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The Walking Dead: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2017)
Could have been brilliant but flawed
Some great emotional moments - finally Rick and the communities are making their stand - how can it not be great!? Sasha's final scenes are brilliant as is Eugene but I feel it is let down very similar to the mid-end of the last season - a climactic battle like this needs more fatalities - that amount of gun fire how are people not dropping dead (especially as most of our heroes have guns trained on them and they also just walk around ignoring cover).
Worse of all though is ANOTHER FAKEOUT DEATH SCENE. Please please please STOP DOING THIS - you are fooling no body and it just destroys the trust that we the audience have in the story - if we can't believe what is portrayed to be happening then we don't emotionally invest. I really hope they stop doing this next season!
The other communities showing up when they did, just in the nick of time was cheesy (I was actually hoping they would have to courage to kill Karl even though I like him), but even though couldn't help but cheer.
And best of all - we finally see Shiva in action - unbelievable though it was - how did she know the difference between Saviours and good guys? Still been waiting to see her in action - hope we get to see her chewing through a zombie horde next season.
The Walking Dead: No Way Out (2016)
Should have been brilliant but let down by too many bad scenes.
I really wanted to enjoy this, but there were just too many moments when I just totally disbelieved what I was seeing. I can't they had ANOTHER fake death scene for Glenn - and to be rescued by totally unrealistic machine gun fire (happens too often in films - there's no way that wouldn't have killed Glenn too - machine gun fire isn't accurate enough!). Too many people just happily dancing through horses of zombies with no casualties - it could have been a great battle but come on, it just has removed all the threat that a zombie horde should evoke - it seems that in this show 1 zombie is far more dangerous than a full horde. If they had at least have lost a few in this fight I would have bought it but nope, just didn't work for me. A let down.
The Walking Dead: The Day Will Come When You Won't Be (2016)
Wow.
Worth sitting through all the hockey moments last season just to get to this. Absolutely riveting from beginning to end - probably not a good idea if you are easily triggered or squeamish, but I can't remember the last time anything I watched evoked such a powerful emotional reaction in me - great work!
The Walking Dead (2010)
Occasionally brilliant, often good, but let down by some poor writing occasionally.
When it's good it's great but there's a lot of dubious writing - bad dialogue, bad decisions, bad characterizations, but it's worth perceiving through these moments - frustrating because it could be brilliant, but they need to work on the quality control!