8 Things The Walking Dead Must Fix In Season 8 Part B

Season 8's midway point left Rick and his allies in a dark place, and that's something they've become accustomed to. What The Walking Dead's good guys really need right now is some hope to latch onto, and so do the fans.

Too often the series is high on misery and galling character deaths, and sank to a new low in this respect when Glenn and Abraham met Lucille's business end in Season 7's harrowing premiere. Things have threatened to improve for the Alexandrians and their allies since then, but their current situation is bleak. The better world they're fighting for feels like a pipedream with the odds stacked against them.

The Walking Dead is at its best when there's a real sense of hope among the characters. Back in Season 4, when Eugene Porter was introduced, his claims about having a solution to the zombie apocalypse brought refreshing (though ultimately false) optimism to the story and its characters until the lie behind it was exposed.

Right now, the fans and the main cast need something like this to latch onto. A sense of real hope that gives them a compelling reason to take the fight to Negan in Season 8B. The kind of hope that makes them believe the zombie-infested world they inhabit will be worth living in once the Saviors have been dealt with.