Have you ever watched "The Walking Dead"?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I think TWD is my favorite non-humorous comic book series of all-time. I have gone through it several times over the years and I was always first in line to get new issues as soon as they released. Hell, I even got some side material to satiate my hunger for more content from this wonderful series and its richly dark world.

So, when I heard that they were adapting it into a full-blown TV series, I was all-over that as well.

... But I couldn't watch it.

This is a bit of a (massive) pet peeve of mine, but I hate it when they change the story around without modifying the title accordingly -- it literally felt like I was watching strangers playing friends and I even spent a considerable amount of time just waiting for familiar faces to pop up and lead me back into the plot.

NOW, ironically, I did like this version just fine afterwards, but I could never love it as a result of the aforementioned disconnection -- familiar faces did pop up and everything, but largely in the form of actors and actresses I knew rather than characters I had expected to see (I don't think Alice even appears at all on the series, but I dropped it long before we came to that story arc because it's an ENORMOUS show that would take me weeks to complete at my current watching pace).

What about you, though? Did you love this series? Hate it? Are completely neutral about it? Tell us!

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

I only like the first season but I almost forgot the plot it I watch the series 10 years ago I did like first season second season I really don't like the new characters are quite annoying and nothing happened this why I stop watching it

I'm curious what are different in comics and the telltale because I haven't play but I want to try.

 

[Guinea]

Once they killed The Governor I stopped watching it. He was the only character I liked.

 

[metaretro]

I stopped at Arc Negan, at which point I realized that the storyline was recycled and that a series that prolongs its episodes too long is a good indicator of slop.

“We get imprisoned and then freed / We switch sides / We face a new big bad guy”

That said, Telltale games are superior.

 

[Bomberman]

The pilot has to be on of my favorite pilot episodes of any tv show. I stopped I think

Spoiler: walking dead

After they beat Negan and he was in jail

 

[Danieru-Emanyueru]

Yes until the third season but I stopped because the series went in a strange direction. Somehow the living people fought each other more than the zombies. Then I watched Frear the Walking Dead but only one season.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Is just a bunch of characters running from zombies and an archetypical "Human bad" plot in most of the genre

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

Got bored in the farm season.

The whole series sucks just as much as the comic.

 

[Rocket2049]

I like it enough, but damn we get it humans suck and suck even more in a post-apocalypse with zombies.
i'll be honest i hit forward quite a bit watching it.

 

[Lod 10]

I've never watched it, I don't know if it's worth it, zombie series aren't my strong point, I get scared, but I'll tell

 

[bjork]

I used to watch this with a friend when new episodes would come out, but I forget at what point we kinda fell off, and I just forgot about it. Nowadays I see some news bit about a walking dead show and wonder how they've kept it going for so long, but never remember to read a synopsis or anything to catch up.
I thought the comic was really great at first but when they got to the... whisperers? It felt like it was kinda treading water after that for me, and then boom, final issue out of what felt like nowhere. Don't know the story behind that, though.
The version of walking dead I latched onto the most was the Telltale game. I don't even usually play games like that, but I would play through an episode once and then turn around and play through it again just to see what happens if you pick different choices. I'm glad it ended when it did, though.

 

[Heinzu]

I only watched Fear The Walking Dead the other series somehow didn't really interest me maybe I'll look at it sometime.

 

[VarianV]

Watched it when it was new, quit after

Spoiler: non-specific spoiler

the ending of the CDC episode

and from everything I've heard since, I made the right decision.

 

[Tengu Plant]

It honestly had a great start due to showrunner Frank Darabont. If you don't know his name, look him up. You've probably seen his movies.
After AMC kicked him out though they slowly started to degrade the show into typical TV fair. The last season is nearly unwatchable and the spin-offs are just embarrassing.
Still, the early seasons I think are one of the best entries in zombie media next to Kingdom (2019).
If you watch it with the expectation that it's a disaster show that happens to have zombies as the disaster, I think you'll get what Darabont was going for and enjoy it much more.

 

[mrmagicm]

The problem is....NO good end??

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

The idea of a realistic zombie apocalypse (in a world where the concept of zombie didn't exist) could've been nice and the comics are interesting but when I saw the series and how it was less about zombies but the way humans were interacting between I lost interest.

Then again I grew up in a household that was more about Romero and O'Bannon's zombies rather than the "modern" iteration of the genre (like 28 Days Later)...

I like it enough, but damn we get it humans suck and suck even more in a post-apocalypse with zombies.
i'll be honest i hit forward quite a bit watching it.

I'm legitimately bored about how repetitive this whole "humans are actually the real monsters" in any given media about the apocalypse...

Yeah, those mindless flesh-eating creatures that used to be humans are actually better than people wanting to survive...

Me:

 

[Vardalis]

I remember watching along when it was on TV until Alexandria or something like that. A bit after the Governor and (I think) Terminus? I got bored one week and just stopped watching. Whenever I've went back later on I've only watched Season 1 then felt like I've had my fill because I just can't be bothered with how mediocre it gets. And the further it gets into the full on apocalypse the more my interest wanes.

Fear the Walking Dead had a pretty good first season as well, and I loved it being right at the start of things. But it felt like it went way too quickly and then was right back to the full on apocalypse with "humans are the bad guys" in nearly every arc. The dropoff in that show almost feels more harsh than the main show.

I haven't watched any of the other spin offs but I've seen snippets - I'm not really interested at all.