|
something cool
meandering

Registered: 01/30/12
Posts: 1,306
Last seen: 7 years, 4 months
|
I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show 1
#18949164 - 10/08/13 11:34 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
The characters are notably mundane and also bland-looking, so I find it hard to develop an appeal to senses, whether cranial or carnal.
The only reasonably interesting and interestingly contributing character were seemingly purposefully killed off, as if to prove the "there is no sacred cow" point, which in the end translated into "there is no interesting show". Shane should still be alive, because he was interesting, smart in a manner, and visually appeasing on screen. The one-handed racist guy should still be alive because he's interesting, was one of the few characters that delivered flavour and some kind of mental stimulation (just by being so obtuse and hostile, as well as independently motivated). The old man should still be alive because he gave contrast and was the closest thing to a voice of reason which the group had.
These shouldn't be typifies as "sacred cows", but the sources of interesting dialog and quality scenario handling. Might as well strip the zombies from the show while in pursuit of purging all "sacred cows". After all, they're just a crutch to carry an otherwise supremely boring cast.
This show also has too many uglies collected into one group, as if the casting director has a type they go for, and that type is an ugly. Not hideous, but with unappealing characteristics. It just needs some offsetting, and there isn't that offsetting present. Characters are also excruciatingly boring, for an entertainment medium. They don't have interesting or insightful conversations, they don't do anything amusing...
For audio, I think that the sound production is really bad. Way over-compressed. Shit seems to punch in and out in a very non-discreet and irritating manner
I'll be watching when it resumes, but there have been many terrible design choices executed. I think it will be a good thing for the show that the previous producer or whatever he was, was fired. At least I hope it will be. If there was another whole season of doing dick all, idling at a farm, I think the show would be dumped by its audience.
|
Nimpo
Big Black


Registered: 05/10/12
Posts: 2,375
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: something cool]
#18949177 - 10/08/13 11:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Ill sum up OPs post for everyone:
Quote:
This is my opinion and it should be taken as objective facts!
|
memes
Blessed



Registered: 01/11/05
Posts: 27,785
Loc: In a Tree
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: Nimpo]
#18949193 - 10/08/13 11:41 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Nimpo said: Ill sum up OPs post for everyone:
thanks man. i got about 4 sentences in before i skipped down to your reply. glad i did.
|
gzuf
٩(̾๏̮̮̃̾๏̃̾)۶



Registered: 07/13/09
Posts: 6,535
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: something cool]
#18949203 - 10/08/13 11:43 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Yeah they strayed too far from the original plot. They fired Frank Darabont after season 1 (directer of Shawshank Redemption, creator of Walking Dead, their best season imo) The characters are boring and I feel no real danger for Rick, his son, Daryl, etc. For instance in like Game of Thrones every single character I have a genuine fear for their safety because that show will kill them off in a second and not give a fuck. TWD is not like that, it's boring and fairly predictable. The season 3 finale was probably one of the worst season finales for a show I've ever seen. Literally almost nothing happens. It sucks but the show definitely became mediocre. Season 2 was like slow torture week to week. There is just soooo muuucchhh emotional drama bullshit in that show between characters, you just end up hating them. They lost two of their best actors (Shane and the old guy who's name I can't remember) too, so that didn't help. The show just lacks any sense of the apocalypse, it doesn't feel dangerous and there is no consistency. Characters will have super awesome aiming one scene and then miss a shot the next. It's just a clusterfuck.
AMC itself is a shitty channel that wasn't ready for the big times when their shows exploded (Mad Men, Breaking Bad). They fired like 3 or 4 showrunners now for TWD. The next guy directed the best episode of season 3 imo when they find the crazy black guy from season 1 again, so there is hope. And the show does have some really cool scenes and awesome makeup effect shit. There is hope, but I'm not hopeful.
-------------------- +1 Post ٩(̾๏̮̮̃̾๏̃̾)۶
|
noiz
Stranger

