The part where they have a battle over the prison, and after the good guys win they leave their newly secured fortress because some fences got knocked down.
That's EXACTLY where I stopped too. How ridiculous
Is that around around the same time as the scene that's been made into a meme where the good main cop guy (can't remember name) is crying leaning over telling his son that his mum is now a zombie or dead?
If I remember correctly, it's the cop dad realizing his son shot his mother (copwife) who was in the process of birthing his sibling. She couldnt complete the brith naturally, and was dying of blood loss. If you die you turn.
So dadcop was away at this time due to plot, carl shoots mom and they rip the baby out.
This meme scene is when Rick returns to learn all that has transpired, and that Carl is completely detached and uncaring (outwardly).
Rick then goes into the scene where the birth happened and it is implied he finds a walker eating the corpse of his wife.
He is, as you can imagine, somewhat bummed out and grouchy about all this.
It also marked his son's pivot from being his little follower (as in wanting to follow his footsteps) into something much more dark.
I dunno, tried to remember. probably goofed some details
When they were trapped in a traincart or maybe a shipping container. I felt like the show fell into a loop of finding a safe place then the safe place turning out not to be safe.
I powered through that, and I'm watching the next arc. You'll be relieved to know that they've found a safe place. A few of the main cast have noticed some flaws, but I'm sure it'll turn out ok...
The HBO "women making increasingly worse decisions and their problems would have been solved had they done nothing in the first place".
This comment alone has solidified my decision to never start watching this series. Thank you.
Yup. The seasons always felt like 80% of it was drama which would be later be irrelevant or subplots that would be unfinished, followed by 10% scheming and a 10% action packed finale where things would kind of reset.
I'm not sure if people just enjoy watching drama but even on some TV shows that I love for the brilliant writing(like Mad Men) it almost felt like too much.
Anyways I think I got to a season after the prison and I realized the loop was not pleasing to me because the characters had little progression, if that makes any sense.
During the season where they got to a seemingly safe place and then it turned out humans are the worst. Then zombies killed some humans and the others had to flee.
I'm sure you know which season I mean /s
When Neegan showed up and I realized that the only fun episodes were the season opener, mid-season break, and finale and that Glenn and Maggie were the only two characters I wanted to live. Since the lame Glenn hid under a trash bin fakeout death, I knew Glenn was gotta get the bat and it wasn't worth watching Maggie go through whatever dumb storyline they came up with after that as they were becoming even more predictable and mediocre over time.
Don't regret watching it to that point or anything, that was just when I decided to spend that time watching something else.
That is also the moment where I stopped watching. I was already on the fence for some time, but the bullshit of having Glenn survive and then get his head smashed in was the last drop.
Ah yep. Was looking for others who stopped at Negan.
Powered through after quitting on the farm during the original airing. Just to put my hands up once one too many obnoxious decisions led them to the even more obnoxious Negan.
Glenn died and so did my desire to watch.
I remember this part also really pissed off a lot of comic readers because the comic does the batting event as very unceremonious event at the end of an issue, true to the style of the story. This contrasted a lot with the show which treated it like this big event cliffhanger at a mid-season break, only to then return to kill Glenn off as everyone expected.
It was shortly after they faked out Glenn's death, because I felt the writers were being emotionally sadistic just for shock value and not to enrich the story.
I think I also quit watching The 100 around the same time for that same reason (and because of a couple character deaths that were written very shitty. If you know, you know.)
I know.
TWD really was in my opinion the first TV show that had a social media hype train. And the writing quickly felt like a lot of fan service(plot armor and screen time) and shock value (intentional cliffhangers to spur social media conversations)... Other great shows like Breaking Bad and GoT also had huge hype trains but it felt like only connusuiers watched them. TWD was the kind of show that appealed to many generations. It was pretty sad to watch it go downhill. If they had finished strong the IP would be as highly regarded as Breaking Bad.
The 100 had great promise and was messed up with lame ass writing.
