Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
"Monsters" was the most problematic slice o' war this season, so far, as it continued Jesus' ridiculous wrong place/wrong time mercy crusade, gave us a totally unsatisfying non-payoff to the big Morales reveal from last week, and lingered far too long on a dying character who, after several years, we still didn't fully know or care about.
I mostly care about Aaron, since we've spent a few quality moments with him here and there, so I've inherently come to care about what he cares about, but Eric's fatal wound/death here, and how much time we spent with it, smacked of a series that's delusional about itself. To presume that we care about any characters outside of the major core characters (and even those have their particular rival fan camps) is a stretch. The Walking Dead has the largest ensemble on TV but it's done very little to make us care about anyone introduced after Season 4.
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"Monsters" was the most problematic slice o' war this season, so far, as it continued Jesus' ridiculous wrong place/wrong time mercy crusade, gave us a totally unsatisfying non-payoff to the big Morales reveal from last week, and lingered far too long on a dying character who, after several years, we still didn't fully know or care about.
I mostly care about Aaron, since we've spent a few quality moments with him here and there, so I've inherently come to care about what he cares about, but Eric's fatal wound/death here, and how much time we spent with it, smacked of a series that's delusional about itself. To presume that we care about any characters outside of the major core characters (and even those have their particular rival fan camps) is a stretch. The Walking Dead has the largest ensemble on TV but it's done very little to make us care about anyone introduced after Season 4.
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