9 Problems With The Walking Dead Nobody Wants To Admit: A Counterpoint

Counterpoint #6: A bigger world has a bigger cast.

Once again, I can’t really argue with Jules from WhatCulture here: The cast is huge. I can think of around a dozen named characters just from Alexandria alone. Plus The Hilltop, plus The Kingdom, plus Oceanside, plus The Scavengers, plus The Saviors? We’ve got to be getting close seventy or more named characters between them all.

However, while this is something of a problem, it’s also something of an inevitable one. As the story progresses, The Walking Dead needed to show something more than Rick’s group going from one group of hostiles to another, alone. The world would have had to expand eventually, and this is what it ends up looking like.

Of course, the biggest problem is the lack of screen time each one of them gets. While characters like Tara and Jerry stand out even with limited time, they’re among the few. Certainly, the battles next season will likely have will clear out some characters, but their lack of screen time might make their deaths muted.

However, this genie can’t go back in the bottle. With the other communities not going away any time soon, these characters are staying. And, even if they don’t get much focus, Rick’s group couldn’t just interact with nameless generics, could they?

As inconvenient as it is, a cast shrinkage is not in The Walking Dead’s future.

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