![]() ![]() Cons? The dead keep coming back to life, and I don’t mean as zombies. Pros? Stunning, inventive first season and great world building. 80%, respectively), and it has matching pros and cons. It has a Rotten Tomatoes rating similar to The Walking Dead (75% vs. That show, currently renewed for an eighth season, set itself apart while also bringing in characters like Lennie James’ Morgan Jones from the main series. Certainly, Fear the Walking Dead has done well. There’s always the potential to make a Better Call Saul out of one of these - a spin-off series that defies expectations and even is comparable in quality to the original. I shudder to think how this will all collapse. Second, even if The Walking Dead is ending, its universe has only just begun, which means this “series finale” is almost meaningless. If you can’t sell shirts with Daryl on them since he’s dead, there’s a financial incentive to keep him alive, even if that hurts the show’s overall credibility. I use the past tense because, also like Game of Thrones, they gave up on that midway through the series run because now fans were literally investing in the show. They actually named it that.)ĭoesn’t this sound riveting? The idea that, at most, some side characters we never really cared about might get chomped up by zombies or shot by Commonwealth soldiers? Much like Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead prided itself on the idea that no one was safe. Will Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) meet his fate sacrificing himself to save others and atone for his multitudinous past crimes? Sure, if by that you mean sometime down the road in his upcoming series The Walking Dead: Dead City. It’s for that reason that I think we all accept this fact: The Walking Dead will end poorly, even if this season ends well.įor one, as stated above, there is no tension, no stakes. And, truly, that is what will make this final season most compelling: knowing that absolutely anyone whose likeness has been made into a Funko Pop will only end up shambling their way into another AMC property and sinking their teeth into some lucrative holding deals. Don’t want to mourn losing Daryl (Norman Reedus) as a character? Good news! You don’t have to! In The Walking Dead, anyone hip and beloved - that is, most commercially viable - gets to live forever in their own spin-off series. ![]() In the worldview of this series, likely following the lead of various cinematic universes out there, nothing ever ends. That is not what The Walking Dead has in mind however. It’d have to effectively end and almost leave us wanting more, despite our accepting that all things are finite and we can’t stay with these characters ad infinitum. The thing is, though, it probably won’t.įor a series to provide closure would mean it would have to, you know, close. In all, it seems like the end is around the corner, and series showrunners like Angela Kang want you to know that this final season of the beloved television show will provide as much closure as it can for its characters. Some websites are offering watch party ideas and recipes others are providing fan-made countdown clocks to the season premiere. So, the final part of the final season of AMC’s The Walking Dead is upon us, and fans could not be happier. ![]()
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