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Post by ScrabblyWabbly on Nov 24, 2015 22:52:00 GMT
Spencer is just plain stupid, I can't believe how stupid some of the Alexandarians are, it defies belief He tried to shimmy to freedom with a grappling hook wire over a mass of zombies, because he thought he could grab a car or something and save the day. This was, without a doubt, one of the dumbest—probably the dumbest—moves any character has made in the entire series and Spencer should be squeezing through the digestive tracts of hundreds of zombies right now. lol-045 Too true. I was agreeing with Rick, Tara should not have risked her life for that cretin. The dude who made those people guilty for taking the food just so he could have the best grub for himself.
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Post by Teeks on Nov 24, 2015 23:04:12 GMT
Yeah. I don't agree with everything Rick says and does, but he was right there. Spencer deserved to bite the dust for his stupidity. And it's not a forgivable stupid, it's an annoying stupid. Oh well, hopefully Spencer will do 'a Nicholas' and shoot his own brains out . Either that or he'll end up eating spoiled sour cream and killing himself...
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Post by Lady W on Nov 27, 2015 18:50:53 GMT
Spencer is just plain stupid, I can't believe how stupid some of the Alexandarians are, it defies belief He tried to shimmy to freedom with a grappling hook wire over a mass of zombies, because he thought he could grab a car or something and save the day. This was, without a doubt, one of the dumbest—probably the dumbest—moves any character has made in the entire series and Spencer should be squeezing through the digestive tracts of hundreds of zombies right now. It was certainly a 'Spencer!!! WTH you doin', bro?! ' moment but, for me, nothing can be stupider than Beth stabbing Dawn with that tiny pair of scissors when she was literally ready to get out of that hospital forever. To this day, I still don't understand WTH she was trying to do but it resulted in Dawn blowing Beth's brains out so I can happily live with it As stupid as Spencer was to even think of attempting his plan on his own, I can sympathise with him not feeling he could go to Rick and talk it through. Rick's still got the Us and Them mentality towards the Alexandrians so it's not hard to imagine him just shutting suggestions down from any of the Alexandrians. IMO, what Spencer should have done was go to one of the more sociable members of Rick's group. Michonne would've been a better bet because she would've at least heard Spencer out and, if there was any merit in his plan, she could've run it past Rick herself; he'd obviously be more receptive to her than an Alexandrian. I imagine the Alexandria population will take a further hammering in the mid-season finale, especially now that the tower has fallen. I'll be amazed if no-one from Rick's gang die. I think Rosita could be a goner now that Abraham's sniffing round Sasha. P.S - Good to see a new TWD fan on here, Scrabbler smiley-greet013
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Post by Teeks on Dec 5, 2015 16:39:58 GMT
True! I forgot about that one! Beth acted really stupid in that situation. She should've at least waited till she was reunited with Rick and co and grabbed one of their guns and shot Dawn . But as you say, Dawn did us Beth haters a favour, so we can't complain too much about the nature of her death . And I also agree about Rick's dictator-y ways and Us vs Them mentality. It has to be his way - or no way. And yet his way has got people killed by the zombie herd. What I hate most is how the writers are portraying the Alexandarians as these utterly incompetent people in order to prop up Rick and his gang and make them look like the saviours of the town, who are single-handedly keeping everyone alive. Surely nobody would be that incompetent in a real zombie apocalypse?! Fair play to Spencer for trying to save the day, but it was obvious he would have trouble pulling off what he was trying to do on his own due to his relative inexperience. Yeah, approaching Michonne about his plan would've been a better way to go about it I think.
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Post by Teeks on Dec 5, 2015 16:40:54 GMT
Yeah, I'm surprised they've killed off so many of the Alexandarians already considering the town is meant to be the characters' permanent home now. There won't be a town to protect at this rate! The zombies have already begun swarming the town! I liked the throwback to the Pilot Episode with Rick and co disguising their scent in zombie guts . P.S. They killed off Deanna - who conveniently left the keys to the kingdom to Rick and Michonne before she died . Her death felt a bit too "manufactured" if you get what I mean. The show is starting to become a bit too predictable in regards to character deaths. I was expecting at least one character from Rick's crew to die. I would've thought some of the lesser characters like Gabriel, Eugene and Rosita were primed for death in the mid-season finale. Instead, a minor character like Deanna dies - are we really meant to care?
