The Walking Dead Season 7 Premiere: 4 Ups & 6 Downs From 'The Day Will Come When You Won't Be'

3. Lack Of Emotional Weight

As a character, I really liked Abraham: he was a total badass, fun to watch, and Michael Cudlitz always gave a solid performance no matter the material. But as soon as Lucille makes contact with Glenn's skull, his death hardly matters.

Glenn's is the death that everyone will be talking about, the one people will be upset over, and the one that might have some lasting impact on most of the characters invovled. Why exactly is that? Because Glenn was a fan-favourite, as he was kind and resourceful and loved Maggie and generally the nicest guy around, though mostly just because he's been on the show way longer.

The emotion hits through Maggie, but when the deaths actually happen there's no time to process them, or really care too much about what's happened. Abraham's is barely over before Glenn's is happening, and when it does there's such a focus on the ridiculous amount of gore (that eyeball...) that the feeling of being grossed out overwhelms any anger or sadness at losing the character.

Again, it's hard not to trace all this back to the cliffhanger. Had the deaths happened as the final scene of Season 6, we'd have had six months to mourn the characters, and then this episode could've started exploring what that loss really meant. Instead, it was just 'splat'.