9 Problems With The Walking Dead Nobody Wants To Admit

4. The Cast Is Too Big

Daryl is symptomatic of a larger problem with the show. Whilst they've been pretty ruthless with killing people off when they've outstayed their welcome, the core group that traverses the desperate plotlines of The Walking Dead is bursting at the seams. Too many cooks spoil the broth and all that. Or, more accurately, too many characters means that nobody ever quite gets a chance to properly shine or be at all interesting.

The early seasons were principally the Rick Grimes show, as the centre around which the rest of the characters orbited, and that didn't make a whole lot of sense. That initial encampment got cut down to size sharpish, which was good, because no way was a weekly audience going to be able to keep track of a good two dozen starring roles.

Unfortunately, the writers didn't learn from that and continue in the same vein. That means they end up with characters like T-Dog (who was marooned in the background for the entirety of the second season) and Carol (who didn't do anything until the more recent seasons). Now with all the new communities you've got dozens of characters vying for screentime, but few of whom it's easy to care are about. Characters who are there to fill out the numbers and don't do much else, existing like background extras you feel you need to pay attention to, but rarely do. Best to just shed all that dead weight.