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The Walking Dead season eight

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
It starts tonight. Which minor character will have a 45 minute death scene when Rick does something stupid!?
 
Since it’s the season opener it’s actually safe to have high expectations of this one. But for the rest of the season something tells me they’ll still manage to make all out war about as interesting as watching paint dry.
 
Is Jeffrey Dean Morgan ill? He's so thin it looks like a gust of wind could snap him in two. Really hurts with making Negan imposing.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
Since it’s the season opener it’s actually safe to have high expectations of this one. But for the rest of the season something tells me they’ll still manage to make all out war about as interesting as watching paint dry.
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The first episode started off as interesting as watching paint dry and then EPIC SPEECHES! GUNFIGHTS! ZOMIE HERDING! EXPLOSIONS! HOLY PANTS SHITTING! DREAMING OF A BETTER FUTURE!
 
They didn’t give much indication of who if anyone was inside. When the walkers entered it looked like the place was deserted. And from the outside we only saw three goons and the five Rick yelled at (instead of just taking them out with snipers). It’s hard to tell if that was deliberate or they just didn’t think they needed to reestablish how many people lived there.

It was an entertaining start, but I can never really allow myself to enjoy it properly because I know it’ll disappoint me soon enough. All the Nexus dream scenes were unnecessary.
 
At least there weren’t any Rick dream sequences this week.

The slow motion close ups make me feel queasy though.
 
The pacing of this show has been absolute shit for a couple years now. I am a fan and I know they are trying to follow comic arcs, but somebody seriously needs to explain basic story construction and crescendo to the show runners. There was this whole season of mopey maudlin downer episodes which were supposed to show how evil Negan was but mostly just showed how narcissistically whiny the survivors were before finally winding up with a big yet hugely implausible finish full of last second saves and deus ex in every fucking machines. This year, to try and grab back the viewers who shuffled off like so many walkers, they've been doing a running gun battle montage that is so full of cut scenes and epic heroic rallying speeches it becomes mind numbing. Especially when King Zeke does it. I have no idea who is fighting where and with whom. There is no time to absorb the ramifications of a plot twist before we are assaulted with more automatic gunfire at random bad guy cannon fodder.

Pacing, you idiots. Get some.
 
Ezekiel and his tiger just don't do it for me. Negen's character isn't great, but not terrible, but Ezekiel is so off putting, and corny they've should've did a retweak before bringing him on the show. He's the reason I grew cold on the books.
 
I like characters like Ezekiel and Jesus. The rest of the show is so drab, lifeless and humourless that they’re the only thing that gives it a bit of colour.

But still not enough.

I would’ve expected three action filled episodes to be exactly what was needed to get things moving, but it’s still not very entertaining. There seem to be an endless number of saviours for our heroes to smugly ambush. And I know there’s supposed to be commentary on how war and the fight to survive can turn people into monsters, but it is getting genuinely difficult to root for Rick or the others now.
 
I think they're aiming for a big cathartic moment for Rick. Not to spoil any possible comic related developments, but they have been laying pretty heavily on the foreshadowing of Rick facing his own worst impulses. Morales saying he's a monster, Daryl being stone cold killer, the whole dustup with the prisoners at Hilltop and Morgan...feels like they're going somewhere with all this reflective "to kill or not kill" philosophy.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
I like characters like Ezekiel and Jesus. The rest of the show is so drab, lifeless and humourless that they’re the only thing that gives it a bit of colour.
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That's why I kind of liked the bit this week about Gregory stealing pancakes from a little girl...seemed like it belonged in a different show, one with a sense of humour.
 
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