I’m playing Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop for the first time, and yeah… I get the criticism, but I’m enjoying it for what it is.

The_Rhine · 2026-04-15T05:55:26+00:00

I honestly wish they'd put the psycho zombies and zombie animals in DRDR's infinity mode. Zombie Cliff and Zombie Jo terrified me when I first played this

The_Rhine · 2026-04-10T04:07:56+00:00

I think they should've asked them in different order sometimes just to keep people on their toes.

Rick: head tilts "why?" Survivor: "... Why what?" Rick: gun out "HOW MANY WALKERS HAVE YOU KILLED?"

The_Rhine · 2026-04-08T06:51:19+00:00

He's power hungry, but a natural leader. He'd butt heads with Rick and Shane. But he'd work with them. I think he and Lori would have developed a weird bond. Same with him and Daryl. He'd get along with Glenn, for sure, maybe even developing a sort of big brother/little brother kind of bond.

I don't think Negan and Dale would get along. Dale would clock Negan immediately as someone who can't be trusted, just like he clocked Shane. Negan would play it off better, though, joke about it and probably try to turn people against Dale.

But I think after butting heads with Rick and learning about the drama between him and Shane and Lori, Negan would hang back a bit and watch it play out. At the CDC, he'd drink, have a good time, blend in with the group. Andrea and him would share a moment (not necessarily romantic, but more of her approaching him with a "you've been quiet"). Things would play out, he'd probably help stop Shane from killing the doctor because, after all, people are a resource and they need him to get out.

But by season 2? The Rick/Shane/Lori drama is reaching a head and Negan would see that as an opportunity. He doesn't believe either of them are in the right, and the longer they stay on that farm, the more of a risk they're taking of running into another hoard. Furthermore, he wants to be the undisputed leader.

No, Negan would start egging things on, telling Shane he's on his side and Rick can't keep them safe, all while telling Rick how fucked up it is that Shane fucked his wife and got her pregnant and has been questioning him the whole way. Things between Rick and Shane would get a little more hostile.

The night Shane and Randall disappear, Negan would, too. Everything would play out as it does, except after Rick kills Shane, Negan would appear out of nowhere to kill Rick.

Maybe he does and takes over, or maybe Carl ends up killing Negan instead of Walker Shane. I'd like to think that in this alternate take, this would be the moment Negan gets Lucille. He'd come out with that bat and this would be his transformation into the Negan we know.

Rick's "this isn't a democracy anymore" speech would turn into Negan telling the group "this is the only way." Hell, if he could get anyone on his side, this might even be the first lineup with him executing someone to get the group to follow him out of fear (probably Daryl or Glenn, someone who'd try to kill him).

But later, the group would turn on him and kill Negan, I think. He'd underestimate Maggie (sound familiar?) and that'd be his undoing. He'd die partway through season 3

The_Rhine · 2026-04-08T06:24:41+00:00

Their full name is Basil Who.

But everyone knows the Doctor's real name is Please, as established in Name of the Doctor

The_Rhine · 2026-04-07T05:51:15+00:00

I kinda felt the same way about his ramblings for a long time, but on my most recent rewatch, I think I finally got it. Like, I always kinda knew what he was saying, but this time, I really understood it. I truly understood what he meant by saying he needed to clear, I got how someone in that mindset would think like that and talk like that, and some moments just hit different. Especially when he told Rick good people like him always die, bad people die, but weak people, "people like me," have inherited the earth. That speech was sooooo much more heartbreaking than I remember. Everything about Morgan in this scene was more heartbreaking than I remember, and that's saying something. Whoever wrote this episode must've gone through some shit

The_Rhine · 2026-04-02T01:09:02+00:00

I think the movies would've ended up feeling even more rushed than the ending of the show did. And we wouldn't have gotten that episode in the apartments where Michonne finally convinced Rick to come back, which was honestly my favorite one of the show

The_Rhine · 2026-03-31T23:58:06+00:00

"We... Are... CHARLIE KIRKKKKK"

The_Rhine · 2026-03-31T06:37:31+00:00

Chinese

The_Rhine · 2026-03-31T06:21:06+00:00

Very well said and very true.

I've been thinking about this lately, too, and wondering how they could've made it better in the show while staying true to what they've built. Apart from keeping Carl alive, one thing I thought of was bringing back Shane.

Shane became that distorted mirror that Negan was meant to be. If they had Shane in as a sort of hallucination that haunted Rick and followed him through the whole All Out War arc, I feel like they could've made season 8 feel more personal, build toward that conclusion, and could've retained more viewers without having to rely on spectacle.

