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Seriously just the best show ever IMO. I was always a huge sopranos guy and still am plus breaking bad. But the wire just felt so damn real and authentic plus the characters I just fell in love with it. I'm a junkie for that show and am hoping I get the BluRay box set for Xmas lol.
that the show makes the most unlikeable character the only one who makes any sense. Spencer is the only one to point out what a shit head that Rick is, what a bad leader Rick is, and how stupid their Zero Dark Thirty raid on the Saviors was. The show's insistence on Rick as infallible leader is just ridiculous. Among a billion other things, but this is at the heart of the show.
I mean, you can pick on all sorts of things. But I just enjoy how stupid most of it is. Oh, Gabriel decides to just get out and walk back in the middle of nowhere and at that exact spot is this treasure map of goodies? Why yes, of course! Take a drink!
that the show makes the most unlikeable character the only one who makes any sense. Spencer is the only one to point out what a shit head that Rick is, what a bad leader Rick is, and how stupid their Zero Dark Thirty raid on the Saviors was. The show's insistence on Rick as infallible leader is just ridiculous. Among a billion other things, but this is at the heart of the show.
I mean, you can pick on all sorts of things. But I just enjoy how stupid most of it is. Oh, Gabriel decides to just get out and walk back in the middle of nowhere and at that exact spot is this treasure map of goodies? Why yes, of course! Take a drink!
Haha, my lol moment of the show was the shot of Jesus lying on the top of the truck about to go back to Alexandria, and in the background it the entire massive Negan complex. I guess none of the dozens of guards you'd presume were posted saw a guy lying on top of Negan's truck.
that the show makes the most unlikeable character the only one who makes any sense. Spencer is the only one to point out what a shit head that Rick is, what a bad leader Rick is, and how stupid their Zero Dark Thirty raid on the Saviors was. The show's insistence on Rick as infallible leader is just ridiculous. Among a billion other things, but this is at the heart of the show.
I mean, you can pick on all sorts of things. But I just enjoy how stupid most of it is. Oh, Gabriel decides to just get out and walk back in the middle of nowhere and at that exact spot is this treasure map of goodies? Why yes, of course! Take a drink!
Haha, my lol moment of the show was the shot of Jesus lying on the top of the truck about to go back to Alexandria, and in the background it the entire massive Negan complex. I guess none of the dozens of guards you'd presume were posted saw a guy lying on top of Negan's truck.
“Sing Me a Song” was not without its good moments, and it certainly wasn’t The Walking Dead’s worst episode. But if you thought the show was spinning its wheels before (and I most certainly did) the episode was often deeply boring as it repeated information we already knew—hey, did you realize Negan was sort of a bad guy? Don’t worry, we spent about 40 minutes just watching him be horrible!—but even that was better than watching Carl, Michonne, and Rosita all plan to individually try to kill Negan, even though this is deeply, deeply stupid. Link - ( New Window )
Carl standing in kitchen with Olivia and Neegan. Neegan back facing Carl. Hey Carl, thats a kitchen you are standing in which probably has knives. Use a knife and stab Keegan.
Carl standing in kitchen with Olivia and Neegan. Neegan back facing Carl. Hey Carl, thats a kitchen you are standing in which probably has knives. Use a knife and stab Keegan.
How about he just kills Negan with Lucille which both he and Rick had about 47 chances to do?
their lowest point in 4 years. But hey, midseason finale!!!
Ratings wise, I blame a lot of it on over saturating their audience with Talking Dead "talk show" for the series and that horrible spin-off series, Fear the Walking Dead.
they sure do pass up a lot of very easy opportunities to kill him. How many times does one of them need to be standing behind him with Lucille before one of them thinks "I wonder if this bat could be used as a weapon?"
their lowest point in 4 years. But hey, midseason finale!!!
Ratings wise, I blame a lot of it on over saturating their audience with Talking Dead "talk show" for the series and that horrible spin-off series, Fear the Walking Dead.
I kinda liked fear the walking dead, but stopped watching it so I guess I didn't like it that much
I actually liked most episodes. Last night was the first night that wasn't almost all filler. It's idiot TV, but like Gilligan's Island, the stupidity is part of the allure.
I still hold that there's a per episode payment thing going on. Why else would you have two 90 minute episodes instead of three 60 minute ones? Wouldn't you get more bang for the buck out of 3 episodes rather than 2, since cost per minute is going to be the same (sans the per episode thing)? last night had a couple of storylines going whereas a lot of the filler episodes were solo episodes (like last week with Tara).
most shows see rating decline after this many seasons.
