El Duderino wrote:midranger wrote:Dexter was the one of the only series I punted on as well. Should have been a 4 season series arc. I think it ended up being 7. Didn't watch the last two.
I keep inching closer with every episode of The Walking Dead. It'll keep going as long as it's making money. Luckily it's incredibly expensive to make, so the break even point might come sooner than with other series. It has been really awful though. For years.
For me, i was starting to sour on The Walking Dead more and more, but the introduction of Negan brought me back in to looking forward to new episodes because he's my favorite character ever for the series. The problem though has been that pretty much whenever he's not on the screen, i'm back to just tolerating the show because i've watched seven seasons.
So when Rick and his crew had wide open shots to kill Negan as he bragged about the size of his package and made it no sense not to shoot, i was both irritated by the stupidity of it and glad that the one character i really like would stay alive as i keep watching.
Man did the casting for the show hit a grand slam picking Jeffrey Dean Morgan to play Negan.
Ya it IS dumb to let Negan talk about his dick size while 30 people with machine guns are staring at him with no reason not to kill him.
And it IS dumb that last season we had guys craving one **** bullet, and there was so much anguish just to find ONE damn bullet, my favorite latina was holding, and now we have unlimited ammo like some cheap b marines movie, where we can fire 5,000 rounds AT THE WINDOWS. AT THE **** WINDOWS, so we can make loud noise to attract the herd, not a G league squad, but zombie herd. And the plan is to keep firing bullets for hours on end until the few guys you kill in battle wake up and become zombies. HOW IS THAT EVEN A PLAN!? We go from spending episode upon episode looking/making 1 bullet, to having the biggest stockpile on earth. It's lame.
And shows do wear you out. I agree in the old days you had NO idea who was going to live and die. Main characters were killed off all the time, not even children were safe. GOTs and TWD I used to compare similarly, I found them intense because you never knew who was going to survive. They've gone pretty far from that.
The first few times Rick was on his knees with a gun pointed to his head I was holding my breath, now...not so much. You can't constantly put someone in danger, and then have them escape it, it is a trick that has a shelf life, can't be used over and over, then there's no longer suspense.
