8. It Would Probably Strain Logical Sense To Kill Off The Whole Prison
While season three was uniformly excellent, some of Walking Dead's old habits do die hard. What I'm talking about is throwing barely-realised characters into the meat-grinder to raise the tension (remember Jimmy's wild ride into the zombie horde?), and these deaths being easily telegraphed by them being given a sliver of backstory, horror-movie style, before meeting their end. By far the worst perpetrator in this regard was Axel who threatened to be a well-rounded human before the Governor popped him but it an also be said of all the prisoners, who were killed off surprisingly early to give more screen-time to the main cast. Well I don't know about you, but I'm getting somewhat bored of this trend, and I think it'll die a logical death in season four. Think about it every other season has seen the group shack up in a small group populated with recognisable folk who would die to raise the stakes. Eventually, there'd be just Rick and Co. left with one or two new add-ons, and then they'd move on to another locale, camp, to farm, to prison. But if season 3's finale showed us anything, it's that Rick is now the master of a far larger group than he's ever had before, meaning it'll probably smack of ridiculousness if the nigh-on 100 prison-folk all suddenly meet their maker for dramatic convenience, especially now the trailer's shown there's a whole living, breathing community in there. Knowing their flock aren't going to fall into the mouths of the undead any time soon might result in some interesting plotlines beyond death-and-move-on, and the (hopefully) more permanent setting which isn't borderline ridiculous, like a wide-open farm might show us more about what it would be like to live in, rather than survive, a zombie apocalypse. As long as it doesn't all fall into farm-based shenanigans, I'm sure it'll all be fine, and quite compelling to boot.