Well, most TV shows just keep lumbering on until they run out of steam. The problem with something like a zombie apocalypse scenario is that once the living are on their feet, in some capacity, they only end up having themselves to fight. And that can get tedious, because once you have your protagonists defeat one bastard you're left with no option but to create another one and then another one and then another one.
That's the thing that Kirkman didn't get when he created his "never ending" comic. Without an end, you wind up going in circles.
'The Walking Dead', though, also suffers from bad writing and bad showrunning in that it introduced far too many people and factions that the audience just gave up even trying to remember who was who. Into the bargain, a lot of these people were completely unmemorable outside of their trope. We had "the lesbian", "the non gender person", "the gay guy", "the deaf person", ad nauseam. It seemed that if your were a minority of some sort, your chances of surviving the ZA went up considerably. But outside of their basic descriptor, these characters were generally nothing and they had nothing interesting to do or say either. They didn't even die in "interesting ways", as Tom Savini might put it.
They were a far cry from the likes of Carol, whose character actually grew over the course of the show, or fan fave Daryl (was never a fan personally) who also had an arc. Or even Carl who grew from annoying little brat into, what was becoming, a decent young man. But as the core characters were eliminated, they were getting replaced by multiple cyphers that most people didn't give a toss about and that's always a bad sign in any TV show.
But, also, TWD just wrote itself into a scenario that was too big with the likes of the Commonwealth. That whole idea was just awful and it was never going to work successfully. Plus, the time jump was a terrible idea, even if it was made somewhat necessary by Andrew Lincoln's decision to bugger off in a vain pursuit of a non-existent movie career.
Thing is, there are possible opportunities outside of the main show to reboot, as it were, and see the ZA from a different perspective. But these efforts have been haphazardly handled too. 'Fear the Walking Dead' became a shambles in its first series and has lumber on into crashing bore territory as well. 'The World Beyond' was an astonishing disaster from the get go and it's a miracle that thing got the green light at all, and now this 'Dead City' thing looks like its going to be rubbish too. But, frankly, the entire scenario involved here and the producers insistence on pushing Neegan as some sort of semi-reformed sinner has always been a no no for me. Especially as he's been teamed up with Maggie. That kind of "idea" might sound great as a brain fart in round table session, but the reality of it is non-existent. It's like the producers never even saw Neegan beat to death two unarmed and restrained people with barbed wire baseball bat. In the real world, there's just no coming back from that.
I'll probably check out a couple more episodes, but beyond the NYC setting it doesn't look like it's going to hold much for me.
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... ... anyway ... it does irk me when you've got these larger communities who use plainly bad means of punishment to enforce law and order. It doesn't jive with this idea of civilisation in the slightest bit, and the 'optics' of such brutal penalities is pretty frigging terrible - so how on earth is it an effective way to run a community?
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Originally Posted by MinionZombie
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