The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Episode 5 Review || Plot Armor To The Rescue!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- A really disappointing episode. Tons of ridiculous plotting. Rick and Michonne almost seem self-aware of their own plot armor at this point. They get out of every pickle without a scratch. Every challenge they come across is barely an inconvenience. Just lame all around.
Written review: www.forbes.com...
I love the walking dead and I do like this show but this episode didn’t sit well with me, I thought I was the only one. So many years away from each other and yet they barely ask about what each other been doing all this time. No How’s back home? What have you been doing in the CRM? No mention of Negan or Maggie or anyone and the survivors that have survived up to this point are dumb as bricks
I noticed early in the episode while they were in the truck that when Rick appeared to finish off a green can of soda he doesn't toss it out the window, yet apparently they later turned serial litter-bugs with the noodle wrappers?
I'm glad you brought that up. I remember thinking to myself i wonder what Rick was going to do with that trash, and whether he'd chuck it out the window or not seeing how it's the end of the world as we know it and everything, but yet he didn't. Now we're supposed to believe that Rickchonne are leaving a trail of breadcrumbs like a post apocalyptic Hansel and Gretel for scavengers and deviants alike to find. It's things like that that are so frustrating with this show.
Leave the kevlar at home because the only protection you need in the zombie apocalypse is plot armor.
Plot armour has been found to be stronger than Kevlar in many instances....
They’re graced with immunity the ones that live
None of these new TWD shows even feel remotely like the original TWD. The whole atmosphere and characters feel drastically different and just cheesy and forced. They have turned Rick into a sideline character in favor of strong brave powerful woman Michonne. Its just unrealistic and alot of forced D-E-I nonsense.
It definitely was hilarious how right before Jadis gets bit the zombies come up on her from behind and even though Rick and Michonne are trying to keep her alive and should see them coming due to the angle they are standing at they act like they don’t see them until they come within frame of the camera lmao which is when Michonne starts shooting but it’s too late of course. The zombies were never in existence until til they stepped within frame lmao.
Call me crazy, I LOVE plot armor (especially with respect to Rick and Michonne). I also loved the episode. SMH
Why do you love plot armor? That's truly bizarre and I'm curious since you don't actually say.
@@ErikKain It's not bizarre at all. Rick and Michonne are literally my two favorite characters in TWDU. If either of them were killed, I'd be done with the franchise. I'm not interested in watching a Game of Thrones type of show (or, if I were to watch something like that, I wouldn't allow myself to become attached to any one character). I've watched TWD/TOWL to follow the stories of specific characters. The show is not enjoyable without them, which is why I was pretty much done with TWD when Andy left (and the only remaining episodes I cared to watch religiously included Danai).
@@ErikKainwhy do you hate the series, when the series ratings is top notch 🤔
I enjoy plot armor too. It’s a tv show. It’s a story. It’s fantasy. It doesn’t have to make sense in our world for it to happen in theirs.
@@michigancubsfan GoT wasn't as extreme as people constantly go on about. Minor and secondary characters die all the time, but you 100% know that some characters like Jon, Arya, Sansa and Bran ain't dying
Kevlar is actually very weak when it comes to slow moving projectiles or blunt force. It just shatters and gives no protection
But still. That tiny hatchet would not leave a grievous wound.
Wow Im really glad I could watch these after, just so I know Im not going crazy. I wanted to see The Rick and Michone and Family reunion so bad, I told myself I would love it even if it came out to be cringe... But I just had no idea how cringe and Gimple Speak filled it could be...
They should have made the reunion at s11 at the latest, they couldve wrapped it all up with a bow right there with the whole group together... Feels like all of this has been a long commercialized using of us, just to give us that moment, so many years late. Im sure people on youtube will at least make edits using some of this that are actually good..
Great videos man thank you! 💜
PS I’m assuming Gabriel and Jadis put reminders in their Google Calendars so they both know the exact day once a year to meet up? 😂🤣 Either that or they are both making meticulously accurate Apocalypse Calendars to track the days - hope they coordinated on not forgetting the leap years 😂🤣
I suppose if they really were looking forward to that day all year like they said they could keep a manual count in their head. Like each day when they wake up they say to themselves it’s been 20 days since the meeting. 345 to go. Even that would strain believability though because they both have so much else going on within a given year surely one of them would lose count at some point.
