Well, I guess Scott Gimple, and the bean counters at AMC, after FINALLY realizing that their Walking Dead cash bovine has been sucked pretty much bone dry, thought that by giving the folks that were "twi-hards" back when this franchise started something they could relate to, they could possibly pay off the huge mortgages they all took on when they thought things would go on forever. So, boy's and girls and teens of all ages...., I give you, The Walking Dead: Twivergent Edition.
The thing is Scotty..., putting a long dead horse in a rear naked choke, while TWD's apparently Sominex'd writing staff strenuously flagellate the carcass with aluminum Louisville Sluggers, seemingly at one time might have held the attention of the less literate for more than a few minutes, it's fracking 2020, and even Robert Kirkman realized it was time to pull the damn plug on the source material. As for the live action version and ensuing spin-off's, hell, all the characters we actually cared about, you either killed off, or they jumped off what I'm sure they saw as a sinking ship. I guess it's hard to give an inspired performance each week when you don't know if you're still going to be employed in the next one. Yes, indeed, "no one is safe", not even loyal viewers.
But I digress....
Screenwriting school 101 tells you that, you should write characters that the audience can care about, cheer for, or, absent those options, put them in harrowing situations that we can celebrate when they get out of them. Here however, aside from being almost unbelievably miscast, to the point that none of these actors come even close to pulling off the characters they are supposed to be playing. Or, maybe, that IS the problem, that they don't inhabit the characters, but, come off as high school theater LARPER's play acting at being 10 year survivors of TWD's zombie apocalypse. But, apparently, in the YA/ZA, there is no lack of designer couture, dermatologists, dentists, or astonishingly, Black hair care products. (although Iris's weave / wig could use some help)
And, while Nico Tortorella's "Felix" character is somewhat believable as the appointed "guardian" of the sisters, just what WAS that accent Huck was trying to pull off? Speaking of teenage angst, Hope comes off as the rebel without a clue, then her people pleasing Sis is suddenly all fired up to leave the comfort and safety of Stepford, er, Portlandia, to rescue the brainiac Father who left them behind, knowing that younger child Hope had watched her mother murdered, and then put the personal coup de grace on her killer. Twisted Sister much? So in the midst of all this tension, we meet Elton, who literally has a bone he needs to pick (up), Silas, serial killer in the making, and the almost unrecognizable Julia Ormond as Elizabeth Kublek, who's from the Guvment', and here to help, until, plot twist, she ISN'T.
And so, (yawn) the adventure begins, Escape TO New York, only, there's no Snake Plissken along to keep us amused. And now that there is literally no place like home to return to, and some cliched intrigue from the unknown powers that have apparently seen at least the FIRST "Matrix" movie, I guess AMC is counting on us to feign interest..., at least until those mortgages are paid down....
what the hell did i just watch? this is Walking Dead for teenagers. the society they live in isn't even believable, with everyone, men and women looking like they just stepped out of a salon and wearing clothes that are impeccable. and on what planet would you give positions of authority to teenagers? every character is unlikable and so self absorbed. hopefully it gets better now that they are outside in the larger world but this was a poor start. the entire episode was just boring
had to come back to edit this as this has been bugging me for a while now, did this episode have 1 single scene that didn't avoid showing blood and gore? everytime someone killed a zombie, it was as if they were filming it from such an angle that you couldn't see it or they cut away from it. who are they trying to protect? who is this show for, Disney Princess's?
if this keeps up, this will be the lamest WD show thus far
After alll these yearssss and they still have gasoline... The Walking Dead is such a joke, spin offs after spin offs, milking the cow to the max
Is this a CW show?
Wow... That was horrible... Just bad.
GODDAMMIT, THE FIRST EPISODE IS FUCKING SMOKING CRAP!
It's damned awful, all of it.
First of all, I'm fucking tired to see all this fucking human drama. Romero already explored it at best with his movies : the fall of society, humans as the worst monsters and so on. And he did it (rest in peace, Master) more than 40 years ago ALREADY. Put some fucking zombies in these shitty serials! Also because the best thing in this awful first episode are zombies.
Wait, no, they doesn't call them zombies. It's out of date, now is more cool to call them with any other names, so now are Empties. For fuck sake!
The acting is awful, can only be matched but the worst Z-movie you can find. And please, I don't want to start thinking again at how horrible the writing is. 90% of it you've already heard elsewhere, with the exact same wording (but probably with way better acting). Of that 90%, at least 70% is so painstakingly cliche for those situation that your mind physically hurt.
I will give it a second chance, but I guess I already know where this show could go, if it was for me :face_vomiting:
NGL, absolute parcel - literally the most boring episode of ANY of the WD related series so far, and given this is meant to be the pilot for which you just gotta be made to feel like coming back for more I'd be hard pushed to think of ANY pilot for ANY show which inspired less.
Garbage, will not be wasting any time whatsoever on this show after hitting Submit here.
Disney meets The Walking Dead
i dondt know what i saw this episode, but this is shit
I think it is a classically bad episode. It contained the (now typical) foreshadowing that tells you that something really bad is about to happen... When it starts off looking so perfect, and Iris reads from her speech about how great it is - but some people are still skeptical - I knew right off that it would all end in disaster. Well...they really out did themselves. A complete society destroyed in 1 episode (I'm not completely sure, as I've only seen the 1 episode so far).
Are hubris, pessimism, and nihilism the only (poorly written) messages left for the "creative" team to offer?
Well this is off to a rough start.
Basically the 100 meet zombie!
Cannot be arsed to watch it. Turned off after 9 minutes.
For a pilot, this episode was quite good. I obviously started the series thanks to the universe it takes place in, but it was an episode I could probably watch even despite this fact. Expectations are high, as they should be, and I hope they'll manage to answer to them.
One more crap... I’m losing count. I think this so called “golden age of tv” has ended. Every new show is worst than the previous. No new ideas for scripts, only the same cliches and dialogues over and over again. And diversity provoques that they have to include bad actors but in the right colors, so...
Kinda meh. The writers could've at least kept that single card up their sleeves so that there's a decent sub-plot but no, now it wouldn't surprise me if that's resolved already on the next episode...
Shout by KrenaiBlockedParent2020-10-02T13:41:49Z
It was really boring, but has a promising premise. The characters were sooo boring, the conversations were dull, but I liked the two boys who are going with the sisters, so thats good.
I hope it will be better, I think the show has the potential to be great.