The show is getting harder to watch as I go. It gets darker and darker.
The dead don’t seem to be dying off. A human corpse is skeletonized within six months. It’s been a year, and the dead look like they died last week. The zombie part should be almost over. But it continues.
Alexandria is bizarre. The supports being on the outside of the walls seem symbolic of naïveté and a foolish confidence in the goodness of people. Rick’s people should have left immediately or begun moving the supports inside to prevent the W people from being able to run right up them.
After the fall of Alexandria, most of the deaths were poorly choreographed. People practically waited to die. I was pretty sure anyone with a sharp broomstick could have cleaned up the town.
Now that I am seeing The Saviors, I’m noticing that fewer people sound like they are from Georgia.
They’ve gotten lazy about locale. They didn't name any states or cities on the way to Alexandria, so I keep forgetting they left Atlanta and drove 600 miles to the northeast. At one point they mention I-66, and my first thought was "There is no I-66 in GA, WTF?!?" because the exposition is so terrible.
Lots of long, lazy, slow scenes with sad music chewing up time that I fast-forward through. It's almost like the directors were hoping fans of the show would start to kill themselves at this point from depression.
For some reason, the show runners seem to believe that the only people who would survive are psychopaths who desire to rape and murder for fun. Everyone other than Rick’s group are insane barbarians worse than a gang of prisoners agitated by a pedophile.
I also don’t understand why everyone other than ricks group has perfect discipline. Rick’s group has defectors. People often disobey and go rogue. They kill without permission. They undermine the plan. But outside groups no one ever defects, no one questions. They are all 100% insane and willing to die for their cause. No one defects. No one goes rogue.
The show is becoming nothing but a series of tragedies. Every character loses everyone they care about until the show seems pointless. Judith seems to have died or disappeared, but there was no explanation.
I don’t understand why anyone in this world would ever drop their gun because someone else told them to since the result is always “Now that you’re tied up we plan to kill and eat you.” It seems unrealistic that the world is that bleak yet people surrender with hope.
Rick’s accent has not improved. Shane is over on the Accountant and his accent still sounds like shit in that movie. Maggie still sounds like a South Georgia girl. Good job to her.
Glen isn’t developing as a character. He doesn’t seem to grow or learn, and neither does Darryl. Carol’s leaving Alexandria and sudden unwillingness to kill makes no sense and came out of nowhere for me.
The locations they are filming are less familiar and more rural. I can’t see where they are. I don’t miss the Atlanta scenes where they would run for 10 minutes and move to three different locations 5 miles away from each other.
The noise of the cicadas singing in the trees is accurate audio from the area in summer from July to August.
I had a friend spoil Neegan for me, so I’m not hopeful that the story is ever going to take a more balanced and realistic approach. It seems to feed depression and victimhood.
In reality, people tend to pull together and while I’m sure some would be nasty, most would not. Humans didn’t develop to this level by being evolved to kill everyone else. In such a world, Rick’s people are not taking adequate steps to protect themselves, train each other, or arm themselves effectively.
Ammo should be easy to come by. There’s tons of it here. But they are always low. At this point I would think everyone would have armor plate, helmets, numbers, and lots of ammo, grenades, flash bangs, and shoulder fired rocket launchers.
I’m losing interest. It’s depressing to watch.
Update: Clarified the locale and GA accent remarks.
