Cranky Is Coming

[slightlyoffaxis]

So, we signed up for HBO. It was nice knowing you all.

Jesse immediately dived in and started DVRing movies. (Jesse, I swear Cyrus is on Netflix Instant-you don't need to take up DVR space with it!) I, on the other hand, wanted to start sampling all of those shows that everyone raves about but I'd been barred from since I (before now) refused to

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[mushroom_kitty]

FYI, Walking Dead got really slow and boring in the second season, with the exception of the last two episodes, which were so awesome they almost made me angry.

[slightlyoffaxis]

What made you keep watching if it was slow and boring? Did the last two episodes make up for the rest of the season?

I ask because I kept watching the whole first season, even though I wasn't really loving it. Then it got to the finale, and (spoilers), a lot of people I didn't care about to begin with died, and when the show was gone I didn't miss it, so I dropped it. But it was odd, because killing off a cast of characters I had no attachment to should've made me think that the opportunity was there to repopulate with people I did like. But, then again, I probably should've just dropped the show earlier.

Anyway, this is the whole problem in a nutshell. Do I have to watch the entirety of something before I decide if I liked it or not?

[mushroom_kitty]

Because I liked the first season so much I kept hoping it would get back to that. It's not like it was just boring from the beginning of the show, you know? The last two episodes gave me hope that the third season will be better.

I understand your point, though I tend not to mind waiting a few episodes to see whether I like a show.

[slightlyoffaxis]

Yeah, it's definitely impossible to judge from a first episode, but I just don't know what the magic number is.

[rockmarooned]

Yeah, I felt like it was going in the slow-and-boring direction well into the first season, which in retrospect had two or three episodes I really liked and a whole mess of characters I didn't. But like Marisa says, we didn't really completely notice until the season was over and we didn't miss it at all. I feel like that's a show that, while based on a serialized comics story, might be cooler if they mixed it up a little with semi-stand-alone episodes and chapter-storytelling.