What is a definitive ending for a show where life will just go on? It's about people surviving in the apocalypse and if they are still alive, if they have babies and whatever the show can go on. It doesn't need, and frankly, it's not even possible to do a definitive ending without killing everyone. "Oh, but they could do a time skip 15 years later with Rick being super old and happy with his family, no more apocalypse either", ok so how would society look like? How is Judith? Does she have kids with someone? If so, how are her kids? How's life going to be for them? The Walking Dead is a show that can keep going forever and there's no reason for it not having an ending to be sad, because it already have stopping points. You can watch the main show and end there. You can go a bit beyond and watch the Rick and Michonne series and end there. You can keep going to see until where they can run out of gas, if ever.
Yes it's totally stupid. It's like everything is from medieval or WW2 era. Only castles and cultural places. I haven't been to France but I live in Hungary. We have a rich history, we have a lot of castles and cultural buildings etc. But 99,9% of places, clothes, people, etc. are very modern. I think this is the case for France too.
The first season was perhaps the most stupid of them all. Beginning with Daryl falling off a ship going to Calais and somehow swimming all the way round Spain to Marsaille
I barely made it through S1 of Daryl’s Show. But I couldn’t even finish the 1st episode of the Book of Carol. It was full of frustrating & annoying choices, and plot conveniences, and she is just treating everyone she meets with excessive violence & lying about everything. Loved her in TWD but have ZERO interest in this version of it. Just awful TV.
I noticed when Carol took the car and drove off from the outpost she left that nice lever action rifle holstered on the motorcycle. It might be something good for her to have around, but that probably makes too much sense for this show.
Also before Carol drove off she didn’t even check the car would start before telling the guys she’d beaten up / kidnapped their friend.. just such bad writing.
While i completely agree its lazy writing and something that could make what's shown on the screen much more enjoyable, instances like this don't really make a difference. The main show already establishes that guns are useless due to their old age, lack of ammo, and how it attracts more zombies. Fans want constant action 20 years into an apocalyptic world, the writers just want to make it so that the characters end up in a situation that opens the door to a 10-minute dialogue
Just saw the first episode. Kinda reminded me of when Fear had the beer balloon. Such lazy writing. Electricity is fine. Guns and ammo are fine. People are pretty friendly. Rando loner dude whose gate opens when the power cuts off, which happens often, but there's no regular bolt (cos we need a base that's been safe for 20 years but also easily gets over run to build suspense on call). Oh he also found a crashed plane, cut it into pieces, took it back to his farm. Reassembled it somehow, taught himself how to fly, built a run way, brewed some ethanol, converted it to run on ethanol, flew everyday for years and years and nobody until Carol noticed. That's the best plot they could create!? Now there gonna fly across the freezing north Atlantic with a back up fuel connection of two pipes he made before taking off. WTF! Just pure BS. Not credible in anyway at all. Oh and the Dixon's base is a 'secret' world famous UNESCO world heritage site. Still Zombies are fun. If anyone saw Z Nation I half thought the plane guy was going to end up growing gangja out of a walker in his green house. Jumped the shark.
OK, comment here. The REEASON Carol "just happened" to be where Daryl had been, was because of that radiotelephone conversation! "I'm in Maine, just outside of " and I've forgotten the the town's name... "I'll be back in a week, I promise." When he failed to return, Carol knew which town in Maine to search! Knowing what I know of Maine, and the Zompocalypse, it's VERY feasible that she would find the guy riding Daryl's bike, if he was a local who worked at the garage! As for the French importing American walkers, Mme Genet is doing research! Perhaps the strain of infection in Amer9ica differs from the strain in France. We don't know, BUT I think it will be explained.
Then immediately knows where to go when arriving in france and easily finds Daryl despite being in an entire country.. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
The first season of Daryl was so awful, I haven't bothered with this one. The whole thing of the CRM running a trans-Atlantic shipping operation is bad enough, but the premise of flying that plane across the ocean is too asinine for me.
It’s so sad. This whole story with Daryl in Paris is the most boring choice the writers made. The characters suck, and I have zero interest in any of them. I’m so incredibly disappointed. And Book of Carol is no better AT ALL! I’m so so disappointed with this nonsense.
Keep fighting the good fight, Erik. I gave up on The Walking Dead years ago, but I always admired the early seasons and hoped that it would return to its former glory. Daryl and Carol were great characters at one point!
I really don’t get the hate this episode is getting. It was a great premier. I think I liked it more than some of the episodes in the first season because it followed Carol and it was set back in the states.
The stuff he said maybe? It looks good and acted relatively well, but the writing is just pathetic. It is quite baffling how these people have jobs. At the same time, I'll agree, I found previous episodes far less entertaining. But I have a feeling this is the best they have to offer. The rest will be complete slop and that's saying something. It is such a waste.
Disagree. 7 and 8 wrre low points but season 9 and most of 10 were good. I enjoyed 11 but i can easily see how a number of people wouldnt, but i actually really enjoyed the whisperer arc
@@mouthy_maestrod2992 The damage had already been done by that point, they lost like 90% of their viewers after they killed Carl and the garbage that was season 8. Just dumb decisions from dumb people who threw away a wasted opportunity. This show could have been great, what a shame.
