"The Walking Dead" Season 8

[long live kong]

I enjoyed the finale. They had me thinking Negan was dead too. The show has picked up since they changed the writers imo. As for the new writer/s, I had to laugh when they wiped out the ridiculous garbage gang and started to 'phase out' Jadis's pidgin english haha! I had gotten very close to turning my back on the show but I'm back on board now (just). The only big gripe I have with it now is that I have begun to lose interest with and even dislike some of the characters that I was previously fond of. I cannot stand Daryl now. He drives my mad with his endless grunting and squinting through his daft fringe! Morgan and his magic stick bugs me too. Hope he doesn't ruin FTWD 😁. Dwight has been my favourite character of the last couple of seasons, hope he returns next year.

[Mike Scott]

The FEAR series was at least 7 or 8 years 'behind' WALKING DEAD

Now they're ahead! Morgan's journey from east to west ahead.

I was truly hoping the so-called 'crossover' would be Morgan's 'time away'

That's what I thought they were gonna do.

[Mike Scott]

Dwight has been my favourite character of the last couple of seasons, hope he returns next year.

Would you, after Darryl threatened to kill you? 

[long live kong]

Would you, after Darryl threatened to kill you? 

He'll be back. They'll stumble across him 8 or 9 episodes in and Daryl will get all squinty eyed and grunty. There'll be some pushing and shoving, but they'll end up biker buddies by the end of the season.

[Joseph_Baeza]

I have been a huge fan of the show since the very first episode.  I have to admit that the last 2-3 seasons have, at many times, lost my interest.  Sprinkle in a few fantastic episodes every now and then, TWD still kept me coming back as a viewer.  However, I believe the show has finally "jumped the shark" with this last season if I'm being honest.  I think the final scene of Rick and Carl holding hands (before the zombie apocalypse) would have been a fitting ending to the series.  Other than eventually doing a crossover with the cast of FTWD, where can the show possibly go from here that won't feel like a re-tread of previous seasons?

[geezer butler]

I can't add much more than already said, but like others I have mixed feelings.

Pros: I thought Eugene's plan was pretty awesome---didn't see that coming. I'm looking forward to Maggie becoming even more bad ass.

Cons: I really liked the episode until Rick spared Negan. Just when I thought 'finally TWD writers are getting the show back on course,' Rick says "fix him." Come on!!!! So Rick kills every tom, dick, and harry from the Saviors, even the unarmed, but he let's Negan live??? No way, not buying in. Bad writing IMO. And I'm not a medical professional, but what are the chances someone survives that injury under such conditions?

Cowardly writing. They want to keep Negan around just in case. Different genres, but on Breaking Bad they didn't let Gustavo survive just in case they wanted to bring him back; On Sopranos, they didn't let Richie survive just in case they wanted his character back. No, you kill the antagonist and move on. Get some cajones TWD. I mean you'll kill off Glenn and Carl but not Negan.

Don't get me wrong, I think JD Morgan is great. For that matter i still think the entire cast on TWD is great, my prob is w/the writers.

[zombiehorror]

Cons: I really liked the episode until Rick spared Negan. Just when I thought 'finally TWD writers are getting the show back on course,' Rick says "fix him." Come on!!!! So Rick kills every tom, dick, and harry from the Saviors, even the unarmed, but he let's Negan live??? No way, not buying in. Bad writing IMO. And I'm not a medical professional, but what are the chances someone survives that injury under such conditions?

Cowardly writing. They want to keep Negan around just in case. Different genres, but on Breaking Bad they didn't let Gustavo survive just in case they wanted to bring him back; On Sopranos, they didn't let Richie survive just in case they wanted his character back. No, you kill the antagonist and move on. Get some cajones TWD. I mean you'll kill off Glenn and Carl but not Negan.

Don't get me wrong, I think JD Morgan is great. For that matter i still think the entire cast on TWD is great, my prob is w/the writers.

Negan being alive was part of the comic.

[Mike Scott]

Negan being alive was part of the comic.

Carl being dead, wasn't. 

[Mike Scott]

Whoa Ho! Look who just got killed on FEAR!! Shocker! Although, the person can still be on the show, as long as they are doing the series in half current time and half flashback.

[geezer butler]

Whoa Ho! Look who just got killed on FEAR!! Shocker! Although, the person can still be on the show, as long as they are doing the series in half current time and half flashback.

I really liked it. Totally didn't see that coming. Now those writers have guts. TWD writers should take notice.

[Mike Scott]

Do we have any idea of the time lapse between the end of the last season of FEAR (exploding dam) and this season's (flashback) scenes in the stadium, and the time lapse between the flashbacks and the current time where Morgan meets the FEAR cast? All I know is, none of the cast looks any older.

[Remco Wolfman]

I skipped all the comments about FTWD because I haven't seen any of the episodes this season and I'll avoid the spoilers.

As far as TWD, I just finished this season last night. I like that show more than any show I've seen in a really long time. It isn't perfect but it is the only show (along with FTWD) that I will even watch on TV outside of live sports. I feel like I'm watching part of a movie every episode as opposed to just a show. I still like TWD more than Fear and I really thought the show got a lot better particularly the 2nd half of the season. If I were to guess the kingdom kid who released the prisoners (no idea what his name is) will be the new "Carl". He's showing glimpses of that.

I'm certainly not hoping for the decline of TWD.

[ChristineBCW]

FEAR was, at one point 'at the Colonia' and The Dam at least 8 sometimes 9 years behind TWD.  Carl went from 2nd Grade to "being able to vote" from his first season to his demise.  FEAR hasn't spent more than a couple of months anywhere except perhaps 'the survivalist ranch'.  And it looks like FEAR's time at Round Rock's Dell Diamond (and southeast Travis County, and near BBQ Capitol Lockhart, Texas) will only be a few months because this 'season' seems to cover only a few days total - the season's events will last about 3-4 days it appears and simply ignore the weeks/months at the Dell Diamond - which the crew used for 4 weeks).

I'm glad to see Nick 'get it' - just like Carl, I've grown so bored with their whiny "I can take care of myself!" dialog.  Next up, it's the Alicia character for doing all of these boring whines, too. 

But I saw the FEAR producers said "Daniel Salazar is alive and out there, somewhere" in an interview a week ago.   I still wanna know about Airline (W)itch ("Alex" played by Michelle Ang), the gal that saved the Burned Boy only to make sure he'd suffer longer and longer, then misblamed Cliff Curtis.  And that's when we last saw her - on a shot-up pirate boat taunting him in his 'cell'.

And we never saw "Celia" - the mamasita of the Abigail farm - actually die in the locked, burning and zombie-filled wine cellar. 

I keep waiting for these two to show up in Alexandria or with their own CGI tigers.

[ChristineBCW]

Days later...

Well now, HERE is some interesting news.  As we last saw Maggie, she was insistent that she's gonna kill Negan.  YES.  PLEASE.  Make the TV show have some creativity BEYOND leaving Rick with both hands intact! 

It seems that "Maggie" has been filling in her own schedule - er, Lauren Cohan's, that is - who has signed on to do another series.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/walking-dead-star-lauren-cohan-season-9-contract-books-lead-abc-pilot-1086628

And this series has just been ordered.

[Mike Scott]

Hell, she should be able to squeeze in another series. She's only in 4 episodes a season, like most other people.