Registered: 08/20/13
Posts: 49
Last seen: 3 years, 16 days
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: gzuf]
#18949253 - 10/08/13 11:53 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Way way to far away from the comic.
|
Into The Woods
Quarantine King


Registered: 04/20/13
Posts: 10,864
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: noiz] 1
#18949303 - 10/08/13 12:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Fuck the comic, it's still a good show.
|
abltsandwich
JFK = Jelly Donut




Registered: 06/16/09
Posts: 11,537
Loc: Dildoville
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: gzuf] 2
#18949304 - 10/08/13 12:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
AMC is notorious for cutting budgets on even successful shows like TWD. If they'd've kept Darabont on the show, it would have been way better. But honestly I'm glad he walked away because he wouldn't let the AMC budget cuts water down his vision so his integrity as a writer/director whatever is more important to him than anything and I respect that more than someone just falling into line to ride the gravy train.
I like zombie lore and there's little else to get my zombie fix that I haven't seen already. That and it's an October tradition for me like when the weather gets nice and my favorite holiday is approaching TWD is on every Sunday it just all goes together.
|
Legend
RIP Sasha



Registered: 03/29/10
Posts: 28,336
Loc: TX
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: abltsandwich] 2
#18949325 - 10/08/13 12:10 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
The walking dead is too slow paced for my liking.
--------------------
No sympathy for the devil, keep that in mind. [url=]Buy the ticket, take the ride. [/url]Are you lost?
|
dark hippy
Creeping&Crawling


Registered: 05/05/13
Posts: 71
Loc: Michigan
Last seen: 9 years, 8 months
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: Legend]
#18949409 - 10/08/13 12:31 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
I just started season 3 because it finally came on netflix. so far im pretty impressed on how they do things but im only on like episode 4. If they keep it up from where i am i think it will be just fine.
-------------------- "It ain't nothing but more hot shit Another classic CD for y'all to vibe with Whether you're cooling on a corner with your fly bitch Laid back in the shack, play this track I'm representing for the gangsters all across the world"
|
Legend
RIP Sasha



Registered: 03/29/10
Posts: 28,336
Loc: TX
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: dark hippy]
#18949417 - 10/08/13 12:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
dark hippy said: I just started season 3 because it finally came on netflix. so far im pretty impressed on how they do things but im only on like episode 4. If they keep it up from where i am i think it will be just fine.
i remember when we watched the first season high as fuck
i just couldn't get into the second season, sucha slow start!
--------------------
No sympathy for the devil, keep that in mind. [url=]Buy the ticket, take the ride. [/url]Are you lost?
|
gzuf
٩(̾๏̮̮̃̾๏̃̾)۶



Registered: 07/13/09
Posts: 6,535
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: dark hippy]
#18949419 - 10/08/13 12:33 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
abltsandwich said: AMC is notorious for cutting budgets on even successful shows like TWD. If they'd've kept Darabont on the show, it would have been way better. But honestly I'm glad he walked away because he wouldn't let the AMC budget cuts water down his vision so his integrity as a writer/director whatever is more important to him than anything and I respect that more than someone just falling into line to ride the gravy train.
I like zombie lore and there's little else to get my zombie fix that I haven't seen already. That and it's an October tradition for me like when the weather gets nice and my favorite holiday is approaching TWD is on every Sunday it just all goes together.
Yeah agreed. Darabont is a badass. I'll still watch it I'm sure, but I wont be rushing home for TWD on Sundays or anything. I'm just kinda meh at this point.
You netflix people are kind of lucky. I could see how it'd be a lot better in one shot without week to week wait and shit.
-------------------- +1 Post ٩(̾๏̮̮̃̾๏̃̾)۶
|
Enlil
OTD God-King




