welcome to you watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top 10 reasons the Walking Dead is going
downhill before we get to our list we
want to know are you still fully
invested in the Walking Dead
or are you in the slow process of
shambling away let us know in the
comments and be sure to check out our
discussion over at mojo talks about
what’s been killing The Walking Dead in
the link below for this list we’re
taking a look at how far the series has
come and examining the points that make
us shake our head in shame and wish for
earlier days whether it’s due to poor
writing inconsistent characters or
anything in between if it’s bringing the
show down
it is eligible for this list and since a
lot of these gripes are tied to plot
points old and new a spoiler alert is
now in effect number 10 characters make
stupid decisions at an alarming rate
splitting up is never a good idea in any
horror themed show or movie it happens
all the time
in The Walking Dead’s case you’d think
our survivors would be a little smarter
when it comes to this they’ve been out
there surviving for years yet they still
go off on their own little adventures
getting killed in forests and mucking up
plans that were already set in motion in
most cases the characters both good and
bad are intelligent and come up with
great plans other times they appear to
have an IQ of 1/9 the series struggles
to justify its own existence
honestly when every second person has
turned into a madman
what’s the point of even living in this
world it’s been years of starvation
violence horror panic and heartache for
our heroes you have to do this why keep
fighting what’s the point of living in
the world where that is your life if
there were a goal other than fighting
the big bad guy maybe we’d feel more
inclined to see how Rick and his group
fare
how about infected animals zombies
slowly turning back into humans aliens
just give us something different and a
hunt for the explanation so there’s a
mystery and new plot number 8 plague
weapons ah we’ve seen Rick covered in
Walker blood before it’s been in the
characters wounds in eyes in mouths in
places you don’t even want to know about
now a new rule has been established in
the show that completely disregards that
previously established aspect of
world-building negan decides to coat his
Army’s weapons and Walker guts in the
hopes that it will infect our heroes and
kill them if it works then by that logic
and what everyone’s already been through
everyone should be dead already
number seven overly violent for no
reason
we know the show’s violent it has to be
it’s a violent world gratuitous violence
on the other hand is just there for the
shock value or even worse to Pat out the
running time of a very thin episode it
doesn’t add anything besides showing off
some admittedly impressive use of
practical makeup and after a while the
audience just becomes numb to it
sure that takes viewers on the same
journey as the characters but it doesn’t
make the constant violence any less
tiresome number 6 the cheap ploy
cliffhangers sometimes these can be
effective to get people talking and
eager to find out what happens next but
The Walking Dead has been full of them
lately and their impact has almost
completely been lost the major one was
not revealing negan’s victim at the end
of season 6 aside from that we got the
infamous dumpster gate a Glen death
fake-out that cheap and his actual death
later on we also got Daryl being shot by
Dwight only to find out it’s just a
small wound come on guys give us real
tension and stakes not these cop-outs
number 5 it’s too hard to get invested
in the characters we cared about these
characters in the beginning each member
of the group was fully thought out and
developed and brought something to the
table these days though it feels like we
get a half a dozen new characters every
episode who are set up to be an integral
part of the team yet they get like 5
minutes of screen time per couple of
episodes we can’t even remember their
names half the time or where they even
came from so why should we feel anything
when they bite the dust or in some cases
just disappear looking at you Heath
right number 4 stretching out plot lines
far too long
remember when season two’s endless
search for Sofia felt like a drag recent
seasons make those episodes feel like
action
movies in comparison nobody wants to
watch the group walking for 10 minutes
in episode we want drama action and
horror a shorter season would tighten
the pacing of the show and trim all the
fat we all know that when The Walking
Dead is good it’s really good can we
like that more often unfortunately given
that the franchise is a huge cash cow
for AMC we doubt they’ll be making
shorter seasons anytime soon
number three characters backtrack and go
nowhere say what you will about the
pacing but the earlier seasons had some
amazing character development and
transformations for this thank you my
best friend for you people for Christ’s
sake we really got to see how the harsh
post-apocalyptic life affected our
heroes unfortunately it’s not really the
case in more recent seasons the writing
is inconsistent and no character is
truly distinguishable anymore their
motives characteristics and mental
states constantly flip-flop until we
have no idea what they’re thinking we
get Morgan turning crazy finding himself
then turning crazy again we get Rick
turning into a dictator deciding
everything’s a democracy
then turning into a dictator again
characters should have an arc not a
circle number two it’s repetitive how
many times can we watch the group find a
safe place get it destroyed kill the bad
guy find a safe place get it destroyed
and so on and so on it’s riveting the
first couple of times but then there
aren’t any surprises anymore there’s no
reason to watch the show if we know how
the seasons gonna end having a different
bad guy per season what speed up the
pace a bit but now we’re getting three
seasons per villain sure Jeffrey Dean
Morgan spur Foreman says negan is fun
but he can only lean back and swear so
many times before the shtick starts to
ain’t doing shit number one there’s no
end in sight we can allow the Walking
Dead to not have a clear objective in
sight for the first couple of seasons
but after eight seasons we need some
kind of goal or reason to keep watching
just surviving isn’t exactly an exciting
plotline to watch and apparently neither
are endless assassination attempts on
negan with no major game-changing plot
device in sight what we’re seeing in the
show today is probably gonna continue on
into seasons 10 12 14 and onwards until
the series is but a shambling empty husk
of what it used to be so agree with our
list or you still sport in your weekly
shit in pants as you tune in for Rick
and his gangs desperate struggle to
survive and make sure to check out our
discussion over at mojo talks about
what’s been killing the walking dead
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