How long can you keep ahhhh! Zombies! and ahhhhh! bad guy! fresh.
hard to say if it's the comic books (the almost rigid sticking to them) that's holding the show back. I've been as big a critic of the writers as there is, but it's got to be tough having to stick to the books and not get to be creative with a storyline. the producers obviously want to stick with a simplistic comic book vibe except translate it to live action, and that's a tough chore.
If the ratings keep dropping, might be a wise move to ditch the source material of the books and try something new.
But last year they were smelling their farts for months about being top rated cable show. And now they're down that much? That's not a natural progression. That is them absolutely blowing the finale/premiere nonsense and then an abysmal half season. Gimple is a fool.
And I agree that slavish devotion to the comic books is a bad idea, but hillbilly-in-chief Kirkman will never let them stray too far. That's his meal ticket. And he's going to write them forever to draw every last drop of blood from the stone.
This was always one of my biggest problems with the show. They take all the major (and some minor) events from the books and then just fill in bullshit to try to get from one to the other. And now they cynically try to cram everything into finales and premieres and just fill the rest of the seasons with, well, filler.
the filler/cram into a finale (or half season finale) has been a staple all along.
the farm season, ending with Hershal's never ending shotgun.
Guvner multiple times.
Terminus.
this is just more of the same. this is the trouble with the show/books. rinse and repeat. Negan is just the Guv with a bat, and acted/produced more intense.
I'm still trying to decide if this season is lamer than the Terminus season or the Guvner season. The walking the tracks was pretty bad. Second coming of the Guv was decent. First one, not so much.
doncha remember all the talk about how bad the guv was going to be? how the readers lamented how much more he did to Maggie in the comics?
to me, Negan is rinse and repeat with the guv, both the buildup and the fanboy panting. Negan is more intense, although I can see the aspect of the cartoon character you've said (having brain fart on the name)
This season has stuck pretty rigidly to the comics Â
showed what makes Negan great in the comics. He is a bit nuetered because he can't curse, but he is a very likable bad guy.
If you didn't understand, the whole episode, was showing how he respects woman. None of those women have to be his wife, he doesn't force them to be there, they are there by choice. He would never have hit that woman back.
showed what makes Negan great in the comics. He is a bit nuetered because he can't curse, but he is a very likable bad guy.
If you didn't understand, the whole episode, was showing how he respects woman. None of those women have to be his wife, he doesn't force them to be there, they are there by choice. He would never have hit that woman back.
Dwight's wife had to become Negan's wife to stop him from murdering Dwight. I wouldn't say that's "being there by choice."
I don't think they're really pushing any "he respects women" angle here.
RE: This season has stuck pretty rigidly to the comics Â
showed what makes Negan great in the comics. He is a bit nuetered because he can't curse, but he is a very likable bad guy.
If you didn't understand, the whole episode, was showing how he respects woman. None of those women have to be his wife, he doesn't force them to be there, they are there by choice. He would never have hit that woman back.
Dwight's wife had to become Negan's wife to stop him from murdering Dwight. I wouldn't say that's "being there by choice."
I don't think they're really pushing any "he respects women" angle here.
Yes I understand that and he is far from a Saint. He just doesn't hit woman, rape them, etc. The girl could have left without being harmed, but her man would have suffered the consequences.
showed what makes Negan great in the comics. He is a bit nuetered because he can't curse, but he is a very likable bad guy.
If you didn't understand, the whole episode, was showing how he respects woman. None of those women have to be his wife, he doesn't force them to be there, they are there by choice. He would never have hit that woman back.
Dwight's wife had to become Negan's wife to stop him from murdering Dwight. I wouldn't say that's "being there by choice."
I don't think they're really pushing any "he respects women" angle here.
Yes I understand that and he is far from a Saint. He just doesn't hit woman, rape them, etc. The girl could have left without being harmed, but her man would have suffered the consequences.
I wouldn't exactly call everything he does consensual...
showed what makes Negan great in the comics. He is a bit nuetered because he can't curse, but he is a very likable bad guy.
If you didn't understand, the whole episode, was showing how he respects woman. None of those women have to be his wife, he doesn't force them to be there, they are there by choice. He would never have hit that woman back.
That is an unusual interpretation of his actions. None of those women want to be there. There is no respect whatsoever.
RE: I generally don't complain about the show but i had to laugh at Jesus Â
GTFOH with that noise. Do you think he would have spared Olivia a couple weeks ago if Rick hadn't found those two missing guns? Was that a bluff?
