The Walking Dead: 10 Things Season 7 Got Horribly Wrong

6. Predictability

The Walking Dead has long-since fallen into the same old routine, which sees our survivors arriving at a new safe haven, discovering a new threat, defeating them, then moving on again. Sticking at Alexandria frames this slightly differently, but the wider picture, with Negan and the Saviours just being the next bad guy to defeat, remains the same.

Even within that, though, the show has become more predictable than before. While it previously had an aura of almost anything could happen and anyone could die, that's now out the window. It was almost certain that the death was going to be one of Abraham and Glenn, and quite possibly both (which was of course ultimately the case).

It was just as clear that Rick would be built back up, and work with the other communities to take on Negan. Sasha's death, the only major one of the finale, was signposted many episodes beforehand. Spencer, with his hatred of Rick, was clearly going to die.

With the thick plot armour around Rick, and certain characters needing a big send-off (and so many others it's hard to care about), the show finds itself as a contradiction: increasingly reliant on shock factor, and yet increasingly unable to surprise us too.