I actually paid attention this week "Time to **** **** up"

 

I thought this was a pretty good episode. For me it seemed rather tense throughout interspersed with small relieving interludes. I kept thinking someone was going to die but so far so good.

There were always those moments. Would Negan betray the others but then he didn’t and they risked their own lives to save him and Annie. Would Yumiko Perry Mason her case and save Eugene despite this being a kangaroo court but no…then we see Mercer come to the rescue with admittedly a great one liner. Aaron, Luke, and the others getting away within the walker group but excuse me, a walker picks up a knife? Nope. The mothers of TF practically driven mad with fear for their kids but then one is rescued only to find the others are not with him. Back and forth. This is going to drive me nuts with only two episodes left to tie up the main story line but I have to admit I’m looking forward to the next episode.

 

This pushes me a little closer to not watching the final 8 episodes. I guess I could just fast forward through a lot of it, I was planning on doing that for much of the Commonwealth anyway, but still.

Through time the walkers are supposed to become more deteriorated and less lethal. That was the point in the comics anyway, but yeah, now they'll be having walkers turn into John Wick or something. How ridiculous.

 

Yeah I was already fast forwarding through a lot of Part B of the season, so I'll just do the same with it. I might even catch up before the finale because if I wait too long it gets into the holidays and winter where I usually binge a bunch of shows and then there will be something I'll want to watch more.

So it's 50-50 that I'll catch up before the last episode airs. I should be able to do it as long as I don't kill my remote with all the fast forwarding. lol

 

If it looks like a key scene, as in Carol or someone being in it then I'll watch. If it's that ridiculous stuff like the crew that were newspaper reporters in the Commonwealth, I'll pass. I can't stand Pamela or the Dollar Store Governor Lance guy. I usually do watch the Mercer scenes because, aside from the ridiculous orange suit, he's the only Commonwealth character I'm fine with. I'll keep what you said though in mind toward the end. I can usually tell if something significant is going on, or if there's buildup to a moment etc. So I should be okay.

Are there more commercials this year too? I've been watching another AMC show, Interview with the Vampire which I DVR. And I usually run through it pretty quickly because there are just SO many commercials. At one point I was distracted and thought I fast forwarded too far and missed a scene, only to go back and see it was just more commercials. lol

 

Then you certainly won’t want to miss the satisfying um…conclusion, to Lance’s story arc, and yes, I think there seems to be more commercials that ever too.

 

The whole idea of introducing 'smart zombies' in season 11 of a show is just ridiculously dumb and shows how poor the writing has become on this show. It's almost as if the writers view this series as more of a comedy now than an actual serious horror drama.

It would be fine if they had laid down the rules in the initial seasons that the zombies could eventually transform into this. But all indications were that the zombies would slowly deteriorate over time........not become smarter and stronger.

Last of Us is starting up in a couple months so might as well bring up how they handled this. They handled it by saying the infection went through several different phases........each one being worse than the previous.........and the longer the infected individual went without being killed the harder they would be to kill.

Anybody watching TWD shows in the future should probably just consider it to be a part of the Z Nation universe instead of the universe that the first five seasons of TWD took place in.

 

I didn't watch any of the episodes live until today I watched all six episodes in one sitting and FF through the ads.

Did I miss something or does it seem like all the "smarter" zombies have masks on? Are they saying whisperers who died became smarter zombies?

The way they are telling the story, with only two episodes left, it does not feel like to me there will be a "typical ending", one where the survivors are settled in a place where they can look forward to a positive future, no imminent threats, and everything kind of buttoned up. The pace looks to me like they will end with a cliffhanger ending and to find out more you will have to catch the spinoffs...I hope I am wrong.

 

Also, for Ezikiel and the rest to go shield Negan and wife from the firing squad without any indication that it's going to make a difference was illogical, I didn't like the writing there. Just Ezikiel alone? Ok, may be, to pave the road of redemption for Negan, but the rest of the group? Not believable.

 

That though was Darabont's take on the TWD universe and they never followed through with it. Maybe now that AMC has given him $200 million in a settlement they feel they can use his ideas. But it's much too late in the game to insert this. It makes everything even more contrived.

 

Finale : zombie army wearing kevlar helmets and equipped with automatic weapons and rpgs attack bewildered and outgunned humans.

 

We are 10 or 12 years into the apocalypse, and torchlights are still a thing.