SnarkyTart

Oh my heavens, we've seen every one of those three storylines multiple times. The show is saving on their writers' budget by re-using the same scripts over and over.

It didn't seem enough to just "like" your post since it's one of my favorites ever on TWD forum. Thank you. To your final paragraph, I'd like to add last summer's death of stuntman John Bernecker during S8 filming. OSHA finally finished their investigation just eight weeks ago and issued a citation which stated: The part in bold is the reason that Bernecker's family is now suing the studio and producers for negligence. I think it could easily be argued that the proximate cause of Bernecker's death was that the studio did not want to pay for the stunt's safety and didn't have adequate catchers and equipment to accommodate the fall.

Didn't like any of the dresses. I agree that Isaac was compelled, in large part, to pick Stanley because that's who he could most easily work with. (Imagining Isaac being forced to create a capsule collection with Joshua is making me laugh out loud.) Agree that Ken had the line of the night in regards to the lack of time allowed to create something party-worthy and fashionable. Especially agree with the Anthony love. He's the main reason I'm still watching this season in spite of the lackluster runways. I sure wouldn't mind seeing Anthony and Kentaro (winner of most recent season of PR) have a show together. It would, for me, be appointment TV.

The writers’ meeting that laid out the plot for S8 might have gone something like… Gimple at the head of a conference table (salivating and with only one hand visible above the table): “I want lots of speeches for Negan where he says “nut sack, balls, dick, shittin’ pants, and pee hole!” “I want Jadis naked!” “I want Rick in his underwear fighting a walker head on a stick!” “I want Morgan literally ripping someone’s guts out with his bare hands!” “I want a herd of walkers ground up like hamburger in a meat grinder!” “I want Carl Grimes DEAD!” “Your ONLY job is to get to these scenes and I don’t care how or why you get there! These scenes ARE the plot!”

Not to worry. The show saves a lot of its budget by not using lighting, so we probably won't be able to see it anyway. So concludes the story arc of the moronic garbage people, who took huge swaths of screentime away from the main cast, and for no apparent reason whatsoever other than to have their final demise shock the audience with a human meat grinder. Gimple's probably been creepily excited about this ever since he wrote the pointless garbage people into Kirkman's story just so he could film this scene. So concludes the story arc (for now) of the pointless multiple forays into the Oceanside group, I guess so we can worry about the splitting up of Enid and Aaron...two characters about whom we've not been given enough to actually care about their fate. Unlike Glenn and Abraham, about whom we'll hear no more ever.

^^^Plus the extra special added bonus of watching all of the above crap pile in the dark!

So cool. The entrepreneur was asking the sharks for $700,000 for 10% equity in his company. The sharks in the episode were Lori, Mark, Kevin and Robert. They could probably have talked him up from the 10%; but, even at 10%, they would have had a 43% return on their investment, and with their contacts it probably wouldn't have taken amazon 4+ years to close their billion dollar buyout. Not bad. :-D

That's strange, @Lisin, I've never had this happen before now. I wonder what it means? We're both in fairly large markets where this show appears to no longer be airing. I wonder if we have anything else in common? Is your cable provider Comcast, and/or do you use Tivo as your PVR?

For reasons totally mysterious to me, this episode did not air in my local market. Was there an episode on 2/27 as well that was likewise unaired? Weird. Edited to add: Just checked Bravo's episode guide and see that, indeed there was also an Episode 5, titled "Beach Retreat" that aired last night, Feb 27th. That makes two consecutive episodes not being aired in my market (Pacific Northwest). I wonder why? Anyone else having this issue?

Whoa, absolutely savage media reactions. Good.

I agree, it did look that way. The whole thing felt forced and awkward to me. Most of all, I feel cheated because I soo wanted Yvette Nicole Brown and Gimple to be guests so we could watch her make him cry like baby Judith. We deserved that.

Wow. This is your brain on drugs?

There's been a rapid-fire whipsaw of personality transplants in several of the characters. Carol swings pretty easily between being the Terminator, to moping around for extended periods of time because she just can't kill anymore. Morgan has only two modes: Terminator or Zen Master. Jesus, as minor of a character as he's turned out to be, was introduced to us as a pretty bad ass Ninja, only to end up inexplicably forbidding anyone to kill saviors, and to hold them instead in some kind of rickety goat pen right in the middle of the Hilltop community. As far as I can remember, only Daryl has been consistent in recognizing the need to dispatch their enemies without question, even if it meant bucking up against Rick. Sadly, Daryl's character became nothing more than a dirty, grunting, monosyllabic ape, so.

I haven't either, so maybe we both live in a cave. :-) Still, if the product had actually tasted anything like pasta, I would have been interested. But, as a couple of the sharks observed, it didn't taste anything like pasta...just a vegetable cut into the shape of pasta. I looked up the reviews on amazon and many of them wrote about the awful taste and/or texture, preferring zucchini "noodles" if they were going to substitute a shredded vegetable in place of real pasta. I think the entrepreneur failed by positioning his product as a pasta replacement. It is not. Good question! If Kevin O'Leary had been there, he certainly would have pointed out that it was a licensing product. Lori was correct that there was no way people were going to pay a premium price for an off-brand beauty treatment no one's ever heard of. However, if the lace mask part of it was licensed to a well-known, high-end brand, that might be a different story.

And Coral...because that will make the show so much better, right? So, if episode 16 of S8 is "The communities join forces in the last stand against the Saviors as all-out war unfolds", maybe S9 will be a re-run of season 8, only with better lighting.

It's hard to say what we've been muddling through. The screen has been so dark that most of the time we can't see it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure the tagline since the beginning of S8 has been "All Out War!" Gods, this sounds tedious.

I flove Anthony's pants. I want them. Now.

I was a big ol' lurker on this thread back in 2015 during the famous Patricia Bean case. The comments about it begin about 3/4 of the way down on page 106. Here's a link that should work: http://forums.previously.tv/topic/4784-all-episodes-talk-all-rise/?do=findComment&comment=1487507

Nielson's still responsible for those too. I think it's an outdated and unreliable method, but it's still the way ratings are measured. I believe there are all kinds of regulations about cable companies spying on their customers' viewing habits without their knowledge or consent. https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/how-does-live-3-in-television-metrics.htm

Sadly, this would only work if the person doing the boycotting was a Nielson household whose viewing habits were being tracked or reported. If I was a Nielson household, I absolutely would join you in sitting this one out. As it is, I'll probably record it or watch it just so I know what you all are talking about. The posts about this show are WAY more entertaining than the show has been since season 4.

In the lexicon of small claims court TV litigants, I believe that's a janky hoopty.

If they did a poll asking if viewers would rather see: A. Eight weeks of athletes or B. Four weeks of athletes and four weeks of children I doubt the results would even be close. But, in the dim hope of gaining a few new, younger viewers, the producers are willing to lose large numbers of loyal viewers. I guess they learned nothing from the SYTYCD children's season debacle.

Barbara did try to challenge him, but everyone just kept yelling at each other over the top of her, so the coin guy got away with not having to respond to her question. She asked him something like, "Are you saying Subway has an armored car showing up?"