Spends the entire episode just trying to make people see their humanity and morality and do the right thing instead of...

>Spends the entire episode just trying to make people see their humanity and morality and do the right thing instead of falling into hysteria and assumptions of the worst.
>Rick and the crew decide to do the right thing in the end.
>Gets attacked by a zombie and has his stomach torn open.
>Instead of telling him his lessons were right and he saved the crew he gets sent off with "Sorry brother".
Really? Him and Rick are the sole decent part of the first two seasons and that's how you're going to do it?

dude wasn't meant to die at all anyway, so it's quite obviously a half assed poorly written death.

It just makes me so angry he got such a half-assed death, especially after how much of a voice of reason he was and nearly everyone liked him.

>never got tainted meat Dale

Meh, at least Herschel filled his role pretty well.

AMC's the Walking Dead is a bad show. Like extremely bad.

He got pissed that Darabont got kicked off the show and asked to be written out

thank fuck Darabont got kicked off the show tho. Dude was gonna kamikaze it.

That was the most boring episode of the fucking season
Weak pussies like him get what's coming

I like the way that people are written out of the show like it's nothing. Very cold, very stylish.

Also, this series should have ended long ago

>like it's nothing.
>Very cold
>very stylish

the show dedicates entire episodes to characters when they die. even if their death isn't telegraphed obviously like tyresse and sasha, dale still got an entire episode unusually dedicated to his character.

TWD is actually really bad at killing characters off. These days they only kill off minor characters and one major death per season, which will of course be announced, hyped up and celebrated afterwards.

>thank fuck Darabont got kicked off the show tho. Dude was gonna kamikaze it.
Because the show isnt dogshit anyway?

No it's great

More like all character deaths are saved for episode/season cliffhangers because they are desperate to maintain muh ratings.

You mean funniest.
DO IT DAD, DO IT

The show got a good 5 seasons in where it represented the source material perfectly. Even if you don't like that, seasons 2-6 are worthy of praise for the most part because of how it nailed the source material.

Darabont wanted to take the show in a totally different direction and actually disregard the source material it was based on (Why even call it TWD at that point?) Darabont envisioned the zombies growing in intelligence, and eventually forming their own communities.

>loved dale
>only voice of reason
>everyone calls him a pussy and dale ends up dying

This

They had crickets for Dale so they just said fuck it and killed him. Could've done something interesting by making him really stubborn in always doing the right thing, then after consistently seeing the group do "bad" shit, he just gets bitter and becomes punished Dale who no longer gives any fucks and is just really angry all the time like a grumpy grandpa.

Or fuck it, if he HAD to die, you could've made him bust out that one guy from the shed. Then the guy would've found his group, beat Dale to death, then rode to the farm and that could've been how it fell.

But hey, walker eating guts is just as good right. Just like half the fucking cast in season one getting incinerated or just flat out disappearing was better than giving them any kind of arc. I still remember that one fat Mexican dude saying
>"I gotta do what is best for my family, sorry guys bye!"
as he leads them into the fucking unknown and leaves a perfectly fine group and a definite fighting chance. I bet they didn't last a day. Two fucking kids, a frail as woman, and a fat hairy Mexican dude. I love those odds.

T-dog's death hit me harder

>I still remember that one fat Mexican dude saying

who do you think is going to appear in the F/TWD crossover?

Does black guy and his son ever get resolved at all? Are you just meant to assume they died?

He's with the group

Are you talking about Morgan? His son dies and he goes crazy. Then he comes back as a pacifist monk and becomes a main character.

morgans actually probably the only character done better in the TV show than in the comics. in the comics he reappears to the group in a very similar way to how he does in the TV show, however only sticks around a few weeks to fuck michonne (total bbc slut in the comics) and then die to a random zombie.

i much prefer his pacifistic monk/punished morgan shtick they have going on right now

The actor was giving the producers shit for being incompetent, letting go of the last director who actually knew what he was doing.

Nope, season one happened years before FTWD even was a thing. The kids probably look like grown ups now, and if they just threw in entirely new actors it'd be dumb as fuck and just prove they didn't have a plan and just wrote the characters off. Besides, dismissing characters you already gave somewhat of an arc to just to put in some dumb fucking spinoff show is bullshit.

They do in like season 4 or 5 I think. It isn't really brought up beyond that episode though. The black dude is still in the show, and they never talk about it. At least there was an attempt. I'm just infuriated when they introduce redshirts and they are fucking blatant that they are redshirts, then instantly kill them off/get them to fuck off. T-Dog had redshirt written all over him, he was there since like Episode 2 and yet he kept sticking around for SOME fucking reason... Then they finally started giving him somewhat of an arc with not wanting the prisoners to get kicked out, THEN they fucking killed him off before it even developed. Bravo.

> just threw in entirely new actors it'd be dumb as fuck and just prove they didn't have a plan and just wrote the characters off

You're talking about TWD user. They're not going to bring any of the main cast into FTWD, they're not going to mix up the timelines...the FTWD cast are probably gonna come across the random mexican dude after all of his family died or something.

darabont was fucking terrible for TWD, i think people like to remember season 1 as being better than it actually was due to a strong pilot and terrible, terrible follow up season. but so much of season 1 is fucking nothing, and ends in the most retarded way any TWD season has ended so far.

Maybe. It'd still be fucking dumb, just write fucking characters and stop killing them off for no reason at all. If you really need generic cannon fodder people, just write them in as background extras and don't give them anything but throwaway lines so when they die it is expected and not insulting to the audience.

When you dick tease a guy/girl with some depth, then have them get instantly killed it is fucking insulting. Either write characters or don't. T-Dog was by far the most blatant "we don't know what to do, fuck it he dies" moment in the show. They clearly wanted him to do something, otherwise why would he be around for so long? But then it's like they spent years trying to come up with something, then said fuck it and chucked a beer bottle onto the field and just killed him off because they had nothing.

Darabont wasn't bad, AMC just fucked him by refusing to let him do what he wanted and cutting his budget literally weeks before shooting. I think they cut the budget for some reason, Darabont got pissed, and after that AMC suits and Darabont just went back and forth and no one really came out on top because Season 2 sucked.

I didn't mind it much, I think the farm is comfy and I thought the Shane story was handled way better than the comics because in the comics he just goes crazy after like a couple issues. In the show you at least see the build up, point of view of both sides, and understand (even if you don't agree with) Shane/Rick. Seeing as how all out war was going on behind the scenes, I think it turned out about as well as it could have.

>refusing to let him do what he wanted

yeah, which was fundamentally change the story from one about societies emerging after an apocalypse to one about zombies growing stronger and smarter. darabont would have killed this series much faster than the current showrunners are.

>yeah, which was fundamentally change the story from one about societies emerging after an apocalypse to one about zombies growing stronger and smarter
Source? Never heard this before.

Even so I think if ruining TWD was AMC's prime reason for sacking Darabont, they fucked up bad because they didn't do much better.

>this shits been on for like 7 fucking years
>it ain't stopping no time soon

>Darabont envisioned the zombies growing in intelligence, and eventually forming their own communities.
So he wanted an Omegaman tv series?

It was on some Reddit AMA either Darabont or Kirkman did, where Darabont reveals his original plan would have had the zombies grow in strength and intelligence until they eventually grew into their own communities.

If you can honestly call that "not much worse" than the (for the most part) VERY loyal adaptation of the comics, I dunno what to say.

Season 2 has a fuck load of problems, but I cant help feeling its pretty comfy and one of the better seasons.

>primo Shane
>Dale
>T dog
>the bar scene
>Darryl innawoods
>the barn show down

It was extremely small and focused (to a point). the new seasons are very large and focus on too many characters.

Wow. I hated the WWZ movie because of shit like this. Good riddance to Darabont.

Just finished it, personally I felt like Shane's bit went on a bit too long and there was a lot of meandering early on, Rick's "This isn't a democracy" speech at the end feeling way off base, blonde chick constantly dealing with suicide got old real quick, and how Dale was handled for his death are my only real complaints. The farm was comfy, you got to learn about everyone outside of Hershel's group although T-Dog kind of disappeared for half of it, and it was nice seeing them try to fortify the place.

Punished Hershel in S3 seems pretty cool.