GustavMahler

Just a typical day at Coney Island...the Maggie-Negan feud resurfacing as if the tenuous truce at the end of the mother lode is just redundant.

Well, there's that then...a bit predictable and anti climatic. This will be one of those shows that I will forget about rather quickly and get interested again when season 2 comes out. No real anticipation angst for me.

I understand this is based on a video game because it certainly is being presented as one. I never played the game (though spoiled somewhat from simple You Tube thumbnail descriptions over the years) but this show seems to move at the same rapid pace of a video game. No lingering allowed and no real character depth from the NPC "walking dead" stock pool. I guess this is a good thing because we are not getting the "walking dead" bloat or the "game of thrones" inability to create a compelling narrative once divorced from that lazy jabba the hut author's source material. I have enjoyed the show, which is all that matters, but there is no meat on the bones of this story.

I have to say that there is one aspect of this show that breaks from the Walking Dead mold. Where characters in Dead over stayed their welcome to the point you just wished they would die already, in Last, you hardly get to know them.

In retrospect, there was always a mulligan that this series could have played but never did. If we enter the wayback machine to Season 1, the scientists at the CDC did say that the walking dead would eventually starve themselves into non existence. True, no real tmetable was given so this get out of Zombieland free card could have appeared at any time. Succes and spinoffs obviously allowed the showrunners to keep this card in their pocket. So it was good to see an intense Zombie fight in the last episode which could stand up to what we saw in the earlier seasons.

When Daryl and Carol had that conversation at the end concerning how he wished she was coming along, I felt that it was two people intimately conversing about the spinoff, and not two tv characters.

Did Peter Jackson direct the ending because, damn, that was interminable with a number of fake outs...but, as I mentioned once before, mainstream television now is so loaded with crap, that my appreciation for this show has improved to a degree over the past few years. I am glad I stayed with the series to the end.

Neither did I...I was watching on the AMC fire tv app where they have the season's episodes arrayed in a column. I saw the last episode thumbnail and thought they released both episodes at once, but that was not the case. The picture shown though was a spoiler...

I was annoyed that AMC had the final episode listed and the thumbnail was spoilery. They yanked it off after a few hours but it was too late for me...

Hey, at least the French Zombies will leave him be, they hate Americans...

It went to meet up with Arya Stark's missing horse from S8 of GOT..

When Maggie mentioned she heard Hershel, I was hoping she was hearing her father's voice and was now going stark raving mad....

Hey, it could have been worse. Just imagine if we witnessed the origin of the "Show me your feet." conversation. An uneasy flashback for many who tried online dating services.

I plodded through 8 episode before bailing out..too contrived, cliche' and slow. I realized that my 50 minutes could be better served elsewhere, such as cleaning the toilet.

I am still here, as there is no reason not to go to the finish line. Besides, as most new shows are hot garbage, this has me appreciating TWD more than I have.