i’m sure the crm does have a calendar though lol idk about gabe
I'm just not feeling it. First - It is so hard for me to buy into the idea of a mother leaving her adolescent children behind to go on a quest to find her man who may not be alive. What mother does that? I understand being hopeful, but to neglect your children during their most formative years, in an apocalyptic world, and in the hands of someone else for 7 years?!!!! Hell Naw! I don't think so...totally unrealistic. As for this episode, listening to the exhaustive exchange between Rick and Michonne fussing with each other for 2/3 of this episode was unbearable. Also annoying was watching Michonne's over-acting, particularly the romantic scenes; it's almost like watching two different people; leaves you to question just WHO did Rick fall in love with? Rick tries real hard to get into the scene, almost TOO hard and I don't see the chemistry. The writers spent too much time on showing how much they love eachother. This love connection between these two just doesn't work for me. She was/is awesome as a Bad-Ass sword-slinging-walker-killer, but this romantic portrayal of her comes off... 'pretense'. The start of the Rick-Michonne love connection started off awkward in "The Walking Dead" in the first place; it was in your face, BLAM, no build up, not even seeing how they could have been attracted to each other,.....it seemed fake and 'forced', and a decade later I still don't get it. And if I see anymore of them kissing in the rest of this series I'll throw my popcorn at my TV! As much as I LOVED "The Walking Dead" and ALL it's characters (except the Governor), Rick & Michonne's absence from the show was stalled out too long.... my hunger for them has waned. The first episode of this series was engaging; now its like watching "The English Patient" (which was a good movie, but it was suppose to be a romantic movie). I'm still hopeful something spectacular will unfold, like the re-uniting of Darryl, Carol, Maggie and Negan, but the way this story is rolling, I'm just not feeling it.
100% agree
I’ll never tire of the Princess Brids reference. First off why did they need to pull over and rest. Just drive through. Either way. There’s no one Jadis could have found them. Is she Sherlock now? Brightside she’s gone gone.
I can't take any more of the plot armor, it's turning the show into a comedy at this point. If they wanted to do more seasons, Jadis should have been a much more formidable big baddie than we saw displayed in this ep. Apparently Rick and Michonne have God's protection, which also makes all their enemies stupid and incapable of shooting people at point blank range. So far R&M haven't really struggled in any significant way that wasn't self-imposed. I am just struggling to believe any of these characters acting and reacting in real human ways, especially Michonne's "we can take on a literal modern army, so long as we stick together Rick" attitude.
Watching and enjoying this video was super easy, barely an inconvenience!
Hahahaha
"Is this a kissing book?" 🤣🤣🤣
Imagine loving a chick that swings a sword 🗡️ like Michonne look out Bobbit 😅
With only 6 episodes why give us 2 filler episodes. You have had this mysterious crm for years what everyone wants to know about and they hardly show anything about them. Been a poor series again.
I thought I was the only one. It seems like 5 episodes and absolutely nothing has happened
I agree with you about not ever seeing Morgan "We're here to help" ever ever again. His introduction to FTWD was the beginning of the decline of that show.
Your opinion
With all this bad writing, I'd welcome Morgan coming back with a whole new, less annoying personality. Would it be an undue, sudden switch? Yes. Would that be bad writing? Yes. But we get that anyway, at least let us benefit from it lol Same with Father Gabriel. Just go balls to the wall with the personality changes and make them all badass. Thats the kind of bad writing I can get behind 😂😂😂
I was finding the episode quite tedious until Jadis and Gabriel met up. Honestly, this is not great writing. It’s a shame about Jadis dying; she was an interesting character. Could someone please explain the bad haircut to me? It makes no sense!😀
They had 5 years to come up with this story! I can't believe AL and DG came back for this. Not having this storyline resolved on the main show with the regular cast is a massive drawback, too. Jadis speech as she was going out was terrible, but nothing was worse than rick and michonne jumping out of bed to avoid gunfire. Second hand embarrassed for the writers in that moment.
Worse, they're exec producers and helped shape the story so they contributed to it AND signed off on it all!!
It's sad to see so many people have a negative experience with the show :-(
Personally, I'm really enjoying it. The silent Walker thing does piss me off though LMFAO
Lol your best video yet. The wrappers trail bugged me too. Could've just said they put a tracker in his false hand when they had it made. But, ya know, Scott Gimple.
That's a weird spot for an outlet
Right? It's a converted garden shed and that outlet was there when I got the place!
Solid observations both here, and the Forbes article. Giving passes to scavengers and having it come back on you... implausible scenarios and convienent timing seem to rule the land. Not covering your tracks (looking at you dynamic duo - not that what they might have left behind would have been trackable in the first place) maybe it's head fog from all that free love the apocalypse brings out in people. The equivalent of a buck tracking a doe during the rut.
