Timeline for Is the plot and delivery of The Walking Dead season 6 partly motivated by cost control?
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| May 29, 2018 at 18:13 | vote | accept | ThePopMachine | ||
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| Nov 18, 2015 at 0:08 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @Taladris: You are entitled. I just question whether "is answerable" is the right metric, particularly because it is proven over and over again that many questions are only "unanswerable" until they are suddenly answered. And the content of the answers should not be what affects votes on questions. | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 0:05 | comment | added | Taladris | @ThePopMachine: I was just commenting to say that the premise that it hasn't been done in the show before is wrong. Knowing that the show producers have been cheap from the beginning does not really help to answer the question (the answers so far are "maybe" and gossips), so I'll maintain my downvote for now. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 21:44 | answer | added | John O | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 21:38 | comment | added | John O | It should be considered that even ignoring the cost of actor salaries, AMC is a cheapskate channel. They ran off Darabont for this reason... apparently they wanted him to show zombies offscreen because it was cheaper to play back growling sounds than to do the practical effects, things of that nature. They wanted to limit the large swarms of zombies to "8 or fewer" even in key scenes. They want the esteem that comes with having a hit show, but they don't like the price tag and never have. So, @Taladris, yes, there's plenty of evidence that would allow this to be answered. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 17:28 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @Taladris: This might be a good point, but if it occurred in season 4, it doesn't mean the same motivation wasn't present there. Regarding whether it can be answered: of course it can -- there can be a comment from the producers. Especially with as much discussion goes around for TWD and the existence of Talking Dead, it is all the more likely than for other shows. Even if the answer is 'not that we know of so far' this is an answer. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 17:24 | comment | added | Taladris | I downvoted, since I cannot see how it could be answered. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 17:23 | comment | added | Taladris | The second part of the season 4, where the group was split into small groups of two or three people looking for Terminus, show that it is not new. | |
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| Nov 17, 2015 at 17:05 | comment | added | Dave Johnson | +1 - Interesting question, and something I had noticed as well (though never thought much of it). | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 16:43 | answer | added | Praxis | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 16:27 | comment | added | Praxis | @ThePopMachine : I'm here (and I clicked the up button). ;-) I'll do some research. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 16:00 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | Oh yay! It's the good ole downvote bandwagon. Disagreement with the premise is not a reason to downvote; it's a reason to answer in the negative. | |
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| Nov 17, 2015 at 15:08 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @Rigas, Even when there were just as many characters and they were separated, it would normally jump around within the episode. Whereas, I believe actors are paid by the episode for episodes in which they appear. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 15:00 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | Come on, @Praxis, show me the evidence and stick it to the downvoters. :) | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 14:58 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @Rigas, that may be, but everyone is missing the point that the other five seasons weren't like this except for an episode here or there perhaps. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 10:36 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | It's also an excellent way to heighten tension. It allows the writers to keep us hanging with different Uncertain Doom and Our Hero is dead tropes without getting too cheesy | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 8:50 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | A salary can defeat itself? | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 7:56 | comment | added | Rigas | It maybe a cost issue, but it may also be the fact that at least 12 main characters. Being forced to feature them all in every episode would hamper the story telling more so than splitting it up in my opinion. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 7:00 | history | asked | ThePopMachine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |