Go back to the first (or second) episode of this season. Rick is walking through the bridge repair encampment and, as he goes along, he sees various couples. Without exception, every single one is interracial and there's even an interracial lesbian couple. Jerry even has a girlfriend (how does he maintain his weight?). This is a one minute scene. Heavy handed af.

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Anonymous wrote:someone told me they have this thing (all 3 FWD, TWD, and the Rick Grimes' movies plus some more) planned out for like the next decade.


This has gone on way too long. I agree with everyone that it reached its peak a few seasons ago. there are only so many ways to pit humans against zombies.

I think part of the problem is that you’re still viewing it as a show about humans vs. zombies, which it really isn’t. The zombies are the background for a show about people.

This is true also. As my husband said, it's not a show about zombies. It's about what humans do to each other. But still, the exciting story arc ended long ago. Now it's just about who's going to supply food for what community, as well as ridiculous couplings. It's sad that it's gotten so dumb because it used to be fabulous.

The show barely covers the "couplings," and I don't really see what you'd find them so ridiculous about them, unless it really bothers you that they're mixed-race.

Dp. It's not that they're mixed raced. It's the overstating of colorblindness in the form of every couple is mixed. It is heavy handed and pointless.

So it bothers you that there are more mixed-race couples now. You would have been more comfortable if Jessie hadn't died so she and Rick could stay a couple, and if Carol had stayed with Tobin. And wasn't the show a whole lot better in the beginning when there was only one token black character and you knew that if they introduced a second one, one of them would have to die?

You're missing the point. The producers of the show are overemphasing the colorblindness. It has nothing to do with my feelings on race. It has everything to do with feeling like the showrunners think we're so dense, we can't tell that race has no signifcance in the zombie apocalypse.

I actually never noticed or stopped to think about racial makeup of couples in this show. So I don’t think it’s heavy handed. I do remember years ago when it seemed like there could only be one back man in the show. Now that was terrible.

Way to virtue signal how color blind you are but you literally would have to be an imbecile not to notice. I thought it was very heavy handed as well.

No. I’m actually surprised I didn’t notice before reading it here. I just didn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:someone told me they have this thing (all 3 FWD, TWD, and the Rick Grimes' movies plus some more) planned out for like the next decade.


This has gone on way too long. I agree with everyone that it reached its peak a few seasons ago. there are only so many ways to pit humans against zombies.

I think part of the problem is that you’re still viewing it as a show about humans vs. zombies, which it really isn’t. The zombies are the background for a show about people.

This is true also. As my husband said, it's not a show about zombies. It's about what humans do to each other. But still, the exciting story arc ended long ago. Now it's just about who's going to supply food for what community, as well as ridiculous couplings. It's sad that it's gotten so dumb because it used to be fabulous.

The show barely covers the "couplings," and I don't really see what you'd find them so ridiculous about them, unless it really bothers you that they're mixed-race.

Dp. It's not that they're mixed raced. It's the overstating of colorblindness in the form of every couple is mixed. It is heavy handed and pointless.

So it bothers you that there are more mixed-race couples now. You would have been more comfortable if Jessie hadn't died so she and Rick could stay a couple, and if Carol had stayed with Tobin. And wasn't the show a whole lot better in the beginning when there was only one token black character and you knew that if they introduced a second one, one of them would have to die?

You're missing the point. The producers of the show are overemphasing the colorblindness. It has nothing to do with my feelings on race. It has everything to do with feeling like the showrunners think we're so dense, we can't tell that race has no signifcance in the zombie apocalypse.

I actually never noticed or stopped to think about racial makeup of couples in this show. So I don’t think it’s heavy handed. I do remember years ago when it seemed like there could only be one back man in the show. Now that was terrible.

Way to virtue signal how color blind you are but you literally would have to be an imbecile not to notice. I thought it was very heavy handed as well.

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Anonymous wrote:someone told me they have this thing (all 3 FWD, TWD, and the Rick Grimes' movies plus some more) planned out for like the next decade.


This has gone on way too long. I agree with everyone that it reached its peak a few seasons ago. there are only so many ways to pit humans against zombies.

