The Walking Dead: 10 Exciting Improvements We All Want To See Happen

4. Commentary Through The Story

Your zombie story needs to say something - it can't just be shovels hitting partially decomposed heads and bullets flying all over the place. Yes, it can largely be that, but it can't only be that. The zombie genre is unique in its ability to comment on the world we live in: every good piece of zombie fiction has an underlying premise that gnaws at the individual consuming it (pun intended). Whether it's a critique of consumer culture, a commentary on social or economic divides, or an examination of what it means to be human, a commentary exists in any zombie piece worth its salt. The Walking Dead doesn't really comment on anything. Sometimes it tries to, but that usually devolves into Rick eye humping the camera or Darryl saying something cool and riding a motorcycle. More often than not though it focuses on annoying people talking about nonsense, their dialogue broken up by a horde of zombies that need a creative and hurried dispatching of. Taking a little time to say something - about anything - would do the show a world of good. Everyone loves the splatter, but do the genre some justice in the process.