It was great to see everybody back on the show. Like a family reunion. There are folks you love, folks you hate, and some that you love to hate. I was surprised that there weren't more losses, but I guess they have to save some of the shock and awe for the rest of the season.
THIS. The bit in spoilers. No WAY that shouldn't have happened.
So far, though, both of my favorite moments came from last season's finale.
1) Sasha's exit/entrance. There will never be another to top it.
and
2) "That's a F-ing tiger!"
I liked/hated Negan in season 7 his one-liners are crazy-funny. I liked seeing everyone again, waiting to see how season 8 turns out. Hope it's good. However, I think they are running out of ideas.
I was shouting at the screen when the Priest went back for Gregory and he abandoned him in a rusty car. I was like you redeemed yourself sort of, now is not the time to play the role of Priest. Did he not learn anything. I cracked up when Rick took a picture with a Polaroid camera. I was like really Rick you have time to take a picture. When I saw Rick in his bed I was thinking if this whole thing turns out to be a dream...I will feel like I wasted my time. I don't want it to be a dream.
I liked/hated Negan in season 7 his one-liners are crazy-funny. I liked seeing everyone again, waiting to see how season 8 turns out. Hope it's good. However, I think they are running out of ideas.
I was shouting at the screen when the Priest went back for Gregory and he abandoned him in a rusty car. I was like you redeemed yourself sort of, now is not the time to play the role of Priest. Did he not learn anything. I cracked up when Rick took a picture with a Polaroid camera. I was like really Rick you have time to take a picture. When I saw Rick in his bed I was thinking if this whole thing turns out to be a dream...I will feel like I wasted my time. I don't want it to be a dream.
The bit with the Polaroid kinda took me out of it for a second. Not because he took the time to take a picture in the middle of that poopstorm, but I was wondering how in the hell the film cartridges for that thing hadn't spoiled. Those things have a shelf life!
So far, though, both of my favorite moments came from last season's finale.
1) Sasha's exit/entrance. There will never be another to top it.
and
2) "That's a F-ing tiger!"
It was great to see everybody back on the show. Like a family reunion. There are folks you love, folks you hate, and some that you love to hate. I was surprised that there weren't more losses, but I guess they have to save some of the shock and awe for the rest of the season.
THIS. The bit in spoilers. No WAY that shouldn't have happened.
So far, though, both of my favorite moments came from last season's finale.
1) Sasha's exit/entrance. There will never be another to top it.
and
2) "That's a F-ing tiger!"
Sasha's exit was one of my favorite moments. That was such an awesome plan. Sasha had to have been the most beautiful walker ever on the show. Of course, she started off beautiful but then she didn't have any traumatic injury and didn't have time for decay. She's on my short list for hottest walker.
...if they are honestly adapting the graphic novel series as they go along-there should be no dearth of ideas....the line of comics is WAY out in front of the show timeline-wise....I just throw that out there, as a casual walker-errr, watcher and having never read the funny books-I do know how large the pulp lineage is.....
The bit with the Polaroid kinda took me out of it for a second. Not because he took the time to take a picture in the middle of that poopstorm, but I was wondering how in the hell the film cartridges for that thing hadn't spoiled. Those things have a shelf life!
What about gas, I think that has an expiration date. Carl was looking for gas at the gas station and I was thinking about that. Where are they even finding so much gas?
...if they are honestly adapting the graphic novel series as they go along-there should be no dearth of ideas....the line of comics is WAY out in front of the show timeline-wise....I just throw that out there, as a casual walker-errr, watcher and having never read the funny books-I do know how large the pulp lineage is.....
I don't know what to say..watching the aftershow,talking dead,was ridiculous.It seems they are way,way over the rainbow with their own celebrity or popularity or whatever you want to term it as.Frankly,the first two seasons,maybe into three,were great for me,but it seems to me they are just trying to one up the story line,more silly ways to off somebody,special effects out the wazoo,explosions,etc...I do really like the originals in the cast,and some of the ones that came aboard after,but I would be okay with ending the show.Hearing the guy,was it Gimple,say we may go on for another hundred episodes or whatever it was,not a big fan of that.All good things must come to an end,and being wise enough to craft a good ending and let it go,would be my inclination..but with so much money,merchandise,and other stuff at stake,it may go on till even the most diehard fans are sick to death of it..
