The Walking Dead ***please use SPOILER tags***

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Dana Jean

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Hello? Is that the production office of The Walking Dead? Yes? Can I speak to anyone to do with writing, please? Oh, hi! Yes...I was just wondering if you knew anything about characterisation. Cha-rac-ter-i... oh, you've heard the term before? Excellent. Do you plan on using the concept again any time soon? I mean, Jessie...she's confident and bright and all that in two episodes, not behaving like an abused woman at all, and then bam! Out come the tears and the nervous disposition. Now, I know Alexandra B can act, so that just makes me think this abuse thing was dropped on her. And that you did it to create ambiguity in the first instance without logically following it through. I mean, you could have had her as the abuser, Rick kills her hubby after Carol - an abused woman, you'll remember, so her sympathies and reading of the situation would automatically go one way - misreads the situation and feeds into his already barely-repressed desire, and that gets them exiled along with whoever else wants to leave, then in the finale they haul ass back and save the day as the bad guys attack. As it is, you had him fight a lurching drunk guy and almost come off second best, and that was BS. BS? You know, that stuff that...oh, you know that, too. Well, how about you cut the BS out and have a logical narrative progression again, yeah? Because you're just showing how wrong it was to get rid of Frank Darabont right now. 'K? Oh, and Glenn needed to kill that dude in last week's ep, because it's pretty obvious how that's going to go now.
*buzz of open line their end*

(And yeah, I know in reality the buzz would have happened a lot sooner, and from the other end. Nor am I completely dissing the writing: some of the fringe stuff is good - Sasha's going postal (which needs to be resolved), Michonne's internal conflict, Survivalism With Daryl And Aaron, etc. It's the main plot points they're missing the marks on. Shout out to (iirc) prufrock21, too: that little lad does do way more sneaking around than is good for him. A sticky end awaits, though for some reason he seems to see Carol as a protector now. Oh, and Carl was decked. Accidentally for sure, but decked. "I'm staying here, Dad...with Judith" ahoy.)
I think the kid's "Job" is to get to Carol. Everyone's weaknesses are being exploited. Rick's weakness is he's a man and he wants a piece of ass. He hasn't allowed himself to be a man in that sense as it is a weakness. He has Carl and judith to fight for and he has to stay focused. I do think it is some sort of plan because yeah, things spiraled a little too fast.
 

mstay

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I don't understand why everyone thinks it bad that
Sasha wants to kill off all the walkers she can. What's wrong with going on the defensive as she said? I think she is just keeping herself ready for what will inevitably happen.
 

Lepplady

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I think that they will be killing off a major character next episode. My money is on either Glenn (Please don't I really like him) or Daryl (I like him too).
If they do kill off Daryl, fans will riot in the streets. LOL. No telling who might bite the big one. Chances are, they'll
leave it as a cliffhanger and have us chewing off our fingernails up to the elbow until October. Bastids.
 

Lepplady

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I don't understand why everyone thinks it bad that
Sasha wants to kill off all the walkers she can. What's wrong with going on the defensive as she said? I think she is just keeping herself ready for what will inevitably happen.
That in itself isn't a bad thing.
It's the way she's going about it so recklessly and not telling anybody where she's going. She's putting herself in harm's way and risking the lives of the people that care about her and go looking for her. If all she were doing was picking 'em off from the tower, that would be another thing.

And where is all that ammo coming from, anyway? Was Alexandria an arms depository or something?
 

Mr Nobody

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I think the kid's "Job" is to get to Carol. Everyone's weaknesses are being exploited. Rick's weakness is he's a man and he wants a piece of ass. He hasn't allowed himself to be a man in that sense as it is a weakness. He has Carl and judith to fight for and he has to stay focused. I do think it is some sort of plan because yeah, things spiraled a little too fast.

Yep, possibly.
Though I don't buy that as Rick's weakness. He could have had 'a piece of ass' when he liked, if he was so inclined. If he has a weakness, it's probably that he can't let go of authority and he clearly has more than a few trust issues. That was recognized and was probably why he was made sheriff (rather pointlessly, since they'd clearly been doing OK without one). I think that was also a test; given that role and the fact that there was clearly nothing to do, would he start wandering around making trouble to give himself something to do, or would he just pootle around and eventually settle once he saw everything was fine?
Deanna gave him enough rope to hang himself with, and sure he enough he stuck his head in the noose and jumped.
I also think Michonne gave him a clump so she can better hide in plain sight, or maybe prevent Rick from revealing more than he really should. Either way I'd be surprised if she'd 'gone over', as I suspect Maggie, Abraham and even Daryl might have done/will do.
 

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