I may be in the minority here but i've enjoyed this sea son. I've looking forward to each episode.
I don't dislike the show at all. I still enjoy watching it very much. I just happen to think it's about time to bring a fresh look to the creative side of the show. It feels like Gimple and co. are getting comfortable and that doesn't lend itself to good storytelling
I didn't like the scene of the death of Shiva though.
My gripe with Shiva's death is that it was kind of wasted. In the comic...Ezekiel is surrounded by literally hundreds of Walkers just about to get eaten alive and then Shiva comes to his rescue. Her death on the show felt pointless given the fact that Carol and Jerry had already gotten Ezekiel out of the muddy creek bed, up onto safe land where those walkers were not going to be able to get them. Shiva jumping down into the creek bed and killing a few walkers and then being overrun at that moment didn't have the same effect IMO given the 'King' was not in any real danger. I feel like they wasted a chance to make that really impactful, say in lieu of Jerry coming to the rescue of Ezekiel at the fence line it should have been Shiva. There were a lot more walkers and it was more dire than in the woods.
And....an example of the lazy writing that has been going on is the fact that you can't tell me Carol, Jerry and Ezekiel couldn't have found a working vehicle at that factory to get back to the kingdom in? There were 20-25 saviors at that location and they had to arrive in something and only (1) vehicle left. To have those three trouncing around on train tracks and in the woods when there absolutely would have been a vehicle available is just lazy writing. Kind of like 50 caliber machine gun bullets plinking off of the grill of that jeep Rick was driving. Those rounds are engineered to destroy vehicles and armor yet they were just tinking off that jeep
That jeep would have been ripped to shreds by that caliber of bullet. Again, in my eyes that's just lazy writing. They could have still made that a cool chase scene but they chose to chince out on it.
I've just become more critical as of late against the writing being the fact that AMC is hoarding the $$ this show is raking in rather than re-investing it in the show. Each episode still has the same miniscule $2.75 million dollar budget per episode...which it was reduced to from $3.4 million per in the first season. This show is a cash cow for them and instead of amping up the budget for effects, actors, writers....whatever to improve the show....they've kept it the same budget for 7 seasons. That lame approach ticks me off and is why I'm looking at this show more critically now as fare as effects, storytelling etc.