I think it may have been able to go for another 100 eps, once...but not now and not with Scott M. Gimple as showrunner. I've nothing against the guy*, it's just that I've found some of his decisions re: TWD...well, questionable, to say the least. For whatever reason, he seems to closely-bound to the source material, to the point of almost acting like he's hog-tied by it, and some of those in the know re: the comic books tell me some eps have pretty much treated the comics as a pre-made storyboard rather than treating it as a very different medium, as a source of inspiration and differentiation, etc. I've also seen him before on Talking Dead saying how they have to adhere to the source material, and that's just wrong. Neither of the previous showrunners did, at least not so slavishly. If I want the comic book version, I can and will go and read the comic books. What I want is the TV adaptation, and that means that some of what can fly easily in the comics has to be re-thought, re-worked or entirely scrapped, no matter how 'neat' he (or they, if you extend it to include the rest of the producers and exec. prods) thinks it'll be or how nerdy-excited he gets (or they get).
There's also the issue of structure during his tenure. I read a review the other day pointing out that this season looks like following the pattern since around the 2013 season, namely that there's a strong opening episode, followed by a crap second one, a number of meandering 'meh' ones that you can basically skip, then it ramps up in time for the mid-season finale, with a rinse-and-repeat scenario for the back half of the season: strongish return, useless ep, 'meh' ones you can skip, tune in again for the final two. So basically, six eps per season are 'essential' and the rest are generally filler, or the televisual equivalent of wallpaper (and with regard to last season, it's not a great exaggeration to say I've been more excited by checking to see if paint is still tacky, and the finale, while an improvement, still had me groaning
when Negan ran away only to show him in the final shot with umpteen more a-holes...I mean, Saviors.
But yeah, I think they need to start working towards the end now. The rule of thumb for the lifetime of a TV series, in one run, is eight seasons max. In some rare cases you can get away with nine or ten. Either way each season should now be done in such a way as to act as a cap-off, just in case. Done well enough, the finale of each season would provide a satisfactory end point or allow for a continuation if the audience was still there (though splitting the season for 3 months could also help there, maybe. Possibly even shoot multiple endings or even two season finales and penultimate eps. Bundle those on the DVD boxset and they'd be sure to fly off the shelves).
If nothing else they should know how it's all going to end and be ready to deploy it in 'emergency' storylines.
(* That said, he was a writer on another show I liked, FlashForward; an intriguing concept that was ultimately let down by its execution, in particular the wading-through-treacle pacing and frequently illogical storytelling decisions and/or character actions. Hm...)
Agreed..much like other long running shows,like MASH,or Cheers,or Seinfeld,or name your favorite,at some point the magic becomes stale.I would think some of the long running stars are getting a bit jaded,though they would never admit it,a job is a job of course,but they will all be rich through syndication..really enjoyed the show for some years,but to me it's kinda losing it's mojo..of course that is just me,if others still dig it,that is cool too,we can't all like the same things..
You know what I loved about The Walking Dead in the first three seasons the focus on the story, the people and their reaction to an incomprehensible disaster. This made me go from oh not another zombie telling to I really love this zombie tv show and how they're called walkers in that world. Now the plot is: find a community, deal with a madman, kill madman start all over again. I wish they could focus on the story again, it's starting to get a little cartoony and lacking character depth. All the characters are so desensitized now, the walking dead are like props. It's like whatever the dead are walking that's normal, we don't smell them anymore until a herd arrives, of course, so we can use them or not.
Breaking Bad focused on the story and the characters which made it a very good tv show and they knew when to end it, it didn't go on forever, or introduce other characters to keep it going into perpetuity. A lot of tv shows do that...
...if they are honestly adapting the graphic novel series as they go along-there should be no dearth of ideas....the line of comics is WAY out in front of the show timeline-wise....I just throw that out there, as a casual walker-errr, watcher and having never read the funny books-I do know how large the pulp lineage is.....
Abraham was definitely one of my favorite elements of the show the last few years. He was just so damn quotable! Every now and then when I see something crazy, I'll pull out his line from episode with the fire truck, "I've been to 8 county fairs and one goat rodeo, and I ain't ever seen anything like that!"
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Of course, she started off beautiful but then she didn't have any traumatic injury and didn't have time for decay. She's on my short list for hottest walker. 
