Why did the Walking Dead go downhill

I agree with all of that. My DVR is still set to record all the episodes but I rarely watch them and never do in their entirety. I usually just delete an episode without watching. Occasionally I skip my way through an episode watching ten seconds at a time just to get the gist of it. The whole Negan/Survivors storyline bores me.

wv wrote:

I thought Negan was a good character, but the storyline just kinda got…well…remember the old 60’s Batman TV show — it kinda entered ‘that’ territory.

I ‘do’ give the writers a lot of credit for the first two-and-half or three seasons though. They wrote some good stuff for a while. Its hard to keep writing good stuff season after season. Doesnt happen very often. There’s a reason the Wire didnt go on for ten years. There’s a reason there wasnt a Lord of the Rings Four, Five, Six….

The campy Batman Show is a good comparison. The first three seasons were excellent. I was late to the show, so I binged watched seasons one and two in a couple of weeks. I was riveted by it all.

I like the actor who plays Negan, I thought he was good in ‘Weeds’ but I just can’t seem to buy into Negan. Perhaps that has more to do with the writing than anything else. As far as villains are concerned, I was more intrigued with The Governor and Gareth. I was disappointed how quickly they moved on from the Gareth storyline.

wv wrote:

I ‘do’ give the writers a lot of credit for the first two-and-half or three seasons though. They wrote some good stuff for a while. Its hard to keep writing good stuff season after season.

And of course, their drafts fell apart.

Plus, The Thumb.