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bionicbob said:However, still loving Walking Dead. Season Six has been very enjoyable for me. The second half opener was mind-blowing for me, in the span of a couple of minutes Rick's latest paramour and family is wiped out and then what happens to poor Carl!
It's interesting to go back and see people's journeys as their feelings changed for this show. I stayed away from it during all the hype, so now just watching it on Netflix straight through is a very different experience, I think. I had a very different reaction to the Zombies/Wolves battle in Alexandria, for example.
This was the first season where I felt that pretty much all of the characters had become pretty competent, smart, hardened survivors except Eugene and my personal least favorite, Julian. So it was brutal to see the writers continually have Carl make stupid decisions with regards to Jody that led to such a predictable outcome. It doesn't fit with how savvy they previously portrayed him.
Similarly, the whole "we're all going to hold hands and walk through this and nothing will go wrong" seemed like the stupidest plan ever that Rick could've come up with. They could've maybe sold me on it by him making some speech to the kid beforehand, or purposely positioning them all in a certain order, or something, anything! But of course that idea would go horribly wrong.
This was just the first instance of writers writing because they wanted to make a tragedy happen, not writing the characters as they've been developed. The whole ending with Negan was so contrived, it was ridiculous. No amount of good acting can make up for such unbelievable writing. I know almost half the audience of the show left after the next season premiere, which was also horrible.
I've started watching again after a break from that to see if I can hang in there. Some friends tell me the recent season has been some of the best episodes yet, but I'm not willing to wade through another season and a half of bad writing to get there, so we'll see...