@Monk_Chud Not really. It gets roundly slated by critics and potential audience members alike all the time. It might be inexplicably popular, but I wouldn't say it's overrated. It's 'rated' about right.
Ok. I was going to watch this episode, but now I cannot. I watched all of season 1 with much dislike. Was hoping for a better start to this one. I guess I'll just live vicariously through these reviews,..... much like I did for seasons 4-end of FTWD. Remember when TWD was so damn good, when it first started. It was such a must watch.
Watch it for yourself and see if you like it. It scored a 8/10 on IMBD. IMO I enjoyed the episode and it’s not as bad as these comments are making it out to be. Will it ever be as a good as the hay days of the walking dead, NO.. nothing will ever come close to that ever again. But I think there is still some joy in seeing characters we’ve been with since 2010
I had hopes for daryl Dixon even though it was a stupid premise. I kept thinking how does daryl get to France. And I also don't understand how Carol, the badass that took out terminus by herself, can't figure out how to fight zombies or Genet now that she's in France. And this has been a problem in all versions but how come every successful community that has survived years but fails after the Rick's group joins.
I actually hate that she immediately went to the "helpless woman" shtick when she's captured, and then lies about basically everything, takes advantage of this seemingly very kind and straightforward person, then destroys his shrine, destroys his barn, destroys his compound, and gets him in a plane flying to france. I feel like he's going to die and instead of being sad, I'm just gonna be pissed off that it was totally unavoidable. Dont get me started on the supid shit with Daryl not shooting the french lady when he immediately sees her. And i literally hate the character of Lauren
Exactly insurable af and what really pisses me off is the club 😂😂😂 incredibly stupid story line. What a shame how they destroyed what once used to be an amazing show!
I didnt have issues with episodes specifically.. I had an issue with the entire season.. • The wtiting is crap • Characters are psychic and know when another character has a secret to say • Characters are psychic and know where our main characters are hiding at all times • The villains keep dying because theyre so fixated on getting Laurant.. • The entirety of France seems like a small town.. • In this country sized small town, characters are in 1 of 4 places, The Nest, Genet's compound, the rooftop hideout or the stripper club.. Thats it.. • Carol is an idiot.. • Carol finds exactly where to go and finds the exact people she needs to find depsite being in an entire country.. • Carol's dumbass jumps out of the plane to shoot 2 guys in a car when she could have just opened the plane door, stuck her body out abit, and shot them without jumping out.. • Carol jumps out the plane without us ever seeing her tell the pilot(Ash) where Alexandria is located in the first place, since her and Daryl stayed behind, that pilot will not be able to relocate Laurant to Alexandria since theyre both not there to tell him where to go.. • Many many needless deaths. (Isabelle, Sylvie, every villain.) • Ash's whininess when Carol comes clean. • The long and drawn out final episode that just sets up for another season. • Daryl and Carols plot armor, at least get hurt a little bit? • Conversations lingering on a topic too much, yes we know you want to say something specific, just say it already.. • Vilalins all die because they never know when to cut their losses. • The main villains motivation, Madame Genet - What motivation? Losang- Religious cult fanatic which plan makes no sense Jacinta - Continues chasing Laurant after Losang dies despite her not having the same leadership skills and ability to bring a group together with the charisma Losang has.. Continues chasing Laurant after getting bitten.. Sabine - After Losang and Jacinta dies, this lame non imposing head soldier takes over and continues hunting the main group down, spoiler they mostly all die. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Agreed this sucks. On all levels. Ill finish this season and unless something amazing happens im out. Should check the new penguin series bro. Its good.
I didnt mind this opening episode, which wasn't too bad. If you compare to Fear the walking dead which was awful, but why wasn't that bad, but why wasn't Carol just honest with the guy to get him to take her across to france.
carol has always been a little manipulative and deceitful for personal gain or to benefit those close to her lol. let's not ignore the comic character in which she's based off and how even then it was toned down for the show (thank god). she used their shared connection of losing a child to deceive him into helping her with a parental similarity.
The reason she did just tell the truth was 100% so the writers could shoehorn in a “poignant” Sophia flashback. That is the only reason. Season 1 wasn’t sooooo bad but this… my god… I had flashbacks to the FTWD beer balloon episode. So horrible. The most shameless flashback of all of course was the self help meditation tape. Really?! How do they expect anyone over the age of 12 to take this garbage seriously? And I don’t care if a single engine beechcraft could THEORETICALLY hop across Greenland, Iceland, etc. to make the crossing… that is easily the dumbest thing in the history of the entire franchise.
I quite dug the first season actually because it was cool to see Daryl in a totally different environment and kinda out of his element, but this first episode of the new season was reaching Fear The Walking Dead levels and Carol is still insufferable. Still better than that Rick and Michonne show though.
It’s so true though the enthusiasm is gone there’s no plausible storylines anymore. My other thing was that they cut the entire fight scene with the walkers as well because how does Ash and Carol take out those walkers with a little shotgun and a knife 🤦🏻♂️
I'm confused... If the reason for the french taking american walkers is unknown how can it be unplausible? It's unknown, there for, you can't say it's unplausible, because you don't know what's up with all this deal anyway. They didn't gave us the reason yet. Theory right here, they are making some experiments on walkers and noticed that the walkers are different all over the world, they evolved in different ways, so they are studying them. The study could have good or bad purposes, but I would argue that alone already justifies the effort for taking the walkers.
