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Originally Posted by Dezzy
Season 1 and 2 are the only must watch seasons I think. After that it descends into a state of 'We have no overall plot so we're just gonna keep people watching by killing off characters intermittently and pretending we have a plot by repeating the same plot points over and over'.
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I think a large part of the issue is the same as GoT season 5... the show has largely caught up with, or is close to catching up with, the bulk of the source material and is scared to head towards a conclusion, so it's been treading water since the start of Alexandria to an extent... drawing out what should be fairly short storylines into full season (or 2 season...) arcs. GoT picked up again massively when they decided to forge on ahead towards their ending, without relying on the books having an ending. I think TWD needs to do the same pretty soon; decide at least HOW they want it to conclude, even if not exactly when. Then they can have a cohesive plot developing towards something.
It's pretty basic writers stuff really; if you start a story without already knowing where it's going, it's never really going to go ANYWHERE. The problem when it comes to TV of course is that it's year-by-year renewals... so the networks either swallow the hit of planning an ending after X number of seasons knowing that the show will end when it still has financial life left in it (e.g. GoT, Breaking Bad)... OR the show being cancelled before reaching the planned conclusion leaving a frustrating, unfinished story.
Or you just keep running season to season treading water until the show has no life left in it and gets cancelled for that reason.
Of course for the viewers, the most satisfying complete shows are the ones that always had a rough draft of beginning-middle-end and an outline of the number of planned seasons.