This season hasn't been good, but not for reasons that some previous seasons have been bad. I have never read the comic, but I guess war with Negan took up a good chunk comic pages, and they seem committed to doing the same with WD episodes (if only to avoid the trap of the show catching up to the comic).
The problem is that whereas "all-out-war" gives a graphic artist a great canvas to create some wonderful visuals on paper, it's now abundantly clear that while the TV show's budget might accommodate some fantastic make-up work, it can't do the same for fighting scenes. The fight scenes on the show haven't just been bad, they've been horrifically bad. And not just for budgetary reasons, but tactical reasons as well. It seems obvious that nobody consulting the show has a clue about how a paramilitary operation might work in this context. Everything about the fighting, from the planning to the execution to the filming, has been lousy. The show can skate by on such threadbare ability if the fights are kept to only that which is necessary, but drawing out a full season to feature them? A terrible decsion. This show is going to continue to bleed more viewers all year.
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