Morgan wants to help people, to heal what’s broken, to rebuild what has been destroyed, and to find what’s lost.
We’re supposed to like him, to root for him, but his niceness and nobility just make him less likable somehow.
I want the showrunners, writers and producers of all three Walking Dead shows—the main show, Fear and World Beyond—to act more like Morgan and start taking these shows’ many problems seriously.
This is the last chance for the main show, and the best thing you can probably do about Fear is a mercy kill at this point, but this franchise is far from over.
The first eight episodes were a dreary slog and the only really fun episode was ridiculous .
Fear The Walking Dead is practically a spoof of itself at this point, a garish parody of what it once was.
It’s one of the worst, most vicious murders in this show’s seven-season run and something that the Victor Strand we all know would never do in a million years.
Except that now he is, because the writers and showrunners have so little respect for these characters and so little understanding of them, it’s making the show itself as insufferable to watch as Morgan Jones himself.
Realistic characters and conflicts have been replaced by bad cartoon drama, nuclear explosions, beer-bottle-shaped hot-air balloons and ethanol tankers spilling out into the dirt.
Mostly, we’re dealing with fine actors, perfectly good special effects and good, if often uneven, cinematography and editing.
The story of Morgan and the Morganites over the past four seasons, as they run up against one crappy, uninspiring villain after another, is just not very interesting or exciting.
With just 16 episodes left, the writers and producers on that show need to stop padding everything out with filler and start leading us toward the end with guts.
What was once the go-to TV experience with a serious portrayal of life in a grimly realistic zombie apocalypse is now just a pale shadow of its former self.
It’s time to take these problems seriously, even if that’s just a financial consideration at this point.
What will the legacy of The Walking Dead be? Something perhaps not quite so galling as Game Of Thrones, which fell even more spectacularly from grace.