andicus

^Let's hope that's a good thing, and not just hype to get people to tune in.

hdnmickey

jpcamb

Do you think he is watching Westworld? Will this be the Revileries that they have been talking about with investors for years?

Abob Teff

Listening to Bald Move’s Watching Dead podcast ... and they have announced they are done. That kills off the second of the two Walking Dead podcasts that I listened to.

Haven’t read that EW article yet ... sounds like a soft reboot with lots of actors not returning though.

jjcool

Agreed that they dont want to promote another show, but I have to think that Hardwick is most likely a huge GOT fan. As to the censoring of Christian, I had the feeling that she was dropping some curse words.

If true, I have been waiting for that. Curious to see how the story shakes out

andicus

I'm not reading the spoilers, so don't know if this has been mentioned within them, but what about that helicopter? Surely that's got to play into the finale, otherwise what was the point of it?

jpcamb

lazy script writing?

Koby

LOL @ Gimple claiming S9 TWD and S4 FTWD can be watched without seeing anything prior.
As-if ignoring previous seasons will somehow magically improve the writing going forward for the show.

Josh-da-man

If the helicopter represents what I think it does, then it will be more of a season nine or ten thing, depending on how they adapt the comic book storylines.

I would reckon that the helicopter and Georgie (the woman in the van who wanted music albums) are both part of the same "thing."

If I wanted to draw a connection, I'd say Jadis might have been making art for the same people who wanted music albums in exchange for Ikea furniture.

If Georgie and the helicopter are, indeed, from the interest I think they're from, then they're introducing these people differently than the comic book did.

If any of this plays into the finale, I wouldn't expect more than something like a post-credits scene.

hdnmickey

I figure Georgie and the real Jadis (not the person she was pretending to be the weird way of speaking) are both part of the story we will get next season. I don't imagine either of them being a big part of the finale short of a teaser at the end.

DthRdrX

There are reports out there that say is not happening next season, or perhaps not at all. Gimple previously said we would get hints of that this season, but damn if I saw them.

It seems:

hdnmickey

DthRdrX

You are correct. I do remember that now. I think it is coming ... but will be pushed back a bit. That story would come across MUCH worse than the current one if they don't do it correctly.

hdnmickey

Well if they don't launch into immediately, I'm not sure there is any point of doing it at all. Which is why I agree that the far more likely scenario is them going with a different arc that involves Georgie and/or Jadis.

Bill Needle

hdnmickey

The "war" with the Governor and his group was pretty well received. So the show can do it well. If what many people are thinking will happen...

DthRdrX

There is another rumor about that story arc being moved over the Fear TWD.

smorbie

If you watch the ads for Dread, you will see walkers that look very much like the Whispers. My guess is that story line has been moved to try to pick up the ratings for that show.

Luds

Indeed, the war with the Governer in S4/S5 (was it?) was well received. I don't think that it's long "wars" that cause ratings to drop, it's the poor quality of the show overall. The source material (comic) for the Negan/Saviors arc is outstanding, they just really messed it up on the show. It doesn't mean that they can't do potential future wars correctly.

People cared about the war with the Governor because the characters were well liked, developed, established. Now there's tons of people you've seen for a year or two but don't know their names because they're not really important, they're mainly in the background as helpers to Euzekiel or someone else, or people at the oceanside, garbage people, Negan's people, etc. There are people who's name you remember, like Tara, Gabriel, that stupid kid, and various others, who are terrible characters, and then the more important ones like Rick, Michone, etc.

They really messed-up by not properly establishing the important characters from Alexandria/Hilltop/Kingdom seasons ago, now even Jesus is of little importance. Why would you care? They spend twice as much time on the useless oceanside and garbage storylines than show you how valuable Paul (Jesus) is, how smart and important Eugene should be, etc. At least they showed Dwight enough to get a sense of the character and how Negan burned him, pun intended, and plenty as well on Gregory.

Abob Teff

“War” as a backdrop can make for great storytelling if done right. Gimple & co. botched the “All Out War” storyline though. The reference to “all out” means all of the colonies are engaged: Alexandria, Hilltop, The Kingdom, The Sanctuary, the junkyard, Oceanside ... everybody. While technically this was the case, the showrunners merely used the colonies as set dressing as they continued to shovel the Rick Grimes shit-show down our throats with massive side-orders of reheated-for-the-sixth-time morality leftovers and stale character beats.

I haven’t read that far in the comics, so I don’t know about the source material, but AOW was an opportunity to take the show the next level. They keep trying to claim it is a soap opera, but they can’t manage the multiple storylines needed to be a soap opera.

I really hope they use this time jump to seriously reboot the show’s direction.

Abob Teff

At this point, I think the shows HAVE to go in that direction. They have dug such a deep hole that they can’t expect fans to come back unless they don’t have to work through the backlog. Most new viewers won’t pick a show up in its 9th season either. They backed themselves into corner and this is really the only way out.

Toddarino

Just an opinion of a fan who bailed last season, had the saviors war not been a rehash of the Governor war I wouldn't have bailed.

Abob Teff

VinVega

It's interesting that the show peaked in viewership in the episode when Glenn died, but I think a few people have argued here that the show itself jumped the shark when they faked Glenn's death. I tend to agree with that.