The wife and I only keep watching because we've been invested in it for so many years. We honestly can't wait until the show ends.
I was like that for seasons 7 and 8 but I just couldn't do it anymore and didn't want to waste my time when there are so many other good shows on.
That’s pretty much where I’m at. I’ve been following the show and the comics for close to a decade now. If the whole series was ending in like 2 more seasons like I thought it was, then I’d be more than ok with that. However, AMC is still saying they don’t have an ending planned in the near future. I’m probably done after the Rick movies if they don’t just end it with those.
I know they recently made that claim it would never end even after the comics ended this summer, but they probably meant as in the whole franchise. Show 3 is on the way and Fear is continuing. The main show probably has like three seasons left tops. Commonwealth Arc is a lot of slow burn building to Rick’s big speech that defuses conflict and leads to a happy ending. I don’t think we’ll get two years of just that. My bet is the Whisperer War kicks off by the end of Season 10A, the war ends by episode 14 ish, we get a big death to adapt Andrea’s death, and by the end we arrive at Commonwealth judging by the casting of Princess for this season. Kang has been pretty good about pacing I think. If this was Gimple, you’d have had a whole half season pass between the season 10 premiere and episode 3 when they meet Alpha at the border. Ads would hype up a big fight only for the peaceful but tense meeting we got to play out, Gimple tricked us for ratings, the end. If Gimple was running the show still, the show wouldn’t end until Season 15.
Tonight was another meh, nothing much happening episode. Lots of Negan which was good, but it felt like a lot of old beats being repeated from past episodes with Merle, and oddly enough, Lizzie and Mika. Also telling the kid about nut-slapping was stupid. Like, Luke drinking green milk stupid. Also yay, I didn’t care about Connie’s sister before and now I really don’t care about her. Magna was working her way up and I like that she’s actually a “good” character who actually did kill someone in the past, but still. She’s kind of like a Rocket Racoon type, a self-destructive, push everyone away type - and ironically enough, like Merle and Yondu. Geez. Michael Rooker needs royalties for this episode. Daryl and Connie were really cute and to see him be a complete dork trying to sign the craziness of a Merle story was sweet. I really do want them to be a thing, and I was wondering if she was going to kiss him at the end. The reveal about Ezekiel was sad.
Pretty meh episode again, but the little we got was pretty awesome. Negan being an absolutely obnoxious shit to Beta was hysterical and I want more of it.
Negan is the last hope for this show. Everyone else is just so replaceable I wouldn't even know the difference if they came or left.
Being honest, I think the show is doing a better effort of introducing the new characters and actually making them characters than the comic ever did.
In both cases, it just seems like there are/were too many people to keep track of. It always seemed more focused with a smaller amount of characters. You can go multiple TV episodes (which can almost be a month or so) without seeing a character and it kind of takes me out of it in a sense.
Best episode of the season. Spoiler Called Dante being a Whisperer and it’s terrifying he hid himself that damn good in Alexandria. RIP Siddiq, I felt really bad seeing that yes, he was forced to watch each and every one of the pike victims be decapitated. Seeing DJ crying and bracing himself was pretty sad too for such a nobody, if anything just because I’m imagining the others in their last moments as well. Would’ve loved to have seen Ozzy go down because he strikes me as the badass who wouldn’t shut up until his head was off. But nonetheless it was a genuine nightmare to see in better clarity. Siddiq dying early isn’t as big a deal since he didn’t do anything really in the comics, especially not post-Whisperer War. He was just another dude. But it sucks that the guy Carl gave his life for is gone now.
I’m not gonna lie the opening with Dante and Rosita was genuinely scary to me. Honestly this was a good episode. I feel like this episode had about five Gimple episodes in it, so much was going on, and I like it. I figured under Gimple’s direction, the prologue would’ve happened a few episodes later, and the Oceanside stuff would’ve been its own episode. Disappointing to not see Negan one more time and I had hoped he’d have gotten to take Alpha’s head tonight. But okay. I was genuinely intimidated this episode. A lot of danger, suspense. A lot of characters were getting screentime and that spells death - and likely will still spell it next spring. The promo for next year was badass. The Whisperer War begins at last.
So do Judith and Michonne clean their swords after slicing zombies and before slicing people like Virgil?
This back half has been pretty good, tonight’s episode was the calm before the war and was easily the best so far. Shame that most of the episode was build up but it was really good build up which I don’t mind. It’s great to see a war under Kang’s direction as opposed to Gimple’s haphazard editing and “gotcha” teasing.
Yea my jaw literally hit the ground. Especially at the "burlap sack" scene right at the end. As I've read the comic I had a rough idea what was happening, but the non-comic twist was a HUGE winner IMO.
Spoiler Like in the show, Negan cut off Alpha's head, but he did it to prove he was trying to help Rick and co. Not in coalition with someone else.
