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Ahhhhhhhhh! I missed an episode of Terriers apparently! I saw the spoiler warning and ignored it because I thought I was caught up. Shit.

It's about gorramned time Terriers took the top spot here.

I clicked away in time, Paultera.

I'll watch in the end of the week. Moving to a new house due to relational issues (She didn't like zombie movies). And the first thing I'm looking forward to is watching the last Terriers.

If they do not renew this with a 2nd season it will be the new Life.

Good luck with your brain agony.
Have a drink.
It's only Monday.

Finally starting to get the top of the rankings right. Was I the only one who thought that Modern Family was way off its game last week? Just didn't find the mom-in-law stuff funny at all.

The Terriers finale is going to be fantastic.

Terriers earned every bit of that top spot last week. I always knew Mumford was going to be a good guy. He is Mumford after all.

Some people just don't get it, TOAJ.

No Community?

Conspiracies, Blanket Forts, Dean Dangerous?

WTF?

No, Withnails, the stabs at humor are some of the best dialogue in The Walking Dead, clunky or not. And that particular line, it's reasonable to believe that the redneck's father (or older brother) is a big Peter Fonda fan; especially that film where they damn the man and ride around on a hog colored red, white, and true blue. Fans of actors see anything they're in. Most people don't expect to see Clint Eastwood sing when they watch Paint Your Wagon for the first time, but plenty of his fans have still seen the movie. I'm just sayin', it ain't that hard to believe.

It's the moments where they try to achieve either realism or pathos that the dialogue sucks hard. Or, maybe the actors just aren't good enough to make it work. I dunno. But the show definitely isn't perfect, and there's been plenty to be disappointed in. Seriously, why have they spent the better part of the season looking for Michael Rooker (caveat, missed last night, will watch on Friday)? I don't care whether it's in the books or not (it isn't), he's a character we've been given no reason to care about but, even when he doesn't appear, the focus has been on finding him. Half of the six episodes, so far. If this were a cable-ized 12-13 episodes, it would work better, but there simply isn't enough time before the season ends to keep going back to the lost racist with a severed hand. That's been the plot motivator for two episodes, and it was set-up in episode two. Why? What does he have to do with anything? And that "search" keeps getting sidetracked by other things, which isn't building tension, just frustration. There's just been no forward momentum, and you can see it every time they show the survivors at camp: mostly uninteresting or undeveloped people simply existing. Maybe it's "real" but "real" doesn't mean "entertaining".

If you aren't seeing problems with this show, you don't want to see them. I'm not trying to hog the haterade, here, I'm trying to like the show. I just... don't.

You know how I don't like some episodes of The Walking Dead? Because some of them fucking suck ass, that's why. The comics take damn huge steps to involve you and make things believable in EVERY way.

Just this past episode. Remember when that family said they weren't tagging along? Who the fuck were they? They had, like 2 lines of dialogue between them in 4 episodes. They never had a story. They were never even in the comics. They leave, and we're supposed to give a flying fuck?

And when the RV breaks down? They drop off Jim, and just DRIVE AWAY. There was absolutely NO POINT to having the RV break down.

And why the FUCK are they all in separate cars?! They ALL crammed into the RV in the comics. You know WHY? Because gas is fucking HARD to find in the apocalypse. Yet there they are, in almost a separate car for each person, and they all look like old gas-guzzling SUVs. What a fucking failure.

Thankfully, the old guy Dale and the blonde woman Andrea are totally awesome, and Rick is pretty passable. He does have purty eyes. Shane nearly shooting him was fantastically done as well, with Dale's look of horror/incredulity sealing the scene.

I expect more because the source material takes GREAT pains to make all their situations utterly believable and the characters definitely think things through. There's so many failures of continuity and basic common sense on this show it's pissing me off.

RobP - You're right the show isn't perfect, but it's pretty damn good. You're fighting too hard against it. Merle was more of a red herring than anything. The situation was designed to teach us more about the characters and their relationships. The fact that Merle was a complete waste of a human being and someone we, as an audience, have no reason to care about or even should care about, was a bit of the point. It showed Rick's strict adherence to his moral code, which in turned shined a further on the relationship difficulties between he and his wife. The argument between them about going back for Merle seemed very familiar and was designed to show some of the problems. It also gave a little better understanding of T-Dog (horrible name), Glenn, Daryl and Shane.

I haven't found anything boring. It's the fastest hour of TV I've watched in years.

I've read all the comics. I like both the source material and the show, but I think the show, so far, is better and has exceeded the source material. I didn't find everything in the comic to be all that believable either.

I am not one so obsessed about making the situation utterly believable. So long as it's not outright stupid, I don't mind the fact that they are taking more than one vehicle, or that they had the RV breakdown so that they could have the scene where they leave Jim to die by the side of the road.

Lucas, I utterly despise Deb, but I'm pretty sure I'm a robot.

I'd agree with ForbiddenDonut's take on the Merle storyline, but I do find the occasional lapses in believability to be rather irritating. Overall, I find it too enjoyable to hate.