The Walking Dead: 6 Things "What Happened And What's Going On" Got Right (And 4 It Didn't)

3. Tyreese's Weird Breakdown

In fact, that whole prolonged death scene for Tyreese was pretty terrible. For one thing, much of the episode focussed on it, which meant that it was the first time the viewers really got to spent any sort of extended period in the character's presence. Trying to shove that amount of character development on him at this juncture seems like too little, too late. Plus it smacks of the writers trying desperately to make you care about a character now he's about to die, despite having never tried to do that properly in the past. Proper emotional manipulation of the audience there, and not done particularly well either. The whole way it was handled was pretty trite and melodramatic, too, even for The Walking Dead. Clearly getting David Morrissey back as a hallucination was quite the coup; having all those visions speak in vague riddles was silly, though, as was the stuff with the radio, which was more confusing than anything else.