Legion
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It's called building up to the story's conclusion. That thing that irritates me is when people cry about filler episodes, it's mostly comes down to them believing that because there was no big battle or crazy **** going down. There has been some amazing character development over the last few episodes. It's filler because people were talking too much essentially.
Sure bro whatever you say...I'm all for character development but what is happening this second half of the third season is not character development..it's filler. When you keep bringing up the same plot points over and over again that is not development.
How many times did Andrea need to be told that the Governor is not what he seems until it made any impact on Andrea's development?
Oh you know what...now it's the same thing all over again with Tyrese's group...
We do not need to see how good Carl is with a pistol every episode. We know that he's had to grow up fast. That was the significance of him having to put down his own Mother. On that note, we do not to reminded that Carl had to put down his own Mother.
Glenn loves Maggie and he feels like he's failed her because of what's happened in Woodbury. This has also been beaten to death.
We know Rick is having a hard time..but isn't everyone? It's the zombie apocalypse for crying out loud. We don't need to see Rick yelling at his dead wife every episode.
How about our new heroine Michonne? I guess you could say she's gotten some good character development since she went from just staring and grunting to making one or two complete sentences an episode...
As far as "building up the conclusion" did an entire episode dedicated to Rick trying to convince Morgan to come back to the prison accomplish that? Is each episode that much tenser now? I don't think so. I think you could have missed that episode completely and it would have no impact at on all on your enjoyment of the season finale. That is filler.
I guess I may as well say this since you keep talking about wanting more action. ACTION CAN BE FILLER TOO. We did not need the Governor to "tease" the group by killing Axel and dropping a few Walkers off on their font lawn. If anything this killed suspense and it didn't move the plot forward. The group was already scared after the ordeal with Maggie and Glenn. They know Woodbury is stronger than they and is led by a maniac. The group was afraid of this kind of group in season 2.
So if you have been enjoying the last few episodes good for you. I think they trying to stretch out a plot rather than develop it. I'm not the only one who feels this way as I have friends and co-workers who are losing interest in the show.