Season 4 will focus more on dealing with the walkers.

So you titty babies should get your gore.

I only agree with some of your thoughts there on the zombie-style protracted SHTF, but to excuse the crappyness of the show misses the point.

This, and I cannot believe I missed that quote.

Christ, it makes me want to flip into "RedLetterMedia" Mode.

"You know I could spend about 10 hours talking about just how false that quote is...
but I'm going to try to do it in 9.

Number 1: The walking dead season 3 turns the show into a bad soap opera, that occasionally has zombie extras show up."

Writing has been crap for the past two seasons pretty much, and the muzzle crowns on all the guns in the show must be chewed up real good because no one can hit anything unless its with a pistol and someone had the beat on them already. Just watch Game of thrones, its much better with ample nudity, female that is of course.

Big fan of the show, but less so since it came back from the mid season break.

The gun errors don't bug me, I am used to that from tv and movies, but the pace is slowing, and the Lori ghost stuff was just sort of dumb.

Maybe next year.

I love the show and watch it regularly, but the last three episodes this season sucked.

Might want to put a spoiler alert in the title.

Some people havent watched it yet.

Yep. If there's one thing that watching the marathon pointed out, it's that she was worthless from the minute she was introduced.

Sort of dumb?





I really loved the haunted phone episode. Or was it two episodes?

I don't remember, but it was SO SUSPENSEFUL staring at that phone for no reason!!!





 

If there's one thing I've learned about ARFCOM...



If you're not up to speed on your episodes/movies, don't enter threads about them. Period.





 

For the guy bitchin about the sound of the shell hitting the floor after Andrea shot herself, I think that was the revolver falling out of her hands afterward, not a shell.

The show really suffered after Frank Darabont was fired and the budget was slashed. The first season's scope was epic! In season two and three they went to more indoor and smaller scenes to save money.

Yes, the comics have better characters, but you can't film a show that way, particularly when you are slashing the budget almost in half. That is why Darabont was fired, he wanted more, the suits wanted less. I am amazed at what they have been able to do with what they have to work with. The show is quickly diverging from the comics, which is a good thing. The comics were great for a book, but would not translate into film without an unlimited budget.

I don't think we have seen the last of the Governor

Exactly!!! I usually DVR the show and watch it Monday night, so Monday morning at work, I do not look at facebook or read ANY TWD threads the entire day

I thought this was settled. It was her teeth that hit the floor

That is priceless

Poking fun at the show is part of the appeal for me.



Then again, I have watched over a thousand hours of MST3K and plan to watch thousands more.

Maybe if they looked through that "tube thingy" on top of their M4s, they'd get more hits.

I gave it every shot I could going into the third season.  I found myself less and less excited about what was happening, until it got to the point that the mid season break ended the show for me.

Hawkins had a box of grenades and NOT ONE WAS USED!!!!!111!!!!!!!111!1111111111   Biggest gripe!   Just kidding.

I'm a fan of the comic and the show but the writers really drop the ball on a lot of obvious stuff.

This whole season was awful, and I done with it personally. Breaking bad and GOT are the real deal.

Having read the comics, I enjoy the pointless "filler" episodes as much as I did the "filler" comic issues.

The only thing that bothers me is everyone cross draws.

man wtf??? complaining about the show is half the fun!

someone should do a "whining about the walking dead whiners" thread...

seriously, how interesting is a thread where everyone is in lockstep like a bunch of, well, zombies?

but that ASS, man, that ASS!!!

that Vikings is fucking AWESOME!  like big screen awesome - great production values, stunning scenery, great storyline, great acting...I thought gabe Byrne was going to be the only real actor but everyone on the show is top notch, especially Ragnar.

I don't know how accurate it is but it IS interesting!

I hope he becomes the leader of the group so I don't have to spend 8 episodes waiting for Rick to come to the conclusion that he makes bad decisions.Rick is one fuck up after the other.. Carl ? He has shit figured out..

I have had a thing for Laurie Holden since "The Mist", she is tight

I updated my original post and thread title



Spoilers are OK in this thread, since they don't spoil anything for the whiners anyway.



