When Carl died and Rick left. I couldn't stand Carol already and they thought they could make her a main. Also Negan arc was becoming lame. The buildup to Negan season, Negan, and the governor saga were the high points of the show but there's no reason to watch after Rick leaves. I can't believe the number of spinoffs.
Forgot to mention there's a trash half season right after the Governor arc that was almost worth dropping. Just the main group walking around the woods for like 6 episodes
I think it was this. I remember an episode of nothing but Carl eating a tub of icecream. Picked it up again after that until the season in the gated community.
Fpbp. I had wanted to give up on it sooner but a lot of friends still watched and enjoyed it. When Carl died I was all “Na, frick it, man. I’m done.” and was a little surprised when all of my friends agreed with me and quit watching, too. Up until Carl died nobody had wanted to admit they were tired of the show, lul.
>actor buys his first house, in Georgia and moves there because the show is filmed there >no one told him "hey, wait, uh, we are killing you off like next episode, don't do that"
they didn’t want to pay him an adult salary. he was turning 18 and no doubt going to end up needing parity with the adult cast.
the same reason they spent all of s2 on a farm: amc was constantly trying to cut costs with this show to milk it as much as they could. the viewership for s1 was unprecedented for a little cable show genre fiction show. this was before streaming really took off, so when most cable shows were happy to have 2-3m viewers per ep, this was getting 5+ right out the gate. and yet they slashed the budget for s2. they’re lucky the show was even as successful as it was, basically getting big bang theory numbers at its height, because they’ve done nothing but sabotage it. Killing off Carl to avoid another expense was just another in a long line of blunders. makes you wonder who were making these decisions
and, in fact, the mad men showrunner gets blamed for walking dead getting its budget slashed because he played hardball with the network over the budget of his show toward the end, but you have to figure the bullshit started with the network which felt greedy over their sudden successes with 3 shows in a row (mad men, breaking bad, walking dead).
Walking dead was also not insulated by having different production companies, like the other two. It was completely in house. so never stood a chance.
Killing Carl was such a baffling decision. The whole premise of the show is about a dad raising his kid in a post-apocalyptic world and what kind of person the kid will grow up to be. What the frick where they thinking, man.
Killing Carl was such a baffling decision. The whole premise of the show is about a dad raising his kid in a post-apocalyptic world and what kind of person the kid will grow up to be. What the frick where they thinking, man.
I'd say money, shock value and the fact that the kid was done growing up and was a manlet with a babyface that wouldn't be able to carry the show. I think the last reason is the biggest one, I'm sure if the kid ended up as a 6ft chad that transition in to an adult well enough then they would have kept him. Recasting would have been out of taste given how long he was in the show and killing him off was the safer bet.
he died? I remember he lost an eye.
anyway, I dropped it when the good guys shot at the bad guys for like a whole minute just blasting at them, shooting out all the windows of the building behind them hitting no people. negan was there I think gloating.
I think I remember hearing the budget didn't change but they asked for a longer season which is just as bad. And Frank Darabont left in that season, killing any chance for it to be good
This. I watched it and said “yeah looks like the comic”. Then I remembered the comic started to blow dick after the prison and never watched the show again. Sounds like the exact same thing happened lol
I knew everything I needed to know about the show on the first episode. I could almost plot the future of the entire show. I know morons would say it's not but it's a generic show with things that I have seen multiple times before done way better.
>have seen multiple times before done way better.
you'd hope so.
what how though. tbh
I think this is the only zombie show I've seen. only seen zombie movies otherwise.
Comics: Five or six issues
TV: First season
Videogame: That stand-alone episode they did after the first series
Never actually got into it and as every version of it kept going I felt more secure in my decision.
Never started. Zombies are gay as frick. The only kind of interesting thing is the outbreak and humanity's response but that's almost always barely touched on. "Post apocalypse" zombie shit is so lame.
FTWD covers the beginning of the outbreak in a pretty fun way, though it begins in LA. As for humanity's response to apocalyptic circumcstances, that's quite literally what TWD is mainly about.
Season 11 episode 8
I cared enough about the characters to make it to this point, but Season 11 was so fricking jarring and different from the rest of the show that I had to let it go finally. None of the characters even remotely resembled what they once were, the Commonwealth was so fricking boring (which really was a shame because they were great in the comics), the move to digital instead of film was disgusting and everything had a brown filter (pic-related), every character was assigned a minority spouse, and it was just fricking boring. Granted, Seasons 6-8 were boring too, but they still had that Walking Dead feeling to them, flaws and all. Season 11 trashed every aspect of the show that made it what it was.
ALSO, they announced 2 spinoffs before the show even ended, which spoiled the fact that 4 of the main characters wouldn't die by the finale. What the frick???? It's like when they announced Rick and Michonne were leaving the show months before it happened. Every surprise and reason to watch the show were just ripped right from under us.
don't you think "when will my favourite character get killed by a zombie?" is a shallow premise to base your show around?
surprise deaths are fine but they need to be secondary and not the focal point
i completely agree and hold that against them, but if they build their show around that and don't deliver on it at all without substituting the surprise deaths with interesting plot points and instead just have the season peter out with a whimper, then it's valid for the fans to be pissed off about it. they knew what the fans wanted and they did nothing substantive. the show just fizzled out
somebody gave me a hard drive with the first season when it first came out and i watched the first episode only
tried again recently and dropped it after the 1st season
>decide to pick it back up again around where I left off >first episode of that season is Rick and a bunch of nobodies lined up getting their throats slit graphically and begging for their lives >an act of God stops the murder of rick when it's his turn ofcourse
I turned it off in disgust. Zombie show? Who watches this evil shit
when they killed glenn
I didn't like glenn, not even sure if I'm spelling his name right. but just the way they killed him off was so fricking lame it made me angry
then I learned that glenn's gf became friends with his killer. wtf? don't know where to start on that one. off the rails hard
glad I stopped watching when I did
The cliff hanger they pulled did me in. It was so fricking moronic and thunder the flow and impact of that scene. They also did a Glen fake out death that season too. Brazenly pulling those bull shit kind of moves is what made me turn in the show.
>They also did a Glen fake out death that season too.
yeah when he fell into that swarm of zombies from the bus or whatever? that was stupid. they were also doing the classic tropes before killing someone off >have his SO be in a perfect relationship, nothing going wrong. gladly saying they're in love all the time
yeah he's about to die >dies >lol nvm not dead >okay haha now he's dead
couldn't keep watching after that
Maggie and Negan aren't friends, circumstances have forced them to work together. Negan has tried to redeem himself and earn her forgiveness but Maggie hasn't let up, she even sold Negan to some buttholes that were hunting him down in the latest spin off the minute she got the chance.
I watched the first season in the car on a road trip. The lasting impression I have from that series is that the cheeseburger from episode 1 looked really good.
End of S1. Only the first two episodes were good, the second one being much worse than the first one, and that makes 2 good episodes out of 6. The rest of the season was just people talking about their feelings and shit, going to the CDC to talk some more and then it was over. I knew it was only going to get worse so I said frick it. Huge disappointment
I never watched it properly, I just watched 1-2 hour recaps of all the seasons, but I stopped after rick left and I was very bored a long time before that.
>in this episode, whatshisname who joined five episodes ago gets EATEN BY LE ZOMBI >oh no, I loved that guy, he did that thing, yeah >also in this episode we discuss if we have to be brutal to survive or to be merciful so human kindness can survive the zombie apocalypse. that never gets old.
