Looks like next season will focus on The Whisperers. I just can’t get hype though knowing Rick’s fate.

One thing I can't stand about TV this day and age, is that it's impossible to avoid spoilers and the fact the actual people in charge of the shows tell viewers which cast members will be leaving/killed off. Like, Rick dying/leaving should be a huge deal but by the time it happens no one will care all that much.

Just become like me and develop some sort of terrifying memory problem...

...like when I was watching The 100 and a major character died and it caught me totally off guard, made it a great episode for me, so emotional. I post about it on the thread. Then Lostie! quotes me in a post from 9 months earlier where I'm talking about knowing and being disappointed that the actor is leaving. :umm2: WOT.

So by next November I'll probably have no idea that Rick is leaving :hee:.

Overall I think it actually looks like it may be a major improvement on the last two seasons... and when it comes right down to it... I *do* think it's time for Rick to go. I'm hoping he isn't killed off, I'm hoping that he simply moves on. His character arc is basically complete.

But I actually hope a bunch of old characters go with him :umm2:... It's time for Michonne and Daryl to go too, at least, but they'll never get rid of Daryl until he quits. It's not that I don't like the characters - it's just time for new blood / to move on. Keep some core supporting cast to usher in a new main cast. Carol should always stay :hee:, and I'd keep Gabriel and bring some of the newer ones into more prominent roles (Jesus for example has been massively under-used compared to his role in the comics). Have Negan come over to the "good guys" for a while for a quick redemption arc, then kill him off.

I think the show can still work but the characters are entrenched and clad in "plot armour" - there's no real sense of risk or danger - which has sort of killed the whole show.

Overall though, I'm willing to give it another shot next season, because the final two or three episodes of S8 while far from perfect were a dramatic improvement over the rest of the season. Before those I was almost ready to bail... and we had stopped watching week-to-week around 5 episodes from the end... but then binged them one day when we were both off work and the kids were at school :joker:.

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Ahhhhhh this trailer was amazing!! I wouldnt have noticed the "where are they" If it hadnt been mentioned when i watched it back it really creeped me out. Hoping for more zombie action this time around the whole negan thing was irritating

if this turns into a ''pro-maggie show'' i am done with the walking dead :mad:


not that i am against Lauren Cohan, but i find her character Maggie nothing special

Some spoilers I've picked up:

18 sleeps to go...

SHould I pick up FTWD again? :think:. I figured out that the last episode I watched was S2 Ep9 (it ends with the hotel thing they find being overrun with zombies while Strand and the blonde woman are wasted on whiskey) so I've downloaded every episode from then but I dunno if I should commit.

I watched the first season of fear on E4. Have to say i loved it! But i was hoping they would show the second series straight after but cant see it in the schedules

Oh and also 17 sleepz to go...

1 week to go!!! Anyone else excited?

yes i am excited, gonna be fun to see some familiar faces in season 9 for me personally

Nadia Hilker, Zach McGowan :love:

..yeah I would say it’s worth the commitment...from when you last saw it..?..it hadn’t really got going yet in terms of character development...and for me it’s become much more interesting than TWD..it being seri in Mexico being very relevant as well to some of the significant storylines...and what would become the ‘currency of power’ there....

response to said spoilers (also a new spoiler):

I refuse to read spoilers

Walking dead to return in just over 21 hours!!

tomorrow for me the walking dead, due to FOX's new schedule here :notimpressed: football after talkshow goes first i guess

monday footie talkshow

tuesday the walking dead

Aww poor you nicky!

I can't wait to watch it in 4 hours!! Just hoping it's better than the last series. The whole negan thing was tedious so don't want too much of that this time i hope the gang venture out a bit more, it look as though they do which is a good sign, and I want a shed load of zombies this time!!

This is my top 10 spurred on by a convo with Our Marc?

1. Andrea
2. Rosita
3. Shane
4. Maggie
5. Merle
6. Lori
7. Carol
8. Beth
9. Michonne
10. Rick

I guess this is mine?

#1. Rick
#2. Carol
#3. Glenn
#4. Maggie
#5. Shane
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#6. Morgan
#7. The Governor
#8. Michonne
#9. Carl
#10. Hershel