TWD was an awesome show. My wife and I watched it every week on AMC and even picked up the seasons on DVD. Once Negan came around it seemed to drag. We lost interest.
shareYes- not as interesting. Seems like the same message being rehashed. The initial seasons were very rich and intense. Subsequent seasons just relied on shock value.
shareI don't know it if was because of Negan or not, but that opening season where he killed Glenn and Abraham was just not right. I don't care how realistic it was or was trying to be, or gritty, that crap was inexcusable and then they just set about trying to outdo it, not to mention those Whisperers were the most ridiculous enemies. It was insulting and just got more so over time. Like to be insulted and grossed out ... keep watching.
shareGore definitely isn't the problem for me. It's a show about zombies and psychopaths so it's to be expected. I'd say the graphic novels actually out do the show when it comes to gore even with the art style and being black and white.
shareThat is when I lost interest too. I have not watched the last couple seasons at all.
shareI watched up to season 10. Was already losing interest, but totally lost any desire to watch any more after the first couple episodes of season 10.
Yes, I lost interest 5 to 6 seasons ago.
I watched last night.
Once again.....all the things I am tired of.
They didn't even address the cliffhanger which was the mysterious group that popped up on Eugene and friends.
They didn't even show those characters.....the entire episode just followed one group.
The the one millionth episode......they are wandering around in the woods.....and we get to watch them kill a pack of zombies. Haven't seen that a million times.
Oh.....right on queue.....get rid of one bad group.....poof another now bad group instantly fills in....The Governor....The Hospital....Terminus....the Wolves.....Negan.....the Whisperers (and anyone else I forgot).......now it is the Reapers.
The same plot.....the same template for every season for 10 seasons.
Yes, I am tired of this show.
The show inexplicably remains AMC's cash cow,even though creatively it has been on artificial life support for quite a while now (as,indeed,the whole franchise in general) That's probably why Kirkman abruptly pulled the plug on the comics,because he realized he had run out of fresh ideas.
Unfortunately that is the problem with long running shows/franchises like this with no clear endgame in sight. It inevitably becomes formulaic and cliche.
I continue to watch,albeit with lowered expectations. I have,however,given up entirely on FTWD, which really went downhill after a strong season 3 (which,IMO,was the only start to finish consistent season,after it's lackluster first 2,though the last half of 2 was better than the first half),and I couldn't even make it past the first 20 minutes of World Beyond!!
Too f'n woke for me.
sharePosted this in another thread. Not much to add
For me it happened in phases over time.
I binge watched the first 4 seasons. The experience is different when you can just watch back to back. Once I caught up to real time, I had a week or more between episodes to contemplate just how absurd things were or how slow and drawn out the seasons really are.
That began phase 2 - hate watching. I don't care for that term, but that's what has been used to describe watching solely to discuss the problems from one episode to the next. I didn't actually hate the show, but it began to be more fun to commiserate with other fans from imdb on the flaws than what I got from the show itself. Which leads me to...
phase 3 - imdb boards shutting down. With few people to commiserate with, I began to lose interest pretty quickly. I was hoping the arrival of Negan would shake things up and make it more interesting. But this nonsense just went off the rails. Negan was so sadistic and made their lives so miserable, but they had so many opportunities early on to just kill him. Like, he's right there, just fucking pop him. WTF?
That was the end for me. I think it was S7E4. He's standing at the gate hitting walkers with a bat talking about "service." So stupid. Anyway that was it for me.
I like you binged a lot originally In one go, the first series in Alexander possibly being the first I watched as it aired.
The thing is even by then I was getting a little sick of the pattern. Find somewhere, someone wants it, defend it but eventually have to move on. Repeat.
When Negan came I was excited as we hadn't had a proper villain since the governor and felt that the show worked best when there was a human enemy. I mean for a show about zombies the zombies are properly one of the least developed parts.
However the whole war with the savioirs was dragged on and then negan and the saviours was replaced with alpha and the whisperers. I actually enjoyed the whisperers when they where a mystery, when the group knew something was up but not what. It allowed them to play with the horror aspect a lot more.
For me the show worked the best when it was in the prison, building a community. When they had that character bring the plans I thought that was where we'd maybe go, showing them building a community, a society and dealing with the issues that came with it and disagreements etc.
I've yet to see any of the other shows yet but probably will at some point but I feel like like AMC are trying to do too much. Thing is most casual fans don't want to have to watch different shows
yeah, shortly after season 1 I could see the series was just not the same anymore with AMC halfing the budget and doubling the episodes for season 2
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