The Walking Dead season 6 finale

By now I'm sure most everyone has either seen or heard about the season 6 finale of The Walking Dead.

Did it give us Negan? Yes.

Did it give us a Negan we will enjoy next season? I believe so, yes.

Did it resolve whatever was going on with Carol? No. If anything, I'm more frustrated with Carol right now than any other character. And that's not normal for me. I've liked Carol for the past several seasons, until recently. I was actually hoping she'd be the one to die. But she's safe, as usual.

Did it deliver a spectacular 90 minute long episode? No. A million times no. It was boring and lacking in substance.

Spoilers ahead!

The Walking Dead season 6 finale was 90 minutes of boring. It was as frustrating as the episodes from the beginning of the season. What do I mean by that? Well, the beginning of season 6, the first half took place over a period of a few days. For another show, this is fine. For the Walking Dead? This was a first. While it was interesting and artistic, or was frustrating. The show was moving at a glacial pace. But whatever, I got over it. I got my Rickyl fix and moved on.

The season finale? It was not artistic, it was not symbolic, it was boring. Long and dull. Substance-less. I literally fell asleep in the middle of it. Why would the writers do this? No idea, but I feel like six seasons in, they're struggling to keep us entertained. They're trying to find new ways to write the show so that it stays interesting. The most interesting bit of the finale was the last ten minutes and it was also the most disappointing ten minutes of the entire episode.

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The season finale begins in the thick of it.  A man is being chased through the woods by Negan's group. Glenn, Daryl, Michonne, and Rosita are no where to be found and will remain that way until the last ten minutes. Daryl fans don't know if he's alive until the end. Carol is still running away like a child with Morgan trying to find her. Rick's group (what's left of it) preparing to take Maggie to the Hilltop.

The only time we're in Alexandria is at the beginning of the episode for about 5 minutes. Carl locks Ingrid in a closet to keep her there when she wants to leave with the others, Gabriel is left in charge of the compound, and the main cast, plus Aaron for some unknown reason, are taking a sick Maggie to the Hilltop.

The whole fucking episode is just this group being roadblocked by the Saviors at every possible road to the Hilltop. The only break from this are the Morgan and Carol scenes. Morgan finds her at a library and patches her up. He wants to take her back, she runs away to avoid it. Morgan takes off to find her and runs into two guys from the Hilltop. Their part is done. It was pointless and boring. If you're going to have those scenes, at least make them interesting and relevant to the plot.

So after that, we're still following Rick's group around and they're starting to realize how big Negan's group is. They, without explanation, have Eugene drive the RV and the rest take off into the woods with Maggie on stretcher. They get caught and herded to Negan. Negan has Eugene already.

Negan forces everyone to their knees while he gives a soliloquy. Oh but wait, Glenn, Rosita, Michonne, and Daryl FINALLY make an appearance and are forced to their knees too. Glenn freaks out when Negan threatens Maggie. But most of the rest of it is just Negan talking. He plays eeny meeny miny mo to decide who he's going to kill with the bat. And kill someone he does, but who? We have no idea. It showed us one second from the POV of the character getting beaten and then it faded to black with just dialogue.

Now my question is, what. The. Actual. Fuck?! I did not sit through 90 minutes of mostly boring plot fillers and commercials to not even find out which character dies! Oh but the writer says they did that because the death of the character is the start of a new story (Talking Dead).

Philosophical bull shit. You didn't reveal it because you're killing off a character that is hugely popular and you want people to come back for season 7. You knew revealing this death would result in a loss of viewers, so you decided to make us wait,  citing some philosophical answer that no one really cares about. But the problem is, you let your viewers down as it is. You made us sit through 90 minutes of fillers and commercials. You teased us for months with Negan and this death. You teased us when you faked Glenn's death and again when you shot Daryl. All of this is fine when you finally deliver. Instead the writers of the Walking Dead yanked it at the last second. Jerked our chains instead of giving out to us straight.

I'm not sure I can deal with that if this is how the writers are going to be.

The Sims!!

So I'm a HUGE Sims fanatic. I have played the game since the very first one came out all those years ago. I have recently gotten into the Sims 3 Legacies/Challenges. For those who don't know, Legacies and Challenges are basically a way to make the game more interesting for those of us who have played it for so long and use cheats more often than not.

