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I’m watching the show for the first time and on season 9, right after he disappears. No spoilers please. But I saw Michonne hugging their son? Lol people have such a hard time getting pregnant without an apocalypse and Rick the prick is knocking ladies up left and right! He’s the real danger lol

I’ve always been curious about how the points system at the Sanctuary functioned under Negan’s rule. Was it like a marketplace economy where people could trade or earn points for specific goods and services? What happened if someone ran out of points entirely—did they go into debt, face punishment, or get forced into harder labor? Did this system create any sort of hierarchy or inequality among the Saviors?

I’m interested in hearing everyone’s thoughts or interpretations based on what we saw in the show or read in the comics!

For the first 10 Seasons of the show. I was an absolutely enormous fan. I watched religiously, I played the Telltale Games, and went back and read the comics, bought almost all of the Funko Pops.

Even when I thought Season 8 was maybe a sign that the show had gone downhill and couldn't recover, I went on to find season 9 to be my favourite yet; and season 10 was almost just as good in my opinion.

Then however, Season 11 came.

Now to preface this, I do not hate season 11. I think it has some spectacular moments and episodes. The issue I have, is with the fact that it is not the final season of the show.

I hate the fact that the most important characters all got moved to spinoffs and the reat of the cast was just left to be forgotten. I hate that I watched 11 seasons of a show, just for the ending to tell me now you've gotta go and eat up all these mini series we're producing now loser.

And I wouldn't hate it so much if these shows did a service to the characters and the stories but they don't. The Ones Who Lived has some highlights, and started very strong, but it felt majorly rushed by the time it ended and left me (and a lot of people) very unsatisfied).

The CRM had been built up for half a decade as the greatest threat out characters had seen and yet Rick and Michonne casually dismantle the entire operation in twenty minutes.

There's also no universe in which both Daryl and Carol should have decided to up and leave Judith and RJ. I already feel like the show expected a lot from the audience in expecting us to believe Michonne would do this without discussing it with Daryl and Carol first, and it's an even bigger leap in logic to know the both of them ended up doing this too. I suppose at least Ezekiel hasn't bailed on them??

Whilst Maggie is one of the characters I am somewhat fine with seeing more of as her looking for her kidnapped son does make sense, Kirkman wrote Negan out of the comics for a reason. His story should've ended when he killed Alpha and got exiled, OR it should have ended in season 11 when he attempted to sacrifice himself for Alexandria. Both examples would've concluded his arc in a way that felt natural and lie things for him had come full circle, yet instead we have to continue dragging on his arc until god knows when.

I suppose that's my biggest issue really. We've had so many chances to give all these characters satisfying conclusions and yet we just KEEP on going. How many more seasons of Daryl Dixon and Dead City will we have before this all wraps up? Where exactly is any of this actually going? The overarching threat of the CRM is completely out of the picture, so what exactly Is any of the shit in these shows building towards??

Shows are allowed to end. We're allowed to move on. I can only commit so much of my time to a story before it gets tired and boring, and I think I've reached my limit with TWD. It breaks my heart. But that's what it is.

I watched S10 E8 last night where Gabriel kills Dante. I initially was really shocked and didn’t fully understand and was saddened to miss Dante and what he could’ve become.

After some thinking, I understand what Gabriel said about ‘do we deserve a second chance?’ And ends it with ‘but sometimes we get one anyway’. I took this as Gabriel saying no matter what you did before you came here, you got a second chance and you blew it anyway. It didn’t need to go like this and you still blew it.

I still think what Gabriel did was a major piece of his character development. It showed us what he was willing to do to protect Rosita and Coco because they are his family now.

I just finished reading all 4 compendium of the walking dead and I love it that I want to read more into that world. What are the collected spin off comics? The ones I found are

• Here’s Negan
• Rick Grimes 2000
• Alien
• Clementine (But I think that’s a continuation of the Telltale game)

Is there anymore?

I am rewatching the show for the umpteenth time and relistening to some dialog in the first season. Is the reason Carl's hair is so long at the end because since his mom was no longer alive he couldn't get her haircuts anymore?

Dead City season 2 will be getting 8 episodes so I really hope that means the story will be better paced and won't feel too rushed and they can spend more time building things up and having... it's almost like I miss the filler, because "filler" isn't always bad, just having these scenes with characters where you get to know them better and explain their motivations and give more insight and depth and bonding, rather than the story being messy and underdeveloped.

You don't need constant plot progression and things happening, but at the same time dont let things drag either, they have to strike the right balance and I think that's hard to do in 6 episodes, 16 might be too much but 8-10 would be just right I think. There are other issues in the writing but I think more episodes and having more of a natural flow and pace will help with this, like cutting out moments and storylines designed to get characters where they need to be quickly that often feels contrived or convenient, and just having more down time for the characters and stories to breathe, and allowing to tell bigger scale stories well because they aren't as constrained. This was especially the case I feel with the CRM and France storylines, maybe it was always designed to be 1 or 2 season arcs, but I feel they needed more episodes to tell those stories right and really get into the depth and detail I wanted.

I am watching TWD for the fiirst time (started about two years ago with Covid, watching on and off since). I am currently in S07E12 and i am so frustrated with the stupidity of some characters choices. (particulalry Sasha and Rosita)

I know its inevitable with longer tv shows, im not surprised. But its still very iritating.

Just wanted to vent, no spoilers, thanks

Ok, so I finally caught up and finished TWD. Yet to really grit into the spin offs, but I will.

It hit me when Hilltop was dealing with the Whisperers and it's really bugged me. Inspired by early Negan and useful before the appearance of the variants:

Trenches. Deep. Zigzag the paths to the settlements through these. Deep and wide enough to catch a good amount of walkers - but literally all around the settlements. Like, dozens on each side but also in the forests. 360 degrees and place them beyond the crops to give plenty of breathing space.

They would catch great tranches of any herd or thin out swarms. Easily they could set up alarms on these also. Whisperers would avoid them but the herds aren't so nimble and you'd catch dozens per hole. They could be disposed of later when able.

Survivors would see these and avoid so minimal risk of catching someone living.

It hit me when Hilltop 'prepared' for the Whisperer War and it's really made me annoyed because it's I feel like it's so logical. Also don't get me started about taking them on within 50 meters of the walls - give yourself space to fall back guys!!!! You can smash wave after wave and even with a fire attack you'd be losing minimal ground each time.

I've been wanting to discuss this with someone and just found this group today - so all feedback welcome. Let me know what you think.

TL;DR massive amounts of large pungee pits without the spikes (or with.... your call)

I’ve been watching the series since the day it came out but not once until just now have I seen the last episode of the series. I feel like I just closed a huge chapter of my life(sounds stupid I know) by finishing the series and I’m sobbing over this show yet again. Luke? He started the tears and then they stopped. Rosita?! I wasnt expecting that and it took me so off guard. Maybe it’s the fact that I have a daughter now, or maybe I just didn’t realize how much I liked her character. But I’ve been sobbing for a good 10 minutes now (silently to not wake my LO).

Please tell me I’m not alone in the bawling like a baby at this series.

Do you guys think that later seasons Rick, like for example season 5 Rick (or any later season), would have listened to Shane and instead of continuing to look for her he would have left? Or would he still try to find her?

In Daryl’s series, he keeps talking about getting back to Ohio. I thought then that maybe they all moved, but now I’m watching “The One’s Who Live”, and Michonne still talks about getting back to Alexandria, VA.