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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Years (2024)
You can tell that Danai Gurira wrote it
Without getting into spoilers, I'll just say that it was evident to me throughout the episode that Danai Gurira was a lead writer. Lots of Rick being besides himself that he can't get to Michonne. For example, he's so besides himself that he's writing these dead-end letters to Michonne. This is something a woman might do (or perhaps Gurira thought it was cute) but it's not at all fitting with Rick's character. It gets worse - Rick impulsively, emotionally tries to flee some form of captivity. He does something so insanely dumb that I almost turned the episode off there and then. The episode opens with another, even worse moment of over-the-top emotional despair/masochism.
Basically, to summarize, the episode is written so that Rick is so shaken by the fact that he can't see Michonne that he becomes the complete antithesis of his TWD character.
Better Call Saul: Saul Gone (2022)
Why did Saul throw away his plea deal?
The character motivation just doesn't make sense. Just one episode ago, he was bragging to Kim about avoiding the police. Jimmy has ALWAYS been about gunning for loopholes and coming out on top. Now he's going to throw away his life, why, because Kim was honest, which opened herself up to a civil suit? People keep saying that rejecting the plea deal helped Kim, but it really didn't. The Hamlin incident was only brought up after the plea deal was signed.
In braindead fiction, things "just happen" without any buildup or context. That feels like this episode.
Apocalypto (2006)
Not all too interesting
When I heard it was about the last throes of the Mayan empire, I was intrigued. But it only touches on that a little with the human sacrifice scene. Most of the movie is just a chase through the woods. They only attempt to flesh out too characters, and one dies halfway through.
Feeling indifferent about it. Seems like wasted potential.
Drive (2011)
Not a based film
I've heard this film talked about as a based film, but it's not.
- HORRIBLE cheesy music, can't stress this enough
- bad cliche writing
- convoluted plotline
- some good short action sequences, but that's really it.
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
Cool concept but way too cheesy
The concept carries the film. It's really interesting, but unfortunately the player interactions are sooo cliche and corny. They're like the last seasons of the Walking Dead, for those that have seen them. The ending game especially was just so bad. They tried to establish ambiguity about the main character's ethos in the first episode, but it all goes out the window and he becomes just 100% angelic good guy, which is frustrating and annoying to watch.
I still enjoyed it, I suppose, but with each episode I liked it less and less. It's fine to entertain yourself for a week but it isn't something to come back to.
The Walking Dead: Splinter (2021)
No one cares about these characters because the writing is shiy
At this point I think I'm at the hate watching stage. Ask yourself why no characters have been able to mean as much as s1-3 characters despite 7 more full seasons of opportune development?
I just can't like a show that expects me to care about these horribly written/acted characters, let alone the characters themselves.
The Walking Dead: One More (2021)
Obviously the standards for the extended season are low, but
Guys, this sucks. Father Gabriel and Aaron are already two of the most uninteresting characters. We all knew the outcome of the gun game. The writing for that bottle villain, by the way, was horrible, like the caricature of a bad guy. Also, I put it on 1.5x speed and forgot I did so after a while because they always talk so slowly and melodramatically.
The Walking Dead (2010)
Seasons 1-3 are great TV. Some of my favorite ever. You should stop watching midway through S4.
I'm currently caught up with the show through S10. I've been watching it more as a habit than because I enjoy it for a while now.
Season 1-3 will get you hooked, but it's not worth hanging on to. The quality drop off is that severe. For anyone who's seen all 9 seasons of the office, s1-3 of TWD = S1-5 of the office, S5&6 of TWD=S6&7 of the office, S7-10 of TWD = S8-9 of the Office
You can stop watching the show after these episodes and have it be a fine ending at these points in time
- Season 2 Finale (S3 is great, so don't stop here)
- Season 3 Finale
- Season 4 E8
- S5 E11
Personally I recommend stopping after S4 E8. After that, the show REALLY slows down from then until S7. From S7 onwards, it's straight up bad TV. Bad writing, bad acting, drawn out, etc.
After Mad Men and Breaking Bad ended, TWD was AMC's only cash cow, and they drained it down to the last drop of blood.