Didn't even know it was back. I just watched the penguin and I am satisfied I'm not going to subject myself to this lol I'll watch the reviews and pirate the season later on that way I can skip through it
I can already tell I'm going to enjoy your criticism and continue to watch the show at the same time. I will say that the reasoning behind the French wanting American walkers in my head Cannon is that they are experimenting with variant walkers meaning they need different strains of the disease and people with different genomes.
I was chuckling at the French women disappearing after the explosion. Just doesn’t seem to be progressing the universe anymore and just making little stories what aren’t connecting and progressing. I’m like you I’m committed to watching but it’s comical now.
Definitely thought the same thing that whenever any of our "heroes" show up there is destruction ahead for sure. And that gate drove me crazy!! Grab a chain guy!
Daryl did it in the first season.. he shows up to a monastery which has sustained itself for 14 years and everyone is dead within a couple of days of him showing up.
It's good to hear my twin read my mind again. Wow! When FTWD ended I was a bit sad because only by watching vids could I experience that familiar feeling of elation mixed with nausea which had become a familiar feeling. I swore to myself I'd never give TWD Universe another chance but sadly here I am. I have pretended not to notice the absurdity of BOC's f'ups but somehow I still do. I have, however, as a loser in life, decided to trudge on much like a walker and see what emotion(s) might be stirred in me. Be cool dude.
So glad it wasn’t just me who thought the Carol storyline was something straight out of a FEAR. Shockingly bad every line is so cringe. They ruined TOWL and they’re well on the way to ruining DD. So sad to see where the franchise is going
yeah its pretty trash. Might as well flew a hot air balloon in the shape of a beer bottle over to France. I think in Fear they had a bounter hunter axe bad guy who was killed off but then a season or two later they brought him back to try and boost ratings saying he had a twin brother. lol.
Erik, we've thought so much alike on this show. We've both been saying it's over for so long...and we keep watching and hoping for a better script. It's like hoping call of duty cheaters stop cheating. Speaking of which. I'm going to hit you up. Let's play duos brother... Are you using Darryls crossbow?
Wouldn't the default state be that when there is no power then the gate is closed? I've forgotten how dumb the people in Walking Dead Universe are. Much dumber than Rings of Power or The Acolyte. After 1 month everyone would have been armed with at least 2 knives, a sword/machete, and a gun. After 2 years everyone who can't fight or run would have been dead. Everyone's ears would have been on high alert to every sound or rustle. And yet... walkers can just sneak up on you like they were purposely being silent in a fun house.
Funny thing is… I haven’t read or watched an Erik Kain review in years because I stopped watching Fear YEARS ago. And S1 of Daryl Dixon wasn’t completely horrible. But after watching this DD episode and how incredibly bad it was my FIRST THOUGHT was… OMG I have to go read Erik Kain’s review 😂😂😂
I would love to read your review on TOWL. Lately I'm finding myself agreeing with the people who say that they are milking the cow. TOWL left me wishing to never see Rick again. Yup, dad gor a diehard fan, but I'll cherish thenold TWD. Those were the days. Now they're shoving sh1t in our throats because it's TWD, Daryl, Carol, Maggie, etc. Super sad.
There are 4+ obvious things that make Ash’s present compound and daily plane fun-ride ridiculously unlikely 😂 Really, this was the best they could do? Is Chambliss-Goldbergian FTWD on the horizon?!
I am a huge fan of TWD franchise. FTWD left the rails early on, but I still hung in there. Dead City was good, R and M was okay, and DD season 1 was great, but agree about the start of season 2. The coincidences are mind numbing, and the gate unlocking was really bad. I also have a hard time with the lush green, well kept lawns. Who the hell is cutting all that grass????😂.
I watched season 1 because I just had to see how they were going to get from 'Merica to France AND since Carol would not be in the first season. Why I continued to watch season 1 was solely based on liking new characters Quinn and Isabelle. Carol in the series pretty much had me rolling my eyes before even before the first trailer. Daryl Dixon and Carol are not characters I like, so I had to overlook a lot. My plan of action for season 2 was to let the season run its course in hopes of finding out if Isabelle makes it our alive. If so, I would then consider watching the season. After listening to your review I think it will be a hard pass for me. I will just wait for season 3 of Interview with the Vampire and Dark Winds
Sadly, bad writing dominates pop culture. And Carol has never been a believable badass. She's only badass because they tell us she is but they've never been able to make me actually believe it. Something needs to be done to improve the writing in our entertainment.
I completely agree with you about FTWD, that shit is whack. This shit has some pretty stupid parts too, basically everything you said about the guy's gate coming open every time the generator shuts off, exactly what I thought watching it lol. How convenient everything is for Carol to find out what happened to Daryl. Stupid. But is it FTWD stupid? Hell no. Not even close bro! Especially the last season of fear...just end it all.... That shit is so embarrassing. So EMBARRASSING! At least i don't feel embarrassed watching the Daryl show. By myself. Even when no one knows that I'm watching it. That's how I felt watching S8 of fear....7 too. Embarrassed af...
