I'm sorry but he is right on the money with the last two items. Characters doing dumb out-of-character things and the walkers being no threat are my biggest issues with the show.
After a while people learned to adapt to walkers, walkers are one of the weakest form of zombies in zombie media, they are only a threat when in a herd.
I love The Walking Dead, and I’ve always kinda looked past the budget (or lack of). My problem with AMC is how much they spoil future events for their shows. They kept Glenn and Abraham’s death a huge secret. But since then they have spoiled everything coming up: Rick and Michonne leaving, Carl’s death, Daryl and Carol’s spin-offs, now Maggie and Negan’s spin-off, etc. so now I know all of those characters survive this world. In FTWD, they’ve spoiled Morgan and Dwight switching to that world, Nick’s death and now Madison’s return. There are no surprises anymore and it has ruined the suspense of the stories.
Also about the walkers I feel like freshly reanimated ones should be more violent and quicker, while the old ones who always seem to have vines on them should be slower and weaker
Yess, and also the walker Negan had to kill outside by the power generator in "Heres Negan ", that walker looked so rotted and unfresh like wasn't it the beginning of the apocalypse!
It’s my favourite show of all time but the 5 main things I don’t like about the show are: 1. One/couple character focused episodes 2. Walkers being too weak, in s1-6 the threat of walkers still felt strong and intense. 3. Small Budget at many points 4. Dialogue that doesn’t follow the story 5. Scenery (Woods 🌲) it is actually cool filming in forests but it’s getting old. 5 things that make this my favourite show! 1. Legendary characters 2. Realistic writing 3. Intensity is always sky high 4. Shocking moments examples: (Morgan coming back every few seasons, cool reveals) or (Pike deaths scene, Glenn, Abraham death) 5. Near perfect pacing (in it’s prime)
I feel like Carls death was so unnecessary mainly due to who he becomes in the comics, the last man standing and its like he only died so rick could say I won't kill negan when in the comics that wasn't necessary
@@GuyKnowsAll and especially in the newer seasons he grew up and got better as a character as a whole. I feel like they cut him out right at the worst moment possible too
I love this show and will defend most of it but one thing that really grinds my gears about it is that most of the teenage characters are ABSOLUTELY STUPID AND ANNOYING AS HELL! I will defend the walkers not being a threat in certain seasons because the walking dead aren’t necessarily the walkers themselves but about the survivors
I AGREE!! I thought these last couple seasons have shown no death, I miss season 7 when we lost 2 main characters in the premiere, then lost Sasha. Now, I don’t really worry for the main characters which destroys the suspense, it’s boring knowing these characters aren’t gonna die
i really agree with your point about fan feedback and the writers appealing too much to what the fans want sometimes... honestly, to me that's why i started to like daryl less and less as the series went on, bc imo it often felt like they privileged daryl too much over other characters simply because they know the fans love him, and like they were constantly trying to give him as many badass things to do as they could instead of letting other characters shine occasionally ://
One of my favorite shows but probably my biggest issues with it are (in no order): SPOILERS 1) Season 7 and 8 being too slow. All-Out-War should have been a season or a season and half. Also I hate the green screen behind Rick in that episode, too. 2) Putting shock value over character growth and their role in the story. Characters not being used much before being killed off, or are just getting good and are all of a sudden killed off (ex. T-Dog I forgot about, Noah died 6 episodes after joining the group and didn't get to have his own character, Negan's ex-wife Frankie becomes a pike death even though she only showed up twice in the season she was killed off in, Morales dies in the episode after he returns, etc.). 3) Making characters unimportant in the show (ex. Jesse killed off and in the next episode Rick is suddenly with Michonne, Noah). 4) Only a few characters from seasons 1-3 are left. 5) The Diverged episode from season 10 was so pointless and boring. At least other slow episodes pushed the story in some way. All this did in the end was have Daryl return to Alexandria. 6) Carl and Beth dying in stupid and unnecessary ways along with Carl not being in the Whisperer War. 7) The final battles for All-Out-War and the Whisperers were pretty small scale especially compared to the earlier battles with Simon attacking the Hilltop and the Whisperers attacking the Hilltop. 8) Dwight leaving for Fear the Walking Dead.
I completely lost interest in The Walking Dead. I was completely into the show when the zombie apocalypse is fresh and zombies actually feel like the main the threat.
I think AMC's cheapness and the 16-episode format are the 2 biggest problems of this series. Too many filler and pacing problems. In particular, the Savior/Negan storyline. 2 and a half seasons is way too much for the source material. Also, the cast is way too bloated since at least season 7.
Maybe it's just me, but one thing that always bugged me about the start of season 9 - While they are in D.C., why would they not make a side trip to the Capitol, White House, Pentagon to find out ANYTHING about what happened? I know this isn't something that would go necessarily with the storyline, but who wouldn't?? Plus it could have sent the story in a really interesting direction IMO.
I love TWD and I agree with all the flaws you discussed in this video, I also hate cut away walker kills and when the show only shows you like 10 mins of a battle then skips to later, which happened in S10E12!
