I'll put it out there, I appreciate the Walking Dead family taking the time and effort to close out storylines for beloved characters that we literally grew up with. Silent claps like we're at a poetry reading with SDH.
And thank you, for returning to serial episodes and linear storytelling. Following one or two characters per episode and having to wait weeks for the other characters was NOT the business.
But really, this final season is like radiation therapy for a zombie bite, no one should feel this pain trying to delay the inevitable. Why couldn't they leave it with Alicia's vague departure and finally finding PADRE?
(TLDR; RANT)
If you need to do a time jump, it means you want to reset the status quo, but not a blank slate, it just gives the audience the call to adventure--like--ooh, what happened? And the transition from the past to present always haunts them or there would be no story. Okay...so...
YES, the past should haunt characters who do a complete 180 of story arcs and personalities they spent 7 seasons building. This was the FTWD family, they don't abandon anybody, no matter what... But somehow Palpatine returned--nix that--they abandoned their children to a low-level indecisive villainess. WHAT?!
And I thought this was The Walking Dead, where even beloved characters are not safe, everyone is always at risk. Unless they need a break but now it's crunch time for ratings, then there's super plot armor, ghosts return from the dead. Hey I got an idea, the next show, let's go with.....
RETURN TO THE WALKING DEAD.
The dead rise again, not Walking Dead dead but like Jesus dead. Or we should go with time-loops, that genre is sort of like the new zombie. It's still got traction.
Don't mind me, I'm just skipping along, cringe-watching every new episode, taking notes on how to survive bad parents in the nuclear apocalypse during the zombie apocalypse.
And thank you, for returning to serial episodes and linear storytelling. Following one or two characters per episode and having to wait weeks for the other characters was NOT the business.
But really, this final season is like radiation therapy for a zombie bite, no one should feel this pain trying to delay the inevitable. Why couldn't they leave it with Alicia's vague departure and finally finding PADRE?
(TLDR; RANT)
If you need to do a time jump, it means you want to reset the status quo, but not a blank slate, it just gives the audience the call to adventure--like--ooh, what happened? And the transition from the past to present always haunts them or there would be no story. Okay...so...
YES, the past should haunt characters who do a complete 180 of story arcs and personalities they spent 7 seasons building. This was the FTWD family, they don't abandon anybody, no matter what... But somehow Palpatine returned--nix that--they abandoned their children to a low-level indecisive villainess. WHAT?!
And I thought this was The Walking Dead, where even beloved characters are not safe, everyone is always at risk. Unless they need a break but now it's crunch time for ratings, then there's super plot armor, ghosts return from the dead. Hey I got an idea, the next show, let's go with.....
RETURN TO THE WALKING DEAD.
The dead rise again, not Walking Dead dead but like Jesus dead. Or we should go with time-loops, that genre is sort of like the new zombie. It's still got traction.
Don't mind me, I'm just skipping along, cringe-watching every new episode, taking notes on how to survive bad parents in the nuclear apocalypse during the zombie apocalypse.