When they killed Carl.
It's not a story with a point, it's just nihilism.
When I re-watched I liked Jefferey Dean Morgan a lot as Negan, he's awesome, but the character is too poorly written.
Season three finale
Didn't appreciate the prison attack wienertease and I wasn't willing to keep looking at Michonne. It was clear that she wasn't going anywhere and that b***h is uglier than the zombies
Glenn under the dumpster was when it truly jumped the shark, though it was bad at various points before then. That's the last episode I watched before I switched over to the comic, which was significantly better but also kinda lame in its own way.
The start of episode 2, when we get a fake out of Rick being in an inescapable situation when he knew all he had to do was just crawl up through the tank's escape hatch (lmao at the writers thinking that exists) and close it after him, but he acted like he was trapped under there purely because he knew he was a character in a tv show and that's what the audience needed as a cliff hanger so he had to pretend like he was going to shoot himself. At that point I knew the show was going to be stupid garbage filled with drama driven by idiotic characters instead of hard choices and insurmountable odds and what do you know, it was!
In all fairness, it was the end of the world. They thought he was likely dead.
Now, they didn’t even wait 6 weeks after assuming Rick was dead before they were sleeping with each other. They might have already started fricking days after he “died.”
That’s the unforgivable part to me.
Considering the post-apocalyptic setting, I don’t think Rick should fly off the handle.
However, if that were me, my friendship with my best friend would be over. I wouldn’t attack him because he kept my wife and kid safe. I would immediately break things off with my wife as well. Then, I would quickly move onto Amy, Andrea, or any of the the other women. How could he even look at Lori knowing she was getting railed by Shane days after his supposed death? Gross cuck shit.
Andreas contrived death was what ruined that season finale. Dumb b***h just waited for the nerd to turn before she tried to escape. Such a terrible character.
Dropped it early Season 3, the characters were already getting very annoying and it was clear it was just going to follow a pattern of >go somewhere >find a settlement or other survivors >it goes to shit due to infighting >muh mankind is the real enemy!
I dunno how people watched that shit for over a decade
I'd read the graphic novel and enjoyed the first season and it's different take on the material, when the second season came they stretched what I remember to be a handful of issues into a full season as they didn't have the budget for the prison at the time and then (I'm told at least as I never watched past season 2) rushed through everything that happened in the prison in no time flat.
I stopped watching after the 2nd season. Dont even remember why. I was shocked when a coworker mentioned it was still on a couple years ago, seems like it just went on forever.
The depressing part is I don't remember, that's how lackluster it was.
It was after the first four or five episodes where I really should have stopped when half the camp got eaten because lol reasons lol timing how could we have known to ever keep watch.
It was after the CDC bunker dude was a flaming homosexual.
It was after all the truly unwatchable garbage with Herschel and the farm.
Frick I think I even remember some moronic zombie rights activist homosexual who somehow "just blended in" with zombies, unless that was a clip from a TLOU cutscene I saw or something
I just know that it becomes impossible to watch somewhere in there, and I don't even respect people who watched it all the way through, and I don't have any desire to watch Fear either.
I truly believe that not only was the writing bad, the drama bad, a lot of the casting bad, but that the book itself was probably just as bad.
>watch this cowboy sheriff guy turn into a cuck, then a desperado, then a peacemaker, then a deranged killer, then a grieving wreck, then an obnoxious unreasonable butthole, then a total b***h, then a scared passive follower, then a vengeance-driven killing force, then a worn out old man, then a.... >oh and his kid does the same thing in even more moronic ways and so do the side characters seemingly at random >well you see they're just suffering from or being forged by the trauma it's le human nature after all
Who knew all it took was a zombie apocalypse to turn defined characters into dramatic reaction gachas disconnected from actual events
Rick and Carl were both somehow worse than Mal in Firefly for just doing LOLRANDUM stuff while acting grim about it
I stuck it out til Rick left but boy was it hard. I work overnight sometimes and tried to get back into it leading up to the series finale and hit a filler episode and immediately lost interest again.
knowing rick is still paired with michonne killed any of my interest to watch his comebacks series. fricking redditors that worships this couple solely for the fact that michonne is a niggress is pathetic
They picked the most obnoxiously hideous creature to play her and kept her oiled up to boot. If you told me she were trans I’d believe you. Shipping her with Rick was the dumbest thing ever. It made ZERO sense. They had nothing in common and had zero chemistry. I don’t know why Hollywood insists on casting the ugliest black women they can find.
I remember my whole family would get together to watch each episode when it came out and we stayed with it like that for a while, but I think that stopped pretty much right at the Negan intro episode. We never did this for any other TV show really, TWD was just special for some reason.
I stopped when the Governator died halfway thru S4. Seems like I missed absolutely nothing except for some Negan kino. (I think that’s his name? Baseball bat guy)
Was about to drop it several times over but gave up before the stupid wolves arch. I heard JDM was going to play Negan so I came back to see that. Not even HOT DIGGITY DOG could keep me interested though and dropped it before they "go to war" or whatever.
It was basically pic related but for girls who aren't like other girls from season 1 episode 2 though and I fully acknowledge it was always trash.
Watched a lot of Greys with my gf. Before the past few years it was a reasonably good show and the drama was done good. Usually pretty fair to the men and women. Now it is literally and I do mean quite literally just a lefty mouthpiece show. Every episode is going to have someone verbatim list off lefty talking points like how gays or trannies are mistreated or how systemic racism is real or how the healthcare system is unfair because muh costs. And even though all the doctors at the hospital are bleeding hearts, and even though the guy who owns the hospital (literally a trust fund baby) is the most lefty of them all, they have yet to start providing surgeries for free. It's just blatant shitty propaganda and it's long past the mark it should have ended a la Simpsons.
I should have stopped watching when they killed off Derek (or arguably even earlier), but no, I kept going and got lectured by a barely black supermodel looking motherfricker who grew up a literal billionaire complaining about systemic racism. Eyefricking Amelia and Lara Croft was all I got out of it.
The only chick I was really ever into was Amelia. She really did it for me. Or based redhead tradwife (before they ruined her.) The other women in the show are either ugly or pretty but boring. Meanwhile all the male characters are pretty attractive admittedly, but they mostly act like simps. Like how women WANT men to act even though if they did they would just leave them for a real chad. Alex Karev was usually always a good written male character given his background.
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Before Alex left he was the only character in the later seasons who felt like a real person. Everyone else is hyper-dramatised beyond believability. >The other women in the show are either ugly or pretty but boring.
Meredith looks like a partially deflated balloon.
Unironically about 2 episodes in, back then. This goes for almost all the supposedly "great shows that went to shit later", literally all of them were mediocre garbage from the very first episode. People called me an elitist back then and a liar today, all to avoid admitting that they lack critical thinking skills.
s1 started strong, and shit the bed at the end. s2 was hoping for a comeback but all was wasted looking for the girl who was in the barn. s3 was a continuation going downhill and thats when i jumped ship. i missed all the hype when i was in school, so im not assmad
>first 2 season they had money, they were on the move, it made sense
after that, it just deloved into a soap opera once they got settled and squabled over bullshit drama in their little camp. cost cutting over improved quality. kills shows every time.