Agree so much with you for the fan feedback influencing the show! Its so annoying... It was what I liked about TWD that anyone can died, but now I feel like that thing that made the show so good is gone...
One of the things that i despise in TWD that is not unique at all to it: stop making a set amount of episodes per season!!! Period, full stop. How are you ever going to foster true mystery, intrigue, surprise, and enjoyment when we know essentially what will happen with the story beats every time? It's retarded how TV producers don't realize this crap since the golden age of TV began about 20 years ago. I don't despise filler episodes as a general rule. TWD, Avatar, Justified, and Breaking Bad in particular, i really enjoyed a lot of them but good God, AMC execs went full retard with TWD. How about you just make each season long enough to tell the arc you are attempting to? This would have created sooooo much more hype and love for the show because the crazy twists and deaths and such would have been legitimate, meaningful surprises. Imagine if season 6 had ended with Abraham and Glenn getting hit and then cut to black before the next season? Once the prison got broken, the characters finding each other should have been three episodes, tops, and i say that even though i love Daryl and Beth's story and The Grove is arguably my favorite episode of the show. Season 2 is effing terrible on rewatch because 7 episodes to just find Sophia in the barn is such an anticlimax. Way too long. And as a general fan of most of season 11, 24 episodes is too frakking long for ANY television show. If they had trimmed the fat, tightened the scripts, and changed season durations up. They could have saved on the budget for better scenes, paying the actors more so they don't leave or become exhausted from artificially dragging things out, and this also keeps audiences more engaged and tuning in because they don't simply watch for premieres and finales. It's not hard math but these studio execs are morons. Now, i really do feel the same, Moviefusion. I love this show immensely. It is one of my all time favorites. TWD could easily have been a contender for the greatest television show of all time. The potential is there and they made mostly good choices with characters and the casting is simply the best of all time. But now, this show is going to go down in history as dragged on way too long and lost its oomph a long time ago. Greedy execs piss me off. They only think of the dollar instead of the societal importance of their show. Breaking Bad ended when it should have and now it is remembered fondly pretty much universally.
Yes the new walker varints being introduced now is kinda dumb but the walker at the end credit scene in World Beyond wan't just running. The person was shot in the head and they still turned into a walker, and they turned within a few seconds after dying. The walker also remembered where the guy left from and ran to the door with a lot of force.
The real issue is The Walking Dead is a limited concept that gets repetitive. That’s why Kirkmann abruptly ended the comic the way he did. There are only so many variations of psychotic leaders to confront. There are only so many zombie set pieces you can do before it gets old
Breaking Bad was good because it had an ending. They weren’t trying to milk the audience indefinitely like TWD. Since we know they can’t end the show without ending the franchise it gets pointless.
I'd disagree about COVID episodes. Id be willing to bet it was a pandemic effect like everything else, that instead of being able to end S10 on time (May 2020) and then begin S11 as originally planned that Fall, they were delayed because if COVID and choose to supplement 10 & 11 with "in between" episodes. I will say those added to the story, just not as big as a "regular" episode normally would. Without COVID, you likely would've seen these tossed into S11 and I'd be willing to bet we would've had a typical 11 and then a different 12 (mostly ending at where we are now, either Spring 2022 or year-end if they split it with extra episodes.) Either way, those filler episodes were important - setting up Leah, Reapers mostly, but also offering snippets of traincar captures, "regular life" work in communities, and of course an opp to get the coveted Megan backstory.
It was related to the pandemic, yes. But that’s because of the budget. If they had a higher budget, they wouldn’t have felt the need to make those episodes. They would’ve been just fine with waiting a bit longer for new episodes instead of rushing out these very unimportant episodes (except for one or two of them)
I hate too, after i watch ss8, i so done with this. Rick doen't kill negan because his want to be good guy after everthing negan and rick did, I so tired to see this show.
@@supergamerboy7899 the first episode is controversial (7x1) but for the people who loved it, it’s up there with Ozymandias and it is better in my opinion, but like I said it’s controversial because two main characters die and it wasn’t the end of the series.
i feel like another problem with the walkers is the inconsistency with how they work. sometimes they can be taken down with one poke to the eye while other times they will be shot in the face and still get up. or when they get bashed over the head and are still moving. it just doesn’t make sense and raises questions that will never be answered because it’s just bad writing. i also hate the fact that after the characters found out the bare minimum about the walkers they never questioned it again. like i want to see them try to find a cure or just figure out more about the apocalypse in general.
John Carpenter (in 2016): "[The Walking Dead] was a movie that George Romero made back in 1968 [Night of the Living Dead]. And they have milked that, and they are _still_ milking it. It's unreal."
Could you argue that if the zombies are more decomposed over time they would be easier to kill in the later seasons vs earlier ones? (referring to your multiple stab comment)
Not to a large degree because the skull doesn’t rot the same way skin/muscles would. The skull doesn’t get softer overtime after a body is dead. The skull should still be pretty hard to stab through.