It is hilariously awful. It’s not even making me mad. Though it probably should… It’s almost as if we can see the writer’s strike dropping a bomb on this show. It’s like the costume department looked at each other and said “I betcha WE could write a screenplay…” 😂
I always enjoy reading your articles after pirating an episode. Honestly started laughing out loud when the wooden barn with the all the fuel in it was hit by lightning. After the train wreck that was the ones who live, nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to this series and stupid writing.
And what's with the dumb addition of the two Scottish people in the last half and hour, Who by the way would never utter the words "God save the queen" I hate to say this but my heart sank a little when I saw this was written by a woman. Shannon something. Knew it was gonna be utterly stupid and full of plot holes. I don't care if that's sounds sexist I just find men better at writing this type of show.
I stopped watching season 1 as soon as they ran into the gang of kids. I hate when post-apocalypse shows act like a bunch of teenagers would do anything but die in the absense of adults.
Genuine question: why do you still review everything TWD brings out. I have never seen a positive review from you about it, even when there is a good episode. You clearly have nothing but distain for the franchise so what's the point? (Obviously it's just for clicks but do you not get tired of writing bad review after bad review week after week, year after year)
And the most ridiculous thing is when when Daryl asked carol who is the person that came back when we spoke on the radio ..... And carol said it's not a person it's a feeling 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
I abruptly stopped watching these things many years ago, because of Carol! I recall a plot about a little girl losing her mind and behaving in dangerous ways which were easy to understand and clearly not a traumatic response that could not be helped in time. And Carol executed her because of the supposed threat she caused? Everyone out there probably remembers this. Well, it was the fact that this was presented as pragmatic and reasonable, if tragic. I couldn't support these shows after that.
Supposed threat? She killed her sister and wanted to kill baby Judith. In that environment Carol saw that she would likely grow up to be a real threat.
Carol acting like she can't handle a couple of walkers after the car crash had me scratching my head (in addition to that greenhouse scene). We have literally seen her wipe out groups of walkers without breaking a sweat and now this? I thought Daryl was the master tracker and he couldn't have found her in like 13 seconds?
I decided to stop watching this show when she lied about Sophia for no reason. You are absolutely right - she hasn't grown and I just can't watch and root for a bad person.
Honestly this show is so bad and I’m an OG fan but got burnt out during the boring All out War with Negan…then Rick left and the show just kinda sucked after that…then these stupid off shoot shows I remember the first Fear the Walking Dead the 6 part mini series how it all began and it was kinda stupid…now Carol seriously I tolerated her in the main show but come on man
It’s sad that the walking dead show is never going to have a definitive ending.
What is a definitive ending for a show where life will just go on? It's about people surviving in the apocalypse and if they are still alive, if they have babies and whatever the show can go on. It doesn't need, and frankly, it's not even possible to do a definitive ending without killing everyone. "Oh, but they could do a time skip 15 years later with Rick being super old and happy with his family, no more apocalypse either", ok so how would society look like? How is Judith? Does she have kids with someone? If so, how are her kids? How's life going to be for them?
The Walking Dead is a show that can keep going forever and there's no reason for it not having an ending to be sad, because it already have stopping points. You can watch the main show and end there. You can go a bit beyond and watch the Rick and Michonne series and end there. You can keep going to see until where they can run out of gas, if ever.
A show that doesn’t know how to end
I appreciate channels like these cause I have officially given up on these shows but I still want to know how bad other folks find them
Finding channels that thrive on negativity to get on off is such loser behaviour even tho I absolutely dislike Daryl and Carol
I can’t unsee what you wrote in the Forbes review about them dressing like World War II in France. Sadly true.
Yes it's totally stupid. It's like everything is from medieval or WW2 era. Only castles and cultural places.
I haven't been to France but I live in Hungary. We have a rich history, we have a lot of castles and cultural buildings etc. But 99,9% of places, clothes, people, etc. are very modern. I think this is the case for France too.
Yes, and the preview for season 3 has old fashioned costumes again for spain. Was hoping they would fix that.
Totally agree, i could deal with everything but the gate was just too stupid for me
Its electric only. When the power cuts it opens and lets in walkers. The power cuts all the time. Still no regular bolt or something? Just BS.
@@JJ-uy2sg not only that they were so dumb they done it the second time 😂😂
It was dumb enough the first time but when it happens AGAIN I WAS LIKE… WHAT?!?!?!?:
bummer, I actually thought the first season was better than the other twd spinoffs
The first season was perhaps the most stupid of them all. Beginning with Daryl falling off a ship going to Calais and somehow swimming all the way round Spain to Marsaille
I barely made it through S1 of Daryl’s Show. But I couldn’t even finish the 1st episode of the Book of Carol. It was full of frustrating & annoying choices, and plot conveniences, and she is just treating everyone she meets with excessive violence & lying about everything. Loved her in TWD but have ZERO interest in this version of it. Just awful TV.
I noticed when Carol took the car and drove off from the outpost she left that nice lever action rifle holstered on the motorcycle. It might be something good for her to have around, but that probably makes too much sense for this show.
Also before Carol drove off she didn’t even check the car would start before telling the guys she’d beaten up / kidnapped their friend.. just such bad writing.