He views women as receptacles for his cock, and that's about it. If he doesn't beat them, it's not because he respect them. It's because he doesn't think they're worthy of a smack in the mouth.
seems to me he gets his rocks off by being a sadistic fuck.
If he fucks anything (male or female or beast) it's a form of control. any pleasure he gets will be from the control, not the dick sensation. he'd bang a guy (NTTAWWT) not because he likes dudes, but because he thinks it would be torture for the guy.
but, yeah, he respects women by burning their men with hot irons. He's expressed that he doesn't enjoy physically harming women, but his actions show that he has no problem psychologically abusing them. I hope it's a woman who kills him when his inevitable demise occurs. Hope it's anyone but that whining pussy Rick.
seems to me he gets his rocks off by being a sadistic fuck.
If he fucks anything (male or female or beast) it's a form of control. any pleasure he gets will be from the control, not the dick sensation. he'd bang a guy (NTTAWWT) not because he likes dudes, but because he thinks it would be torture for the guy.
but, yeah, he respects women by burning their men with hot irons. He's expressed that he doesn't enjoy physically harming women, but his actions show that he has no problem psychologically abusing them. I hope it's a woman who kills him when his inevitable demise occurs. Hope it's anyone but that whining pussy Rick.
I agree in general, but there's no reason to doubt he has sex with his wives.
RE: RE: This season has stuck pretty rigidly to the comics Â
This episode and the one two episodes ago was almost completely ripped out of the comics.
And people think the comics are awesome?
No idea, I never heard of the comic until I had been watching the series. I've mentioned this in other threads, but comics, don't translate well to TV or movies unless you hire outside script writers. Imagine if Stan Lee was the major creative person behind directing and writing all the Marvel movies.
RE: RE: RE: This season has stuck pretty rigidly to the comics Â
This episode and the one two episodes ago was almost completely ripped out of the comics.
And people think the comics are awesome?
No idea, I never heard of the comic until I had been watching the series. I've mentioned this in other threads, but comics, don't translate well to TV or movies unless you hire outside script writers. Imagine if Stan Lee was the major creative person behind directing and writing all the Marvel movies.
They do use other writers. And they stink. Scott Gimple and his crew aren't comics guys. They're just not very good.
This episode and the one two episodes ago was almost completely ripped out of the comics.
And people think the comics are awesome?
No idea, I never heard of the comic until I had been watching the series. I've mentioned this in other threads, but comics, don't translate well to TV or movies unless you hire outside script writers. Imagine if Stan Lee was the major creative person behind directing and writing all the Marvel movies.
They do use other writers. And they stink. Scott Gimple and his crew aren't comics guys. They're just not very good.
Well then they are the least creative writers ever. Like I mentioned there have been several scenes ripped directly out of the comics even a lot of the dialogue.
They are losing both the comic book people and the regular viewers. In the beginning it was close enough to the comics to keep that crowd happy, yet the story was different enough that endings weren't spoiled. Now they are ripping so much of the story from the comics, that there is no need to watch. Additionally, the story never seems like it's building towards anything.
was such a disaster. I really would have loved to see what he would have done. He was the reason I was interested in the first place!
I really enjoyed the first season or two of this show. I thought the most compelling scenes were the flashbacks to when the outbreak first started... The scene with Shane trying to protect Rick while he was still in a coma in the hospital was I thought the best in the history of the show.
Around the end of season 2 the quality stayed falling. By the time it got to Terminus I was done.
was such a disaster. I really would have loved to see what he would have done. He was the reason I was interested in the first place!
I really enjoyed the first season or two of this show. I thought the most compelling scenes were the flashbacks to when the outbreak first started... The scene with Shane trying to protect Rick while he was still in a coma in the hospital was I thought the best in the history of the show.
Around the end of season 2 the quality stayed falling. By the time it got to Terminus I was done.
Darabont was great, the show had a more "real world" type of feel to it. Since then, Kirkman\Gimple\Nicotero have turned it more into cartoonish type following the comics.
Although alot of the issues post Darabont has also been tied into the budget AMC limits the production of this series. Which is why they spend SO MUCH time on Herschel's farm, prison, walking the train tracks and so forth. AMC's limited budget, they are almost forced to spend entire seasons in one location and using the same sets.
According to the suit, AMC initially agreed contractually in September 2009 that the series would be produced by an unaffiliated studio such as Lionsgate or Warner Bros. Darabont would receive as much as 12.5 percent of that entity’s profit after standard industry deductions.
