Fans Might Be Mad, But Cancelling The Walking Dead Was The Right Call

The Walking Dead is coming to an end. Well at least, the base show is. The spin-offs Fear the Walking Dead and The World Beyond are still going ahead as planned. Despite the pandemic, the show will finish the current season and run a split 11th season finishing up in 2022.

Its no surprise that the original show is coming to an end. First and foremost, the comic book that was the source material for a majority of the show ended toward the later part of 2019. Creator Robert Kirkland decided to wrap up the story to avoid being repetitious with the storyline. The story mirrored the show but key parts were changed to fit live-action programming.

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The show needs to come to the same realization. The Walking Dead has been fun, but some of the stories are becoming stale. It still has it’s high moments but too much is different from the original direction. The majority of the cast has departed. Only two seasons 1 character are still apart of the show. Even the show’s main character Rick Grimes walked away.

But Andrew Lincoln isn’t done with the character. He’s reprising his role for an up-and-coming stand-alone movie. Speaking of spin-offs, they’re not done at two. There are rumors of two more to come down the road, an anthology series, and a Daryl/Cheryl lead show.

The latter of those two shows is odd. As the duo is the only regulars left, they’re pretty much doing a soft reboot of the series without paying the rest of the starring roles. For AMC that seems like a pretty shady deal.

While AMC claims to have another decade’s worth of content, it clearly wasn’t with the characters we’ve come to follow so far. Maybe with the comic ending they’ve decided to further distance themselves from the source material. With the spinoffs, they no longer have to paint themselves into corners by wrapping up stories the way the comics did.

AMC needs to take caution, however. We all remember a certain Game Of Thrones that pissed off some fans once they removed the safety net. Could The Walking Dead see the same fate?