[Mezla PigDog]

I was hoping they would be a proper psycho colony that killed all males and male children.

I don't really mind this hopping around from colony to colony. The Alexandria lot are still reeling and a bit useless for now so there's no entertainment there until events push them into something. Lots of new characters means there's some free deaths coming too - we need more characters so that none of the regulars have to die. I'm half being sarcastic and half serious here as if too many regulars die the show won't be worth watching. It's hard enough without Glenn who was kind of the one remaining original "good guy".

I want Jesus and King Ezekiel to team up.

[Malankazooie]

Well, another smh of an episode at the stupidity Rick's group displays, especially when you consider how far long they are into the apocalypse now. It's amazing nothing has been learned. Most of them should have been zombie chow by now or murdered by another group.

And what's the deal with shaming Eugene into making a bullet, just one, bullet?

So I guess one of the big setups for next week's mid-season finale is Rick coming back to the sight of Judith in the arms of Negan. Gee, I wonder how Rick will respond.

[acesn8s]

Malankazooie, on 05 December 2016 - 10:15 PM, said:

Well, another smh of an episode at the stupidity Rick's group displays, especially when you consider how far long they are into the apocalypse now. It's amazing nothing has been learned. Most of them should have been zombie chow by now or murdered by another group.

And what's the deal with shaming Eugene into making a bullet, just one, bullet?

So I guess one of the big setups for next week's mid-season finale is Rick coming back to the sight of Judith in the arms of Negan. Gee, I wonder how Rick will respond.

No test rounds for Rosita, huh? Yeah, I'm not sure I'd trust Eugene enough to pour piss out of a boot, even if I wrote the instructions on the bottom.

[QuickTidal]

We've let the last (I think) three eps pile up....withy little to no interest to watch. Shows me what level the show is batting on for entertainment value.

Also, while the ratings are still better than most TV shows...they've apparently taken a header off a cliff since the premiere, and are not getting better, but are slowly still dropping.

I want to say that this SHOULD give AMC pause...and maybe they'll get their shit together and fire Gimple to get the ratings to climb again. But yeah, I think this just signifies exactly HOW burned everyone was with the S6 finale, and how annoyed they are with the slower-than-shit pace this season.

[Malankazooie]

acesn8s, on 06 December 2016 - 03:26 PM, said:

Malankazooie, on 05 December 2016 - 10:15 PM, said:

Well, another smh of an episode at the stupidity Rick's group displays, especially when you consider how far long they are into the apocalypse now. It's amazing nothing has been learned. Most of them should have been zombie chow by now or murdered by another group.

And what's the deal with shaming Eugene into making a bullet, just one, bullet?

So I guess one of the big setups for next week's mid-season finale is Rick coming back to the sight of Judith in the arms of Negan. Gee, I wonder how Rick will respond.

No test rounds for Rosita, huh? Yeah, I'm not sure I'd trust Eugene enough to pour piss out of a boot, even if I wrote the instructions on the bottom.

Well that, but also if you're going to risk an excursion to the place Eugene can forge bullets, wouldn't you at least try to forage for enough material to fill up the gun's clip? I think since the setting is America, it might be easier to actually find the bullets on a supply search run then to gather the materials to forge them.

Also, the show seemed to have a high school mentality bullying/shaming theme, i.e. Negan making fun of Carl's eye, Negan making Carl sing, Negan making fat jokes about Olivia and Rosita shaming Eugene into making the bullet (and then apologizing after getting the bullet, which Eugene promptly rejected, so good for him).

[worry]

Another hour long episode, but don't worry...

Spoiler

half of it is a dialogue-free final montage of the surviving cast's faces set to like Hallmark Hall of Fame music.

[Malankazooie]

It was 90 minutes. I think that is the third episode this season that has been 90 minutes.

A rather predictable mid-season finale if you ask me.

Spoiler

Even the seizing of Eugene by Negan was not all that difficult to see coming.

And once again bonehead moves by Rick's group seems to dominate the day.

I guess I will try to hold on for when it starts up again in February, but I don't know how much more I can tolerate (if it moves at the same pace and nothing significant happens).

[worry]

Yah I mean a 90 minute episode has an hour of show, 30 min of commercials.

[acesn8s]

Anyone watch after the credits?

[QuickTidal]

We caught up on the three eps we'd missed (not including last nights mid-season finale)...WHAT the fuck was with that Tara episode?

So wait...the writer's idea of a clever episode is to have the lesbian character be the one who finds the ocean-residing all-female community...and the first thing out of the leaders mouth is "I hope you like fish"....I mean, are you fucking KIDDING ME here? That can't have gone over the writer's head as a piss-poor, sexist joke/comment, right?

