As a big fan of the first season of TWD and to a lesser extent the first season of FTWD, I cannot believe they have departed so far from what made the series good with every step they have taken since. When 'Tales..' was first announced, I thought 'Great - they are returning to some interesting one off stories like they did in the webisodes years ago!'
Boy, was I ever wrong!
Instead, they have taken everything that has been wrong about TWD and FTWD for the last few years, distilled it down to its pure essence and put it on the screen. Every episode is a real stinker.
Even the make up on the Zombies is second rate.
Some time ago, I thought this genre was perhaps exhausted. But then, 'Black Summer' came along and I was pleasantly surprised. Zombies could still be scary.
I think perhaps the writers of TWD and all its offspring, have forgotten what makes the apocalypse watchable. It is the unravelling of our society as it is now - NOT the creation of some Mad Max type scenario that just happens to have a few amusing corpses shambling about. I say 'amusing' because they do not invoke fear anymore - certainly not in the characters they are pursuing, who just casually poke any vaguely pointy object into their squishy skulls and then carry on about their business.
Perhaps Scott Gimple needs to re-watch Romero's classic and re-evaluate his direction. The TWD universe has become very tired and dull and this show is just another nail in the coffin.
Boy, was I ever wrong!
Instead, they have taken everything that has been wrong about TWD and FTWD for the last few years, distilled it down to its pure essence and put it on the screen. Every episode is a real stinker.
Even the make up on the Zombies is second rate.
Some time ago, I thought this genre was perhaps exhausted. But then, 'Black Summer' came along and I was pleasantly surprised. Zombies could still be scary.
I think perhaps the writers of TWD and all its offspring, have forgotten what makes the apocalypse watchable. It is the unravelling of our society as it is now - NOT the creation of some Mad Max type scenario that just happens to have a few amusing corpses shambling about. I say 'amusing' because they do not invoke fear anymore - certainly not in the characters they are pursuing, who just casually poke any vaguely pointy object into their squishy skulls and then carry on about their business.
Perhaps Scott Gimple needs to re-watch Romero's classic and re-evaluate his direction. The TWD universe has become very tired and dull and this show is just another nail in the coffin.