I was so fucking spot on with this comment.

Compelling ep this week

That ending... :'(

Feel like 90% of this season so far has been just people shooting at each other

Also spent two weeks in a row thinking that Ezekiel was gonna die due to after last week's episode seeing an article with a big picture of Ezekiel saying "Why Ezekiel was asking for it", and this week an article with a big picture of Ezekiel saying "All Out War claims its first major character"

So yesterday sat down to watch last week's episode expecting Zeke to die..... then just now watched yesterday's episode expecting Zeke to die......

Glad he didn't die, I guess.... seems like a "shaken confidence" storyline will be good for his character....

No. It was tragic. OUTRAGE AND SADNESS

In fairness, Shiva was kinda asking for it. After killing off that one walker, she just kinda stood there growling, allowed herself to be ganged up on.

Or was that the point?

That savior that took Ezekiel hostage had the most punchable face ever.

Love the fat guy with the battle axe.

Is this season anywhere near as fucking bad as season 7?

I mean seriously has it improved at all or is it just stupid gimmicks and bad acting forever now?

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and the producers have fucking ruined this entire affair.

Really can't answer since JDM is stellar so clearly we arent going to agree...but this season has been uber meh (and JDM has been in very little.)

This is the truth of the matter. If you like JDM in Walking Dead then you enjoy a much lower standard of acting performance than I do and that WD has provided so far.

Not only this but the ridiculous gimmick characters could have been done better or not at all. Everyone looks like they're wearing coke can armour and are stuck in a really shitty episode of Stargate or Xena.

I cannot be the only one to have noticed this. The acting is just gone now, completely gone.
From the huge heights of Carol in season 6 to just dross….complete and utter mindless pap.

Maybe lots of people just don't know how to articulate their disappointment but this is as basic as it gets for me. the acting and the interest are just destroyed now.

It's mostly just shooting. Battle after battle.

And yeah, not enough JDM.

Alternate theory: you dont know what good acting is and are wrong.

Nah you obviously just love seeing Jeffrey Dean Morgan say "ho...... lee...... shit..." a bit too much.

It has become a parody of a once great show.
Trading in Abraham and Glenn, two proven actors for a guy that sucks in Watchmen, Weeds and now Walkin' Dead. If it has a W in it JDM will fuck it right up for you.

Pathetic.

JDM fucking stinks and has essentially ruined the show with his bad acting. That part should have gone to someone with maybe an ounce or two of charisma...just to make the character you know...make sense. Now it's completely unrealistic to think anybody would stick with Negan let alone join him in the first place because there is no evidence of him being a good protector or even a nice guy to be around.

At least he's got two balls. HA!

that explains why you're spitting pubes out all day

JDM is still leagues ahead of the stupid homeless bitch and the queer guy with the lion though.

I mean fuck off

Frank Darabont was the lucky one. I should have fucked off when he did.

He's shaven.

What we're seeing with the walking dead is the reason why most comics are best left on paper.
I mean we all know how Watchmen was supposed to end in the movie and why they changed it....why are the creators of Walking Dead going against reason and allowing the worst aspects of the source material to be included?

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WORST FUCKING BASTARD EVER

She's actually Scottish too so my hatred is purely bred through her talentlessness.

Is that the dumpster lady?

I enjoy JDM, but will admit his act is wearing thin. He certainly has been the most "devastating" of the Walking Dead villains, but Negan hasn't really been a developed and compelling character beyond "he bashes people's heads in". I'm hoping we get some Negan-centric episode that delves into his character and his backstory. Kind of like how we had with The Governor (now there was a well developed villain).

By the way, there's a webcomic about Negan's past.

This season has been very boring as well. Like 90% no characters talking, and just people standing around shooting each other with guns.

Thing is, they can't find the perfect balance between talking and shooting. It's either this or that.

Season 6 was more or less perfect. Every season before that built up perfectly to that point with ever worsening villains and a constant threat of being surrounded. Now we've got badass Carol sitting doing fuck all saying fuck all and basically just going from the top character in the whole thing to the most underused and biggest waste in screen history.

Not even close to the most devastating villain. The Governor holds that title because the Governor was a full character with charisma, a murky past and a hell of a dark side and he provided a legitimate threat to the camp.
Negan is just pointless.
It's not even bleakness or lack of hope or anything…he's just a really shitty villain that should have been played a hell of a lot better by a far better actor.

Negan is not how you design or portray villains. Negan would have been far better served being played by Henry Rollins seeing as he's a charismatic badass that can actually act and the entire character is based on him anyway.

Maybe Walking Dead just doesn't want to go on any more. I could understand that. it has become laughably bad.

The way JDM plays Negan is as a guy who's thinks he's badass and cool but who comes off as weird and sad and annoying.

It's a fucking terrible portrayal. It honestly may be the worst I have ever seen a show offer up in terms of villainy.

Just so you guys know…I fucking hate season 7 of the WD and Negan is just balls.
This is not what we were promised when Alicia Witt was freaking me out in that dingy warehouse place.
I'd probably be a lot happier if Alicia Witt had actually played Negan.

"Devastating" in the sense of the "impact" and "success" that he has had, in that he killed two major characters, and had essentially "won" for a time before Rick decided to fight back.

Agree that otherwise he hasn't been that interesting and compelling a character. Especially compared to The Governor.

There's just so much cannon fodder on this show now.

Aaron and his boyfriend around for several seasons now, but who the F cares about them?

Resident of Alexandria, and former Carol love interest, "Tobin" has been around for a few seasons now, but who the F cares about him.

Then there is actual cannon fodder, just random residents of the various colonies whose names we never even know but are jus there to pad out the ranks and be expendable.

Yup. Just shoot outs for the sake of. Needs more characters (including but not limitedto JDM's Negan)

Anyone actually watch Fear The Walking Dead this season? I watched a few episodes, but then I have 9 episodes sitting on my DVR still unwatched...... thinking I should just delete them, because the prospect of actually watching them is "meh".....

I gave up in s2

Fuck Fear The Walking Dead. I had such high hopes for this but of course they let me down.

Announced that it will show us a different take on the apocalypse, show us how it looks in the city. And they had like 5 scenes in the streets of LA, locked themselves up in a pawn shop or whatever for the rest of the season. Spent a season on a fucking boat and now they're on a Mexican desert. I get budget, but why the promises? Fuck you. Cancel this shit.

And the hero of the show is a heroin addict who was never introduced to the concept of combs and showers.

Well as long as they're actively fucking up the entire franchise then that's fine I'll just stop watching now.