andicus

My wife and I just 'watched' this episode. And by 'watched' I mean pretty much FF'd/skipped through the entire thing.

We could not have given less of a fuck about the Whisperer's backstory.

TGM

2 episodes sitting on the DVR with zero interest in starting them.

I cannot believe how far this show has fallen.

I miss it being an "event" show.

Koby

That went and past roughly 7 years ago.

TGM

true enough... but every season I would begrudgingly watch... hoping it would get better... or at least some semblance of its former self. It never did.

I guess I'm out, but will likely check out the Rick Grimes movie.

d2cheer

Yeah. I don't know if I even have an event show anymore. I DVR everything and rarely watch it the day it aired.

Abob Teff

Just now watching the premiere ... I can’t remember half of the cast’s names.

There was some pretty meta commentary in this episode:

Bearded one-hand guy (I cant even remember his name) questioning if they “are the good guys” and noting they are the bad guys in somebody’s story.

King Dreadlocks: Ever wonder why they call bird shit guano?
Darryl: No. I just call it bird shit.

Sorry, but I can’t do this strange living arrangement going on with Latina Hottie, Eugene, Father Prick, That Guy Carl Brought Home, and the baby.

Coral

Looks like Eugene's in full-cuck mode. Actually, he's lower than cuck because everyone else has banged her and he's never - yet he's taking care of her kid.
It's like a mix of cuck and friend-zone. He's in the Fruck Zone.

jwb0323

Abob Teff

Correct me if I’m wrong, but she had Father Bangs-a-lot’s baby, is now bedding down Doctor Carl-Saved-Me, while Eugene pines away ... and they are all living together. That’s what it seemed like.

Rosita is obviously going to die this season so we can get the Walking Dead: 3 Men and a Baby spin-off.

Coral

It seemed that way, but it's hard to grasp the living situation of these people. And I forgot who the father was. It's a story line for soap operas, not this type of show. It's obvious they're gasping for story lines, so they needed filler.

I guess the whisperers aren't the ones sending the walkers towards the village idiots, so then who is?
Did I miss something while I was doing chores and surfing the net while watching?

jwb0323

Bill Needle

Nice to see the show basically admit that if they paying attention the only thing threatened by groups of hundreds of walkers showing up at a time is their beauty sleep.

Tom Banjo

andicus

Well, I have to say, the spiked ball is about the dumbest weapon they could've put on the mechanical hand. It's heavy, it's going to get stuck in things, and odds are that you're going to jab yourself with it, and since it'll be covered in walker guts, it's not going to end well. I know it was meant to look cool, but it's really stupid.

Being a Genesis fan, I did like the reference to the Giant Hogweed.

Bandoman

Exactly. They should have let Carol kill Alpha. Then all they really would have had to worry about was Beta, and he was right there too. Once both of them are gone, the Whisperers fall apart like the plot of this show.

Josh-da-man

They need to keep Alpha around a while longer...

Comic spoiler --->

hdtv00

mystery pills aren't a mystery , they're caffeine pills.

Dscarpad

Abob Teff

Watching last week’s episode with the continual onslaught of zombies to start the show ... I swear I heard somebody in the background say “zombies!” at “Hour 37”. My closed captioning just says “indistinct voices” ... Did they accidentally break the rule?

Paff

I can't explain why, but I'm watching this season with more interest than I have in years. It's not for the quality, because that ship sailed a long time ago.

Abob Teff

I have to admit, the Negan stuff this week actually has me engaged. I was still watching, but not making a point of it. However the run-up with him and skin-face girl caught my attention and showed some potential. The stuff this week with sad sack sanctuary boy was pretty good.


BTW, prediction:



is dead after that out-of-nowhere over-bloated send off segment, right?

Bill Needle

I agree the Negan stuff is the best part of what is going on right now. Everything that happened around him (the acolyte, the woman/boy the met) was telegraphed from a mile away, but JDM can actually act.

Bandoman

My thoughts as well - Negan vs. Beta is interesting.

I do not trust the woman Eugene was talking to at the end. She is too much exactly what he is looking for, I think she's playing him.

Coral

Yea, I think that's exactly where they're going with that. Eugene's desperate for some tail, that he'll drop all his defenses and it'll allow another baddie into their lives.
I suspect Eugene will be a casualty from all this.

Abob Teff

I’ve complained about the show being visually dark before, but holy crap ... I watched this week’s episode on the AMC app and noticed a huge difference. Not that this week’s episode had a lot of dark scenes, but wow. I actually paused the app to do a screen comparison to the broadcast (on my DVR). Unbelievable.

Ok, the episode itself ... why was any of the Dr. Daddy stuff in there? The episode description said he needed to solve a mystery ... did somebody steal the Nancy Drew books from the library? I saw a rehash of the prison flu, no mystery.