I'm annoyed because I don't care about Tara much, and she's really not interesting to focus a whole episode on, but the writing in this ep was super super bad. Like this: Tara returns back to Alexandria (neither the wife or I could remember why she was out of the compound...that's how long it's been since they showed us) after having been SWORN to utter silence about the ocean all-female compound. The FIRST thing a character does (after telling her that her girlfriend is dead) is to ask her if she knows about ANYTHING or ANYWHERE they can go to so they can get out of Alexandria. The very thing that in the previous set of scenes she was sword to secrecy about. That's TERRIBLE writing. I mean, fuck. Insert that randomly down the line somewhere....you can't have the scene where she swears to secrecy, and chase it with a scene where she is asked to betray that word explicitly. The guy who wrote this ep doesn't have much on his resume, and I THINK he's involved in TWD due to having once been Darabont's production assistant...but shit, he didn't learn writing from him, that's for sure.

[Malankazooie]

acesn8s, on 12 December 2016 - 01:54 PM, said:

Anyone watch after the credits?

Was that

Spoiler

the boots mystery person who was spying on Rick and Aaron when they were scavenging the walker pond? And then finding his/her way outside Alexandria (or was it the Hilltop colony?).

[acesn8s]

Malankazooie, on 12 December 2016 - 03:41 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 12 December 2016 - 01:54 PM, said:

Anyone watch after the credits?

Was that

Spoiler

the boots mystery person who was spying on Rick and Aaron when they were scavenging the walker pond? And then finding his/her way outside Alexandria (or was it the Hilltop colony?).

Spoiler

I took it as 'Boots' outside of Alexandria (I think he was watching Gabriel.

So, is Boots the owner of the boat or just another new character in the wings, or a Savior?

[Malankazooie]

acesn8s, on 12 December 2016 - 06:44 PM, said:

Malankazooie, on 12 December 2016 - 03:41 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 12 December 2016 - 01:54 PM, said:

Anyone watch after the credits?

Was that

Spoiler

the boots mystery person who was spying on Rick and Aaron when they were scavenging the walker pond? And then finding his/her way outside Alexandria (or was it the Hilltop colony?).

Spoiler

I took it as 'Boots' outside of Alexandria (I think he was watching Gabriel.

So, is Boots the owner of the boat or just another new character in the wings, or a Savior?

Spoiler

I took it as the owner of the boat and stash at the pond was dead, so I think this is someone new who just happened to coincidentally be at the spot when Rick and Aaron where raiding it. In The Talking Dead after-show, Robert Kirkman said the mystery of who "boots" is will be revealed when the 2nd half of this season continues in February.

[worry]

I think I know who Boots is.

Spoiler

Makes sense when you ask yourself "Who wears boots and is most likely to survive the apocalypse alone?"

[acesn8s]

Briar King, on 12 December 2016 - 11:49 PM, said:

I think I know Worry prob posted a pic of Puss in Boots but I'm not clicking just in case it's an actual comic spoiler.

Safe to click.

[Mezla PigDog]

I'm caught up. Negan is my favourite character now.

What I don't get is that nobody has ever noticed that they just have to keep going until the zombies decay into nothingness. I know it's all about the human groups now but someone should at least say it.

I can't say I'm that bothered by the decline. I think I don't have the brain power to give a shit.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I don't know if I even care about this show any more. I'm not quite ready to give up and will watch when it comes back on, but I've been close saying fuck it several times. There's a lot about this show that is bad. It's soooo damn formulaic. Rick's party discovers a place where they think they can finally settle down. There is an antagonist that makes that hard. They defeat the nysgonist but in the end the walkers break in and they have to keep movIng. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. They have killed off most of the characters I have ever been remotely interested in and replaced them with less compelling characters. I almost hope it gets cancelled so I can stop watching because I don't know if I will ever pull the trigger and stop on my own, just because of sheer momentum.

[acesn8s]

Cheesewiz, on 07 February 2017 - 01:45 AM, said:

This starts back next Sun. I thought about Malan today. Land is being cleared by my house and there was a huge fucking 8 wheeled tractor with 4 workers standing next to it. There heads didn't even clear the tires. Wish I coulda got a pic of it.

They definitely need a construction vehicle vs horde scene in the show.

[acesn8s]

Glad it's back on.

Spoiler

So Gabriel's plotline, is it going to be a bunch of flashbacks? I really hope not.

This post has been edited by acesn8s: 13 February 2017 - 01:23 PM

[acesn8s]

Briar King, on 13 February 2017 - 05:37 PM, said:

I enjoyed this one a lot. Curious to see what the bashers on here say about it.

While I didn't get my steamroller, I'm satisfied.