The Ones who live (TOWL) started excellent, I almost believed they got them out of the hole
they wrote themselves into, but it ended quickly. Episode 4 introduced completely different Rick just to have some unnecessary drama and from there series quality nose-dived into absurd mess.
Episode 1 introduced some themes that I thought would be explored - self-sacrifice, living for something more than yourself, time for "monsters to fight monsters" must end so there can come life after the war on the dead, but nothing of it came to be. Instead, we got series where the moral was - Michone is always right (even when she might be wrong), Michone always knows what to do, Michone will save the day - it took days for Michone to save Rick from CRM, it took years for Rick just to cut off his hand in just another failure. In the end there was no dilemma for "heroes", they just killed everyone, and writers made it kind of justified by rushed ending. Let's not forget that the military consisted of B's, meaning that those soldiers weren't bad guys, they just were people who followed orders.
Love story of Rick and Michone was done in a cheesy way, that wasn't satisfying to look at. They acted like teenagers not like seasoned survivors of apocalypse. That combined with "Michone knows everything best" and "killing anyone who is in a way of them doing whatever they want" made main protagonists seem selfish and bad.
Rick's hand was nod to comics but didn't have any impact on his character. In comics after the prison, when Rick was on his own with Carl, he couldn't even open a can of food, he depended on his 9 years old son for that. That made a loss of hand impactful, Rick had to learn to depend on other people, there wasn't any other option. In episode 6 Rick left his prosthetic behind, why would he do that? It was just stupid.
Overall, everything was great or ok except for the writing of the show. That was one of the biggest flaws of the original show, as it transformed in something else almost every season, Rick changed his character almost every season (kill them all - we don't kill anyone - kill them all - we all can live together etc.), dialogs also were bad on a lot of occasions. TOWL also had bad dialog towards the end ("love doesn't die", "I thought I was alone, then I realized I wasn't" - some of examples). AMC never learns from their mistakes; they still refuse to hire real talent for writing the show.
By the way I returned to franchise to see Andrew Lincoln reprise the role that he was excellent in and after episode 1 I thought that this time they are making push to have Andrew in awards consideration but after the episode 6 I know that that won't happen.
They made the show too inconsistent for any major award consideration in any category.
Episode 1 introduced some themes that I thought would be explored - self-sacrifice, living for something more than yourself, time for "monsters to fight monsters" must end so there can come life after the war on the dead, but nothing of it came to be. Instead, we got series where the moral was - Michone is always right (even when she might be wrong), Michone always knows what to do, Michone will save the day - it took days for Michone to save Rick from CRM, it took years for Rick just to cut off his hand in just another failure. In the end there was no dilemma for "heroes", they just killed everyone, and writers made it kind of justified by rushed ending. Let's not forget that the military consisted of B's, meaning that those soldiers weren't bad guys, they just were people who followed orders.
Love story of Rick and Michone was done in a cheesy way, that wasn't satisfying to look at. They acted like teenagers not like seasoned survivors of apocalypse. That combined with "Michone knows everything best" and "killing anyone who is in a way of them doing whatever they want" made main protagonists seem selfish and bad.
Rick's hand was nod to comics but didn't have any impact on his character. In comics after the prison, when Rick was on his own with Carl, he couldn't even open a can of food, he depended on his 9 years old son for that. That made a loss of hand impactful, Rick had to learn to depend on other people, there wasn't any other option. In episode 6 Rick left his prosthetic behind, why would he do that? It was just stupid.
Overall, everything was great or ok except for the writing of the show. That was one of the biggest flaws of the original show, as it transformed in something else almost every season, Rick changed his character almost every season (kill them all - we don't kill anyone - kill them all - we all can live together etc.), dialogs also were bad on a lot of occasions. TOWL also had bad dialog towards the end ("love doesn't die", "I thought I was alone, then I realized I wasn't" - some of examples). AMC never learns from their mistakes; they still refuse to hire real talent for writing the show.
By the way I returned to franchise to see Andrew Lincoln reprise the role that he was excellent in and after episode 1 I thought that this time they are making push to have Andrew in awards consideration but after the episode 6 I know that that won't happen.
They made the show too inconsistent for any major award consideration in any category.
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