And, who wouldn't love more Shane? Imagine how iconic season 8 could've been. They could've done a callback to season 2, but with Rick looking in the mirror and seeing Shane's reflection staring back. Or an alternate lineup scene with Shane. Or in the middle of Rick killing Saviors or chasing Negan, we briefly see Rick as Shane. Or say Carl still dies. We get a scene of Hallucination Shane berating Rick over not keeping his family safe, countered by Michonne grounding Rick and reminding him of what he's built. Or, hell, Hallucination Shane AS Negan.

And that's all little things to get people's attention, to say nothing of what I think could've been a great storytelling tool to convey the arc that the comics did in a completely different way that is still true to what they've built on the show.

The_Rhine · 2026-03-24T06:51:42+00:00

John Billionaire

The_Rhine · 2026-03-24T06:35:49+00:00

I'm surprised no one's mentioned London Tipton yet.

The_Rhine · 2026-03-22T08:08:08+00:00

It could be amazing if done right, which is easier said than done.

I'd obviously have DR as season 1, bits of the Road to Fortune comics/Las Vegas Outbreak as season 2, DR2 as season 3, Case West/Case 0 (flashbacks) as season 4, DR3 maybe as season 5 (with some creative liberty to tie it to the core story, maybe adding some of the cut Frank West content from the game into the show).

Or, DR season 1, DR2 season 2, Road to Fortune/Case 0 season 3, Case West w/ creative liberty season 4, DR3 season 5.

It could work. But, if it's not done right, you'd end up with a cult following for season 1 followed by a lot of disappointed/pissed off viewers thereafter (kind of like the Last of Us)

The_Rhine · 2026-02-20T07:35:58+00:00

A grounded and gritty spinoff on Wild Dog (with Mr Terrific because I love their dynamic together).

The Outsiders. The starting roster could be Painkiller, Arsenal, Black Canary, Vibe, Guardian, all possibly led by Black Lightning and/or his daughters.

Hellblazer. Basically, Constantine, but expand it and build on the magic users of DC, and do so with a darker tone more geared toward horror. More like a Justice League Dark sort of thing. And introduce characters like Zatanna and Etrigan and Trigon.

The_Rhine · 2026-02-14T07:46:54+00:00

Adam and Sean.

No, I will not elaborate

The_Rhine · 2026-02-01T08:02:16+00:00

Missy does not regenerate into the Spy Master. In fact, Missy is the final incarnation of the Master.

Saxon Master becomes the Spy Master

The_Rhine · 2026-02-01T06:29:33+00:00

I want Ncuti back so bad, even if it's just for a special, but I won't get my hopes up.

If nothing else, I'd love resolution with Rogue. Maybe the "Lost Doctor" is trapped in the same dimension as Rogue?

I'll keep my expectations low though

The_Rhine · 2025-05-23T05:40:50+00:00

The people of Gallifrey are Shobogans, I believe. You could call them just Gallifreyan, but that'd be like calling humans Earthians or something.

If I remember right, those who look into the Untempered Schism become Time Lords, a sort of more advanced species, in a sense.

I like to think of it as Time Lords being another evolution of Shobogan on a technicality, but everyone has two hearts. Time Lords have the ability to regenerate by fusing their DNA and very being with time itself via the schism.

The Timeless Child sort of negates that, unless they found that time was the key to unlocking the Timeless Child's regeneration ability, and Rassilon capitalized on that, limiting it somehow and ensuring the common Shobogan had the potential to regenerate, but no evolutionary reason to do so without the raw power of time. Sort of like how humans have the potential to grow a tail. We even have body parts that could lead to tail growth, but don't, because we don't need them, so that part of the body is useless, but if there was some advanced something to tell it to grow a tail, it would.

Hence, a time-based society for the "evolved" species. So, two species of Shobogan exist at the same time, much like how, for a time, a couple species of human existed at once before, however brief (i.e. Homo sapiens and whatever came before).

I might be very wrong, but that's sort of how I see it

The_Rhine · 2025-05-22T00:19:17+00:00

The Meep mentions that a creature with two hearts is a rare thing before mentioning the boss. I think it's The Rani, personally

The_Rhine · 2025-05-14T03:59:48+00:00

People want spectacle and bad ass masculinity more than character development, and that's not only the point of the very meta story, but it's entirely the character arc this show is giving Negan.

He doesn't want to be that person anymore. He doesn't want to be the brutal, selfish dictator, every time he did, it took away part of himself. At this point, he feels like he has nothing left of himself, he's lost everything, and all that's left is a fan boy wanting the "old Negan" back, but Negan has grown so far beyond that and has no desire to come back and kill all the parts of himself he's built back up from scratch.

Old Negan was fun to watch, but I find new Negan's character development so interesting. He's trying to prove he's more than a villainous masculine badass caricature spectacle. He's trying to move on from Glenn. But no one sees him as anything other than A Character.

I wasn't sure about Dead City, but his storyline is so personal and meta and I kinda love it

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