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I was expecting some type of emotional resonance to Carl’s passage, but I found it to be hollow and without feeling, which is pretty sad since, besides Andrew Lincoln, he was the longest running cast member (to my knowledge).
It would have had resonance a few years ago. But Carl's role has been so reduced over the last couple seasons.. we'd go multiple eps w/out even seeing him, and in the eps we did, he usually didn't have a significant part to play.
I’ll admit that my interest in the show has waned over the past couple of years and I think it’s because it suffers from what so many other shows are suffering from: trying to drag a storyline out too long over the course of one season. If you’re going to have a Fall Finale AND a Spring Finale, why not just have those basically be two seasons-within-a-season and plot and write your stories accordingly.
I was expecting some type of emotional resonance to Carl’s passage, but I found it to be hollow and without feeling, which is pretty sad since, besides Andrew Lincoln, he was the longest running cast member (to my knowledge).
I’ll finish out this season, but unless they can rev things up a bit (and cut back on the commercials—-oy vey!), I may not return this autumn.
Saw it. I just no longer look forward to it. (Which saddens me to no end). I wanted to support it to the series finale, partially because the creators were from my home town. Heck. The hospital in the first issue was, without a doubt Harrison Memorial, the hospital where my mother was a nurse for years. But I am losing interest. I hope to be wrong, but we've been spinning our wheels ever since Negan showed up and it has finally caught up to me. Been there, done that.
Chandler got spoiling dead to not report on Carl's demise. In his email, he said "last few season"...pretty well confirms what makes the most sense. Lincoln is gonzo in the near future, so they're wrapping up character storylines.
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