Thread:Fedora Kid/@comment-24141224-20150827033255/@comment-1734566-20150828032247

I hated Andrea's guts, lol. Beth started out lame but got better, and Daryl, what can I say? He really is as good as everyone says, IMO. I absolutely cannot stand Rick or Carl, though. I seriously wish they were not the protagonists, because they are easily two of the most inconsistent, frustratingly-written, and flat-out unlikable TV protagonists EVER. Like, I know they changed from one really crappy director for 2 and 3 to an amazing director for 4, 5, and 6, but seriously - they couldn't even TRY to give us a bridge of some kind? In the S3 finale, Carl flat-out shoots an unarmed kid in the face, is disgusted at saving the Woodbury citizens, and basically disowns his dad - but then in S4, he suddenly wants to help ALL survivors and cares about his dad a lot? Like, seriously.

But with that said, Gimple did a FANTASTIC job cleaning up Mazarra's mess. The one thing I think I'll take away from said transition is that Gimple took Sasha - easily one of the emptiest, most pointless, silent, most non-existent, red-shirt characters in the show's HISTORY, brought in for no reason whatsoever as an original character to the show by Mazarra - and actually made her interesting and not completely one-dimensional by the end of S5. He had to introduce and then kill off another equally worthless character (Bob) and axe an amazing character (Tyreese) in order to do it, but I honestly think it was worth it, because now, I'm finally invested in her as a character. Mad props, Mr. Gimple. Mad props.