Registered: 08/16/03
Posts: 65,958
Loc: Uncanny Valley
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: something cool]
#18949430 - 10/08/13 12:35 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
The first season was good, but after that, it fell off dramatically. All that time at the farm was just worthless filler that was almost, but not entirely, unlike a show about zombies.
The prison stuff was slightly better, but by that time, they already killed off everyone interesting. Daryl is okay, but he can't carry the show.
-------------------- Censoring opposing views since 2014. Ask an Attorney Fuck the Amish
|
The Ecstatic
Chilldog Extraordinaire


Registered: 11/11/09
Posts: 33,573
Loc: 'Merica
Last seen: 2 hours, 42 minutes
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: Enlil]
#18949454 - 10/08/13 12:40 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
last season was incredibly painful to watch.
better step it up.
--------------------
|
something cool
meandering

Registered: 01/30/12
Posts: 1,306
Last seen: 7 years, 4 months
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: Nimpo]
#18949465 - 10/08/13 12:44 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Question: What part of the "I think" in the title presented itself as fact, rather than opinion? I'll sum up your post for everyone:
Quote:
Nimpo said: I'm a dunce
|
something cool
meandering

Registered: 01/30/12
Posts: 1,306
Last seen: 7 years, 4 months
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: gzuf]
#18949487 - 10/08/13 12:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
gzuf said: The season 3 finale was probably one of the worst season finales for a show I've ever seen. Literally almost nothing happens.
I didn't even know that it was a finale until there was no show the following week. Then I had to check the previous episode to see if it really was one that I'd watched, because I didn't think there was any way that it was a finale. But, I guess that for a show in which nothing happens, an episode where nothing happens caps it all off pretty well.
I found it pretty funny when the T-dawg actor said in interview that we could expect a lot more TD action coming up, and then he just died. That was probably my highest source of entertainment from the 3rd season.
|
watermelon mon
Willow Trees


Registered: 04/05/13
Posts: 7,800
Last seen: 3 years, 3 months
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: something cool]
#18949867 - 10/08/13 02:31 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
I only saw a few episodes of the walking dead was alright but it is slow pace its hard for me to get into any t.v shows nowadays but I still watch it sometimes
Edited by watermelon mon (10/08/13 02:32 PM)
|
Synthe
Gatorade me, bitch!



Registered: 11/10/12
Posts: 7,961
Loc: Three bags of Funyuns
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: something cool]
#18949948 - 10/08/13 02:47 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
It's a little too clean (verbally + sexually) and sometimes melodramatic, but overall I still think it's a good show. I'm looking forward to the start of S4.
Also, OP, how is your biggest complaint that the characters aren't "visually appealing" enough? Do you WANT them to all look like silly hot JC-penny models? Doesn't the thought of that seem annoying to you?
I think that having a lot of average looking characters and not giving them all silly fucking lipstick during the apocalypse them is a good thing.
--------------------
|
Herbologist
Grrratata



Registered: 05/09/10
Posts: 7,471
Loc: Casa Bonita
Last seen: 3 years, 2 months
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: Synthe]
#18949975 - 10/08/13 02:52 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
I just wished the episodes were more jam packed with action. Last season there was some BORING shit going on. Rick being all crazy and emotional - omg that was drawn out I wanted to kill him myself.
Im hoping this season will be a good one though
-------------------- Shroomery Law: Don't piss off the leftist mods & their friends!
|
JacksonMetaller
Stranger

Registered: 03/13/11
Posts: 13,361
Last seen: 1 year, 2 months
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: Herbologist]
#18950032 - 10/08/13 03:03 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
The first season was great but it has become a guilty pleasure. I still enjoy it because I followed it, but I can tell that it started to suck
|
chutney
slappin' the whiners
Registered: 07/26/13
Posts: 402
Last seen: 1 year, 9 days
|
Re: I think Walking Dead is pretty much a shit show [Re: Synthe] 1
#18950065 - 10/08/13 03:12 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
I think it's gone way downhill.
Will still watch the fourth season for cheap entertainment though
--------------------
|
|