The Walking Dead Season 3... SUNDAY NIGHT!

[ZaneNBK]

I think next season we'll have to start two different threads:

The Walking Dead Season 3 - For those who enjoy the show and want to discuss.
The Walking Dead Season 4 - For those who hate the show and want to complain.

I still enjoy the show but this episode was shitty enough I wanted to bitch about it. Typically I just lurk in this thread and read other people's bitching.

 

[olds]

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Carl did the right thing.

MotionMan

This. I am surprised more people aren't like him.
Attack my people, you're dead. Not giving you a chance to try again. I would think you'd have to be ruthless to survive in that environment.

 

[Jaskalas]

Pro tip, when handing your gun over... you drop it... you don't keep pointing it in their direction. You don't lean it closer towards their head. Carl was 100% justified in self defense. A second of hesitation can get you killed, as the Governor proved a moment later.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I don't understand why those two guys stuck with the governor. The one guy seemed pretty cool when he was stuck talking to Daryl. The guy I saw in that previous episode shouldn't be sticking by the governor right now. He should have been shooting at him.

 

[Jaepheth]

+1 to Carl being right

"Drop the gun" means DROP the gun, not slowly inch forward with a look on your face that says "I'll likely try something desperate"

Carl was at a physical disadvantage and could not allow the boy to get any closer.

Had he forcefully repeated the directions he may have peacefully diffused the situation, but he's not a police officer and isn't trained for that sort of confrontation.

 

[waterjug]

Wow... Some of you really hate this show. Yet, you still spend a lot of your time watching (and bitching about) it.

I don't get it. I mean, I can't imagine watching Two Broke Girls week after week, AND THEN spending even more time to complain about it on a message board. I find my time much more valuable.

Baffles me too; I stopped watching over a month ago, knew the finale was last night wanted to drop in and see what happened. It's people complaining, I still only have a vague idea of what happened. I agree with the people saying the show is garbage....but then why are you still watching it if you think that? Never got that in these threads on tv shows that end up devolving into a bitch-fest. Go get a life or do something more productive, or read a book. If people hated the show THAT much they wouldn't be watching it week after week.

 

[olds]

Baffles me too; I stopped watching over a month ago, knew the finale was last night wanted to drop in and see what happened. It's people complaining, I still only have a vague idea of what happened. I agree with the people saying the show is garbage....but then why are you still watching it if you think that? Never got that in these threads on tv shows that end up devolving into a bitch-fest. Go get a life or do something more productive, or read a book. If people hated the show THAT much they wouldn't be watching it week after week.

It's a free fucking country, we'll do what we want. You Hitler wannabes a free to whine too.

 

[exdeath]

+1 to Carl being right

"Drop the gun" means DROP the gun, not slowly inch forward with a look on your face that says "I'll likely try something desperate"

Carl was at a physical disadvantage and could not allow the boy to get any closer.

Had he forcefully repeated the directions he may have peacefully diffused the situation, but he's not a police officer and isn't trained for that sort of confrontation.

This. He was told to drop it numerous times and he kept inching closer.

 

[Mermaidman]

The one thing I love about this show is that everyone is like a Navy Seal when shooting at zombies. But when shooting at people? Forget about it.

Zombies don't shoot back, nor are they sprightly.

 

[BladeVenom]

Like I said, I just can't imagine wasting my valuable time on a show that is "a train wreck" that is "getting worse and worse" and "pissed me off"... And then on top of that, spend more time on a message board incessantly complaining about it.

Whatever, it's your time. Having separate threads should make everyone happy. Hey, I'm a results oriented type of guy.

I can't imagine why you waste your time on a thread you seem to hate. All you do is incessantly complain about others opinion about the show.

But whatever makes you happy.

 

[BladeVenom]

+1 to Carl being right

Indeed. I thought it was the best scene of the show. It had a little ambiguity which added to the suspense, and Carl did the logical thing, even it was a bit cold.

If only the rest of the episode had been done as well.

Like Milton being told to remove the tools just as a contrivance for him to drop the pliers. Then we got half an episode for those with a foot fetish of Andrea playing around with them with her feet while trying to talk Milton to death. While clumsy with her feet, her manly hands are quickly able to break hardened steel chains with just a pair of pliers. Now that looked difficult considering the angle, and she had to use her fingertips. They must have been plastic prop handcuffs.

Still not as funny though as them all running away from a few flashbangs, while Glenn and Maggie manage to miss hitting anyone. All the explosions and gun shots, and no one actually getting shot, reminded me of the A-Team. Even though Glenn and Maggie were the ones with body armor, they sit out taking the fight to the Governor. Not good planning.

As silly as that was, it was still better than them letting the Governor shoot down half of his own town. Allen just standing there pointing a gun at the Governor while the Governor draws his pistol and shoots him is comical compared to Carl's well done scene.

Almost all the able bodied men and women from Woodbury have been killed in conflict with Rick's group, yet those who are left willingly go the prison with Rick?

 

[Imp]

Almost all the able bodied men and women from Woodbury have been killed in conflict with Rick's group, yet those who are left willingly go the prison with Rick?

Agree with all except this last point.

They had that one survivor from the "expedition" who probably told everyone about what the Governor did. Stick around with that son of a bitch, or go to the prison with people who the survivor claims to have saved her.

 

[MrSquished]

Indeed. I thought it was the best scene of the show. It had a little ambiguity which added to the suspense, and Carl did the logical thing, even it was a bit cold.

If only the rest of the episode had been done as well.

