Aaron James
The Walking Dead used to be an event for me and my mom. I had read the comics, but I was invested in the show, and so when Seasons 7 and 8 marked the tragic death of the show for me, I could not keep myself interested any longer. My mom continued watching it, and every now and then, I went back to watch Seasons 9 to 12 and the Dead City, Daryl and Rick, and Michonne series. But after all that, and the reunion with Rick and his new family at the end, nothing really redeemed the show at all. Season 4 disrupted the flow of the show. And giving more time to secondary characters or the main characters for a whole episode only to kill the secondary characters a season away was ruining the integrity of the storytelling. Season 6 having the first fake death scene with Glenn was when the people running the show truly lost trust with it’s viewership. What they did with Negan was enough for me to be invested again, only to fake us out yet again by making us think Abe was the only death character, only to give us a comic-accurate Glenn death right after. They knew it wouldn’t be as effective as the comic, but they didn’t care. AMC really never regained their popularity for tv series after Breaking Bad ended. The Walking Dead was like their punching bag, and it sagged and soured after all it led up to was a split universe. I hope someday someone adapts the actual comics, or even better, maybe Amazon or Netflix can do an animated series accurate with the comics. But what we have now is just 3 seasons of great storytelling, and then a never-ending series of hopeless apocalyptic boomerang storylines that go no where. It’s not like the comics at all. Whereas the comics at least did have a point to come to which was people needing to learn to live in a world without luxuries we have in the modern world. It was about building society out of the apocalypse and bringing us back from the brink, not just for our humanity but for our souls. It was about how some people lose their way, but you can always find it again if you look hard enough. Anyone can be Rick, Glenn, Michonne, Carol, Daryl, even Negan. Anyone can survive, lose their way, but you can also find your way back. And that’s why the show lost its direction, it completely missed the point in favor of shock value and attention grabbing. The point of the story was that Rick would lose his way and find it again, and through him we got to see people evolve like Daryl, Carol, Maggie and Negan who all started in different places and ended up becoming people who found their way even after losing everything. In conclusion; just go read the comics!
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