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Post by Lady W on Dec 6, 2015 14:36:15 GMT
(Since you mentioned the mid-season finale last night, Teeks...) Personally, I thought it was a pretty weak episode and totally underwhelming; in fact, nearly the whole first half of this season has felt pretty 'blah' to me. I believe it was a mistake to split the 'main' group up and have so many episodes giving a different angle of the one day, although I can see why the show decided to try and do something different. However, for me, it just made the everything drag too much and pretty much nothing of note has really happened. So, when the mid-season finale was on the horizon, I was expecting something big (for want of a better word) to happen and...well...it didn't. Yes, the tower fell and let a swarm of walkers into Alexandria, but I didn't feel gripped by it like I did when the herd of walkers invaded Hershel's farm at the end of S2. Maybe that's because, back then, it wasn't pretty much easy to guess which characters were safe like it is now; did anybody honestly feel edge-of-the-seat worried for Maggie's life when she was dangling off that ladder in Alexandria? I think one of the biggest problems I had was that The few AX's I do care about had unexplained absences while the shiz was hitting the fan (where was Heath? Where was Aaron and his BF?) while some I have no time for i.e, Enid, Jessie and her annoying kids, were hanging round, being tedious. I cba with Ron's angst or the cookie kid's breakdown and Enid's permanent sullen face makes me want to throw things at the screen; JSS should stand for 'Just Shoot Sulky' !! The stupidity of some of the main group was astonishing too. Morgan's continual protection of that lunatic Wolf was annoying as ever!! Even worse was the fact that neither Rosita or Tara took that shot at the Wolf when they found him threatening to kill Dr Lady but, instead, threw their guns over to him and let him sod off out the door with her!! And what was up with Carol? Running away then falling over in that cliché horror film way and then being all hesitant to smack Morgan down and take care of the Wolf herself; what's happened to the bloody machine of a woman who single-handedly took Terminus down?!? I did find the end unintentionally funny though. Deanna's inaudible yell as she faced down the walkers and the slo-mo dramatic looks Rick and the others gave each other before walking into the sea of zombies did make me LOL All in all though, the episode was immensely frustrating and I really hope that Rick's group (hopefully) joining together again in time for Negan's arrival in the second half of this series will shake things up and compensate for the first half of this season.
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Post by Teeks on Jan 4, 2016 19:02:49 GMT
Spot on review as usual, LW. I laughed at Deanna's yell as well (I thought she'd transformed into a zombie for a second ) and Rick and co's slow-mo looks . Anyway, I thought I'd post a link to the latest trailer: (It's only 30 seconds long though) collider.com/the-walking-dead-season-6-trailer-negan-amc/
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Post by Lady W on Feb 12, 2016 21:23:57 GMT
First four mins of the mid-season premiere. Looks promising enough; just hope that the second half of this season is going to make up for the general blahness of the first half.
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Post by Teeks on Feb 12, 2016 22:11:56 GMT
Yeah, looks decent. I am interested in seeing this 'Larger World' at play because we haven't really seen what's been happening across America since the Zombie Apocalypse broke out. That's one of the reasons why I was so disappointed when they didn't end up going to Washington, D.C.
At the moment, the show feels a bit stale for me. Ever since the Governor, they've been wheeling out these boring villains. I hope Negan shakes the show up and injects some quality into it.
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Post by Lady W on Feb 12, 2016 22:38:29 GMT
Yeah, looks decent. I am interested in seeing this 'Larger World' st play because we haven't really seen what's been happening across America since the Zombie Apocalypse broke out. That's one of the reasons why I was so disappointed when they didn't end up going to Washington, D.C. At the moment, the show feels a bit stale for me. Ever since the Governor, they've been wheeling out these boring villains. I hope Negan shakes the show up and injects some quality into it. Bib - I don't think they should've spent so many episodes on the one day from different (not always interesting) perspectives. Apart from the Wolves invading Alexandria, I honestly can't remember anything else that made me sit up and go "OMG!!!" smiley-yikes I mean, there was the few seconds that I thought Glenn was a goner but then the camera angle made it obvious that it was a fake-out. I found the Morgan episode rather boring; it says a lot that I was only bothered about the welfare of the goat... Re the villains: I thought the Termites were shaping up to be really interesting enemies but then they got taken out almost immediately and instead we got the terrible Beth hospital plot with Dawn and the cops...that just plain sucked. The Wolves also looked like pretty good threats to the group but then it's all got ridiculous with Morgan refusing to kill any of them and then trying (and failing) to pass on his Zen shtick to that one Wolf he kept locked away free-rolleye-smileys-323
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Post by Lady W on Feb 15, 2016 18:50:57 GMT
Oh.My.God.
