re: The Walking Dead - Where do I find the strength?

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Yeah I don't think I made it past season 2. I was never super into it anyway.

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i blame this board. i remember i was done and then 50 threads started at the same time "MICHONE!!!!!" and i turned back on to find the ninja-sword wielding woman with 2 zombies for pets and it drew me back in.

but yep, it became tiresome and i think i only started watching because it was on right after(?) breaking bad? there was some type of tie-in there.

I think what really finally killed it for me is when I missed out on an entire season because I was already pretty well burned out on the show, then picked back up the following season because my ex still wanted to watch it, and realized that missing that entire season really had no impact on my ability to follow what was going on. Literally nothing had changed. Still the same group of people wandering through the woods.

I watched a few eps past Negan killing the asian kid but stopped after that and never once cared to go back

I stopped soon after the Negan era began. Killing Glenn more or less killed the show for me.

What killed it for me was Carl dying, and then Rick dying. The entire show for me was Rick trying to save his family from a zombie apocalypse. That's how it was set up season 1 and 2. Then they started bringing in a bunch of other people I didn't care about.

Edit: I realize Rick didn't actually die but, as far as this show goes, he did.

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I watched a few eps past Negan killing the asian kid but stopped after that and never once cared to go back

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Yep, that was the episode that jumped the shark. They just spent seasons losing their innocence in the world with the farm and governor. All those hard lessons had to be forgotten because the authors needed them to be stupid enough to walk into that trap where Negan could monolog and brain Glenn and Abraham with Lucille. Then after they get away, they spent seasons where Negan was suppose to intimidate Rick into submission. Rick is the person that killed another man by biting him and ripping his jugular vain out in front of his followers. Yep, some dude was a baseball bat wrapped in a little barbed wire is going to intimidate that dude.

Every episode with Negan was a monolog and then he guts some minor character. Mind you, many times he was by himself in Alexandria. They just all stood around and took it because of "hostages." Rick by his natural progression should have put a bullet between dude's eyes and attacked their compound where the hostages were being held immediately.

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All those hard lessons had to be forgotten because the authors needed them to be stupid enough to walk into that trap where Negan could monolog and brain Glenn and Abraham with Lucille. Then after they get away, they spent seasons where Negan was suppose to intimidate Rick into submission.

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Seems like they spent a lot of time building up the Negan story arc before even introducing him…then they dragged the storyline out way too long. Even the way they “ended” it was less than satisfying. You wanted to see Negan’s brains festooning that barbed-wire bat.

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have too much invested to at not know how it ends.

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Spoliers……..







No one makes it out alive…… Fin

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that's straight out of the comics, though.

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which was only written in the comic so it would be on the TV show.

Shouldve been a shark instead. Just to jump over.