From brutal to the mystical

I’ M glad I watched the first episode of the new and seventh season of TheWalkingDead before seeing DoctorStrange. At least I ended my day of pop culture on an upbeat note.

“The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be” a.k.a. the 84th episode of the show was the most brutal, violent and depressing of all the series’ episodes.

Some fans even thought the show and the producers crossed the line with that one. The website TV Line took a poll to ask that question and the respondents were divided [52.4-percent said yes, it was too much; 47.6-percent said it wasn’t] as of this writing. A little over a third of the respondents [36.44-percent] said they were ready to quit the show.

The Independent said the show was now just “too bleak to enjoy.” TheVerge has a great article by Bryan Bishop, if you have time to read it: “The Walking Dead Quitter’s Club: goodbye for real.”

I’ve devoted seven years to the show so maybe it is at least time to take a break as I now feel more punished than rewarded for viewing.

I also wonder what the end game is? Otherwise, we’re just watching a cycle of people moving from home to home, meeting hostiles of varying degrees of twistedness, over and over again, with no resolution in sight. At least with GameofThrones, you sort of see advances towards the claiming of the Iron Throne [yes, even with deaths and dark, sad moments]. Thankfully, I ended Monday at a DoctorStrange.

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Negan ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Rick (Andrew Lincoln) take a break from the heaviness off screen The Ancient One shows us to travel from one reality to another—if only it were that easy to go to jump to London Not only does ‘ The Walking Dead’ torture the characters, it also tortures the viewers ‘Doctor Strange’ sees possibilities and realities beyond the every day, empirical world