10 Things The Walking Dead Wishes It Could’ve Done Differently

1. Negan's Introduction

The Walking Dead controversy to beat out all other Walking Dead controversies, the scene was set for Negan's introduction to be the biggest moment in the show's history. An entire half season had been building up the mysterious villain, and the final ominous episode finally saw him meet our heroes for the first time.

The dread was palpable, and the terror personified by actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan bled out the screen. Here he was, this new villain with a lineup of people fans had followed for years, telling everyone that one of them wasn't making it out alive. The characters and audience waited on baited breath for the killing blow... only for the episode to cut to black and encourage fans to pick apart who the victim was for six months until the Season 7 premiere.

It ended the episode on a disappointing anti-climax, and was so obviously a ploy to get everyone to tune into the premiere. In that sense it worked, as the ratings spiked for that reveal episode, but they drastically dropped in the episodes which followed.

The show sacrificed its biggest moment for a gimmicky cliffhanger, and it never recovered.