 

The show is not very good.

oh to be the guy who gets to see just how tight she is!

I tried to like it.  But it bored me to tears.  Someone please post a thread for whining about the show 'Vikings.'
 

yep

...and the sound of the slide racking before the shot? Was the pulling the hammer back for the sigle action shot?

Liberace was gay? He seemed so butch.

Well, at least I still have Gomer Pyle, USMC.

This show is still better than Throne of Gays.

They see you trollin'. They hatin'.



 

Pay better attention.  He kissed her on the head.

Noticed that too but I am getting conditioned to the retardedness of gun dramas.  Like every time someone lifts a gun, any gun, they dub in that "chick-chick" sound.  Andrea was hot but dumb and I'm glad she's finally reaped the reward of being an idiot. " What, you're dying and will turn any minute?  Oh, let me wait til you die before putting any real effort into escape".  Rick needs to go next.

The finale was a huge let down.

Reading this thread makes me laugh. I haven't watched an episodic TV program in probably over a decade (when did Cheers go of the air?). Okay, I take that back, I watched X-Files for the first two seasons until I realized something about episodic drama TV shows. With episodic TV programs there is basically just a very lose story and not much plot other than what little plot they concoct for that specific episode. They are for the most part Seinfeld (a show about nothing), just without zany comedy that makes you chuckle enough to watch the next episode. An episodic TV program is for all intents and purposes like a book that as an intro, a middle, but no ending. So once you get past the exciting intro (typically season one), the rest is just repetitive body episodes over and over and over again. That is why you can never be satisfied with it. Because they never deliver what you crave, the exciting conclusion.

So you put up with the "filler" episodes, which are usually every other one, in the hopes that the next episode will progress the story only to have it do so at an infinitesimally slow rate because the reality is that there isn't a story to progress because there is no end. All the writers are hoping for is to keep viewers coming back just long enough so they can keep ratings up just enough to keep just enough ad revenue coming in so they don't have to go back to a mundane desk job somewhere in corporate America.

Eventually you realize all episodic TV programs are like this and it frustrates you enough that you turn off your TV and read a book. And guess what you discover? Books actually have what it is you are missing in your TV shows, endings.

Enjoy!

I agree...the only "gotcha" would be how to deal with sudden death (such as heart attack or accident), especially for those that die in their sleep. I would see a shift in sleeping habits where everyone goes to sleep in their own bed, with the door locked from the inside. If the die in their sleep they cannot open the door to get out, people know they are now a zombie and BOOM...dead again.

Humans however...as the Gov has proven, they are far more dangerous and unpredictable than the zombies.

Keep your eyes open, the MST3K guys are going to do a live Rifftrax at theaters across the country in August of Twilight (If they can buy the rights from the studio). The two of their live shows that I have seen in the theater have been "piss yourself" funny!



http://www.rifftrax.com/



 

Also revolvers have safeties and eject shells.



 

When I first heard that they were going to be making the show, I was quite interested.  I don't read comics, but I am a horror fan.  I had already gotten a bit tired of contemporary zombie fare.  However, the initial reports were that it was going to be a true horror / zombie series.  A show with practical special effects, old-school gore, and zombies by Greg Nicotero certainly seemed like something worth watching.  About a year later, when the show finally came to television, I couldn't wait to see how it turned out.  The first couple of episodes had a lot of promise, it seemed.  Unfortunately, it has now become something I either fast-forward through, or have playing in the background whilst I do something else.

I realize that there is only so much they can do with the material, and that they have budgeting issues.  However, the show has turned out quite differently than what I had imagined when I first heard of it.  There is an occasional bit of good gore, horror, and tense terror.  However, it is rare.  The effects are OK, but the practical effects are pretty low-key, with too much quick and unimaginative digital crap.  I don't even think that there has been a living person ripped in half by zombies, which seems odd considering Nicotero worked with Romero and Savini.