The final straw for me was the day after the episode where Beth died aired. It was the morning after that episode aired and I hadn't had time to watch it yet, and I was scrolling through Facebook when a giant "RIP Beth" picture popped up on my main feed from the official Walking Dead account.
The official account couldn't even hold itself back from posting spoilers for 24 hours after the air date and I realized I didn't even care that the episode had been spoiled. I didn't care about the characters, or the plot or the direction the story was going.
I haven't watched anything Walking Dead since.
The Walking Dead actually died many seasons ago and we're watching its zombified corpse stumbling around.
I started to lose interest with Glenn's dumpster thing, totally stopped when they made Negan's introduction into a cliffhanger. In hindsight, I wish I'd stopped watching when Rick first arrives at Alexandria's gate, before he ever goes inside.
Sameeeeeeeeee
Get out of my head.
Season 2. Them fucking around on the farm with like 3 zombies the whole season.
And from what i always heard, it never even got better.
I made it to the jail...was not worth it lol
That whole deal about people “catching” the virus or whatever in the jail was absurd. For a few episodes it was airborne then suddenly it wasn’t any more.
This is where I quit. Made it to them finding the Zombies locked up in the barn.
Ha! Saaaame. The first season was great but I was bored all of s2 and when it was over, I realized I didn't care anymore.
EXACTLY! how i left season2.
By the time I realized the show was just people bitching and moaning with the occasional zombie was halfway through season 2.
But I finished it just to see if it would get any better. I was so checked out by the time the chick with swords and two chained up zombies showed up.
When Carl got killed and I realized that I didn't care about any of the characters. I didn't even finish watching the episode.
Funny. This is when I stopped reading the comics. Haven't watched a single episode of the TV show.
Years later I learnt he survived the shot.
Hershel's farm. Got to the end of that, and just never picked it back up. Every time I've thought about it, something else popped up and it just keeps falling by the wayside.
Funnily enough, that was also around the time that I fell off from Who. Just wasn't enthralled with Matt Smith, and I equally haven't gotten around to finishing his time. Seen some sporadic bits, but y'know, there's Wolfs Rain right there, and it's been a minute, so...
Was that when they found Zombies in the barn at the end? That's when I gave up.
Yep, that's exactly it. I actually enjoyed, and read passed, that section in the comics, but for some reason the show just didn't have that same hook to carry on.
You can curse on the Internet
Shit, you can even fuckin curse in real life if you damn well want to.
Fuckin' A!!!
When they got to the prison. The entire previous season was a waste of time because the girl they were looking for was already a zombie in the barn the whole time, they killed off all the characters I liked because of contract disputes, and then they just got reset back to square one.
When they had a baby or some shit. I just really didn’t want to deal with baby drama.
Which ever episode it was were the main love triangle chick flipped her car in broad daylight on a mostly empty road with no traffic.
I realized that almost none of these characters would have survived the initial outbreak.
When the kid pet the wild deer, and then the hunter shot the kid through the deer somehow. The whole concept felt like it was written by someone who has never seen a deer or a rifle in their life.
Right here
Coral!
After the pilot. Just wasn't my thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same. Came across to me as a soap opera that happened to have zombies, when I was hoping for more of a George A Romero vibe.
I never even gave it a chance.
I need some info. Why are people censoring words like these and why also do it even on pictures?
Not sure, but I'd guess at some point someone posted the screenshot on a platform that had rules against vulgarity, and the image was copied from there. After a long chain of reposts on different platforms it eventually made its way here.
I just see this a lot and don't think its necessary
I loved the first episode. I watched S1 out of hope and then gave up.
Season 1 when the incredible Frank Darabont was fired. If you’ve ever wondered why the quality dropped off hard after season 1… that’s why. In a show that was ostensibly a character driven drama, the show lost a showrunner that directed The Shawshank Redemption. This is the same guy that directed and wrote the screenplay for the movie adaptation of The Mist, and wrote an ending so good that Stephen King preferred it over his own ending.
Season 8 episode 1. Negan walks out with no cover in front of Rick and the others makes a speech and Rick didn't kill him then and there.