While i completely agree its lazy writing and something that could make what's shown on the screen much more enjoyable, instances like this don't really make a difference. The main show already establishes that guns are useless due to their old age, lack of ammo, and how it attracts more zombies. Fans want constant action 20 years into an apocalyptic world, the writers just want to make it so that the characters end up in a situation that opens the door to a 10-minute dialogue
Just saw the first episode. Kinda reminded me of when Fear had the beer balloon. Such lazy writing. Electricity is fine. Guns and ammo are fine. People are pretty friendly. Rando loner dude whose gate opens when the power cuts off, which happens often, but there's no regular bolt (cos we need a base that's been safe for 20 years but also easily gets over run to build suspense on call).
Oh he also found a crashed plane, cut it into pieces, took it back to his farm. Reassembled it somehow, taught himself how to fly, built a run way, brewed some ethanol, converted it to run on ethanol, flew everyday for years and years and nobody until Carol noticed. That's the best plot they could create!?
Now there gonna fly across the freezing north Atlantic with a back up fuel connection of two pipes he made before taking off. WTF! Just pure BS.
Not credible in anyway at all.
Oh and the Dixon's base is a 'secret' world famous UNESCO world heritage site.
Still Zombies are fun. If anyone saw Z Nation I half thought the plane guy was going to end up growing gangja out of a walker in his green house. Jumped the shark.
OK, comment here. The REEASON Carol "just happened" to be where Daryl had been, was because of that radiotelephone conversation! "I'm in Maine, just outside of " and I've forgotten the the town's name... "I'll be back in a week, I promise." When he failed to return, Carol knew which town in Maine to search! Knowing what I know of Maine, and the Zompocalypse, it's VERY feasible that she would find the guy riding Daryl's bike, if he was a local who worked at the garage! As for the French importing American walkers, Mme Genet is doing research! Perhaps the strain of infection in Amer9ica differs from the strain in France. We don't know, BUT I think it will be explained.
Then immediately knows where to go when arriving in france and easily finds Daryl despite being in an entire country.. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
I was so disappointed by the walking dead not having an actual ending. Instead they just split 1 bad show into 3 terrible shows
The first season of Daryl was so awful, I haven't bothered with this one. The whole thing of the CRM running a trans-Atlantic shipping operation is bad enough, but the premise of flying that plane across the ocean is too asinine for me.
I’m shocked some people (especially buffoons on Reddit) defend this show. It’s trash. Like literally. They’re either lying to themselves or in denial.
I agree with this assessment. I love The Walking Dead, but my goodness....that episode was just dumb.
It’s so sad. This whole story with Daryl in Paris is the most boring choice the writers made. The characters suck, and I have zero interest in any of them. I’m so incredibly disappointed. And Book of Carol is no better AT ALL! I’m so so disappointed with this nonsense.
Keep fighting the good fight, Erik. I gave up on The Walking Dead years ago, but I always admired the early seasons and hoped that it would return to its former glory. Daryl and Carol were great characters at one point!
I really don’t get the hate this episode is getting. It was a great premier. I think I liked it more than some of the episodes in the first season because it followed Carol and it was set back in the states.
The stuff he said maybe? It looks good and acted relatively well, but the writing is just pathetic.
It is quite baffling how these people have jobs.
At the same time, I'll agree, I found previous episodes far less entertaining. But I have a feeling this is the best they have to offer. The rest will be complete slop and that's saying something.
It is such a waste.
Seems you didn't see the video...
Because it feels like it was written by a group of grade schoolers
Walking dead has been trash as a whole since season 8.. Gimple and AMC did a number on this once-good show
Yes. Season 8 was the turning point.
It's weird cause gimple did one of the greatest seasons of the show which was season 5 of twd
@@SnackJar A rare moment of brilliance from a shitty writer/screenwriter. Gimple was terrible.
Disagree. 7 and 8 wrre low points but season 9 and most of 10 were good. I enjoyed 11 but i can easily see how a number of people wouldnt, but i actually really enjoyed the whisperer arc
@@mouthy_maestrod2992 The damage had already been done by that point, they lost like 90% of their viewers after they killed Carl and the garbage that was season 8. Just dumb decisions from dumb people who threw away a wasted opportunity. This show could have been great, what a shame.
Wow.
They're still beating this ol' horse.
Got bored of the Walking Dead round about, Negan.
@Monk_Chud Not really. It gets roundly slated by critics and potential audience members alike all the time. It might be inexplicably popular, but I wouldn't say it's overrated. It's 'rated' about right.
And why did the one barn just explode. To bad Carol wasn’t inside it sleeping😂
It had the ethanol in it. Why it was positioned there, however....
I was waiting for this review, and it is fatal, TWD is dead. Thanks for confirming it
Ok. I was going to watch this episode, but now I cannot. I watched all of season 1 with much dislike. Was hoping for a better start to this one. I guess I'll just live vicariously through these reviews,..... much like I did for seasons 4-end of FTWD.
Remember when TWD was so damn good, when it first started. It was such a must watch.
