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Post by jriddle73 on Mar 26, 2018 15:01:19 GMT
Deadlier and more prolific than the zombie virus, the Stupids continued to plague THE WALKING DEAD tonight. Simon leads the Saviors to attack Hilltop with no guns, just a few bows and a bunch of melee weapons. Last week, regarding this plan, I asked, "How, exactly, are the Saviors, who are supposed to be getting low on ammo, ever going to get close enough to cut people barricaded in a walled fortress on a, yes, hilltop, particularly given that those people have guns--fully automatic weapons--to keep any attackers well at bay?" Tonight, we got the answer: Hilltop, infected by the Stupids, just opens the gate and lets the Saviors in. When the Savior force arrives at its objective, some spike-strips placed on the road take out the tires on their lead vehicles, so they stop within easy range of the fortress to remove these obstacles. It's dark but they're lit by their own headlines--sitting ducks--yet the Hilltoppers don't fire on them, just lets them mill about. At this point, they can be turned to Swiss cheese before they even get to the gate--there's absolutely no way they're getting inside, and no way they can lay siege to the place either. If they stay there, they can be shot down at Hilltop's leisure. They've brought knives to a gunfight and that's that. Fortunately for them--and for the ep's running time--the writers haven't yet filled their contractually-obligated quota of moments during the season when Daryl is supposed to be made to look cool. Returning from lookout duty on his motorcycle, Daryl drives right through the middle of the enemy force, shooting them down as he goes. Hilltop opens the gates to let him in and just lets the Saviors roll right on through too. As embarrassingly Stupid as this looks, it gets instantly worse: it turns out this was Maggie's plan all along. She has people waiting to ambush them as they come in.[1] The Hilltoppers, who probably outnumber the Saviors, are armed with fully-automatic weapons. Only on TWD can this be anything other than a one-sided massacre that lasts a few seconds but, the Spirit of Stupid having descended, the Saviors somehow make a hard fight of it... The full article is here: cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/2018/03/walking-dead-107.html
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Mar 26, 2018 15:18:09 GMT
Hard to argue with anything there, really. The part about the kid opening the door to the pen had me screaming at the TV. That is horrible writing.
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Mar 26, 2018 22:03:47 GMT
Lol is this show being written as a parody/spoof? Because if it is then it all makes sense. Funny how after Carl was bitten it took him half a day (or was it more?) to die but Tobin and the redshirts turned in a couple hours.
You're wrong about there being no guards. Henry was the guard. Why else would he have that gun as big as him and the key to the prisoner pen if he wasn't? It couldn't be bad writing could it? Doesn't it makes sense to have a kid watching the prisoners while all the adults slept?
And we lost another 'doctor,' the woman with Sadiq(sp?), again leaving just one on the show.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2018 13:20:54 GMT
Just kill them all. They're boring me.
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Post by xystophoros on Mar 27, 2018 21:20:44 GMT
QUICK EVERYONE, NEGAN WOULD HAVE WANTED US TO AVOID ALL COVER AND WALK RIGHT INTO AUTOMATIC WEAPONS FIRE WHILE WHISTLING AND CARRYING KNIVES!!!
Hey, let’s explore the really fascinating story of how the ZA corrupts and ruins the innocence of youth, because we haven’t done that to death with Carl, and Lizzie and Mika, and forgettable characters! Get this new idiot kid a gun and send him to the prison pen! Set it to sappy piano and violin music, Angela Kang loves the sappy stuff!
Hey, let’s have Maggie standing in front of the grave sites with that same morose look on her face, but to make sure the audience really gets it, let’s have that Kingdom woman say: “What are you thinking of?” And Maggie says: “The cost!”
Hey, let’s mark Morgan’s 11th descent into madness by giving him visions of Gavin, and let’s make sure the audience gets it by having Gavin say “It was supposed to be you!” at least 25 times!