Negan did it for me too. After season 5273518463 of Negan I was like ok... Enough already, I get it, bad guy is bad can we move on?
Same. After maybe two episodes of that guy I had enough. The constant "we're save" to "Oh no some random bad guy that is worse than the last" to "yay were safe" to "Oh no,..." finally got to me.
Episode one. Not my bag, baby.
the word is fuck
Middle of the prison arc in season 2 or 3. One day turned it on and realised that it just bored me. Never finished it.
The bit where they pretended the Asian lad was dead but he was actually hiding under a bin.
I stopped watching not because of the deception, but because I realised I no longer cared.
And then after all that they ended up killing him off a few episodes later... Wtf?
Stephen Yeun, Korean-American.
Right about here...
The farm season. Fuck that entire story line.
When I started rooting for the zombies to just end the crew's suffering and by extension mine.
The whole Sophia arc could have been 2-3 episodes not seasons. Nothing against her character or the actress, but they were already really dragging stuff out back then.
But really, I fucking gave up on it because Carl is supposed to kill the non-zombiefied version of Shawn.
I got pretty far, I think the end of season 7. When Carl got bit I realized I did not give a fuck about him or the show.
I sat there after that for bit and thought about how much time I spent watching this show and thinking I should just finish it. But nah, I'm glad I haven't watched the rest.
The start of the second season where they were at the prison and had brought in a bunch of new people who were just doing a bunch of dumb shit to almost get each other killed all the time. After a couple episodes I missed a week and realized I didn't care enough to go back to it because it would just be more of the same. Too much of the conflict was just due to the characters being dumbasses and not communicating. I can see that being an issue at the start but after surviving as long as they had that shit should be figured out.
3rd episode of the first season. I thought to myself this is nothing more than a soap opera... Never watched it again
Same. I never understood the appeal.
I read a few of the comics before the show came out. First episode I said no thank you.
Whatever season it was with the old man and the farm and barn. When Grampa kept threatening to kick them out. The ex cop should've stomped that old man to death.
2 I believe. I stopped there too after coral took a round from a hunter.
Gave up watching a couple eps before the S3 finale. I just couldn't do it anymore. Even by S3 the show seemed like it was repeating the same beats over and over again. The survivors made decisions that anybody in a similar situation would never make ("realism" be damned if it ruins the immersion), and it just became tedious viewing (how many times are we going to travel between Woodbury and the Jail?). What was awkward were my friends that remained invested and kept inviting me over to viewing parties on season premieres or half season finales, and I just have to pretend I'm having a good time watching a show that I care exactly zero about lol good vibes though because everyone else is super stoked so you win some you lose some.
S01E05 ish
Too much drama, too unrealistic. I accept the premise of zombies but this is not how people would respond.
I watched 8 Seasons because I'm a bad person and I deserve this
Lol. A lot of the other comments about repeating storylines or naff episdoes are fair, but we stuck it out to the end too. Overall I enjoyed the show.
I also enjoyed the comic series.
I hung in a really long time actually. Lasted until they did the informal handoff to new stars, around the time Jesus had that weird fight to the death in the foggy graveyard. That was it for me.
I think that's at the exact point I stopped as well. Honestly, a lot longer than I probably should have gone.
Pretty much when I realized each season was them just taking over another town killing the leader because one of their own got captured. Plus Carl was super annoying lol
When they had the weird "school" lessons for the kids in the prison and were teaching them how to kill zombies effectively while having lectures outside sitting on the grass. It was like the worst parts of being a hippie and the worst parts of being a violent fuckwad all thrown together. I get that they were trying to show what life might be like for the next generation but teaching violence in that pseudo innocent context felt so incredibly wrong
Not defending the show but that juxtaposition was the point, it was meant to be perverse
When the old man died (a little after that)
Attempted to watch through season 4 a few times, then finally got through it. Watched 2-3 episodes of season 5 and quickly realized that the show wasn't building up to anything and did a lot of rinse and repeat. So I quit watching it then.
