I've come to not care about any of the characters. All the good ones, except for Glenn, are gone. The producers have inured me to the death of characters that I liked so I just don't care anymore if any of them die.
At the end of the last ep I just shrugged my shoulders and said, "Okay, so they killed off another one. Big deal."
I may continue to watch by downloading torrents but I stopped staying up to watch a year ago for the above reason.
TWD ping.
Why do I get the feeling in the back of my mind that the writer (a Law Professor) is somehow figuring out some meme that “Zombies have rights, too!” and trying to figure out how to wrangle a class action law suit even before the zombie apocalypse begins?
I watch The Walking Dead more for the survivalist and prepper insights it offers than for the human-zombie battles.
In any post-apocalyptic world (meteor strike, plague, zombies, etc.) the survivors would naturally have to face other survivors. Right now, there are a lot of people in this world that I would NOT want to see running around without adult supervision.
The Walking Dead franchise, more and more, is focused on that weird, violent dynamic. Would your mild-mannered neighbor turn into a petty tyrant, or a cannibal, or a pedophile? Yeah, possibly.
Interesting and instructive.
Actually, real life has often been much worse than TWD.
Read about the Siege of Jerusalem, and the starvation. Roving gangs went house to house looking for food. Sometimes, the starvation was so bad, their mental capacity was affected and they would go back to a house they already visited, because they couldn’t remember having raided it already.
One house, they smelled food. They found it was a mother eating her baby.
I don’t get the zombie thing. No basis in fact like most scifi
I do enjoy zambie comedies. ‘Sean of the Dead’ and ‘Zambiand’ are great
Zombies. Otherwise known as the Colorado Republican Party
I saw the trailer for the new Star Wars spinoff-”Rogue 1,” and I just couldn’t watch the whole thing. Wise, all-powerful black Jedi mentor, check, Asian martial arts trainer, check, empowered women, check. I’ll be keeping my hard-earned shekels on this one, thanks.
I have to say I agree with you. For me I can watch a 42 minute TWD episode in about 7 minutes by fast forwarding through the exposition.
It’s all well and good to have a show that centers on the drama of human survival in a post apocalyptic world. But when that’s all there is and the show lacks an overarching idea (as opposed to a theme) that the characters can coalesce then it just becomes mindless.
Even survival, as a sense of purpose, can only hold my attention for so long. Consider Falling Skies on TNT (obviously not as good as TWD) which had some of the same elements: post-apocalyptic world, survival, aliens instead of zombies. At least that show didn’t waste my time as much with melodramatic navel-gazing and self-introspection. They had a goal: rid the planet of the aliens. There was some character development, but it was always subordinate to advancing the main idea of the plot. TWD is the reverse of that.
I enjoyed the show very much in it’s debut season. Then I tuned into season 2, and it already started to “get old” halfway through the season. However, I was curious, so I stuck with it to see what happened up to the finale of that 2nd season. Didn’t even start watching the 3rd season, and I haven’t had any interest since.
I don’t have cable, and I’m not going to pay to watch online. Saw the first couple of seasons, and a few episodes here and there after that. I don’t think I’m missing anything.
Because all of the zombies should have had their brains eaten out by maggots by the second week.
If I don’t ever see another “My god! What have we become!” episode of TWD, I’ll be fine.
You’ve become what is necessary to survive. You didn’t make the rules. You didn’t waylay people on the road and rob them of their supplies. You don’t shamble around the countryside trying to eat folks. So why the unending angst over doing what you have to do?
Shut up, kill the creatures who are trying to kill you, and spare us the banal moralizing and shameful tears. They’re useless.
By the way, so is Morgan. Take him out in the woods and put a bullet in him.
I read the first “compendium” of TWD. Good, until the ending: too depressing and portending endless more to come. A good setup, but no hint of any movement toward a conclusion (lest the series actually, you know, end).
There’s been more ink expended on this show in the past six or seven years than on anything else in recent television history.
Hey, it’s just for fun.
If it ‘works’ on any level, it’s as metaphor.
We’re all surrounded by zombies all the time.
If you doubt it, pick up a newspaper.
And its still one of the best shows on TV today. Tells you much about whats on now. While I wait for next season, I’ll watch some Game of Thrones. Can’t wait to read the articles on how bad that one is </sarc>.
“.. stop watching the Walking Dead franchise..”
Go ahead... more Darryl for me. :)
I like the show, but it’s going to hit a saturation point soon (or already has), and the “genre” will go away. It’s like westerns. You don’t see a whole lot of them anymore, especially in movies.
I gave up on TWD after season two. You either buy into the premise and go with it or you don’t. I didn’t.
There are other shows I can watch multiple times such as "House of Cards", "Breaking Bad" and "Boardwalk Empire." But not this one for some reason.
I first discovered the show when they ran a repeat marathon of the first season. I watched a few more after that then lost interest.
One of the things that made me lose interest was wondering how they keep their clothes in such good shape. You’d think they’d be falling off in a month or so. And there are all kinds of stores around. Get some new clothes.
Second, where are they getting their haircuts? With the exception of Darryl everyone’s hair looks perfect. Darryl’s is the only one that looks like he cuts his own hair with a hunting knife.
Then I finally realized it’s not a documentary so I stopped watching it.