Why did these character's deaths bother so little people?

So, let's flash back to the season 7 premiere. Both Abraham and Glenn get their heads bashed in by Negan's bat Lucille. Both of these deaths (Especially Glenn's) hit everyone hard in the emotions category. Lots of fans stopped watching the show because they were so upset over the deaths of these two beloved characters. However, I was prepared for their deaths, due to the innumerable amount of spoilers plastered all over the internet. However, these aren't the deaths I'm referring to.

*I'm gonna just put this here: If you haven't watched season 9 of The Walking Dead, go back now. I don't want to spoil it for anybody.*

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Now lets go two seasons forward to the second to last episode of season 9, "The Calm Before". I find this to be the most brutal episode of the entire series, since ten notable characters are killed off, three of them being especially prominent. There wasn't even any real buildup to their deaths, they were just presented to us already dead, and it hit me like a truck. I went into season 9 with a little knowledge of the segment of the comic season 9 is based on. In the comic, the survivors find Ezekiel and Rosita's heads mounted on pikes that serve as the markers for the territory of the Whisperers. I knew about this, and I knew they wouldn't kill off Ezekiel, and I thought Rosita would have an 80% chance of survival since she's a lot more important in the show than the comic.

Well to my surprise, instead of two decapitated beloved characters, we got ten of them, the ones that garnered the most emotion from me being Enid, Henry, and especially Tara. It may have been because I didn't know of these deaths ahead of time, but these deaths hit me hard and I've felt lowkey depressed for the last few days lol. We were just getting to know Henry, Enid had a bright future going for her, and Tara was Hilltop's last standing leader figure and just an overall great character.

It seems like lots of people didn't really care for these character's because there was no mass outcries from the fanbase like there was with Glenn and Abe. Hopefully we get to see them again in flashbacks so they won't be entirely gone ;(

Submitted January 21, 2020 at 11:31PM by Toxinz1181 https://ift.tt/2TNFSVk