The Walking Dead: The Television Series

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Professor S

I don't think so. Think of it this way:

She runs back to the Prison to see her old group and she finds out that two friends are dead, Hershel has one leg, they have no food, are surrounded by zombies, she was ratted-out by her best friend, and Rick has gone nuts. They have committed to a fight she believes they can't win, and showed no consideration for the people in Woodbury (many innocent, and remember a Woodbury bystander was killed by the group). Essentially, her old group has gone completely to shit.

Meanwhile, Woodbury has plenty of food, weapons, ammo, and an army. As for her obsession with Phil... women are attracted to security, and Andrea has always gone with the most "alpha" male she could find. While nuts, Phil is pretty alpha.

I can't say I agree with her decision making, but I don't find it unbelievable. As we've seen time and time again in this series, people make bad decisions when under severe stress.

She's just in a manipulative/abusive relationship...and "Philip" makes here dingle tingle.

Andrea gets an F- in identifying psychotic sociopathic killers. I feel kind of bad, but I'm okay with whatever bad karma comes her way.

[Vampyr]

She's the most annoying, at the very least. Also a terrible actress. Just ready for her to die.

Last episode was also super boring.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Professor S

I don't think so. Think of it this way:

She runs back to the Prison to see her old group and she finds out that two friends are dead, Hershel has one leg, they have no food, are surrounded by zombies, she was ratted-out by her best friend, and Rick has gone nuts. They have committed to a fight she believes they can't win, and showed no consideration for the people in Woodbury (many innocent, and remember a Woodbury bystander was killed by the group). Essentially, her old group has gone completely to shit.

Meanwhile, Woodbury has plenty of food, weapons, ammo, and an army. As for her obsession with Phil... women are attracted to security, and Andrea has always gone with the most "alpha" male she could find. While nuts, Phil is pretty alpha.

I can't say I agree with her decision making, but I don't find it unbelievable. As we've seen time and time again in this series, people make bad decisions when under severe stress.

Oh it wasn't just her actions in this episode.. even if being played the weasley nerd character.

Just seems like they pile a ton of crap on her character and offers so little redemption so far.

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

Oh it wasn't just her actions in this episode.. even if being played the weasley nerd character.

Just seems like they pile a ton of crap on her character and offers so little redemption so far.

I would agree with this. Andrea hasn't had a ton of great development, and seems to be strung along as a plot vehicle among other things.

The writing and character development is still really inconsistent. This show is just stuck in B- territory, and I've come to terms with that and just lowered my expectations. As such, this season is still miles ahead of the first two.

I'm a little sad because The Governor and the Woodbury stuff could have been more suspenseful, but instead, we are getting a fairly unnerving inside perspective with no real stakes.

Merle and Andrea both drive me nuts. But whatever. I look forward to the reboot in a few years.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

I look forward to the reboot in a few years.

You do know that The Walking Dead is one of the highest rated shows on TV, right? It even beat The Big Bang Theory when head to head with the Oscars. This is a cable show going toe to toe with network TV and winning. In a few years this show won't be rebooted, it will still be on the air.

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethe...ster-down.html

[The Germanator]

Really, really bad finale. In fact, I thought most of the last 4 episodes weren't so great leading up to it...The first 12 episodes had some pretty good moments this season, and I thought it was heading to a better place...but no, that was just super, super, super weak.

3 showrunners in 4 years, that's some messy production.

I normally hate reboots, but can they just reboot The Walking Dead with more competent writers, actors, and showrunners? I think that's what I'm always disappointed by. The source material is so good, but the show is so mediocre.

[Angrist]

Ugh, I'm watching the season finale right now. I can't believe they're spreading out Andrea's scene over the whole episode.
She was picking up the tool with her feet and then bringing it to her hand. I told myself "If she drops it, I'll stop watching." She dropped it, such cliche. I still want to finish it, but I'm a bit mad at the show, so I'm taking a break.

What the governor did sure was unexpected. It kind of suits him, but I feel the show writers were just looking for a way to cut costs and avoid a huge battle.
The whole season is woking towards this war that doesn't come. Bad writing.

