Walking Dead Thread ***SPOILERS***

[Benton]

(04-04-2016, 01:46 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Yep.

Compare this to the season finale of Game of Thrones. They end the episode with the image of a main character bleeding to death after being stabbed multiple times. It's clear this person is dead and now we must wait 10 months to find out what happens next.

I may actually be LESS likely to watch this show after that. It's a complete insult. It was built up for weeks and it would have been a powerful ending to show us who died and to show the reactions. We'd be left with anger for Negan, a loss sense of hope, and confusion over how they will recover from this. Since we don't know who it is, it's not as powerful. It could be one of the minor characters, it could be a major character. I don't have any emotions running through me since I don't know who it is other than anger for the writers.

It's a show about zombies. At the end of the day, I don't think they care about cinema or storytelling.

Ending it this isn't good storytelling, but it's hellacious marketing. For a couple weeks, people are going to talk about it. For a few months, your Facebook feed is going to be filled with frame after frame breakdowns and filtered audio where you can hear a cast member at the food truck saying "Damn, ********** really won't be back?" And then in the summer, when new contracts for shows and movie production starts. All leading up to mid fall, when they'll start running promos of every character looking forlorn.

And while that keep the water churned, it keeps people buying their merch and visiting their web sites for info.