The Walking Dead season 5

[obsidian]

You're right that it was a pretty pointless end, I suspect just to add shock value. Or it a thing with American TV where they make something seem so shocking by intentionally making it all so incredibly pointless? I can't tell anymore.

BTW, lulz:

[Captain]

Bye bye Beth. Kind of a sudden and perhaps pointless end. She could've just walked out of there. I guess she came to the conclusion that after being Dawn's pawn in a game to get rid of all the bad cops, she had only one bad cop left to kill: Dawn herself.

An intense moment though. Daryl always gets to me when he breaks. Thought it was kind of odd for Maggie to have a nervous breakdown after not asking about Beth for like an entire season.

Edit; to clarify, it's not odd to have a nervous breakdown if your little sister is killed, but it's odd she barely seemed to care before.

I thought she would've died in season 4 so it felt like she was on borrowed time.

Also I'm pretty sure Maggie was holding out hope that Beth was still out there somewhere, but you're right—she seemed pretty nonchalant about it before. Or maybe I just don't remember her and Daryl having a conversation about Beth.

[Eraser]

I read somewhere the actress who plays Beth stopped with TWD to pursue other opportunities in her career. That would mean the script writers were forced to end her storyline.

[plained]

i could see it coming as there was a lot of foreshadowing/circling the bowl.

this show is such serious business now its getting mundane ish

i really think i enjoy watching the z nation moren

[Rosalee Bainbridge]

Season's almost over! What will happen next?!!

[LawL]

Fuck off piddla.

[Doombrain]

Season's almost over! What will happen next?!!

you rage quit again.

[plained]

the season finale of z nation was wicked!

actually the whole season was quite watchable

[Eraser]

Februari

[Lieutenant Dan]

Holy shit, I thought he looked familiar!

[plained]

ey give it a bit geez!

[Eraser]

lol, who knows

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Also Darryl fucking cried again...

[plained]

imo this season has been good

[phantasmagoria]

That marine trio annoys the fuck out of me. The Sarge dude is like he came straight out of Aliens or Starship Troopers or some 80's movie with cigar smoking sergeants.

Ha! He was Bull, in Band of Brothers. Also a sergeant. Even had the cigar.



I like him. So far, he at least seems to not be much of a shouty army-man twat and become one of the team. Ok, he raged on the Bill Hicks lookalike mullet guy (who is actually a good characterisation of someone who's aquired most of their knowledge via fiction and the internet, tbh), but he appeared to feel like fuck for it. Like [s]plained[/s] (oop, it was Lieutenant Dan), I was expecting him to cap himself afterwards.

The problem with him is his fucking stupid obviously dyed orange hair.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Boom!

time travel shit

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Gabriel's my current favourite. A black guy, in a black suit, who's on camera for about 3 seconds per episode of an often dark show. He's like where's Waldo hardcore mode.

I like how the guy who claimed he was a scientist who could save the world (who couldn't) now doesn't say shit and just sort of stays on the periphery.

[plained]

sundays epi was great i really liked it

[Eraser]

What I hope (and think) they're gonna do is spin it in a Breaking Bad kind of way, where the group is going to do the exact same things to others that they're afraid will happen to them and rationalize it in ways that seem ethically sound but ultimately flawed. The viewer may just go along with it for quite some time because the group are the good guy, right?

They'll end up becoming the bad guys until they'll have some "wtf are we doing?" kind of epiphany.

[Captain]

An entire episode dedicated to a dinner party. Great.

Maybe this will be good

The program, which hasn't been officially titled just yet, takes place in Los Angeles and won't follow Sheriff Rick Grimes and his band of survivors. Instead, it will take place as the zombie apocalypse strikes and society begins falling apart, making it a prequel of sorts to the current series.

[Eraser]

Yeah I read about that. Not sure what it'll add to the mix. Sounds to me like more of the same, which probably means they're going to be cannibalizing each other.

[Eraser]

Oh as for the dinner party episode, it paints a clear picture of our "heroes" having a hard time adapting to and accepting normal life, with Sasha showing symptoms of PTSS. It's kind of like soldiers coming back from war.

[Captain]

Yeah I read about that. Not sure what it'll add to the mix. Sounds to me like more of the same, which probably means they're going to be cannibalizing each other.

The best part of any zombie movie is when all hell is breaking loose, like the beginning of Dawn of the Dead. If they dedicate a whole show to a huge city going insane, like the L4D prequel comic, I'm all for it.

[Ryoki]

Shit yes, the first 20 minutes of that film are most excellent.

[phantasmagoria]

Best zombie opening is the first ten minutes of 28 weeks later. I love the start of that film.

It's just a shame the remaining 150 minutes are utter pap.