[TV] The Walking Dead - Page 302

On February 19 2013 03:39 TealHorseman wrote:
Seemed legit to me apart from the governor.

On February 19 2013 03:39 TealHorseman wrote:
The headshots are made to slow moving targets from 2 meters. The shootout was at 150m+ with people taking cover in the grass and behind buildings. Seemed legit to me apart from the governor.

On February 19 2013 04:00 TomatoShark wrote:
I just don't understand how axel got shot from basically the far fence entrance with a steyr aug in the head. then everybody starts shooting and missing pretty much everyshot.

On February 19 2013 04:11 Vesimias wrote:

Well Governor is clearly skilled with guns and it was the starting shot so he could aim properly. Ofc it's still pretty hard to hit, but still a lot easier when you aren't getting shot at.

On February 19 2013 03:54 Blisse wrote:


No, it's not about the difference in headshots, it's about being able to headshot at all. You honestly can't believe an entire group of civilians (bar Rick) who've probably only been in the apocalypse for a year at most are all able to headshot zombies with perfect accuracy when Andrea was shitting herself to begin with in season one even though Shane was teaching her. It's not that easy.

On February 19 2013 04:33 rezoacken wrote:
I'm really not a fan of the glenn-maggie drama; I feel its out of place and just annoying.

I was finally happy that Laurie died since she was almost ruining the serie for me (both as a character and in acting) with all her drama BS. I'm not wanting this to come back -.-

Overall it was kind of a meh episode for me. The shooting scene felt pretty average and I think I'm getting tired of Zombies not being scary at all anymore.
It's like... when they speak about Walkers they shit their pants but when they actually encounter them they just steamroll them like it's nothing.

On February 19 2013 01:46 hjop wrote:

Oh my fucking god, by reading this you must be an absolute genius and I can't wait for you to start writing a series!!! This theoretical series of yours must be the best thing to have ever come across this planet since the internet itself. What are you waiting for? You really should start writing, if you really are as good as this you'd have no problem convincing an HBO to film your show.

On February 19 2013 05:17 TheExile19 wrote:
to the guy who asked why people who "hate" the show so much are still watching, not only does the concept of hatewatching exist but also there's usually 10-15 minutes in every episode that justify the time. similarly, in a wasteland of trite and often unbelievable character drama, the writing that is on point stands out all the more, like how glenn and maggie's fallout from woodbury is pretty well done even though it isn't much fun for me to watch glenn be an asshole because I know there's no long-term plan for him to stay that way. daryl (and...maybe merle?) are always going to be the right-hand men for killing people and dead people unless TWD has the balls to kill off daryl.

On February 19 2013 05:37 Conti wrote:

Please take your "hatewatching" elsewhere, then.

On February 18 2013 15:56 TheExile19 wrote:


- I want "all drama, all the time"? what? this show is consistently at its worst when it's steeped in what serves as character drama, but the growing issue is that as rick's group becomes more and more adept at killing zombies and ekeing out an existence, there is no choice but to slowly shift the focus further inward towards the character motivations at play, and what becomes more and more clear every episode is that there are no real characters that can carry this series. they're just people, often boring people, stuck in a zombie apocalypse and it makes launching any serious character arcs impossible. that's before you get into how often the writing and direction from scene to scene undermines the ability to take what we do get to see seriously. take the continuing glenn drama for example, specifically the scene with herschel outside the prison. in this episode, glenn and the actor playing him are given the lines and the position of a silly child arguing with his elder. at absolutely no point are we allowed to imagine that glenn will actually go out and make good on his impotent rage, because at the beginning of the scene he explicitly tells herschel he won't. we then go on to a few minutes of utterly pointless restatements of the last episode: glenn is mad. herschel is disapproving. later, we get to see the exact same point-by-point recreation between glenn and maggie, except that maggie tells glenn what a shithead he's being, and it's fairly clear that the show agrees with her. okay, I guess glenn's just randomly an asshole, I guess it helps him show leadership qualities and pretend there's something going on here.

- if you can't see that andrea drama is categorically empty drama, I don't really know what to say. "baffling" also isn't a positive character trait, and its consistency of being negative doesn't make it positive. if she was stupid to prove a point, like the show cared one way or the other, it'd be different but it's not, the writers just think we need someone to humanize the governor who is batshit crazypants and no amount of andrea stockholm syndrome changes that.

- tepid discussion and glenn being mad isn't "struggling to get by". almost nothing happened this episode, which I am beginning to suspect is an issue that's endemic to the comic main plot where I'm just going to assume that nothing happening to spin out the main plot and sell more issues is a major factor. daryl and merle was cool, but predictable, and honestly we're still seeing some retention of unnecessary drama in that daryl didn't just put a bolt in merle's face when he was menacing relative innocents. rick did nothing all episode, and I mean almost literally nothing. we, the audience, already knew he was crazy and seeing lori...the only thing that happened of any import that originated from him was telling herschel, and that went absolutely nowhere as well.

- not...criticizing? wow. I guess I need to start burning robert kirkman in effigy.

just curious, when I go point by point and say "rick was boring because..." "glenn was mad but was still boring and stupid because..." and you don't actively disagree with me, you just say I'm summing up the show, have you internalized how awful these characters are while just asking me to deal with it? because as the action gets more standard and keeps slowing down, it is impossible for me to deal with it without making obnoxiously long posts on forums for the purpose of catharsis and shared mocking.