GoBigOrange86
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It's not for everyone, but the first couple of episodes of the Walking Dead was mind-blowing. Not the best series, but awesome first episode.
Walking Dead is trying too hard. I still watch it and enjoy it okay, but it's not what it was. It's like the writers watched Game of Thrones and decided, "Oh, what makes a good show is for beloved characters to die and awful things to happen." But that misses the point. Just killing characters for the sake of shocking the audience does not a good show make. It has to make sense as part of a story. There has to be a reason for it. With Walking Dead it feels like, "Hey, let's kill this character because why not?"
It's lazy storytelling and it's so formulaic. They start following a character more, have that character express some hope that maybe things will be alright after all, and then they kill them. Rinse and repeat.
There was one episode some seasons ago where a character died and one of the other characters, who I don't recall ever saying a word to the recently deceased, was all torn up because they "were so close." It felt forced and hollow.
