Anyone else excited about tomorrow night’s premiere?
Yes yes yes…I need to read a recap of the finale last year. I can’t remember who I though went “ack”.
AMC had a great show on this week called The Walking Dead Journey So Far, summarizing the first six seasons. A good recap with clips and cast interviews.
Two words: torture porn.
Glenn’s eyeball - so gross!
A very dark start to what has been predicted to be the darkest season yet. That closing scene was so very sad.
I missed the last 3 episodes from Season 6. Where is baby Judith?
I don’t like it when it’s that gross. I agree, it was the saddest ending. Their acting was terrific, especially Rick.
I enjoyed the gross special effect when Rick jumped from the roof of the RV onto the neck-chained walker and the body slowly separated from the head/spinal cord.
I really think they went too far with this episode. Comic books and tv are very different mediums and while there’s obviously a lot of overlap in the audience, I believe they’ve misread how much the tv audience is willing to watch happen to these characters to whom we’ve become attached. There’s a big difference in doing things to cartoon drawings and doing them to characters portrayed by living breathing actors. I’m not sure that they haven’t jumped the shark with this one.
I have to agree @Joblue …all I kept thinking when he was smashing their skulls is what I would be feeling if those were my loved ones and it made me sick to imagine it. If it continues like this where I am on the edge of my seat The Whole hour I can’t watch. It was too much for me.
What a horrible episode…I’m walking away from TWD. Character development is dead, it is nothing but brutality to the nth power packaged as entertainment. That’s it for me.
I’m giving it one more show and if it’s as bad as this one, I’m walking away too. I don’t like feeling like I did…who needs that?
The violence and gore surrounding the zombies does not bother me; like @Madison85, I appreciate the special effects and the makeup and the creative ways the zombies are eliminated.
But this twisted, sadistic stuff with Negan is too much for me-- not just the graphic violence, but the psychological torture. I had bad dreams after the Season 6 finale and again after the new show on Sunday. I will give it one more try as it is one of the few shows that we all (H, S and I) watch together that’s not professional sports–but not holding out much hope after that start.
Side note: Anyone else find Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s performance to be absolutely chilling? Even though he looks the same, I can’t believe it’s the same smiling guy from the last season (or so) of The Good Wife. If the press is accurate, apparently Morgan had difficulty filming the scenes, as, of course, did many of the regulars.
My dad and I, after being avid watchers the past 6 season, were disgusted.
TWD has been taken off the DVR schedule.
I read an interesting article about peoples’ reaction to the violence in Sunday’s episode. The writer wondered what those who were saying they’d never watch again, thought was going to happen. He thought it was pretty obvious with last season’s finale that someone was going to get beaten with that barbed-wire covered bat. All indications were that Season 7 was going to be the darkest season yet. He wondered if the reaction would have been the same if Abraham had been the only one killed, or was much of the outrage due to Glenn’s death, whose character has been a huge fan favorite.
There has been so much violence in this show. Rick’s group’s methodical murder of the Saviors in Season 6 was very disturbing. I wonder if we’re more disturbed by this week’s show because it’s our group of regulars who are being attacked?
@LuckyCharms913 …I thought his acting was brilliant as was Ricks in the last part.
I guessed the first execution correctly but didn’t see the second one coming, and man, that one really pissed me off. He was one of my favorites on the show. I’m sure i’m not alone.
If the writers wanted to piss us off, they did a good job. When Negan’s end comes, it had better be painful and prolonged. (i realize that makes me sound ugly, but i am keeping this in the “tv show/make believe” context; i don’t hate so easily in real life.
I’m still invested in Carol and Morgan’s story so I’ll be watching at least through this half season.
I’ve seen those comments as well. For me, the problem was first, the lame (IMO) cliffhanger at the end of last season which followed the equally lame fake out with Glenn and the dumpster. I think that it would have been far more effective to show Abraham being murdered by Negan and Rick being dragged off to the RV at the end of season 6. Then we could have been worried about what would become of Rick and been shocked by Glenn’s killing in the season premiere.
Secondly, I thought that the level of gore and suffering inflicted on Glenn (and the viewer) was way over the top. Yes, we get that he died horribly but showing his bloody, distorted head and face while he delivered his heartbreaking last line was just too much. That they followed this by the horrible business with Rick (almost) being forced to cut off his son’s arm felt like they were abusing the viewers as much as the characters. The whole hour was more misery than thrilling entertainment and made me feel ill-used by the show’s producers.
That episode made me sick to my stomach. I have a love-hate relationship with Robert Kirkman. I sure am going to miss Abraham and his amazing metaphors.
I also feel bad for Maggie. She has now lost everyone she loves, not including her baby.