The only times I ever enjoyed the show is when they were on the move. I actually got interested again after they got booted out of the prison, and then they stopped moving and it was shit again.
it's not as though they didn't get it. part of the appeal of the apocalypse and why its such a trope is the freedom from restriction of every day life.
you can tell they understood that at the beginning. but then budget got involved and they wanted to up the profit. and it just devolved into everyday bullshit and squabling and work, but with zombies, a regular soap. they knew what they were doing, but they wanted the money, which is why it'll just be a shitty show. but it was good business for the network, obviously, and thats okay too. it's just zombies after all.
begining was fun tho. very few shows about the south that aren't about slavery or civil rights or religion or cops/crime. nice to just see georgia, which is a nice place, and some of its natural beauty, without any politics.
When I realized they were never going to tell us anything about the zombies and it was just a constant recycling of humans killing each other and gore exploitation.
The season where Carol shoots the little girl saying “look at the flowers lizzie”. That was Season 4 right? I never got past that.
Also the girl I referred to was frick-ugly back then and completely bogged herself after turning 18.
I stopped feeling invested when the CDC blew up, I stopped watching entirely somewhere around the governor guy's long drawn out arc in season 5 or 6 or something, I don't even remember. I got bored.
Zombie shit only works at one shot pieces like films or books, because zombies really only become an issue for the time it takes to leave a major population center, then it turns into a soap opera.
I gave up on Fear halfway through Season 4 when it became a totally different show. Shame, I was actually excited about Morgan crossing over but they didn't have to ruin the original dynamic. Season 3 of Fear was the best season of any Walking Dead media period.
I didn't watch Season 2 of World Beyond.
Watched and skipped some of Tales, watched all of Dead City. Dead City was mid.
I'd recommend Fear season 6. It has flaws especially in the second half, but it has some really great moments, and isn't painfully boring like seasons 4 and 5. Don't bother with 7.
I'm loving the new Fear stuff, not because it's good, but because the special effects for radiation and shit feel like a 1950s B movie and I can't look away. The effects are that bad.
Dead City did not overstay its welcome and ended exactly when it should of, how it should of. I am so fricking glad they just killed off all the tertiary characters and all we have is Negan and Maggie +chink son. I hate that the big bad of course happened to be some old white b***h and not the slavic dude. Why? What is supposed to be intimidating about this old lady? Negan could snap her in half. For that matter why would anyone on this post apocalyptic world even follow a woman when any random man could easily overpower her.
I have been holding out for them making the zombies evolved or smarter or something and they have yet only teased this. I was so hyped at the start of the Whisperers arc because I actually did think it was the zombies who were talking but then it was immediately ruined because it turns out they were just normal humans who figured out if you wear someone's face you can trick zombies (Alpha and Beta were still good characters and the arc was fine, but not as good as it could be.)
Watching people deal with zombies with absolutely no difficulty whatsoever (EXCEPT when the plot demands for them to be a threat so there is some drama / conflict) has become so tired. Ironically the main focus of the show, zombies, haven't felt like a legit threat or presence since probably season 4. They have since just become a McGuffin to be used whenever the human vs human drama calls for it.
I stopped watching during season 2. There wasn't a specific point in the show that made me stop watching, I just got a little bored of it.
I thought season 1 was great and I didn't think it would ever be able to top season 1.
I've seen a few episodes in the later seasons and they looked alright.
I forget the exact episode, I think Beth was still at the hospital.
As for the comic, I dropped it when they beat Negan. Seemed like the perfect time to stop.
At some point during the governor arc, I think season 3 or 4. The showrunners decided it was prudent to have multiple episodes back-to-back consisting of nothing, and I decided to stop fricking watching. I literally have no idea what has occurred in the show since outside of things I have absorbed through osmosis.
I quit first time at the end of the prison (3rd or 4th season?). Tried to power through but couldn't make it past the cannibal railroad location when they got captured.
The dialog and decisions just got to me. It's like the writers never had a normal human interaction.
that part in one of the very first few episodes where they're cutting up zombies to cover themselves up in gore to hide their scent or whatever and Rick pulls out one of their wallets and look through their ID and their photos and shit. All this is a fine sobering realization that this was once a person he's dissecting. Then he gets up and makes a big dramatic corny speech about how the zombies were people once and blah blah blah and I'm like holy shit you fricking had it and then you blew it and I knew it would be shit from that point on so I stopped.
Zombies simultaneously represent apocalyptic conditions freeing you from modern life, a return to close-knit communities, and an endless enemy to fight that you never have to feel bad about killing. It appeals to so many fantasies at once that I'm leaving out several for the sake of brevity.
I was actually anti TV and film for a few years. My brother kept bringing TWD up and made me watch it while we dropped acid, first time for me in 2019. I actually loved the show and picked it up to binge watch. I've watched up until season 10. I was waiting for Netflix to get the last season but at this point I'm in no hurry to watch it. I also started to watch FTWD but I got bored to tears about 3 seasons in. Nowadays I just watch movies, so at least I can thank TWD for getting me back into watching stuff again.
Season 2 is one of the most infuriating watching experiences of my life. Lori crashing a car on an empty road, that blonde b***h shooting Daryl by accident, ruining the well by dropping zombie guts in it, and then Dale getting killed because Coral is a moron. I didn't even finish it.
The only thing more ridiculous and infuriating especially the driving the car off the road was that people insisted I was being a jerk by saying this was cancerous, tumerous garbage. People around me shamed me into watching until the end of S3 and I told them to go frick themselevs. I had already completely checked out when Rick immediately found his family in the first like 2 episodes, I thought that was gonna be like the plot, lone cowboy guy trying to get his family while they do their thing idk. Total garbage through and through.
Don't forget the abortion pill drama and all the characters standing around the hood of the newly washed car so they wouldn't obstruct the hood ornament, because that would ruin the ad.
First time was in the first season, IIRC, where they go to the CDC and there's a shitload of military equipment around, rifles, vehicles, ammunition, MREs and they just walk right past it.
Second time was during season 2 when they tried to pull the swollen zombie from the well so they could drink the water.
I stopped at season 1 episode 1 because I hate the southern deputy lawman aesthetic then picked it up in season 3 or 4 when they were in the prison with the weak chain link fence? I stopped midway that season
I gave up on the tv series and the comics at the same exact point and that's when Negan showed up. I just didn't like the vibe they we're going for where the remaining humans are so cartoonishly evil that it's nearly laughable and the story arcs became way too predictable and repetitive because of this. The governor was already stretching it but I gave him a pass because the prison arc is probably the best arc in the whole series, both TV and comics.
I made it to when they caught Neagan. I just couldn’t take it anymore. The show already felt like a chore, FEAR was like 2 or 3 seasons in, and they were just about to start a new spin off series. Whoever still watches Walking Dead have to be missing crucial brain cells at this point.
S2. It went full moron with the plot and ninja zombies and the budget dropped so hard that it looked ridiculous, so there was obviously no point in going on. People who tell themselves the show was good until some later point are delusional.
The sound mixing in season 2 was fricking infuriating. All these loud-ass cicadas or crickets or whatever chirping away in every outdoor scene and then as soon someone spoke they'd get muted, only to come back in full force if there's a long pause in the conversation. I felt like I was taking crazy pills, with no one else being bothered by how atrociously annoying it sounded.
S2 the first time, it was just so fricking boring all of a sudden
then a few years (?) a group of us started hatewatching it and shitting on it endlessly, we kept that up until they got to Alexandria, never seen anything beyond that
When they killed Glenn right after fake out killing Glenn. It was fine in hindsight, but I just got tired of people dying for no reason and an EVEN BIGGER HOARD of zombies every other week.
