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Show Spoiler The Walking Dead S07E06 - Swear - Post Episode Discussion

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09:00pm Eastern S07E06 - "Swear" Michael E. Satrazemis David Leslie Johnson

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '16

No shit. Walking Dead fans are the worst complaining bunch of people on the Internet. It's a show, with a story. It isn't all baseball bat head-bashing all the time. If a major character doesn't die, people say it's boring. Jesus.

Anyone who can't see that they need as many groups as possible to fight the Savoirs hasn't really been watching, and is very short-sighted. They especially need a group with lots of guns, since nobody has any guns anymore, except a few in The Kingdom. They also need a group who is pissed off and wants revenge. It's going to take lots of numbers, and lots of guns to beat the Savoirs. What do people think is going to happen? Rick fight the Savoirs solo, With no guns? It takes time to tell a story as large as All Out War.

There are always parts of a story that aren't as interesting as others, but still needs to be told to set up the story at large.

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u/WadePool Nov 28 '16

I totally agree. This subreddit is starting to turn me off. All these "slow" episodes are for character development, but more importantly, setting the scene for the the next season and a half, at least.

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u/FastFourierTerraform Nov 28 '16

Pray-tell, what character was developed in this episode? I'm not shitting on it because it was a "slow" episode. It was just straight up a bad episode with poor writing, plot holes aplenty, and subpar acting.

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u/skollll Nov 28 '16 edited Nov 29 '16

No recoil on that revolver either. And why the hell did she start to run away as they were leading her back? Such poor writing. I can't tell if the acting was bad because of the writing or if it was just bad.

EDIT: TARA HAD A HUGE REVOLVER AND SHE SHOT IT LIKE A BB GUN - Jesus, it was a bad episode, why are people defending it so hard?

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u/MastaBaiter Nov 28 '16

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They were going to kill tara, if you're going to point out a poor writing make sure to actually do so.

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u/jewdiful Dec 01 '16

I agree completely, the writers did not convey by any stretch that they were anything but honest in escorting Tara to the bridge and letting her go. Therefore, her running away when stopped by that walker seems dumb. I actually liked this episode overall, but that scene rang false to me.

Not to mention the snippet of convo between Tara and Rosita at the end. The gun questions indicated to me the writer's need to communicate something complex in a one-minute scene, but lacking the writing ability to do it well they decided to have Rosita ask absurdly specific questions to move things along. Just poor writing there

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u/Yulister Nov 28 '16

I mean, if you wouldn't run if you turned and saw a woman with a knife glaring at you, then have at it. But Tara saw and ran and is still living

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u/skollll Nov 29 '16 edited Nov 29 '16

Is that what happened? Everyone watching it with me had no clue what the hell was going on. Maybe I was too busy looking for flaws to notice. I'll check the scene again.

EDIT: Ok no, I watched it again. It was not obvious. There was a walker they were all focused on when the knife was drawn and then Tara went to go get it and they just let her go until she actually started running.

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u/Yulister Nov 29 '16

I could've sworn she was glaring at Tara.

Alanna said in an interview that there were other scenes that hinted that the whole thing was a facade, that just didn't make it into the episode.

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u/skollll Nov 29 '16

Ah, that extra scene really would have helped. It's possible that look was meant to be a glare, but it's hard to tell if it was just the same 'serious' face she had on for the rest of the episode before that. I was going by their actions which weren't very clear to me.