I thought his truck already looked firebombed :D

I totally get a number of the criticisms of the show as it has to deal with a world where people have never seen zombie movies and people in the show do stupid things, but a lot of the criticism I keep seeing for it here is bothersome because it expects the characters to act like super-smart action heroes. Not…

I'm by no means disagreeing, i'm simply saying that as a reviewer you need to use the tools open to you in order to be able to do it. That said, it's a creative choice - one that people often complain that they wish shows and movies would employ more rather than making everything easy. The same things were said about…

It's worth examining because you can see some of the different context that comes from a performance from a script change that was used for the captions submitted. I'm not saying alter your review of it and it's rare that you get these things happening, but if you're going to microanalyze a show with a review it…

Seriously, closed captions are your friend in trying to discern the Dread Doctors dialogue - and to a reviewer in general since sometimes original script dialogue is in there and can add some interesting angles.

Which is also pretty much true of any TV series or movie for the most part. Being from Boston it's pretty much a regular occurrence with shows like this. Fringe drove me nuts years ago.

The combination of that and the potential for how his addiction will play out as the world turns to crap will be interesting. I thought Dillane really brought a great presence to the role and a panicked intensity that reflects what the viewer ~thought~ would be happening here.

He's certainly more suave than his father in that moment.

33 is so over the hill these days. I long for a Logan's Run world to exist.

Closed captions can be your friend in shows like this, especially for scenes like Roper's.

to some extent I agree, but it would have been even more problematic than Dorne. Anytime you focus on water based material, which there's a decent bit of, the budget goes through the roof. Dorne was a safer bet, but one that I don't think paid off visually to make it particularly striking.

The fifth book in particular is a real slog to get through. But there's also the fact that all the Pyke stuff was excised and the interminable journey aspects of a couple of characters were as well. So it's going to have a cliff's note feeling just from that alone.

It's not bad tv, it's just mediocre TV.