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The Daryl Incident Is One Of Many Times ‘The Walking Dead’ Has Annoyed Its Fans

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has amassed a huge following, growing from a cult favorite to one of the most popular shows on television. And you don’t get passionate fans without passionate opinions about the show. People who are going to make their voices heard when they feel like the show has taken the wrong path. We’re seeing it now with the reaction to last night’s cliffhanger and we’ve seen it a few other times when producers have slipped out of lock step with their audience. So, let’s take a look at some of the most infamous controversies that have riled up

This was the first controversy the show went through, though it’s not really one that you can blame on the creative team. Frank Darabont, beloved director of

to television, was fired halfway through the second season’s production. The whole situation was initially shrouded in mystery, but as the details came out, they did not make AMC look very good.

breaking AMC viewing records, the network decided to cut the per episode budget of season two by over half a million dollars. They started interfering by demanding more scenes take place inside, and that zombies be heard rather than seen when possible, to cut down on cost and production time. Darabont pushed back, and the network decided to can him and replace him with Glen Mazzara, whose run with the show ended after season three, leading 

creator Kurt Sutter to say AMC “continues to disrespect writers and sh*t on their audience.”

Fans and media alike railed against the network, noting this wasn’t the first time AMC had messed with its successful shows. Public battles with the creators of

over similar financial issues saw the public accuse the network of being cheapskates who were more interested in the bottom line than creating critically acclaimed television. But in the end, people kept watching

and ratings kept rising, even if, for a time, critics noted a slight decline in the quality of the show and its writing after Darabont left.

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"The Daryl Incident Is One Of Many Times ‘The Walking Dead’ Has Annoyed Its Fans"

Let’s face it: TWD is incredibly popular, but simply not very good. It gets more credit than it deserves because this is the era of “Peak TV” and we assume anything on the network that brought us Breaking Bad and Mad Men has to be good. You want a great, well-written show full of action? Check out Underground on WGN

Entering season 7, they’re approaching shark jumping Dallas Bobby showering territory if they don’t start taking and making hard interesting choices in how the story progresses. A great example of doing it right was finally letting Morgan make sense by pointing out his saving a Wolve effectively saved Carl’s life. A terrible example is the complete “fakeout” death of Glenn and now Daryl…why even bother with faking it except to stretch bland story arcs into 14 episodes when they really only need 10? And in the last several seasons, it seems like nobody who is truly integral to the core group dies…it’s always newer charcacters and tag alongs (Bob, Noah, Denise, etc). Now if the season finale opens with a very dead and very corpsed Daryl, slow pan out and all…I’ll not only be fully dedicated to next season, i’ll tip my hats for the writers truly doing the right thing and not trying to insult our intelligence with some miraculous recovery story. I nearly stopped watching after that “Glenn Lives” episode….I can’t engross myself with something that’s completely predictable, cheap and demeaning when there’s so many other great shows just hitting their stride…

Except Morgan letting the wolf live didn’t actually save Carl’s life. The wolf saved Denise, but the situation she needed saving from only existed because the wolf took her hostage and put her in danger in the first place.

Thank you for pointing that out. I thought I was crazy because I recognized that

Also, by Morgan’s logic, by saving Rick’s life he is now effectively responsible for every life that Rick has taken

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Shows can kill characters and/or save them without pissing off fan bases. It’s called “good writing”.

I’ll use Boardwalk Empire as an example. They killed one of their lead characters at the end of Season 2. Fans didn’t riot, because it was so well done that it made sense and pushed the story forward. On TWD, they just kill people to kill people. Andrea’s death didn’t push the story forward. Beth’s death didn’t push the story forward. Tyrese’s death didn’t push the story forward. Denise’s death didn’t push the story forward. Glenn’s near death by the dumpster didn’t push the story forward. They were just “shocking” moments to get people talking for a week. The next week the show went on and the dead characters are never heard from again.

Here’s why this extremely popular successful show got it all wrong!!!

One good article I read was that the writers write the action out of character. In the past two episodes the heroes have been written as idiots: engaging in thought provoking conversations whist navigating through hostile territory. Steve Martin’s character in, “The Jerk” would have a better chance of survival than the way these characters were written.

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