The Leftovers (2014)
The worst kind of show: One that has potential and keeps you watching but only gets worse
This is hardly a sci-fi show. The premise happens in episode 1 with the 2% disappearing, but the show becomes less and less about the cults/effects on society and more about the personal suffering of the main characters.
One of the major characters loses his mind and the show is all down hill from there. It's just about his personal turmoil and the stress it puts upon his loved ones, basically.
The stuff with Holy Wayne/the GR never has a meaningful payoff besides some sappy stuff about people finding real peace and being happy.
I kept watching because there were always bits and pieces of potential that kept me intrigued, but my god, the final payoff of the entire series SUCKED.
I won't get into spoilers, but I will say that there is never any contact shown with the 2% at all.
This is a show about mental health, coping, and depression, NOT sci-fi/dystopian living.
Black Mirror: San Junipero (2016)
Black Mirror tricked me into watching a romdram
It's the same "twist" as other episodes, with the conscience uploading dot, so nothing new, and the plot is just a romantic drama. Yawn. This is what I imagine women's TV shows like gossip/Gilmore girls to be.
On the Rocks (2020)
Boring
Can't give you a summary because I fell asleep about 20 minutes in. Imagine an empty room that smells like an oriental carpet. That's what this movie is.
American History X (1998)
Good story and concept, but some glaring flaws
I thought the movie was good and memorable, but I can't really get over two major plot holes, namely the second.
1) Derek initially becomes pissed off at the white prison gang for doing business with Hispanics. This tells us that at that time, he was more ideologically stringent than they were. However, he immediately starts talking with the black laundry guy afterwards, even before being raped. So his initial grievance that led to the rape doesn't make sense.
2) When Derek comes back from prison, Danny is fully immersed in white nationalism, hook, line, and sinker. He's enraged when Derek rejects everyone at the party, but suddenly changes his entire worldview from one conversation afterwards? He just says he's sorry that the rape happened to Derek, and that's that? Now he knows that what he's believed for his entire adolescent life is hateful/wrong? Within an hour, he can completely re-examine his ideology and write a regretful paper about it? Huh? He completely skips the stage of questioning. Just goes from one extreme to moderation by hearing that Derek got raped by pseudo-white nationalists and protected by one black guy from other black guys.
Essentially, I think the character development was just a little rushed. Still; good movie.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
The series should only have been extended if the concept was absolutely stunning. It wasn't. It felt really forced.
The longer I think about it, the more disappointed I get. The entire movie felt like a fan fiction. The Wild West shootout? Really? All the new characters, none of which are remotely memorable? This movie just didn't need to happen. It didn't help that the characters look visibly older (and in Todd's case, 10x fatter) which takes you out of the experience.
It wasn't horrible, but it isn't good enough to stand alone, nor is it up to the quality of Breaking Bad Season 5, where the franchise left off. I just wish this movie didn't happen.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Plot armor, plot armor, plot armor
I feel like this episode is getting overrated because of the graphics and cinematography. No doubt, they were stellar, but the plot was disappointing, to say the least.
Game of Thrones, in its earlier seasons, was a show that stayed realistic within its universe. Supernatural aspects existed, yes, but blatant plot armor was few and far between. The show made a name for itself as a series where anyone could die at any moment. This is clearly no longer the case.
Jaime, Brienne, Grey Worm, and Tormund were all on the front lines. Even though virtually all the Unsullied died, Grey Worm survived. Jaime, Tormund, Gendry, Sam, and Brienne were all shown surrounded by wights within Winterfall in one scene, and then free of them the next. I don't care how "badass" they are, no one can win 1 on 20. Look, if you're going to have them survive, fine. But don't put them in impossible situations and then have them magically be fine. Even Sam, an obese man with underdeveloped fighting skills, managed to survive, even as he whimpered through the battle. Give me a break.
