People are picking peanuts out of shite though, going to the ninth degree to be critical, like about Otis' missus not asking about him right away when Shane got back, and being sniffy about it, it doesnt fucking matter though, it doesnt take anything away, maybe she asked and got lied to, it didnt get shown, its not important.
As has been pointed out the kid has been missing for like 3 nights, they are filming it in a linear chronological fashion, day by day, so its going to be slow going, in order to develop the plot and flesh the story out. If they lost her, went looking and found her within five minutes people would be complaining was too easy, it was too quick, it was a pointless plot dead end that went nowhere. People like to piss and moan is the bottom line.
What we have is that single event, her running off and it has kicked off 20 other events in all kinds of directions, and allowed for character growth right across the board, via the characters showing how they are dealing with the current crisis and the larger issues at hand. Its the main catalyst for the stories progression, it might not be wild exciting, it might not be what you want or more importantly expect, but thats the way its going and you either accept it switch off and enjoy the ride or carry on being a whiney pussy picking the peanuts out of shite.
No you dont have to come in and love it, but you dont have to be critical for the sake of it, thats just as boring as a love fest, in fact its more boring because people go out of their way to be overly critical and moan about things which arent important.
I can't say I agree. I think this whole saga with her has been a completely pointless deviation & has added little to nothing to the overall story. About the only thing of any interest to come out of it was;
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shane killing otis & only for the reason that it portrayed just how much of a ruthless c*nt he's prepared to be
I fully appreciate that there are times during a show when you have to lay the foundations for future story lines but the writing this season has been dire. The decisions they make as a group & as individuals make no sense whatsoever the majority of the time. Again;
10 minutes of absolutely pointless television. It made fuck all sense, added nothing to the overall plot, didn't show us anything about the characters that we didn't already know. (other than that they're clearly a bunch of total fucking idiots) & was just a totally pointless inclusion.
Every time these people get in the shit it's when they split up, yet what do they keep doing? That's right, splitting up! The reason I have such a gripe about it is because it makes for completely unrealistic viewing, the whole draw of this show in the beginning was how you would react as people. How you would survive, how you would adapt but yet the characters are so one dimensional & so predictable that it makes for incredibly boring watching. The only person I actually give 2 shits about is Dale, the rest of them I'd be ecstatic if they got torn limb from limb.
I don't watch the show to come in here immediately afterwards & have a moan. I watch it because the basic premise of the story has a lot of promise but imo the writers have fucked it up big time & have taken something that could of been tense, gripping & incredibly dark (see the film adaptation of the road as a 'look what they could of done') & have turned it into a fucking snooze fest by persisting with incredibly dull sub plots
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the missus being pregnant. Which she'll no doubt try to hide for no other reason than to try & make the viewer give a flying fuck about her, because without a baby her character has sweet fuck all going for her. Also this horse shit with the blonde girl, the will she/won't she eat a bullet fiasco
& a main storyline that seems to have completely lost it's way.
There's so much wrong with it, it's getting beyond a joke.
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The conversation they had about sophia & what they should do if she's been turned. As if they have an option? Kill her maybe? Wtf else are they going to do? Keep her on a leash just incase they find a cure? It's ball achingly bad writing, that question wouldn't even come up!
You said that people were just looking for faults, imo you don't have to. The characters don't represent real people at all. Not even close, atleast 4 or 5 times an episode I find myself going eh??
at the weird decisions they make. It's got more holes in it than a sponge. I'll reiterate that I know some stupid decisions have to be made at times otherwise nothing would ever happen but this season they've happened with such startling regularity that I'm just baffled by the whole thing.
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the drama about the doctor not being a doctor but a vet (shock horror) & rick's missus giving it the big 'un 'so you've never performed this procedure on a human before?'
As viewers we're supposed to be gripped by the fact the boy is dying, his parents are supposed to be desperate for someone, anyone to do something to save him yet in the middle of all that she starts kicking off that he's not a surgeon? I mean for christ's sake! Again, that thought process wouldn't even enter your mind at that point in time. Christ you'd be thanking god at that very moment that the guy had kept him alive even that long not questioning his qualifications. It makes it incredibly difficult to take the characters or the show seriously
The main one being;
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Sophia disappearing in the first place! Rick was armed ffs, why didn't he just take her with him? We've already seen on numerous occasions that these things aren't exactly difficult to kill, one swift hit to the head usually does it & worst case scenario he had a gun on him, but yet he bizarrely elects to dump her in a fucking creek before running off & leaving her alone while he dispatches some zombies. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough she disappears without even so much as a scream, without even seemingly trying to make her way back to the road.
It's just, bad! It's getting to the point where I'm seriously considering smashing out a script for the rest of the season, sending it to AMC with a little bow & a note saying 'thank me later'
Trained chimps could do a better job on this story!
All in all, I think people have a right to feel aggrieved at the direction the show is taking. If you'd like to switch off & just watch some zombies for 45 minutes that's fine & if you enjoy it that's great but I think it's a tad unfair to say that people are splitting hairs (though in some cases I'd agree). This season has been shit & unless they turn it around pretty sharpish I predict they're gonna lose a lot of viewers, me being one of them.
