Those early seasons, I could actually imagine happening in real-life inside the Beltway. The farther it went on, the more outrageous and "soapy" it got. But I had to see it through to the end.
I'm trying to give
The Walking Dead the same benefit of the doubt, but they're
really trying my patience.
Never did like Walking Dead. Well, okay, I like the parts where they are busting zombie heads. But there's only so much of that I want to see.
The rest of it...bad plots, really unlikeable characters, and even the dialogue was lame sometimes.
As an example of what I mean, I wasted 30 minutes (or an hour?) of my life watching an episode where one of the main characters started gettting phone calls from a land line. Eventually people he thought were dead started calling him and he freaked out.
The minute the phone rang the first time, I thought "hm, landlines are down, so this is probably a figment of his imagination". I then had to sit through the remaining 55 minutes of horribly overwrought and emotional "dialogue" between him and other parts of his mind in an overly dramatic simpering display that would make a 3-year old girl crying over the boo-boo on her knee blush.
But....yeah, they do know how to show the blood and guts, so every now and then I'll watch to see a few zombies killed and then turn it back off.
