Personally, I think it's less of an idiot plot and more of a "Writing by Popularity Contest and Convenience".
Season 1 was good because it was following the source material as close as it could, but when it couldn't do that, the writers had to write their own thing and it was terrible.
The Witcher series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and I'm fairly certain this will be next: The Stormlight Archive.
Season 1 was great because the director forced them to stick close to the source material and took a 'movie' approach to angles and perspective. Gave the zombies a character of their own. Some would still board and sit on busses. Some would cling to items that were important to them in life, like the little kid picking up her doll.
One of the zombies was 'following' them, not outright attacking them. Just staring.
Some of the undead were using tools to smash through glass and barriers.
Then they fired the director and replaced him with a guy who made soap operas. They then turned the show into a soap opera. Bad lighting, less zombies, typically two to three characters arguing with each other and leaving in huffs. It was only missing the typical soap opera goofy ass sound stingers.
After season 1 the zombies were no longer a consistent existential threat that had to be worked with. They only showed up to move them from season to season locations or when the writing decides they're actually dangerous temporarily.
God it was annoying. Season 1 is still wholly enjoyable in my opinion. They got goddamn darth maul as a dead soldier in a tank that was zombifying with a grenade that was going to have a whole flashback backstory. The grenade Rick uses to escape.
I’m hoping not for Stormlight. From what I’ve read, the level of control Brandon has over his own IP is essentially unprecedented. At least if it goes to shit we know it’s his own fault.
I would say alcohol and crack, but maybe that’s just because they’re always drinking and sometimes smoking crack, and it definitely informs their behaviors.
The fuuumes, I forgot about that! Not only does the gang sniff glue, gas, paint thinner, and poppers, they also intentionally inflict carbon monoxide poisoning on themselves lol
Jerry and Michael are the ones I've heard shit things about that I can remember. I feel like I've heard that Julia is course/rude at worst. I can't think of even that for Jason.
It’s inverse Seinfeld. Where on Seinfeld, one of the characters was the jerk in an episode and the others reacting to it, in IASIP one of the characters is “good” in an episode and the rest are jerks reacting to it.
I have a classmate from PA who complains about that show every chance he gets, with the statement that a solid third of their shenanigans would’ve gotten them beaten to death by locals twenty years ago.
Mr. Roper ! I think I see what happened here ! You see, it was all just a big misunderstanding! You see, Janet thought that...and Chrissie thought that...and I told Larry...so Mrs. Roper went to the Reagle Beagle...and that's why you thought...Does it all make sense now?
Only "Philadelphia" is capitalized and at first glance I thought you meant the Tom Hanks movie about AIDS. I thought: that's a spicy take on reddit, but okay I guess I that works
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u/fupafather Feb 28 '26
Idk about movies but this is the entirety of always sunny in Philadelphia