Watch it for yourself and see if you like it. It scored a 8/10 on IMBD. IMO I enjoyed the episode and it’s not as bad as these comments are making it out to be. Will it ever be as a good as the hay days of the walking dead, NO.. nothing will ever come close to that ever again. But I think there is still some joy in seeing characters we’ve been with since 2010
I had hopes for daryl Dixon even though it was a stupid premise. I kept thinking how does daryl get to France. And I also don't understand how Carol, the badass that took out terminus by herself, can't figure out how to fight zombies or Genet now that she's in France. And this has been a problem in all versions but how come every successful community that has survived years but fails after the Rick's group joins.
I actually hate that she immediately went to the "helpless woman" shtick when she's captured, and then lies about basically everything, takes advantage of this seemingly very kind and straightforward person, then destroys his shrine, destroys his barn, destroys his compound, and gets him in a plane flying to france. I feel like he's going to die and instead of being sad, I'm just gonna be pissed off that it was totally unavoidable. Dont get me started on the supid shit with Daryl not shooting the french lady when he immediately sees her. And i literally hate the character of Lauren
Exactly insurable af and what really pisses me off is the club 😂😂😂 incredibly stupid story line. What a shame how they destroyed what once used to be an amazing show!
I didnt have issues with episodes specifically.. I had an issue with the entire season..
• The wtiting is crap
• Characters are psychic and know when another character has a secret to say
• Characters are psychic and know where our main characters are hiding at all times
• The villains keep dying because theyre so fixated on getting Laurant..
• The entirety of France seems like a small town..
• In this country sized small town, characters are in 1 of 4 places, The Nest, Genet's compound, the rooftop hideout or the stripper club.. Thats it..
• Carol is an idiot..
• Carol finds exactly where to go and finds the exact people she needs to find depsite being in an entire country..
• Carol's dumbass jumps out of the plane to shoot 2 guys in a car when she could have just opened the plane door, stuck her body out abit, and shot them without jumping out..
• Carol jumps out the plane without us ever seeing her tell the pilot(Ash) where Alexandria is located in the first place, since her and Daryl stayed behind, that pilot will not be able to relocate Laurant to Alexandria since theyre both not there to tell him where to go..
• Many many needless deaths. (Isabelle, Sylvie, every villain.)
• Ash's whininess when Carol comes clean.
• The long and drawn out final episode that just sets up for another season.
• Daryl and Carols plot armor, at least get hurt a little bit?
• Conversations lingering on a topic too much, yes we know you want to say something specific, just say it already..
• Vilalins all die because they never know when to cut their losses.
• The main villains motivation, Madame Genet - What motivation?
Losang- Religious cult fanatic which plan makes no sense
Jacinta - Continues chasing Laurant after Losang dies despite her not having the same leadership skills and ability to bring a group together with the charisma Losang has.. Continues chasing Laurant after getting bitten..
Sabine - After Losang and Jacinta dies, this lame non imposing head soldier takes over and continues hunting the main group down, spoiler they mostly all die. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
It's a comic book show & it's dam good
That whole part with Ash's gate had to be the most ridiculous writing this season.
I lost interest after they kill the Nun and send the boy to America. They made the show plausible. I am tired of Supergirl Carol
It was full of Easter Eggs you must have missed and a beautiful tribute.
Each series gets worse than the last one. If Daryl and Carol can't fix/carry it, nothing can.
I personally would prefer if they just did another series of them all together instead doing these spin offs
Thanks for watching so I don't have to. Common sense in writing checked out a long time ago.
I checked out on TWD since 2014 man 😂
Yes. It’s appalling how some people still watch this rubbish. Show writing is awful.
Agreed this sucks. On all levels. Ill finish this season and unless something amazing happens im out.
Should check the new penguin series bro. Its good.
@@crisin6045 yeah I did a video about it!
I didnt mind this opening episode, which wasn't too bad. If you compare to Fear the walking dead which was awful, but why wasn't that bad, but why wasn't Carol just honest with the guy to get him to take her across to france.
carol has always been a little manipulative and deceitful for personal gain or to benefit those close to her lol. let's not ignore the comic character in which she's based off and how even then it was toned down for the show (thank god).
she used their shared connection of losing a child to deceive him into helping her with a parental similarity.
Why was there a heard of walkers threatening at the end of s1 and opening of s2 there's like 6??
This is one of the best episodes I seen ! I don’t know what your talking about
The reason she did just tell the truth was 100% so the writers could shoehorn in a “poignant” Sophia flashback. That is the only reason. Season 1 wasn’t sooooo bad but this… my god… I had flashbacks to the FTWD beer balloon episode. So horrible. The most shameless flashback of all of course was the self help meditation tape. Really?! How do they expect anyone over the age of 12 to take this garbage seriously? And I don’t care if a single engine beechcraft could THEORETICALLY hop across Greenland, Iceland, etc. to make the crossing… that is easily the dumbest thing in the history of the entire franchise.
I quite dug the first season actually because it was cool to see Daryl in a totally different environment and kinda out of his element, but this first episode of the new season was reaching Fear The Walking Dead levels and Carol is still insufferable. Still better than that Rick and Michonne show though.
Great review as usual !!! I often skip the show but always read or watch your reviews to get a good laugh.
@@andym2913 thanks!
