The Walking Dead: Season 8

[Hector]

Best episode of the season so far...






SPOILERS....







Man, I’m actually going to miss Simon...second best character after Dwight. And I hope Dwight himself survives in the season finale...







END OF SPOILERS...

[Hector]

As I said before, and I’ll say it again...in a zombie apocalypse...the armed forces would be the only ones standing...not average everyday folks. Certainly not this inept group who has zero tactical prowess in the art of offense, defensive, etc.

You think Rick and company would be more effective than Navy Seals, Delta Force, Green Berets, Marines, etc...?

Who has more bullets, armament, vehicles, choppers, jets, ships, field of command, established rankings, combat experience, fuel, self-sufficient energy, nuclear powered elements, medics/medicine, food supply, fresh water, and on, and on, and on?

Certainly not some journeyman local hick town sheriff, a dirty biker, a ranch chick, an abused wife, some middle class woman whose boyfriend/husband/brother used to own a samurai sword, and company?

Hell no...

[hedrap]

^All that's true, but the timeline isn't even technically that long.

Everything we've seen has occurred within 2-3 years by chronological standards of the outbreak, but Carl's aging process plus the fifedom rebuilds imply several years.

I think that's the heart of the problem. They didn't want to commit to either chronology because it constrained their story ideas, except you need those constraints to make events and actions plausible. If they held to the outbreak timeline, it would've required a longer shooting schedule at the start which AMC couldn't afford. If they held to real-world aging, that requires the time between seasons to be acknowledged as lapsing, which goes against the serialized format of never-ending cliffhangers.

I'm sure if they could re-map production, they would have TWD following real-world time and use Fear to fill-in the gaps. That would have been an interesting way to parse out information. Instead, they kept Fear as a prequel because it made for a cheaper budget.

[Gorn Captain]

I like the amazing fact that some men are clean-shaven, women have shaped eyebrows and perfect skin.
And you can wear the same shirt for eight years and still not stink up the place.
The apocalypse really isn't that bad...

[Mikey]

When hording food they always go after canned stuff

I'd stock up on the Knorr's garlic pasta shells

[johnnystorm]

And nobody is riding bicycles.

Well, in everyone's defense, we all saw what happens to bike riders way back in Episode One.

[LonnieFisher]

That’s the least of my gripes.

How about...

*Fuel never goes bad
*Car batteries always work
*Tires never deflate
*Everyone has pretty white teeth
*No one really runs outta bullets (they say they do, but not really)
*None seem to come to a logical conclusion to travel far north, where it freezes...they could all rest for a few months outta the year, or if they get bored, start impaling frozen Walkers’ heads
*Maggie has been pregnant for it seems like years, lol
*Walkers, despite rotting flesh and loss of muscles, somehow still have force to bite down
*Seems like electricity is no problem, everyone has light
*Canned food has no expiration date in this world
*Funny how these inept people managed to survive, but not armed forces, Navy Seals, Delta Force, Green Berets, etc...for they were highly skilled, trained, and actually knew how to tactically fight with controlled shooting bursts...unlike these idiots who waste bullets like imbeciles, lol

...and on, and on...and on...

And nobody is riding bicycles.

[Gorn Captain]

Remember, when last week I said the writing had improved somewhat?

Boy, was I wrong!
I'd like to nominate the scenes with Negan and everybody's favorite Garbage Queen as the worst I've ever seen. I mean, even Ed Wood would be turning in his grave. She handed him every means of escape on a silver platter. A gun, her precious photos, a moving trolley, inept binding material. Who writes this stuff? Somebody intent on annoying the viewer? A sociopath? Somebody who actually hates TWD? Come on, I was tearing my hair out, and I have so little left...