When Darabont delivered the script that was the basis for the first six-episode season, however, the suit alleges AMC decided to produce and broadcast the show in-house. Darabont’s representatives at CAA and the Jackoway Tyerman law firm agreed only “after gaining assurances from AMC that Darabont would obtain protections against improper self-dealing,” the suit alleges. Those protections included a commitment by AMC to "pay" its studio an "imputed" license fee comparable to what the show would get if it were made by an independent studio. Talent lawyers typically ask for such assurances.
Darabont repeatedly asked AMC to spell out the terms of his profit participation, the suit says, but the company waited to see how the show would perform. When it was clear that Walking Dead was a runaway hit, AMC then provided a proposal in February 2011 based on “an unconscionably low license fee formula” designed to ensure that the show would never be in profit, according to the suit. "AMC capped the license fee in perpetuity at the lower of 65 percent of the costs of producing the series or $1.45 million per episode, meaning that there would be a significant deficit on every episode produced for the life of the series."
Put another way, "Because of AMC's outrageous and improper formula, the profits pool in which [Darabont and CAA] participate may always be in deficit no matter how long-running and successful the series is," the suit alleges.
There have been a bunch of Wire alumni on the show.
Seriously just the best show ever IMO. I was always a huge sopranos guy and still am plus breaking bad. But the wire just felt so damn real and authentic plus the characters I just fell in love with it. I'm a junkie for that show and am hoping I get the BluRay box set for Xmas lol.
Guys a savage
I mean, you can pick on all sorts of things. But I just enjoy how stupid most of it is. Oh, Gabriel decides to just get out and walk back in the middle of nowhere and at that exact spot is this treasure map of goodies? Why yes, of course! Take a drink!
lol you just noticed this...I got another for you he was also in Oz.
I mean, you can pick on all sorts of things. But I just enjoy how stupid most of it is. Oh, Gabriel decides to just get out and walk back in the middle of nowhere and at that exact spot is this treasure map of goodies? Why yes, of course! Take a drink!
Haha, my lol moment of the show was the shot of Jesus lying on the top of the truck about to go back to Alexandria, and in the background it the entire massive Negan complex. I guess none of the dozens of guards you'd presume were posted saw a guy lying on top of Negan's truck.
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that the show makes the most unlikeable character the only one who makes any sense. Spencer is the only one to point out what a shit head that Rick is, what a bad leader Rick is, and how stupid their Zero Dark Thirty raid on the Saviors was. The show's insistence on Rick as infallible leader is just ridiculous. Among a billion other things, but this is at the heart of the show.
I mean, you can pick on all sorts of things. But I just enjoy how stupid most of it is. Oh, Gabriel decides to just get out and walk back in the middle of nowhere and at that exact spot is this treasure map of goodies? Why yes, of course! Take a drink!
Haha, my lol moment of the show was the shot of Jesus lying on the top of the truck about to go back to Alexandria, and in the background it the entire massive Negan complex. I guess none of the dozens of guards you'd presume were posted saw a guy lying on top of Negan's truck.
There are plenty in every episode! Drink!
“Sing Me a Song” was not without its good moments, and it certainly wasn’t The Walking Dead’s worst episode. But if you thought the show was spinning its wheels before (and I most certainly did) the episode was often deeply boring as it repeated information we already knew—hey, did you realize Negan was sort of a bad guy? Don’t worry, we spent about 40 minutes just watching him be horrible!—but even that was better than watching Carl, Michonne, and Rosita all plan to individually try to kill Negan, even though this is deeply, deeply stupid.
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How about he just kills Negan with Lucille which both he and Rick had about 47 chances to do?
They better have something good in store for Carl.
NTTAWWT, but Carl sure is pretty these days. I was thinking Negan was going to add him to the harem.
Ratings wise, I blame a lot of it on over saturating their audience with Talking Dead "talk show" for the series and that horrible spin-off series, Fear the Walking Dead.
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their lowest point in 4 years. But hey, midseason finale!!!
Ratings wise, I blame a lot of it on over saturating their audience with Talking Dead "talk show" for the series and that horrible spin-off series, Fear the Walking Dead.
I kinda liked fear the walking dead, but stopped watching it so I guess I didn't like it that much
highly anticipated opener
yawn/who cares
when does someone finally smack Negan.
I actually liked most episodes. Last night was the first night that wasn't almost all filler. It's idiot TV, but like Gilligan's Island, the stupidity is part of the allure.
