The Walking Dead spoilers

[Gypsy-Vanner]

Ok, finished season 5.

Gotta say, the whole inner struggle with some scenery thrown in bored me a bit but after I kind of zoned for a few episodes I decided to stop being snooty and try to see what they were showing me.

And, I liked it. And hated it. Both in a good way. I liked the introspection and the emotional struggles each was going through. I wish I hadn't snoozed through half of it but oh well.

WTF did they kill Beth? I think that was pointless. I'm ok with Noah dying. As much as I didn't like Tyrese dying I think it was needed. Can someone kill Carol now? And Maggie? Well, maybe not Maggie as much but I'll be ok with Carol dying and by Daryl's hand too once he realizes what a skeez she is.

I'd avoid Rick at all costs in real life. His eyes are the eyes of a madman. Did you know he's English? In his interviews he sounds so dignified as compared to his American TV accent. Maggie seems to have an accent too if I'm not mistaken.

The priest needs to be fed to the walkers. What a whiney little shit. Shasha should have killed the little bitch. Eugene is on my nerves with that dialect of his. Tara needs to find some ass real soon, she needs a good fuck.

So, what's gunna happen in season 6 you think? I went to IMDb board and realized it was it's own community kind of like we all used to be over there so not much discussion about the actual show for the first 3 pages of posts.

[CashRules]

Lauren Cohan (Maggie) was born in the U.S. but raised in the U.K. so that explains the accent. The IMDB Walking Dead board is mostly trolls in-between seasons. It has more than its fair share of trolls even during the season. I agree that Beth's death was entirely pointless. After spending three seasons where she's nothing more than a supporting character they spend half a season building her up to try to make fans interested only to kill her off. The writers had no choice but to kill of Noah since they knew the fans would blame him for Beth's death once they had made that bone-headed decision. But he was a useless character. The actress who plays Tara is a Scientologist so there is sufficient reason not to like her. She's also the sister of the guy who played Hyde on That 70s Show and the one who played Francis on Malcolm in the Middle. I'd be okay if they brought the entire family on TWD just to kill them off in the most gruesome way possible. As for Emily Kinney (Beth), she's now dating Norman Reedus (Daryl). Now where are the people who said I was wrong when I said Daryl was going to tap that? I liked Tyreese at first, but they made a decision to make him the moral center after Hershel lost his head and took it too damn far. He was literally worthless in any type of confrontation. Beth's death was made even more ridiculous by the fact that Rick took Tyreese along for the rescue knowing his frame of mind and then had Daryl inexplicably take Tyreese's side about how to handle the rescue. That one episode has to be the worst written episode of the show's history, even worse than the bloated walker at the bottom of the well episode.

[Whitey]

Brandon, the actress who plays Tara on the show is the sister of the one who played Francis on Malcolm in the Middle, not Reese.

[CashRules]

Oh shit, it's even worse. She's not the sister of the second most irritating male character, but the most irritating.

[Gypsy-Vanner]

I like Hyde. He should be on the show.

And now I'm jealous of Beth the little twat. I was going to date Daryl.

[CashRules]

They still haven't managed to pull of another episode as good as "Beside the Dying Fire", the second season finale. The only problem is that's when Andrea, the most useless main character ever, should have died. Man I hated that trouble-maker and they had to give her an honorable death when she was responsible for half the trouble the group had faced and she fucking shot Daryl trying to be a show off.

[Gypsy-Vanner]

I'm not sure I have a favorite season or episode at this point but the scene where Carl and Rick find Morgan holed up in his house having gone crazy left the biggest impression on me. The hopelessness and despair was chilling.

Andrea was the best kill of the show, the only one I did not shed a tear for (though if Carol goes I might throw a party). She was arrogant and ignorant, a deadly combination. Carol on the other hand is just arrogant, she's too smart for her own good and is utilizing that street smart in dark ways.

[CashRules]

I like that they don't follow the comics exactly so that comic readers are never sure what's going to happen next. There was no way to know if it was Hershel or Michonne the Governor was going to kill since in the comics it was Tyreese. If they introduce Negan, who makes the Governor look damn near angelic, then somebody is getting beat to death with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. In the comics it was Glenn, and they keep hinting at it with scenes where Glenn is real close to getting beat with a bat. On the show I'm afraid it's going to be Daryl although it could be Morgan, another Brit who does a pretty good American accent. It needs to be either Gabriel or Nicholas, the cowardly little prick who got Noah killed and then tried to kill Glenn.

[Gypsy-Vanner]

I don't want to see glen go but if it was between him and Daryl Yih know who I'd pick.

Ever watch hell on wheels? Any good?

[CashRules]

The first two seasons were good, and then they cut the budget and it sucked ass.

[Gypsy-Vanner]

Well that sucks. The main dude is hot. Maybe I'll watch it just for him.

[CashRules]

Like I said, the first two seasons are good. After that they started giving every main character some absolutely ridiculous storylines.

[Ptolemy_Banana]

I honestly have no idea where they'll take the show next. The last season has ended with Rick effectively the bad guy, conspiring with Carol who is even crazier and more dangerous than she was when he kicked her out of the prison. I suppose it will continue doing it's bizarre job of sucking and kicking ass in equal measure. What I'd like to think is that there might be some kind of closure, a proper end point for the characters, at some point in the next few years. I doubt it though, as I know Robert Kirkman has said he has no intention of doing any such thing, and the show will run as long as it's pulling in huge ratings.

[Ptolemy_Banana]

I just hope they don't kill Glen.

[Gypsy-Vanner]

Why do you feel Rick is now a bad guy in people minds?

[CashRules]

Why do you feel Rick is now a bad guy in people minds?

Some people still want to attach civilized morality to the world of TWD. You can't do that, that's how good people die. If somebody gets out of line, by beating his wife for example; you don't scold him, you don't use up scarce resources by instituting a jail system and you don't send him away and risk him teaming up with other asshats and coming back for revenge. You kill him without any remorse and without thinking it's any bigger of a deal than washing your hands. Rick has had to learn that both Shane and the Governor were right to a degree. The problem is both of them were a threat to their own people.

[Gypsy-Vanner]

That doesn't really explain why people would think he's a "bad guy" now per Tabby's comment. We know he's had to formulize and adapt to a new set of moral codes that aligns with how the world is today but those new codes are not irrational or arbitrary. They make perfect sense to me so that's why I was wondering why people would label him as a bad guy.

[Whitey]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the finale kinda showed that Rick's way was the right way and that the people of Alexandria have just realised that.

[Ptolemy_Banana]

Why do you feel Rick is now a bad guy in people minds?

I don't know about people's minds, I'm just talking about my perspective. It's one thing adapting to the fucked up world they live in, quite another to start conspiring with the crazy woman you kicked out of your group for being a psycho. I think Rick completely snapped during the incident where Joe's group were going to rape and kill Carl and Michonne in front of him, and he hasn't been the same since. He's been lacking a moral guide since Hershel's death, and I'm hoping Morgan has been brought back to play that role and bring him back to his senses. I find this show very hit and miss and if the message of the show is going to be 'the assholes are right', I'm not sure I'll keep coming back.