5 Things The Walking Dead Season 5 Needs To Do To Maintain Momentum

By Brent McKnight | Published

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The Walking DeadKeep Rick Decisive

In the comics, Rick is the leader because he’s the only one willing to make the hard choices that often confront the group, the kind where neither option is particularly pleasant, and neither road is one you actually want to go down. In the show, however, he’s been a wishy washy mess, steadfast in his refusal to make any decision at all. Confronted with a situation that demands action, he, instead, has endlessly debated the options, back and forth in a repetitive way, often with disastrous results, and worse, for viewers anyway, completely wasting entire episodes. Season 2 and season 3 were horrible about this, with entire weeks where there was no movement whatsoever. Season 4, especially the later episodes, saw him start to resemble the Rick from the source material, especially in that final moment when they’re locked in the train car and he doesn’t have any other thought or fear other than, “They’re screwing with the wrong people.” Season 5 will only benefit from Rick continuing down this trail, and given what we’ve heard about the early scenes in the upcoming episodes, it sounds like that’s the way he’s going.


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