I still hold that there's a per episode payment thing going on. Why else would you have two 90 minute episodes instead of three 60 minute ones? Wouldn't you get more bang for the buck out of 3 episodes rather than 2, since cost per minute is going to be the same (sans the per episode thing)? last night had a couple of storylines going whereas a lot of the filler episodes were solo episodes (like last week with Tara).
How long can you keep ahhhh! Zombies! and ahhhhh! bad guy! fresh.
hard to say if it's the comic books (the almost rigid sticking to them) that's holding the show back. I've been as big a critic of the writers as there is, but it's got to be tough having to stick to the books and not get to be creative with a storyline. the producers obviously want to stick with a simplistic comic book vibe except translate it to live action, and that's a tough chore.
If the ratings keep dropping, might be a wise move to ditch the source material of the books and try something new.
And I agree that slavish devotion to the comic books is a bad idea, but hillbilly-in-chief Kirkman will never let them stray too far. That's his meal ticket. And he's going to write them forever to draw every last drop of blood from the stone.
This was always one of my biggest problems with the show. They take all the major (and some minor) events from the books and then just fill in bullshit to try to get from one to the other. And now they cynically try to cram everything into finales and premieres and just fill the rest of the seasons with, well, filler.
the farm season, ending with Hershal's never ending shotgun.
Guvner multiple times.
Terminus.
this is just more of the same. this is the trouble with the show/books. rinse and repeat. Negan is just the Guv with a bat, and acted/produced more intense.
I'm still trying to decide if this season is lamer than the Terminus season or the Guvner season. The walking the tracks was pretty bad. Second coming of the Guv was decent. First one, not so much.
to me, Negan is rinse and repeat with the guv, both the buildup and the fanboy panting. Negan is more intense, although I can see the aspect of the cartoon character you've said (having brain fart on the name)
If you didn't understand, the whole episode, was showing how he respects woman. None of those women have to be his wife, he doesn't force them to be there, they are there by choice. He would never have hit that woman back.
If you didn't understand, the whole episode, was showing how he respects woman. None of those women have to be his wife, he doesn't force them to be there, they are there by choice. He would never have hit that woman back.
Dwight's wife had to become Negan's wife to stop him from murdering Dwight. I wouldn't say that's "being there by choice."
I don't think they're really pushing any "he respects women" angle here.
And people think the comics are awesome?
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showed what makes Negan great in the comics. He is a bit nuetered because he can't curse, but he is a very likable bad guy.
If you didn't understand, the whole episode, was showing how he respects woman. None of those women have to be his wife, he doesn't force them to be there, they are there by choice. He would never have hit that woman back.
Dwight's wife had to become Negan's wife to stop him from murdering Dwight. I wouldn't say that's "being there by choice."
I don't think they're really pushing any "he respects women" angle here.
Yes I understand that and he is far from a Saint. He just doesn't hit woman, rape them, etc. The girl could have left without being harmed, but her man would have suffered the consequences.
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showed what makes Negan great in the comics. He is a bit nuetered because he can't curse, but he is a very likable bad guy.
If you didn't understand, the whole episode, was showing how he respects woman. None of those women have to be his wife, he doesn't force them to be there, they are there by choice. He would never have hit that woman back.
Dwight's wife had to become Negan's wife to stop him from murdering Dwight. I wouldn't say that's "being there by choice."
I don't think they're really pushing any "he respects women" angle here.
Yes I understand that and he is far from a Saint. He just doesn't hit woman, rape them, etc. The girl could have left without being harmed, but her man would have suffered the consequences.
I wouldn't exactly call everything he does consensual...
If you didn't understand, the whole episode, was showing how he respects woman. None of those women have to be his wife, he doesn't force them to be there, they are there by choice. He would never have hit that woman back.
That is an unusual interpretation of his actions. None of those women want to be there. There is no respect whatsoever.
Maybe he was going to follow the ants...
He views women as receptacles for his cock, and that's about it. If he doesn't beat them, it's not because he respect them. It's because he doesn't think they're worthy of a smack in the mouth.
If he fucks anything (male or female or beast) it's a form of control. any pleasure he gets will be from the control, not the dick sensation. he'd bang a guy (NTTAWWT) not because he likes dudes, but because he thinks it would be torture for the guy.
but, yeah, he respects women by burning their men with hot irons. He's expressed that he doesn't enjoy physically harming women, but his actions show that he has no problem psychologically abusing them. I hope it's a woman who kills him when his inevitable demise occurs. Hope it's anyone but that whining pussy Rick.