Edit: Ugh. Now all those women and children are going to move into the prison, while they have this nice and fully operational village just around the corner? Madness.
Oh, I hate the show for trying to make me like Andrea one last time. "I just didn't want anyone to get killed, that's pretty much my life motto!" Yeah right.

Also, why do they keep killing and amputating people that have bite wounds, even though they know everybody's already infected and all you need to turn is to die?


Anyway I saw the whole second half of season 3 in just 4 days. Some episodes I played at 110% speed, just to save some time. I expected good stuff to be in those episodes somewhere (and I guess they were), but most of it just seemed like a waste of my time. The episode with the surviving guy in the city was pretty good I guess.
Oh one thing that blew my mind in one of the earlier episodes: when those 4 survivors entered the prison and were waiting for Rick to come back, some others are talking to them and mending their wounds. All of a sudden that suicidal chick comes in with the baby, walks to the other side of the room, does nothing, and goes back again.
WHY WAS SHE TAKING A BABY INTO A ROOM WHERE SHE DIDN'T NEED ANYTHING, AMONG POSSIBLY DANGEROUS STRANGERS?!?!?!?! I know the writers were just trying to create a meaningful scene, but if you give it a little more thought, it all falls apart.

[Teuthida]

[Canyarion]

Anyone watching? The episodes have been decent, although the whole disease thing took a bit too long.

But this last one with the governor? Boooooring!

[Vampyr]

I have officially quit watching it. I watched the first two episodes of this season, and they were so boring I just quit.

[Teuthida]

I think this has been my favorite season thus far. And this last episode was probably my favorite from that.

That being said, just dropped the comic. Might pick it up again in the future. But that has been far too slow.

[Fox 6]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

I have officially quit watching it. I watched the first two episodes of this season, and they were so boring I just quit.

Thats the problem I had with the second season when I quit watching. Just kept thinking 'FIND THAT STUPID GIRL ALREADY!' My friend kept saying I should start again because the show got really good, and the review I read of a recent episode had nothing good to say about the pacing and some other things..

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

I have officially quit watching it. I watched the first two episodes of this season, and they were so boring I just quit.

It really has not improved, despite some of the positive comments here. I typed up my rant and deleted it because I don't care that much, but this season feels a lot like the last season...same inconsistent pacing, all the suspense is because characters are doing the dumbest things possible, etc.

They introduced a bunch of new characters so those characters can be killed off, everyone seems to have forgotten about The Governor.... the zombie suspense is forced too, and it shows up like clockwork every episode or two so the network/writers can fill their forced zombie attack quota.

You'd figure if the Governor was coming back they would establish the prison as a utopia. Instead people are dying from a plague...which should be a very insignificant concern in a prison of all places (don't the doors lock?). The fences are falling apart (WTF?), and worst of all, everyone seems oblivious to The Governor. Honestly, the prison seems like a pretty unsafe place to be at this point. Why wouldn't you get the fuck out of dodge and go somewhere else?

To top it all off, new survivors keep showing up so they can die in the same episode (usually during a trip to suburbia or the forest), and for some reason the car manufactures continue to make new models of cars in this zombie apocalypse and supply them to our team of survivors. What a luxury. Why not move into the car factory, I bet it has nice amenities than the prison.

I turn this show on and sort of half-watch it while I read Reddit and catch up on the news, but I don't dedicate an hour in front of my TV.

It's just mediocre. That's the word I'd use. A combination of bad and disappointing. So much wasted potential squandered with budget cuts and poorly paced episodes, and horrible writing. This:

http://www.yourmoviesucks.org/2013/0...-1-part-1.html

http://www.yourmoviesucks.org/2013/1...-1-part-2.html

I keep saying it...this show would have been better if they kept the 6-10 episodes per season format, didn't do this mid season finale bullshit, didn't cut the budget, and didn't fire the show's fucking creator.

I hope the reboot sucks less.

[KillerGremlin]

...and the mid season finale looks to be exactly what we all guessed it would be. Fucking shocking. Like, shock my balls, brave writers of The Walking Dead.