Can Walking Dead be successful with out Rick an Clem?
So this year will be the final season for Clem And Rick for the show and game. But both AMC and Telltale have talked at moving the series forward beyond them. AMC will obviously have a season 10 plus, where its a bit more questionable if telltale will start fresh with another season. But can either series work with out them at this point tho, and how well do you think it can work if at all or is this just the best time to jump off the show an game series when Clem and Rick story is done.
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AMC is kidding themselves, Rick when the show was good was it's humanity...sometimes good sometimes ugly but he was it's soul.
Telltale if they were to do a new series would be smart to start at the beginning and build up a group that had several very likable folks. Telltale could continue on...but AMC's TWD...I just do not see it.
the show shouldn't have killed off carl. won't be the same without him or rick. the games can do fine without clem, and i hope there's more. 400 days was rly fun even tho it was short and basically standalone or whatever and no choices mattered in the end.
Show: They still have popular characters like Negan, Carol, Daryl and Michonne. IMO Michonne alone is interesting enough to carry the rest of the show, so while I think viewers will drop greatly after letting go of Rick and Maggie, it'll still be successful, especially since literally any dead-or-otherwise character's star can make reappearances as ghosts, dreams, new flashbacks, or like, photos that current characters find.
Game: I don't think Telltale will just flat out stop working on Walking Dead material, between collaborations and adding to the canon, since they're fans and it was one of their major calling cards, but after TFS, I do think it'll be a while before they jump back into it, at least on a gaming front (unless they're working on, like, a Poker Night 3 or something).
Poker night 3 with Bigby, Batman, Lee and Rhys...Telltale don't let us down!
Yeah, i think so. The show will have a harder time trying, though. The character-work those last two or three seasons has been - and i'm sorry to put it that way - quite miserable. Basically everyone of the side characters is in competetion with one another for the prize of being the most boring character, while the main characters are running circles both literally and metaphorically. It's going to be tough for Angela Kang to fix that in time for Ricks departure, especially since Daryl is in talks to kind of take Ricks role in the show and Daryl is quite honestly the worst offender of the character misstreatment that has been gping on for three years straight.
The game, however, will have it a lot easier since there hasn't been made much build up outside of Clementine and AJ. They are the game and if they end, the game can end. Telltale has a lot more freedom to do things beyond Clementine. Hell, they could even continue on with Javier and Richmond to make ANF a little more meaningful, but i doubt that will happen, because of Gabe and Kate being determinant characters.
I'd like for Telltale to take a break from TWD for a couple of years and then do something new, if the IP is still relevant, of course.
After the game series ends, TWD will kinda loose my interest. I’ll still read the comics until they end, but the show has really ran its course and at this point I think I’ll just watch Fear (because it’s WAY better) and not the main show.
I honestly don't know how the TV Show is going to continue with Daryl as it's main character.
Started with Rick, should've ended with Rick.
Edit: I blame gimple.
They both just need to end.
TWDG stopped being successful after s1
You too? Huh. Btw is that sarcasm?
No.
I might actually tune back in after Rick's gone, never got all the love for him, TV Rick is a terrible leader.
Simple answer is no. The TV Show is the worst it's ever been and the writers and show runners refuse to acknowledge it while forcing more political propaganda down our throats. It's been a train wreck since Carl's death, and now that Rick and Maggie will die it's going to be a Gimple flavored, poorly written social justice shit on the floor. The game series on the other hand has other characters that have vanished and have yet to be explored and can create other stories that are far more interesting than the television adaption