My hubby and I have been faithfully watching since the first season, and my biggest frustration with the series is the lack of consistent quality story telling. They will have an incredible run of episodes, and then a run of 'wtf, that was so stupid,' episodes. Some of the story lines are so beautifully executed, and then they dump something pointless on us like that useless woman who ran the hospital in season 5. That whole story arc just felt like filler, and Beth's death was completely meaningless.
I think my big problem with season 6 is the writers involved way too many characters for the story telling format they chose. Because each episode only focuses on a few characters at a time, and we have SO MANY of them now with all of the Alexandrians, by the time we get back to what Rick and Michone are up to for example, it's been WEEKS, and I can't even remember where they left off. The story telling becomes so fractioned off that it it's hard to discern a clear beginning, middle and end to the action, and I'm left wondering, 'did anything much really HAPPEN this season?' How far forward has the plot really advanced? Season 6 did have some fabulous episodes though; Morgan's journey being one of my favorite episodes the series has ever done.
Here's to a more streamlined season 7!
Endeth rant.
I think my big problem with season 6 is the writers involved way too many characters for the story telling format they chose. Because each episode only focuses on a few characters at a time, and we have SO MANY of them now with all of the Alexandrians, by the time we get back to what Rick and Michone are up to for example, it's been WEEKS, and I can't even remember where they left off. The story telling becomes so fractioned off that it it's hard to discern a clear beginning, middle and end to the action, and I'm left wondering, 'did anything much really HAPPEN this season?' How far forward has the plot really advanced? Season 6 did have some fabulous episodes though; Morgan's journey being one of my favorite episodes the series has ever done.
Here's to a more streamlined season 7!
Endeth rant.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
