I guess the show went downhill after Shane died, Rick is such a weak leader aside from biting that dudes throat he’s been a doormat with others like Daryl and Carol being the real bad ass characters.

The loss of Abraham to get instead a character like Jesus is another poor swap.

This. Any thoughts?

What if Coral's bite is just an emo tattoo he gave himself in order to get attention from his dad who is always too busy at work?

That’s a good idea.

And she'll die. She'd stand a better chance biting Chuck Norris.

LTG : )

They already did this routine with Sasha, Coral is probably gonna survive in some BS stunt.

The sad truth is this show will continue along until the ratings tank. It would be nice to see them wrap it up soon and go out before that happens.

I was just thinking that The Simpsons, a show that has been on for 29 years now, still has better writing than TWD does.

Hard to run out of ideas when you haven't run out of source material. I think they were just looking for another shocker for another finale. Maybe if we didn't have to have this mid-season bs it wouldn't be so bad.

TWD is definitely a show hurt by having 2 mini seasons. Everything is built on building to the finale, twice.

Plus too many extra characters, it’s like we have Aaron’s boyfriend die and I’m supposed to care?

Maybe Carol will go ninja on Neegan, pluck his eye out (ala Kill Bill) and Neegan will sport a patch like the Governor.
I'd watch that....

Having Carl be the immune one may work cuz he and Judith have been growing along with the Walker virus. maybe if the children survive long enough the hormones would adapt.

Gimple has been getting blasted since the Carl bite. Chandler Riggs just bought a house in Georgia and his Dad blasted Gimple on FB. Chandler was supposed to be on the show for another 3 years.

Possibly. Doesn’t feel the same though.

Just ran across this article on amc:

http://www.amc.com/shows/the-walking-dead/talk/2017/12/spoilers-the-walking-dead-qa-chandler-riggs-carl?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=chandler-riggs-on-carls-vision-for-the-future&utm_campaign=the-walking-dead

Snippet:

Q: What was your first reaction to reading about Carl getting bit in the script? Were you told in advance?

A: I was super surprised. I was not expecting it at all. I don’t think any of the fans were expecting it. I found out during rehearsal for Episode 6, which was back around June. It was really weird for a while… but I’m going on to do lots of other cool and exciting things. I just booked a movie and that’s really exciting stuff. It’s definitely not the end for me. It might be the end for Carl, but not for me.

They should have at least kept Carl/Coral around long enough so that he's taller than Rick.

Its sad to see the show tanking. Watch the first episode again, it is still amazing tv. Its the show runners, not the actors. To prove it watch Godless on Netflix. The girl that played the Doc last season is fantastic on this show. They can only do so much with TERRIBLE writing on TWD now.

If they could somehow just kill the accent that Maggie uses, the show would be golden in my book.

I think her pregnancy is being somehow transferred to Rick's kid, who is now like 3 years old?

Yeah I hadn't watched for a while and then cruised back in, and yes the show is pretty terrible. As far as shooting the whole season at night?

Saves money. The show looks cheaper than ever, and that's filtering down from the writing, to the production, to the acting.

Sorry kid, it's the end for you. Your acting career at least, I'm sure you'll make a fine whatever you go to college for.

Rick, Laurie and Shane all have dark hair. Judith is total blonde. Who else in the original crew was Laurie sleeping with? Dale?

Andrea.

Coral, I mean Vera, what has become of you? Does anyone else ...here....feel..the way I do? - Pinky F.

So part of the zombie infection includes getting knocked up by the strap-on? I think Rick should be pregnant also.

Not their best concert. But they did pull the pig float out from Animals and had the stage ring from Dark Side. I'd take a Floyd concert over the past few seasons any time.

Absolutely. Much more so this season.

Sad but true.. The best thing about the TWD, the characters love and respect each other. Sure there were disagreements, but the group stayed together and had a common goal of humanity and survival. They would sacrifice themselve's to save another. When Glenn was killed, it hurt to watch.

Now, the infighting within the group has turned my stomach. I no longer feel any connection, and if a character gets killed, who cares.

The fight between Rick and Daryl - Just stupid.
Endless supply of food, water, and ammunition - The realness is gone.
Carl's mystery bite - This was so bad, it's obvious that behind the scene problems with Chandler Riggs is probably true.

And gas and diesel. They have a lot of vehicles, and big trucks, running around.

LTG : )

The cars and trucks running is just so bad. How long since the apocalypse at this point?

In the old days you could get empty car batteries and the acid in powder form with a shelf life of decades. Pour in the powder and add distilled water. Just check the level twice a year. No maintenance batteries these days go 4 year (6 tops) before your car just won't run anymore. No jump or pop start will keep it running.

