You know the show messed up with setting up its "shocking moment" that will be "seared into your memory" when my family doesn't react at all to a character death besides a "Finally..."
Especially when you make it some stupid reveal for something that happened episodes ago (something that was already ridiculous filler)
I mean, maybe more than any other character on this show, Carl died for nothing. An out-of-nowhere "moral center"/we have to have morals subplot, for a character we know nothing about and don't care about, because of a moment that was perhaps the most egregious obligatory zombie action I can remember on the show.
And that's not mentioning the other questionable parts of the episode. The trapped Saviors, whose outposts were attacked and had tons of fighters still captured in the Hilltop, suddenly have enough people to launch a simultaneous three-front assault? Rick in a fight with Negan, with Alexandria literally on fire, has the bat in his hand, and just does a little tap to the chin instead of bringing it down on Negan's face? Four people shooting automatic fire in the same direction completely miss the one Savior on that side of the car (the one Savior that gets away after Dwight decides to rush someone pointing a gun at him)? We completely skip over how the Saviors were able to get out and take out the lookouts, with a "Eugene did it" handwave? We spent like three episodes with Rick's "plan" involving the Garbage People for 1) his "plan" to completely fall apart and 2) them to instantly run away?
Especially when you make it some stupid reveal for something that happened episodes ago (something that was already ridiculous filler)
I mean, maybe more than any other character on this show, Carl died for nothing. An out-of-nowhere "moral center"/we have to have morals subplot, for a character we know nothing about and don't care about, because of a moment that was perhaps the most egregious obligatory zombie action I can remember on the show.
And that's not mentioning the other questionable parts of the episode. The trapped Saviors, whose outposts were attacked and had tons of fighters still captured in the Hilltop, suddenly have enough people to launch a simultaneous three-front assault? Rick in a fight with Negan, with Alexandria literally on fire, has the bat in his hand, and just does a little tap to the chin instead of bringing it down on Negan's face? Four people shooting automatic fire in the same direction completely miss the one Savior on that side of the car (the one Savior that gets away after Dwight decides to rush someone pointing a gun at him)? We completely skip over how the Saviors were able to get out and take out the lookouts, with a "Eugene did it" handwave? We spent like three episodes with Rick's "plan" involving the Garbage People for 1) his "plan" to completely fall apart and 2) them to instantly run away?