The Walking Dead Season 6 Discussion

[Vandervecken]

which does not really work, since there will always be legions of zombies surrounding you from every city, countryside or state, always looking for food, so in one way or another, that threat has no conclusion.

It could work, but organized people need to get into some military armories (with some ex-military). Then the walkers wouldn't stand a chance. The "legions" could be wiped out pretty easily. Even without headshots they can be sliced to pieces en masse, then people on foot can mop up the heads. One modern US armored division would make short work of them for 100s of square miles. To such a force they're not much more dangerous than cattle. Rinse, repeat, as so often said.

Although, uh, getting together 10-15,000 men to be the division might be an issue. Neegan didn't look to have anywhere close that and he has the most of any we've seen.

 

[theenglish]

One "hopeful" way to end the series is to kill the baby.

The baby doesn't turn and we realize that the next generation will not have the Zombie virus so there is hope for humanity in the long run.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

It could work, but organized people need to get into some military armories (with some ex-military). Then the walkers wouldn't stand a chance. The "legions" could be wiped out pretty easily. Even without headshots they can be sliced to pieces en masse, then people on foot can mop up the heads. One modern US armored division would make short work of them for 100s of square miles. To such a force they're not much more dangerous than cattle. Rinse, repeat, as so often said.

Although, uh, getting together 10-15,000 men to be the division might be an issue. Neegan didn't look to have anywhere close that and he has the most of any we've seen.

Since gas doesn't seem to be a problem, all you'd really have to do is put a guy on a harvester or steamroller (wearing chain mail of course ) and get to work

 

[theenglish]

I get that, like with medical supplies and canned goods, there are a lot less people consuming gas so there is a lot to go around. But we are at the point in the story now where antibiotics and other medicines as well as canned goods have passed their expiration date.

What about gas? I don't know much about how it reacts over time. Would gas stations be more dangerous to be around? How could you actually pump gas without electricity? What about the gas that is currently in cars left on the road--wouldn't gas tanks be rusting out by now? For that matter, even with a full tank cars at this point would need some major maintenance before they can be functional again.

Also, there was an interesting viral video going around this week that said without maintenance nuclear power plants should be going Chernobyl by now.

I still enjoy the series quite a bit, but it is these questions that I'd like to see acknowledged and not what the "endgame" is going to be.

 

[publiusr]

. The one way to shake things up is to (have the group) find a truly rebuilt society not in any danger of collapse. Or, if the TV producers had a pair, they would end the series with the death of the survivors.

I might have done both.

Somehow, island fortress England managed to find a way to rid their green and pleasant land of walkers. And we see David Attenborough speaking very quietly in front of the camera as the group is only seen in the distance--hope for the future--but their having taken on Negan's group coming with a larger price.

 

[Morpheus 02]

i think this past season was one of the best...nd its the character interactions that make it worthwhile...

The only way to make it interesting is to have a "villain" people like Chris Jericho on Talking Dead could agree with...


i still think they should have an endgame...at least a "last season" written out, and see how much story they will have after the Negan War

 

[shivkala]

I realize the comic and the show are different things, but I doubt Kirkman would want an end written to the TV show before he figures one out for the comic and vice versa.

I started re-watching the show and aside from the first season, every season since 2 has gotten better than the last. I really liked the first season, but season 2 was definitely a low-point. Every character suffered. Thankfully some were redeemed by the end of season 3, while others (*coughAndreacough*) never recovered.

Since then it has gotten better. Yes, it's still a lather/rinse/repeat plot with the search for someplace safe, finding out it's not safe, then having to move again. But, how they are doing it is interesting.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I might have done both.

Somehow, island fortress England managed to find a way to rid their green and pleasant land of walkers. And we see David Attenborough speaking very quietly in front of the camera as the group is only seen in the distance--hope for the future--but their having taken on Negan's group coming with a larger price.

..and you know after Negan--or beginning somewhere in the middle of Negan's arc--another Big Bad and Evil Group will emerge. Any guesses how that will go? More "B" character deaths and cliffhangers?

I realize the comic and the show are different things, but I doubt Kirkman would want an end written to the TV show before he figures one out for the comic and vice versa.

I started re-watching the show and aside from the first season, every season since 2 has gotten better than the last. I really liked the first season, but season 2 was definitely a low-point. Every character suffered. Thankfully some were redeemed by the end of season 3, while others (*coughAndreacough*) never recovered.

Since then it has gotten better. Yes, it's still a lather/rinse/repeat plot with the search for someplace safe, finding out it's not safe, then having to move again. But, how they are doing it is interesting.

I believe there needs to be a drastic change; fans often talk about not looking forward to the rinse and repeat season plots, but that goes back to a weakness in Kirkman's initial creation; instead of knowing how to write character changes and motives throughout time (like real life), his focus was on making a sadistic leader, a few of the heroes are tortured and/or murdered, the Big Bad is killed...and its on to the next version of that same story.