Not sure how it's such a challenge to write since the story is already done in the comic. This season was such lazy writing. Sad but it killed the show.

Those of us that read the comics know what is going to happen and there is no way that Carl is bit. Zombie's don't love biter tear chunks of flesh. How hard is it to write a show that was already written? Seriously??

Also remember eps 1 the flash forward had Carl in it...

This war should have done done in the first half. Dragging it through the whole season made it boring and painful.

So...someone dressed as a walker is in a struggle with Carl. Carl's reaction to that is going to be to try to kill the walker, right? Instead of breaking character they go for a non-lethal bite on the stomach? I just don't see how that could happen. Honestly, at this point I'd be more upset if they didn't kill off Carl. I just hope he goes out in some heroic sacrifice.

How do we know it was a flash forward? I'm guessing it's a vision or dream sequence.

And if this is true I am going to ask you be banned from this thread. Sounds like a spoiler to me. I do not know why people insist on brining up the f*cking comic in this thread. Can't read the title? Doing it on purpose?

GO TO THE COMIC THREAD AND LEAVE US ALONE

As a comic reader (you know I am Taxman ), for your peace of mind, I can assure you that this is not a spoiler. Nothing like this happens in the comic, so this is completely uncharted territory... Anything could happen so it's pure speculation.

I'm reluctant to mention the comic at all out of respect to members of the thread, but I mean well here.

Saying "we all know what is going to happen" sounds like "Carl is the one who kills Negan" or some other major plot point in the comic version.

I hope it is a deviation from the comic forced by contract issues or something.

What he was referring to is nothing like that. Nothing spoilery, don't worry about it.

A spoiler to me is anything that affects the trajectory of your thought process. A recent movie came out, and a friend of mine said "there's a pretty good twist". I don't know the twist, but now I'm looking for it, and it ruins the experience for me because you know what's unfolding isn't necessarily as it seems.

Perhaps.. I guessing it's about money now. Because of the shows success AMC, crew, and the actors could be demanding more cash. They use the same stretch of road for almost every scene, with trees on both side. I've seen no new towns or locations for awhile now.

Garbage People Leader (Pollyanna McIntosh) is cool and likes pinball! She did a cross promotion vid for me for the first Southern Pinball Festival 6 years ago when her film THE WOMAN came out...

That's super cool. How did the two of you connect?

After I saw THE WOMAN I said "Wow! This actress did an awesome job in a tough tole, who IS this?" and connected on FB.
Then she sent the plug and I edited it into the trailer. Later she did the first season of HAP & LEONARD on Sundance Channel before TWD.
She was a model for a while before she started acting 10 years ago, and she's directing her first film now.

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The last three posts in this thread have been more interesting than this entire season of TWD.

Welp, my wife and I finally finished the first 8. Totally agree with all the implausibility complaints. Every season it gets worse.

And I also agree with banning anyone from the thread who suggests they read the comic, know what happens, heard someone be got fired... and indicates that something is or isn’t going to happen. Or even hints of a spoiler. It’s not about you. Go away. And STFU.

I’ve stuck around this long, and I’ll stick around for the rest. But I do hope it improves, and they add something special to the story arc. The endless war is getting tiresome. Although I do loves me some Negan. He is way more likable than Rick at this point. Weird.

It fires back up in February, right?

2/25/18. Go Neegan go.

The show has gotten stupid and boring. Its like a soap opera, nothing happens but there is a cliffhanger on every show to make you watch the next one where nothing happens. Its the same old round and round shit and there are more commercials than show. I am done with it.

Kind of reminds me of "Lost." In the beginning, that show was great, but turned into a big turd in the end. Constant cliffhangers that often disappointed.

Watching /rerunning season 3. It was still such a good show.

I was pondering when the show went bad. I'd say it was good through to when Alexandria was discovered. Went south with Rick's hair brained scheme to march the pit of walkers down the road. From then on, character after character made stupid choices, or they did dumb stuff like fake Glenn death.

The big pit of walkers could have been dealt with easily - just set up snipers to take out the ones most likely to break out, even if its hundreds I'm sure they had enough ammo, and reinforce that pit to keep doing what it was doing, which was keeping Alexandria safe.

Why waste ammo, burn them

That's what I said when Rick and crew were wasting hundreds (if not thousands) of rounds shooting out the windows of the Sanctuary. But then I thought hey.. nobody likes getting their windows broken.

I’m contrasting the Terminus plot line with Negan plot line. Seems like Terminus was over too quickly and Negan war is taking forever.