I mean, as someone else pointed out on this thread, it isn't like he made the comments out of the blue. Further, as seen in that tweet, Kirkman acknowledges Martin is a better writer, so I'm not sure why people are taking this as some huge slight.

I've actually liked this season of GoT quite a bit, but I haven't read the books yet so I can't compare its quality to the ones Martin has released so far.

TWD's audience is incredibly diverse, though — comes with the territory of being cable's No. 1 scripted drama. So the writers "not telling the difference between what the audience likes and what they hate" is a useless endeavor, because there are a slew of different opinions in that regard. (With the exception of the…

All I know is Stannis's death (and the events leading up to it) was right up there with Charlie Pace dying on LOST to fulfill a self-fulfilling prophecy — in other words, one of the dumbest TV deaths ever. Then there was the whole Dorne mess last season, plus Sansa's rape. But this season has been much better.

I question just how hands-on Kirkman is with the show, because I can't recall a single time he pulled a stunt like the show did with Glenn or "#WhoWasIt?" in the graphic novels.

TWD comics are generally always good. The TV show is good when it's A.) Actually advancing the plot B.) spending time doing good, meaningful characterizations and C.) not relying on dumb gimmicks to string along the viewers. In other words, it's a fairly uneven show. Not the garbage its haters say it is, but not as…

Good read. I do plan on reading the books eventually if I can ever get done with the Wheel of Time series (roughly halfway through).

At least the second half of that season was interesting with the whole Randall dilemma and Shane's full descent into villainy. One of the better stretches of the show.

So, I'm guessing I'm one of the few people who immediately realized Kirkman's comments were tongue-in-cheek?

Really? Because I've found some ASOIAF readers to downright despise the show. If, for example, Stannis and Jamie's characters are as much-better executed as some book readers would have me believe (I haven't read them), then I could sort of understand the frustration.

When the show lost the intestinal fortitude to kill certain characters and began relying on cheap gimmicks to jerk around the audience.

I only grouped them together since they're two characters who are off floating around somewhere in this universe. I'm aware Tobias wasn't the one from Flight Whatever. :)

I've seen them both in other stuff; they're good actors. The flatness of their characters is a testament to the writing more than anything, IMO.

The Whisperers will be around in Season 8, if the show maintains the current pace. There is less than a zero-percent chance the show doesn't get an eighth season.

I certainly hope we see her and Tobias again… I'm just now sure how the plot would call for either to reappear.

I'd keep Strand and Nick around (and Daniel if he somehow survived). Alicia is starting to come around, and the actress is talented enough to do a good job if the writers eventually give her good material. Ofelia is barely a character at this point, but on the other hand, she hasn't been a source of annoying angst, so…

I was annoyed that Nick seemed to buy into Celia's nonsense as much as anyone — I've said elsewhere I was hoping it was a "street-smart" ploy to get Celia to let his family stick around — but I can't exactly argue it's out of character. He's an impressionable recovering addict who's having trouble coping with all of…

I think aftershows like Talking Dead do have a valuable role in the storytelling process, in that you can get certain insights about the characters and their mindsets from the actors/writers themselves that maybe make you look at things from a different perspective. But you're spot-on with this. In particular, they…

In fairness to the writers, I think they're trying to somehow make this different than the flagship show, and with a limited budget (which likely limits potential plots), all they really can do is depict how the world is going to turn you crazy and break your bonds apart. That's not to say they're doing a good job…

You're spot on with it all coming to a head way too quickly. (That's sort of how the entirety of Batman v. Superman felt, as an aside.)