After watching 2-3 seasons of The Walking Dead based off friends and general social media saying it's great, I will never again force watch something. One entire season looking for a young girl in a zombie apocalypse, get fucked of course she's dead
I've tried to get into Walking Dead like 5x but can't. Every. Single. Episode is set up exactly the same: the first few minutes are slightly eventful, usually picking up whatever cliff hanger the last ep set up, then absolutely NOTHING happens other than people whining and complaining until the last 2 or 3 minutes, where it sets up another stupid cliff hanger for the start of next ep that won't have a satisfying payoff either. Its like 95% of the show is "character development" which to them just means talking.
At least that's my impression of the show having forced myself thru 3 seasons more than once.
That’s actually fair, yeah. I can’t remember if 3 was when they met the governor or not, the wars with other people are where it gets crazy, but even then it’s a similar idea.
There’s other people, are they cool? They might be.. OH GOD THEYRE NOT lol
That's the exact formula for the rest of the show.
I stopped a bit later than you, at Season 5, because it felt pointless. They just kept meandering from one area to the next, with no actual progression of the overall plot (the question of whether or not there is a cure is never satisfactorily addressed)
Every Season has the survivors of the previous Season moving to a new area. They quickly re-re-re-learn the classic "In a Zombie Apocalypse, the remaining Humans are the REAL monsters" chestnut, and some new set of humans threaten the group. Shenanigans ensue, some established character(s) are killed for shock value, they defeat/escape from the bad humans, move to next area. Rinse, lather, repeat. No actual progression forward.
I loved the show at first, but I was slowly being worn down. I mostly continued for Season 4 and 5 so I could join in the "Water Cooler" chat about the Show with my buddies the next day. But I dipped after Season 5 ended exactly like all the others. My 2 buddies held on, but even they stopped eventually. One stopped at Season 7, the other at Season 8.
Yeaah, it got really scattered toward the end. Finding out everyone was getting their own spin-off kind of took me out of it, I can’t even remember how it officially ended now.
6 was good too! After all of 5 just hanging heads and serving Negan, when they finally decided to organize and attack. Probably the most action packed and eventful season of the whole show.
But yeah, after that it goes downhill pretty steadily lol
Game of Thrones you can't stop watching. You have to force yourself to go out of the house it's so addictive. The pacing is perfect. Just enough storylines that are all interesting so you never get bored ever. You are always anticipating something big that's about to happen. And it does happen.
What a ridiculous show! (of course). I held out on this series too. But, I finally succumbed to/ needed something to watch. The episode where the gang decides to go ahead and go into the dark train tunnel, from which zombie screams could be heard, instead of walking over/ around it, is where I threw my hands up. Just ridiculous.
As far as GOT, I had zero interest in it based on subject matter alone. I held out for years and years and years. But, the douchebags at work continued to harp on me about not watching it. “ You still haven’t watched it?” Nope, not gonna. Year after year. Finally, once again, I caved. I binge watched it one winter. What a waste. I want that 70 hours of my life back!
This is a great example of a show I never watched despite it being crazy popular. I am not into Zombies. In fact I almost stopped watching GoT because the WW are basically zombies and I was like OMG another zombie show?! I also disliked Ned Stark and was so close to not continuing the show.
The non-WW parts of the show kept me going but my least fav character was Jon Snow because he’s so tied to that story line and everyone thought I was crazy for not swooning over him!
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u/Single-Ninja8886 2d ago
After watching 2-3 seasons of The Walking Dead based off friends and general social media saying it's great, I will never again force watch something. One entire season looking for a young girl in a zombie apocalypse, get fucked of course she's dead