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are you showing me what the Pats are going to do to the Jets on Sunday? You're so thoughtful! :love:

P.S. A very brief thread hijack but I can't resist whenever the chance arises ;;D
 
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DiO'Bolic

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are you showing me what the Pats are going to do to the Jets on Sunday? You're so thoughtful! :love:

P.S. A very brief thread hijack but I can't resist whenever the chance arises ;;D
Yeah... That's it. :rolleyes:

I’m rooting for the Jets to get a decent QB in the draft. But with my luck they’ll probably do well the rest of this season and screw their chance of a good QB.

I hear Gronk isn’t playing against the Jets. Afraid, perhaps?

And remember the Jets have a current win streak of one against the Pats.
 

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I thought that the ending of the mid season finale was awesome. There were definately some clinkers in the first half of the season.

The first half of season 7 was kind of frustrating because there was a lot of good stuff in there (like the planet of women ;-D) but the pacing was terrible.
I'm sure the writers needed to tell about all of these sub groups because they will come together eventually but I think they could have done a little better with the pacing. By making those single themed episodes, there was too much time between seeing our main characters. Plus there was a couple of 90 minute episodes that didn't deserve to be 90 minute episodes and would have worked much better at the regular length.
 

mjs9153

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I don't know,I am trying to like the new season,but it seems the show has morphed into this 'try to top inventive deaths with cliffhanger season or mid season endings'..the show just doesn't hold my attention like it did in the first three seasons..
 

AnnaMarie

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The first half of season 7 was kind of frustrating because there was a lot of good stuff in there (like the planet of women ;-D) but the pacing was terrible.
I'm sure the writers needed to tell about all of these sub groups because they will come together eventually but I think they could have done a little better with the pacing. By making those single themed episodes, there was too much time between seeing our main characters. Plus there was a couple of 90 minute episodes that didn't deserve to be 90 minute episodes and would have worked much better at the regular length.

We had recorded a few shows. Last night sat down to watch the last 3. We all thought we must have missed one because it wasn't making sense. We didn't miss any...checked twice.
 

Mr Nobody

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I've enjoyed the last couple of eps. It's helped that they've gone back to multiple threads; it's done wonders for the pacing and made it much more interesting to watch.
All in all, though, my overwhelming feeling has been 'It's taken so any eps to go from there to here? Really?'
But there's a paradox, people! While the half-season has seemed to drag like a walker with no legs (so...a dragger? Anyway...), with the good bits standing out from the dreck like the blasted and withered trees on a WWI battlefield, it also feels like the whole Negan storyline is being rushed towards a conclusion by full season's end...yet it feels like we know sod all about him, his true beliefs and where they sprang from, why his people haven't offed him already (we had glimpses of why in the latest ep, but they needed to be shown well before that point, with Rick realised Negan was basically just an unpredictable ar$ehole during the mid-season finale, which would have made his decision to fight make a bit more sense), and so on.
The putting together of a 'coalition of the willing' would also take longer, given what has been established about the various groups. Ezekiel, for instance, wouldn't be willing to let his mask slip, or let all of his people know about his deal with the Saviours. Hilltop...well, how do you get Gregory to fight (and is it just me, or are they completely wasting Xander Berkeley, at least so far? He's way better than this!). Then you get to the Women With Guns. Given that they'll shoot whoever turns up, how do you get around that? (Convincingly, I mean.)
As for the way they were introduced, let alone set up, that was possibly one of the worst hours of TWD I've ever seen. I don't mind the slower, character-driven episodes - the one re: Morgan was a real standout - but when every one gets like that, and they don't quite work on top of that (no fault of Alanna Masterson; it just wasn't terribly well-written or conceived), well...
Also, while I know the show isn't about zombies per se, is there any need for them at this point? Both Tara and Aaron should have been liberally chewed in recent weeks, but no, the sand zombies surrounded her and had a hold of her, but failed to tear or bite, and the water zombies proved equally toothless when Aaron went in the water. He should have one bite, at least. I mean, come on!
If they are no threat, though, they why have them? Simply write them out, i.e. they all die off or generally rot away, leaving only the world of the remaining few. Otherwise, they simply have to become a serious danger again, even if only a peripheral one. Time was, you'd worry about a character encountering a zombie or two, let alone a group of four or five. Now, even the most pratus ineptus of the group has nothing to fear; they just dance around them, shank a couple, then dance some more or run away.
And Carl on rollerblades. Tell me who would think that's a good idea (and no, I don't buy that teenagers would, either; not in that world, not with what they've experienced for years by this point. They wouldn't even be close to thinking in the ways we're familiar with).
 

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*Grumble grumble* ;D
I like this season so far :)

I only grumble because I care. If I didn't care, I wouldn't grumble (or watch).
I know we're going to have to agree to disagree on this, but I just think the show's being mishandled - never more so than during the half-season just gone (with the promise of more of the same on the way). Quite a few people seem to agree with me, too. Audience figures are reported to have dropped sharply, while umpteen others are hanging in there despite everything. Lose them, and it won't matter what Gimple's game-plan is or whether it can be best viewed as a box set or not or even whether or not the rumours are true that things are as they are because they don't want to do a Game of Thrones and catch up with the source material, it'll be axed. (Even the renewal for S8 can be overturned at this point, or they can change the order and ask for fewer eps...which might prove to be a blessing in disguise.)
Basically, I don't want it to get the chop because of stupid production decisions before it can conclude the narrative, nor do I want them to have to rush it in a shortened, final-and-out season just so there is some kind of conclusion. What I want, and hope, to see is a return to the 'must-see' days, particularly of S1, but also of some later seasons (even if they've also had many a patchy moment).
 

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BH has become confused as to the different groups and communities. I am not sure how much longer he will stick with it and I may be watching alone. I think the different groups are well defined and the characters fit into them well. I do wish Carol would get rid of that burr up her nose and get with the program.