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#Rick the walking dead let fucks fly tv#

And while the special effects by Greg Nicotero continue to amaze and have only gotten better, the dialogue in the show is really starting to come off as dialogue in a soap opera.

#Rick the walking dead let fucks fly tv#

Easily the best thing on TV at the time, I wrote.

The first episode of Season 1 hooked me for years. I loved The Walking Dead in the early days. Almost caricatures of themselves in the early days. The characters in The Walking Dead have become martyrs, of a sort. That is what’s really missing now with The Walking Dead. It could talk about the end of the world. It could use euphemisms when talking about surviving an apocalypse– ones that we all can identify with.

#Rick the walking dead let fucks fly movie#

It could riff on all the zombie movie stereotypes and beliefs and yes, even current affairs. Because Z Nation came out of the gate as anything but a group of people surviving a zombie apocalypse, it never had to pretend to be anything more than a show about people surviving a zombie apocalypse. There is no moody camera grabbing emoting– at least not any that pretends to be anything more than… moody camera grabbing. It has actors spouting sometimes inane dialogue in sometimes truly ridiculous situations. One could argue that that in itself showed how The Walking Dead was moving quickly from storyline to storyline, but I argue that it really showed how hard it was to deal with conflict inside of its never-ending soap opera format, which Robert Kirkman admits it is. This season started off with promise at Terminus, but what promised to be an epic standoff was dealt with in one episode. The Walking Dead has become so heavy it barely moves anymore. Each story arc has to be fed through the depth and gravitas of each character, creating a bottleneck that the story itself has to squeeze through. But as the seasons have gone by, the story is starting to feel bogged down by all those layers that come with six seasons.

These characters are complex and truly three dimensional– each bringing that complexity to the story in ways that can, and have been played with by the writers. It has layers on layers, with each character adding to its layers. The Walking Dead is, without dispute, a multi-layered and complicated story, much like the comic book by Robert Kirkman. Fridays always said “weekend ahead”… so maybe that had a little to do with it.Īnd maybe, it’s this season of The Walking Dead. I was looking forward to Friday nights more than Sunday nights! Could it be that Sunday nights also represented the day before I had to go back to work? Perhaps. I was enjoying Z Nation more than the current season of The Walking Dead. When I woke up this morning, the morning after watching the season finale of Z Nation, I realized something. This is an editorial piece, and is my opinion, and not necessarily that of the Zombie Research Society.