I don't expect Shakespeare or anything, there's just very little appeal here to me. I admit I'm only still watching this show because it has "The Walking Dead" in the title, and it's an excuse to spend time with family and mock it. I'm fine with cheap entertainment, but it still needs to entertain me on some level. Sharknado manages to be incredibly entertaining cheap garbage for me, so I don't think my standards are too highbrow here.
Take away the name of the show, and what appeal is left? It's not zombies, it's not characters, it's not plots. I don't know.
I finally finished the finale (I watched it over two days because I can't watch that much of this in one sitting).
Part 1 starts off with Nick and friend just killing and collecting zombie heads like they're sea shells because apparently a group of zombies is no match for a druggy with a machete. No biggy. The shopping cart full of squirming heads was probably the best part of the finale though.
Alicia just appears at some place with a doctor with her friend who then just disappears entirely from the show without a mention. And what luck she ends up with the bad guy just before going back to the dam. And for some reason they add in this dumb thing of him having a tumor removed from his spine right then and there before getting up and leaving. The stupidity of this whole setup boggles the mind, and that wasn't even a necessary or relevant addition beyond having another silly comic book style quirk to a bad guy.
Then ruthless killer Madison kills a dude in cold blood because that's how she rolls now. Old dude gets shot in the face, but the show wasn't kind enough to just kill him off outright. His survival is an endless source of disappointment. If we're really lucky it might at least leave him mute.
The second episode of the double is padded out with a pointless Christmas dream just because Madison made a passing reference to it earlier. Seeing all of these characters together reminds me just how little investment I have/had in any of them.
Then Nick threatens to blow up the dam. Please, kill any other character but Nick. He's one of only two half interesting characters in the entire run of the show.
I'll just assume every character survives despite their cliffhanger, or else they'd probably have just done it already. But yet again it would be a human killing a human with no involvement from a zombie.
Speaking of which, besides the opening minute with Nick going zombie shopping, I don't think there was a single walker in the entire double episode. Every time I watch this show with my sister, we'll just randomly joke "hey, remember zombies?" "Nope". It's just a running gag at this point that the zombie show has no actual zombies.
As I said, I don't really know why I still watch this, so I apologize for the rants.
At least I fell behind so you didn't have to put up with it for every episode.