Ten Reasons The Walking Dead TV Series Sucks
Without preamble.
1. The November 2nd episode. Beth wakes up in a place that seems normal, safe and sound. But wait! Everything isn't as it seems. OMG, how many times have we gone through THAT plot line?
2. Same episode. And guess what? There's a creepy dude who wants to force himself on Beth. Wow, that's another new one for Hollywood. To believe today's script writers, woman are lucky to make it from their car at the curb into Starbucks without being assaulted. I understand sexual assault is a real issue, but I wonder if portraying so many men as predators is really helpful.
3. November 9th. Glass in a fuel line? Really? Who writes this stuff? Have they ever heard of a cup of water? More effective. The fuel filter would have blocked the glass.
5. Lack of edginess. Oh yeah, AMC loves the gore. Sort of a poor man's edginess, but how about Rick's right hand? He loses it in the comic book, but I guess we can't have a disfigured leading man, huh? Or Dale and Andrea's less-than-platonic relationship? Edgy to be sure, but not something AMC wanted to deal with.
6. Carl. Do I really need to say anything else? Just, Carl.
7. Dark pasts. Does everyone need a dark past? I don't have a dark past. None of my friends have dark pasts. Where are the normal folks?
8. Did I mention seemly safe refuges that turn out to be death traps?
9. Daryl's hair. Really? In five seasons he hasn't stumbled across a stream to wash it in?
10. The Talking Dead follows it. Chris Hardwick (Can you believe that guy is 43?) is engaging, clever, and a solid host... but... but the questions! They are inane. Here's a spoiler... none of the cast are EVER going to say anything significant about the show. Ever. Talking Dead would be so much much better if the guests talked a small amount about the episode and a large amount about themselves. How did they get into acting? Have they been in other zombie-like films, etc.
Without postamble. That's it.
Am I right, or am I right?
1. The November 2nd episode. Beth wakes up in a place that seems normal, safe and sound. But wait! Everything isn't as it seems. OMG, how many times have we gone through THAT plot line?
2. Same episode. And guess what? There's a creepy dude who wants to force himself on Beth. Wow, that's another new one for Hollywood. To believe today's script writers, woman are lucky to make it from their car at the curb into Starbucks without being assaulted. I understand sexual assault is a real issue, but I wonder if portraying so many men as predators is really helpful.
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4. Maggie's accent. Are you kidding me? I've lived my entire life in the south, I've never met anyone that talks like her. Over the top twang, yet perfect grammar.
5. Lack of edginess. Oh yeah, AMC loves the gore. Sort of a poor man's edginess, but how about Rick's right hand? He loses it in the comic book, but I guess we can't have a disfigured leading man, huh? Or Dale and Andrea's less-than-platonic relationship? Edgy to be sure, but not something AMC wanted to deal with.
6. Carl. Do I really need to say anything else? Just, Carl.
7. Dark pasts. Does everyone need a dark past? I don't have a dark past. None of my friends have dark pasts. Where are the normal folks?
8. Did I mention seemly safe refuges that turn out to be death traps?
9. Daryl's hair. Really? In five seasons he hasn't stumbled across a stream to wash it in?
10. The Talking Dead follows it. Chris Hardwick (Can you believe that guy is 43?) is engaging, clever, and a solid host... but... but the questions! They are inane. Here's a spoiler... none of the cast are EVER going to say anything significant about the show. Ever. Talking Dead would be so much much better if the guests talked a small amount about the episode and a large amount about themselves. How did they get into acting? Have they been in other zombie-like films, etc.
Without postamble. That's it.
Am I right, or am I right?
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Comments
Second where are all the bullets coming from?
Third it is not easy to shove a blade through a skull, believe me, we used to kill hogs, We either shot them or drove an ice pick in their skull, And we had to use a hammer. That is the biggest BS in the show. and also when they stab a Z and pull out the knife.A knife will stick in a person until you break the suction..
Anyway I loved the comic, Hate it now. And the show is falling into the pit of its on popularity.
Of course the biggest plot hole is still the walkers themselves, just wrong on so many levels of biology, but without them there would be no show...
When Rick gets killed I'll probably pick WD up again at that point. Few characters in any movie or TV show have ticked me off as much as him. Can't watch an otherwise great show because of him.
Does that make me wierd?
I was shocked when Beth was shot! I really didn't think it would happen. Then I liked it- saying, that I liked the pointless moments. Then I peeled back the onion in my thoughts and said - "you know, this makes NO sense the way it went down. The writers got REALLY LAZY." There was absolutely no motivation for Beth to put her life in Jeopardy, it was not even close to staying in character for what she's been exposed to:
1) Beth has NOT seen Rick or the Group and especially her Sister and the Judith since the Prison -those are who she cares about MOST
2) She has not seen Daryl since she was kidnapped. These are all people she LOVES and matter most to her.
3) In the midst of getting saved, SHE AND CAROL are walking out ALIVE with her most BELOVED friends. She doesn't know about her Sister, but can assume Maggie and Judith are still alive too and would want to find out.
4) Dawn is a bitch, but she is NO Governor, and the people there will eat their own eventually. You can despise Dawn, but again, she is not such a psycho-path that she is an existential threat to the group like Terminus or the Governor.
5) Noah was making a choice to sacrifice on his own free will. Nobody was gonna get hurt.
6) and Beth is just gonna try and use some small scissors in the middle of a Mexican Stand off where ALL her beloved friends can get murdered?
7) Beth's action was not going to help ANYONE. her calculus was all wrong. This was not "a good redeeming death" sacrifice like Meryl, T-dog, Andrea, or Hershel or even a nihilist pointless death like so many others. This was just stupid.
8) Finally Beth was the closest embodiment of living Herschel's values and maintaining an optimism about humanity and life, even with all its warts (i.e. her time with Daryl). I cannot see such a radical departure from her Father's example of non-violence, Christianity, and care-giving, and her time with Dawn is just not enough to have flipped her.
LAZY Writing. Walking Dead really pissed me off with this one - the story is risking itself.
Oh - anyone notice Near Death Carol, who get s wheeled out in a wheel chair is Standing behind Darryl at the end?