It’s so true though the enthusiasm is gone there’s no plausible storylines anymore. My other thing was that they cut the entire fight scene with the walkers as well because how does Ash and Carol take out those walkers with a little shotgun and a knife 🤦🏻♂️
I'm confused... If the reason for the french taking american walkers is unknown how can it be unplausible? It's unknown, there for, you can't say it's unplausible, because you don't know what's up with all this deal anyway. They didn't gave us the reason yet. Theory right here, they are making some experiments on walkers and noticed that the walkers are different all over the world, they evolved in different ways, so they are studying them. The study could have good or bad purposes, but I would argue that alone already justifies the effort for taking the walkers.
Didn't even know it was back.
I just watched the penguin and I am satisfied I'm not going to subject myself to this lol
I'll watch the reviews and pirate the season later on that way I can skip through it
In the airplane , why did they have headsets on when there's no air traffic control
Internal coms To talk to each other over the noise of the plane.
Thanks for doing the work of watching these terrible shows! Your take is 100% right
I can already tell I'm going to enjoy your criticism and continue to watch the show at the same time. I will say that the reasoning behind the French wanting American walkers in my head Cannon is that they are experimenting with variant walkers meaning they need different strains of the disease and people with different genomes.
I was chuckling at the French women disappearing after the explosion.
Just doesn’t seem to be progressing the universe anymore and just making little stories what aren’t connecting and progressing.
I’m like you I’m committed to watching but it’s comical now.
Definitely thought the same thing that whenever any of our "heroes" show up there is destruction ahead for sure. And that gate drove me crazy!! Grab a chain guy!
Daryl did it in the first season.. he shows up to a monastery which has sustained itself for 14 years and everyone is dead within a couple of days of him showing up.
It's good to hear my twin read my mind again. Wow! When FTWD ended I was a bit sad because only by watching vids could I experience that familiar feeling of elation mixed with nausea which had become a familiar feeling. I swore to myself I'd never give TWD Universe another chance but sadly here I am. I have pretended not to notice the absurdity of BOC's f'ups but somehow I still do. I have, however, as a loser in life, decided to trudge on much like a walker and see what emotion(s) might be stirred in me. Be cool dude.
So glad it wasn’t just me who thought the Carol storyline was something straight out of a FEAR. Shockingly bad every line is so cringe. They ruined TOWL and they’re well on the way to ruining DD.
So sad to see where the franchise is going
yeah its pretty trash. Might as well flew a hot air balloon in the shape of a beer bottle over to France.
I think in Fear they had a bounter hunter axe bad guy who was killed off but then a season or two later they brought him back to try and boost ratings saying he had a twin brother. lol.
Zombie Gate.
Erik, we've thought so much alike on this show. We've both been saying it's over for so long...and we keep watching and hoping for a better script.
It's like hoping call of duty cheaters stop cheating. Speaking of which. I'm going to hit you up. Let's play duos brother... Are you using Darryls crossbow?
Wouldn't the default state be that when there is no power then the gate is closed? I've forgotten how dumb the people in Walking Dead Universe are. Much dumber than Rings of Power or The Acolyte. After 1 month everyone would have been armed with at least 2 knives, a sword/machete, and a gun. After 2 years everyone who can't fight or run would have been dead. Everyone's ears would have been on high alert to every sound or rustle. And yet... walkers can just sneak up on you like they were purposely being silent in a fun house.
Funny thing is… I haven’t read or watched an Erik Kain review in years because I stopped watching Fear YEARS ago. And S1 of Daryl Dixon wasn’t completely horrible. But after watching this DD episode and how incredibly bad it was my FIRST THOUGHT was… OMG I have to go read Erik Kain’s review 😂😂😂
@@halifaxhiker hey now, I write about more than just FTWD! Welcome back...
I would love to read your review on TOWL. Lately I'm finding myself agreeing with the people who say that they are milking the cow. TOWL left me wishing to never see Rick again. Yup, dad gor a diehard fan, but I'll cherish thenold TWD. Those were the days. Now they're shoving sh1t in our throats because it's TWD, Daryl, Carol, Maggie, etc. Super sad.
There are 4+ obvious things that make Ash’s present compound and daily plane fun-ride ridiculously unlikely 😂 Really, this was the best they could do? Is Chambliss-Goldbergian FTWD on the horizon?!
I personally don't want to hear any french in walking dead!! Its just odd!!
I am a huge fan of TWD franchise. FTWD left the rails early on, but I still hung in there. Dead City was good, R and M was okay, and DD season 1 was great, but agree about the start of season 2. The coincidences are mind numbing, and the gate unlocking was really bad. I also have a hard time with the lush green, well kept lawns. Who the hell is cutting all that grass????😂.
I watched season 1 because I just had to see how they were going to get from 'Merica to France AND since Carol would not be in the first season. Why I continued to watch season 1 was solely based on liking new characters Quinn and Isabelle. Carol in the series pretty much had me rolling my eyes before even before the first trailer. Daryl Dixon and Carol are not characters I like, so I had to overlook a lot. My plan of action for season 2 was to let the season run its course in hopes of finding out if Isabelle makes it our alive. If so, I would then consider watching the season. After listening to your review I think it will be a hard pass for me.
