NRR: The Walking Dead stinks now: Can it be saved, how would you save it?

It can't be saved. In the first couple episodes, they establish the zombies are so slow and stupid that you can just walk away from them and be in absolutely no danger at all.

The premise that an army of stupid, slow zombies could somehow incapacitate all the military and police in the world is ridiculous. The pilot never should have been made.

I'm late to the TWD game, but how do they keep finding fuel to use to drive everywhere? Doesn't fuel go bad after a short amount of time? Like it's been 5 or 6 years (I think) on the show and somehow they are still finding cars with fuel that is fresh?

They should have killed Carl in season 2. He was useless and a whiner. I gave up after season 4.

And why is it that no one has discovered the use of a bicycle? I mean, you can outrun zombies on a bike and you don't need gas...

Why is there always random zombies in the middle of the woods? And they are all rotting and slow, so you can easily drive a knife though their skull, but their teeth and bites become 10x stronger than a normal person? Or couldn’t you just wear a leather jacket as people can’t bite through a leather jacket, especially after rotting for 5 years.

Aliens.

If I was suddenly in charge of the show:

1) I'd kill off half the cast. There are too many members too many POVs, too many stories to tell.

2) get back to basics of surviving in wilderness conditions. Simple things like gathering wood, growing food, keeping a fire going, all the stuff the people on the frontier dealt with.

3) you can always touch on the "brutality of man" stuff, but honestly that is ALL the show has been about lately, it's tired.

I quit watching when they introduced the guy with the baseball bat because it had become formulaic.

The only way they could save it would be to introduce a cure that is limited in availability.

zohan wrote:

If I was suddenly in charge of the show:

1) I'd kill off half the cast. There are too many members too many POVs, too many stories to tell.

2) get back to basics of surviving in wilderness conditions. Simple things like gathering wood, growing food, keeping a fire going, all the stuff the people on the frontier dealt with.

3) you can always touch on the "brutality of man" stuff, but honestly that is ALL the show has been about lately, it's tired.

Agreed. I'd like to see more stuff like before, when they went out on runs for supplies, discovered new places, etc. Sure, you'd run into "bad guys" sometimes, but it was still mostly about just surviving, not being at war all the time.

Also, just an aside but...why the hell didn't they just pick up and leave Alexandria forever ago, rather than dealing with Negan? It's like there was some sort of boundary they couldn't cross, and they were just resigned to their fate, whatever it may be. Sure, Alexandria had walls, but there are other options out there...maybe a nice little island in the Chesapeake Bay.

I keep watching, hoping it will get better, but I'm not optimistic. Whatever mutiny angle is brewing is guaranteed to be drawn out and stupid.

Rick is the real monster now. He needs to die and Carol and Michonne should be the stars. This should have happened a couple of seasons ago. Until Rick is gone, this show is tanked. Instead, they'll force a flimsy redemption arc on him that everyone just stupidly agrees with and the show will continue to limp along like a zombie.

The zombies were always less important than the conflict with other survivors.

The show has really gone off the rails. Not sure why I even keep watching--okay, maybe a little OCD in that I started with it and feel the need to keep going.

Neegan has lasted way too long. The governor was great because they did not drag him out.

I am not sure why Carl ever wanted to save him.

They need a mission or a quest. To find a cure or an uninhabited island. Just sitting around and surviving is getting boring.

The governor story made sense because once his insanity was exposed he lost power . The negan story makes no sense and after all I watch for the overcoming of zombies not people over people

Introduce Yuki Kawauchi to the plot. Problem solved, and you're back on top.