FTWD Needs to Do These Things to Save Itself

1. Give us a story that divides the group. They all can agree to want to help people but there needs to be different thoughts on how best to approach that.
2. Go an entire episode without someone trying to contact someone else over a walkie talkie.
3. Kill off June. Dorie is way more interesting and if they have the same 'I never thought I'd see you again' conversation ONE MORE TIME... Plus, the show absolutely needs to kill someone as there is now zero risk. We lose not one single copy of The Little Prince, let alone any characters and that undermines any sense of suspense in the series.
4. Luciana needs to do more than be the broken-armed librarian. She's a badass. Everyone seems to have forgotten this.
5. More/different relationships and romance developing. Now that everyone has gotten on that goddamned plane and finally is all in one spot, let's *develop some stuff*. What about Dwight and Luciana? They're struggling over lost loves and bond or something. It doesn't even have to be a romance. Just... interaction. Friendship. There are now like 10+ consistent characters on the show-- develop them. Mix them up. Stop having the same ones have the same conversations. The best interactions of the seasons so far have been shaking up the character allotments and trying out new combinations (see: Dwight & Dorie's friendship and Daniel & Charlie.)
6. More Grace. Karen David is really good. The best new character is the one that should be dying or something but whatever, just more, please.
7. Go dark. Really dark. It needs conflict. It needs Morgan going a little nuts. It needs Alicia rising up. I want a plot in which Dwight is the happiest and most centered character on this show. We need some disaster to happen that causes at least a couple of these previously kind of dark characters to revert back a bit.
8. An antagonist, please. These characters need someone a group of someones to be fighting against and I don't mean a guy in a baseball hat who has a black eye and couldn't even manage to toss their hangout right. I mean like an actual, threatening group of characters. We need a whole team of people who do not give a f*ck about helping other people and their godawful, terrible, terrifying leader-- stat. Or, a group that wants to help but has some totally messed up ideas about what that looks like (like, oh say, The Helicopter People!).

Submitted July 21, 2019 at 10:33PM by maryssmith https://ift.tt/2y0v5uX