The Walking Dead: Season 5 - Page 3

that sucks, coz i could live without rick

Show is up and down.

When it's good, it's very good. But there's a lot of pretty shit/forgettable filler in between that's there to make advertising $$.

Overall I find it enjoyable and tune in each week but it can be a bit frustrating at times. New episode was great so hopefully a good omen for season ahead. Although it's likely going to slow down a lot now as they build towards the mid-season finale and then the second half of next year.

Been liking the show ever since they killed Andrea, then I was filled with joy, warmth and happiness, so now I smile when I watch the show, cos she's not there, yay!!

Oh, and I thought the episode was cool!! Obviously not among the titans, but different kind of cool!!

Game of Thrones > Fargo > Breaking Bad > Vikings s2 > House of Cards > True Detectives (my top 5 in order.)


As for Anime's, last year or so, it's something like:

Akame Ga Kill, Sword Art Online, Shingeki no kyojin, Log Horizon, Tokyo Ghoul, Hunter x Hunter and Aldnoa Zero (These are not in order.)


Notable mentions, been liking The Tyrant, but started slow n boring, and The Blacklist. Also just feel good, nothing amazing, just light and fun, Orange is the new Black and Suits.

true detective > house of cards > breaking bad > a bunch of shows > piece of paper > dogshit > game of thrones

^rofl

On October 14 2014 22:25 Baalim wrote: Show nested quote + On October 14 2014 09:48 Loco wrote: Main problem is its predictability. What makes a show like Game of Thrones great is the fact that you simply cannot know who is going to make it out or not. In this show, it doesn't matter at any point how in danger the characters look, you just feel like it's certain that they are not going to die. Since it's a story about survival and not much else, it really prevents you taking the show seriously. Like in this episode, they try hard to get you to be excited and filled with adrenaline when they are slashing the throats of the guys, and of course we know something is gonna happen 0.5 second before he hits one of them in the head with the bat. It's pretty bad because the start was very interesting and claustrophobic but you just know there will be a miracle and it's never believable. Anyway, most of us just watch it to turn our brains off for a while. literally no TV show ever has been as unpredictable when it comes to deaths as GoT, it would obv be amazing if TWT disposed of main characters like that, but I dont think many writers simply have that ability

Yeah but GoT has this unpredictability on top of everything else which is also great. It doesn't rely on those unpredictable deaths to make the show great. Whereas TWT should be unpredictable because its scope is limited: the screenwriting is terrible and the whole thing is monotonous and unexciting outside of people (potentially) dying. The best thing they could do is have you care about the main characters and feel like they might not make it out. If you can't make a smart show at least make it have some balls.

^ what is TWT?

I think the death thing is genre limited but I'd happily be proven wrong. I think you need a pretty unusual plot structure in a survival horror zombie show for that to work. I mean, at the end of the day it's zombies we're talking about and that can only be taken so seriously, lol. People want to see a hero they like with a long-standing and consistently successful rate of survival. You could change it up but it's an increasingly bigger gamble in a show like this and IMO you're pretty much guaranteed to lose viewers. They can lose "key" characters but after each ep Rick needs to survive..

If the main lead character died pretty often the show would be more realistic (again, zombies != realism, not a focus) but for that to work the show would need to be more decentralised (like GoT) with each part strong enough that you won't miss another enough to stop watching/reading. I just don't see the walking dead or any other zombie show pulling that off. They sort of tried it last season when the group split up and we had around 4 different groups and stories going on at the same time with each trying to survive. It was watchable but the show just doesn't have the depth to pull it off and I just wanted them to group up again. See, temporarily that was fine but if it was for every season of the show then not so much. The thing in the back of every viewers mind is that zombies are coming and some shit is going down and they would prefer to see it go down as often as possible IMO. If I think about which parts of the walking dead I miss the most I'm thinking about when they first grouped up in season 1 and headed into Atlanta(?). That was fucking cool and what I want to see more of in the show.
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#bobecue

^lol

On October 16 2014 01:07 RaiNKhAN wrote: true detective > house of cards > breaking bad > a bunch of shows > piece of paper > dogshit > game of thrones

dont listen to advice for tv series from this man.

Khan is right

Your taste in TV shows is upto you.. that's why I don't really argue over which show is better than another. If you want to chill and watch a TV show and you think house of cards > all then do you just watch house of cards on repeat long after you've finished it? No, you watch something else until a new season comes out. Maybe for you the walking dead is that something else and maybe for another person it's their favourite... just depends

On October 14 2014 06:34 Baalim wrote: Pretty strong start of the season, I wasnt loving the Eugene character because he didnt look nerdy enough with the mullet but I just googled the comic and he is very similar

On October 20 2014 13:40 devon06atX wrote: Show nested quote + On October 14 2014 06:34 Baalim wrote: Pretty strong start of the season, I wasnt loving the Eugene character because he didnt look nerdy enough with the mullet but I just googled the comic and he is very similar

roflmao

^hilarious

On October 20 2014 01:45 PuertoRican wrote: #bobecue

WP

Episode 1 was amazing. 2 was okay. Seems like they are recruiting every actor from The Wire into this show.

Why was Bob crying at the end of this episode btw? I wasn't really paying attention.