Erik Kain is a writer and critic covering TV shows, movies, video games and books primarily in the 'genre' category including fantasy, science-fiction, mysteries, thrillers, post-apocalytpic stories and more. He was a 2014 Shorty Award finalist. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Mother Jones and The National Review.
seriously anymore, and frankly it’s been that way for years. The real tragedy about this sorry state of affairs is that it didn’t have to be this way. There was a time when this franchise was king of the world, with a large and passionate following. Those of us who still consider ourselves fans of this franchise—despite everything—often feel like we’re in a toxic relationship with the show’s creators, hoping for change despite all evidence to the contrary.
Carol walks directly from the plane to the exact spot in the city where Genet’s people are gathering up “volunteers” to go work for her and be part of her very stupid experiments . She learns Daryl’s location from one of the prisoners within hours of arriving. When she’s taken out to be shot with a group of French people so that Genet can turn them into super zombies to attack Losang’s group, somehow the bullets hit everyone but her .
Everything is too easy and it makes the show feel incredibly dull. Watching characters struggle is more entertaining. Having them overcome impossible odds with clever thinking and quick wits is more exciting than making them superhuman. And so long as these characters are encased in plot armor, we’ll never really worry that they might die. That’s one thing that made early seasons ofso engaging. We never knew who might die at any given moment, whether at the hands of a human or the undead.
Instead, Genet is killed and . . . it just doesn’t matter at all. Literally nothing meaningful changes for our heroes. What was the point of her in the first place?I’ve already discussed plausibility above in the premise section, but it extends beyond the broad strokes and into the finer details. I’ll just list a few:
Sylvie’s death is also a head-scratcher. The way it’s filmed, she’s standing next to a pretty high wall in one scene, and then falls off the bridge in the next, with no high wall in sight. But she falls on the same side as Losang, who she was looking down at over the wall. It’s very jarring, and another example of the small details the show gets wrong or simply ignores.
But death is also important in this kind of perilous world to create friction and raise the stakes. Imagine if Carol had been killed off instead of Isabelle. Fans would have been enraged, but the impact and implications of that death would have been huge. Daryl basically had one sad moment for Isabelle and then pretty much shrugged it off.
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