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QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 08:12 AM)
House of Cards Season 2 goes up February 14. Gotta finish S1 still. Have 4 more.

 

 

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 08:40 AM)
That's awesome - can't wait.

 

Likewise. That show is stellar. Brian, finish season 1...it's well worth it.

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QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Dec 3, 2013 -> 04:26 PM)
Like who? Rick? Carl? Daryl? Maggie? Glenn? Carol? Michonne? Beth? Tyreese? Sasha? TDog? Dale?

 

I can see Lori and Andrea having been over-the-top dumb and the Governor was nutso, but that's about it.

 

All of them? They make moronic decisions that no reasonable person would make in a given situation. Rick especially. It's obviously fiction and all that, but it's still really annoying when everyone watching says don't do X but they do it anyway.

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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 04:50 PM)
All of them? They make moronic decisions that no reasonable person would make in a given situation. Rick especially. It's obviously fiction and all that, but it's still really annoying when everyone watching says don't do X but they do it anyway.

 

Have you been outside your house? There are plenty of morons out there. I don't think the characters in TWD are appreciably dumber than normal people.

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QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 10:57 AM)
Have you been outside your house? There are plenty of morons out there. I don't think the characters in TWD are appreciably dumber than normal people.

 

LOL it isnt worth the argument. He is an admitted plot nitpicker. There is no show that he can turn off the "THATS NOT RIGHT" button for

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QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 10:56 AM)
Not sure if this has been posted already but MTV is throwing a hail mary with this year's season of The Real World. This year the exes of the housemates will be moving in as well. *cue the staged carwrecks*

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/12/03/real-wor...losion-trailer/

Big Brother did it. Real world has become very staged and boring. Bought time to kill it off.

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QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 10:57 AM)
Have you been outside your house? There are plenty of morons out there. I don't think the characters in TWD are appreciably dumber than normal people.

 

Well that's true, but I think it's reasonable to assume that the people who survive a zombie apocalypse have some intelligence about survival.

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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 11:05 AM)
LOL it isnt worth the argument. He is an admitted plot nitpicker. There is no show that he can turn off the "THATS NOT RIGHT" button for

 

To me there's a difference between problem solving or actions that are logical but slightly unbelievable (think of some of the Breaking Bad stuff - the huge magnet at the police station, the train heist, the multiple jail murders, etc. Every step made sense in context of the show but it's not very believable that someone could pull it off so easily) and just completely inane decision making in Walking Dead that is made purely to move the plot along even if it doesn't make any sense (nearly getting Glenn killed with the well-zombie, everything that happened with the Governor and Woodbury, Rick killing the pigs 10 feet from the fence he's trying to protect even though he should know that the zombies would eat the pigs and then go right back to the fence....which they did! etc.)

 

I can accept over-the-top stuff. It's a fictional world afterall. I can't accept moronic ones that make no sense in the world of the show.

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Anytime people interact on a non action level, you complain. Anytime people have emotional moments on shows(not just WD), you complain. Anytime a situation happens where people make the wrong decision, you complain. Anytime a decision is implausible, but made to further the plot(which, all decisions in any show do), you complain.

 

Face it, you watch shows just to tell yourself and us what is wrong with them. Your enjoyment with these shows ends very quickly after they begin.

 

I could look back through this thread for any show you watch and discuss, and there is always a Lori, a Dana Brody, and once you find that person the show is just destroyed in your eyes

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QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 11:47 AM)
SOA is the king of the implausible reality but it was really good again last night.

 

One thing that drives me nuts about Sons is why the hell does Tara still have an office and pretty much free reign at a hospital she no longer works for? Especially with the trial she has hanging over her head. I can't imagine any hospital in the country would even allow her on the premises, except as a patient, in her current situation.

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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 11:29 AM)
Anytime people interact on a non action level, you complain. Anytime people have emotional moments on shows(not just WD), you complain. Anytime a situation happens where people make the wrong decision, you complain. Anytime a decision is implausible, but made to further the plot(which, all decisions in any show do), you complain.

 

Face it, you watch shows just to tell yourself and us what is wrong with them. Your enjoyment with these shows ends very quickly after they begin.

 

I could look back through this thread for any show you watch and discuss, and there is always a Lori, a Dana Brody, and once you find that person the show is just destroyed in your eyes

 

Not true at all. There are many shows I love - Breaking Bad, GoT, Masters of Sex, Boardwalk, etc. I don't complain about any of them because they don't really suffer from these issues. Homeland WAS excellent and my complaints about this season are the same as many others out there. When I say a show is boring or certain characters are annoying it doesn't necessarily mean I hate the show.

 

I'm a nitpicker, no denying that, but don't confuse my complaints with thinking there is no redeemable quality about a show.

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QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 09:57 AM)
I still watch it, but I think anyone with half a brain knows that Walking Dead is one of the most poorly-written shows on TV.

^This

 

I didn't even know 90% of the character's names by the end of season 1.

 

EDIT: Talking to my wife I'd refer to them as Rick, Lori, stupid kid, black dude, wimpy old woman, asian dude, etc.

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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 11:49 AM)
Who cares if someone doesn't love a show as much as you do? Why take it so personally? *shrugs*

 

Im not taking it personally. I stopped arguing with him a long time ago over the issues he had with the show, it is what it is. I turn my brain off to watch the show, its a zombie apocalypse. There isnt much realism in it

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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 11:58 AM)
^This

 

I didn't even know 90% of the character's names by the end of season 1.

 

That's because most of the people are there simply as future zombie victims. What are we, like a couple of years into the zombie apocalypse at this point on the show? Anyone still alive at this point would, by any type of Darwinian logic, be an elite survivor. And you still apparently have an endless number of morons that will walk right into a shambling zombie. It's something the show needs, though, as people basically only watch for the killings. They just write it so badly.

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