>First 8mins are exciting >The next 30mins are mindless filler >Last 3mins gives you an exciting hook to make you want to watch the next episode
I don't remember exactly when it started but when they began to follow that blueprint I dropped the show. There was seriously no reason for the show to be more than 10 episodes per season. I wonder how well the show would have done if it started on Netflix been given much more freedom and only being 8-10 episodes per season.
The season when that little girl killed her sister and then Carol or whatever shot her in the head.
Whenever it started doing 3-4 weeks of "inbetween' episodes before advancing the main plot.
I stopped when Michonne left. The fact we never got to see her tight ebony body in a sex scene or at least undressed to her underwear is a crime against TV.
i dont remember specifically what season but the prison arc just went on forever and was already making me question what i was doing with my time so hershell's death gave me an easy out
After the 2nd season. Dogshit. The Telltale game was the best thing to come out of the franchise. Imagine making a story good enough to not make Cinemaphile cry about a black protag.
Did you forget the part where the little girl stabbed her younger sister to death so they could be together forever? She was a serial killer in the making.
Watched while it was airing up until a couple episodes into Season 3 (the prison) and stopped. Went back years later and binged everything up until Neegan was introduced while it was airing. Stopped again after the bullshit cliffhanger. Went back and binged until Carl died.
Never stopped.
Btw 1>2>3>9>5>4>6>10>7>11>8
Series finale was ok.
FTWD, World Beyond and Tales of The Walking Dead never watched and never will.
Dead City spin off haven't watched yet but I will, same for Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Live.
Right around the Governor/prison season. Too many asspulls to ignore. The entire illusion of zombies being a threat was completely absent at that point.
this thread was fun yesterday!
When they stole the budget from Frank Darabont and all the actors who took a massive paycut to help Frank quit because he was fired.
When Carl died.
When Carl died and Rick left. I couldn't stand Carol already and they thought they could make her a main. Also Negan arc was becoming lame. The buildup to Negan season, Negan, and the governor saga were the high points of the show but there's no reason to watch after Rick leaves. I can't believe the number of spinoffs.
Forgot to mention there's a trash half season right after the Governor arc that was almost worth dropping. Just the main group walking around the woods for like 6 episodes
I think it was this. I remember an episode of nothing but Carl eating a tub of icecream. Picked it up again after that until the season in the gated community.
It was pudding.
Ice cream doesn’t make much sense in the post-apocalypse setting, sweetie.
>helloooooooooo
Fpbp. I had wanted to give up on it sooner but a lot of friends still watched and enjoyed it. When Carl died I was all “Na, frick it, man. I’m done.” and was a little surprised when all of my friends agreed with me and quit watching, too. Up until Carl died nobody had wanted to admit they were tired of the show, lul.
Carl died?
>actor buys his first house, in Georgia and moves there because the show is filmed there
>no one told him "hey, wait, uh, we are killing you off like next episode, don't do that"
they didn’t want to pay him an adult salary. he was turning 18 and no doubt going to end up needing parity with the adult cast.
the same reason they spent all of s2 on a farm: amc was constantly trying to cut costs with this show to milk it as much as they could. the viewership for s1 was unprecedented for a little cable show genre fiction show. this was before streaming really took off, so when most cable shows were happy to have 2-3m viewers per ep, this was getting 5+ right out the gate. and yet they slashed the budget for s2. they’re lucky the show was even as successful as it was, basically getting big bang theory numbers at its height, because they’ve done nothing but sabotage it. Killing off Carl to avoid another expense was just another in a long line of blunders. makes you wonder who were making these decisions
and, in fact, the mad men showrunner gets blamed for walking dead getting its budget slashed because he played hardball with the network over the budget of his show toward the end, but you have to figure the bullshit started with the network which felt greedy over their sudden successes with 3 shows in a row (mad men, breaking bad, walking dead).
Walking dead was also not insulated by having different production companies, like the other two. It was completely in house. so never stood a chance.
That was the moment the show got better. Well, for some while before they introduced more annoying characters
Painfully low IQ.
When the horse died.
Killing Carl was such a baffling decision. The whole premise of the show is about a dad raising his kid in a post-apocalyptic world and what kind of person the kid will grow up to be. What the frick where they thinking, man.
money anon he had just turned 18 and that means a big pay raise, they were thinking about money
I'd say money, shock value and the fact that the kid was done growing up and was a manlet with a babyface that wouldn't be able to carry the show. I think the last reason is the biggest one, I'm sure if the kid ended up as a 6ft chad that transition in to an adult well enough then they would have kept him. Recasting would have been out of taste given how long he was in the show and killing him off was the safer bet.
Very kino scene that was
he died? I remember he lost an eye.
anyway, I dropped it when the good guys shot at the bad guys for like a whole minute just blasting at them, shooting out all the windows of the building behind them hitting no people. negan was there I think gloating.
who watched this and thought "cool I'll keep watching this shit" lmao.
literally the first five minutes after maskusomething rick makes his appearance
S01E02.
budget started dropping massively after s1 didnt it?
I think I remember hearing the budget didn't change but they asked for a longer season which is just as bad. And Frank Darabont left in that season, killing any chance for it to be good
never started it
around when Negan became part of the group or whatever I forget.
when the girl was in the barn the whole time in s2
This one right here. Infuriating how obvious it was too.
I almost dropped it in s2, I only continued to watch the governor. Then realised he only has a tiny part and it’s just more slow boring drama
I lost interest when shaneposting died down
>S01E01
I finished it, but that was more than enough for me.
This. I watched it and said “yeah looks like the comic”. Then I remembered the comic started to blow dick after the prison and never watched the show again. Sounds like the exact same thing happened lol
I knew everything I needed to know about the show on the first episode. I could almost plot the future of the entire show. I know morons would say it's not but it's a generic show with things that I have seen multiple times before done way better.
>have seen multiple times before done way better.
you'd hope so.
what how though. tbh
I think this is the only zombie show I've seen. only seen zombie movies otherwise.
*what show
*I did watch a korean zombie show way after walking dead. I liked it but forget what that was called
Walking Dead is just a shitty zombie show trying to be a movie. Just watch zombie movies.
i seen em all. was hoping for a show.(I dropped WD in 2017)
Unirononically this. It was during its popularity peak, I watched and was like, that's it? Never bothered with the second episode.
Comics: Five or six issues
TV: First season
Videogame: That stand-alone episode they did after the first series
Never actually got into it and as every version of it kept going I felt more secure in my decision.
nobody seems to remember 400days
Game had a phenomenal ending
Season 2
Never started. Zombies are gay as frick. The only kind of interesting thing is the outbreak and humanity's response but that's almost always barely touched on. "Post apocalypse" zombie shit is so lame.
FTWD covers the beginning of the outbreak in a pretty fun way, though it begins in LA. As for humanity's response to apocalyptic circumcstances, that's quite literally what TWD is mainly about.
i was a kid but s2 because people were talking more than doing any practical surviving, it was gay and im glad i made the right decision
Season 11 episode 8
I cared enough about the characters to make it to this point, but Season 11 was so fricking jarring and different from the rest of the show that I had to let it go finally. None of the characters even remotely resembled what they once were, the Commonwealth was so fricking boring (which really was a shame because they were great in the comics), the move to digital instead of film was disgusting and everything had a brown filter (pic-related), every character was assigned a minority spouse, and it was just fricking boring. Granted, Seasons 6-8 were boring too, but they still had that Walking Dead feeling to them, flaws and all. Season 11 trashed every aspect of the show that made it what it was.
