Are they still walking? Used to be a great show but lost its story. Do they have an endgame anymore? Where is Rick heading too? Why won't Karl die?
I don't think they had an endgame to start with, and that's the problem. What are they writing towards? How do you plot out an arc when you don't know how the story ends? How can you write compelling characters when you're not sure what their purpose is in the long view? Robert Kirkman let the comics go on for
eleven years before he started to think about how he was going to end the run. That was 3 years ago and we're still not any closer. This is the George R.R. Martin syndrome, but instead of going years without writing, it's about a guy who churns out shit on a monthly basis. Both are never-ending writing issues. (And at least Martin told HBO how he plans to end it.)
The first mistake was writing it from Rick's POV rather than Carl's. I know he gets a lot of derision here, but had he been written properly, I think it would have been more interesting to see the story develop from the eyes of a child. As my wife said, it would almost be a coming of age story, but in the zombie apocalypse. Let's watch a kid go from wide-eyed innocence to world-weary hardened adult. Let's watch how he deals with a father whose idealism has been the root of a lot of problems, often resulting in people dying. Let's see Carl step forward and yank the leadership right out of his father's hands. Etc., etc.
Instead, we have the same hero/villain cycle go round and round for 14 years.
