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Originally Posted by cthomer5000
I think it depends upon what you are comparing it against. By TV standards it's fine i'm sure, but in absolute terms I think it's very poor. It's why I watch so little TV.
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I am not sure what else you'd compare it to. It's not really fair to compare it to film, but even if you did, on average, I'd put Walking Dead's writing over most films. Oscar nominated films? No. But there are a lotta shitty movies out there, which is why I watch so few films each year. I mean take all of January and February, look at all movies released in theaters or through other channels and tell me how many are well written. Granted, this is the dead period for film, but it's still 1/6th of the year and even in the prime months there are still more shitty films than good.
If you want to compare its writing to other films in its genre since it started its run - either horror or say, post apocalyptic/survival films - it's likely in the top 10%. Between theater and straight to DVDS releases, again, there very, very few decent movies released in either drama.
I would also argue, if you're looking at pure percentages - there percentage of TV shows with good writing equals or surpasses the number of films with good writing.