The drama isn't really interesting enough to make up for the lack of real horror, either.  I don't want a soap opera disguised as a horror show.  There are some twists, but it feels like a marathon, and pacing issues are problematic. Yes, there are some retarded moments, and technical errors, but I am willing to look past that.  The problem is that they don't always give a reason to want to look past it.

Of course, I think that the show would have problems, no matter what.  Like I said, contemporary zombies had already started becoming stale, and there aren't enough old-school fans to keep the show afloat.  It is always going to be hard to keep a mainstream audience watching a pure horror-based show without getting burnt-out.  As much as I wish they could go to the hilt, every time, I don't think anyone would budget it.  So, I guess they could do worse, and it is at least something.

Anyhow, I'll still record the next season.  I am not really anticipating much, though, and certainly won't be watching live.

They can take head shots with pistols on zombies from moving vehicles. Can't hit a single person in a group, standing in the back of a truck from an elevated position. The shows firearms accuracy flew out the window when the farm was being overrun and the old man was out there firing dozens of rounds from a 870 Wingmaster without reloading. At one point he did stop and load two shells in before firing off another hundred rounds. Worse than John Wayne's twenty shot SAA.

Haven't watched since season 2.  

Saw the prison on the other side of the forrest....  

Waiting for it to hit Netflix.

This sums it up well. Once you get in the grove of handling slow moving, stupid targets they become a non issue. Plus as time passes and they rot more and more they become even less of a threat. Aspiring warlords and cult leaders would be the real danger.

Also if you want to get nit picky about some technical details here are a few.

Why don't the zombies eat each other? They eat everything else that moves.

Critical reactions would occur in spent fuel rod storage tanks at nuclear plants all across the world. There would be a metric ass load of radioactive dust blowing around making people sick.

Not one single pack of feral dogs has been seen yet. Reality is they would be everywhere.

Anybody else have anymore?

Seriously?

Okay I'll bite.

I was incredibly disappointed with the latter half of this season.  The last few episodes were so bare bones that it was insulting to the cast and crew.  The show is getting RIDICULOUS ratings, as in beating Game of Thrones, and they still have to make half the season pointless filler?  Heck some of the episodes you wouldn't even remember the show is about zombies until a few of them magically teleport 3 feet away from one of the main characters.

Frankly I couldn't care less about the gun minutia, it's far dumber to me that Andrea spent half the final episode staring numbly at the guy dying in front of her while the guy was begging her to hurry up.  Then at the end of it she breaks free but instead of casually kicking the zombie away or casually stabbing it through the head as she had done about 15 times already that season, she just stands there and screams and waits for death. That's just terrible writing there, which has been the main issue this whole season.  There have been flashes of brilliance (Merle's episode, Lori's death) but for the second half of the season it's like the writers were just trying to kill time until the season is over.  

Most of the characters are wildly inconsistent almost from episode to episode.  Rick leaves a man to die on the side of the road but not only doesn't shoot the governor on sight but actually plans to turn over one of his own group.  Really?  Andrea admittedly develops as a character during the season but her confession that she "didn't want anyone to die" is absurd given what she knows about the governor. It's just not believable that in a show where everyone is paranoid that they would try to get all touchy feely and humanistic with a maniac like the governor.  And that leads to another point; the governor got turned from a high functioning sociopath into Michael Meyers, this unstoppable caricature of a villain and thus lost most of the allure of the character.

Overall the final episode was the weakest of the whole season.  The "battle" at the prison was the most pathetic display I've ever seen and the gov mowing everyone down while people point guns at him and just watch was just laughable.  One of the only bright points of the episode was Andrea finally being done meddling and whinging over everything.  Frankly Milton's death had more meaning than Andrea's, he gave up everything to stand against the gov and died as valiantly as a man of his disposition could do.  

I am a huge fan of the show, and I'll continue watching for a while longer but this season finale gave me nothing to look forward to next season.

I'm tired of Rick.  Rick "Let's hitchiker die on side of road" then 1 episode later "Takes town full of strangers under wing" needs to go.  Carl's ready, and he already has the hat.

LOL...now that I stop to think about it, Rick better get his shit together...Carl has already made his position clear about fuckups!