The Historic Downfall of The Walking Dead
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Published 2023-04-15
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Edited by Anthony Caraballo
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
2:56 The Early Days
8:47 The Peak
13:25 Beginning of the Problems
24:45 The Big Shift
27:51 The Fall From Grace
39:11 The Ending
46:33 A Dying Franchise
All Comments (21)
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I think the show fell apart when fans realized the loop the story was in. Find new settlement, deal with some walkers, introduce new bad guy, kill at least one beloved character to really hammer in the fact the bad guy is the bad guy, drag on the war with the bad guy, kill at least one more beloved character, final battle with the bad guy, move on to find new territory because walkers just decided to show up out of nowhere, repeat process.
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Killing off Carl for shock value was beyond stupid. Especially since he is the ENTIRE reason Rick has for living, and also in the comics he survived.
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Killing Carl off literally ruins the whole purpose of Rick’s story and the entire show. Carl was literally hyped up to be the fruition of Rick’s immense effort in surviving and raising a son during everyone’s worst nightmare.
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The fact that carl survived 2 bullets yet randomly gets bitten and dies. That irritated me so much. At least give him a better death than that.
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I think it’s fitting that a zombie show lived longer than it should’ve
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Crazy to think how TWD and GOT were the two biggest things in television for almost a decade, and because of how bad they messed both of those shows up, absolutely nobody talks about them anymore.
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Biggest mistake that led to all the others was firing Frank Darabont. “Yeah, let’s fire the guy that made Shawshank, The Mist, and The Green Mile.” Brilliant
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Before Glenn's fake-out death everything made sense, everything worked, everything was almost 'air-tight'. Everything that happened up to then had logical explanations. But that scene when dozens of walkers stand over him and somehow only ravage the person on top of him, whilst Glenn is able to 'sneak' away, is for me the start of the end for the Walking Dead Series.
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I’m so glad that Steven Yeun, danai gurira, and Jon Bernthal found so much success apart from the show
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They spent far too much of the show forgetting that: 1) you can cover yourself in zombie guts and they’ll ignore you 2) if you michonne it and remove a walkers arms and jaw so they can’t attack you, you can keen them as pets on a chain and other walkers will leave you alone And then they killed Carl…
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yeah season 7 broke me tbh. watching it really felt like a chore and then season 8 rolls around and they kill carl for no good reason, yeah i’m done.
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I always liked how at the start, every time you see a fight break out you really didnt know if your fav character would live to tomorrow. Its a shame it went so downhill. I think personally the biggest downfall of walking dead was the shift from zombies and survival to a theme of humans being the real monsters
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I'm one of the people who bailed on TWD shortly after Glenn was killed off (which I felt created a huge charisma void in the show tbh), but the first death that set off bad writing alarm bells in my head was Beth's. I know that a lot of people didn't like her and probably didn't care, but I did, and the fact that the writers gave her some strong character growth just to immediately kill her off was a HUGE red flag for me. It felt really cheap and unnecessary.
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The most important thing that people needed and didn’t get, causing them to quit, is HOPE. People watch apocalyptic shows because they want to see people dragging civilization back from the pit. They don’t want to just watch a never ending treadmill of character introductions and deaths while the setting stays the same.
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When I watched the show, I saw its future in the character of Carl. So when they killed him off, I didn't quite know what the show was trying to be anymore.
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I found out the Walking Dead finished through this video and I am one of those guys who never returned after the Finale of S6. I thought I quit much sooner but turns out I made it through a lot and you perfectly highlighted why I stopped caring and answered a question I always had . . . Why? Boomerang Story Telling <.<
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Cant remember who, but someone once said "The art of making a show/serie is knowing when to stop" Crazy how many shows dont learn from this.
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Daryl put it perfectly "That small group we had back in the beginning, could do anything." - That small group was broken up to complex individual character stories, rather than group stories. The break up of this small group resulted in the downfall of TWD.
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It would have been so much better to just have Negan do one hit on Abraham, cut to black, then save Glenn’s death for the premiere.
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I watched from Episode 1 until Rick was gone. I don’t care if they write him back in, but once Ezekiel and Carol got all “Middle Ages” the charm of the show was gone. Seasons 1-5 were epic.
