And even controversial podcast host and MMA color commentator Joe Rogan admitted that Glenn's "disrespectful" death was the reason he ditched The Walking Dead.Alexa Mansour: What’s different is that we are a younger cast and we bring in a different perspective.
Fans cried out on social media that their hearts had been broken, critics claimed Negan was "ruining" The Walking Dead. Viewership dropped from 17 million in the Negan-focused season 7 premiere to 10.4 million just a month later. The Verge's weekly column " The Walking Dead Quitter's Club," which bet on the likelihood of its two writers never watching the show again, closed up shop for good after Negan's literal double whammy.
Negan coming into the picture and disrupting the world of The Walking Dead directly led to the deaths of Glenn and Abraham - which were not only violent, visceral, and incredibly hellish to stomach, but were also the final straw for a lot of viewers. From the moment Negan sauntered in, viewers knew a new brand of trouble had come to town - and the hype to see more of him was real.īut then he slaughtered two fan-favorite characters in an unnecessarily cruel fashion, and fans backed away. The sarcastic, sinister Negan is terrifying to the core, a one-to-one impression of the ceaselessly sinful villain depicted in the Walking Dead comics. The Walking Dead clearly got lost in love, and eventually, people stopped watching. What's worse is that the dalliances didn't simply die out and the show move on the writers would often punctuate the relationship with an actual death of one of the two involved, perhaps as a means to create emotional depth but ultimately failing to do so. Instead of feeling warm fuzzies over the loving looks characters were shooting one another, fans started rolling their eyes at the nonessential pair-ups. Many pegged the couple as having absolutely " no sexual chemistry," and whose relationship " came out of the blue" and was " completely uncomfortable and unnatural." Eventually, Michonne gives birth to a son fathered by Rick, but by that point, a lot of Walking Dead watchers had long given up on the show. Remember Jessie Anderson's (Alexandra Breckenridge) rendezvous with Rick? It sparked up and fizzled out in a flash. Abraham Ford's (Michael Cudlitz) relationship with Sasha Williams (Sonequa Martin-Green) was also - ahem - short-lived. And when it comes to Rick and Michonne (Danai Gurira), the fire between them just wasn't there for some fans. It isn't difficult to see how this may have made it easier for viewers to stop watching The Walking Dead. It's not to say that the ensemble cast isn't talented or worthy of recognition it's simply that they historically haven't been treated with the same attention as the main bunch, and thus, fans had a difficult time investing energy and emotion into them.
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West's Gareth, and IronE Singleton's T-Dog) to their full potential, the series' writers left them underdeveloped, often killing them off before viewers could care about them. Rather than fleshing out any fresh faces (like Ann Mahoney's Olivia, Andrew J. As examples, viewers are quick to point to Emily Kinney's Beth Greene, the half-sister of Lauren Cohan's Maggie Greene and the girl who ricocheted from a blonde songbird to a suicidal teen to a caretaker to a corpse Seth Gilliam's Gabriel Stokes, the priest who seems to do little more than sit on a high horse and repeatedly backstab his brethren and Michael Traynor's Nicholas, who tries to kill Steven Yeun's Glenn Rhee but eventually commits suicide. Over the years, The Walking Dead introduced a slew of characters many found uninteresting and even unnecessary to the overall story.
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