ALSO, they announced 2 spinoffs before the show even ended, which spoiled the fact that 4 of the main characters wouldn't die by the finale. What the frick???? It's like when they announced Rick and Michonne were leaving the show months before it happened. Every surprise and reason to watch the show were just ripped right from under us.
don't you think "when will my favourite character get killed by a zombie?" is a shallow premise to base your show around?
surprise deaths are fine but they need to be secondary and not the focal point
i completely agree and hold that against them, but if they build their show around that and don't deliver on it at all without substituting the surprise deaths with interesting plot points and instead just have the season peter out with a whimper, then it's valid for the fans to be pissed off about it. they knew what the fans wanted and they did nothing substantive. the show just fizzled out
>Season 11 episode 8
did they actually make a zombie tv series with more than 10 seasons? Answer to OP's question is 5 minutes in to S1E1
Does that guy have a robot arm?
he got his arm crushed by a log, and they replaced it with a metal thingy
For me it was season 11 episode 05
S1:E1
First season. Once I heard Darabont left i knew it would just become a low budget serial post apocalyptic drama.
somebody gave me a hard drive with the first season when it first came out and i watched the first episode only
tried again recently and dropped it after the 1st season
The season before negan i was done. The one with the ending with Rick acting like crazy
Yeah I think I was the same, they were staying in some place with big corrugated iron sheds or something
When the little girl was in the barn. I knew it was over at that point
around season 5 or 6, best decision I made on my life
>decide to pick it back up again around where I left off
>first episode of that season is Rick and a bunch of nobodies lined up getting their throats slit graphically and begging for their lives
>an act of God stops the murder of rick when it's his turn ofcourse
I turned it off in disgust. Zombie show? Who watches this evil shit
when beth was kill
Same that shit was some of the worst TV I have ever seen
the last parts I remember were when they got to the prison. season 2 sucked ass before that
Last ep I fully watched was when the red headed ex zog box blew up that motovlog israelitetuber with a rpg
Season 3.
When they fired Frank Darabont
I think sometime in season 3, wish I had dropped it after season 1 though
when the soap opera drama became unbearable during whisperer arc.
I only watched the first season.
When they shipped Rick and michonne. No chemistry and was done just to push interracial relationships.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/11/14/a-milestone-all-of-the-walking-deads-relationships-are-now-interracial-or-lgbt/
I never watched it in the first place.
they were in the prison idk exactly what point
When that talentless israelite took over after season 1
when they killed glenn
I didn't like glenn, not even sure if I'm spelling his name right. but just the way they killed him off was so fricking lame it made me angry
then I learned that glenn's gf became friends with his killer. wtf? don't know where to start on that one. off the rails hard
glad I stopped watching when I did
what do you mean it was fricking awesome and brutal, right after they already killed off another character
>it was so cool and bloody! how could you hate something SO KOOOOOOOL
because it was written like ass
>when they killed glenn
Same.
The cliff hanger they pulled did me in. It was so fricking moronic and thunder the flow and impact of that scene. They also did a Glen fake out death that season too. Brazenly pulling those bull shit kind of moves is what made me turn in the show.
>They also did a Glen fake out death that season too.
yeah when he fell into that swarm of zombies from the bus or whatever? that was stupid. they were also doing the classic tropes before killing someone off
>have his SO be in a perfect relationship, nothing going wrong. gladly saying they're in love all the time
yeah he's about to die
>dies
>lol nvm not dead
>okay haha now he's dead
couldn't keep watching after that
Maggie and Negan aren't friends, circumstances have forced them to work together. Negan has tried to redeem himself and earn her forgiveness but Maggie hasn't let up, she even sold Negan to some buttholes that were hunting him down in the latest spin off the minute she got the chance.
When Darabont left.
I watched the first season in the car on a road trip. The lasting impression I have from that series is that the cheeseburger from episode 1 looked really good.
End of S1. Only the first two episodes were good, the second one being much worse than the first one, and that makes 2 good episodes out of 6. The rest of the season was just people talking about their feelings and shit, going to the CDC to talk some more and then it was over. I knew it was only going to get worse so I said frick it. Huge disappointment
Same
quit reading the comic when glen died. as for the show, the sophia nonsense in the 2nd season annoyed me and i was done with it by the 3rd season.
Season 2 episode 2 when it became obvious that the show would not be returning to a reasonable pace.
The show was never worth watching. The comic was good tho.
This. You are legitmately moronic if you thought this show was anything but garbage after the pilot.
I spiritually gave up after pic related. But I slogged it out until leather jacket tough guy was introduced. Then I stopped watching.
It was unironically that CGI deer.
I never watched it properly, I just watched 1-2 hour recaps of all the seasons, but I stopped after rick left and I was very bored a long time before that.
>in this episode, whatshisname who joined five episodes ago gets EATEN BY LE ZOMBI
>oh no, I loved that guy, he did that thing, yeah
>also in this episode we discuss if we have to be brutal to survive or to be merciful so human kindness can survive the zombie apocalypse. that never gets old.
the governor arc, I think I stopped after that shot were he looks at zombies' heads in jar or something
When they killed Carl.
It's not a story with a point, it's just nihilism.
When I re-watched I liked Jefferey Dean Morgan a lot as Negan, he's awesome, but the character is too poorly written.
Season three finale
Didn't appreciate the prison attack wienertease and I wasn't willing to keep looking at Michonne. It was clear that she wasn't going anywhere and that b***h is uglier than the zombies
Does anyone have that photo of the women crying reacting to TWD while some guy is just sitting in the background looking the other way?
lol that was a mirror
proof?
my word, motherfricker
Glenn under the dumpster was when it truly jumped the shark, though it was bad at various points before then. That's the last episode I watched before I switched over to the comic, which was significantly better but also kinda lame in its own way.
Season 2 like anyone else with a brain.
never even watched it. hows that for small talk?
The start of episode 2, when we get a fake out of Rick being in an inescapable situation when he knew all he had to do was just crawl up through the tank's escape hatch (lmao at the writers thinking that exists) and close it after him, but he acted like he was trapped under there purely because he knew he was a character in a tv show and that's what the audience needed as a cliff hanger so he had to pretend like he was going to shoot himself. At that point I knew the show was going to be stupid garbage filled with drama driven by idiotic characters instead of hard choices and insurmountable odds and what do you know, it was!
It was shit literally from the first episode.
isnt talking about tv shows the very definition of small talk
when it was revealed his wife was fricking his best friend after a couple days and he didn't beat them both to death
cuckshit show like breaking bad
In all fairness, it was the end of the world. They thought he was likely dead.
Now, they didn’t even wait 6 weeks after assuming Rick was dead before they were sleeping with each other. They might have already started fricking days after he “died.”
That’s the unforgivable part to me.
Considering the post-apocalyptic setting, I don’t think Rick should fly off the handle.
However, if that were me, my friendship with my best friend would be over. I wouldn’t attack him because he kept my wife and kid safe. I would immediately break things off with my wife as well. Then, I would quickly move onto Amy, Andrea, or any of the the other women. How could he even look at Lori knowing she was getting railed by Shane days after his supposed death? Gross cuck shit.
After The Governor arc and by what people say the show peaked there anyway.
