The Walking Dead "The Walking Dead" General Stuff & Thaaaangs Thread - - - - Part 13

[MrWayne]

'The Walking Dead' Premiere Dips to Series Low Ratings


This means it lost 13 million viewers in three years. Yikes...

This data tells me that about 13 million people were into the zombie thing for a bit and then moved on.

 

[Reek]

i didn't even know it premiered until @Roose Bolton mentioned it hours later lol

 

[Roose Bolton]

#IStandWithKirkman

 

[MrWayne]

Right? I had no idea this was back on.. I'm used to being bombarded with conversation and marketing. Next thing I know new season was starting like whut?

 

[Drizzle]

This data tells me that about 13 million people were into the zombie thing for a bit and then moved on.

It goes beyond zombies. People were invested in these characters and now that most of them either left the show or were killed off and replaced by far less interesting ones, of course viewers would stop giving a **** about the show. Another thing is that the show has stayed in the same location for the past four and a half seasons or so and it’s gotten quite stale.

This should have ended when Lincoln wanted out. They could have ended it on a high note instead of running it into the ground. Say what you will about the final season of Game of Thrones but at least that show knew when it was time to throw in the towel.

If AMC keeps acting like everything is fine, they’re going to start hemorrhaging money by pouring it into this franchise. No one asked for another spinoff but they’re doing it anyway.

 

[Flash525]

This should have ended when Lincoln wanted out. They could have ended it on a high note instead of running it into the ground. Say what you will about the final season of Game of Thrones but at least that show knew when it was time to throw in the towel.

Whilst I agree with you that TWD has long overrun its course, Thrones is a terrible example of how to end a show.

If AMC keeps acting like everything is fine, they’re going to start hemorrhaging money by pouring it into this franchise. No one asked for another spinoff but they’re doing it anyway.

Say what now?

 

[Drizzle]

Whilst I agree with you that TWD has long overrun its course, Thrones is a terrible example of how to end a show.

It was more in terms of how long the show was on the air for rather than how rushed the finale was. Besides that, there is no way that TWD could have a satisfying ending anyway. They lost any chance of that by killing off Carl and sending Rick away.

 

[MrWayne]

What WOULD be a satisfying ending to this genre show? They never really touched on what even caused this epidemic which is what I am most curious about.

But either they will find a cure to end this mess or find a way to live in it and live happily ever after..

I think they will find out that for whatever reason newborns are immune to this thing and the future belongs to them. Or.. Everyone just dies and they pan out to a full blown globe of The Walking Dead

Again... I don't think there is a satisfying way to end this for most us at this point.

 

[Flash525]

What WOULD be a satisfying ending to this genre show? They never really touched on what even caused this epidemic which is what I am most curious about.

I don't know about a satisfying ending, but a conclusive one would be one where scientists find a way to make the dead stay dead, and have the means to release such a cure (maybe via a gas) throughout the globe, thus civilisation will begin to recover and life will go on as it did before the zombieocalypse.

That cannot be done with the parent show however, else the spinoff shows would need to wrap up alongside the parent show, so such an event would have to come about when there's no more fresh ideas for a spinoff (which to be honest, they're practically out of as it is anyway). I'm not up to date with Fear, and I couldn't care less about this third upcoming show.

If they can stretch TWD out to Season 15 and bridge/cancel the spinoff shows before then, that'll be the time to wrap it all up in my opinion. 15 Seasons for the Parent show. 10 Seasons for Fear, and 5 Seasons for the third one. It should be a done deal. Maybe they can even do multiple crossover episodes, similar to the Arrowverse.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Chandler Riggs confirmed what everyone believed...

 

[MrWayne]

They made a big mistake with that decision and have been paying for it ever since...

 

[Erik20]

Chandler Riggs confirmed what everyone believed...

Interesting read, but I also remember Andrew Lincoln saying in an interview that he wanted Rick to die at the end of season 8, then later on changed his mind because the show already lost Carl. So we could have ended up with Carl still on the show, but Rick dead...

Unfortunately, the show has never been the same since they killed off Carl (for nothing) and Andrew leaving

 

[MrWayne]

Yea that was just a poor and dumb move. This show will turn into one of those soaps that's been on since forever where you come across while channel surfing and go "Oh hey that's still on?"

 

[Man in the Suit]

 

[Filmfan93]

I hadn't wached this since half-way through last season (around March 2019), but today i came across some weird clip of Negan and Alpha getting naked and going at it.

And then i remembered why i don't watch this anymore.

 

[MrWayne]

This dumpster fire of a show still worth watching?
I DVR it out of habit but have like an entire season to watch... And well.. meh.

 

[MrWayne]

P.S.
Sad that when this show finally does end it will not have the weight and viewership it should for a proper send off.

I think the only way to inject some much needed energy and life into this show is to bring back the favorites they "killed" off...

Nothing about this show pulls me in as MUST WATCH TV

 

[Man in the Suit]

 

[NotNickFury]

Like everything else that's been pushed back or delayed, it's understandable. However, while I don't work in television or have any idea how producing a TV show goes, with there only being three episodes left in the season, I was under the impression that everything would have been done by now.

This show doesn't have a giant budget like Westworld or Game of Thrones, and we know that things have been scaled back, if the Season 8 finale was any indication, so I'm curious what there was left to do.

 

[Man in the Suit]

 

[Drizzle]

Hah, and just when the season started to get (kind of) good too. But it still doesn't make sense that they wouldn't have the whole back half of the season in the can before the midseason premiere. I get it for smaller budget shows like Superstore since network shows usually film closer to deadline but not for AMC's flagship show. Oh well.

 

[KevTravels]

Like everything else that's been pushed back or delayed, it's understandable. However, while I don't work in television or have any idea how producing a TV show goes, with there only being three episodes left in the season, I was under the impression that everything would have been done by now.

This show doesn't have a giant budget like Westworld or Game of Thrones, and we know that things have been scaled back, if the Season 8 finale was any indication, so I'm curious what there was left to do.

amc is so damn cheap. filming ended in november yet they somehow can't finish post-production in recent weeks?

 

[Man in the Suit]

This has been the production schedule for the show for years. Season 4's VFX were locked a month or so before the finale aired and that involved minimal CGI. Season 10's penultimate episode and finale involve the megaherd which requires more work. That's why they didn't finish. So yeah, 3 weeks sounds about right.

 

[Man in the Suit]

The Walking Dead Comics To Be Released In Color For First Time This October - Skybound Entertainment

Read it again! Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment will revisit the historic independent series that took the entertainment world by storm 17 years ago—The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman (Fire Power, Oblivion Song) and Charlie Adlard (Vampire State Building)—with newly, fully colored issues. Featuring the stunning work of the masterful Dave McCaig, these new issues will launch in October with The Walking Dead Deluxe #1. Kirkman first announced the fully colored issues during Skybound Xpo, Skybound’s virtual pop-culture convention, earlier today.

This deluxe revival of the series will also feature a memorable array of variant covers—by such artists as David Finch, Tony Moore, Julian Totino Tedesco, and Arthur Adams—commemorating major character introductions and the series’ most memorable twists and turns. Each issue will include a new installment of “The Cutting Room Floor,” featuring Kirkman’s original handwritten plots along with commentary on abandoned storylines and plot points that may have changed along the way.

This definitive presentation of the story will NOT be collected into trade paperback any time soon, so fans and new readers should not trade-wait to experience this fully colored edition of the popular survival horror series. Issue #1 will be available on October 7. Each following month two issues will be released.

 

[Pennywise]

‘The Walking Dead’ News: Season 11 Delayed to 2021, Season 10 Getting Six More Episodes