The Walking Dead: 8 Reasons The Season 7 Premiere Was A Failure
6. Too Many False Moments
Not exactly renowned for logical characterisation or motivations, The Walking Dead has had characters go from being leaders, to murderers to philosophers and back again in minutes often while making decisions that fundamentally make no sense.
The season premiere contained so many inconsistent moments that it felt like a different group of people.
Daryl has always been a cool, calm, calculating warrior with a rebellious streak. Rebellious, not careless. Having seen Abraham mercilessly beaten to death by a man who threatens insubordination with murder Daryl decides to punch him. In the period between the Season 6 finale and the Season 7 opener, Daryl has gone from tactical hunter to negligent moron.
Then we have Carl. Carl has always been a whiny child, reliant on his father and though he has been gradually becoming accustomed to the world in which he has been forced to grow up in, this has still been the case. Suddenly, over the course of a night, Carl has leapt about 100 man levels. How? He gives Negan attitude. Ya know Negan, the guy who not ten minutes beforehand just battered two grown men to death and laughed doing it. Nothing about Carl so far has suggested he has balls that big and the misplaced attitude reeks of falsity.
Finally, and the worst of the bunch is fearless leader and devoted father Rick Grimes...