Andreas contrived death was what ruined that season finale. Dumb b***h just waited for the nerd to turn before she tried to escape. Such a terrible character.
BURN
Dropped it early Season 3, the characters were already getting very annoying and it was clear it was just going to follow a pattern of
>go somewhere
>find a settlement or other survivors
>it goes to shit due to infighting
>muh mankind is the real enemy!
I dunno how people watched that shit for over a decade
The episode where the cannibals had them all lined up, and they where slicing their throats.
I'd read the graphic novel and enjoyed the first season and it's different take on the material, when the second season came they stretched what I remember to be a handful of issues into a full season as they didn't have the budget for the prison at the time and then (I'm told at least as I never watched past season 2) rushed through everything that happened in the prison in no time flat.
Comics? Around the time Carl got his eye blown out.
TV? That awful hospital arc that went nowhere and just got that dumb farm girl killed.
I stopped watching after the 2nd season. Dont even remember why. I was shocked when a coworker mentioned it was still on a couple years ago, seems like it just went on forever.
season one when they went to hang out with le good boy mexican gangsters
I got legit angry when they go back to ATL in season 5 and don't even recall or mention those guys. Missed opportunity for a callback.
The depressing part is I don't remember, that's how lackluster it was.
It was after the first four or five episodes where I really should have stopped when half the camp got eaten because lol reasons lol timing how could we have known to ever keep watch.
It was after the CDC bunker dude was a flaming homosexual.
It was after all the truly unwatchable garbage with Herschel and the farm.
Frick I think I even remember some moronic zombie rights activist homosexual who somehow "just blended in" with zombies, unless that was a clip from a TLOU cutscene I saw or something
I just know that it becomes impossible to watch somewhere in there, and I don't even respect people who watched it all the way through, and I don't have any desire to watch Fear either.
I truly believe that not only was the writing bad, the drama bad, a lot of the casting bad, but that the book itself was probably just as bad.
I didn't
>watch this cowboy sheriff guy turn into a cuck, then a desperado, then a peacemaker, then a deranged killer, then a grieving wreck, then an obnoxious unreasonable butthole, then a total b***h, then a scared passive follower, then a vengeance-driven killing force, then a worn out old man, then a....
>oh and his kid does the same thing in even more moronic ways and so do the side characters seemingly at random
>well you see they're just suffering from or being forged by the trauma it's le human nature after all
Who knew all it took was a zombie apocalypse to turn defined characters into dramatic reaction gachas disconnected from actual events
Rick and Carl were both somehow worse than Mal in Firefly for just doing LOLRANDUM stuff while acting grim about it
when the cute girl died, forgot her name
Episode 1 when I saw the ugky freak they had playing the girl.
I stuck it out til Rick left but boy was it hard. I work overnight sometimes and tried to get back into it leading up to the series finale and hit a filler episode and immediately lost interest again.
when they killed off this qt milf love interest and paired Rick with stronk sheboon
That whole thing was pointless and ugly. It just made me mad watching it. I should have quit watching long before I did.
knowing rick is still paired with michonne killed any of my interest to watch his comebacks series. fricking redditors that worships this couple solely for the fact that michonne is a niggress is pathetic
They picked the most obnoxiously hideous creature to play her and kept her oiled up to boot. If you told me she were trans I’d believe you. Shipping her with Rick was the dumbest thing ever. It made ZERO sense. They had nothing in common and had zero chemistry. I don’t know why Hollywood insists on casting the ugliest black women they can find.
I remember my whole family would get together to watch each episode when it came out and we stayed with it like that for a while, but I think that stopped pretty much right at the Negan intro episode. We never did this for any other TV show really, TWD was just special for some reason.
low barrier for entry
I stopped when the Governator died halfway thru S4. Seems like I missed absolutely nothing except for some Negan kino. (I think that’s his name? Baseball bat guy)
When he fired the gun in the tank and was surprised he blew out his ears.
when the heroic protagonists sneaked into the saviors' base and slit the throats of a multitude of sleeping men
When they showed that fricking awful CGI scene when that butthole mc drove his motorcycle into the truck.
Shows that get this hyped I ignore.
depends who is hyping it
Whichever season had the bald b***h who killed off Enid. I gave up there but I should have given up many, many seasons earlier.
I hate-watched walking dead for a few seasons but I coudlnt do even that anymore after the deer season
not even negan could get me to go back
Was about to drop it several times over but gave up before the stupid wolves arch. I heard JDM was going to play Negan so I came back to see that. Not even HOT DIGGITY DOG could keep me interested though and dropped it before they "go to war" or whatever.
It was basically pic related but for girls who aren't like other girls from season 1 episode 2 though and I fully acknowledge it was always trash.
>Season 19
Jesus fricking Christ.
>5 women, 1 man
equality at last
I binge watched 16 seasons of that (don't judge me). The cast started out equal and got more woman heavy as each season went on.
i'm judging you
Watched a lot of Greys with my gf. Before the past few years it was a reasonably good show and the drama was done good. Usually pretty fair to the men and women. Now it is literally and I do mean quite literally just a lefty mouthpiece show. Every episode is going to have someone verbatim list off lefty talking points like how gays or trannies are mistreated or how systemic racism is real or how the healthcare system is unfair because muh costs. And even though all the doctors at the hospital are bleeding hearts, and even though the guy who owns the hospital (literally a trust fund baby) is the most lefty of them all, they have yet to start providing surgeries for free. It's just blatant shitty propaganda and it's long past the mark it should have ended a la Simpsons.
I should have stopped watching when they killed off Derek (or arguably even earlier), but no, I kept going and got lectured by a barely black supermodel looking motherfricker who grew up a literal billionaire complaining about systemic racism. Eyefricking Amelia and Lara Croft was all I got out of it.
The only chick I was really ever into was Amelia. She really did it for me. Or based redhead tradwife (before they ruined her.) The other women in the show are either ugly or pretty but boring. Meanwhile all the male characters are pretty attractive admittedly, but they mostly act like simps. Like how women WANT men to act even though if they did they would just leave them for a real chad. Alex Karev was usually always a good written male character given his background.
Before Alex left he was the only character in the later seasons who felt like a real person. Everyone else is hyper-dramatised beyond believability.
>The other women in the show are either ugly or pretty but boring.
Meredith looks like a partially deflated balloon.
that is one of the worst air brush jobs I've ever seen, holy shit she looks like a pencil eraser
When the garbage people were introduced.
Unironically about 2 episodes in, back then. This goes for almost all the supposedly "great shows that went to shit later", literally all of them were mediocre garbage from the very first episode. People called me an elitist back then and a liar today, all to avoid admitting that they lack critical thinking skills.
s1 started strong, and shit the bed at the end. s2 was hoping for a comeback but all was wasted looking for the girl who was in the barn. s3 was a continuation going downhill and thats when i jumped ship. i missed all the hype when i was in school, so im not assmad
When they killed Andrea off.
when footfetishists could hide in plain sight. she had incredible toes for the apocalypse.
>first 2 season they had money, they were on the move, it made sense
after that, it just deloved into a soap opera once they got settled and squabled over bullshit drama in their little camp. cost cutting over improved quality. kills shows every time.
