It should be a privilege to be able to work with such a cast and excellent material. It's a simple story and it works - in the comic, but not on screen, not anymore.
I blame the producers and the writers, as well as those mindless fans who turn a show into their private fetish of idolization and accept any standard as long as their show continues to be aired. It ceases being a show to them, but like the mentality that follows shows like 'Days of Our Lives' it becomes an obsession about what will happen to their favorite characters and nothing more than a superficial, trivial pursuit of mindless curiosity and habit. Substance goes out the window, content dilutes, action gets blurred and deviates from character. Tension mounts and then splatters out like a pricked balloon, misplaced in sequence, deliberately complicated to contrive the effect of tension but instead it creates frustration and sabotages the very effect it tries to emphasize.
Just about every rule of intelligent and balanced writing is being broken now. All sense of timing has been lost. Over-use of slow motion, then jumping back and forward, pointlessly intrusive and unnecessary.
The slowest season ever was season 2, yet that was a masterpiece season compared to how the show is being directed, edited, written and produced now.
There was logic and reason to the slowness of any part of past seasons, but now there is none, save the feeling that it is deliberately being stretched out and used as a canvas for indulgent artistic pretension. It feels tired, over-thought, over-scripted, lacking punch, efficiency, economy of specch and effectiveness.
I am an angry fan who loved this show, who wants to continue to love it but is not allowed to.
Working on a show like this should be a sacred privilege dedicated to the spirit of the writing. The writers should pay more respect to Kirkman in terms of all those things that are now lacking and return it to it's straightforward grittiness and realism, which doesn't mean killing off pivotal characters simply to be different to the comic. There are endless ways to change the stories so they don't overlap and can explore different situations, but when you make the mistake of killing off one of the main characters who embodies the true spirit and is arguably the driving force of the show (Carl), you better make sure that the show remains focused, snappy and efficient everywhere else, or else it truly becomes a walking corpse.
All writers get tired, and God knows they will be asked to churn out script after script even if they are not up to it, hence the responsibility to pass the reigns over to someone who is. But what are the editor and the producer doing to make sure the show doesn't drop off? Maybe it's time to hire new people who will respect the spirit of this work the way it should be.
I am also angry at Kirkman for allowing this drop in quality to happen.
I advise any people who loved this show up until the end of season 6 to switch to the comic and abandon this awfully produced soap-opera (which is what it has become), and support the real thing.
Oh, and the six stars are for the acting and the special effects, both of which have been exemplary all throughout.
I am an angry fan who loved this show, who wants to continue to love it but is not allowed to.
Working on a show like this should be a sacred privilege dedicated to the spirit of the writing. The writers should pay more respect to Kirkman in terms of all those things that are now lacking and return it to it's straightforward grittiness and realism, which doesn't mean killing off pivotal characters simply to be different to the comic. There are endless ways to change the stories so they don't overlap and can explore different situations, but when you make the mistake of killing off one of the main characters who embodies the true spirit and is arguably the driving force of the show (Carl), you better make sure that the show remains focused, snappy and efficient everywhere else, or else it truly becomes a walking corpse.
All writers get tired, and God knows they will be asked to churn out script after script even if they are not up to it, hence the responsibility to pass the reigns over to someone who is. But what are the editor and the producer doing to make sure the show doesn't drop off? Maybe it's time to hire new people who will respect the spirit of this work the way it should be.
I am also angry at Kirkman for allowing this drop in quality to happen.
I advise any people who loved this show up until the end of season 6 to switch to the comic and abandon this awfully produced soap-opera (which is what it has become), and support the real thing.
Oh, and the six stars are for the acting and the special effects, both of which have been exemplary all throughout.