The Walking Dead is......(!!SPOILERS!!)

[Archie]

The thing that is boring me now (and I find it sad to say that) is the whole show seems to be zombie ... bash ... stand around a bit ... zombie bash ... rinse and repeat.

I would love someone on the show to talk about society or wonder where the government and military has got to. Not since the cDC scientist have we had any discussion of the wider world.

I love the character of Rick, I quite like Carl but I am getting bored.

 

[Too Bo Coo]

The thing that is boring me now (and I find it sad to say that) is the whole show seems to be zombie ... bash ... stand around a bit ... zombie bash ... rinse and repeat.

I would love someone on the show to talk about society or wonder where the government and military has got to. Not since the cDC scientist have we had any discussion of the wider world.

I love the character of Rick, I quite like Carl but I am getting bored.

 

What irks me, and this is a general 'horror movie' complaint, the hero(es) are ninjas at one moment while the baddies are nearly impotent, and then this dynamic flips.  At some point I find myself thinking, "You deserve what you're getting dumb dumb..."

[Grimmnar]

I would love someone on the show to talk about society or wonder where the government and military has got to. Not since the cDC scientist have we had any discussion of the wider world.

Are you up to date to all the episodes in season 4? That is exactly what A Ford is trying to do. His mission to get to DC with his traveling companion Eugene.

Grimm

[Timotl]

I too have become bored with TWD. I thought I'd only be able to stay with it for 2 seasons when it first came on but it surprised me! I just can't stand how stupid the characters are. The had all that time at the prison and knew that it could get over run yet they still didn't have a rally point in case they got split up? Really? When the farm fell at the end of season 2 they found each other by chance. You can't tell me that wouldn't have made enough of an impression on them to say "if the prison falls and we have to scatter, let's meet up here..." Just bad writing in my opinion. Clearly trying to draw out material that is stale.
What I really would have love to have seen is WWZ getting done by HBO as a finite series like Band of Brothers. Make 20 episodes, with a few minutes in the beginning of each episode like interviews, but then revert back and tell their stories as if they were present day. Could've been great! Too bad Brad Pitt got his claws into it and ruined it. I always thought WWZ was better than TWD comic. Oh well.

[Johnno]

I'm a firm believer that the written version is (usually) better than the one made for TV/film.
I have the graphic novels. I've also watched season 1. I thought season 1 was decent  but still very different and that threw me off a little bit. My colleagues know I've read the books so they tell me about the recent episode s and I tell them the relevant section in the novels.
I'm starting to grow weary of the groups constant struggle to survive against other survivors than zombies but that's probably a truer fact as morality goes out the window.

[Silent Invader]

Much like with WWZ, I've suspended expectation and am viewing it 'in the moment' without thinking too much, so I am enjoying it again!   

[Commander Vyper]

With twenty trade paperbacks under my belt you could say I'm a solid fan. I'm continuing to enjoy the tv series and looking forward to seeing how this continues to weave and dance around the core story.

Did I say dance, I meant shamble... 

[Archie]

I am slightly behind I think and I certainly heard or seen anything about the wider world.

I thought the show was absolutely brilliant in the very first few episodes as Rick tried to come to turns with things. Recently ... sigh ... I agree with the chap above about not learning from the fall of the farm. Wouldnt you have back up plans? And surely you would lock the door of the room you slept in just in case? Yet this didnt happen in the prison when people got sick.

I want the show to be brilliant I really do but it falls short 

[Funghy-Fipps]

I find pop-culture's recent obsession with zombies tedious in the extreme and as it's a mainstream phenomenon it's hard to ignore unless you live in a cabin somewhere remote. Regarding 'The Walking Dead' I found it so cliché-laden that I was bored stiff by the end of season one. I dearly love (and own) classic zombie flicks like 'The Plague of the Zombies', 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'The Return of the Living Dead', but most of the cinematic zombie output from over the last decade has left me feeling braindead, never mind the on-screen shamblers. And that's just films; when you add all the zombie-related computer games etcetera into the mix as well I don't think it's at all unfair to call overkill. Let's give zombies a rest for a while!

[Chainmailninja]

I've been enjoying TWD simply because it gives a wider view of things than most zombie flicks, which tend to be "Oh no we're stuck in town/building/etc surrounded by zombies!" with a brief intro sequence showing the world descending into chaos followed by the entire thing taking place within a small set. One of the cooler aspects of the show (to me anyway) is that you at least get to see a wider cross section of the effects of the zombie apocalypse.

Except for season 2. Oh God. So stagnant. Still, this season has been pretty good so far.

[Too Bo Coo]

It's a TV show, i tend to see these as pure entertainment.  I try not to get stressed over the quality of fiction

[Archie]

It's a TV show, i tend to see these as pure entertainment.  I try not to get stressed over the quality of fiction

For me the quality of  show is intrinsic to the level I can enjoy it. Occasionally there are shows that I know arent great but have a 'bubblegum' quality to them and I can enjoy them at that level. There is a limit however and some if those shows end up slipping off my radar e.g. Agents of Shield.

[Too Bo Coo]

I have t say, the only thing that rubbed me the wrong way with the show was how it got preachy in the very beginning.  Sorry, but too much 'God talk' sounds like subtle proselytizing, which is irritating.  

[Conquistador]

I have t say, the only thing that rubbed me the wrong way with the show was how it got preachy in the very beginning.  Sorry, but too much 'God talk' sounds like subtle proselytizing, which is irritating.  

Never watched the show (and almost certainly never will) but I believe it occurs in the USA and historically some places in the world (USA, Parts of Africa, South America outside - and possibly inside - the urban centers, much of Asia,) turn to "a faith" when really bad things shake the society's neat assumptions of how good the world is (and implicitly always will be.)  I can't speak for Europe because I have little experience in the last two decades with Europeans outside of the war game hobby.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Too Bo Coo]

Never watched the show (and almost certainly never will) but I believe it occurs in the USA and historically some places in the world (USA, Parts of Africa, South America outside - and possibly inside - the urban centers, much of Asia,) turn to "a faith" when really bad things shake the society's neat assumptions of how good the world is (and implicitly always will be.)  I can't speak for Europe because I have little experience in the last two decades with Europeans outside of the war game hobby.

Gracias,

Glenn

I would also say, at least in the States, it's a regional thing.  Where I grew up, when you were looking for a home, there would hardly ever be a mention of local churches in the brochure, but I lived in the Southwest for a few years and I never looked at property without being told, as a selling point, of all the places of worship in the area. 

Like they say, there are no atheists in foxholes.  So I do get that.  When two people are making love and one exclaims, 'OH GOD!" I dont even notice.  But when two characters are in the middle of survival and then in a very contrived manner stop for a real heart to heart about God, and in this case we're talking Judeo-Christian-Islamic versions of religion, I get SUPER turned off.  My maternal grandmother was not very educated or well traveled, but she was one sharp lady.  When I was a little boy she told me that people who mention god, too often, tend to be the worst people around.  They're generally trying to sell their 'goodness'.  So when this stuff gets shoehorned into a perfectly wholesome Zombie Apocalypse, I find it rather irritating and well proselytized.