The only times I ever enjoyed the show is when they were on the move. I actually got interested again after they got booted out of the prison, and then they stopped moving and it was shit again.
it's not as though they didn't get it. part of the appeal of the apocalypse and why its such a trope is the freedom from restriction of every day life.
you can tell they understood that at the beginning. but then budget got involved and they wanted to up the profit. and it just devolved into everyday bullshit and squabling and work, but with zombies, a regular soap. they knew what they were doing, but they wanted the money, which is why it'll just be a shitty show. but it was good business for the network, obviously, and thats okay too. it's just zombies after all.
begining was fun tho. very few shows about the south that aren't about slavery or civil rights or religion or cops/crime. nice to just see georgia, which is a nice place, and some of its natural beauty, without any politics.
When I realized they were never going to tell us anything about the zombies and it was just a constant recycling of humans killing each other and gore exploitation.
The season where Carol shoots the little girl saying “look at the flowers lizzie”. That was Season 4 right? I never got past that.
Also the girl I referred to was frick-ugly back then and completely bogged herself after turning 18.
i just realised that the term bogged is referring to the bogdanoffs. how did i never make the connection
rip
I stopped feeling invested when the CDC blew up, I stopped watching entirely somewhere around the governor guy's long drawn out arc in season 5 or 6 or something, I don't even remember. I got bored.
Like 10 minutes into the first episode. Shit was boring
Zombie shit only works at one shot pieces like films or books, because zombies really only become an issue for the time it takes to leave a major population center, then it turns into a soap opera.
I watched it all the way through the end.
I gave up on Fear halfway through Season 4 when it became a totally different show. Shame, I was actually excited about Morgan crossing over but they didn't have to ruin the original dynamic. Season 3 of Fear was the best season of any Walking Dead media period.
I didn't watch Season 2 of World Beyond.
Watched and skipped some of Tales, watched all of Dead City. Dead City was mid.
I'd recommend Fear season 6. It has flaws especially in the second half, but it has some really great moments, and isn't painfully boring like seasons 4 and 5. Don't bother with 7.
I did watch the first half with Virginia's community, I liked that. Second half seemed a little goofy.
I'm loving the new Fear stuff, not because it's good, but because the special effects for radiation and shit feel like a 1950s B movie and I can't look away. The effects are that bad.
Fear's one saving grace across its run was a decent rotation of girls
Right now the Fallout New Vegas ENB they are using to generate the CGI is carrying the show for me.
Who dat
Season 3 of Fear the Walking Dead was amazing.
Dead City did not overstay its welcome and ended exactly when it should of, how it should of. I am so fricking glad they just killed off all the tertiary characters and all we have is Negan and Maggie +chink son. I hate that the big bad of course happened to be some old white b***h and not the slavic dude. Why? What is supposed to be intimidating about this old lady? Negan could snap her in half. For that matter why would anyone on this post apocalyptic world even follow a woman when any random man could easily overpower her.
I have been holding out for them making the zombies evolved or smarter or something and they have yet only teased this. I was so hyped at the start of the Whisperers arc because I actually did think it was the zombies who were talking but then it was immediately ruined because it turns out they were just normal humans who figured out if you wear someone's face you can trick zombies (Alpha and Beta were still good characters and the arc was fine, but not as good as it could be.)
Watching people deal with zombies with absolutely no difficulty whatsoever (EXCEPT when the plot demands for them to be a threat so there is some drama / conflict) has become so tired. Ironically the main focus of the show, zombies, haven't felt like a legit threat or presence since probably season 4. They have since just become a McGuffin to be used whenever the human vs human drama calls for it.
I stopped watching during season 2. There wasn't a specific point in the show that made me stop watching, I just got a little bored of it.
I thought season 1 was great and I didn't think it would ever be able to top season 1.
I've seen a few episodes in the later seasons and they looked alright.
I forget the exact episode, I think Beth was still at the hospital.
As for the comic, I dropped it when they beat Negan. Seemed like the perfect time to stop.
Simple
i like picturing the kind of abhorrent creature that screencaps a twitter homosexuals post and reposts it, makes me feel much better about myself.
when that elderly home were somehow alive in season 2 being taken advantage of gangsters or something, I forget honestly
>name my band
white dude and the mutt c**ts
Who is far left? Is she one of those femoids from that moronic all-woman settlement?
None of these characters are relatable, you can’t imagine yourself in any of their shoes.
No, but I can imagine myself in Maggie's ass.
>vore
Ew
>vore
What?
Google it
Why would I need to "relate" to a character?
At some point during the governor arc, I think season 3 or 4. The showrunners decided it was prudent to have multiple episodes back-to-back consisting of nothing, and I decided to stop fricking watching. I literally have no idea what has occurred in the show since outside of things I have absorbed through osmosis.
After season 1
Unironically after the pilot episode. Not a big fan of the genre anyway, happened to me after the pilot of TLOU as well.
Right after Rick was written off the show. I was over it at that point. The last few seasons before that I didn't really enjoy.
I quit first time at the end of the prison (3rd or 4th season?). Tried to power through but couldn't make it past the cannibal railroad location when they got captured.
The dialog and decisions just got to me. It's like the writers never had a normal human interaction.
Turned it off when I read
"DONT DEAD - OPEN INSIDE"
if they can't even do visual composition right I knew the show would be shit.
that part in one of the very first few episodes where they're cutting up zombies to cover themselves up in gore to hide their scent or whatever and Rick pulls out one of their wallets and look through their ID and their photos and shit. All this is a fine sobering realization that this was once a person he's dissecting. Then he gets up and makes a big dramatic corny speech about how the zombies were people once and blah blah blah and I'm like holy shit you fricking had it and then you blew it and I knew it would be shit from that point on so I stopped.
>oh my god you guys, I just realised WE are the walking dead!
When Shane died
Season 2 in general was shit but it never recovered after he died. Completely dropped it like 4 episodes in season 3.
Never watched a single episode. I'll never understand normie obsession with zombies.
Zombies simultaneously represent apocalyptic conditions freeing you from modern life, a return to close-knit communities, and an endless enemy to fight that you never have to feel bad about killing. It appeals to so many fantasies at once that I'm leaving out several for the sake of brevity.
I think it's simply that normies relate to mindless husks.
we are the walking normies
There is it
I'm still mad
I watched it all, and also just watched dead city which is only 6 episodes with maggie and negan.
Never watched the other spinoffs.
I was actually anti TV and film for a few years. My brother kept bringing TWD up and made me watch it while we dropped acid, first time for me in 2019. I actually loved the show and picked it up to binge watch. I've watched up until season 10. I was waiting for Netflix to get the last season but at this point I'm in no hurry to watch it. I also started to watch FTWD but I got bored to tears about 3 seasons in. Nowadays I just watch movies, so at least I can thank TWD for getting me back into watching stuff again.
Well you've come this far, only 1 season to go. IIRC I mean it still has Daryl, Carol, Eugene, Rosita, Aaron and Gabriel.
Arron and Gabe had the bet one shot episode when they meet the t-1000
First episode when some old women were talking about how they missed their dildos.
why do zoomers censor themselves
When there's no more Clementine
is this supposed to be Clementine?
i only played the 1st and 2nd game
why did only the lower half of her face grow?
For a supposedly Blasian girl, she really looks like a Wasian one.
Her father got cucked
season 3 I just got bored with it.
Never started, I'm not a bandwagoner and Walking Dead was always moron shit
Explosion at the end of season 1
When they introduced a fricking lion
I quit in season 2 or 3 the minute they said frick the comics and the story went to dog shit.
