Nit picking here, but I hate when they show Rick and Co popping head shots with short barrel revolvers out of moving trucks from long range, then suddenly he can’t even hit an arm with a full auto and a clear shot from 20 yards.
Came to post this, more than anything actually about the episode So I'll say it again anyway....them some nice titties on Rosita. They've captured my heart
no not nit picking at all. that was shitty shitty writing. they roll in their in trucks and with guns out the ass, a mole in negan's inner circle, negan and all his generals standing on an open-air balcony and somehow he makes it out alive. how did they all miss everyone? why doesn't dwight just kill negan?
also, judith is a goddamn 5 year old. maggie's been pregnant since season 6 and still isn't showing. what the fuck is going on?
All I was thinking the whole time during his dialogue with Rick is why don’t one of these folks who are peeping straight at him through a gap in the wall just line up a shot and take him out? We’ve had literal snipers in other episodes.
Yea I figured that, but if you need him to die at another time, don’t write in a scene where it’s totally implausible that he not get shot, especially after reminding the audience a dozen times that Rick “is going to kill Negan”. The exact same scene but with Negan talking over megaphone behind a door or something would’ve been fine.
To further add to this... Gabriel in the trailer with an assault rifle. Negan also hiding in there with nothing. Why would Gabriel not just kill him on the spot?
Because Rick said he was going to kill him. I really hope Carl gets raped by that guy he's feeding at the gas station.
It was a pretty shitty premiere given how they should have gone big for episode #100. Except they just churned out the same ole same ole
The thing I noticed most was how bad the explosions looked. The ones as Daryl shot the barrels or whatever as he rode towards the Sanctuary leading the herd looked fine but the SUV on the highway and then I think the RV near the Sanctuary looked like something out of a PS2 game.
With the premiere viewership being so low at 11.44 million, wouldn't surprise me if the average viewership dips to below the 10.76 million average of season 3. Last season barely finished above the season 3 average once you take out the monstrous premiere episode (10.97 vs. 10.76 million), and this season sure as fuck doesn't have that to fall back on. Likely will see the first episode dip below 10 million viewers since episode s3e6. Seasons 4-6 only had one episode with less than 12 million viewers. Every episode after s7e2 has been at 12 million or less. Question now is if the ratings will stay high enough for AMC to keep the show around to finish out the entire story. As the A.V. Club says, "The Walking Dead premiere left us searching for a reason to keep watching" https://www.avclub.com/the-walking-dead-premiere-left-us-searching-for-a-reaso-1819784870
AMC is cheap enough that the margins here have to be CableCo-esque right now so I bet they've got a good bit of wiggle room but TWD is currently carrying the financial load for the entire network. FTWD might be holding its own but their other shows have gotta be just living on TWD money. So other shows will get the axe before TWD does but the AMC execs who dreamed of this show running for 15-20+ seasons have gotta be pretty concerned at this point.
Pirated viewership of the premiere is down 42%. People who are getting this shit for free don't even want to watch it.
Spoiler: Possible massive spoiler - huge break from comics Spoiler: double spoiler so someone doesn't accidentally see this if they don't want to Saw on reddit that The Spoiling Dead Fans have come to the conclusion based on information from many different sources and their own reports from the show's filming that Carl likely dies in the mid-season finale. Seems it would be the actor's decision as he's about to start college. Man would that be hilariously bad timing for the show since he's supposed to be such a huge part of the show moving forward. Lots of people on the show's subreddit saying that could be the last straw for them and you have to understand that a lot of these people are the most hardcore TWD fans out there so losing them with the show's viewership already in decline would be pretty bad for the show.
Have you guys not read the books/graphic novels/comics? If memory serves, it was pretty close to carbon copied
The battle scenes in this show are getting extremely frustrating. The writing is just so lazy during each one. They literally showed a dozen consecutive headshots tonight with silenced pistols and crossbows like they’re all Jason Bourne, then not 5 mins later is the Morgan scene where 3 dudes with 2 full autos and a pistol kick a door in, blast the first guy, then stare blankly and don’t fire a single shot in the next 3 seconds while 5 guys run in, line up, and shoot back. It’s so retarded. If they just keep their fingers on the trigger they mow that entire room down in 2 seconds and move to the next. If the writers need them to get shot, have somebody come from a side door and do it.
The stupid slow-mo close ups on their faces... like... why? I hate it when shows that can't even consistently get simple stuff right try to be all artsy fartsy. Get your regular shit sorted out before you try to be cute.
Yeah that was embarrassingly stupid I'm not sure what just happened other than a bunch of shooting. As in, I couldn't follow whatever strategy they were working. Also, Mincus in the house!
Oh and I forget...did the Heath character ever get resolved when he got separated from fatty tara? Or is he still out there somewhere
heath will be back at some point, he took a break to work on a new show which has since been cancelled
How many people actually recognized Morales? It’s been like 6 years, I didn’t know who he was even after Rick said he was from Atlanta
Sadly, I did. There was like a 2 sentence synopsis for the episode when I went to watch it on my Plex and part of it was "Rick encounters a familiar face" and for whatever reason the Hispanic guy who went his own way with his family in season 1 was the first guy who came to mind. Actually thought it was him who Rick was fighting upstairs and eventually strangled and impaled at first.
I am a little confused on the timeline, the episodes after the premier are these all before the timeline of the premier where they had the horde of zombies trap them in their complex? Or did they trap them in the complex and they are now cutting off the support?
I am just confused based off the list that they are marking stuff off and other things that they have said about not letting them get warning and such, like last episode when the tiger mauled that guy. Or Rick and Darryl trying to get their munitions. I was thinking that the first episode was the final result of all these individual attacks that they are doing in these episodes and they will circle back to the first episode.
Most shows usually lose viewers after their season premieres, so when last week’s Walking Dead season 8 opener was down 33% from the previous year, another drop could take the show very low indeed. That’s precisely what’s happened, with The Walking Dead’s second episode of the season pulling in 8.92 million viewers. If that sounds low, it is in the context of The Walking Dead, though it still handily won the night overall. The Walking Dead has not dipped under 10 million viewers since season 3, even with recent declines, and the 8.92 number actually puts it below season 3 levels. The last time the show had that few viewers was the season 2 finale.
I think the list was just lookouts and given to them by Dwight so they could take them out and get wherever they wanted without setting off alarms. Chasing down the guy who eventually got mauled by Shiva was about him not getting possibly back to the Sanctuary but I think just another outpost. to warn them. I don't think there's too much timeline fuckery going on but I could be wrong. The first episode showed what appeared to be three different time frames - older Rick after the war, sweaty/red-eyed Rick talking about mercy over wrath somewhere down the line (probably after some significant death) and present Rick dealing with the attack on the Sanctuary and Savior outposts. I think episode 2 was pretty straightforward. At one point someone said something about "if these guns get to the Sanctuary they'll easily be able to cut through the walkers" so that makes me think they already did their thing at the Sanctuary and are now cutting off reinforcements/supplies.
I don't quite understand the sudden Jesus Morgan conflict. What did Jesus think they were going to do out there? Tie them all up? Kinda dumb