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When (if ever) did ''The Walking Dead'' lose its spark for you?

posted 7 years ago by The-Musicscope
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The 'if ever' part being to emphasize this isn't a hate thread . Some might very well think TWD as it is currently is as good or even better than it was at its start.

At the start I was a very eager watcher. I recently dug out my S1 and 2 DVDs after some years and remember why I liked it so much at the start. I continued watching until almost through S6, then I gave up. In all truthfulness though I'd been going through the motions in viewing for quite a while. I even didn't finish S5 fully at the time and caught up much later.

So...I guess for my money I'd probably not go beyond S4. The rinse-repeat cycle of moving to a new location when the last gets overrun or they have to face some cartoonish villain was what really killed it for me though. I think at the start, the walkers themselves being the main threat, there still being some family bonds which made the characters more relatable, before the show's general formula set in and there was still some sense of the unknown and so maybe some hope of some kind of resolution etc. was when the show was best personally. Also, Andrea and Dale both rocked .

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[–] OldG (629) 3 years ago

Sometime after Terminus so maybe mid season 5... then it got a little interesting at the end of season 6... with the cliffhanger... But only a couple of episodes into season 7... you could see they were still just doing the same stuff over and over again... I do not even know why I still watch even though it is mostly background noise as I usually are doing something else while I watch...

[–] UncleRuckis (2599) 3 years ago

For me, it was when Glenn fell into that huge mass of zombies and not only didn't get instantly ripped apart like everyone else does, but manages to scurry under a dumpster to wait for the zombies to get bored and leave.

[–] aavfreak (2984) 3 years ago

I used to have a screenshot of that. The walkers were packed around the dumpster like a crowd at the stage of a rock concert. He should have been crowd surfing on top of those zombies. Instead he ends up under the dumpster. So stupid.

Not to mention all the convenient escape routes they had along the way in the background when running to the dead end with the dumpster.

[–] bobbynynex (1505) 3 years ago

s1 was great, was waiting for that spark and after s4 i realized it was never coming back so i quit watching.

[–] Enigmaticocean77 (2181) 3 years ago

Season two. Practically nothing happened. I will admit that the episode where the zombies invaded the farm was good, but beyond that the show just died after Frank Darabont got the axe. After that I would lose interest, and stop watching, come back a few episodes (or seasons) later and everything was still the same. The final nail in the coffin came when Andrew Lincoln left, they jumped forward 7 years, and the characters were so dumb that they couldn't even open a book to learn how to repair things. They ride around via horse and buggy! Yet everything that was prior to the pandemic (cars, factories, dams, HOW TO REPAIR GUIDES, BOOKS, etcetera...) IS STILL OUT THERE! You mean to tell me that no one knows how to fix anything?!

[–] pjl69 (2544) 3 years ago

"You mean to tell me that no one knows how to fix anything?!"

I thought it was more of a question of running out of fuel (don't ask where Darryl gets his fuel for his motorcycle).

[–] TrentnQuarantino (8972) 3 years ago

Yeah, it is over 10 years after the Zombie Apocalypse and cars still have usable fuel in them and batteries that start right up! Daryl acts like an adolescent child in most cases. I wonder if he models his character after some bratty kid that he knows?

[–] Enigmaticocean77 (2181) 3 years ago

Well, even that is far fetched. There are refineries still out there. That's one of the first places I would head to. Somewhere like the Hover Dam, or a place that was known for oil production. I wouldn't just stay in the middle of nowhere where resources were scarce. The show is written by college graduates who have no knowledge of life outside of the school system, and it shows.

[–] jdforyou1983 (1470) 3 years ago

I quit watching in season 5

[–] Befus (494) 3 years ago

When they started killing off the cool characters and replacing them with queers.

[–] FilmBuff (6859) 3 years ago

I initially watched because I enjoyed the comic. I didn't think the first season was very good, but stuck around. It picked up in season 2, and I kept watching, though at some point it started going downhill. Season 6 was pretty bad, but when Negan showed up, it became nearly unwatchable, and I stuck around just to see how they'd tell that story. I thought seasons 7 and 8 were garbage, and I haven't watched an episode since the season 8 finale. I didn't even realize it was still running.

[–] scopeland28 (107) 3 years ago

The senseless killings of Abraham and Glenn! I was almost done at this point and then Carl dies, Rick goes missing and dies! It’s on to binge watching something else!

[–] joej2923 (2959) 3 years ago

The show lost a little bit of appeal for me when Rick Grimes left. Carl annoyed me so I didn't mind seeing him depart. I still watch the show but I'm most interested in Maggie, Carol and Daryl. I wouldn't mind seeing Gabriel and Eugene meet their end. I was sad to see Morgan leave the show and join Fear the Walking Dead.

[–] scopeland28 (107) 3 years ago

Yes, Carl was annoying like Zack was in “The Strain”.