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The Walking Dead (Official Thread)

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Bucklion said:
I mean how could one like or hate it? It was 60 minutes of Beth looking for a chaser to follow her Rattlesnake sorbet. I thought there were episodes where nothing happened before...that was 60 minutes of pure nothing. Having Daryl kill a couple of walkers with a 6 iron does not constitute an interesting show. This is what happens when they start a show on a wing and a prayer for 6 (or 7, or whatever it was) episodes to see if anyone likes it, then decide they're going to turn it into a franchise...they didn't care about character arcs much when they didn't know if there was going to be a show, and now they are filling in all the soap opera stuff they should have done gradually over the first 3 seasons. It really makes for a frightfully boring hour on a Sunday night.
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Clearly it was an 8 or 9 iron... did you see the loft that eye ball/orbital bone got when he splattered Beth.
 
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Usually defend the show as well but I will echo everyone else...last night was boring. Plus I was waiting the whole time for Darryl and Beth to get their sexual frustrations taken out on each other...not even alcohol is going to foster that I guess. And Darryl's background was EXTREMELY disappointing. We basically already knew he had family issues and a rough background, which made his revelations far from shocking. Then it turns out he was a drifter. Shocker :confused:

The only real part of interest for me was developing Beth's character a little bit more. I think she adds a dynamic to the show that the other female characters currently do not. Other than that, the episode sucked hard.
 
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I'm in the "why do I keep watching this show boat" and pretty much have been since season two. Last night was probably the worst episode of the series, though I may have mentally scrubbed most of season 2 from my brain.

Someone on another site posted something that would have made this episode a million times better: (paraphrasing) Darryl was hallucinating Beth the whole episode. She actually died during the prison escape, so Darryl was scouring for alcohol as a coping mechanism. This would have been revealed when she was talking about him being the lone survivor.

Alas, they did not take this route and instead it was 60 minutes of no progress.
 
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Thanks to shows like WD, it makes me realize how great a show like The House of Cards is....

The spin on Beth would have been a great twist; this show lacks the edge it did early on and it's gotten to the point where there are so many characters that they want to "develop" that it takes away from the flow and actual main story. Offing a few of these characters to bring that grit back would be ideal, to me, and having Darryl go rogue and bad ass again by hallucinating Beth after her death would have been great. Let's do the same with Maggie & Carl and really make it fun again!
 
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Darryl was on the Talking Dead after the episode touting how meaningful it was to him to have Darryl's backstory be that of a nomad. I wonder if he actually believes that or if he was just saying it for the sake of the show.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Darryl was on the Talking Dead after the episode touting how meaningful it was to him to have Darryl's backstory be that of a nomad. I wonder if he actually believes that or if he was just saying it for the sake of the show.
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I consider Norman Reedus to be a brilliant actor, one who seems to be able to analyze the nuances of a role very well. All that said, he therefore HAS to pandering, doesn't he? He can't possibly believe that the wandering nomad "I was my brother's bitch" storyline really enhances his character any.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Darryl was on the Talking Dead after the episode touting how meaningful it was to him to have Darryl's backstory be that of a nomad. I wonder if he actually believes that or if he was just saying it for the sake of the show.
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I saw that too and I simply believe that was the talking point he was supposed to deliver. That show can be quite informative but it can also serve as the director's mouthpiece to simply promote the show more and justify their story development. I thought Beth's character was developed some but not so much Darryl. And I am not a person who demands instant gratification on story development if it is done tastefully and with some purpose, but neither element was present in this episode and was just boring as shit.
 
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I personally like how Beth, a first time drinker, was throwing back moonshine and handling it better than the redneck nomad who was likely an alcoholic before "the turn" as they referred to it...like serious?

I, too, am in the boat that was just waiting for the two of them to take all of their frustrations out on one another sexually but I wasn't sure if that was creepy of me or not because I don't know how old Beth is in the show - I mean Carl was fawning over her not that long ago and he's like, what, 13 maybe? The only clue I got was Daryl calling her college girl so who knows...
 
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