I will just wait for season 3 of Interview with the Vampire and Dark Winds
I was making a joke about The Walking Dead Global Tour and they go and set it in France...ffs
Im hate watching this communist eutopua walking dead, thank you for your take on it
Its sad that the whole season is like this. Got to watch it all today, it just blows tbh
Agree on all weaknesses. I caught the same problems. I’ll still watch though.
Other than those few things you mentioned, do you like the show?
Sadly, bad writing dominates pop culture. And Carol has never been a believable badass. She's only badass because they tell us she is but they've never been able to make me actually believe it. Something needs to be done to improve the writing in our entertainment.
I completely agree with you about FTWD, that shit is whack. This shit has some pretty stupid parts too, basically everything you said about the guy's gate coming open every time the generator shuts off, exactly what I thought watching it lol. How convenient everything is for Carol to find out what happened to Daryl. Stupid. But is it FTWD stupid? Hell no. Not even close bro! Especially the last season of fear...just end it all.... That shit is so embarrassing. So EMBARRASSING! At least i don't feel embarrassed watching the Daryl show. By myself. Even when no one knows that I'm watching it. That's how I felt watching S8 of fear....7 too. Embarrassed af...
yup... Zero Q.C. once again. So many questions should have been asked when this script was being read!
Well you’re definitely making me want to watch just so I can have a laugh!
It is hilariously awful. It’s not even making me mad. Though it probably should…
It’s almost as if we can see the writer’s strike dropping a bomb on this show. It’s like the costume department looked at each other and said “I betcha WE could write a screenplay…” 😂
Hey bro i enjoy your channel and reviews. Ever chexk out Raised by wolves? Or From. Pretty entertaining. Have a blessed day.
@@Demon1800e yep I've made videos about both
@@ErikKain sick bro ill check it out.
I don’t even bother anymore. TWD d I e d after season 5 for me
I always enjoy reading your articles after pirating an episode. Honestly started laughing out loud when the wooden barn with the all the fuel in it was hit by lightning. After the train wreck that was the ones who live, nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to this series and stupid writing.
Disagree. I've absolutely loved these spinoffs. Maybe a few years of these and they'll wrap it all up with The Walking Living.....
Nice song!
The whole second season has been leaked
Could have been better. Bit I still watched it.
This show and I mean the main show and spinoffs have been bad for a very long time, I stopped watching after season 5.
And what's with the dumb addition of the two Scottish people in the last half and hour, Who by the way would never utter the words "God save the queen" I hate to say this but my heart sank a little when I saw this was written by a woman. Shannon something. Knew it was gonna be utterly stupid and full of plot holes. I don't care if that's sounds sexist I just find men better at writing this type of show.
this series is trash, but I'm so pot committed at this point I will continue to watch until the bitter end
Still loving the intro songs 🤩
The Walking Dead died a long time ago. The premise is stupid. The whole show is dumb. But nothing is as dumb as Amazon rings of power.
Great review - all good questions. The answer likely TDS.
Anything is possible😂
ohh gawd thank god i watched your video before even starting this season...not even worth background watching
I love hating this show. it never gets old.
I loved it 😂😂
I stopped watching season 1 as soon as they ran into the gang of kids. I hate when post-apocalypse shows act like a bunch of teenagers would do anything but die in the absense of adults.
YOURE WRONG
Jesus Christ. I just barely finished Dead City last night with my wife, now I have to watch this shit too?
Genuine question: why do you still review everything TWD brings out. I have never seen a positive review from you about it, even when there is a good episode. You clearly have nothing but distain for the franchise so what's the point? (Obviously it's just for clicks but do you not get tired of writing bad review after bad review week after week, year after year)
Because he can and it’s content
And the most ridiculous thing is when when Daryl asked carol who is the person that came back when we spoke on the radio ..... And carol said it's not a person it's a feeling 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
I abruptly stopped watching these things many years ago, because of Carol! I recall a plot about a little girl losing her mind and behaving in dangerous ways which were easy to understand and clearly not a traumatic response that could not be helped in time. And Carol executed her because of the supposed threat she caused? Everyone out there probably remembers this. Well, it was the fact that this was presented as pragmatic and reasonable, if tragic. I couldn't support these shows after that.
Supposed threat? She killed her sister and wanted to kill baby Judith. In that environment Carol saw that she would likely grow up to be a real threat.
Carol acting like she can't handle a couple of walkers after the car crash had me scratching my head (in addition to that greenhouse scene). We have literally seen her wipe out groups of walkers without breaking a sweat and now this? I thought Daryl was the master tracker and he couldn't have found her in like 13 seconds?
I decided to stop watching this show when she lied about Sophia for no reason. You are absolutely right - she hasn't grown and I just can't watch and root for a bad person.
You are in the minority, my friend.
The game Terminus Zombie Survivors has a better story than this show 😂
Haters are going to hate.
This channel sucks.
Carol has been long overrated
Honestly this show is so bad and I’m an OG fan but got burnt out during the boring All out War with Negan…then Rick left and the show just kinda sucked after that…then these stupid off shoot shows I remember the first Fear the Walking Dead the 6 part mini series how it all began and it was kinda stupid…now Carol seriously I tolerated her in the main show but come on man
A disappointment wasnt awful but so stupid like fear. If it dont improve its over