"The Walking Dead" Season 8

[ChristineBCW]

Yes, that's true.  The snails-pace movement of any so-called plot will probably cause problems by the time they bring back Carl's Ghost, who'll be - what? 35 on his next appearance? 

Of course, once Maggie puts the gun to Negan's head, it'll take her three more episodes to either pull the trigger or back off.  yawn...

Some TWD forum writers proffer, "This is fallout with Carl's death - no one feels safe, and why should they?  Go find another series - they'll have to, at some point."

What's the old saying? "It's best to start out early.  You can have more time to regret it, that way."

[Mike Scott]

"This is fallout with Carl's death - no one feels safe, and why should they?

Why should they be any different than the rest of the American workforce?

[ChristineBCW]

So, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) AND ANDREW LINCOLN are leaving after or during Season 9: "Will not return after Season 9" is the TWD confirmation. 

Norman Reedus is being offered the lead role.

[Mike Scott]

Wow! Big news! You know they'll kill 'em off. What else they gonna do?

[Mord]

Wow! Big news! You know they'll kill 'em off. What else they gonna do?

Replace the actors and hope nobody notices (a la Darren Stevens on "Bewitched").

[Mike Scott]

Replace the actors and hope nobody notices (a la Darren Stevens on "Bewitched").

Or, have the characters go off to college.

[geezer butler]

So, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) AND ANDREW LINCOLN are leaving after or during Season 9: "Will not return after Season 9" is the TWD confirmation. 

Norman Reedus is being offered the lead role.

Wow, that's huge. Thanks for posting.

[ChristineBCW]

Here's my hoped-for scenario, and please make it Ep #1 of Season 9: Maggie finds Negan in his cell and tries to kill him, but he's been in the process of wiggling out of his handcuffs, and she gets too close so he's killing her.  Rick walks in, sees this and still thinks Negan is a prince of a gentleman and should continued to be spared and worshipped, bowing flatulantly to Negan's comicbook greatness.  Daryl has come in behind this whole affair, eyes popping out of his head, then kills Rick and then Negan.

He turns to the camera, says, "Hey, I just got paid $22 million for that.  You BET I'm gonna kill 'em."

It should take about, oh, 2 minutes, I think.  Right off the bat.  Before the credits role.  Carol walks in and shrugs.  "Oh well... let's get chow..."

[Mike Scott]

He turns to the camera, says, "Hey, I just got paid $22 million for that.  You BET I'm gonna kill 'em."

Hee hee! Go Daryl! 

[geezer butler]

Like others I've been saying "Fear" is the better show. And after the first 3 or 4 episodes of this season I thought "yes, no doubt Fear is way better than TWD." But after the last two or three episodes, am I only the one getting that TWD feeling? What I mean is: season started off real promising but now I find myself complaining out loud during the episodes, just I like do during last couple of TWD seasons. Seems like the same writing. One thing that drives me crazy about TWD is the constant arguing:

"In order to save someone who means us harm, I'm going to leave the sanctuary."

"Well, if you're going then I'm coming with you."

"No you stay here."

"Try to stop me."

"Ok, let's make the sanctuary less safe by both of us going out there to save someone unworthy of saving."

TWD recycles this argument pretty much every episode. Now I'm worried Fear is bringing that over to their show.

Is it just me or are others concerned based on last few episodes?

[ChristineBCW]

Geezer, yes, your provided lines-of-dialog is the main scene in just about all of these.  It's sooo tiresome.  Honestly - Gilligan made more progress than FEAR or TWD. 

And that is NOT a compliment.

There's another situation that would be frustrating if not so boring: "Just kill the bad guys."  Michonne, stop dancing around with the little girl and kill the Guv.  When the Guv's standing there with the sword at Herschel's throat, where are all those hotshop snipers?!!  RICK should been able to shoot the Guv's head off.

I'm having a side argument about the worthiness of Fortresses vs. Being On The Move Constantly.  I think IF the Fortress People would kill the Bad Intruders right off the bat, poof!  NO PROBLEMO!  Just do it.  Of course, they are still lacking in fresh water supplies at every fortress.  They're still lacking in irrigable ground.  They're still too far north to survive in summer-fall harvests for the following 6 months. 

And there's never a mention of some "ideal" location where weather would be year-long growing possibilities and a big river with fresh water.  They are still depending on foraging, therefore a close proximity to Bigger Cities.   

This is never a discussion in the comix so I assume we'll be treated to this Gilligan's Island Effect except Character Death is any episode's 'fame'.  Sheesh. 

"Be sure to watch next week, and we'll kill off another favorite!  Same batty time, same batty station!"

[ChristineBCW]

So now, Madison is killed off.

[Mike Scott]

So now, Madison is killed off.

You didn't see that one coming, did you!?

I figured there would be a "cliffhanger cheat", till I saw the TD show. And she didn't even want to leave the show! They (producers, whoever) just thought it would be fun to kill off the lead, I guess?

[geezer butler]

Wow, mixed feelings again. Overall I think Sunday's episode was a pretty good bounce back. Machine gunning those charred zombies---now that's why I watch these shows! But then there's that killing off Madison thing . . . not sure how if feel. Kind of bold, but pretty risky too.

I'm a superhero and comic book nerd, so I'm all about the cross-over. No cross-over fatigue for me. Have to admit I thought it would be cool to see Madison and Rick interact. But they're both getting whacked. We'll see how this plays out. My main gripe is  the writing is uneven on both shows, but I still like the cast and special fx. I've stuck around this long so i'm riding this out no matter what.

[bromstaker]

I think FTWD made a colossal error with the time jump and by doing so suffers from the same problem as TWD. The walkers are so deteriorated they're really not much of a threat anymore so it's now the good survivors versus the bad ones. As for Madison dying, maybe not. For all we know there may have been a dumpster nearby that she crawled under! (Hey, it worked for Glen.)