Same with GOT, Season 1 is good, dont watch anymore.
ftfy
After they leave the prison. I just lost interest
Season 2 is one of the most infuriating watching experiences of my life. Lori crashing a car on an empty road, that blonde b***h shooting Daryl by accident, ruining the well by dropping zombie guts in it, and then Dale getting killed because Coral is a moron. I didn't even finish it.
The only thing more ridiculous and infuriating especially the driving the car off the road was that people insisted I was being a jerk by saying this was cancerous, tumerous garbage. People around me shamed me into watching until the end of S3 and I told them to go frick themselevs. I had already completely checked out when Rick immediately found his family in the first like 2 episodes, I thought that was gonna be like the plot, lone cowboy guy trying to get his family while they do their thing idk. Total garbage through and through.
Don't forget the abortion pill drama and all the characters standing around the hood of the newly washed car so they wouldn't obstruct the hood ornament, because that would ruin the ad.
First time was in the first season, IIRC, where they go to the CDC and there's a shitload of military equipment around, rifles, vehicles, ammunition, MREs and they just walk right past it.
Second time was during season 2 when they tried to pull the swollen zombie from the well so they could drink the water.
kek what a shitshow
So long crabbo
Season 1. It was nothing but uninteresting drama.
At the begginning of season 2
the season after the barn
the moment I first heard the title
The second a Black person showed up
after Rick "died" and it fast forwarded to that little girl shooting his revolver, immediately turned it off and never watched again
mid season 2
Start of S4. Just became super boring.
I stopped at season 1 episode 1 because I hate the southern deputy lawman aesthetic then picked it up in season 3 or 4 when they were in the prison with the weak chain link fence? I stopped midway that season
When the black samurai woman appeared
Season 2, after the moronic part with the well.
I gave up on the tv series and the comics at the same exact point and that's when Negan showed up. I just didn't like the vibe they we're going for where the remaining humans are so cartoonishly evil that it's nearly laughable and the story arcs became way too predictable and repetitive because of this. The governor was already stretching it but I gave him a pass because the prison arc is probably the best arc in the whole series, both TV and comics.
When they realized the real monsters were the living people.
I made it to when they caught Neagan. I just couldn’t take it anymore. The show already felt like a chore, FEAR was like 2 or 3 seasons in, and they were just about to start a new spin off series. Whoever still watches Walking Dead have to be missing crucial brain cells at this point.
S2. It went full moron with the plot and ninja zombies and the budget dropped so hard that it looked ridiculous, so there was obviously no point in going on. People who tell themselves the show was good until some later point are delusional.
The sound mixing in season 2 was fricking infuriating. All these loud-ass cicadas or crickets or whatever chirping away in every outdoor scene and then as soon someone spoke they'd get muted, only to come back in full force if there's a long pause in the conversation. I felt like I was taking crazy pills, with no one else being bothered by how atrociously annoying it sounded.
Whatever episode Daryl was being tortured the entire episode with some song playing
>WE'RE ON EASY STREET
That song got stuck in my head for days
Yeah I liked that one, but didn't see coming what Gabe did.
Season 2 in the "Sofia is Missing" arc
>2011
Oh that makes sense.
season 2 episode 3 20 minutes and 39 seconds
After the first episode
The one where they put the negress in the coffin and ship it to negab i think
Comic Ending was neat tho
S2 the first time, it was just so fricking boring all of a sudden
then a few years (?) a group of us started hatewatching it and shitting on it endlessly, we kept that up until they got to Alexandria, never seen anything beyond that
>hey there this new show called The Walking Dead
Exactly that point.
Halfway through the first episode.
Somewhere in season 2 I think. I kept watching though to see where it would go and it just went downhill even more.
Season 1 was good but after that it just didn’t go anywhere.
after the governor died or after they left the prison, I can't remember
When they killed Glenn right after fake out killing Glenn. It was fine in hindsight, but I just got tired of people dying for no reason and an EVEN BIGGER HOARD of zombies every other week.
>First 8mins are exciting
>The next 30mins are mindless filler
>Last 3mins gives you an exciting hook to make you want to watch the next episode
I don't remember exactly when it started but when they began to follow that blueprint I dropped the show. There was seriously no reason for the show to be more than 10 episodes per season. I wonder how well the show would have done if it started on Netflix been given much more freedom and only being 8-10 episodes per season.
X posting should be a ban-able offense
The season when that little girl killed her sister and then Carol or whatever shot her in the head.
Whenever it started doing 3-4 weeks of "inbetween' episodes before advancing the main plot.
Kirkman is a hack. The only good comic he did was Battlepope in the 90s.
I stopped when Michonne left. The fact we never got to see her tight ebony body in a sex scene or at least undressed to her underwear is a crime against TV.
Glenn's obvious fake-out death
First episode of the season where they confirmed Beth died
S08E01
But looking back I should have stopped at S05E03
After the second season was much worse than the first like any normal person. Who the frick actually went and watched 10 (T E N) seasons of this shit?
There's 11 seasons and the last season has 24 episodes. I watched it all. I would just put it on my 2nd or 3rd monitor and browse online.
>I would just put it on my 2nd or 3rd monitor and browse online.
This is what zoomers call "watching".
i dont remember specifically what season but the prison arc just went on forever and was already making me question what i was doing with my time so hershell's death gave me an easy out
After the 2nd season. Dogshit. The Telltale game was the best thing to come out of the franchise. Imagine making a story good enough to not make Cinemaphile cry about a black protag.
>little girl points out/tries to remind them that some walkers are sentient (pic)
"she's crazy and should be murdered"
>Maggie:
>kills woman while trying to give c-section
>struggles to keep starving, crying baby alive
>wants to have a baby
>incompetent main group is saved from starvation by thriving/cautious group
>are still the leaders
>TWD writers and fans
What the frick is their problem?
Very obvious the wife was some sort of delusion.
Did you forget the part where the little girl stabbed her younger sister to death so they could be together forever? She was a serial killer in the making.
season 3 iirc
whenever they were holed up in some big house and the show had more shitty dialogue than zombies
is that shit still on..thought it was over like 10 years ago
You can show the F BOMB here on Cinemaphile.
Most General audiences started leaving after Negan killed Glenn. After that, viewership started going downward.
Watched while it was airing up until a couple episodes into Season 3 (the prison) and stopped. Went back years later and binged everything up until Neegan was introduced while it was airing. Stopped again after the bullshit cliffhanger. Went back and binged until Carl died.
At some point in the prison season there was a shot that had audio of an jetliner landing. I just couldn't care anymore after that.
Which is shocking because that’s easy to remove in ADR.
I've only seen the forst two episodes and the last one because of The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs. Otherwise I've never watched it
WHO HAS GLENN DEATH REACTION GIF you know the one.
the gay guy got his arm crushed by a log or something
Never stopped.
Btw 1>2>3>9>5>4>6>10>7>11>8
Series finale was ok.
FTWD, World Beyond and Tales of The Walking Dead never watched and never will.
Dead City spin off haven't watched yet but I will, same for Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Live.
Right around the Governor/prison season. Too many asspulls to ignore. The entire illusion of zombies being a threat was completely absent at that point.
the season that ended when they were camping and the camera zooms out to show the jail.
this thread was fun yesterday!
When they stole the budget from Frank Darabont and all the actors who took a massive paycut to help Frank quit because he was fired.
I read the comic book to the point were he said “we are the walking dead” then stopped
This is what AMC STOLE from the Walking Dead fans.
ive only watched like 4 episodes
When the Black person with a pet tiger was introduced. Looked like something straight out of a video game.