AMC Releases THE WALKING DEAD Season 5 "Surviving Together" Promo

I love the direction of this show under Scott Gimple... it was waaay too action, action, more action under MAzzara and too slow in season 2 under Darabont

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@3Traced
Love this show, the funny thing is during the season break of all the series I started watching series that are done or in there second/ third season. I saw The Wire, Oz, Boardwalk Empire and starting now with the second season of Hannibal. The bad thing now is that all the series that I am watching including The walking dead are still awesome. But I started compare it with the level of writing of The wire and others and well.......I should not do that because suddenly a Flash, Arrow, Shield and even walking d etc become pretty corny.

Ranking TWD seasons:

1) Season 1 & Season 5 (tie so far)
2) Season 3
3) Season 4
4) Season 2

@Owlman88 Agreed. Only I would switch seasons 3 and 4 because 3 relied far too heavily on action instead of plot development. Although 3 had a better "wow" factor, 4 was far more intriguing week to week (and had many more elements from the comics).

I wish they did a season set in the Winter time.

@McFarlaneFan I appreciate how much thought you seem to have put into that analysis, but I completely disagree with most of your assessment. 1-3 I'm mostly with you on, but 4 and 5 I think you're missing a lot of what is really going on..

- Where you see filler episodes, I see characters getting fleshed out. It may not be moving as fast as you'd like it too, but that's where this comic book vs the TV mediums differ.

- The Terminus story was "rushed" in a sense, but it was done so on purpose from the writers. We all expected them to be the main antagonists of season 5 and it was largely over in the first episode with loose ends tied up by the 3rd. THAT's what I want to see, A show that stays true to the heart of the comics but is able to keep me glued to the edge of my seat guessing WTF is going to happen next.

- The "ludicrous" plot points come directly from the source material, only they derive in a different way (as does most everything in this show to keep the audience guessing). Also, if you re-watch season 4, you can see the Lizzie story arc ending coming a mile away. That point in particular, to me, is when this show is at it's finest. When we see these characters humanized and developed then reach a "point of no return" when they must do something that seems unspeakable out of context, but really makes complete sense in the trajectory of their character arc and the arc of the show as a whole. It happens with Rick all the time, if we were following another group on this show and they ran into Rick's group, he would be one bad motherfukcer (and not in a good way). But we are following this group and we do know their backstory.

- Rick's behaviour towards Gareth was totally in character, that's how he act's when he has nothing to lose. I mean he ripped a guys throught out at gunpoint 2 episodes before. Also, what "one-liners" do they have? I can't think of a single catch-prase or anything remotely like that from anyone on the show.

I think you do bring up a lot of valid points that are generally overlooked like the forced plot with Rick going crazy or Daryl becoming impeccable. I also think they brought the realism back beginning with season 4. It's not fair to argue that the Governor character was "over the top" in season 3 and when the showrunner changed in season 4 now he's "too much like a real person this time." You can't have it both ways. You're finding fault with many things that simply aren't there. I'm gonna guess and say you have read the comics because if you hadn't you probably wouldn't care so much and would've probably stopped watching years ago. If that is the case, I'd urge you to try watching this next half season with the mind frame that this is a different beast from the comic book version of TWD and has a different/new story to tell. If that's not the case (if you haven't read the comics) and you really want to like the show but don't, I'd say read the comics and the show will get a lot more interesting for you. There's a fine line when bringing realism to people surviving in an apocalyptic zombie world, but I do believe that what's happened up to this point in this show wouldn't be too far off from reality.

I for one am really looking forward to the next handful of seasons. Having this show only become one of my favorites recently with the start of season 4, then binge reading the comic book in 3 1/2 days within the last year, I can say without a doubt that the best is yet to come and with how I predict the show to follow, it will be a wild ride with ever-changing dynamics and storylines. We're only about a third of the way through with most of the meat still left in the pot!

Where's Carl?

I don't worry about what others think of the show as long as I enjoy it. Thanks, buh bye.

@McFarlaneFan

@McFarlaneFan it must hurt to be sensitive to being name called by a person you don't even know. What I find even more crazy is how you bash me for name calling-but it's supposed to be ok for you to call me mentally limited you jackass? And I thought you might have an ounce of maturity/common sense in you somewhere-but apparently not.....

Dude....get a damn life LOL you got nothing better to do than worry about @MyNameIsKhan calling your ass out? Lol I'm done, got an actual life to live.

I guess his account got deleted :O