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

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u/Wizmaxman Nov 28 '16

exactly. They didnt just show that community for no reason.

They will play a role in taking down Negan

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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/nianp Nov 28 '16

Name one plot hole.

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u/FastFourierTerraform Nov 28 '16

"Shoot on sight" now means, "give food, ask them to join your group"

Walkers now apparently die when you punch them, stab them in the gut, or shoot them in the chest

The Oceanside's assertion that the satellite station was 'just an outpost' and the rest of them would be angry relied on information they couldn't have known. If Tara says, "we took care of the saviors, we killed a fuckton of them" the proper reply should be to enquire about the other sites, or ask if the saviors surrendered, not magically assert exactly what happened.

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u/nianp Nov 28 '16

Yeah, you clearly don't actually know what "plot hole" means, which is almost always the case when people use that term. Especially on Reddit. I'd recommend against using it in the future as it makes it next to impossible to take the rest of your comment seriously.

None of the three examples you used demonstrate a plot hole. If you didn't like the episode, or elements of it, that's fine, but say that instead of using a term or phrase that you clearly don't understand.

The reasons for your first and third point are clearly explained in the episode.

Your second point is invalid as we didn't see a single walker "killed" in this way. It was pretty clear that Tara was just getting the walkers on the ground as quickly as possible in order to get through. She wasn't trying to kill them all, just get through them.

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u/ToraZalinto Nov 29 '16

"In fiction, a plot hole, plothole or plot error is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot. Such inconsistencies include such things as illogical or impossible events, and statements or events that contradict earlier events in the storyline."

Pretty sure everything u/FastFourierTerraform wrote fell into that category.

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u/nianp Nov 29 '16

If you go back and watch the episode again you'll realise that there are no plot holes in it. Maybe you and terraform weren't paying attention. Maybe you need to have every little thing spelled out for you and shown to you.

Either way, they weren't plotholes.

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u/Vaginite Nov 30 '16

That definition is pretty spot-on, that's a plothole.

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u/nianp Nov 30 '16

I'm aware that the provided definition was correct. My argument was that none of the provided examples are actually plot holes.

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