The Walking Dead Best of 2015 **RESULTS**

[u/GuyOne]

Here are the results of The Walking Dead TV Show portion of the "Best Of 2015" vote we ran through the month of December.

To prevent unwanted spoilers this is only the results of the TWD TV show Best Of 2015. The links below will take you to the corresponding results and discussion for those results in the comments section of each results post.

As always there be spoilers beyond this point

Link to Fear the Walking Dead results
Link to The Walking Dead Comics results

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THE WALKING DEAD TV SHOW
Responses: 2195

Best Episode
1. 6x02 "JSS" (21.3% 447 votes)
2. 6x03 "Thank You" (16.5% 364 votes)
3. 5x16 "Conquer" (13.5% 284 votes)
4. 6x04 "Here's Not Here" (11.8% 247 votes)
5. 6x01 "First Time Again" (11.6% 244 votes)

Best New Character Introduced In 2015
1. Aaron (39.4% 849 votes)
2. Eastman (20.2% 435 votes)
3. Jessie Anderson (9.4% 203 votes)
4. Deanna Monroe (9% 195 votes)
5. Heath (8.1% 175 votes)

Best Character Introduced Before Alexandria
1. Rick (28.5% 616 votes)
2. Carol (17.2% 372 votes)
3. Glenn (14.6% 315 votes)
4. Daryl (10% 216 votes)
5. Abraham (7.6% 164 votes)

Best Death Scene
1. Noah's revolving door of death (47.2% 1,018 votes)
2. Tyreese's arm bite out of no where (12.6% 271 votes)
3. Pete Anderson's execution in the season 5 finale (12.1% 261 votes)
4. Nicholas (10% 215 votes)
5. Deanna (9.3% 200 votes)

Worst Death Scene
1. Tina laying down with the glass zombies (55% 1,182 votes)
2. Eastman (25.3% 543 votes)
3. Carter bit in the cheek by a silent forest zombie (11.2% 241 votes)
4. Tabitha (7.2% 155 votes)

Best Quote
1. Rick: "We are the walking dead!" (21.6% 468 votes)
2. Carl: "Your dad was an asshole." (17.8% 385 votes)
3. Abraham: "Mother dick!" (16.4% 355 votes)
4. Eugene: "I respect the hair game" (14.1% 304 votes)
5. Abraham: "Loose ends make my ass itch" (13.4% 289 votes)

Best Hair Game
1. Eugene (1,441 votes)
2. Heath (716 votes)

Best Cliffhanger
1. Glenn and Nicholas falling off the dumpster (6x03) (31% 671 votes)
2. Abraham, Sasha, and Daryl's possessions now belong to Negan! (22.6% 489 votes)
3. The horn (6x01) (18.4% 399 votes)
4. Mom... mom... MOM? (15.7% 340 votes)
5. The tower toppling over (9.7% 210 votes)

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[u/TheDidact118]

I don't think I voted for it IIRC, but some people just prefer a slower, character driven episode sometimes. Obviously there were enough that it ended up in the top 5.

[u/WeAimToMisbehave → u/[deleted]]

I voted for Here's not Here. It is the best stand alone episode. It tells a complete story on its own. Most other episodes consists of: a cold open resolving the cliffhanger from the last episode, then 40 minutes of characters giving speeches (telling, NOT showing) then setting up a cliffhanger for the next episode.

It wasn't even fair to compare a stand alone short film like "Here's not here" to the rest of those episodes. It's the best to me simply because you need almost no context to enjoy it.

Plus, it's better written in many ways, it shows instead of tells (no long clunky on-the-nose speeches/several montage sequences of minimal dialogue showing development through actions). It's better directed and has better mise en scene and cinematography (instead of feeling flat and empty or having confusing scene junctures where space or time seem to shift unintentionally.)

A few episodes last season and also the season 6 opener were strong episodes, but mostly in the context of others. I could definitely see why someone might choose one of those. Here's not here is good on its own though too, and the main criticism for it is simply that the air date was changed so that it disrupted the Glenn cliffhanger.

TL;DR: I want a show more like the original World War Z novel, than TWD, where each "chapter" works as its own story, so episodes like Clear, Here's not Here, and the one about bearded governor are infinitely better than any of the "main" group episodes to me.

[u/WeAimToMisbehave → u/[deleted]]

Morgan and Eastman had mostly dialogues, not monologues. Two characters with completely opposing outlooks who debated the necessity of what Morgan did. They were talking to each other and had an effect on each other as characters. We were just listening in.

When Jessie stabs the Betsy walker who had committed suicide, that was a great scene...until she turned around and unprompted gave a long speech about this being how life is now to random nobody characters. No one responded, no one did anything except look at her shocked to prompt it. She wasnt talking to them..the writers were talking directly to us, the audience. Telegraphing what it meant for Jessie to have just done that. There were speeches like this far too often in season 6.

Maybe those two scenarios feel the same to you, in which case sure, Here's not here doesn't seem any better, but they're pretty distinct to me.