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I haven't been watching TWD since last year, but the degree to which the marketing has focused on a barbed wire bat strikes me as kind of gross. Not sure I really need lingering shots of syrupy blood dripping off it. Don't know if I'm just getting old and sensitive to death or bored with pushing the envelope on violence, or what. I don't think so, because I still like horror movies. Alan Sepinwall calls it misery porn, which I find pretty apt. Also feels like this happened before a couple times with the Governor and Terminus, even though those weren't major characters. Plot wise it seems like they spin their wheels a lot.

JL21 wrote:Negan is the cleansing forest fire.

Negan is life.

ghostrunner wrote:I haven't been watching TWD since last year, but the degree to which the marketing has focused on a barbed wire bat strikes me as kind of gross. Not sure I really need lingering shots of syrupy blood dripping off it.

...but the decaying zombie faces and gruesome zombie deaths are okay.

TimeForGuinness wrote:

JL21 wrote:Negan is the cleansing forest fire.

Negan is life.

He made me laugh in the way I had to pause and wonder why I was laughing, like the "I Shot Marvin in the Face" scene in Pulp Fiction.

The Walking Dead isn't losing me because it's too violent or bleak, it's because the writers don't know how to insert stakes into plot without just turning up the volume. It's just dumb. It's always been pretty dumb, but this was a step in a dumb direction. Inserting a 6 month break or whatever it was made it even worse. It was clear they ran out of steam and just wanted to hit reset.

Tambourine Man wrote:

TimeForGuinness wrote:

JL21 wrote:Negan is the cleansing forest fire.

Negan is life.

He made me laugh in the way I had to pause and wonder why I was laughing, like the "I Shot Marvin in the Face" scene in Pulp Fiction.

That's actually a pretty decent correlation.

TimeForGuinness wrote:

ghostrunner wrote:I haven't been watching TWD since last year, but the degree to which the marketing has focused on a barbed wire bat strikes me as kind of gross. Not sure I really need lingering shots of syrupy blood dripping off it.

...but the decaying zombie faces and gruesome zombie deaths are okay.

Zombies are not people, my friend.

But I take the point. I've said so before, but all I'd like is a bit of Zombieland thrown in. Some fun in what should be a fun premise.

Wish I had thought of it, but this would've been the better cliffhanger:

[SHOW]

Negan does his eenie meenie miney mo at the end of last season, but we actually see Abraham get it. Then, we see Daryl react, Negan gives him a look, and it goes to black.

I've heard plenty of positives about the new series of TWD, but...I think perhaps I'm worn out on TV. Maybe my British brain is just programmed to see ongoing things as soap operas and quality shows in blocks of 6 episodes (or even less).

In other news, I'm living up to my avatar by watching "Just Shoot Me!", which I never bothered with at the time. Pretty good, in that slick mainstrream way. Hell, I don't even hate Spade in it.

Famous Mortimer wrote:I've heard plenty of positives about the new series of TWD, but...I think perhaps I'm worn out on TV. Maybe my British brain is just programmed to see ongoing things as soap operas and quality shows in blocks of 6 episodes (or even less).

I prefer the British style of TV programming...2-3 seasons and done*. Anything longer than that and it seem strung out, re-using the same storylines, etc...it gets boring.


*except Top Gear