Now, for the worst, and most frustratingly celebrated part. Arya killed the Night King in the most forced way possible. Somehow, she jumped out the window (presumably), ran through the raging battlefield in Winterfell, jumped the wall, somehow maneuvered around the thousands of wights outside Winterfell, and made her way all the way to where Bran was. Mind you, Bran was completely encircled, which was shown clearly. Somehow Arya, who was screaming as she ran, made it over the perimeter of armed wights to kill the Night King, who conveniently held her up without killing her to give her time to stab him with her off hand. I mean, COME ON. Again, killing the Night King is fine. Having Arya be the one to do it is fine. But forcing it in that fashion is just lazy. The Night King was hyped up for 7 full seasons just to be killed in the most disappointing way imaginable.
I have to say, this really changes my opinion of the series as a whole. The Night King was an enormous axis of the series long plot. And this plot, sadly, was not done justice.
Cinematography: 10/10
Writing/plot: 3/10
The Walking Dead: Who Are You Now? (2018)
Snoozefest, also lots of corny dialogue and cringey development
The opening to the episode is so corny. It doesn't get more cliche than Carol seeing a flower grow through concrete. I mean, COME ON.
Then we cut to this new group. Judith is exceptionally annoying, but what's worse is that this new group has a deaf person in it. In fact, a hero deaf person that exposed corrupt politicians. Are you serious? Anything to fill minority quotas in this show. Never-mind that it's wholly unrealistic for a deaf person to still be alive 10+ years into the apocalypse when she can't hear zombies coming.
And Judith saying that she's forgetting Carl/Rick's voices? Carl died when she was like 2, an Rick died when she was 3 or 4. There's no way she'd even remember them to begin with.
This episode felt like filler to me. A lot ineffectual things going on all around, but at the end of the episode, the only things that matter are that the whisperers are introduced at the very end and this new group is being sent to Hilltop. Overall, way too much cheesiness; heavily lacking in creative writing.
Fear the Walking Dead: Close Your Eyes (2018)
Worst episode of the series. CLICHE, CORNY, and CHEESY.
Simply awful. The episode is cliche, corny, cheesy -you name it- throughout the entire runtime. On top of that, the length was dragged out to meet the 45 minute TV slot through mind-numbing stretches of no dialogue, just pans around the stupid house where the episode took place or shots 5x too long of Alicia and Charlie doing pointless things, like mourning over pictures of random dead people. Or, we could also see invigorating shots of them doing things we didn't need to see at all, like Alicia walking around the house looking for walkers, aka the first 9 minutes of the damn episode.
The lines delivered, intended to be emotional and moving, felt so predictable, and, as mentioned earlier, in style of the 3 C's...
This episode just made me hate Charlie even more and made me respect Alicia a lot less. Who thought it was a good idea to center an entire episode around such uncharismatic characters?
Oh, of course, Scott Gimple did. The new show runner after David Erickson left. And, like the original Walking Dead, Gimple poisoned this show with his toxic boredom and cheesiness.
The Walking Dead: Wrath (2018)
I am dumbfounded as to how this has such a high rating. I guess this show's standards have been lowered THAT much.
Wow. This was an embarrassing, cheesy abomination of a finale for the 2 season long story arc of Negan, an arc which I thought would be the best of the series, but ended up making me hate it.
I won't focus as much on the godawful characters like Tara, Henry, and Ezekiel, since they were barely in the episode, but I'll touch on some things I hate that have existed in the past two seasons and continued in this one.
1. CHEESY SPEECHES. Oh my god. Make them stop. Every two minutes a character will spew out some stupid speech about keeping your humanity, how they're all in it together, etc etc, with a sappy piano in the background.
2. THE GOOD GUY WINNING BECAUSE THE BAD GUY IS MONOLOGUING. How many times in Season 8 has a member of the Survivors escaped from Negan because Negan started monologuing when he has a clear shot to kill? (E.g. Carl in S7E16) This pattern rears its ugly head in the worst possible way when Negan has Rick on the ground, and instead of killing him (which he promises to do after Rick's 10 second cheesy speech "for Carl" anyways, so why wouldn't he just kill him then?) he monologues for a bit, then drops his weapon and walks towards Rick with his hands down. How stupid can that get?