If he fucks anything (male or female or beast) it's a form of control. any pleasure he gets will be from the control, not the dick sensation. he'd bang a guy (NTTAWWT) not because he likes dudes, but because he thinks it would be torture for the guy.
but, yeah, he respects women by burning their men with hot irons. He's expressed that he doesn't enjoy physically harming women, but his actions show that he has no problem psychologically abusing them. I hope it's a woman who kills him when his inevitable demise occurs. Hope it's anyone but that whining pussy Rick.
I agree in general, but there's no reason to doubt he has sex with his wives.
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This episode and the one two episodes ago was almost completely ripped out of the comics.
And people think the comics are awesome?
No idea, I never heard of the comic until I had been watching the series. I've mentioned this in other threads, but comics, don't translate well to TV or movies unless you hire outside script writers. Imagine if Stan Lee was the major creative person behind directing and writing all the Marvel movies.
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This episode and the one two episodes ago was almost completely ripped out of the comics.
And people think the comics are awesome?
No idea, I never heard of the comic until I had been watching the series. I've mentioned this in other threads, but comics, don't translate well to TV or movies unless you hire outside script writers. Imagine if Stan Lee was the major creative person behind directing and writing all the Marvel movies.
They do use other writers. And they stink. Scott Gimple and his crew aren't comics guys. They're just not very good.
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In comment 13251243 JOrthman said:
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This episode and the one two episodes ago was almost completely ripped out of the comics.
And people think the comics are awesome?
No idea, I never heard of the comic until I had been watching the series. I've mentioned this in other threads, but comics, don't translate well to TV or movies unless you hire outside script writers. Imagine if Stan Lee was the major creative person behind directing and writing all the Marvel movies.
They do use other writers. And they stink. Scott Gimple and his crew aren't comics guys. They're just not very good.
Well then they are the least creative writers ever. Like I mentioned there have been several scenes ripped directly out of the comics even a lot of the dialogue.
I really enjoyed the first season or two of this show. I thought the most compelling scenes were the flashbacks to when the outbreak first started... The scene with Shane trying to protect Rick while he was still in a coma in the hospital was I thought the best in the history of the show.
Around the end of season 2 the quality stayed falling. By the time it got to Terminus I was done.
Their stories at least varied a bit more from the comics back then.
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was such a disaster. I really would have loved to see what he would have done. He was the reason I was interested in the first place!
I really enjoyed the first season or two of this show. I thought the most compelling scenes were the flashbacks to when the outbreak first started... The scene with Shane trying to protect Rick while he was still in a coma in the hospital was I thought the best in the history of the show.
Around the end of season 2 the quality stayed falling. By the time it got to Terminus I was done.
Darabont was great, the show had a more "real world" type of feel to it. Since then, Kirkman\Gimple\Nicotero have turned it more into cartoonish type following the comics.
Although alot of the issues post Darabont has also been tied into the budget AMC limits the production of this series. Which is why they spend SO MUCH time on Herschel's farm, prison, walking the train tracks and so forth. AMC's limited budget, they are almost forced to spend entire seasons in one location and using the same sets.
According to the suit, AMC initially agreed contractually in September 2009 that the series would be produced by an unaffiliated studio such as Lionsgate or Warner Bros. Darabont would receive as much as 12.5 percent of that entity’s profit after standard industry deductions.
When Darabont delivered the script that was the basis for the first six-episode season, however, the suit alleges AMC decided to produce and broadcast the show in-house. Darabont’s representatives at CAA and the Jackoway Tyerman law firm agreed only “after gaining assurances from AMC that Darabont would obtain protections against improper self-dealing,” the suit alleges. Those protections included a commitment by AMC to "pay" its studio an "imputed" license fee comparable to what the show would get if it were made by an independent studio. Talent lawyers typically ask for such assurances.
Darabont repeatedly asked AMC to spell out the terms of his profit participation, the suit says, but the company waited to see how the show would perform. When it was clear that Walking Dead was a runaway hit, AMC then provided a proposal in February 2011 based on “an unconscionably low license fee formula” designed to ensure that the show would never be in profit, according to the suit. "AMC capped the license fee in perpetuity at the lower of 65 percent of the costs of producing the series or $1.45 million per episode, meaning that there would be a significant deficit on every episode produced for the life of the series."
Put another way, "Because of AMC's outrageous and improper formula, the profits pool in which [Darabont and CAA] participate may always be in deficit no matter how long-running and successful the series is," the suit alleges.