Time for After

I was looking forward to season 8 thinking that the writers may realise it is time to up their game - but it hasn't happened.

Instead of coming up with interesting and engaging story lines it seems as though they have resorted to formula writing.

Characters all seem to have their 'slot' to spout some kind of meaningless monologue of supposed 'wisdom' relating to their predicament that really adds nothing to the story whatsoever, and is more forgettable for its content that it is memorable for being a junction in the story to go and do something else more interesting with your life - like laundry.

It feels as though the story has been written merely to move characters from A to B with nothing in between or at either end.

This series is stale and uninteresting. Time for it to finish unless the story changes and the main characters get a bit of a spark about them.

"Time for After" is another forgettable episode of "The Walking Dead". There are three simultaneous story lines, each one worse than the other. Out of the blue, the coward Eugene becomes a genius and the second in command of Negan. The episode spends most of the time with this nasty and expendable character that should have died instead of Glenn. Eugene threatens Dwight and when he has the chance to shot or push Eugene off the roof, he leaves the guy (meaning a threat to his life) alive. The second segment is absurd and nonsense, with Rick somehow subduing the Garbage People with tied hands and becoming allied of this treacherous people. And the third segment with Daryl, Tara, Rosita, Michonne and Morgan is senseless with Rosita and Michonne surprisingly leaving their friends near the Sanctuary with an unreasonable explanation. The background is The Saviors under siege of a herd of walkers apparently defeated and somehow Eugene saving them without any clear explanation. The walkers blocked by a pile of dead bodies near the stairway to the second floor is ridiculous. What else to say about an episode where the despicable Eugene is the lead character? My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Time for After"

Am not saying this out of spite, despite how this sounds to anybody defending the episode and season. This is due to frustration, due to knowing how brilliant 'The Walking Dead' was at its best and the brilliance it was capable of. Season 7 was a very heavily flawed season with moments of good, while Season 8 repeated the same flaws, managed to make them even worse and made more on the way. Which were evident in most of the season with a few exceptions.

"Time for After" is another one of Season 8's worst and another one of 'The Walking Dead's' biggest duds. Very little works and the worst of the bad components are executed awfully. It also sees one of the fandom's least favourite characters at his most annoying. Again, am not saying this out of spite or wanting to hate it, absolutely no agenda here. Merely an honest opinion of real frustration and disappointment, and contrary to what defenders say that is actually the case with the vast majority of those that hated the episode and season (especially when there are valid reasons for the dislike and not personal attacks or conspiracy theories).

Do think that almost the entire cast do a game effort with what they have, which is truly beneath them. The acting is definitely the least bad aspect here.

There are points where the production values have a nice atmosphere that is suitably unforgiving.

Unfortunately, "Time for After" fails everywhere else. The writing, story and the way the characters are written are, very bad. Anybody that hated the writing in Season 7 will hate it even more here. It doesn't thought-provoke, have emotion or suspense and is not tight, it is all aimless, tedious talk in pure soap melodrama style with a lot of awkwardness and repetition. Eugene's dialogue made me cringe into my seat. Not only does "Time for After" lack any kind of tension, is too thin for the running time, is pretty much constantly exactly what you expect and is painfully dull a lot of the time. Not much happens, with none of it interesting, and nothing or nobody advances in development really.

Furthermore, the action far from explodes. Actually found it lacking in cohesion visually, ridiculously staged and pedestrian and that's when there was any. The characters are all dull or annoying, with decision making and motives that defy all kinds of logic and makes one want to bang their head against a wall. Eugene has never been a favourite character of mine and that is putting it mildly, here he is at his most reprehensible and impossible to get behind. Considering that most of the episode is centered him that is a big problem. Personally didn't think his development was that illuminating and it did little for his character or for anybody to change their mind, his dialogue is also risible to an insulting degree. The episode doesn't even look good generally, excepting moments of unforgiving atmosphere in namely the lighting, found it quite disorganised and self-indulgent especially in the final act.

Very bad episode once again. 2/10.

This has collapsed faster than a zombies head from a blow of Rick's Axe. Ok, it's never been the most cranial series but, a new low. I am writing this after watching next weeks episode, which is worse!

The cast are just not good enough actors to carry this. Will the next season get made?

I don't think I've watched much dumber shows than this for this long. The show was always up and down but it was watchable for the most part and once or twice a season it could blow you away. There were some dumb nonsensical or just plain boring episodes but there was always a pay-off. That's why we stuck around. Not anymore though. It just gets worse and worse.

It's completely retarded, without exaggeration. No one makes any sense, they just do shit...stupid shit. It's painful to watch. The "assault" just drags on and on, adding new moronic twists at every tiresome turn. I guess they had about one episode of plot this season and somehow managed to drag out over 8 (and looking to add 8 more, no doubt).

Clearly they just gave up on the show, the writers just can't be bothered for whatever reason. They're just making it up as they go along. "Here's some...a lot of guns, make-up and a camera, have fun. Or not. Whatever, we'll just air what ya got".