The Walking Dead starts okay but gets really repetitive. The lore also makes no sense. You would think the writers could have just read the comic and reconcile all the plot elements ahead of time, but no.
In the first season it is established that walkers biting you is bad and turns you into a walker. Okay cool. Then later on in the prison settlement it is discovered that people who die for ANY reason will turn into a walker. Again, fine, but how could it possibly have taken this long for anyone to notice? After all this time, NOBODY died from anything unrelated to walkers?
And this causes a bigger problem; if everybody is already infected and turn into walkers at death, then why does getting bitten matter? Just take some antibiotics and you should be fine, bro. If the bite is actually transmitting some deadly fever that kills 100% of its victims, then that would be a worse problem than the walkers, a thousand times worse. But it is never discussed or treated as a separate issue from the walkers.
Besides all that, the plots were okay but started going in circles. We meet the governor, who is an evil dictator. Then we meet Negan who is, umm, also an evil dictator. “A” for creativity, guys. The annoying part is that the Governor could have had an interesting redemption or comeback arc but that was thrown away for no reason. And why was Negan such an asshole? He was powerful enough that none of that bad stuff was really necessary.
Oh, Glenn basically “died” twice in almost back-to-back episodes. He died “offscreen” but just kidding he actually escaped somehow, just to die the cliffhanger death with Negan? Lazy and sloppy writing.
I binge watched TWD on deployment, and what really started to annoy me was the inconsistent competence of the heroes. Sometimes they’re very smart and skilled. Other times they do inexplicably dumb things to move the plot forward. Like in that same cliffhanger season finale episode when they decided to send all of their leaders and best fighters in an RV to protect one pregnant woman. Literally why would they do that in the middle of a war when they need to stay together and preserve their numbers? Dumb.
Ian Kummer
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