Abraham gone and we're still stuck with mopey, psycho Sasha.

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Great episode. Loved the zombie rope/car kill. It has to be tough to come up with unique ways to kill walkers. Having said that, I abhor the mayor of the hilltop. Hands down one of the worst acting performances of all time. Every scene he's in yanks me out of my suspension of reality. Who did he screw to get a paying acting job?

The jarring thing for me about the garbage pail kids group was the horrific cgi. When they show how big the trash empire is, the cgi is shamefully bad.

Edit: oops, someone already mentioned had bad it was.

I found the episode entertaining. I like the side story of Dwight. His acting felt authentic. Not bad at all considering it focused on a secondary character.

I thought I heard them explain in a previous episode the walkers on the fence were there as camouflage for other walkers; a la when they smear walker guts on themselves to mask the scent.

Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly?

Shamefully bad. Phoning it in bad. Bad, bad.

That scene of the two of them near the end was painful to watch. I literally spoke out loud, "just shut up already." Those two add zero to the show.

My issue is lazy writing. The story is ok to push the arc but how they get there has been shit. So Morgan has all that time while riding to the drop to ask the guy if he told the king but he waits until right when negan's people show up? What a lazy way to push that out. Then the king, through terrible acting says tell me now. Add to it, not knowing the full truth or who is telling it, they let Morgan kill one of their own without even a slight gesture of reservation of what's going down. And speaking of Morgan. They've known him what, a few weeks? A month? Yet they all seem to default to his judgment? Lazy writing again.

Fingers crossed Sasha dies but we know she won't. Last nights episode = zzzzzzzz

The mayor of hilltop continues to poorly act his way from scene to scene. The last scene with him and Jesus was painful.

The handle bar mustache savior (Trevor from gta V) is great though. He shines in every scene he's in.

First thing I thought of was Davey Jones crew from pirates of the Caribbean. Meh!

I love the show but it feels like it's on vapors. I would take 2 seasons back to back of the budget saving Hershel's farm over this garbage. They got my hopes up that the walker was going to get the hilltop mayor. Nope, he lives to poorly act in another episode. Woohoo.

I will continue to watch but it has....

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A show with a great premise and stellar pedigree mired in subpar story writing and too frequently poor acting.

King Ezekiel wins the piss poor acting award this week. "Today, We finish this!" Then proceedes to half heartedly trot down the street handgun in one hand and sword in the other. As my 13yo asked, "is it me or was that super cringy?"

That's cheating Rob. I meant the blind ending when she rushed into the building to end the episode. I will say I didn't expect her to die at all this season so you're half right. Thank god I was wrong.

Negan doesn't bother me. He's over the top bad guy but at least the acting is solid. The range from serious to manic to playful is well acted. Over the top, unbelievable character yes. Ezekiel and the hill top mayor remain my can't stand characters. Abysmal acting no matter how you look at it.

I looked it up and as mentioned previously by another poster here, the actor playing Carl was fired from the show.

I won’t spoil anything for anyone but those curious should look up the firing or the actor.

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.