The Walking Dead Season 8

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poing

8,743 posts

199 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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Saw a new post and got my hopes up that they'd ditched S9. No such luck so guess I'll have to endure it then moan.

chris watton

22,477 posts

259 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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colin_p said:
Fear of...

is much better. S3 appeared on Amazon for free recently which was nice. Even nicer, and I don't know if it is a glitch in the Amazon matrix but I snuck in a bought the series for £0.99 as opposed to the £29.99 they usually want for this type of thing.
Yeah, I had the same, bought the latest series for £0.99. I just assumed it was a special offer I wasn't aware of.

Seemed to be a crossover of The Walking Dead in the first episode of Season 4 of Fear The Walking Dead. I thought perhaps they were 'passing the baton' to the newer series, and maybe scrapping TWD (Haven't watched the past two seasons of that, became too much to bare).

Although the writers still insist on making the protagonists do the most stupid and illogical things..

Sa Calobra

37,010 posts

210 months

Monday 21st May 2018
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Fear the walking dead- is it worth it?

I've just finished season 8 of wd

colin_p

4,503 posts

211 months

Monday 21st May 2018
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Sa Calobra said:
Fear the walking dead- is it worth it?

I've just finished season 8 of wd
Yes.

Got a similar vibe to early TWD before it got s**t.

Gavia

7,627 posts

90 months

Monday 21st May 2018
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Sa Calobra said:
Fear the walking dead- is it worth it?

I've just finished season 8 of wd
It is, but it’s now just The Walking Dead with different actors, as the whole element of it showing the original outbreak was done and dusted in the first half of season one.

Zetec-S

5,832 posts

92 months

Tuesday 22nd May 2018
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I think season 9 will be split into 3 main storylines:

1) infighting between Rick/Michonne and Maggie/Daryl/Jesus. And at some point Negan will escape (probably another 'Henry' moment where someone goes in his cell to kill him but gets overpowered)

2) despite having spent the last few years scouring the countryside for miles in every direction looking for supplies, they'll discover a new group within 30 minutes walk of Hilltop.

3) they'll try to get rid of the massive herd in the distance, shepherding them away with lots of vehicles with the infinite fuel mode enabled, only for someone at hilltop to drop a piano out the top floor of the mansion and the walkers hearing that and diverting that way.

FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Tuesday 22nd May 2018
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4) The government who's experiment it has been all along and have been monitoring via helicopters decides they have spent enough on it and gasses the lot of them. They close the facility and the camera pans out to show the rest of the USA living normal lives.

FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Tuesday 22nd May 2018
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5) Rick wakes up in a room, he's wearing a VR headset and when he takes it off he sees he's not the only one there, on the wall it says "Walking Dead Total Immersion Video Game". In walks Timothy Spall.

Sa Calobra

37,010 posts

210 months

Tuesday 22nd May 2018
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Zetec-S said:
I think season 9 will be split into 3 main storylines:

1) infighting between Rick/Michonne and Maggie/Daryl/Jesus. And at some point Negan will escape (probably another 'Henry' moment where someone goes in his cell to kill him but gets overpowered)

2) despite having spent the last few years scouring the countryside for miles in every direction looking for supplies, they'll discover a new group within 30 minutes walk of Hilltop.

3) they'll try to get rid of the massive herd in the distance, shepherding them away with lots of vehicles with the infinite fuel mode enabled, only for someone at hilltop to drop a piano out the top floor of the mansion and the walkers hearing that and diverting that way.
Definitely 3)

Tallow

1,624 posts

160 months

Tuesday 22nd May 2018
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FourWheelDrift said:
5) Rick wakes up in a room, he's wearing a VR headset and when he takes it off he sees he's not the only one there, on the wall it says "Walking Dead Total Immersion Video Game". In walks Timothy Spall.
6) Rick wakes up and it was all a dream

Sa Calobra

37,010 posts

210 months

Tuesday 22nd May 2018
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Amazed how they never seem to need or get flat batteries

Sa Calobra

37,010 posts

210 months

Wednesday 23rd May 2018
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I watched the first episodes of Fear the Walking Dead last night. Gawd it's awful.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Wednesday 23rd May 2018
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Sa Calobra said:
Amazed how they never seem to need or get flat batteries
Why would they need flat batteries?

Zetec-S

5,832 posts

92 months

Wednesday 23rd May 2018
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Sa Calobra said:
Amazed how they never seem to need or get flat batteries
They do get them occasionally, if there is a need by the scriptwriters to generate "tension".

Bullett

10,873 posts

183 months

Wednesday 23rd May 2018
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Sa Calobra said:
I watched the first episodes of Fear the Walking Dead last night. Gawd it's awful.
It's terrible.
Struggle through the first series then made it one into the 2nd before giving up.
So, bad.

eltawater

3,107 posts

178 months

Tuesday 29th May 2018
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Even Rick has got bored of it all....

http://collider.com/andrew-lincoln-leaving-walking...

SlimJim16v

5,617 posts

142 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
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Yep, saw that. I think it'll be better without Rick, although not too hard given recent series.

Zetec-S

5,832 posts

92 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
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SlimJim16v said:
Yep, saw that. I think it'll be better without Rick, although not too hard given recent series.
yes

Although it's a shame they couldn't have kept it secret, would have been nice to see it back to it's best and kill off a main character with no warning.

P-Jay

10,551 posts

190 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
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Seems, well, reading between the lines anyway they're limiting a lot of main characters to 6 episodes and there's talk of it being like series 1 (which of course was only 6 episodes).

Maybe they're going to put it out of it's misery?

Yes, Series 8 (and a lot of 6 and 7) were crap, but with some better writers and a better budget it could be great again, but equally, if they can it now I wouldn't be upset.

Actually, knowing the little I know about AMC, I'd think it's more likely that as the cast want proper wages finally, they'll kill the lot off and start afresh with new, unknown actors for $50k an episode or something.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
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With Rick out of the way, and some proper decisions being made for a change, electricity, manufacturing, air travel, government and law and order will be re-established by the end of S09.