The writing isn't crap it's one of the best shows on tv. It was one bad idea. It's stupid to build up to a cliffhanger I think that's what people are mad at. If it were total bad writing no one would be mad because no one would care about the show.
They tried something that was ****ing stupid and now they're trying to make it about instant gratification lmao foh they handled this all wrong. TWD is one of the few shows i actually watch week to week. I'm most definitely not on the edge of my seat waiting for s7. I really dont care. I'll probably watch it at some point if i hear it's good but im not counting down the days until the premiere like every other season. If the end of the episode had been neegan walking up to glen and then swinging at his head and before lucille had made contact the screen went black and credits and people were pissed about that then the whole instant gratification angle would make sense. That's not what happened tho, in that case, you wouldve known he was dead but still not be entirely sure. You'd be counting down the days until the premiere. It wouldve been impactful even without seeing the actual death. This was just idiotic what they did.
Have you been watching, and are you among the viewers you're criticizing? Or are you reading critiques and assuming things are the same as back when you watched, whenever that was? If you don't watch the show and think it sucks, we don't really need you to come in and condescend to the rest of us in this thread. (If you're watching purely to write critiques, I suppose that would work. Somehow I doubt that's the case.)
Some producers are saying that they haven't even filmed who it is yet. Likely because they hadn't fully thought out who they wanted to die and what the downstream implications were of it. Even if this is the case, it's still a screw up. You either need to get better at writing/write faster, delay the release of season 6b until you know you can give its penultimate scene the justice it deserves, or simply end the season prior to that scene. If Negan had opened the door to the RV, stepped out, and said "It's gonna be pee-pee pants city here real soon." *cut to black* it would have been disappointing (relative to the gory, story-defining death we had hoped to see), but not infuriating. The up side of this, in addition to not pissing your entire fan base off, is it also sets the scene for an absolutely chart-topping season 7 premier. Imagine the first 10 minutes being Negan monolouging to the group... then WHAM. Hell, you could have the first 30 minutes be just Negan f***ing with them and people would have ate it up. Now when season 7 premiers, everyone is gonna be like "eh, yeah, ok, X is dead... moving on". Giving people 6 months to steel themselves for the reveal... really? The weight of the scene and the emotional impact of whoever is dying has been completely blunted by this move.
It's one of the most watched shows on TV, but it's full of bad writing. The show suffers from poor pacing, bad character motivations, plot armor, and inconsistencies to create drama and push the plot. That's not to say there isn't anything to like about this show. Its popularity is based on high production value and zombie fan service, but there's a reason this show has never won any of the big awards for its writing, especially in this golden age of serialized TV. I used to watch the show as a comedy until 2 years ago before I grew tired of it. I pop in these threads to read reactions now and then, and I'm not surprised that things are the same. It's hard to ignore the reactions since the show is a big part of pop culture. There's also a slight interest since I read the comics before it was a TV show, although I haven't kept up and am about 40 issues behind. The fauxrage is pretty lulzy. Everyone's been through a love-hate relationship, and most of those who say they're done know they'll come back next season.
People like you kill me, why invest so much in something you think is bad? lol I think the writing is great if it wasn't I wouldn't watch. Then you would have nothing to complain about. I can understand die hard fans complaining about things they want to change here and there but if you hate the writing totally why even watch the show and post on a forum, seems like a waste of time.
if it was Aaron, this was the best way to do it though. nobody would give a crap immediately after if they showed it on Sunday. waiting 6 months maximizes the impact.
Yup makes absolute sense. If its a big character then it will just piss people off more. If you're gonna kill a big character season finale is the time to do it.
I don't understand how anybody can defend it....and so far not many people are. Its insulting to the viewers. They pulled that **** with the Darryl almost dying cliffhanger, then they did it again. You can't pull that card everytime, it makes it so blatant that the 2 bit hacks can't write for **** and have to wait for the end of the episode to retain interest in the show. I have watched less and less as time has gone on, a lot of my friends already gave up on it. This was the Dexter final season treatment for me. I still don't know how the final two episodes ended, but I didn't care at that point. The writers ****ed up, listening to them justify it is funny.
The finale would be so much more impactful had they used that interpreted caption as the normal script. Keep everything the same with the first person gimmick, but make that caption audible and part of the closing dialogue. Would have been one of the greatest finale endings instead of one of the most scrutinized. We would only know who it was from the context audible, but there would be no doubt. Fade to black. Closure and teaser complete. Chilling. I would still be anxiously waiting for season 7 to see the aftermath even though I know who is gone.
Anything would be better that what happened. So the producers claim they didn't film the scene but they already know who gets it by what they recorded? Pretty lame copout by them. Own up to the trolling or quit doing that ish.
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I agree, but it doesn't excuse the decision either way. I'm going to be pissed if it's Aaron regardless because it's just falling back to killing more redshirt underdeveloped Alexandrians. For the sake of not being overly cynical, I'm going to assume/hope that they honestly haven't decided/filmed who will die yet because they're still crafting the story arc that will trigger after the execution. Better lazy than stupid, better stupid than evil.
tired of the cheap, played out gimmicks. cliffhanger of glenn getting eaten by zombies...or did he. cliffhanger leading up to blondie and her kid getting eaten and coral getting shot. the way they ended with the kid going "mom"...just like sunday, it was blueball city. cliffhanger two weeks ago with gun seemingly hitting daryl and ending with dwight saying "you will be alright". and now the biggest blueball cliffhanger in tv history...they spent 90 minutes creating all this suspense and tension then to end it like that. it totally deflates the impact of whomever it was that got killed as we have 6 months to ponder and prepare. the tension will all be gone by then. they had us in the palm of their hand and s*** the bed big time.
Hmm....read some article that pointed to the death of someone in the van...as there were earlier POV shots (like the end) where it was someone in the van's POV. Based on that, they tried to narrow it down based on camera angles from the POV shots of the person in the van for earlier shots and came to this possible conclusion when watching them exit the van to get on their knees with their compadres. Wait for it...wait for it...boom...booyah: Spoiler Michonne
