The Walking Dead - 6.16 - Last Day on Earth (spoiler alert - season finale)

[The2ndWheel]

282. Too many things felt a little too forced

Getting everyone out of Alexandria. They kill off the one doctor, and then Daryl goes after the killers blindly, then a bunch of the group follows him blindly, then Maggie gets into medical trouble, sending everyone else off.

I get the big finale with Negan, and the group in peril, but the writers just sort of got everyone to that point to get them to that point. Then Carol wandering off by herself.

I'm not a writer, I've never been in a writer's room, but sometimes it seems like they forget they have only X amount of episodes per season on some of these shows. Cram a bunch of stuff in, and then oh yeah, we have to get everyone into that lineup. We'll just make people do some crazy things to get them there.

That's the nature of TV though I guess. Even the best shows have it happen. It's not a 1.5 hour movie. It's not a book. It's an ongoing show with actual people, who sometimes want to leave the show, or have contract issues, or whatever. It's difficult to get it right in TV. There's a next season, or many more season, or you don't know how many, it's jobs, it's money, so you can't do everything right away, but you have to keep coming up with ideas, so you have to stretch the time, but you don't want to linger, etc.