So Ive been a big fan for years of the show, I can literally remember when I watched the first episode back when it premiered, it was in college over in GR in MI, at a apartment dog sitting for my buddy who had a rather large CRT, no HD cable or anything like that, watched the first episode and was blown away, since that I've had my concerns with the show, mostly with production issues, things I felt seemed out of touch like the last episode explosion season 1 vs the cgi tiger shit later on. Its a show, cant really get much into production at that point, esp with large scale explosions and animals ripping people apart.
I actually enjoyed a decent part of fear the walking dead, I'm really curious about how the two new shows will grow since the walking dead vs fear the walking dead was like these two existing timelines that co-existed and gave extra perceptive into what was going on, but now we got these two different stories going on.
Since we got episodes already coming out I figured making a thread for anyone keeping up would be cool.
So Ive been a big fan for years of the show, I can literally remember when I watched the first episode back when it premiered, it was in college over in GR in MI, at a apartment dog sitting for my buddy who had a rather large CRT, no HD cable or anything like that, watched the first episode and was blown away, since that I've had my concerns with the show, mostly with production issues, things I felt seemed out of touch like the last episode explosion season 1 vs the cgi tiger shit later on. Its a show, cant really get much into production at that point, esp with large scale explosions and animals ripping people apart.
I actually enjoyed a decent part of fear the walking dead, I'm really curious about how the two new shows will grow since the walking dead vs fear the walking dead was like these two existing timelines that co-existed and gave extra perceptive into what was going on, but now we got these two different stories going on.
Since we got episodes already coming out I figured making a thread for anyone keeping up would be cool.
quit mid season 4 zero regret
quit mid season 4 zero regret
Show steadily went downhill after Shane died
Show steadily went downhill after Shane died
SpaceCadetShow steadily went downhill after Shane died
really? I mean I liked his character a lot, felt it could had lasted longer but, man as a step alone thing, this show did hold for a while.
[quote=SpaceCadet]Show steadily went downhill after Shane died[/quote]
really? I mean I liked his character a lot, felt it could had lasted longer but, man as a step alone thing, this show did hold for a while.
Frank Darabont is really good at telling specific types of stories at a specific scale, which season 1 fit really well for. You could constantly tell that the story was being driven by his personal interest and care in it (he even brought some of his acting regulars over).
Even just by season 2, it had firmly pivoted off its success to a show intentionally built to be a tentpole long-term investment for AMC. A show of that sort requires more committee level decision-making, and safer, less personal storytelling designed for long-term planning. The show moved away from the tight narrative centered on Rick and Shane to work with more sustainable ensemble style narratives. New characters were clearly framed to be fan-favorites. Deaths and big events were scripted and paced out to serve largely as chatter-generating events.
They did a really good job making the show what they needed it to be—it's become the network's most successful tentpole (by FAR) for a reason—and it's perfectly fine for a show to operate more broadly as it gains popularity. But no one really seems to talk about it as the underlying cause for the most common complaints I've seen (repetitive season arcs + loss of grounded central narrative).
Personally I felt like a lot of my time was being wasted in season 2, and the first parts of season 3 turned me off from the show for probably similar reasons (don't quite remember), but I do think it's an interesting piece of media that's worth discussing :)
Frank Darabont is really good at telling specific types of stories at a specific scale, which season 1 fit really well for. You could constantly tell that the story was being driven by his personal interest and care in it (he even brought some of his acting regulars over).
Even just by season 2, it had firmly pivoted off its success to a show intentionally built to be a tentpole long-term investment for AMC. A show of that sort requires more committee level decision-making, and safer, less personal storytelling designed for long-term planning. The show moved away from the tight narrative centered on Rick and Shane to work with more sustainable ensemble style narratives. New characters were clearly framed to be fan-favorites. Deaths and big events were scripted and paced out to serve largely as chatter-generating events.
They did a really good job making the show what they needed it to be—it's become the network's most successful tentpole (by FAR) for a reason—and it's perfectly fine for a show to operate more broadly as it gains popularity. But no one really seems to talk about it as the underlying cause for the most common complaints I've seen (repetitive season arcs + loss of grounded central narrative).
Personally I felt like a lot of my time was being wasted in season 2, and the first parts of season 3 turned me off from the show for probably similar reasons (don't quite remember), but I do think it's an interesting piece of media that's worth discussing :)
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literally no.
i got into TWD through the telltale games, and i gotta say after finishing up both the games and the show i hope they link these two in the upcoming series. i heard somewhere that the new comics are gonna do just that. idk how but a man can dream ig
i got into TWD through the telltale games, and i gotta say after finishing up both the games and the show i hope they link these two in the upcoming series. i heard somewhere that the new comics are gonna do just that. idk how but a man can dream ig