And now, seriously, I have to stand by Rick on this one. For years, we have been wanting our gang to toughen up and kill the Saviors. "You can't trust them, kill them all!"
And now it has happened, Rick has finally had enough. They caused his son to be killed. They killed so many friends. I can understand that Rick goes Terminator. These people stood by Negan for years, accepted his brutalities. Allowed them to happen. They had guns, Negan just has a bat, and they let him get away with it. All it would have taken is ONE bullet.
I have disagreed with Rick on so many occasions, he's not my favorite character at all, but this move made sense. Practically, psychologically, emotionally. I know it was brutal, but sometimes that is the only option. I wouldn't have kept the Saviors in that pen, giving them food. I would have eliminated that gang of sociopaths immediately.
I thought it was a brave move to have Rick make this decision, and it's the only five minutes in that whole episode that made sense to me.

With this "I loved my wife Lucille, I named a torture device after her", I fear that we are moving towards "let's pick strawberries together". Love and understanding. Wouldn't that be hilarious? After all that has happened? Kind of says "you should forgive anything". Not my kind of thing...

[Hector]

Negan's stupid bat(/girlfriend) should have had more damage from being burned, I would think. It just looked kinda dirty, not like it had been burning at all. And the barbed wire should have been blackened from the flames.

That’s the least of my gripes.

How about...

*Fuel never goes bad
*Car batteries always work
*Tires never deflate
*Everyone has pretty white teeth
*No one really runs outta bullets (they say they do, but not really)
*None seem to come to a logical conclusion to travel far north, where it freezes...they could all rest for a few months outta the year, or if they get bored, start impaling frozen Walkers’ heads
*Maggie has been pregnant for it seems like years, lol
*Walkers, despite rotting flesh and loss of muscles, somehow still have force to bite down
*Seems like electricity is no problem, everyone has light
*Canned food has no expiration date in this world
*Funny how these inept people managed to survive, but not armed forces, Navy Seals, Delta Force, Green Berets, etc...for they were highly skilled, trained, and actually knew how to tactically fight with controlled shooting bursts...unlike these idiots who waste bullets like imbeciles, lol

...and on, and on...and on...

[LonnieFisher]

Negan's stupid bat(/girlfriend) should have had more damage from being burned, I would think. It just looked kinda dirty, not like it had been burning at all. And the barbed wire should have been blackened from the flames.

[YoungOnce]

I'm trying to think of an early instance of when it became the cool thing to do to blur the lines between the good guys and the bad guys. Seems like in comics, it was Miller's The Dark Knight or maybe Wolverine was already there... Can't remember.

But at least there were lines that the good guys wouldn't cross. There was honor there somewhere. Now, it seems like it's in vogue to show no distinction between the good guys and the bad guys. Yes, that may be a mature way to see the world these days, but for entertainment, I kind of like rooting for some ideal.

This nihilism phase in entertainment drains me. No wonder I keep going back to the old stuff.

[Mikey]

It's stupid that Negan hasn't been killed yet, even though he has been in the perfect position to perish several times, nobody can pull it off. Stupid...

YES !!!

For the past few weeks the Negan situation has literally become a comedy

Waiting for them to throw him off a cliff and right before he hits the ground helicopter blades come out of his azz

[LonnieFisher]

It's stupid that Negan hasn't been killed yet, even though he has been in the perfect position to perish several times, nobody can pull it off. Stupid...

[Hector]

It’s official...Rick needs to go. He has turned into an evil mothefer. Dude has no honor, no honor. Man of his word does not apply to him anymore. Instead of listening to his late son’s pleas...he became a lying weaseling murderer. How can audiences root for this dude now? Most of the runaway Saviours wanted to listen to Rick, except for one. One guy saves Rick from his fellow Saviour’s gun, then frees him (as Rick promises him welcome path to his camp). Then after a Walker is about to bite Rick, that Savior saves him. What does Rick do? He hatches him, mortally wounding him...then places a bullet on his head.

What kinda heroic human being is that? Johnystorm called it, Negan is now by far the more sympathetic character.

The whole point of watching is to root for characters. Well, that went out the window with Rick...I want him gone now.

There are lots of sites and fans angry at Rick. I’m posting one here...

https://io9.gizmodo.com/either-rick-or-the-walking-dead-needs-to-die-1824253503

Get rid of Rick or the entire bloody show...

[johnnystorm]

Wow, they really seem to be setting up Negan for some big redemption episode...last night he was so nice it was creepy. And Rick is acting more Negan than Negan was.