The Walking Dead - Season 6 Discussion

I read a synopsis of this episode, and I gotta say, my sense of the pacing of this show just being...off...remains as acute as ever. It just sounds really frustrating to watch.

I think I've reached the point with The Walking Dead where I no longer think of it as a show that works well when watched week-to-week. It's far better binge-watched, because the slowdowns in the show can be either skipped past entirely (e.g., I think I'm likely never gonna watch the 90-minute Morganthon episode), or the impact of their being slow is minimized because something interesting comes along soon-ish. Watching week-to-week, though, it reminds me that there are solid hours of television on this show that are just a whole mess of wheel-spinning. It sounds like this mid-season "finale" wasn't all that conclusive.

Spoilers below because they touch on the comics.

I was expecting the comic events where the walls fail, the walkers overrun the compound, the Deanna analog dies and shoots Carl in the head, and Ron and Jessie get nommed to death as they walk through the horde, but the horde is eventually beaten back, would come to pass. Instead, I expect we'll get another 3-ish weeks of zombies in the compound and people sitting in houses wondering what to do before finally coming out and beating up the zombies or something.

Put simply, I think the show will tend to drag out and dull the impact of the hard-hitting moments in the comics, usually by dragging out the time it takes to even get to them.
 
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The 1st thing I thought of when they left the house. Also Is The baby a parrot and won't say a peep under a sheet?
 
It's worse than that, actually. The panel itself depicts an obviously non-survivable wound, and what happens next doesn't make a ton of sense. But, for all the goofiness of the comic at times, it's still pretty solid in its storytelling (which is more than I can say for the show, sadly). I guess the show ultimately tends to right itself in the long run, but damn if it don't take it's sweet time doing so.
 
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Solo4114 said:
It's worse than that, actually. The panel itself depicts an obviously non-survivable wound, and what happens next doesn't make a ton of sense. But, for all the goofiness of the comic at times, it's still pretty solid in its storytelling (which is more than I can say for the show, sadly). I guess the show ultimately tends to right itself in the long run, but damn if it don't take it's sweet time doing so.
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I though for sure that was the image the episode would end on. It seems a no brainer for a clifhanger ending. (Unless theyre just going skip over that altogether.)
 
Lord Boron said:
I though for sure that was the image the episode would end on. It seems a no brainer for a clifhanger ending. (Unless theyre just going skip over that altogether.)
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I'd bet they skip it, actually. Hmm. We might want to spoilerize this stuff.
 
Ok problems with this episode... The Wolf takes the doctor hostage and everyone just hands over their guns. I remember seeing a show about U.S. snipers in Iraq/Afghanistan and the one sniper said that it's a Hollywood myth that there is a reflex when someone is shot. You know like you can't shoot because he would cut the girl's throat? The sniper said once you're shot in the brain or in the spinal cord, it's lights out. So stop it Hollywood! Second that stupid Sam kid. It doesn't make sense that Jesse (isn't that her name?) wouldn't immediately grab Sam and cover his mouth after he said "Mom?" the first time. Third in the preview Daryl should have just run those fools on the motorcycles over.
 
I remember seeing a show about U.S. snipers in Iraq/Afghanistan and the one sniper said that it's a Hollywood myth that there is a reflex when someone is shot. You know like you can't shoot because he would cut the girl's throat? The sniper said once you're shot in the brain or in the spinal cord, it's lights out. So stop it Hollywood!
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I'm guessing that Tara and Rosita didn't see that show :rolleyes
 
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