EPISODE 7 - it's the next to last and it does a magnificent job setting up the finale.
Most enigmatic character - Father Gabriel
Most squishy - the zombies burnt into the sidewalks in the bombing of Atlanta from Season 5
And Eugene still has his "Tennessee Tophat" of a mullet. Fashionable guy.
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Season 5 - Episode 8 - CODA
It's a heartbreaker. That's all I will say. This is the half season climax show. The second half of season 4 returns next year.
It's a heartbreaker. That's all I will say. This is the half season climax show. The second half of season 4 returns next year.
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I take that as a development for the good.
There were many times in a 20 to 24 story season that individual episodes were devoted to marking time. You could feel it in the episode - a lingering on scenery or a sudden flashback that eats up a show or some unrelated episode in the name of "character development". . .
For example - "The Braquiri Day of the Dead" in the series Babylon Five was a knock-off episode supposedly to show off Neil Gaiman's writing. In this case it turned into one of the show's most memorable entries because Neil Gaimam happened. To stay on point, the show is corralled into the larger series with a sentence or two towards the end of the episode.
In long seasons, it gets Worse, some TV shows lack any sense of time passing from one year to the next short of cheaply emotional mentions of holidays. Why are shows set in Southern states? Because snow messes with a storyline.
So The Walking Dead uses 8 shows in the fall and 8 shows in the spring. Consider this fall season's story arc - The lead-up to TERMINUS was done in the previous season. In the first episode we think that Gareth and his band of merry cannibals will dominate the season.
However, that does not happen and we meet Father Gabriel and become involved deeper with Abraham and Eugene.
And then the City of Atlanta rears its ugly head and what happens to close the season breaks our heart.
Remember that the final episode is marked "CODA" which is the added tag to a piece of music after a section is repeated.
Once again the story arc ends in tears.
And then there's more - Morgan. Remember Morgan? Morgan the odd after image of a man walking searching through the trees.
Morgan who saved Rick Grimes in the first shows of the season. Morgan who's wife was outside the house.
Morgan who went slightly nuts in season 3 after his zombie wife killed his son.
Morgan is back and he sees the remains of Father Gabriel's Church and the map with Abraham's scrawl.
That's an amazing amount of story telling in a half season and we don't grow bored.
There's another comparison around this season.
Broadchurch was on BBC and used 8 episodes to tell the story of the killing of a child. IT was planned as 10 episodes.
Gracepoint is the American version of the story and is using 10 episodes to tell (in a broad sense) the same story but in a slightly different way. There are times I think it bloats and lags.
So I'd rather have the shorter format in a tighter storyline or character arc.
There were many times in a 20 to 24 story season that individual episodes were devoted to marking time. You could feel it in the episode - a lingering on scenery or a sudden flashback that eats up a show or some unrelated episode in the name of "character development". . .
For example - "The Braquiri Day of the Dead" in the series Babylon Five was a knock-off episode supposedly to show off Neil Gaiman's writing. In this case it turned into one of the show's most memorable entries because Neil Gaimam happened. To stay on point, the show is corralled into the larger series with a sentence or two towards the end of the episode.
In long seasons, it gets Worse, some TV shows lack any sense of time passing from one year to the next short of cheaply emotional mentions of holidays. Why are shows set in Southern states? Because snow messes with a storyline.
So The Walking Dead uses 8 shows in the fall and 8 shows in the spring. Consider this fall season's story arc - The lead-up to TERMINUS was done in the previous season. In the first episode we think that Gareth and his band of merry cannibals will dominate the season.
However, that does not happen and we meet Father Gabriel and become involved deeper with Abraham and Eugene.
And then the City of Atlanta rears its ugly head and what happens to close the season breaks our heart.
Remember that the final episode is marked "CODA" which is the added tag to a piece of music after a section is repeated.
Once again the story arc ends in tears.
And then there's more - Morgan. Remember Morgan? Morgan the odd after image of a man walking searching through the trees.
Morgan who saved Rick Grimes in the first shows of the season. Morgan who's wife was outside the house.
Morgan who went slightly nuts in season 3 after his zombie wife killed his son.
Morgan is back and he sees the remains of Father Gabriel's Church and the map with Abraham's scrawl.
That's an amazing amount of story telling in a half season and we don't grow bored.
There's another comparison around this season.
Broadchurch was on BBC and used 8 episodes to tell the story of the killing of a child. IT was planned as 10 episodes.
Gracepoint is the American version of the story and is using 10 episodes to tell (in a broad sense) the same story but in a slightly different way. There are times I think it bloats and lags.
So I'd rather have the shorter format in a tighter storyline or character arc.
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Funny that you used as an example Babylon 5, the guy who wrote is said he had one throwaway show a year, it was built in and it was a 4 year story, season 5 was because the ratings were so high. However in the first episode of Babylon 5 a question was asked and it was answered in the next to last show of season 5, I think one of the reasons I loved that show is it was in order, watch out of sequence and it made no sense.
The longer season is still doable, its just that the networks don't want to spend the money to do it.
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The longer season is still doable, its just that the networks don't want to spend the money to do it.
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I very nearly almost completely agree.
Networks kill shows based on the ratings of one or two episodes. So the pressure is on to deliver that first audience and keep it.
Network Execs have the attention span of gnats and fleas and bedbugs and other stinky, flighty things.
I think one of the reasons for The Walking Dead's successes is that Robert Kirkman has already written the books and is assisting the writers for the TV show. He protects his story arcs and characters and goes beyond the printed page with new ideas.
Networks kill shows based on the ratings of one or two episodes. So the pressure is on to deliver that first audience and keep it.
Network Execs have the attention span of gnats and fleas and bedbugs and other stinky, flighty things.
I think one of the reasons for The Walking Dead's successes is that Robert Kirkman has already written the books and is assisting the writers for the TV show. He protects his story arcs and characters and goes beyond the printed page with new ideas.