I think part of the problem is that you’re still viewing it as a show about humans vs. zombies, which it really isn’t. The zombies are the background for a show about people.

This is true also. As my husband said, it's not a show about zombies. It's about what humans do to each other. But still, the exciting story arc ended long ago. Now it's just about who's going to supply food for what community, as well as ridiculous couplings. It's sad that it's gotten so dumb because it used to be fabulous.

The show barely covers the "couplings," and I don't really see what you'd find them so ridiculous about them, unless it really bothers you that they're mixed-race.

Dp. It's not that they're mixed raced. It's the overstating of colorblindness in the form of every couple is mixed. It is heavy handed and pointless.

So it bothers you that there are more mixed-race couples now. You would have been more comfortable if Jessie hadn't died so she and Rick could stay a couple, and if Carol had stayed with Tobin. And wasn't the show a whole lot better in the beginning when there was only one token black character and you knew that if they introduced a second one, one of them would have to die?

You're missing the point. The producers of the show are overemphasing the colorblindness. It has nothing to do with my feelings on race. It has everything to do with feeling like the showrunners think we're so dense, we can't tell that race has no signifcance in the zombie apocalypse.

I actually never noticed or stopped to think about racial makeup of couples in this show. So I don’t think it’s heavy handed. I do remember years ago when it seemed like there could only be one back man in the show. Now that was terrible.

My son has read all the comics. He was so angry at last night's episode with Rick's "method" of exiting the show. It didn't follow the comic and was "completely stupid." I found his reaction amusing....more than the episode.

Deus ex machina! Bigly.

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Anonymous wrote:Andrea and the Governor totally made more sense as a couple than Abraham and Sasha, right?

Couples make no sense at all! In the Hierarchy of Needs, food and shelter come first. Intimate relationships are lower on the list. No one really has consistant food and shelter, yet everyone's paired up. Um, ok.

Not everyone is paired up, far from it. But to your point, most of the coupling we have seen has arisen at times of greater settlement and security. Glenn/Maggie got together on the farm. Rick/Jessie, Rick/Michonne, Abraham/Sasha, Carol/Tobin, and Tara/Denise all got together after the group settled in Alexandria. Carol/Ezekiel got together after settling in the Kingdom post-war. Bob/Sasha and Abraham/Rosita are the only relationships I can think of that came together on the road; Bob/Sasha were very short-lived, and I never got the sense that Abraham was all that emotionally attached to Rosita (and then he broke up with her for Sasha once the group was settled in Alexandria).

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Anonymous wrote:Andrea and the Governor totally made more sense as a couple than Abraham and Sasha, right?

Couples make no sense at all! In the Hierarchy of Needs, food and shelter come first. Intimate relationships are lower on the list. No one really has consistant food and shelter, yet everyone's paired up. Um, ok.

But poor Darryl really needs to get a piece.

Anonymous wrote:Andrea and the Governor totally made more sense as a couple than Abraham and Sasha, right?

Couples make no sense at all! In the Hierarchy of Needs, food and shelter come first. Intimate relationships are lower on the list. No one really has consistant food and shelter, yet everyone's paired up. Um, ok.

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Anonymous wrote:someone told me they have this thing (all 3 FWD, TWD, and the Rick Grimes' movies plus some more) planned out for like the next decade.


This has gone on way too long. I agree with everyone that it reached its peak a few seasons ago. there are only so many ways to pit humans against zombies.

I think part of the problem is that you’re still viewing it as a show about humans vs. zombies, which it really isn’t. The zombies are the background for a show about people.

This is true also. As my husband said, it's not a show about zombies. It's about what humans do to each other. But still, the exciting story arc ended long ago. Now it's just about who's going to supply food for what community, as well as ridiculous couplings. It's sad that it's gotten so dumb because it used to be fabulous.

The show barely covers the "couplings," and I don't really see what you'd find them so ridiculous about them, unless it really bothers you that they're mixed-race.

Dp. It's not that they're mixed raced. It's the overstating of colorblindness in the form of every couple is mixed. It is heavy handed and pointless.