Saw like 3 episodes of the show, thought “Yeah, I’ve seen this ‘the real monster is your fellow man!’ treatment before, what else you got?”, heard the graphic novel was better, took two steps into that thing and found myself drowning in a vat of misogyny and toxic masculinity, and decided the whole IP is shit.
Never started it. I was thinking I was going to start it when it had an ending. Now I see no reason to ever bother starting it. Good thing I'm patient. I did the same thing with GoT. Dodged two bullets.
Despite the bad ending, GoT is a great series.
The first season of Walking Dead was pretty great as well.
Its not worth it to me to get invested into a series that I know will eventually disappoint me. I have limited time to watch TV and I want to make it count. As good as I know the first couple seasons are, what's the point of I know it's all leading off edge of a cliff and nothing will actually matter?
Same but it's just cause I'm lazy not patient
I gave up after Season 7. To be fair I did have a social obligation watching with friends and pizza every week, and we spent Season 7 making fun of it before someone said "I think the show might be bad now" and we stopped.
Yeah I think I just watched to see how the Negan plotline played out and then I was done. It was starting to get stupid before then, but the Negan reveal where he killed someone and didn't show it in the season finale (tune in next season to find out who he killed!) was the point where I started to think "this show isn't getting better, it's getting worse."
It wasn't a conscious decision, just more of a meh, don't feel like watching it. It sent from a show I watched religiously every week to a show I couldn't be bothered with. The Negan plot-line could have been great but they went to gimicky with it.
Gave up? I'm still watching all the spinoffs
I hear ya!
Like half way thru season 3
When the zombie was pulled out of the well. Just not worth it for me.
I think there was an evil hospital, or something. Maybe a muder car.
That one guy has the cute though. I am sure he isn't lying...
Yeah I stopped when they introduced cryosleep and cyborg girls.
They did what?
I legit thought the show ended after season 4.
At what point did I give up on The Walking Dead?
About the time I couldn't keep up which streaming service had it this week. I mean, it was on Netflix here at first, but after that, it was anyone's guess.
how many series of walking dead they have done actually ? I never watched it or understood why all these seasons/series, and how many people do follow it. I watched supernatural until season 5, because after that it didn't worth.
Where they were in a junkyard and they had to fight some spike covered zombie.
I watched season one. Having read the comic, I thought the show was very poorly made.
When they were "escorting" the walkers out of the quarry and everything went to shit for the dumbest reasons, as is tradition. I don't even remember what happened after that because I think I stopped mid episode.
I think I finished the season that Rick "left" the show. Didn't stick around long after that, I don't really remember tbh.
S0e0
So they pitched this show about slow moving zombies harassing cowboys who just want to raise up their family right, got dangit boy ain't right, and I wasn't sold.
Which time? First time through I stopped at season 2 because I got bored. About 3 years later, me and the misses decided to see it through and then stopped again at the infamous Negan scene at the end of 6 beginning of 7. Literally felt like I was kicked in the gut. Took about 6 months to get over that. Finally finished it but it was like a chore at the end.
Like many, many, (didn't realize how many) people, I stopped at the prison.
Human: Zombies, ahh!
Zombies: eat-bite-kill
Human: Ahh, I'm dying tragically.
Other human: No! I loved/liked/admired/hated-but-respected you!
Zombies: stops-for-some-reason-then-eat,bite-kill
Rest of human group: Run away!
Or maybe it was a different episode, I really don't remember.
Yeah it was around season 3 that there basically stopped being zombies, or what zombies there were ended up being completely inconsequential and everyone just had so much plot armor.
when they made what's his face(can't recall it atm) a giant pushover is when I stopped It completly broke his character and it was so jarring that I walked away and never went back. Like polar opposite of his personality from the first few seasons. Didn't set right
Negan? Yeah he went from a charismatic psychopath to the sympathetic grandmother.
