Oh season 7 first episode done. Anyone else watched it?
Yep. Whole new levels of violence and I guessed wrong on which major character would get the Lucille treatment
Read this morning that:
(a) many Americans called in sick for work after watching it on Sunday night, claiming to be upset over a ādeath in the familyā 
(b) it is still, despite being on series 7, the 3rd most watched TV show in the US. Gets twice as many viewers as GOT. Nuts!
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That was truly disturbing.
I was anticipating this episode as a comic reader, and boy they didnāt disappoint. Quite a few tweaks to retain some originality but they nailed the dread and horror of the scene from the comic. JDM seems to be having an absolute ball with his role as well - really looking forward to the rest of the season!
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Not read any of the comics although probably would so not idea whatās likely to come up. Had heard that one of the characters was due to go. canāt say Iāll issue the other one. very much on edge of seat for so much of this and did feel a little shelf shocked. thankfully didnāt need to ring in sick. had a day of training on gangs so violence has been the norm for a bit too long!
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No one watching Walking Dead anymore? All zombied out?
Thoroughly enjoyed the season finale. But no one else I know watched it. Even you guys donāt talk about it any more.
Iāve just started season (for you bletch) 6. I think itās a great show.
Iām all caught up now.
I have to say that Iām rather bemused by a lot of the hate the show is getting at the moment. Apparently ratings are at their lowest since the first season and Andrew Lincoln, who plays the lead Rick Grimes, is doing the offs.
Iāll still be watching it. Even in the first season, the show was rarely about one person. With the recent worldbuilding of seasonsā past, thatās more true than it has ever been. I think itāll survive Lincolnās departure better than Teachers did.
The next set of antagonists are going to be creepy as fuck, and like nothing the show has put in front of the survivors before. I think we all might spend a bit too much time being horrified to miss Rick. He may well be how theyāre properly introduced.
2018 is the year of the whisperers.
I think the moaning just gives us an indication that a lot of people donāt really watch tv at as deep a level as others. If you watch the Walking Dead because āzombiesāā¦ then i can see why people would be tired of it all now, thereās a limit to what the can do now, the zombies are slower, decaying and everyone is prepared for them and knows what they need to do with them. Theyāre not really the main part of the show any more and when they are there is very little in the way of blood and gore.
However if youāre into the characters, itās still interesting to see how they are changing, developing, etc.
I think (as you say @pap) the whisperers will be great, zombies who are still people sounds good, theyāll be quicker, cleverer and itās gonna scare the crap out of the main characters when they first experience them!!
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Other humans have long been the scariest thing on the show, something that appears to be the case in Fear The Walking Dead too. Iām about five episodes in, and very much enjoying it. Though inhabiting the same universe, the tone feels different immediately. The first season reminds me a lot of the end of 28 Days Later, where the military are not all theyāre cracked up to be in the saviour department.
Back in the main verse, decent episode last night. Only two episodes of Rick left this season. There are strong hints that it may not be the (ahem) usual exit for the Grimester.
Iāve not started this latest series, so less of the spoilers!
I struggled with Fear the Walking Dead but may try it again.
Been watching a bit more of Fear The Walking Dead. I like it lots, not least the fact that I have no idea where it is going.
One slight gripe which is increasingly a feature of this and its sister show is a huge reliance on retrospective point of view episodes.
They dominate Fear S4 to the point where half a season is given over for them.
Big changes going on in the main season. Andrew Lincoln has left the show, and weāve jumped six years into the future in the space of one episode. Itās like a reboot with all the same characters.
Let me guess, a bald (but tall, handsome and charming) man, wearing a ridiculous (but somehow stylish) shirt, appearing to walk past a faded sign for Magners Cider before becoming instantly and incurably drunk?
ā¦go onā¦
I should probably declare that I donāt watch TWD.
To be fair, there was a Zombie dressed in a Paisley shirt, the zombie had as much co-ordination as you do after half a pint of Fosters shandy.
The zombie, however, did have hair but it may have been you wearing a syrup.
So season nine is in the memory banks, and by all measurable yardsticks, such as previous seasons. In the real world, Andrew Lincoln, who played the ever-present Rick Grimes, departed the cast. Normally this means death and perhaps a bit of undeath if the brain aināt destroyed. Iāll leave that there, but for a series that lost two of its lead characters, it managed to fill the void spectacularly.
In a move Iāve only seen done once before on television, the series takes a giant, permanent leap into the future. A whole seven years. When Battlestar Galactica performed its great leap, it only jumped two years ahead, and it was quickly pretty apparent as to what had happened in those years.
TWD handles it much more deftly, requiring both audience and show to fill in some gaps. They commit too - I was dreading a season full of flashbacks, but most of the time is spent exploring the brave old world. All the petrol has been found and used. Our heroes spent their time getting about in literal horse drawn cars, and there is a new and deadly opponent to face.
I will not describe what the Whisperers are. The show does that well enough. What they do is make the show scary again. Other humans have been the main threat ever since season three. Most of the cohort we cheer for are utterly competent at dispatching walkers by then. The Dead just arenāt that scary.
The humans are, whether its The Governor of Woodbury, a psychopath maintaining the veneer of civility, Negan, a narcissistic psychopath that still doesnāt give a fuck what anyone thinks of him (save perhaps two people) or Alpha, chillingly brought to life by Brit actor Samantha Morgan. She doesnāt give a fuck about humanity full stop.
Itās an excellent TV show again, and in Trumpās America, will probably end up being a survival manual for the future.