Hello,
These two shows admittedly are a mismatched pair. However the reason I'm including them together is because they are my two favorite shows each week. "The Walking Dead", in it's third season, is easily having it's best season ever. "Nashville" is having a decent first season, although it certainly has some weaknesses.
This last episode of "The Walking Dead" was "The Killer Within". Obviously the biggest storyline this episode was the birth of Lori and the unknown's father baby. Is the father Shane or Rick? Is the baby a boy or a girl? Who's going to take care of the baby? Do they even have supplies for a baby? Anyway I was pleasantly surprised that Lori Grimes finally died. She was perhaps this show's weakest links. She's one of the worst characters ever and played by an absolutely terrible actress Sarah Wayne Cailles. What did I hate about Lori? I hated all her stupid speeches, the writers really gave her some dumb things to say. She was irrational, was always doing stupid things and was dumber than a stump. I also hate how preachy she was and always seemed to be on Rick's case about something. Rick is doing the best he can in a world that no one could have been prepared for. Lori's intentions were good, but her lack of common sense was her biggest weakness.
The scene where Lori dies, I couldn't help but think die already. Lori's life ended with one of her boring speeches. Cailles acting was simply terrible in her death scene. I hope this character is gone forever, in other words please no more flashbacks. Also the actor who plays Rick Grimes, Andrew Lincoln, isn't the best actor ever. What was that flip out that he did when he found out that Lori had died? It seems his character will be dealing with the death of his wife in the next episode. He should be jumping in the air and celebrating.
Just an aside: since Jerry Jones is already a zombie, can we drop him into the world of "The Walking Dead". He's been an incredibly destructive zombie to the Cowboys and their fans.
The best character development this season has been with Carl Grimes, he has grown into a 100% bad ass. His becoming physically bigger in between the filming of Season 2 and Season 3 helped this process a lot. He's become a confident zombie killer. It was a bittersweet moment when he "killed" his Mom before she could "turn". He also had a very complicated relationship with Lori. He left the room with a grown up look on his face. Ever since he killed Shane, he's become a force to reckon with.
I also have to laugh that T-Dog finally became useful. So much good that did for him as he was then killed off. However he went out in a blaze of glory. He sacrificed his life to seemingly save Carol's life. Although we hadn't seen her at the end of the episode. What's going to happen with her? She might be in trouble too as she has also become useful this season. She has come a long way from her simpering self of Season 1. Even Lori was finally becoming useful. Watch out Emily Kinney, who plays Beth, if your character becomes useful. Don't worry you have a ways to go, I can't even remember the name of your character. Also keep your hands and lustful eyes off of Carl.
Just a question why are the zombies suddenly able to move faster?
Honestly to me this show has killed enough characters for awhile. The show is now halfway through the first of it's two parts this season. The first part will culminate on December 2nd and then resume again sometime after the first of the year. I'm not exactly a big fan of splitting the season in two halves, but it's okay. I'm just glad this first half of the season isn't as boring as the first half of Season 2. The hunt for Sophia was sleep inducing and I hated all the speeches. However Season 2 ended with one of the best episodes of a TV show ever. That episode "Beside the Dying Fire" was an instant classic.
Now on to "Nashville", how would it be to be Deacon and have two beautiful women want to be with you? Either having Rayna or Juliet after me would be enough for me. Deacon continues to be the moral conscience of this show.
Nashville has it's own Lori Grimes, that would be Jolene Barnes. She's a terrible actress. Also her storyline brings nothing interesting to this show.
I love this show so much. But I do wonder when they have time to do anything as they are always sleeping with each other? I wish this show would drop some of it's subplots. Unfortunately it seems the storyline of Teddy running for mayor isn't going anywhere so can we get rid of Jolene at least. She can have a miracle recovery, meet someone in rehab and go away forever.
What do I want the show to focus on? Music, which is the reason most of us fans are watching. We are so much more interested in all the great songs that come out of Nashville. We want to see some of the behind the scenes details. We want to follow Scarlett to come from a waitress to a worldwide superstar. We want to see Rayna regain her country music throne and we also want to see how Juliette's career will go.
We don't care about the dirty underbelly of Nashville politics. We really don't care about Teddy Conrad, why is he such a weak character? We don't care if he has an affair with Peggy. We want to see Rayna and Deacon finally get together.
themusicaddict
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