Yea him I believe, I was already kind of on the way out but that 180 flip cemented it
I didn't even like season 1. Refused to start season 2
Thought season 1 was bad and inconsistent and then quit either in the middle of season 2 or the end of it.
It was clear the writing was in conflict with production from the get go.
Some of season one was great! Then season two took a story that was only one and two half issues in the comic and dragged it out into a whole boring season.
The worst thing about the show is that they took things from the comic and thought "what if we do this but change it to make it less awesome."
Yeah "some" is what got me to try season 2 in the first place. But looking it up I realized I actually finished season 2 and quit at season 3. Its been 12 years, after all.
But I had never read the comics so even without context and coming to the series 'fresh' I felt the series was off. I had lost interest in just about every character and potential story arc after 2 seasons. Except maybe Daryl and Merle who weren't going to sustain the series.
i think i watched more at some point, but i checked out when one guy chose a more direct route to somewhere through a tunnel instead of going around. and omg!!! there were a bunch of zombies in all those wrecked cars? who could have seen that coming!
i liked most of the first season of fear the walking dead, and it quickly turned terrible as well. wish that series had stayed on the initial outbreak and collapse a little longer.
I never started watching it.
I actually just started watching it a few months ago as my background show while I was working.
I thought it was pretty good and just fine at times, but the last episode of season 6/beginning of season 7 I had to stop.
This is the first show I've watched with any sort of gore since my son was born and I realised I can't take the the dark psychological stuff I used to. Watching the scene where negan is telling rick to cut off his sons arm was my breaking point before going back to curious george.
My only son just turned two, I feel this. I used to watch that kind of stuff all the time and now I watch an episode of bluey and break into tears. Anything with children in harms wayI just can't anymore. it seems like every show does now that I'm a parent
I don't even have kids and Bluey makes me break into tears for being so wholesome
I don't have TV, so will catch shows later than everyone else of I hear good things. By the time I'd was ready to seek it out, the consensus was to not bother so I didn't.
Avoided Game of Thrones the same way (may still watch it except for the final season some day). Only watched Dexter for a few seasons and quit while I knew I was ahead. Etc.
I do the same with video games.
There's way too much media out there, so why not hold back a bit and wait for the dust to settle?
The hard part is the social aspect of media. It's not always about what's good, it's about the conversation surrounding the things. I get weird looks when I talk about Plex. Also
Game of Thrones is worth watching till the end, just maybe have a beer and your phone in hand for the last 2 seasons.
Never cared to watch it in the first place.
When Dale died?
Season 2 was such a melodramatic let down.
After that first season I read most the comic books and loved them but the TV show just became so much worse, I couldn't stomach it.
I later found out the actor that played Dale wanted out because he was a close friend of Season 1 showrunner Frank Darabont who had been run off by AMC executives. Kinda tied it all together.
The graphic novels are great, though. Seriously, go read them.
When Michonne punched Rick for calling out that community of people that were doing shady shit. (Season 6, I believe?) I couldn't handle any more.
End of season 1. Liked it, but not enough to keep going.
I read the comic. I liked it. I saw that first episode. Didn't bother with the second.
I don't remember exactly when, but I remember them wandering around in a forest for like three episodes looking for some children I think? Just a streak of episodes where absolutely nothing happened. No plot development, no character development, just treading water.
Episode two. I just couldn't believe the characters. Their reactions to everything felt so far-fetched. I think the racist guy was really what did it for me.
Ironically I found Merle to be the most interesting character in the early eps.
It looks like I have 24 episodes that I haven't watched.
I think I stopped when they just found Alexandria. Honestly the intro theme is what kept me coming back when it was getting really slow, like The Governor's arc.
I think season 2 was the last for me.
First episode of the second season
Season 3 was my last season.
The moment ot existed.
Would you believe didn't bother to start with it?
Same with Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad.
Not for edgy, cooler than thou reasons, hilariously enough. Didn't have the time between bringing my cybersecurity education up to date and learning about hacking and stuff, and never bothered going back for them.
I need some info. Why are people censoring words like these and why also do it even on pictures?
