Open letter to Walking Dead writiers - article ***SPOILERS**
Apr 5, 2016 18:16:56 GMT
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Post by magz811 on Apr 5, 2016 18:16:56 GMT
***SPOILERS AHEAD***
A friend posted this article on Facebook. It sums up exactly how I feel about Sunday's finale. Like I said in the weekly thread, Gimple pretty much shat on anyone who is a fan of the comic. He took one of the most gut-wrenching scenes from the book and trivialized it.
Dear Scott M. Gimple:
“The Walking Dead’s” season six finale was a swing and a miss.
A big miss.
I usually love your undead AMC drama. It’s the one show I watch in real time every week. I savor the quiet moments between characters as much as I thirst for the splatter of blood when someone whacks a walker.
But now I think that zombies have eaten your brain.
Either that, or you and the writers have as much contempt for your loyal viewers as Rick (Andrew Lincoln) did for the sheltered Alexandrians.
Faking out Glenn’s death for an entire month earlier this season - even taking actor Steven Yeun’s name out of the opening credits! - was strike one.
Then last weekend’s tease, where Daryl (Norman Reedus) was shot in the final moments of the episode as the screen went to black, was strike two. Leaving a second beloved character’s fate up in the air so soon is just lazy.
The show that once wasn’t afraid to kill off major characters (Shane, Dale, Sophia, Lori, Hershel, Andrea, Tyreese, Beth, Noah, Bob...) long before “Game of Thrones” began beheading its stars has become so soft, I wasn’t even very worried about Daryl’s fate. If Glenn can improbably escape a horde of ravenous zombies by crawling under a dumpster, then Daryl can get past a shot in the arm.
And now we come to the much-hyped finale episode, which you have teased for the pa
st year as being the one where we meet “The Walking Dead’s” most infamous villain, Negan, who makes his introduction by killing off a favorite main character.
We all braced ourselves for a devastating conclusion to what was otherwise a strong season (apart from said-fake outs).
But after building up Negan’s debut over a bloated 90-minute season finale that was paced at a zombie’s crawl, the villain plays “Eenie, Meenie, Miny, Mo” to decide which of our friends to bash to death with his barbed wire bat - and the camera switches to the anonymous victim’s point-of-view in a trick play so that we won’t know which one he killed for another six months.
Are you freaking kidding me?
Strike three. You’re out.
Three cliffhangers in one season is three cliffhangers too many. Maybe if you hadn’t done the fake out with Glenn earlier this season, this non-ending would have hit home the way you wanted.
All it did was piss everyone who was watching off.
You’ve completely killed the momentum in one of “The Walking Dead’s” most iconic scenes. Six months from now, I’m not going to care whose “Last Day on Earth” it was the same way I would have grieved last night.
I expect more from the man who wrote episodes such as “The Grove,” where Carol made the impossible decision to shoot a child in cold blood. Or remember the big reveal in Season 2, when the long-missing Sophia was revealed to have been a zombie in Hershel’s barn the whole time? Those stories packed an emotional punch along with gratuitous zombie guts.
Now you can’t even follow the script of a perfect story line that was laid out for you in Issue 100?
Please.
There’s keeping an audience on its toes, and there’s copping out. This was the latter.
What’s worse is, I don’t even think that you know for sure who will meet his or her end at Negan’s bat next season. Chandler Riggs, who as Carl is one of the potential victims on the chopping block, even tweeted that he doesn’t know who’s killed off.
That scares me more than Negan did.
Show me a sign that you’re going to put my favorite show back on the right track, or else it’s dead to me - and to many more of your once devoted fans.
Sincerely,
Nicole Lyn Pesce
Furious "Walking Dead" fan and recapper
A friend posted this article on Facebook. It sums up exactly how I feel about Sunday's finale. Like I said in the weekly thread, Gimple pretty much shat on anyone who is a fan of the comic. He took one of the most gut-wrenching scenes from the book and trivialized it.
Dear Scott M. Gimple:
“The Walking Dead’s” season six finale was a swing and a miss.
A big miss.
I usually love your undead AMC drama. It’s the one show I watch in real time every week. I savor the quiet moments between characters as much as I thirst for the splatter of blood when someone whacks a walker.
But now I think that zombies have eaten your brain.
Either that, or you and the writers have as much contempt for your loyal viewers as Rick (Andrew Lincoln) did for the sheltered Alexandrians.
Faking out Glenn’s death for an entire month earlier this season - even taking actor Steven Yeun’s name out of the opening credits! - was strike one.
Then last weekend’s tease, where Daryl (Norman Reedus) was shot in the final moments of the episode as the screen went to black, was strike two. Leaving a second beloved character’s fate up in the air so soon is just lazy.
The show that once wasn’t afraid to kill off major characters (Shane, Dale, Sophia, Lori, Hershel, Andrea, Tyreese, Beth, Noah, Bob...) long before “Game of Thrones” began beheading its stars has become so soft, I wasn’t even very worried about Daryl’s fate. If Glenn can improbably escape a horde of ravenous zombies by crawling under a dumpster, then Daryl can get past a shot in the arm.
And now we come to the much-hyped finale episode, which you have teased for the pa
st year as being the one where we meet “The Walking Dead’s” most infamous villain, Negan, who makes his introduction by killing off a favorite main character.
We all braced ourselves for a devastating conclusion to what was otherwise a strong season (apart from said-fake outs).
But after building up Negan’s debut over a bloated 90-minute season finale that was paced at a zombie’s crawl, the villain plays “Eenie, Meenie, Miny, Mo” to decide which of our friends to bash to death with his barbed wire bat - and the camera switches to the anonymous victim’s point-of-view in a trick play so that we won’t know which one he killed for another six months.
Are you freaking kidding me?
Strike three. You’re out.
Three cliffhangers in one season is three cliffhangers too many. Maybe if you hadn’t done the fake out with Glenn earlier this season, this non-ending would have hit home the way you wanted.
All it did was piss everyone who was watching off.
You’ve completely killed the momentum in one of “The Walking Dead’s” most iconic scenes. Six months from now, I’m not going to care whose “Last Day on Earth” it was the same way I would have grieved last night.
I expect more from the man who wrote episodes such as “The Grove,” where Carol made the impossible decision to shoot a child in cold blood. Or remember the big reveal in Season 2, when the long-missing Sophia was revealed to have been a zombie in Hershel’s barn the whole time? Those stories packed an emotional punch along with gratuitous zombie guts.
Now you can’t even follow the script of a perfect story line that was laid out for you in Issue 100?
Please.
There’s keeping an audience on its toes, and there’s copping out. This was the latter.
What’s worse is, I don’t even think that you know for sure who will meet his or her end at Negan’s bat next season. Chandler Riggs, who as Carl is one of the potential victims on the chopping block, even tweeted that he doesn’t know who’s killed off.
That scares me more than Negan did.
Show me a sign that you’re going to put my favorite show back on the right track, or else it’s dead to me - and to many more of your once devoted fans.
Sincerely,
Nicole Lyn Pesce
Furious "Walking Dead" fan and recapper
