Unpopular Opinion: Season 7 and 8 aren't THAT bad

So it's been a while since I've watched The Walking Dead last time. I used to be a megafan, but I slowly started to grow away from the franchise. I stopped after Season 9, so no spoilers for season 10-11 please. I was one of the fans who were comic readers, having kept up with the comics after we Season 3. I remember season 7 and 8 came out to rather negative reception (I'm sure that a lot people like those seasons, but I remember the generally popular reception was negative). It drew a lot of former fans away from the show. I remember those seasons being around the same time I started losing interest in TWD. I disliked season 7 and 8. My favorite arc in the comics was the savior arc and my favorite character was Negan. I was dissapointed how some of my favorite parts of the comics were handled in the show. To be frank, I had quite high expectations that weren't met. I also disliked the writing, which was the most criticized thing about those seasons. Recently, me and my mom started binge watching TWD from the beginning again. It was a while since I've seen watched it, but I remembered most of it so I didn't have too high expectations like I did last time, and we were casually binging it at our own time instead of having to wait for another episode to come out. We're currently on Season 8 episode 5 and I gotta say it's definitely not as bad as I thought it was. I actually think theses seasons are rather enjoyable. Of course, the writing isn't perfect and there's the horrible decision to kill off Carl (an opinion I highly doubt is going to change on the second viewing). There's stuff to critisize, but I feel like that's how The Walking Dead has been since the beginning. Of course it has never been a perfect show, on par with shows like The Sopranos or The Wire or even Breaking Bad. But I still like the show and these seasons. I'm just typing this because I remember a lot of people including me hated these seasons. I was hoping to get the fandom's opinions on these seasons now. Whether they're still disliked and if you think they deserved the amount of critisism it got. Thanks for reading :)

Submitted May 28, 2022 at 01:12AM by Mitchellindahouse10 https://ift.tt/ufTJAQa