I have watched every single episode ever aired, most the same day they were aired. I watched more than half the series twice when my girlfriend wanted to see what it's about and catch up to the latest season. I have come to the conclusion that, although I can't get enough of it and I'm always wanting to watch what happens next, this may be one of the worse television shows ever created.
Its first major fault is it suffers from horrible pacing. The episodes, how they are constructed, and the order in which the story is told, simply does not work. After ending an episode with a great cliffhanger, we are almost guaranteed to have to bear through one or two more episodes, with sub-plots sometimes completely unrelated to the main story. Most of the characters are boring and very unlikable, as well as not believable. In my opinion the show would be better off following a traditional narrative where several plots are handled in short scenes of 3 ? 5 minutes approximately.
The dialogues are sometimes really bad, especially when get into those Bold- and-Beautiful- type- soap- opera conversations that make you cringe. Some of the bad guys are interesting, others are pretty pathetic. Sorry but this Neegan guy just doesn?t convince me. He comes off more as a total douche than a legitimate badass. And why does he have to dip his shoulders back every time he says something? Personally I though the Governor was more convincing as a villain.
Anyway, not sure why I like it so much. But I?ve always been a fan of the zombie genre and love zombie apocalypse stories, so that must be it. Still, the show sucks ass and whenever someone asks me I tell them it sucks but I still watch it.
Its first major fault is it suffers from horrible pacing. The episodes, how they are constructed, and the order in which the story is told, simply does not work. After ending an episode with a great cliffhanger, we are almost guaranteed to have to bear through one or two more episodes, with sub-plots sometimes completely unrelated to the main story. Most of the characters are boring and very unlikable, as well as not believable. In my opinion the show would be better off following a traditional narrative where several plots are handled in short scenes of 3 ? 5 minutes approximately.
The dialogues are sometimes really bad, especially when get into those Bold- and-Beautiful- type- soap- opera conversations that make you cringe. Some of the bad guys are interesting, others are pretty pathetic. Sorry but this Neegan guy just doesn?t convince me. He comes off more as a total douche than a legitimate badass. And why does he have to dip his shoulders back every time he says something? Personally I though the Governor was more convincing as a villain.
Anyway, not sure why I like it so much. But I?ve always been a fan of the zombie genre and love zombie apocalypse stories, so that must be it. Still, the show sucks ass and whenever someone asks me I tell them it sucks but I still watch it.
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