I think the only promising plot for season 7 is the idea of the group splitting up three ways: some staying at the ASZ, others move to Hilltop, while Carol and Morgan begin something with their new group. At least the heroes will not be on the same page of "we do it all together! In the end, we all think the same thing!"

 

[shivkala]

The problem is, the split has been done before and eventually it'll end in them being reunited. And it'll be the second time Carol leaves the group.

I personally don't care if they rehash plot ideas, as long as they do it well and tell good stories.

 

[Velocity]

I have always enjoyed shows/stories about people in a dangerous situation and how they try to deal with it. Shows like Tenko and Walking Dead are interesting to to me to see how people decide what they have to do to survive (or decide to not try to survive). I wonder what I think I might do in that situation.
In the WD world, a lot of the people who made the pre-zombie world work and knew how to make/build necessary items are dead, so the world is slowly heading technologically back to something maybe not exactly a Stone Age, but still backwards. Technologically and civilized/morally backwards. While dealing with zombies is interesting up to a point, it's how they met each new challenge that kept me watching. All the people who decided to survive by preying on other people is getting old so I have stopped watching the show. I might pick it back up after the Negan storyline but probably not. It feels like it's just come down to expectations of killing off cast members in different ways just to shock. I think that the end of the show should not be totally bleak, but not overly hopeful either.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

The Walking Dead Season 6 DVD Uncensored Negan Finale
http://www.tvguide.com/news/walking-dead-season-6-dvd-uncensored-negan-finale/?rss=keywords

In The Walking Dead comics, Negan has a filthy mouth to go with his propensity for murder. AMC can't let the F-bombs fly, though, so Jeffrey Dean Morgan had to do a cleaned-up version of Negan's famous introductory scene for the TV adaptation. But home video has no such restrictions, so The Walking Dead'sSeason 6 DVD and Blu-ray, which hits stores August 23rd, will include Negan's "eeny-meeny-miny-moe" speech as it was written in the comic, with profanity intact.

In addition to the uncut Negan intro, The Walking Dead: The Complete Sixth Seasonwill also include commentary tracks, deleted scenes, six new featurettes, and an in memoriam for fallen characters. The Blu-ray version will also include an extended version of the Negan-introducing season finale "Last Day on Earth."

Maybe this will make up for the cliffhanger letdown.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

SEASON 7 SPOILER ALERT:

The following video was posted on 6/19/16, and contains info on scenes, actors, media leaks and AMC's response to all of it. With that, click at your own risk...

 

[KirbyHawk]

The rumors are that Glenn and Abe both die in episode 1. Which I believe is possible. I also believe Rosita will bite the dust too quickly. I think they will have more than one person killed by Negan to change from the comic and make him look hard core.

 

[TheSeeker]

So I just ran into this guy at Starbucks. He was in line ahead of me.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Xander Berkeley, Tom Payne (Jesus) and Austin Amelio ( Dwight) upped to series regulars for season 7 - http://tvline.com/2016/07/07/the-walking-dead-season-7-cast-series-regulars/

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

The rumors are that Glenn and Abe both die in episode 1. Which I believe is possible. I also believe Rosita will bite the dust too quickly. I think they will have more than one person killed by Negan to change from the comic and make him look hard core.

That would change things up from the regular "one big death" per episode pattern, and make the audience desire to see Negan's end reach a fever pitch--more than emotions surrounding the Governor.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Xander Berkeley, Tom Payne (Jesus) and Austin Amelio ( Dwight) upped to series regulars for season 7 - http://tvline.com/2016/07/07/the-walking-dead-season-7-cast-series-regulars/

With Dwight hanging around, expect the evil to reach new levels to along with Negan's intensified evil (as indicated in KirbyHawk's rumor), since he's now the first genuine arch-enemy for Daryl, who seeks revenge for Dwight's murder of Denise.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

I figured from the moment the screen went black in the finale that we could very well end up with multiple deaths in the season opener. It's really the only way to actually live up to the build-up of this year's finale that would have otherwise been utterly wasted, because it's about the only thing they can do now that would actually shock people despite the months worth of dead air in between.

Well, maybe not the only way: killing Rick would probably be as big a deal as killing multiple people, but they clearly don't have the guts to actually do that.

 

[publiusr]

More drama in breaking Rick.

 

[Morpheus 02]

I figured from the moment the screen went black in the finale that we could very well end up with multiple deaths in the season opener. It's really the only way to actually live up to the build-up of this year's finale that would have otherwise been utterly wasted, because it's about the only thing they can do now that would actually shock people despite the months worth of dead air in between.

Well, maybe not the only way: killing Rick would probably be as big a deal as killing multiple people, but they clearly don't have the guts to actually do that.

I have mentioned this before. If Rick died, then truly no one would be safe, so any future threats would be taken seriously by the audience.

However, based on the dialogue, that is not likely, at least in the 1st episode back.

 

[Dave Scarpa]

Unless Andrew Lincoln decides he's had enough I doubt Rick will be killed off before he is in the comic, it could happen but i doubt it would be