9 Problems With The Walking Dead Nobody Wants To Admit

2. Everything Is Finite

The Walking Dead can't go on forever. It certainly looks like it might go that way, with the cast being constantly updated and the show still going strong; the comics, meanwhile, have run up over 160 issues, having started the monthly publishing schedule in 2003 and not letting up since. For a show called The Walking Dead, however, there's a heck of a lot of walking and not a lot of dead.

The writers have since said they regretted it, but they put a ticking time bomb front and centre at the end of that first season. Yes, everyone is carrying that zombie plague within them, dormant, ready to get going as soon as they pass on. That means that, ultimately, however long the characters survive, their attempts to do so are meaningless. The show is totally lacking in hope. Things are never going to work out. The world of The Walking Dead is a world in decay, where everything is finite, and yet characters like Rick Grimes continue to go from strength to strength so long as the actors' contracts aren't up. Things are supposed to be falling apart but, well, they don't really look it. Partly because of the whole contract thing.