My most beloved TV show got destroyed in a matter of minutes. The previous episodes of S08 at least gave me some kind of emotion, episode 05 was a flat line. This truly is a masterpiece, a masterpiece of destruction. They've destroyed everything! The character development, the story, the plot, the meaning of GOT, the writing of G.R.R. Martin. They've destroyed all the hard work put in all of these years, they've spit on everything. I'm not going to hate the show, it gave me so much, and it will continue to be my favorite, but i'm just going to pretend this last season was never made. I'm going to imagine all the possible theories, all the story plots that could have been made, and just hope the writer finishes the series some day.
Sesion 8 the waste of our time.
The worst season of the entire series so far. The writing is just horrible. Not one plot development, piece of dialogue, scene or character makes any sense. The entire season is spent trying to achieve something that never happens. There's just nothing memorable and nothing to really care about. One word summarizes it all: bland. Lukewarm. The Walking Dead has lost its way. Maybe it's time to quit.
Easily the worst season of the bunch. The fallout of the big finale of last season was fun to watch unfold, and the best moments of the season are directly related to that. Everything else was fairly mediocre or downright terrible. Ani is also a terrible character, a needless addition, and genuinely a drag on the entire season as she acts as a narrator.
If you're still watching at this point to get a dose of high-school melodrama that spirals out of control, you'll get it, but it's definitely lost almost all of its luster that it barely maintained in the first place from the debut season.
Also please stop stretching the season by an extra few unnecessary episodes worth of content just to get that magic #13 episode count.
"Stop acting like this is normal!"
I, like most people, am a fan of the Walking Dead comic books. I, like a lot of comic book readers, believe it either should have ended already or should wrap up very soon. I, unlike apparently quite a lot of people, do not find the Walking Dead television show to be anything better than decent at best. Still, I figured despite that I would give Fear the Walking Dead a solid chance since the "society falling apart" part of the zombie apocalypse formula tends to be the most entertaining.
Right off the bat, Fear the Walking Dead greatly bungles the pacing of the show. Of the main characters, three of them are either useless or already insufferable, which is not a great start. It is only six episodes in to what will most likely be 1000 episodes of show since the general public for some inexplicable reason still devours zombie stuff with a spoon, but those six episodes have done nothing to really make me believe any of these characters have potential. Salazar is kind of great - mostly because Ruben Blades does a hell of a job. Colman Domingo's Strand is so mysterious and actually intelligent that he immediately gets rocketed up to the top of the Interesting Character List. Kim Dickens is a great actress but the wishy washy and frankly generic motivations of Madison Clark give her very little to work with. Cliff Curtis on the other hand has even less to work with through Travis, and seems to put next to no effort into it. Travis goes from "hey don't teach my kids to shoot guns during the zombie apocalypse" to "well guess I better start beating people to death" and Curtis doesn't add anything to either performance. So far, Travis Manawa is the front runner for the 2015 Arthur from Showtime's Camelot Award for most show shattering lead character. Looks like you've finally got some competition Ephraim Goodweather!
Things don't get much better as the show goes along. The human element and the social commentary aspects of zombie fiction have been almost entirely excised from the medium, so the success of zombie stuff tends to fall on how exciting or suspenseful or scary or whatever the actual zombie scenes are. Fear the Walking Dead sadly does not offer much in that regard either. After so many seasons of the main show, and countless other zombie properties ebbing and flowing through pop culture, there isn't a ton of room for Fear the Walking Dead to offer anything different. When it does try and ramp up and give you something exciting, it feels like it is on such a small scale that it doesn't even matter. How you can take the literal end of the world and make it feel like its more the end of a sound stage in Burbank I don't know.
The worst part though, beyond everything else, is that the child show inherits the most damnable trait of the parent show - every major moment hinges entirely on a character or characters being a complete moron. The military can't shoot 2000 zombies, Travis doesn't want somebody teaching his kid how to shoot a gun in the fucking zombie apocalypse, oh we should just leave the addict alone I'm sure that would be fine, i'm sure its just light reflecting off a disco ball or something kid don't worry about it and trust the military, sure guy who is part of the group that wants to kill us all I'll let you go since you seem so trustworthy, hey man stop beating on that guy who just shot one of us, hey do you think maybe somebody should guard the giant building full of shambling death monsters, etc etc etc. Nothing here feels organic at all, because the only way the writing team knows to move anything forward is by either killing somebody or making somebody more brain dead than the creatures they are fighting.
Fear the Walking Dead suffers from the exact same problems that the Walking Dead does, except without the comic book's established plot and a constant stream of strong acting performances to fall back on. This makes it a far less enjoyable watch. It still has room to grow and isn't nearly bad enough to completely give up on, but these six episodes are not a strong start.
WATCH if you only buy new Call of Duty games for zombie mode bro. DON'T WATCH if you know you won't be able to look past every character passing the idiot ball around to kill time.
An unnecessary and boring season. I'm afraid the next one will be even worse.
gone downhill big time this is the show coming to and end soon imo
Filler episodes like these can hurt the flow of the show for certain. :-(
Disappointing ending to this Epic Show! It's like they have picked all the popular theories from internet and packed them into this episode and ended the show! I guess they have gotten tired of running this show! :unamused::smirk:
I hope George will finishes the books soon. At least we will get a better ending than this!
Shocked at how bad this season was. Very disappointed. This girl is now the narrator and after every epsiode her story changes. I gets it's the show but horrible writing in that case. Plus Ali just a lying hoe, which again is disappointing. The way all woman are portrayed in this show is quite disrespectful. Do they really all just want to sleep with anything with a penis? I think not.
This season's premise makes two deeply flawed assumptions:
This season looks ugly. The colour palette has become super boring and the camera is constantly doing stupid things. The editing is awful and the show is really bad at keeping flashbacks and present clear and separate. It was bad at it before, but it's become worse. One of the central 'mysteries' of this season is "what happened to Tyler?" which is a question the audience already knows the answer to, so all the drama that comes out of it is boring and frustrating and unnecessary. They try to address some themes of sexual assault, but they don't have anything profound or nuanced to say about it, or really anything to say about it beyond the basic platitudes of "my story" and "down with the patriarchy".
This season is just a mess
2/10
Soooo Fight Club from the XXI Century... I was expecting better.
Save yourselves the hustle and don't watch this season, all you need to know is that the rapist is dead! This season has a very weird message that I don't like.
