Flagg wrote:It's pretty sad that the death of Merle had more emotional impact than the ham fisted "we gotta write her out now" death of Andrea, who was so butchered this season from her comic book origins.
Both were a massive waste of story telling potential to no purpose, walking dead jumped the shark when they shot Sophia, personally I'm on to game of thrones, I really don't want to stick around for them to introduce time travel or god.
I'm really tired of the Governor succeeding at things due to the sheer writer's fiat of willful character ignorance. he is surrounded by people who have so far survived and are living through a literal zombie apocalypse. When Andrea goes to the town and Michonne tells her she doesn't want to see it like it is because she wants a safe life back, fine. the Governor was good looking, they have a nurse, they have electricity, an organized guard, barbecues, I understand the dilemma.
But when you're down to a one eyed governor who makes a habit of having arena fighting that ultimately escalates to mortal combat, you've had at least four breaches in the past week, the obvious second in command disappears, the highly regarded newcomer who spoke un support of the town goes traitor, and you're getting ready to deploy a pit full of biters, how is no one lookinga round furtively and saying "hey guys... fuck this..."
Instead people are all "kill the beast, kill the beast.." marching to their doom. SOMEONE should have been watching the governor closely enough to blow him away when he turned on them, it was not a shocking move.
And for our protagonists, yet another tainted victory? Rick's family survived...uh but Shane has replaced him, Lorie is pregnant, ohhhh but whose is it. We found the CDCrun by a crazy guy, and it's seconds from blowing up... We found a farm! Carl got shot, Carl's gonna live, the barn is full of walkers, Glen has found love! Sophie was in the barn, More people, they're evil, Rick finally defeats Shane, the whole farm burns down, we found a safe haven...infested by walkers and Herschel loses a leg, Lorie has her baby! Carl has to shoot her, we found a town...run by a lunatic, Andrea's alive! Sleeping with the lunatic, Michonne can be trusted, but what's his face from the first episode has gone crazy because tragedy struck, Andrea sees the light and will rejoin, ohh but the governor is hunting her now, Merl finds redemption Andrea is captured. Fuck this writers, what are you doing here?? We defeated the town...and Andrea...did not...quite...survive. I agree with flagg, she literally died because she abandoned all of that pluckiness we saw at the beginning of the season because what, she was emotionally compromised by the Guy She Warned About Biters? There's irony there, I'll give them that, She protects Milton from the biter he has restrained so he can learn more about the disease, only to later be restrained when he succumbs to that disease and mauls her, even though he TRIED to help her by leaving her a means of escape.
Now that we have all new miscellaneous cannon fodder from the town for the next season, is there anybody there I'm going to care about? Will they give us any characters who survive long enough to identify with, or will we continue to see the SG:U formula of characters so flawed, I just want them to die. Do I have to check in any more to see if they make any progress in the larger context of the world they live in, or was that done with at the CDC, and all they'll do is hold one untenable position after another until they're all dead. What is the purpose of this show anymore, we explored the human reaction to the apocalypse, fine, but this is several seasons later, what the hell people, the btiers were only slightly relevant this season, it was just another "Ehrmagerd man's darkest enemy is himself"
We need either a conspiracy to uncover, like the black helicopters, a larger context in this post apocalyptic world, or a character who is actually fun to watch besides Darryl, who bis GOD damnit, turning grim dark... I see your leather jacket buddy, cut it out... is this another show where the title reflects the plot.
Fine, rebuild the prison and sit there static and brooding, I liked them better when they were driving around solving mysteries. I really want to see a sub group leave the prison, and maybe check back every few weeks, I get the whole theme of "common people surviving the apocalypse", but it's tired. I want to see some damn heroes kicking ass and taking names, not this plodding irrelevant stupiity, there are too many regulars in this show that suck.