{"id":6704,"date":"2019-09-16T20:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T02:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2020-01-15T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:15:09","slug":"the-walking-dead-rest-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=6704","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead: Rest in Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I’ve been saying since… well, at least since the end of All Out War<\/a>, that there are ways in which the Walking Dead as a series has outstayed its welcome. I kept reading because I still cared about the characters, but the story? Well, it has become at least a bit repetitive. Who was Negan but a better take on the Governor, and at a larger scale? The Whisperers were a good variant, but still ultimately not very different. And now the Commonwealth was gearing up to be a here we go again, but this time it’s different because, um… it’s geographically even bigger than the previous times?<\/p>\n

You see my point, which is, come on Kirkman, get it together and find a new take or a conclusion.<\/p>\n

What I did not expect (although the title perhaps should have been a giveaway[1]) was that, as of Rest in Peace<\/a>, I’d learn that he has been listening to me and the story is now over. Of course, that was five years ago, but still.<\/p>\n

With the benefit of hindsight: there have been too many characters to reliably keep track of, but except for that it was a pretty good five year continuation, and a quite satisfying end to the story, containing all the elements I personally deemed essential and pretty well sticking the landing. Go team zombie!, I guess? I mean from a literary tradition standpoint, not from a spoilers about how the story ends standpoint. That it ends at all is the one unavoidable spoiler in this post.<\/p>\n

[1] Actually, it sort of was? Also, it’s a large volume. Between those, I had to check the collection info, and it ended at #193, so, nah, no way they don’t go to at least issue 200, for a big momentous event of some kind. Right? Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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