Sorry to resurrect, but I've avoided this thread for the last few months - thats when I started watching WTD and, after getting in an episode most nights when the wifes gone to bed, just finished season 7 last night. Generally, really enjoyed it! Its been great finally reading these posts and seeing what everyone else thinks and I agree at times it plodded on, spinning out the story on some of the less interesting characters. Glad I did it all in a few months otherwise I might have got dissinterested like I did with 24. Having to wait a week for the story to not really progress would have been a turn off, this happened on a number of occasions.
Rick and Daryl make it for me as the "buddy" element. Daryl's a tough cookie but he always tries to protect and stand up for the weak, and would like to have seen more of his back story so we understood why he isn't a git like his brother. Rick, I like how he's turned from the good guy cop who trys to protect everyone, through putting himself first and screw anyone else he's not directly associated with, and now moving back to trying to protect his people and others.
Was getting a bit repetative but the introduction of Negan kick started it again IMHO, since the Gov died that central villain role causing the conflict that most dramas thrive on was missing. Love his dark humour and you never really know what he's thinking, he can turn evil at the drop of a hat which makes him compelling.
Glen and Abraham meeting Lucille was a bit nasty but, other than the canabilism and trough scene at Terminus, I was OK with the violence and didn't find it any more graphic than you would expect these days. I was shocked though when the young girl (forget her name) killed her sister, that was disturbing and, to be honest, that really made me feel sick. I wouldn't be surprised If they got complaints about that, but I see it was essential to show a consequence of Carol teaching the kids to fear the dead. Good old Carol, first season I was hoping they would bump off this waste of space, got that one wrong!
Look foward to the next series, hope its on Fox but I see AMC have their own channel now on Sky which I think you have to pay extra for?
OK, Game of Thrones next, stopped watching after 3 episodes of Season 2 - got too confusing with too many people to follow. Mates got the box sets and keeps telling me to give it a go again, is it worth it?
Good post, have to agree with a lot of that.
Rick and Daryl really make it for me too. And if Daryl is ever killed off which seems likely as everyone is expendable in this series, then I might just shed a tear.
With regards to you asking about Daryl's back story, Norman Reedus, just recently gave an interview, where he said that the directors had originally planned to kill him off, and that he was meant to be exactly like his brother. He was supposed to be anti-social, racist and aggressive, but he changes the role himself, and it has clearly worked.
I think Glenn was a big loss, but it is what makes the series so great, Glenn was always the one that seemed to balance the group for me, and was always the voice of reason, when Daryll and Rick were pissed.
How about when Rick bites the guys throats out when he is in the bear hug? That is one hell of a scene.
What is amazing about this series, is that to me it's very realistic, in the sense, you see the lengths that people will go to survive and the mental effect that it has on ordinary people. In most zombie films, all humans get along and try to survive whereas this truly shows people's selfish nature, and the development of different factions.
The girl scene didn't effect me too much personally, but the young girl you talk about played the role really well tbf to her, to act so dark and so convincingly is impressive.
I agree on Negan as well, a character that people love to hate, and he really is a sick Son of a bitch. In the comics I have been told he survives and is chucked in jail, but I just don't see that happening in the tv show, as he has pissed off, Maggie, Rick, Daryl, Tara and Rosita, to the point where they all want to kill him.
And as Rick has promised him. He will kill him, so will be interesting to see how it develops. Role on October.
