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| Malenko:
--- Quote from: horizon on November 17, 2014, 04:43:04 pm ---Really dislike the way they are doing one storyline per episode. The random flashbacks last night were very unimpressive. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: ChadTower on November 18, 2014, 10:13:44 am ---This season feels like a game where you have 500 sidequests that don't mean anything to the overall storyline but you still have to complete them to get the experience necessary to survive later on. It's all busy work. --- End quote --- I kind of agree. Now I wouldn't mind the solo stories if I liked the characters and each character got a couple minutes of an episode and not the entire episode. Despite me liking the governor as a bad guy, his 2 episode arc was supremely boring. I get the need to show how he got more people to follow him so he could attack the prison, but the story was a bit of a stretch (and thats in a universe where Zombie Apocalypse is a real thing). I don't mind somewhat minor flash back montages like they did with Michonne and Abraham , and the Carol and Daryl team up was at least a little interesting (sans the van flip off the bridge). Beth is an uninteresting character and one of the few survivors I want to see get offed. I'd rather them have 1 legged Hershel over her. They have already nixed the DC idea for a way to end the series, and I know there is going to be at least 1 more season, but with no "end game" to the apocalypse we're just watching a zombie soap opera. |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: Malenko on November 18, 2014, 10:40:52 am ---but with no "end game" to the apocalypse we're just watching a zombie soap opera. --- End quote --- BINGO, the perfect term.. They NEED an end game or the series is just dwelling in purgatory.. |
| ChadTower:
Dwelling in purgatory is sort of the whole point. They aren't reproducing. There is Carl (STAY BACK) and Judith and that's it. With the rate at which survivors are being picked off by each other pretty soon it will be just Carl until he gets the flu. Then the series is over simply because there is nobody left. |
| dkersten:
Now you are back to "the road"... Just keep writing the story until there is nobody to write about, and make the "end game" the extinction of humanity.. The story is boring if it is just about surviving. It should be about figuring out how to adapt and then prosper, ensuring the survival of the human species. The underlying story with WD has always been whether humans will be worth saving by the time they adapt.. It is always the question, as it was in last week's episode (save the guy who stole the weapons and left you for dead, kill him now so he doesn't kill you later, or just leave him to be eaten).. |
| Vigo:
Sunday's episode was a tad dull, but honestly, I have been enjoying this season quite a bit. Just compare to season 2 where the whole time was spent searching for Sophia, and she ended up being dead in the barn the whole time. 6 episodes where Darryl is wandering in the woods week after week. As far as pointless side quests go, they were spent on things like getting a zombie out of a well, or going on a run to pick up birth control pills. This season we have dynamic changes that occur just about every episode. The marvelous thing about this show is that it reinvents itself pretty much every season, changes style, changes focus. This season is focusing one one thing per episode, tying up loose ends and bringing in a new rival group and that is fine by me, because when if they split up the show among multiple storylines, it ends up being weeks until any significant change occurs, then every timeline climaxes at once. I don't mind the character pieces either. Beth, Eugene and Abraham went through huge character developments, and I think they are great characters now. As far as endgame goes, I'm glad they don't have one. You either have to let the endgame linger forever, or complete it and come up with new endgames and the show delutes itself into nothing. That is how Lost imploded on itself. That is why people stopped caring about Revolution. This is post apocalypse, and I like the realistic take one it. Did Max Max have an endgame? And that doesn't mean there isn't a goal. The fact that they ran with the cure in Washington and let it fall off a cliff huge in the plot. It means that those last remaining pipe dreams that there is a safe civilization and a way to reverse this mess is just a storybook fantasy. Now, the group has to figure out their purpose. They are pumping up the group into a bunch of hardened survivalists which means they are probably gonna be facing a much larger threat soon. 6 cops in a hospital is just a stepping stone. I got a feeling what comes after will be good. |
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