Lately (for the past several years) it has been a frequent joy of mine to watch The Walking Dead television show suffer. Long before Jeffery Dean Morgan's monologue-heavy, gratuitous, obnoxious, overbearing, plot-killing introduction onto the show as Negan, I ranted and ranted about how the character was going to ruin the show... And he has. Ratings are down. The CGI and makeup is sloppier than ever. Characters are inconsistent or needlessly killed... The show is just ********.
Of course, it's not only the character of Negan that has destroyed the show... Him overshadowing everyone and everything until the end of time and never facing real retribution for his crimes doesn't help... but the writers couldn't seem to help but to ruin the show even further by killing off as many loved characters as possible, seemingly for no other reasons than A) Shock Value and B) For Negan somehow, even if it doesn't even make sense. I don't know what their problem is...
At any rate, having Negan kill Abraham in that scene which was clearly set up to end in Abraham's death and no one else's in the season 6 finale would have actually probably been tolerable. I might have been able to keep watching. Even with the CGI tiger and cosplay people... But killing Glenn for no reason and making his death yet another plot device for Daryl just killed the whole show for me. That and the Lucille cliffhanger and Dumpstergate... The pacing and fake-outs are the ******** worst. It was too much dumb all at once...
But it doesn't stop there. After I stopped watching, they killed Sasha too! And then ******** CARL! Just... why? What the ******** are they thinking? And then they wouldn't pay Lauren Cohan what she's worth... so she's leaving. And Andrew Lincoln (who plays the main character... remember that...) is also leaving this season. I'm so happy for those two actors. I'm so glad they're not letting this s**t show have any more of their time, especially after many of their friends have been treated like garbage throughout. The show has never been perfect. Even near the beginning they ******** over Sophia, T-Dog, and Andrea... Then later Tyreese and Beth... But it's gotten out of ******** control in these past couple years.
So yeah... They killed most of the important characters and most of the important characters who are left... their actors want out. I guess Norman Reedus can have it. Lots of people think he's attractive for some reason, so they'll maintain a small handful of viewers just to look at him being greasy and listen to him grunt and blow things up. They can pay him all the money they're saving from all their other actors leaving. It'll be fun. I hope Danai Gurira leaves next.
Queequeg89 · Mon Jul 02, 2018 @ 05:42am · 0 Comments |