The Walking Dead Season 5

[Mojochi]

It's really the end of a chapter of her life. She's been on the show since season 2. Can't walk away from that without having some pretty deep feelings about it

I hope the day they end up writing Reedus or McBride off, they think it through better than this though. Jesus

 

[Enterprise is Great]

‘Walking Dead’ Shatters Winter Finales Ratings Record, Thrashes ‘Sunday Night Football’ Again

Frank Dillane & Alycia Debnam Carey Cast In ‘The Walking Dead’ Companion Series

 

[kitik]

Frank Dillane & Alycia Debnam Carey Cast In ‘The Walking Dead’ Companion Series

Yeah, I was reading through that article an hour or two ago. We actually just watched Into The Storm two nights ago. Nothing terribly memorable though.

I also saw something a few weeks ago that said the new series would take place right at the beginning of the ZA.

I can't imagine that a large portion of the show would take place in a a school setting though (maybe on lockdown just as things really break out), as that seems like it would require a lot of extras.

 

[Reverend]

If nothing else, I haven't been this pissed off at a character being killed off since Sophia. It's annoying in a sense because after a few seasons of not really doing much besides filling out the background, Beth seems like she just came into her own as a character...which is of course the optimal time to kill a character for maximum effect. Bastards!

Hopefully the actress can get some good roles off the back of this gig and I hope to see her more in other things.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Oh, man, that was awful. Poor Beth. I know a show like this has a high body count by definition, but the show was definitely stronger with her than without her, even moreso than Dale or Herschel. We need to see that a person like her can survive. Daryl is not going to take this well. And now Maggie has no family left at all.

 

[Aragorn]

Oh, man, that was awful. Poor Beth. I know a show like this has a high body count by definition, but the show was definitely stronger with her than without her, even moreso than Dale or Herschel. We need to see that a person like her can survive. Daryl is not going to take this well. And now Maggie has no family left at all.

Well Maggie forgot she even had family until this last episode anyway.

 

[Trekker4747]

Oh, man, that was awful. Poor Beth. I know a show like this has a high body count by definition, but the show was definitely stronger with her than without her, even moreso than Dale or Herschel. We need to see that a person like her can survive. Daryl is not going to take this well. And now Maggie has no family left at all.

Other than, you know, her husband.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Oh, man, that was awful. Poor Beth. I know a show like this has a high body count by definition, but the show was definitely stronger with her than without her, even moreso than Dale or Herschel. We need to see that a person like her can survive. Daryl is not going to take this well. And now Maggie has no family left at all.

The genuine moral heart was lost with Beth, as she was not trying to "come back" from anything, or being disillusioned (see: Daryl & Carol's "trying" dialogue in "Consumed"), so she was the guidepost for Daryl (probably Michonne in something as simple as getting her to relate to Judith) and with her father--set a faithful tone. A separation from the way the Woodbury hierarchy's worldview.

Glenn has been on the path to taking Hershel's moral center teaching as his own, but he could lose his faith if Maggie's likely rejection of her faith/hope--and understandable devastation makes him bitter in a way never experienced before. Their marriage could come to an end.

Gimple promises Beth's death will (significantly) influence / change the characters going forward, and look forward to that happening--with Daryl never forgetting that (in Beth's words) "there are still good people" even if encountering new villains / bleak situations. The series cannot take Beth's death as the highway / green light to constant depression, nihilism, and a revenge mentality. Clearly, that would be disrespecting all that Beth believed in.

 

[Thestral]

I hope all you assholes that rooted for Beth to die are happy the 'useless girl' is gone now.

 

[Trekker4747]

I hope all you assholes that rooted for Beth to die are happy the 'useless girl' is gone now.

Yikes!

Anyway, I thought there was a lot more that could have been done with Beth and am sorry to see her go. As some have stated it was nice to see a glimmer of hope in this bleak world. Someone with an ounce of positivity.

 

[Ryan8bit]

The problem is that this show does not reward positivity. Hope is instantly quashed, and getting to know a minor character better usually signals their death.

I honestly didn't care for episodes that focused primarily on Beth, but that doesn't mean I wanted her character dead. I'm not sure if I would care for any episode with just one or two of the main cast involved.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I hope all you assholes that rooted for Beth to die are happy the 'useless girl' is gone now.

My hope is that the character's life--more than her death--is not simply used to rekindle the misery in the mid-season opening, but something is gained from her ideas and experiences.

 

[bbjeg]

It's not like I wanted the character dead but I was surprised that she lasted as long as she did. From suicide to being abducted to not knowing when to back down.

 

[DarthTom]

I really enjoyed this episode. Beth's passing was very moving. I also thought Kinney's real life emotions on the Talking Dead were a testament to the bonds the actors have established on this show.

One camera angle nitpick; re-watch the fight scene with Michoene and the Walkers in the church. She is supposedly carrying Judith on her back but as she swings the baton back and forth it's obvious that she's only carrying a doll not a real baby the way the movements of the nap sack swing.

For a show that's typically very buttoned up on camera shots and particular about such things - this was sloppy.

Also, that Carol woke up at exactly the right moment was very far fetched, but Meh.

 

[Servo]

Don't get me wrong, I loved the episode (even though TWD's Facebook page completely spoiled it for me by posting "R.I.P Beth" on their page the morning before it aired here in the UK), but I don't get how Dawn's gun was in a position to go off when she was stabbed.

I watched the episode twice last night, and Dawn clearly has her gun holstered when Beth walks up to her. So it would appear that in the space between Beth squaring up to her and saying "I get it now...", and then stabbing her, Dawn for some reason took her gun out and raised it to enough of a height for it to go off in Beth's face.

Doesn't quite make sense.

 

[Trekker4747]

Ahhhh a Dutch Angle!!!

 

[Servo]

They'd have got away with it too, if it wasn't for that meddling Dutch angle.

 

[Thestral]

I'll admit I overreacted somewhat. But all the "Ohhh nooo not Beth" stuff (not this episode, just overall) annoyed me over the last couple seasons. Good job by Kinney, heartbreaking to see her go.

Reedus just killed it, of course. I was impressed tbh that cooler heads prevailed at all, but a somber "peaceful" outcome made it all the more powerful (especially in comparison with last season's mid-season finale).

 

[Admiral2]

when they told Maggie that Beth was still alive, you knew uh-oh. Beth had helped Dawn kill that cop and then she made the decision to stab Dawn which precipitated the gun going off, killing her. She might have been ok if she had stayed sweet innocent Beth.

I would argue that she wouldn't have survived long enough in the hospital to be rescued if she'd stayed "sweet innocent Beth." "Sweet Innocent Beth" would have been raped, starved and randomly beaten to death by Paranoid Cowardly Dawn and all the rest of the evil cops.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

The thing I'm wondering, and I thought of this when Rick took the Atlanta PD patrol car (which, admittedly, had its laptop removed), is if they don't know anything about the world outside of Atlanta and its outskirts (besides Dr. Jenner making an offhand comment about France being close to a cure), why don't they make use of a patrol car's computer and do a search? A computer is pretty much standard issue in most cop cars, and they're hooked directly into the satellites (which SHOULD still be operational and in orbit). A simple search should indicate whether or not Washington should be their objective or New York or Buttfuck, Nebraska.

And before anybody mentions that Rick would have to find a car that can start to charge the computer, I think we've established there are no shortages on viable cars in THIS apocalypse