What *beep* is his problem this season? I normally really like his character but he was extremely unlikable this season. Hope they fix that for the final season.
shareHe is different. He was in S4 and now more so in S5.
It's the writing and the direction they are taking the characters. It's more than just Walt. The writing started going off track in S3. Henry is different too and they are all over the place with Vic and Cady. The writers can't seem to make up their mind with Vic and Cady whether they are strong professional women or neurotic messes. Extremely disappointed in how they have written the main female characters especially since one of the three main showrunners is female. Both Vic and Cady are much stronger and capable in the books. Vic's backstory with Gorsky was a disappointment from the beginning. I don't think Walt and Martha would have raised such a scattered brained daughter who quits her job and runs off without telling those that love her most just because she discovered her mother was murdered a year after the fact versus dying of cancer. Is she a teenager throwing a temper tantrum? Then in S4 she takes a job with a law firm without doing some research on the firm especially given the high salary offer they were making.
They could have had lightening in a bottle with the Longmire premise and the stellar casting but the writing has never lived up to the promise IMO after S1 and S2. Big mistake IMO on the showrunners (who are also the writers) part to kill off Branch.
You bring forward some interesting observations. Interestingly, I wonder if the choice to kill Branch was the actor's desire to leave the show as well as making Vic pregnant was the actresses choice because of real-life decisions? I don't know the answer to either but if true paints the writers in a corner. While, I don't profess to know how to get out of the proverbial corner, I do agree, that some of the character arcs were not the wisest choices in terms of their development.
I don't believe it was Bailey Chase's idea to leave Longmire. He has been nothing but supportive of Longmire even attending Longmire days this year 2 years after having been killed off. He has been more supportive than Katee Sackoff has benn. I would have preferred she be written out.
Katee Sackoff is not pregnant in real life so that was not the reason they wrote Vic as pregnant it was just another example of the writers taking a character in the wrong direction IMO especially since they made her so clueless/irresponsible that she supposedly isn't sure who the father is. Nice way to portray a female especially a female LEO in 2016. Very disappointing.
Admittedly, it would have been much more palpable if they followed the books in that regard and it was Walt's baby. I absolutely agree that Vic never ever would have been so irresponsible as not to practice safe sex. Multiple partners - no big deal - but it is incomprehensible she wouldn't have insisted on condoms. I agree with you there. Maybe one day we will find out why they wrote it that way? However, I have to say, that I really loved Vic for the first time when she confirmed she was pregnant. There was just something about the way Katee Sackhoff played the rest of the season that was adorable.
I haven't agreed with some of the choices especially in season 4 but it's such a great show.......!
I know a lot of people like Katee but for me Katee and her portrayal of Vic in no way could be called adorable. To me she has been the weak link casting wise. Her range is very limited. What made Vic tolerable in S5 was the scenes with her and Travis other than the ridiculous one where they played rodeo in Travis's bedroom. Travis is a hoot and showed where the writing could at times be worthy of the characters. However then they had to purposely exploit Katee and not do Vic's character justice by having her running around in her underwear.
The show because of the strong acting talent including the supporting players like A Martinez, Zahn, Louis, Gerald, Irene Bedard, John Bishop, Derek and the basics of Craig's characters along with the ones created for the series is good but had the writing for the series been better it could have been great. They have one more season to bring the writing up to where it should be to do the characters justice. I doubt they will meet the challenge given the last few seasons.
It sucks to be disappointed. I hope season 6 is a good one for you and reconciles you to the point you are pleased with the show.
shareteamlongmire, your stupid assessment of Vic's hypothetical staunch insistence on the use of condoms is both naive and silly. I've talked smarter women than her out of making me use a condom on many occasions. They're like wrapping duct tape around one's pork pole. You're an idiot.
sharewow..... a clear reason for making someone wear a condom, if you are the result!
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I doubt you come into contact in real life, with any intelligent women.... given your assessment of a condom.
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I agree that Katee isn't pregnant and that would be why they would write her character as pregnant, because even if she was, she would already have the baby by the time they start filming next year. I do find that whole story line dumb and mentioned as much on a different thread here. I find these storylines to be really stupid and make women look like irresponsible people. I get that people can make a mistake, but twice in a short time period, what did she do, have sex with Travis practically the next day from having sex with Aemon. Really?
I am not sure why that was put in this story or where it is going, or what she was thinking there at the end of the season. But I found that whole story something that they could have eliminated and if I was an actress I would have said no to even playing that part.
I do like Travis though. I think he shows himself to be a deeper person then they think he is.
I couldn't not agree more. I'd forgotten that Cady even went to law school until they offered her the job. While I could believe that she would accept the job with the law firm, given the salary and benefits, it's inconceivable that she would think she could just walk out and take her notes with her. The non-disclosure agreement wasn't even necessary. That information was privileged and confidential. She acted like some kind of undergraduate summer intern.
Her anger at her father about her mother's murder was more that he kept that information from her. I still have no clue why she went to Denver.
As for Vic and Gorski -- from her initial reactions, I though the mob was after her. She's supposed to be an experienced police officer.
The problem is that male writers in general project their feelings about women onto women.
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shareThis season, since Longmire went to Netflix, Walt has been an emotional wimp. I laughed out loud when they tried to create suspense out of nothing by showing Walt taking a nap when somebody starts pounding on his door. Oh, no! Who could it be? Is someone here to assassinate Walt for no reason at the beginning of an episode? Walt bravely grabs his cowboy rifle and opens the door. Walt is so brave he doesn't even peek out a window first. He just flings open the door and faces the dangerous, mysterious door knocker! But wait! There's no danger at all, it's just some doofus buddy of Walt's
shareThis season, since Longmire went to Netflix, Walt has been an emotional wimp.
I am hoping that Walt is right - that Nighthorse has created this entire scenario where Walt looks crazy and Nighthorse looks sane. That would be the ultimate long con and a good story to tell IMO.
All the cliffhangers - Henry tied to the stumps, the real reason behind Walt's civil suit, who's Vic's baby daddy, will Cady and Walt reconcile? I'm looking forward to the next season. I'll be disappointed when this show ends.
I totally agree. Walt is horrible. This show is ridiculous. No way would he have jurisdiction diction on the reservation. It wouldn't matter what went down.
The writing is so blatantly wrong. No way would a judge allow a victim to cross examined by her attacker. What her ex husband had to say would be so irrelevant. Imagine a woman gets raped and her accuser's defense is the woman's husband said she's frigid. This show is almost unwatchable.