"Punching a… hedge-fund manager just isn't as compelling."

"Contrived" is absolutely right. I wrote this show off last season for the horrible garbage it was, and only came back to see if maybe it had improved. It hasn't. In fact, I think it may have actually gotten worse. If this episode is indicative of what we have to look forward to, then you can count me out…

A B? Really? This episode was at best a D. After eight episodes of this dreck, I still don't care about any of these characters and couldn't care less if they live or die. The boat chase sequence was kinda sorta interesting, I guess, but not really tense or suspenseful or anything. The rest was meh, who cares…

I had to erase my post because it was literally word-for-word identical to yours. I'm not joking. Get out of my brain!

Have you seen the season finale? I don't want to ruin it for you, but Carol ends up on the ground, crying and begging to be shot. And she wasn't being brave, either. She genuinely wanted to die. I'm starting to think you may not have as firm a grasp on the character as you think. And for the record, I never said Carol…

So, one last time. I mean it this time. It isn't Carol's inner conflict coming to the surface that's the issue here. It's that it came out of nowhere. Carol went from badass to emotional wreck in the span of a couple episodes. Badly handled. I agree, Carol had to deal with her emotional issues. But that's not the…

Let's try this one more time, shall we. It's not that Carol's development is a bad idea. Like I said, I think it's something that needed to happen. So, what's wrong then? It's with the writing. Carol's transformation was out of nowhere. She went from a total badass at the beginning of the season, to a weepy suicidal…

I don't find it unbelievable either. In fact, Carol's change of heart makes sense. My problem with it is, though, that it was badly handled. My sense, and this is something many other people have told me as well, is that Carol's transformation came out of nowhere. Either the writers were being too subtle in building…

Um, no, I don't think so. It's a combination of quality acting and the script. Showing and telling doesn't apply to the script, it refers to when your characters use dialogue to tell the audience something that should be shown. Obviously, to be shown, it should ideally be in the script, in order for the actor to be…

I don't generally mind if the plot has holes or the dialogue is clunky or when the arcs are drawn out. As long as they're entertaining. One problem is that some people seem to think TWD should be compared to Breaking Bad or whatever. TWD is a show about zombies, based on a comic book. You need to make some allowances…

If the writers were trying to fix the problems with Carol, then they did a piss-poor job of it. Like I said, Carol confronting her demons is something that needed to happen, but the writers ended up messing things up even more. In my opinion, Carol is probably the most well-rounded character on the show, but she's not…

If it was clear, then why were so many people scratching their heads over what was happening with Carol? If so many people in your audience are confused about what's happening, then you're not doing it right. Again, I don't mind that Carol has confronted her past, and I agree with you that it's what needed to happen.…

Absolutely right. I was thinking the same thing. How are they going to keep who dies secret, because I'm assuming the actor won't be showing up on set next season, and will probably be looking for other work. So it's not going to be that difficult to figure out which actor's not showing up to work. Plus, the season…

Yes, it did. Carol went through a transformation from abused wife to assertive and self-confident zombie-killing machine. That transformation took five seasons. Carol went from assertive and self-confident to weepy and wanting to die in about—what?—something like four episodes. It's no different than, as you rightly…

I watched Talking Dead afterwards, because I was curious to see what Greg Niccotero had to say about the season finale. And he said something monumentally idiotic. He compared the finale to the Next Generation episode Best of Both Worlds. The problem is that the TNG episode was about Riker losing his edge, becoming…

I don't mind a character going through a transformation. Carol, for example, has had the most development of any of the characters on the show. What I don't like is that it seemingly came out of nowhere. And I wasn't alone in thinking that. It was badly handled.

My enthusiasm for this show has been in serious decline since last season. It won't take much more to get me to stop watching completely. I don't usually mind the dopey writing—this is a show about zombies, after all!—but the awful bullshit is building up to the point where I'm more pissed off then mildly annoyed by…

Yup. His monologue went on for way too long. And it sucked the tension out of the scene. That, plus not showing who got beaten to death…

"Just pure utter contempt for its audience."

Fuck you, The Walking Dead. That's exactly what I said when I saw that bullshit ending. And I wasn't alone. Do the writers want to alienate the fans? I'm seriously considering not watching next season because this level of needless manipulation is so fucking offensive…