It's been my biggest problem with this universe - the actions we're expected to believe taking place by people who are seasoned and battle hardened trench warfare zombie apocalypse survivors. As i've said to people many times before i have no problem WHERE the storytellers want to take the show, or ultimately their end game. ... just give me the plausibility and points of logic that will connect the dots from beginning to end.
Well said!
Told ya so.
Fans of the series like the characters a lot I think the variety from the past is missing that’s sad too because the more the merrier in TWD they did have quite a few good ones the monologue going on with Rick Michonne Maggie and Negan have them beat Michonne is a beast tho so I do like her
Based on other reviews on ep 6, I know you're not going to like this episode.
Video soon!
Thank you! You articulate well the same frustrations I had with the ridiculous contrived implausible plot lines, and stupid characters doing idiotic things. And also after 12 years into the Apocalypse it’s amazing that there’s still plenty of alcohol and food and gasoline and working cars to be found everywhere- thank god it all never runs out! 😂😂 We deserve better writing and storylines indeed!
My god, on the one hand, I really liked how it involved original cast members--it felt like a TWD main show episode. But on the other hand, maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind? Because I took about 6 breaks to get through this episode. (I didn't struggle this much with the previous ones.) Or maybe it was just a big pile of shirts?
I think it was a mix of both my poor attention span in the moment and it being poop. I felt nothing in the later half, when clearly I'm supposed to. As I am watching a sad moment, I'm more sad about how disappointing this is than actually what's on screen.
Indeed
Be that what it may what did you expect but like you say I guess the producers feel people will watch whatever kind of production they put out mostly because of people liking the characters we know what it is it’s not quite up to par where it could be but it is what you expect more or less take it or leave it ? 😅
Why did rotten tomatoes give this series 93 percent rating? It’s the best spinoff by far. And true fans are loving it. Only haters hate it
I’ve liked this show for the most part but the Gimple-speak was driving me up the fucking wall in this one
It's a zombie show. There is no such thing as plausible.
That is absolutely the dumbest thing fans say. I guess if Rick built a spaceship and used laser canons to destroy the CRM and Michonne rode around on a pink unicorn that would be just fine yeah? God I'm sick of this stupid crap. Use your brain
Let me take the show runners off the hook here: 1) How could Jadis track down our heroes? "So the movie can happen". 2) Why did our heroes leave those GOOFS alive?" "So the movie can happen". 3) Why did Jadis perform a Bond villain monologue when we all know that long villainous monologues instead of unaliving the hero immediately NEVER turns out well? "SO THE MOVIE CAN HAPPEN!!"
Cease all the banter now. Thank you, thank Ryan George, thank Canada, and good night.
Read your article...you use words like preposterous, random moments of insanity, implausible and preposterous again....just checking to see that you know this is a show about zombies, right?
There's zombie rules though and they break them whenever it suits them - it's bad story telling
Internal logic is crucial to any kind of fictional story my guy 🤷♂️
Im glad I didn't actually watch this one. I was pretty unimpressed with last weeks episode. It felt really weird and detached. Thanks for the review man, ill look for the next.
I'm still down with it. It's a short sickness of a season anyway, and i want to see how it all plays out. Can't say i blame you though... and tbh it was Erik's reviews i relied on every week to get me current and push through the last season or so of FTWD - which i thought was on its way to giving me seizures and forced me to stop so i could still respect myself in the morning.
To put it in perspective... when you have a show you that you watch that you purposefully do not tell friends about - that's when you know there's an across the board full spectrum problem here.
This episode sucked so bad lol
I didn't mention it last review, but their was a moment when i suspended belief as rick and michonne drove away at the end of episode 4...then i had my hopes dashed when michonne said "I understand why we can't go back" in the trailer for the next episode, (Sure made certain arguments more tedious after the fact) and spent this episode waiting for this "justification" It seems that they aren't going back simply to stay which is better that i expected. I don't think they really knew what to do with jadis. Did they really need to kill her off?I wasn't a huge fan, but i felt like if they put her in the position she's in she would do more.
I also thought that the calcified walker was going to turn out to be a variant of some kind and they would realize the walkers turning into a new kind of environmental threat of some kind and they were gonna find out some things in the echelon report by happenstance and go back to get the rest of the info. The gabriel stuff was nice, i love gabriel so taken as a isolated thing, im okay with it.
Poor gabriel even in a world after the commonwealth is now a place to truly live he is still facing hardships.
typos everywhere , too lazy to go back and clean it up.
I love your reactions more then the episodes them selves
They should really just cancel the spin-offs, wait 4-5 years and do a reboot of TWD