A Legacy is generally a ten generation family with certain goals for each generation. For Example: The Original 10 Gen Legacy - as you can see, it refuses to allow you to use cheats, you can't bring sims back from the dead, etc. Now, there are other types of legacies, such as the Rainbowcy, which is pretty much left up to you as long as you start with a neutral color sim (white, beige, grey, etc.) and marry in new colors each generation (green, blue, red, etc.), most players keep to the regular legacy rules. There is also the Disney Legacy/Challenge - each generation must reflect a different Disney movie. There are so many different legacies and these only scratch the surface.

As for challenges, they can really be anything. Most challenges require a certain number of generations to complete, while others are simply a "however many it takes" type of challenge. For example, there are the Apocalypse Challenge and the Post-Apocalyptic Challenge - both of these deal with the apocalypse, of course. There are even challenges that deal specifically with pets. 

There is a third type of challenge/legacy, known as the "Building from Nothing" Challenges. They are the Shipwrecked and Single Castaway Challenge, the Hogsmeade Challenge (yes, a Harry Potter Challenge), and, the one I am currently doing, the Adam and Eve (50 Generation) Challenge. What makes these three so special? Easy, you start with an empty world in the Sims 3, and I mean EMPTY!! It must be cleared of everything but your allotted number of founders (usually only one or two). You then build the world from the ground up to the specifics of the challenge.

If you would like a more comprehensive list of challenges and legacies, please click here --> Sims 3 Legacies and Challenges - Note: this link may not be all of them. 

Also, I have a blog for my current challenge, located here.

So I was supposed to graduate with my undergraduate degree this past May...key phrase: "supposed to." My GPA is not where I want it so I'm staying for at least another year...yay? I have officially moved out of my parents' house though. My best friend and I got an apartment together. It is so awesome to not have to worry about my parents wanting to know every detail of where I am and who I'm with.

Veganism

So on my college's campus today, people were handing out those Vegan Outreach booklets. That's fine, no biggie, they do it every year, sometimes twice a year. But in this one (maybe it was in the others and I just didn't notice) there was a website, opposecruelty.com, I decided to check it out and basically found out their mission is to turn everyone Vegan. Not going to happen. I have no problem with people being Vegan, I actually know a few, but there are too many people out there who love meat (myself included). But in these booklets they show slaughterhouses and "farms." I agree that places like these need to be eradicated, but Veganism is not the only answer. And besides, not every place is like that, many have become much more humane and I fail to see how killing animals for food now is any different from wringing a chicken's neck or cutting open a pig/cow back in the "olden days."

Just a few thoughts.

End of the Semester

So the end of the school semester is about two weeks away. I don't know if I should be excited or not. On one hand, that's one more semester of being closer to graduating, which means no more loans. BUT on the other hand, that's one semester closer to graduating and having to pay off those loans and havign to find a job in an economy that sucks. Also, that means it's time to go back to work at Krystal for the summer. Eh, whatever I suppose, time moves on and stops for no one.

Also, Donald Trump is thinking about running for president. Hmm...well I suppose that'd be okay if he runs the country like he runs his business. We need a business man about now.

Obamas are not invited...

So apparently Prince William and his fiance Kate Middleton have decided to not invite the First family to their wedding in April. And why is this worth mentioning? Well apparently the American news reporters are having a field day about it. Just search it on a search engine and, voila! There it is. The official reasoning is that they want to fill Westminster Abbey's 2,000 seats with charity workers and other "common" people, however several "big-wigs" are invited. I've heard, though I cannot remember the source, that the Prince does not want the Obamas there because he does not want Michelle Obama to upstage his wife-to-be (Personally, I think that was probably just a more diplomatic way of saying she's a bitch and that he doesn't want her there at all). Also, I've heard that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, said that she does not want the Obamas there because they refuse to show proper respect for royalty, such as the customary bowing. The Obamas refused to bow to the Queen, but were okay with bowing to the Saudi king. Yes, Michelle was not under any obligation to curtsy, however it is respectful, just like not touching the Queen is expected. I have a feeling that if the Queen really does not want them there, it has something to do with the First Lady touching the Queen on their visit.