents in season one to give them a chance to get into the military base...frankly after that stunt, they were essentially not folks one could care about.
3) They had to make the Black guy gay. Every show has to have a strong gay character. Kind of sick of it, once again a modern formula.
4) Had it been me the Hispanic son would have had an ass licking, followed by druggy followed by the daughter if she still acted like a valley girl. The fact the step father did not deal with his responsibilities in a real way just made the mess the kids got the group into kind of inevitable.
5) complete disregard for hygiene. They know this virus is transferred by blood, yet they handle body pars without gloves, cover themselves with blood, on the face where it is very possible to get contact with mouth, eyes and nose (through sweat). A level of stupidity beyond that which is reasonable for humans to display and still live.
The second part of the season started strong, with the father having to face his one son was “off” and trying to figure out a way to save him (which we know will not be possibly, eventually he will have to put a bullet in the kid’s head) but they it went to pieces in the following way:
1) why are all the leaders women? Not realistic. The recon chick, the mom with the other group, it just does not match reality, where the groups would coalesce around a strong male figure.
2) The recon chick was pretty hot and she would not go for a sensitive druggy who risked every thing to get a little girl a cupcake. If she did he would be beaten up by a Hispanic guy who figured the girl was his. A lot of male battles are over fertile women and once it was tooth and nail, the strong would take what would be willingly offered to them. Once again the inability to reflect the basic human reality of how humans behave under stress just kills believability.
3) They are still so stupid. The scene in the bar where they get drunk and start playing the piano, the splitting up when they have no idea how many dead are around, the turning on of the lights at the hotel at night, the mom acting out at the gang hang out. I mean really it is just so dumb that the ability to suspend disbelief is pretty much gone.
4) How is it in urban areas there are not that many dead but in the middle of the desert there are lots of them? Just dumb.
5) The druggy was wounded, got badly chewed up by dogs and yet, after covering himself with blood did not pick up the deadly virus. Yet prior when folks got bit they turned in short order. The inability of the series to utilize common rules in this alternative reality once again kill the show.
6) It seems like folks worry more about mommy and daddy issues then surviving. Once again stupid and unrealistic.
The show is a mess. Yet I watch it....
I’m not sure how this show continues to be aired. Boring lackluster writing by liberals. I stopped watching it. There is no plot to it, just soap opera style writing.
You’re right, I root for the walkers in this show.
And that was disappointing and not necessarily because he turned out gay. When he made his appearance in the last couple of episodes of season one he came off as a badass Alpha male who showed a lot of promise. He seemed to be the only one with an inkling of what was going on and how to handle it. About the time they revealed him as gay he turned into this mopey beta character who has now pretty much evolved into a lackey for Madison, the boring mom character.
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