The mid-season premiere was absolutely insane! If the rest of the season carries on like this first episode did, then I'll be so pleased!
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Post by ScrabblyWabbly on Feb 15, 2016 18:59:46 GMT
Oh.My.God. The mid-season premiere was absolutely insane! If the rest of the season carries on like this first episode did, then I'll be so pleased! Well they killed off Blondie and her sprogs so that's a huge plus from me, It was nice seeing them kick some ass, eventually. But I thought the rest twenty mins or so dragged. It was good seeing the Alexandrians finally stepping up though. Highlight of the episode was them blowing up those motorists at the beginning lol-045
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Post by Lady W on Feb 15, 2016 20:41:28 GMT
Well they killed off Blondie and her sprogs so that's a huge plus from me, It was nice seeing them kick some ass, eventually. But I thought the rest twenty mins or so dragged. It was good seeing the Alexandrians finally stepping up though. Highlight of the episode was them blowing up those motorists at the beginning lol-045 BIB - Me too!! It was like all my Christmasses come at once when all of them met a grisly end; glee I felt was like Beth's dying all over again The kids were immensely annoying and I never found Jessie a good match for Rick (now she's gone, the way is clear for Richonne!! s0238 ) so I'm glad we don't have to suffer any more romance angst between them. I enjoyed pretty much the entire episode, although there were a few niggles (e.g. how the poncho pack were able to talk a fair while without any walkers noticing them/ but I overlooked them. This ep was such a huge contrast to the nothingness of the first half of the season; feels like ye olde Walking Dead where there was a real sense of tension and I actually felt worried for some of the main characters. Although it probably came across as extremely cheesy/cringeworthy to some, I really loved the montage of everyone banding together, killing walkers until it ended with Rick; again, it felt like proper TWD again, back to having the group fighting together rather than splitting them up and trying to give time to each offshoot of people. Oh and Daryl with an RPG?? Be still my beating heart icq_smiley_035
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Post by ScrabblyWabbly on Feb 15, 2016 21:20:43 GMT
Well they killed off Blondie and her sprogs so that's a huge plus from me, It was nice seeing them kick some ass, eventually. But I thought the rest twenty mins or so dragged. It was good seeing the Alexandrians finally stepping up though. Highlight of the episode was them blowing up those motorists at the beginning lol-045 BIB - Me too!! It was like all my Christmasses come at once when all of them met a grisly end; glee I felt was like Beth's dying all over again The kids were immensely annoying and I never found Jessie a good match for Rick (now she's gone, the way is clear for Richonne!! s0238 ) so I'm glad we don't have to suffer any more romance angst between them. I enjoyed pretty much the entire episode, although there were a few niggles (e.g. how the poncho pack were able to talk a fair while without any walkers noticing them/ but I overlooked them. This ep was such a huge contrast to the nothingness of the first half of the season; feels like ye olde Walking Dead where there was a real sense of tension and I actually felt worried for some of the main characters. Although it probably came across as extremely cheesy/cringeworthy to some, I really loved the montage of everyone banding together, killing walkers until it ended with Rick; again, it felt like proper TWD again, back to having the group fighting together rather than splitting them up and trying to give time to each offshoot of people. Oh and Daryl with an RPG?? Be still my beating heart icq_smiley_035 She was awful, so glad we didn't have to endure any more of her. I loved the montage too and yes it's much better when they are all together as a team rather than being split up into little groups. I still feel we have far too many secondary characters and they need to get rid of a few, like the priest who don't add anything.
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Post by Lady W on Feb 22, 2016 15:37:00 GMT
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