Hey, after 2 1/2 years of jerking the audience around, let’s get in another stroke by having Jadis — a completely fucking absurd character universally loathed by fans — somehow follow Rick like Gollum from Lord of the Rings and steal The Precious from right under his nose!
“I’m sorry, Greg Nicotero, which one is The Precious? Negan?”
“No, you idiot, it’s Lucille! This whole arc has been about Lucille!”
Hey, after Tara has wanted to kill Dwight for 2 seasons, let’s give her a chance of heart IMMEDIATELY AFTER DWIGHT SHOOTS HER WITH AN ARROW and have Tara defend Dwight while Daryl raves about killing him!
ANGELA KANG IS A GENIUS!!!
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Post by johnblutarsky on Mar 28, 2018 21:19:01 GMT
As soon as the kid found the rifle, I knew he was going to do something monumentally stupid. I was not disappointed. I’m not sure how he got the keys to the cage, however. I doubt Maggie left them laying around.
When the saviors came in through the gate and split-up, didn’t Simon (or one of those guys) say, “Be quiet!”? (I’ll have to rewatch to make sure). Then, seconds later, they start whistling their stupid Negan tune.
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Post by xystophoros on Mar 29, 2018 0:27:23 GMT
As soon as the kid found the rifle, I knew he was going to do something monumentally stupid. I was not disappointed. I’m not sure how he got the keys to the cage, however. I doubt Maggie left them laying around. When the saviors came in through the gate and split-up, didn’t Simon (or one of those guys) say, “Be quiet!”? (I’ll have to rewatch to make sure). Then, seconds later, they start whistling their stupid Negan tune. Everything about it was maximally idiotic, which is exactly what we have come to expect from Angela Kang and Scott Gimple. Remember, AMC intentionally chose to promote a writer who has routinely penned the lowest-rated, least-watched, most-loathed episodes of the series. It takes a lot for regular TV watchers to seek out the name of a particular writer and call them out -- that doesn't happen unless the episodes in question are monumental stinkers.
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Post by Morgana on Mar 29, 2018 16:17:20 GMT
Deadlier and more prolific than the zombie virus, the Stupids continued to plague THE WALKING DEAD tonight. Simon leads the Saviors to attack Hilltop with no guns, just a few bows and a bunch of melee weapons. Last week, regarding this plan, I asked, "How, exactly, are the Saviors, who are supposed to be getting low on ammo, ever going to get close enough to cut people barricaded in a walled fortress on a, yes, hilltop, particularly given that those people have guns--fully automatic weapons--to keep any attackers well at bay?" Tonight, we got the answer: Hilltop, infected by the Stupids, just opens the gate and lets the Saviors in. When the Savior force arrives at its objective, some spike-strips placed on the road take out the tires on their lead vehicles, so they stop within easy range of the fortress to remove these obstacles. It's dark but they're lit by their own headlines--sitting ducks--yet the Hilltoppers don't fire on them, just lets them mill about. At this point, they can be turned to Swiss cheese before they even get to the gate--there's absolutely no way they're getting inside, and no way they can lay siege to the place either. If they stay there, they can be shot down at Hilltop's leisure. They've brought knives to a gunfight and that's that. Fortunately for them--and for the ep's running time--the writers haven't yet filled their contractually-obligated quota of moments during the season when Daryl is supposed to be made to look cool. Returning from lookout duty on his motorcycle, Daryl drives right through the middle of the enemy force, shooting them down as he goes. Hilltop opens the gates to let him in and just lets the Saviors roll right on through too. As embarrassingly Stupid as this looks, it gets instantly worse: it turns out this was Maggie's plan all along. She has people waiting to ambush them as they come in.[1] The Hilltoppers, who probably outnumber the Saviors, are armed with fully-automatic weapons. Only on TWD can this be anything other than a one-sided massacre that lasts a few seconds but, the Spirit of Stupid having descended, the Saviors somehow make a hard fight of it... The full article is here: cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/2018/03/walking-dead-107.htmlYou've basically summed up everything wrong with the series in general, and this season in particular.
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