So it bothers you that there are more mixed-race couples now. You would have been more comfortable if Jessie hadn't died so she and Rick could stay a couple, and if Carol had stayed with Tobin. And wasn't the show a whole lot better in the beginning when there was only one token black character and you knew that if they introduced a second one, one of them would have to die?

You're missing the point. The producers of the show are overemphasing the colorblindness. It has nothing to do with my feelings on race. It has everything to do with feeling like the showrunners think we're so dense, we can't tell that race has no signifcance in the zombie apocalypse.

Andrea and the Governor totally made more sense as a couple than Abraham and Sasha, right?

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Anonymous wrote:someone told me they have this thing (all 3 FWD, TWD, and the Rick Grimes' movies plus some more) planned out for like the next decade.


This has gone on way too long. I agree with everyone that it reached its peak a few seasons ago. there are only so many ways to pit humans against zombies.

I think part of the problem is that you’re still viewing it as a show about humans vs. zombies, which it really isn’t. The zombies are the background for a show about people.

This is true also. As my husband said, it's not a show about zombies. It's about what humans do to each other. But still, the exciting story arc ended long ago. Now it's just about who's going to supply food for what community, as well as ridiculous couplings. It's sad that it's gotten so dumb because it used to be fabulous.

The show barely covers the "couplings," and I don't really see what you'd find them so ridiculous about them, unless it really bothers you that they're mixed-race.

Dp. It's not that they're mixed raced. It's the overstating of colorblindness in the form of every couple is mixed. It is heavy handed and pointless.

So it bothers you that there are more mixed-race couples now. You would have been more comfortable if Jessie hadn't died so she and Rick could stay a couple, and if Carol had stayed with Tobin. And wasn't the show a whole lot better in the beginning when there was only one token black character and you knew that if they introduced a second one, one of them would have to die?

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Anonymous wrote:someone told me they have this thing (all 3 FWD, TWD, and the Rick Grimes' movies plus some more) planned out for like the next decade.


This has gone on way too long. I agree with everyone that it reached its peak a few seasons ago. there are only so many ways to pit humans against zombies.

I think part of the problem is that you’re still viewing it as a show about humans vs. zombies, which it really isn’t. The zombies are the background for a show about people.

This is true also. As my husband said, it's not a show about zombies. It's about what humans do to each other. But still, the exciting story arc ended long ago. Now it's just about who's going to supply food for what community, as well as ridiculous couplings. It's sad that it's gotten so dumb because it used to be fabulous.

The show barely covers the "couplings," and I don't really see what you'd find them so ridiculous about them, unless it really bothers you that they're mixed-race.

Dp. It's not that they're mixed raced. It's the overstating of colorblindness in the form of every couple is mixed. It is heavy handed and pointless.

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Anonymous wrote:pp again. And I'm sorry, but having Rick get impaled, then pulling himself off. by himself. alone. is completely ridiculous. And then barely being able to stay on a horse? Sorry, the show is almost laughable at this point. (yet, I still watch. )

he can barely walk, yet he was able to somehow pull himself back up on the horse a few times....

brings back memories of this great event...

I don't know if this quite got to the jump the shark degree, but i get your point.

Glen under the dumpster was the jumping the shark moment.

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Anonymous wrote:pp again. And I'm sorry, but having Rick get impaled, then pulling himself off. by himself. alone. is completely ridiculous. And then barely being able to stay on a horse? Sorry, the show is almost laughable at this point. (yet, I still watch. )

he can barely walk, yet he was able to somehow pull himself back up on the horse a few times....

brings back memories of this great event...

I don't know if this quite got to the jump the shark degree, but i get your point.

Anonymous wrote:The herd fell into the river on fire. How did that actually kill them? I though only brain injury stopped hem.

Darryl is an unbelieavably good shot. Unbelievable.

It didn't necessarily kill them, there's a good chance plenty will survive. Rick's goal was just to keep the herd from marching across the bridge to Hilltop. Unfortunately it means someone down river will have to deal with them (we saw that in FTWD in the flashback to Dorie's cabin, when all of the walkers were turning up in the river and he and "Laura" explored upstream to find the damaged bridge).