As a comic reader, before the show, I could accept a few changes here and there. At first I enjoyed the changes, because they added new things, like Daryl, and improved the original Carol. But as time went on, they started killing characters out of the blue, that should not have been killed. I stuck around because I wanted to see Negan. But after so many character assassinations and dumb choices to make the plot go forward, I lost interest. And finally, what they did with Carl is when I fully gave up on the show. Because the show made Shane right. That Rick couldn't protect his family.
A branching point off of character stupidity mixed with walker threat is situations that compound to artificially inflate the danger of a scenario. For example our hero is searching for supplies, sees edge of backpack sticking out of a 10 foot high sand pile, hero pulls at backpack sand pile levels out revealing 10 walkers underneath, hero gets leg immediately grabbed and falls down sliding their knife away from them making the exchange a struggle, hero finds alternative material to stab walked in head. How many times do they have to set up these cheesy scenarios where 7 things go wrong in 10 seconds to make a couple walkers more threatening. Cool it with the: weapons breaking on walkers, floors breaking tripping our characters, hurting your ankle making you the speed of the walkers, walkers who died with metal/armor on, walker jumpscares going from no threat to a dozen walkers in a blink of the eye. I love the show but the only way they even attempt to write intense scenes with walkers for main characters are these inflated exaggerated scenarios that end the same way in the end, with our hero prevailing.
How would you have felt if TWD starting at an earlier season instead of following the comics, they started to try to find remaining government or a cure somewhere in Washington DC or a storyline similar to that
I would not like that. I think TWD is very unique from other zombie properties because there’s barely anything about cures in it. The world they live in is hopeless and it’s all about trying to make the best of it, not about trying to fix it.
Good video man. Like you said the budget is the biggest problem because the environments and action scenes look cheap not to mention actors constantly leaving to go do others projects. And another giant one is plot armor because man does the use it it's plot armor. These solutions are simple but AMC won't do it because they don't care about the fans or making the show great, all they care about is money.
I have a good several deep gripes about this beloved series myself, but the one I choose to mention is that I absolutely HATE how much of a king billybada$$ they make rick look like, for someone who ALWAYS got his butt kicked in fight scenes, except for the times when he was going at it with a non-main character. When he first met abraham in season 5, he almost got his butt handed to him back then, but glenn stopped it
I agree about the zombies not being enough of a threat. It would have been especially cool if the zombies had more residual intelligence and problem solving skills left but I guess that would be a totally different show.
another thing that really bugs me is the cheesy slow mo sequences in the newer seasons. it feels goofy. I miss when the show didn't feel like a fanfiction writers Interpretation of source material especially when it comes to tone. it should be dark
man i only just got into the walking dead recently and i binged watched it up until halfway through season 10, i absolutely loved MOST of it but honestly i almost enjoy your videos about it more than the show, the passion you have for the show makes for really enjoyable content so keep it up! i agree with most things you said here and something that i don’t like about the show that i dont see mentioned that much is how no one really ever talks about the people who died, like besides glenn and lori for a few episodes i feel like mostly everyone just kinda gets forgotten about and it doesn’t feel real at all, you had some really great and important characters and they never really get mentioned at all after they die, like all the people at the farm who died never really get mentioned again by the rest of their family which on a rewatch makes them genuinely feel like nothing characters, tara never mentions her sister or grandpa ever, t dog saved carol and he hasn’t been mentioned like once etc etc and it just doesn’t seem realistic to me
The thing with actors leaving, that's definitely going to happen with a show that has 11 seasons. It's a huge commitment and I don't think all of them want to be on a zombie show for like 10 years. But I get most of your points.
I remember watching the walking dead in earlier seasons (probably from season 1-3) very scared because the walkers are very scary and threatening especially in season 1 when the walkers and their horde in Atlanta city can move agressively, and follow you quickly, they are not running zombies but they can still move fast and use some tools to get on their prey (just like the walkers using rock to break the glass in season 1), they were terrifying and very threatening, until frank darabont left, and the walker became progressively slow and unthreatening over the season. The characters also became very bad ass that walkers would only be a threat if they are on horde ( I do not have any problems on characters becoming bad ass but they should also manitain the danger of the walkers so that the show's dreading atmosphere would not vanish).
But who do you think is listening to little ole you? I'm just curious. Did you send in a complaint letter. Do they know you have these feelings. Do you think they are going to see this video or something. I'm not trying to be mean. I'm trying to understand your statement about wanting them to do better?
Meh, the season 6 cliffhanger is fine now as it was only really an issue due to having to wait half a year to find out the result, now it's just going on to the next episode
The thing I hate about TWD is all the annoying black male characters. Bob, Morgan, Tyreese, Gabriel, that Kingdom dude, etc. They can't seem to write a decent black male character to save their lives. They are all annoying as hell. I liked T-Dog pretty well, but he cuts himself in a stupid way in season 2 and then dies in season 3 for no apparent reason. Also the infinite ammo, gasoline and weird zombie immortality doesn't make any sense.