3. THE WRITERS AVOID GUNFIRE THAT WILL KILL THE GOOD GUYS. So annoying. We wait the entire season for a definite confrontation, and what we get is the Saviors all killing themselves from a backfire that Eugene engineered? Save the implausibility of the situation, I'm sick of the Survivors catching every single break in a war. Here's what the writers need to understand: IT'S OKAY TO ROOT FOR THE GOOD GUYS WHILE ALSO WANTING A REALISTIC FIGHT. It's like getting cheat codes in a video game. It just becomes boring to see them win every time with no casualties. Yes, I know Carl died, but that wasn't even in the war. No major character has been simply shot and killed in the entire season.
4. CHARACTER MOTIVATIONS ARE AWFUL. The first Daryl vs Rick saga was awful, and just when I think I can put it in the past, it happens again, with him scheming with Maggie and Jesus. Maggie and Daryl who have been with Rick for almost the entire series are going to turn on him because they don't like that he's locking up Negan instead of killing him? Huh?
I hate this show so much (I used to love it), but like a car crash, you can't look away.
The Walking Dead: The Lost and the Plunderers (2018)
Everything that used to make this show special is gone. I used to be a die hard fan, but I can't take this show anymore...
(Not really any spoilers if you've watched the first few seasons)
Everything that made this show magical in previous seasons is now gone. The dialogue has turned to everyone talking slowwwllllyyyy, quietly, and in cheesy, dramatic speeches to each other.
The production is dismal, monotonous, corny, and boring. The old characters have lost their charisma. Rick used to be so much better, ESPECIALLY in emotional situations (e.g. Lori, Shane), Michonne used to be mysterious and sharp, Daryl (who's not in this episode) used to be sarcastic, aggressive, badass, and funny.
It's all turned into dirty, gray slush of sappy, tired, colorless, and dreary hours of corny, repetitive, and unrealistic dialogue.
As for the new characters, most have appeared under Scott Gimple's tenure as showrunner. Season 1 had great characters like Shane, Dale, Carol, Jim, Morgan, Lori, Merle, T-Dog (not many lines, but I'll bet you remember him fondly and were legitimately saddened by his death). All these people are gone, replaced by characters of the like of Tara, Rosita, Eugene (unbelievable lines), Spencer, Aaron, Enid, Jadis, the awful Oceanside community, and Denise. I'll give him credit for Bob Stookey, and that's it. Even Abraham read as a parody of the show, and Negan has been a let down as the writers haven't been able to make him neither realistic nor fluid with the plot, like the Governor. Possibly the worst living character is Ezekiel, who the writers refuse to make drop the stupid King act, and then there's the kids like a Benjamin and his brother that they try to make us care about.
Listen, AMC, I DO NOT CARE ABOUT 95% OF YOUR CHARACTERS. You expect me to care when Aaron and Enid are being held by the Oceanside? I WANT THEM DEAD. They're awful, dull, and corny characters.
I hope Season 9 is the final season. I hope that everyone but the most essential characters are axed in the first few episodes. The show should have wrapped up before this atrocity of a season, but it can still make it right. Hire great writers and end with a good resolution, like the few remaining characters seal themselves in a nuclear bunker with sufficient food for 10 years, then flash forward to them opening the hatch and seeing a barren world, all zombies decayed. Gray hair for the characters like Daryl and Rick. Roll credits.
The Walking Dead: Honor (2018)
Just mind-numbing boring and cheesy
(Some spoilers, but nothing you didn't know after the previous )
Season 3 show has become so boriand ch. None of the conversations are even remotely realistic and resofan fiction written by a 13 year old girl. The quiet, strained conversations between Rick and Michonne just drag on to the point where I found myself wishing the episode would just end. I'm not even a Walking Dead hater. I've watched every episode, and loved the show until it went off the deep end in S7. Even after S3, with Scott Gimple inserted as showrunner, the show began to lose real depth (think the tightly knit community in S1, 2, and even 3 at the prison). The dialogue turned to cheesy speeches every scene. That was exactly the case in this episode. What a waste of a huge character. I didn't even like Carl and thought he was acted extremely poorly ever since more was asked of him with age, but at least make a good episode for such a huge character's demise. I'm not sure how much longer I can watch the show. The only character I really still like is Daryl, but even he has worsened with cheesy lines. I'm just disappointed that my favorite show (on air) has been ruined.
I had faith that S8 would turn the show around, but it didn't.