Like Milton being told to remove the tools just as a contrivance for him to drop the pliers. Then we got half an episode for those with a foot fetish of Andrea playing around with them with her feet while trying to talk Milton to death. While clumsy with her feet, her manly hands are quickly able to break hardened steel chains with just a pair of pliers. Now that looked difficult considering the angle, and she had to use her fingertips. They must have been plastic prop handcuffs.

Still not as funny though as them all running away from a few flashbangs, while Glenn and Maggie manage to miss hitting anyone. All the explosions and gun shots, and no one actually getting shot, reminded me of the A-Team. Even though Glenn and Maggie were the ones with body armor, they sit out taking the fight to the Governor. Not good planning.

As silly as that was, it was still better than them letting the Governor shoot down half of his own town. Allen just standing there pointing a gun at the Governor while the Governor draws his pistol and shoots him is comical compared to Carl's well done scene.

Almost all the able bodied men and women from Woodbury have been killed in conflict with Rick's group, yet those who are left willingly go the prison with Rick?

the Allen pointing the gun at the Governor but not shooting made sense to me. he didn't have the decision making power mentally.

what didn't make sense was the whole trap of getting them into the prison, small tight corridors where number advantages mean little, flash-banging them and not taking them out. instead you get a cut to all of them magically running outside the prison, and glenn and maggie missing every single one of them.

 

[Imp]

The only idea I can come up with is that the prison group didn't want to kill anyone, they just wanted to scare them away...

But why did they want to go after them and "finish it"?

 

[Newbian]

The only idea I can come up with is that the prison group didn't want to kill anyone, they just wanted to scare them away...

But why did they want to go after them and "finish it"?

I thought the same thing but it was just bad writing.

 

[diesbudt]

i lol'ed when they showed andrea bit. in the episode 3 or so back when she's hiding in the woods running from the governor, the 4 ninja zombies snuck up on her and 2 of them were holding her from behind while 2 more came from the front. she took the 4 ninja zombies out no problem, but 1 zombie that happens to be milton bit her.

1 false move, can mean 1 bite. 1 Bite means death.

She just happened to be weak from being chained for so long, with dehydration and all the other fun details, and this one time she just happened to get bit.

You can be perfect 99.9% of the time fighting zombies, but the one time you fumble and get bitten. Game over.

 

[pontifex]

+1 to Carl being right

"Drop the gun" means DROP the gun, not slowly inch forward with a look on your face that says "I'll likely try something desperate"

Carl was at a physical disadvantage and could not allow the boy to get any closer.

Had he forcefully repeated the directions he may have peacefully diffused the situation, but he's not a police officer and isn't trained for that sort of confrontation.

hershel was there with a gun also so doing something desperate would still have got him killed. I agree with dropping the gun, not inching forward like he did.

 

[American Gunner]

One of my friends pointed something out and I have a question. The girl that joined Rick's group that survived the massacre of the gov, was it her son that was shot by Carl?

 

[ultimatebob]

I think next season we'll have to start two different threads:

The Walking Dead Season 3 - For those who enjoy the show and want to discuss.
The Walking Dead Season 4 - For those who hate the show and want to complain.

Go back to the first episode and watch it again, and then compare that to the most recent episodes in the last season. The quality has gone downhill so much that it's not even funny.

 

[darkxshade]

hershel was there with a gun also so doing something desperate would still have got him killed.

Not unless the guy got to Carl first, grabs the gun and holds Carl hostage as a human shield. That's how it usually turns out in other shows/movies. Then he pops Hershel and takes Carl back to Woodbury and use him as bait to get to Rick. Assuming he's one of the real soldiers of course.

 

[Jaepheth]

Go back to the first episode and watch it again, and then compare that to the most recent episodes in the last season. The quality has gone downhill so much that it's not even funny.

The first season they were on the move; so things were less certain and was easier to keep the situation exciting and on edge.

Now they're just camping. And as FPSs have taught us, no one likes campers.

 

[Kev]

I officially gave up 3 episodes ago but just popped in to see if it got any better. Glad to see that I made the right decision. For those of you with taste, just give up. It's never going to be good. The writers have learned that they can consistently get huge ratings with their boring, drawn out plots because zombies herp derp.

 

[Jaskalas]

For the record... they did change the director "Showrunner" for season 4.

 

[trmiv]

It's the Showrunner that is changing for Season 4. The directors change frequently. They usually have multiple different directors during the seasons (this season alone had 10 different directors)

 

[fustercluck]

Wow... Some of you really hate this show. Yet, you still spend a lot of your time watching (and bitching about) it.

I don't get it. I mean, I can't imagine watching Two Broke Girls week after week, AND THEN spending even more time to complain about it on a message board. I find my time much more valuable.

You watch two broke girls?

Also, if you time is so valuable then stop posting so much about how valuable your time is - If you don't watch or don't want to discuss the show then no one is forcing you to post here.

I'm with the fans of the show on this one, there is a lot of reason to be upset and plenty of criticism to go around...the season finale was a big fail all around. They built up to this big "war" that was obviously going to be drawn out to the season finale to conclude and it was...so weak. It lasted about 5 minutes and no one was even hurt. The only one who died was that guy that carl killed. Some "war" that was. People have already made lots of good points basically detailing how much the episode sucked.

I think anyone who watched this season front to back, starting all the way back on Oct 12th would have to be disappointed with the season finale at least, if not most of season 3. People invest a lot of time watching the show (this season itself was 6 months long) and if they don't deliver, of course people are going to be critical.

Still gonna keep on watching though and hope it improves next season. They do a lot of things well on the show, like the way they devolved Merle's character along the way.