MentalMaden

Hawkeye has a Hulk. Screw proper form.

Merit vendors are usually standing around the black market trucks. (Or did you mean you couldn't find them at the Redside Merit Vendors)

I almost paid 500 million for 50 million yesterday, luckily there was no stock available when I bid. Looked down and saw how much inf I had and was able to cancel the bid. /phew

I couldn't make it past two episodes.

Tangent time!

It's good to see a couple of active TV/movie threads kind of like the old days of CH/VC forums. I miss the days where every genre show had pages of pages of pointless debate about our favorite (and hated) make believe moving picture stories.

Because zombies are cooler than astroids.

(Unless of course the zombies are riding the astroids)



(or have lasers on their heads while riding the astroids)

/signed

A tech control set is much requested (probably only second to dark). Here's hoping it might be next on the list. Gadget/Traps would be uberfun.

I predict a whole lotta meh, just like the first one.

(Although the giants walking along those hills do look cool)

The Zombies are serving a purpose though. They are there to serve as a threat to the characters. And in reaction to that threat we see the personal drama between the characters. Why the zombies are around isn't relavent. In Checkov's gun it merely states that the gun must be used (the zombies are), It doesn't state that we have to know how the gun is made, who sold it and who they sold it to and why they put it on the wall. The zombies are serving their purpose; that's all it requires.

People complain a release is bugged but not broken. People complain if a release is pushed back a week to fix something. Both sides claim their faces are slapped.

The numbers on Fade and SA aren't "wrong", they are the original numbers. We've been told they are being tweaked/improved in a later update. The pet, is another problem all together yes, but Issue 22 itself is bigger than a controller's pet. In the grand scheme of things it will be fixed, it will be fixed soon enough and forgotten even quicker and the world will keep spinning on its axis.

Lothic, I'll give you 99.9% of your post as just a different perspective, YMMV, etc. But to say there hasn't been character growth?

1. Glenn goes from awkward coy errand boy to confident pharmacy love machine.
2. Andrea goes from suicidal wet blanket to gun toting bada$$ chick AND back to a voice of reason.
3. Herschal goes from bible toting sober head-in-the-sand get off my lawn vet to realizing just how F'd up the world is over a cocktail or two. He finally invites them into the house as his own people.
4. Maggie gains confidence and stands her ground to her father over the group and Glenn.
5. Rick is a steady journey of growth in his role as leader.
6. The reveal of Sophia radically changed her mother and Daryl.
7. Daryl went from loner to vital group member to outcast and now likely a major leadership role.

The only ones really stuck in place are Lori and Shane and we've seen what happens to Shane and my money is on Lori's time being pretty limited. T-Dawg....I'll give you that one as he's really just been used in the periphery. That leaves us Carl and I think his turning point was definitely this last episode.

Patience, patience, patience. I've had a niche for a few years now and someone recently has moved in and tried slashing my prices. I've just sat back and let them have their little fun. Let them buy up mine at my original price when they get impatient put more right back on the market and just wait. Eventually someone will either run out of product, money or patience. Try to be the other one.

For whatever reason that is what the average person in that world knows though. That is pretty much the premise of the show. The world's gone to hell very quickly and very very few people know what's actually going on. One of the few that did, passed the information on to Rick before dying. Rick has sat on this knowledge (likely because he had doubts) for his own reasons. It's not a detail that personally gets me all that worked up. If it does some people I'm not sure what to say. To each their own I guess.

I'm not gleefully happy that people lost jobs or that another genre show failed. Far from it. But I'm not surprised it tanked either. Bad writing, bad direction and bad acting don't make for a pleasant TV experience. Like Lothic, I gave it a chance. Several in fact. Until one episode the DVR ate the episode. I figured 'oh I'll just catch it online before the next weeks episode'. By the time the next episode had come around I'd realized I hadn't watched the one I'd lost. Why? Because I didn't care. I didn't care because the show just wasn't very good.

I hear a lot of people pan it for the teen plot/drama. I could even handle that if it was well written teen drama. I could handle it being a family show. If it was a well written family show. And so on and so on. On paper the show looked and sounded great. In execution it was a big ole massivley mediocre mess.

I feel for anyone on the cast or crew that is out of work. I even feel for people who will miss the show. We've all had quickly canceled series that we miss. I take no pleasure in the show being gone. But I don't miss it either.

First thing that came to my mind.

My first gut reaction was less about the nationality and implication of terrorism and even the Admiral Ackbar pun. It was over the use of the phrase Allahu Akbar (which is a pretty sacred and common saying in Islam). I'm not so sure people of that faith would appreciate the phrase used in that type of joke. Then again, I'm not of that faith nor am I of that region, so I can't speak for them. But I can see that somewhere in there is probably the answer to your original question.

/shrug