I started watching this based on your review, and I remembered why I stopped watching The Walking Dead.
I read the original comics around the time the show initially came out. I don't remember now if the show prompted that, or I picked up the comics on their own, but there is a marked difference between the two. While the show follows the story of the graphic novels in a general fashion, and amazingly recreates some of the epic scenes in the story, the originals are much more plot driven than character driven. The show quickly became more about the persona of Rick Grimes and the other members of his troupe set against an apocalyptic backdrop than it did about the apocalypse itself.
I hung with it for long time, but around season 7 I hung it up. The story was just a never ending procedural soap opera.
I feel like this incarnation of Rick and Michonne is the exact same thing. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira are great actors, Rick and Michonne are great characters, but the show is just about them. I have the final episode left to watch, I have very little idea of who the bad guys are and what their motiviation is. I'm sure the finale will be dramatic and poignient with lots of tense moments for our beloved characters, just like so many other episodes over the years, and I'll finish it out without knowing any more about the world they inhabit, and just a last piece of their story.
It’s got to be Daryl Dixon 😍
I started watching this based on your review, and I remembered why I stopped watching The Walking Dead.
I read the original comics around the time the show initially came out. I don't remember now if the show prompted that, or I picked up the comics on their own, but there is a marked difference between the two. While the show follows the story of the graphic novels in a general fashion, and amazingly recreates some of the epic scenes in the story, the originals are much more plot driven than character driven. The show quickly became more about the persona of Rick Grimes and the other members of his troupe set against an apocalyptic backdrop than it did about the apocalypse itself.
I hung with it for long time, but around season 7 I hung it up. The story was just a never ending procedural soap opera.
I feel like this incarnation of Rick and Michonne is the exact same thing. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira are great actors, Rick and Michonne are great characters, but the show is just about them. I have the final episode left to watch, I have very little idea of who the bad guys are and what their motiviation is. I'm sure the finale will be dramatic and poignient with lots of tense moments for our beloved characters, just like so many other episodes over the years, and I'll finish it out without knowing any more about the world they inhabit, and just a last piece of their story.